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Sung Eucharist Draft version 2.8 Updated Tuesday 9 June 2015 2.0 Raw text into booklet format. 2.1 Text repaginated. 2.2 Moved ’A distinctive form of worship’ to back. Added glossary and guide to church year and liturgical colours. 2.3 Illustrations added. 2.4 Welcome, 1970 authorisation, and table of contents added. 2.5 First public preview version. 2.6 Various amendments throughout the text. 2.7 Further amendments to liturgical colours and glossary. 2.8 Minor text amendments. Added when children’s church returns. Corrected ‘dalmatic’ and ‘tunicle’ in glossary; added ‘feria’. While this commentary is an initiative of All Saints’, the actual text in what follows comes from the 1970 Scottish Liturgy and so has been authorised for permissive use under Canon 23.8 on behalf of the College of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church (Edward Brechin, Primus, June 1987). Material from Alternative Services Second Series: An Order for Holy Order of service with commentary Communion is printed by permission of the Registrars of the Convocations of Canterbury and York. 1 2 The Liturgy of Preparation Introit hymn Welcome You are invited to stand. The procession of choir, servers and clergy enter the church building. A very warm welcome and thank you for joining us for worship this morning. 1 Opening dedication You are warmly invited to take communion if you are a full member of any Following an initial dedication to the Christian Trinity, words from the of the Christian churches. Or you may come forward for a blessing. Psalms (43.4; 124.8) are used to indicate continuity with Old Testament worship. We also hope to enjoy your company after the service for tea or coffee in the church hall. In the Name of the Father and of the Son If you are accompanied by children, they may like to join our own children for and of the Holy Ghost. Children’s Church after the Collect (p.7). Alternatively, if you need a separate Amen. space, please do feel free to use the Sacrament Chapel where some toys are provided. 2 Approach If this form and style of worship is unfamiliar to you, you may wish to read the I will go unto the altar of God. short introduction “A distinctive form of worship” on page 20. Even unto the God of my joy and gladness. Our help is in the Name of the Lord. The service Who hath made heaven and earth. The Liturgy of Preparation p.5 The Liturgy of the Word p.7 The Liturgy of the Sacrament p.10 A distinctive form of worship p. 20 3 4 3 Confession and Absolution 5 Gloria in Excelsis You are invited to kneel. Usually omitted during Advent and Lent. We confess to God Almighty, You are invited to stand. the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, that we have sinned in thought, word, and deed, The Gloria in Excelsis (Glory in the Highest) dates from the 4th century. through our own grievous fault. It reflects the celebratory language of the angels to the shepherds in Wherefore we pray God to have mercy upon us. Luke 2.13–14. Almighty God have mercy upon us, forgive us all our sins and deliver us from evil, Glory be to God in the highest, confirm and strengthen us in all goodness, and in earth peace, good will towards men. and bring us to life everlasting. Amen. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, May the Almighty and merciful Lord we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, grant unto you pardon and remission of all your sins, O Lord God, heavenly King, time for true repentance, amendment of life, God the Father Almighty; and the grace and comfort of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesu Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, 4 Kyrie eleison who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. The Kyries are sung in either Greek or English. An invocation of the Thou that takest away the sins of the world, mercy (eleison) of the Lord (Kyrie), it is the only part of the liturgy to receive our prayer. survive from the early days when it was still in Greek. It is both a prayer Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, for mercy and a celebration of God’s continued mercy to us, as we follow have mercy upon us. the example set in one of Jesus’s parables: Luke 18.9–14. For thou only art holy, thou only art the Lord, Lord, have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison. thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, Christ, have mercy upon us. Christe eleison. art most high in the glory of God the Father. Lord, have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison. Amen. 5 6 6 The Collect 10 Gospel An introductory prayer to the readings that gathers together or sums up You are invited to stand. their overall theme. The Gospel procession takes place, with the deacon holding the Gospel The Lord be with you. book high, to symbolize the presence of Christ in the words we are And with thy spirit. about to hear. It is carried into the body of the congregation to remind us that we are now the bearers of Christ’s message to the world. The book is also censed to honour the presence of Christ as our Lord in his Children’s church Word, with him thus taking the place of kings and emperors who were once so honoured in the ancient world. Any children present may leave for Children’s Church at this point. They will return during the Peace (p.10). An acclamation is sung. It usually begins Alleluia! The Lord be with you. And also with you. The Liturgy of the Word After the announcement of the Gospel the people reply: Please sit for the readings and psalm. Glory be to thee, O Lord. 7 Old Testament At the end of the Gospel: 8 Psalm Thanks be to thee, O Lord, for this thy glorious Gospel. Sung or said. 11 The Sermon 9 Epistle 12 Nicene Creed This reading is usually taken from one of the letters (epistles) in the New Testament. You are invited to stand. The creed is either sung or said. Gradual hymn This creed (statement of belief) was formulated and agreed at the first two universal councils of the church at Nicaea in 325 and Called the gradual hymn because it comes from the Latin word ‘gradus’ Constantinople in 381. Known as the Nicene Creed to distinguish it meaning a step. This is the point at which steps, or movement, begins to from the Apostles’ Creed (used at baptisms), the original Greek version take place for the reading of the Gospel. had the plural ‘we’ throughout, to suggest a corporate aspiration, appropriate in a document where all the various articles or clauses are not always easy to understand. 7 8 I believe in one God the Father Almighty, 13 Intercessions Maker of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and invisible: You are invited to kneel or sit. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, Prayers for the Christian community and for the wider world, led by a the only-begotten Son of God, member of the congregation. Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, Begotten, not made, 14 Exchange of the Peace Being of one substance with the Father, You are invited to stand. Not only did Christ exchange words and a sign By whom all things were made: of peace with his disciples at the Resurrection (John 20.19–21), very soon Who for us men, and for our salvation afterwards we find the same practice being encouraged within the early came down from heaven, Church (e.g. Romans 16.16; 1 Peter 5.14). And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, The peace of the Lord be always with you. And was made man, And also with thy spirit. And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, Let us exchange a sign of that peace with one another. And the third day he rose again You may shake hands with those around you, saying “Peace be with according to the Scriptures, you”. And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory Children’s church returns to judge both the quick and the dead: The children return from Children’s church Whose kingdom shall have no end. during the peace. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord, The Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, The Liturgy of the Sacrament Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, 15 The Offertory Who spake by the Prophets. And I believe One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Let us present our offerings to the Lord I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins. with reverence and godly fear. And I look for the resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. The bread and wine are brought to the altar by representatives of the congregation. This is to symbolize the desire of us all to join with Christ in Amen. his sacrificial offering of his life, death and resurrection to his Father.