Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost The Holy Eucharist “Gathering” by Troy Terpstra* October 25, 2020 St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 82 Kimberly Drive Durham, North Carolina 27707-5446 Tel: 919-493-5451; fax: 919-493-5452 [email protected] www.ssecdurham.org The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two Author: Frank Mason North, 1850-1935 (alt.) Arranger: William Gardiner, 1770-1853 (GARDINER) Performance: The Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0l_ND_XSks The Word of God The people standing, the Celebrant says Celebrant Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Call to Worship People And blessed be his kingdom, now and for ever. Amen. Angelus St. Stephen’s bells The Celebrant may say Processional hymn Hymnal #609 Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the 1 Where cross the crowded ways of life, confession of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and where sound the cries of race and clan, reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. above the noise of selfish strife, we hear thy voice, O Son of Man. When appointed, the following hymn or some other song of praise is sung or said, all standing 2 In haunts of wretchedness and need, on shadowed thresholds dark with fears, Glory to God in the highest, from paths where hide the lures of greed, and peace to his people on earth. we catch the vision of thy tears. Lord God, heavenly King, 3 The cup of water given for thee almighty God and Father, still holds the freshness of thy grace; we worship you, we give you thanks, yet long these multitudes to see we praise you for your glory. the true compassion of thy face. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, 4 O Master, from the mountain side, Lord God, Lamb of God, make haste to heal these hearts of pain; you take away the sin of the world: among these restless throngs abide, have mercy on us; O tread the city's streets again; you are seated at the right hand of the Father: receive our prayer. 5 till all the world shall learn thy love, and follow where thy feet have trod; For you alone are the Holy One, till glorious from thy heaven above, you alone are the Lord, shall come the city of our God. you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, Moab thirty days; then the period of mourning for Moses was with the Holy Spirit, ended. in the glory of God the Father. Amen. Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, because Moses The Collect of the Day had laid his hands on him; and the Israelites obeyed him, doing as the LORD had commanded Moses. The Celebrant says to the people The Lord be with you. Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom People And also with you. the LORD knew face to face. He was unequaled for all the signs and Celebrant Let us pray. wonders that the LORD sent him to perform in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants and his entire land, and for all The Celebrant says the Collect. the mighty deeds and all the terrifying displays of power that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel. Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what The word of the Lord. you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with People Thanks be to God. you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17 The Lessons Domine, refugium The people sit. One or two Lessons, as appointed, are read, the Reader first saying: 1 Lord, you have been our refuge * from one generation to another. A Reading from the Book of Deuteronomy 34:1-12 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or the land and the earth were born, * Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top from age to age you are God. of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the LORD showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim 3 You turn us back to the dust and say, * and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the "Go back, O child of earth." Negeb, and the Plain—that is, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm 4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is trees—as far as Zoar. The LORD said to him, “This is the land of past * which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will and like a watch in the night. give it to your descendants’; I have let you see it with your eyes, but 5 You sweep us away like a dream; * you shall not cross over there.” Then Moses, the servant of the we fade away suddenly like the grass. LORD, died there in the land of Moab, at the LORD’s command. He 6 In the morning it is green and flourishes; * was buried in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor, but in the evening it is dried up and withered. no one knows his burial place to this day. Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired and his 13 Return, O LORD; how long will you tarry? * vigor had not abated. The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of be gracious to your servants. 14 Satisfy us by your loving-kindness in the morning; * my very heart and flesh cry out, so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. O living God, for thee. 15 Make us glad by the measure of the days that you afflicted us * and the years in which we suffered adversity. 2 Beside thine altars, gracious Lord, 16 Show your servants your works * the swallows find a nest; and your splendor to their children. how happy they who dwell with thee and praise thee without rest, 17 May the graciousness of the LORD our God be upon us; * and happy they whose hearts are set prosper the work of our hands; upon the pilgrims' quest. prosper our handiwork. 3 They who go through the desert vale A Reading from the First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians 2:1-8 will find it filled with springs, and they shall climb from height to height You yourselves know, brothers and sisters, that our coming to you till Zion's temple rings was not in vain, but though we had already suffered and been with praise to thee, in glory throned, shamefully mistreated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in Lord God, great King of kings. our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of great opposition. For our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure 4 One day within thy courts excels motives or trickery, but just as we have been approved by God to a thousand spent away; be entrusted with the message of the gospel, even so we speak, not how happy they who keep thy laws to please mortals, but to please God who tests our hearts. As you nor from thy precepts stray, know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of for thou shalt surely bless all those flattery or with a pretext for greed; nor did we seek praise from who live the words they pray. mortals, whether from you or from others, though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, Scripture: Psalm 84 like a nurse tenderly caring for her own children. So deeply do we Source (sts. 1-2): The Psalms of David in Meeter, 1650 care for you that we are determined to share with you not only the Author (sts. 3-4): Carl P. Daw, Jr., b. 1944 gospel of God but also our own selves, because you have become Composer: J. L. Macbeth Bain, 1840?-1925 (BROTHER JAMES' AIR) very dear to us. Performance: Trinity Chorus, Trinity Episcopal Church, Upperville, VA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6fnT4gdRfo The word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God. Then, all standing, the Deacon or a Priest reads the Gospel, first saying Sequence Hymn Hymnal #517 The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place Matthew 22:34-46 1 How lovely is thy dwelling place, When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, O Lord of hosts, to me! they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a My thirsty soul desires and longs question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is within thy courts to be; the greatest?” He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ begotten, not made, This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: of one Being with the Father.