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Day of Pentecost DAY OF PENTECOST THE HOLY EUCHARIST RITE II MAY 31, 2020 ~ 10:30 AM ONLINE WORSHIP ST. DAVID OF WALES EPISCOPAL CHURCH 324 WEST CEDAR ST., SHELTON, WA 98584 (360) 426-8472 ~ [email protected] www.sdow.org 1 PROCESSIONAL HYMN H #511 2 All music reprinted under ONE LICENSE # A-729717 THE WORD OF GOD Celebrant: Alleluia! Christ is risen! People: The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen. THE HYMN OF PRAISE The following is sung: GC #250 3 4 THE COLLECT OF THE DAY Celebrant: The Lord be with you. People: And also with you. Celebrant: Let us pray. O God, who on this day taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit: Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. THE FIRST LESSON NUMBERS 11:24-30 Moses has complained to God that the leadership of the people of Israel (who are dissatisfied that all God gives them to eat is manna) is too heavy for him. God has decided to appoint subordinates to share the burden. They will receive some of God’s spirit. Moses went out and told the took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy people the words of the LORD; elders; and when the spirit and he gathered seventy elders rested upon them, they of the people, and placed them prophesied. But they did not do all around the tent. Then so again. the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and 5 Two men remained in the camp, of Moses, one of his chosen one named Eldad, and the other men, said, "My lord Moses, stop named Medad, and the spirit them!" But Moses said to him, rested on them; they were "Are you jealous for my sake? among those registered, but they Would that all the LORD's had not gone out to the tent, and people were prophets, and that so they prophesied in the camp. the LORD would put his spirit on And a young man ran and told them!" And Moses and the Moses, "Eldad and Medad are elders of Israel returned to the prophesying in the camp." And camp. Joshua son of Nun, the assistant Lector: Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people. People: Thanks be to God. A time of silence follows the reading marked by the ringing of a bell. THE PSALM 104:25-35, 37 Benedic, anima mea 25 O LORD, how manifold are 28 All of them look to you * your works! * in wisdom you to give them their food in due have made them all; the earth season. is full of your creatures. 29 You give it to them; they 26 Yonder is the great and wide gather it; * you open your sea with its living things too hand, and they are filled with many to number, * good things. creatures both small and great. 30 You hide your face, and they 27 There move the ships, are terrified; * you take away and there is that Leviathan, * their breath, and they die and which you have made for the return to their dust. sport of it. 31 You send forth your Spirit, and they are created; * and so you renew the face of the earth. 6 32 May the glory of the Lord my God while I have my endure for ever; * may being. the LORD rejoice in all his 35 May these words of mine works. please him; * I will rejoice in 33 He looks at the earth and it the LORD. trembles; * he touches the 37 Bless the LORD, O my soul. * mountains and they smoke. Hallelujah! 34 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; * I will praise THE EPISTLE ACTS 2:1-11 Pentecost was a Jewish harvest festival that marked the fiftieth day after Passover. Luke portrays the Holy Spirit being poured out upon the disciples before the gathered and astonished people assembled in Jerusalem for the festival. Filled with the Spirit, the disciples were able to witness to the power of Christ’s resurrection. When the day of Pentecost had Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven come, the disciples were all living in Jerusalem. And at this together in one place. And sound the crowd gathered and suddenly from heaven there was bewildered, because each came a sound like the rush of a one heard them speaking in the violent wind, and it filled the native language of each. entire house where they were Amazed and astonished, they sitting. Divided tongues, as of asked, "Are not all these who fire, appeared among them, and are speaking Galileans? And a tongue rested on each of them. how is it that we hear, each of All of them were filled with the us, in our own native language? Holy Spirit and began to speak Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and in other languages, as the Spirit residents of Mesopotamia, Judea gave them ability. 7 and Cappadocia, Pontus and `In the last days it will be, God Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, declares, that I will pour out Egypt and the parts of Libya my Spirit upon all flesh, belonging to Cyrene, and and your sons and your visitors from Rome, both Jews daughters shall prophesy, and and proselytes, Cretans and your young men shall see Arabs-- in our own languages visions, and your old men shall we hear them speaking about dream dreams. God's deeds of power." All were Even upon my slaves, both men amazed and perplexed, saying to and women, in those days I one another, "What does this will pour out my Spirit; and mean?" But others sneered and they shall prophesy. said, "They are filled with new And I will show portents in the wine." heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, But Peter, standing with the and smoky mist. eleven, raised his voice and The sun shall be turned to addressed them, "Men of Judea darkness and the moon to and all who live in Jerusalem, blood, before the coming of the let this be known to you, and Lord's great and glorious day. listen to what I say. Indeed, Then everyone who calls on the these are not drunk, as you name of the Lord shall be suppose, for it is only nine saved.' " o'clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: Lector: Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people. People: Thanks be to God. A time of silence follows the reading marked by the ringing of a bell. 8 THE GRADUAL HYMN v 1-2 before Gospel; v 3-4 after H #508 THE GOSPEL JOHN 20:19-23 Celebrant: The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. People: Glory to you, Lord Christ. When it was evening on that when they saw the Lord. Jesus day, the first day of the week, said to them again, “Peace be and the doors of the house with you. As the Father has sent where the disciples had met me, so I send you.” When he were locked for fear of the Jews, had said this, he breathed on Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Receive them and said, “Peace be with the Holy Spirit. If you forgive you.” After he said this, he the sins of any, they are forgiven showed them his hands and his them; if you retain the sins of side. Then the disciples rejoiced any, they are retained.” 9 Celebrant: The Gospel of the Lord. People: Praise to you, Lord Christ. THE MESSAGE PATTI CASE, LICENSED PREACHER THE NICENE CREED We believe in one God, the Scriptures; he ascended into Father, the Almighty, heaven and is seated at the maker of heaven and earth, right hand of the Father. of all that is, seen and unseen. He will come again in glory We believe in one Lord, to judge the living and the Jesus Christ, the only Son of dead, and his kingdom will God, eternally begotten of the have no end. Father, God from God, We believe in the Holy Light from Light, true God Spirit, the Lord, the giver of from true God, begotten, not life, who proceeds from the made, of one Being with the Father and the Son. Father. Through him all With the Father and the things were made. Son he is worshiped and For us and for our glorified. He has spoken salvation he came down from through the Prophets. heaven: by the power of the We believe in one holy Holy Spirit he became catholic and apostolic incarnate from the Virgin Church. We acknowledge Mary, and was made man. one baptism for the For our sake he was forgiveness of sins. crucified under Pontius We look for the Pilate; he suffered death and resurrection of the dead, and was buried. the life of the world to come.
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