Lectionary Aids 2014–2015, Year B Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts

Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts Volume 48.1 Lectionary Aids 2014–2015, Year B Published by the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The official journal of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians and the United Church of Christ Musicians Network. Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts Continuing the tradition of Reformed Liturgy & Music Original art appearing on pages 11, 43, 93 and 137 of this (1971–2000) and Reformed Liturgics (1963–69), Call to publication is by Kelly Rider. Used by permission of the Worship seeks to further the church’s commitment to artist. Visit her website at kellyrider.com. theological integrity, corporate worship, and excellence in music, preaching, and other liturgical art forms. 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Lectionary Aids 2014–2015, Year B Volume 48.1 Contents Introduction to Lectionary Aids 48.1.............................................. 3 David Gambrell Key to Abbreviations ......................................................... 9 The Season of Advent ....................................................... 12 First Sunday of Advent through Fourth Sunday of Advent The Season of Christmas . 32 Nativity of the Lord / Christmas Eve through Epiphany of the Lord The Time after Epiphany/Ordinary Time ......................................... 60 Baptism of the Lord through Transfiguration of the Lord The Season of Lent ......................................................... 88 Ash Wednesday through Good Friday The Season of Easter ....................................................... 128 Great Vigil of Easter through Day of Pentecost The Time after Pentecost/Ordinary Time Trinity Sunday through Eighth Sunday after Pentecost / Proper 11 ...................... 178 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost through Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost / Proper 21 .......... 214 Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost to Christ the King / Reign of Christ.................... 258 Worship Aids for the Revised Common Lectionary Advent 2014 through Reign of Christ 2015 Year B Introduction to Lectionary Aids 48.1 Year B (2014–2015) David Gambrell Pulling Out All the Stops • Prayers after Communion or more than fifty years, Call to Worship: • Blessings and Charges Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts, a • Seasonal Hymn and Song Suggestions quarterly journal of the Presbyterian Church Again, for tips on using these materials in your F congregation, I encourage you to read the expanded (U.S.A.) Office of Theology and Worship and Presbyterian Association of Musicians, has offered introductions that follow. insight and inspiration for pastors, church musicians, The impulse behind this distinctive combination artists, and other worship leaders. With revised of Sunday/festival and seasonal resources comes and expanded features in the Lectionary Aids and from the conviction that worshipers need a mixture thematic issues, now there’s even more to love. of “new” and “given” information in each service. For each Sunday and festival of the Christian Some elements of worship must change from week year, this Lectionary Aids issue of Call to Worship to week; these elements bring a sharp focus on a (48.1) provides: particular set of scriptural texts or themes for the • Lectionary Summaries day, emphasizing particular aspects of Christian faith • Calls to Worship and life. Other elements of worship should repeat • Prayers of the Day for a period of weeks; these elements work in a • Prayers of Confession cumulative way, immersing worshipers in central • Prayers of the People things and enabling their deeper participation in the • Eucharistic Prayers liturgy. If everything is new each week, worshipers • Hymn and Song Suggestions may be overwhelmed with novelty, struggling to • Anthems for Larger Choirs follow the flow of worship. If everything is the • Anthems for Smaller/Youth Choirs same from week to week, the words and actions • Anthems for Children’s Choirs of worship begin to lose their power to engage the • Handbell Music imagination. • Organ Music Thus the careful blending of these two types of Please take the time to read the expanded materials allows for more full, active, and conscious introductions to each of these elements below, in participation among persons with different learning order to find out how to make better use of these styles and levels of liturgical experience—including materials in worship. children and other new worshipers. The mixture of For each season of the Christian year (Advent, these elements requires much pastoral wisdom and e.g.), these additional resources are provided: discretion, of course, since different congregations • Calls to Confession and Declarations will have different tolerances or appetites for change. of Forgiveness As for the other three issues in this volume of • Prayers for Illumination and Statements Call to Worship, watch for these upcoming topics Before/After Readings and themes: • Ascriptions of Praise • Call to Worship 48.2—Grace and Gratitude. • Affirmations of Faith A hallmark of the Reformed theological • Invitations to Offering and Prayers and liturgical tradition is its emphasis on of Dedication the rhythm of God’s gracious action and David Gambrell, editor, Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts Office of Theology and Worship, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Lectionary Aids for 2014–2015, Year B 3 Introduction to Lectionary Aids our grateful response. This issue of Call to Seasonal Resources Worship will examine the theme of grace and gratitude, exploring its implications for For the season of Advent, the season of Christmas, the Christian life and worship. time after Epiphany, the season of Lent, the season of • Call to Worship 48.3—The Season of Easter, and the time after Pentecost (subdivided into Lent. The forty days of Lent (or forty-six, three sections), this issue of Call to Worship provides including Sundays) are a time for repentance, the following sets of texts to be used over a span of reconciliation, and growth in faith through several weeks—primarily based on key lectionary baptismal discipleship. This issue of Call to passages found within that season. Worship will offer theological reflections on the themes of the Lenten season, as well as Calls to Confession and Declarations of fresh resources and ideas for worship. Forgiveness. These introductory and concluding • Call to Worship 48.4—New Worshiping statements serve as a kind of envelope, framing Communities. There is a growing movement the rite of confession and pardon in each season to consider new “models of church” and with language that highlights the focus of that new patterns of prayer and praise. This aspect of the Christian year. In keeping with issue of Call to Worship will profile several Reformed tradition,

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