Holy Eucharist
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Welcome to St Paul’s Church We are glad you are here, and we invite you to enter fully into worship today, and to receive Communion or a blessing. Please pick up any other information about the parish located at the entrances to the church. Tell us more about yourself by fi lling out one of the cards located in each pew, and join us for fellowship in the Parish Hall. Help us make this a place where God’s grace is freely shared by all. Children & Youth Children are welcome at all services, and parents should feel free to come and go with restless children as necessary. Nursery Care is available during Holy from 9:30 a.m. until noon in the Nursery, located upstairs in the Parish House. Eucharist Worship at St Paul’s Everyone is welcome at the Lord’s Table regardless of age or denomination. We hope that you will follow the service in this leafl et and in the black Book The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost of Common Prayer. Please join in the hymns found in The Hymnal 1982 and the multi-colored Lift Every Voice and Sing (LEV ) hymnal. September 9, 2018 at 10:30 am Parish Mission Statement The mission of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is to love God and our neighbor, St Paul’s Church in Englewood continuing Christ’s life in the world. With God’s help, and embracing our an Episcopal Parish in the Diocese of Newark diversity, we will proclaim the Gospel, seek the truth, and strive for peace and the Anglican Communion and social justice. the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground Holy springs of water. Silence is kept for a space Eucharist Reader Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people. Organ Prelude in G, op. 37 Felix Mendelssohn People Thanks be to God. Please stand and sing as the Procession begins Psalm 146 Lauda, anima mea chant: Thomas Norris Hymn 410 Hymnal 1982 lauda anima Choir Praise the LORD, O my soul: Presider Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. while I live, will I praise the LORD; * People And blessed be God’s kingdom, now and for ever. Amen. yea, as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God. Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, ALL O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man; * and from you no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our for there is no help in them. hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may For when the breath of man goeth forth, perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy Name; he shall turn again to his earth, * through Christ our Lord. Amen. and then all his thoughts perish. Benedictus es, Domine Hymnal 1982, S 236 Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, * Collect of the Day and whose hope is in the LORD his God: Presider The Lord be with you. Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is; * People And also with you. who keepeth his promise for ever; Presider Let us pray. Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our Who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; * hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their who feedeth the hungry. own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast The LORD looseth men out of prison; * of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and the LORD giveth sight to the blind. reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for The LORD helpeth them that are fallen; * ever. the LORD careth for the righteous. People Amen. The LORD careth for the strangers; Please be seated he defendeth the fatherless and widow: * as for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down. The Lessons The LORD thy God, O Sion, shall be King for evermore, * First Lesson Isaiah 35:4-7a and throughout all generations. Reader A reading from the Book of Isaiah. Say to those who are of a Second Lesson James 2:1-14 fearful heart, “Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will Reader A reading from the letter of James: My brothers and sisters, do come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious and save you.” Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold rings and in fine the ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. For waters clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat here, please,” while to the 1 2 one who is poor you say, “Stand there,” or, “Sit at my feet,” daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers and a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in demon out of her daughter. He said to her, “Let the children be faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor. Is it to the dogs.” But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Then he said to her, “For court? Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.” was invoked over you? You do well if you really fulfill the royal So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor demon gone. Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and as yourself.” But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand of it. For the one who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, also said, “You shall not murder.” Now if you do not commit and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And immediately his ears by the law of liberty. For judgment will be without mercy were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he judgment. What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a astounded beyond measure, saying, “He has done everything brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.” says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and Silence is kept for a space yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. Deacon The Gospel of the Lord. People Praise to you, Lord Christ. Silence is kept for a space Sermon Reader Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people. People Thanks be to God. After the Sermon, we continue in the Book of Common Prayer Please stand for the Gospel procession and sing Nicene Creed BCP, page 358 Hymn 62 LEV Hymnal mckee Prayers of the People Form VI, BCP, page 392 Gospel Lesson Mark 7:24-37 The Peace BCP, page 360 The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark. Deacon Please greet one another in the name of the Lord People Glory to you, Lord Christ. Deacon From there [Jesus] set out and went away to the region of Tyre. Announcements He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was The Holy Communion there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little The Presider begins the Offertory with a sentence from scripture. 3 4 Anthem Richard Shephard The Lord’s Prayer BCP, page 364 For a long time I have held my peace, Breaking of the Bread BCP, page 364; Hymnal, S 155 but now will I speak.