Epiphany 3 Instructed 10Am Font Change
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Third Sunday After Epiphany January 22, 2017 10:00 am Welcome We are delighted that you are here for worship. This bulletin should provide the information you need to participate fully in the service today. The hymn numbers refer to the blue Hym- nal 1982 in the pew rack. If you need additional guidance, just ask someone near you. Please consider coming to coffee hour in the parish hall after the conclusion of worship. At coffee hour we continue our Sunday celebration and get a chance to meet and socialize with each other and with our guests. The parish hall is to the left after you go out the doors at the back of the church, or through one of the doors on the right-hand side of the church as you face the altar. We are a community centered around the Eucharist, the consecrated bread and wine. We believe in the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the bread and wine that we receive at communion. We also believe that Christ is the host at the altar, and we are all his guests. All who seek God and are drawn to Christ are warmly invited to share in this meal, to partake of Christ's body and blood in the bread and wine. An usher will indicate to you when it is time to go forward. Please kneel or stand at the altar rail, and hold out your hands to receive the bread. You may either eat the bread and then drink from the cup, or hold the bread in your hand to dip into the wine. If you would prefer to receive a blessing, please cross your hands over your chest at the altar rail. Please speak to one of the priests if you would like more information. Thank you for worshiping at All Saints today! We hope that you will continue to join us ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH CO-RECTORS 2076 Sutterville Road, Sacramento, CA. 95822 The Revs. Michael & Betsey Monnot Phone: 916-455-0643 DEACON Fax: 916-455-0142 The Rev. Virginia McNeely E-mail: [email protected] ORGANIST-CHOIRMASTER Website: www.allsaintssacramento.org Mr. Scott Nelson Introduction Good morning! Welcome to our instructed Eucharist this morning. This is an opportunity for us to learn more about what it is that we do each week--why we do it, and some of the history of how it came about. We will be taking time to explain what each part of the liturgy is about before we do it. When we come to worship God, we enter into a different kind of time. We move into God’s time, real time. It is different from our ordinary way of looking at time: clock time, or appointment time. In God’s time, we don’t focus on efficiency, we focus on experience. We come to worship as a response to God’s loving initiative in our lives. Our worship is contained in our liturgy. The word “liturgy” means “the work of the people.” What we are doing is not the same as going to a play or a concert, or attending a class. Our worship depends on the participation of each person present. While some people are chosen to lead the worship, it is all of us together who make it happen. Our worship leaders today include priests, a deacon, and lay people. Priests are those ordained by the church to lead worship, lead congregations, and to provide for the sacramental life of the community. Priests are preachers, teachers, caregivers, strategists, leaders, and administrators, among other tasks. Deacons are those ordained by the church to function as a bridge between the church and the world. Deacons lead us in going out into the community to serve, and they bring the concerns of the community to the attention of the church. In the liturgy, the deacon reads the Gospel, prepares the altar for communion, and directs the congregation in their parts by beginning the Prayers of the People, the Nicene Creed, the Confession of Sin, and sending us out into the world at the dismissal. Lay people may function as acolytes, readers, intercessors, choir members, and preachers, among other roles. Our common worship depends upon many people working together. In the Episcopal Church, our worship can be seen as centering on two balanced and equal parts: Word and Sacrament. The first part of our worship is called the Liturgy of the Word, and the second part is called the Holy Eucharist, Holy Communion, or the Liturgy of the Table. You can see the balance in the way our sacred space is designed: the lectern and the pulpit are both instrumental in the Liturgy of the Word, while the altar in the center is the table for the Holy Eucharist. We Episcopalians use our bodies when we worship together. We stand when we sing or when we pray together, we sit to listen to God’s word and to the sermon, and we may kneel at times of penitence or during private prayer. Sometimes we make the sign of the cross over our bodies as an invocation of the Holy Trinity (some people use the words “In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit” as they make the gesture). Sometimes we may bow, either just our heads or from the waist (a “profound bow”). Sometimes we genuflect by touching our right knee to the floor in a gesture of respect for the Holy Sacrament. All of these gestures and postures are optional, and some bodies may have more trouble with them than others. The way you use your body in worship is always your own decision. 2 Holy Eucharist Gathering, THIRD S UNDAY AFTER E PIPHANY Opening Acclamation, SUNDAY , J ANURAY 22, 2017 Collect for Purity Liturgy of the Word The first thing we do in the liturgy is to gather. As we gather, PRELUDE : we change from a All Stand PROCESSIONAL H YMN : We Gather Together to Ask the Lord’s Blessing group of individuals Hymnal 433 to a single worshiping OPENING A CCLAMATION community. We do this in different ways; by standing together, by singing together, and through our opening greeting, which is called the Opening Celebrant Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no Acclamation . The secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy opening acclamation Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy Name; places us in context through Christ our Lord. Amen . for worship as we bless God. The words HYMN OF P RAISE (421) Nikolaus Decius of the opening acclamation vary in penitential times such as Lent or celebratory times, such as Easter. The Collect for Purity follows the opening acclamation. Originally, this was a prayer said silently by the priest alone as a preparation before entering the sanctuary. Today, the celebrant says the prayer on behalf of the gathered community, which reflects our changed understanding of the nature of the worshiping community. We all ask God to cleanse the thoughts of our hearts as we prepare for worship, because we all partake in worship equally, although in different ways and with different roles. Hymn of Praise The Hymn of Praise may be sung or said, and helps set the tone for our worship of God together. The traditional form is the Gloria in Excelcis, but we also use other praise hymns. 3 COLLECT OF THE D AY Celebrant The Lord be with you. People And also with you . Celebrant Let us pray. Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of his salvation, that we and the whole world may perceive the glory of his marvelous works; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen . All sit FIRST R EADING Isaiah 9:1-4 There will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness-- on them light has shined. You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder. For the yoke of their burden, and the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian. Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God . All PSALM Psalm 27:1,5-13 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom then shall I fear? * the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid? 5 One thing have I asked of the Lord; one thing I seek; * that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life; Collect of the Day and Readings The Collect of the Day is the prayer that the priest says before the readings. It grows out of the lectionary and also the season of the church. Some of the collects in the prayer book date back to the fifth century, or possibly earlier, while others were composed by Thomas Cranmer for the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549.