ST. FRANCIS ANGLICAN CHURCH 3401 Oak Creek Drive • Austin, Texas • 78727 512.472.7514 ● www.StFrancisAustin.com Palm Sunday March 28, 2021

GREETINGS Welcome to our warm and friendly setting for true, Christ–centered worship. A traditional Anglican Church and a parish of The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, under the oversight of Bishop Ryan Reed, St. Francis' liturgical standard is the 1928 Book of Common Prayer – a document that is orthodox in its expressions of the Christian faith, based on prayers that have been part of catholic worship for 2000 years. Please stay to visit in the fellowship area after the service. Also, sign the guestbook in the entry hall if you would like to receive more information about St. Francis.

MISSION STATEMENT We are a community of believers in the Gospel of Jesus Christ whose mission it is to spread that Gospel in what we preach and in the way we live. We are called to know the Word of God, to act on it in our lives and to share it with our brothers and sisters in the world. We are determined to uphold the ancient faith of our ancestors in the Anglican tradition, to offer traditional Christian values based on the Holy Word of God and to be faithful witnesses to the person of Jesus in the Austin Community. St. Francis parish is dedicated to the presence of Christ in the lives of the poor, the needy, the sick, to each other and to all those to whom Jesus comes to minister in his life on earth. As a community of believers, we intend to entrust our growth in love, in faith and in resources to the generosity of God.

UPCOMING SERVICES Healing Prayers: Each Sunday after the service concludes at the Rail. Evening Prayer: No Evening Prayer this week. and Easter Service Schedule • - April 1,7 pm, Holy Communion with the stripping of the altar. • Liturgy- April 2, 7 pm. Holy Communion will be from the reserve. • Solemn - April 3, 7:30 pm. • Easter Sunday - April 4, 9:30 am Choral Eucharist with the flowering of the cross.

PRAYER GROUPS St. Francis Prayer Group: If you would like to place a name on the list distributed to our active prayer group members, please use the prayer intention box at the left side at back of the church to submit your request. You may also email Fr. Len at [email protected]. Prayer Service for our Nation: Pray God's Glory Across the Earth. You are welcome to join us on Saturday, April 3 , in the Fellowship area at 9 a.m. and via Zoom. The service will include hymns, prayers – both read and extemporaneous – and Bible readings on the seven centers of prayer: Government, Military, Media, Business, Education, Church, and Family. Contact Amy Crandell for more information and for the Zoom meeting link. Mothers' Prayer Group: Meets monthly at noon with the next meeting on Friday, April 16. Join this group of mothers as they pray extemporaneous prayers in the ACTS form of adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication, which includes prayer for each other's families. Contact Charlotte Ready with any questions. Every mother is welcome to attend.

ST. FRANCIS EVENTS THIS WEEK Today 10:30 a.m., Healing Prayers at the Altar Rail 10:40 a.m., Choir practice in the church March 30 Tuesday, 7 p.m., Home group meets via Zoom. April 1 Maundy Thursday, 7 pm, Holy Communion with the stripping of the altar. April 2 Good Friday Liturgy, 7 pm. Holy Communion will be from the reserve. April 3 Saturday, Prayers for the Nation, 9:00 am, Fellowship Area and via Zoom Solemn Easter Vigil, 7:30 pm

Email [email protected] if you would like to join any of the above via Zoom. Services will be livestreamed on Facebook.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Sunday School classes for children and youth. In-person classes are ongoing. The youth attend the service up to the announcements and then go upstairs for class. Missy Bernard works with the younger group and Doug Cooper with the youth. On Easter, Sunday school will be offered, but optional. The youth and children are encouraged to attend the service.

