Holy Eucharist

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. Eucharist Silence is kept for a space 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. I will lead the blind in a way they know not, Invitation in paths that they have not known I will guide them. Presider This is the table of the Lord. It is to be made ready for those I will turn their darkness into light, who love and who want to love more. So, come, you who have and I will not forsake them. much faith and you who have little, you who have been here often and you who have not been for a long time, you who And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, have tried to follow and you who have fallen short. Come, it is clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God; Christ who invites you. It is Christ who meets you here. and on either side of the river was there a tree of life, and the leaves of the trees were for the healing of the nations. The Table of our celebration is our Lord’s, therefore all people are welcome to come forward to receive God’s blessing at the Help us, Lord, to persevere in prayer administration of Communion, regardless of age, denomination, With minds awake and thankful hearts, or conscience. Please receive God’s blessing in the manner of your That we may share the secret of Christ tradition and comfort, either extending both hands to receive the With those we meet on our earthly pilgrimage, bread and wine or crossing both arms upon your chest to receive Following in the steps of Jesus, a prayer of blessing. Should you desire a gluten-free wafer, please Our Master and Friend. Amen. —Isaiah 42:14-16; Revelation 22:1-3; extend one hand, crossing the other upon your chest. The Bread and ‘Pilgrim Prayer’ by Derrick Walters, based on Colossians 4:2-4 wine are given with these words As the gifts are presented, please stand and say together Minister The Body of Christ, the bread of heaven. ALL Blessed are you, God of all creation; Recipient Amen. Through your goodness we have these gifts to share. Minister The Blood of Christ, the cup of salvation. Accept and use our offerings for your glory Recipient Amen.

And for the service of your kingdom. Hymn 314 Hymnal 1982 adoro te devote Blessed be God for ever. Amen. Motet William Byrd The Great Thanksgiving Prayer B, BCP, page 367 Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria Virgine: Please sing during the Great Thanksgiving Vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine: Cuius latus perforatum, unda ﬂ uxit sanguine: SANCTUS Hymnal 1982, S 131 Esto nobis prægustatum in mortis examine. MEMorIAL ACCLAMATIoN Hail true Body, born of Mary the Virgin: Who has truly suffered, torn on the cross for all: Whose side was pierced, from which blood ﬂ owed: Be for us a foretaste of the eternal now and in the hour of our death. —Innocent III, 13th century GrEAT AMEN

5 6 After communion, please stand as the Presider says Presider Let us pray. Postcommunion Prayer BCP, page 366

Hymn 334 Hymnal 1982 alles ist an gottes segen Blessing & Dismissal The Presider blesses the people and all respond People Amen. A Note on Today’s Psalm Deacon Let us go forth into the world, rejoicing in the Spirit. The Book of Psalms has been the most universally used collection of People Thanks be to God. poetry in public and private devotion among Jews and Christians for Organ Fugue in G, op. 37 Felix Mendelssohn centuries. Every edition of the Book of Common Prayer is bound with the psalms, largely for the convenience of worshipers in the reciting of Morning and Evening Prayer. Before 1979, the translation of The Great Bible from 1539 was the standard psalter bound with the Prayer Book. It was translated by Myles Coverdale from the Latin Vulgate and sixteenth- century German sources.

One of the distinctive features of the Anglican choral tradition is the singing of psalms to Anglican chant, developed from harmonized plainsong (Gregorian chant) in the English cathedral tradition. Choral singing of Anglican chant requires a great deal of practice and skill, and helps singers listen more carefully to each other. Anglican chant psalms are sung during Evensong and English cathedral choirs sing them nearly every day of the year, still using the Coverdale translation. Our choir will sing the Coverdale translation of Psalm 146 this morning to a chant composed by Thomas Norris, an eighteenth-century British composer and organist. —M.A.T.

7 8 A Note on the Prayer Book You are welcome at St Paul’s Sunday 8:00 am Holy Eucharist with music The Book of Common Prayer is a treasure chest full of devotional and 9:30 am Adult Forum, Guild Room teaching resources for individuals and congregations, but it is also the 9:45 am Kids’ Mass in the Church primary symbol of our unity, as Armentrout and Slocum note in their 10:30 am Choral Eucharist, in the Church An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, that “Anglican liturgical piety has Wednesday 6:30 pm Sung Vespers & Eucharist, been rooted in the Prayer Book tradition since the publication of the followed by a Bible Study fi rst English Prayer Book in 1549.” We, who are many and diverse, come together in Christ through our worship, our common prayer. The prayer book, most recently revised in 1979, contains our liturgies, our prayers, our theological documents, and much, much more. —www.episcopalchurch.org

The Reverend Dr William H. Allport II, Rector The Reverend Joanne O’Neill, Deacon Mark A. Trautman, Director of Music Kaileen Alston, Director of Christian Education Diana Rodriguez, Parish Administrator Lisa Keenan, Accountant Jerome Riddick, Sexton George Gill, Gary Mason, Sunday Sextons St Paul’s Church in Englewood in the Episcopal Diocese of Newark 113 Engle Street • Englewood NJ 07631-2589 201 568 3276 • stpaulsenglewood.org 9