ANNOUNCEMENTS April Newsletter - the newsletter for April has been emailed and mailed to everyone on the list. Extra copies are available in the Narthex. 2020 Contribution statements are available. The contribution statements will be distributed electronically this year. If you want to receive a 2020 contribution statement, please email our Parish Administrator, Mark Rambin, at [email protected] to make a request. Also remember that even if you utilize the standard deduction on your tax return, the Cares Act allows you to take an additional deduction of up to $300 in cash contributions made to a qualified charitable organization (such as St. Francis Anglican Church) in 2020. Easter Lilies: The sanctuary will be adorned with flowers and lilies beginning with the Easter Vigil. If you would like to make a remembrance or thank offering for the flowers, there are envelopes on the table in the back and in the Narthex for this purpose. Gifts will be collected through today. Lenten Food Drive: The food drive benefitting the food pantry at St. Louis the King runs through today. Thanks to all who have donated so far. Please wear your face covering while in the building! Everyone is encouraged to continue to use masks until herd immunity is reached. Even those who are vaccinated may be able to spread the virus. St. Clare’s Guild is a group of women whose ministry is dedicated to serving our parish family in times of celebration, need, illness or loss. If you should find yourself and/or your family in one of these life situations, please contact Eileen Cole. If you are not a member of St. Francis Anglican Church but would like to be, simply complete a registration form found on the table near the front door and give it to the Rector. If you wish to become a pledging member, complete a Pledge Card and drop it in the collection plate. It is that easy. Birthday this week: (28th) Lavanna Martin

2 Readings for upcoming services 4/1 Maundy 4/2 Good Friday 4/3 Solemn Easter 4/4 Easter Day Thursday Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Vigil Acts 10:34-43 Exodus 12:1-14a :1-11 Genesis 1:1-2:2 Psalm 118:14-29 Psalm 78:13-25 Hebrews 10:1-25 Genesis 22:1-18 Colossians 3:1-4 1 Cor. 11:23-32 John 18:1- 19:37 Exodus 14:10-15:1 Mark 16:1-8 John 13:1-15 Isaiah 55:1-11 Ezekiel 36:24-28 Romans 6:3-11 Matthew 28:1-10 Bishop: The Rt. Rev'd Ryan S. Reed Rector: The Rev. Canon Len Giacolone Organist: Betty Lin Gallardo Acolyte: Arthur Woodgate

Palm Sunday Liturgy (From the back of the church - please turn around to face Fr. Len.)

V. Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord. R. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. Opening Prayer Palm Sunday Gospel Reading V. The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. V. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. R. It is meet and right so to do. Blessing of the Palms V. Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord. R. Hosanna in the highest. V. Let us go forth in peace. R. In the name of Christ. Amen.

PROPERS FOR PALM SUNDAY

PALM LITURGY GOSPEL MARK 11:1-11A 1And when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Beth'phage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, 2and said to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat; untie it and bring it. 3If any one says to you, `Why are you doing this?' say, `The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.'" 4And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door out in the open street; and they untied it. 5And those who stood there said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" 6And they told them what Jesus had said; and they let them go. 7And they brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments on it; and he sat upon it. 8And many spread their garments on the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields. 9And those who went before and those who followed cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 10Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming! Hosanna in the highest!" 11And he entered Jerusalem, and went into the temple.

3 COLLECT OF THE DAY ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility; Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

PRAYER IN TIME OF GREAT SICKNESS AND MORTALITY

ISAIAH 45: 21-25 21Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me. 22"Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. 23By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return: `To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.' 24"Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed, all who were incensed against him. 25In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall triumph and glory."

PSALM 22: 1-11 MY God, my God, look upon me; why hast thou forsaken me? * and art so far from my health, and from the words of my complaint? 2 O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not; * and in the night season also I take no rest. 3 And thou continuest holy, * O thou Worship of Israel. 4 Our fathers hoped in thee; * they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They called upon thee, and were holpen; * they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded. 6 But as for me, I am a worm, and no man; * a very scorn of men, and the outcast of the people. 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn; * they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying,

8 He trusted in the LORD, that he would deliver him; * let him deliver him, if he will have him. 9 But thou art he that took me out of my mother’s womb; * thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet upon my mother’s breasts. 10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was born; * thou art my God even from my mother’s womb. 11 O go not from me; for trouble is hard at hand, * and there is none to help me.

PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11 5Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. 9Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 4 MARK 14:32-15:47 (WHAT IS SAID WON'T EXACTLY BE THIS) 32And they went to a place which was called Gethsem'ane; and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray." 33And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. 34And he said to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch." 35And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee; remove this cup from me; yet not what I will, but what thou wilt." 37And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? 38Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." 39And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. 40And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they did not know what to answer him. 41And he came the third time, and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come; the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand." 43And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 44Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I shall kiss is the man; seize him and lead him away under guard." 45And when he came, he went up to him at once, and said, "Master!" And he kissed him. 46And they laid hands on him and seized him. 47But one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear. 48And Jesus said to them, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? 49Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled." 50And they all forsook him, and fled. 51And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body; and they seized him, 52but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked. 53And they led Jesus to the high priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes were assembled. 54And Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the guards, and warming himself at the fire. 55Now the chief priests and the whole council sought testimony against Jesus to put him to death; but they found none. 56For many bore false witness against him, and their witness did not agree. 57And some stood up and bore false witness against him, saying, 58"We heard him say, `I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.'" 59Yet not even so did their testimony agree. 60And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?" 61But he was silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" 62And Jesus said, "I am; and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." 63And the high priest tore his garments, and said, "Why do we still need witnesses? 64You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?" And they all condemned him as deserving death. 65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him, saying to him, "Prophesy!" And the guards received him with blows. 66And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the maids of the high priest came; 67and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus." 68But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you mean." And he went out into the gateway. 69And the maid saw him, and began again to say to the bystanders, "This man is one of them." 70But again he denied it. And after a little while again the bystanders said to Peter, "Certainly you are one of them; for you are a Galilean." 71But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know this man of whom you speak." 72And immediately the cock crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept. 1And as soon as it was morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council held a consultation; and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate. 2And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so." 3And the chief priests accused him of many things. 4And Pilate again

5 asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you." 5But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate wondered. 6Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. 7And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barab'bas. 8And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he was wont to do for them. 9And he answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?" 10For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. 11But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barab'bas instead. 12And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?" 13And they cried out again, "Crucify him." 14And Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him." 15So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barab'bas; and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. 16And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the praetorium); and they called together the whole battalion. 17And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on him. 18And they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 19And they struck his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and they knelt down in homage to him. 20And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him. 21And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyre'ne, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. 22And they brought him to the place called Gol'gotha (which means the place of a skull). 23And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh; but he did not take it. 24And they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. 25And it was the third hour, when they crucified him. 26And the inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of the Jews." 27And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. 29And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30save yourself, and come down from the cross!" 31So also the chief priests mocked him to one another with the scribes, saying, "He saved others; he cannot save himself. 32Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him. 33And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "E'lo-i, E'lo- i, la'ma sabach-tha'ni?" which means, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 35And some of the bystanders hearing it said, "Behold, he is calling Eli'jah." 36And one ran and, filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Eli'jah will come to take him down." 37And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last. 38And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. 39And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that he thus breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!" 40There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Mag'dalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salo'me, 41who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered to him; and also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. 42And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, 43Joseph of Arimathe'a, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. 44And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. 45And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. 46And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. 47Mary Mag'dalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid. Year B Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 2nd edition, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. 6

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8 Offertory Anthem

Go to Dark Gethsemane James L. Crandell

Go to dark Gethsemane, Ye who feel the tempter's power, Your redeemer's conflict see, Watch with Him one bitter hour; Turn not from His griefs away, Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

Follow to the judgment hall; View the Lord of life arraigned; O the wormwood and the gall! O the pangs His soul sustained, Shun not suffering, shame or loss; Learn of Him to bear the Cross.

Calv'rys mournful mountain climb; There, adoring at His feet, Mark the miracle of time, God's own sacrifice complete; "It is finished!', hear Him cry; Learn of him, learn of Jesus Christ to die.

Fr. Len says these prayers with those watching online.

9 THE ORDER OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST Palm Sunday Liturgy Processional #62 The Liturgy of the Word Collect for Purity p. 1 Summary of the Law p. 1 Kyrie Eleison p. 1 Collect of the Day Page 4 of this document Old Testament Lesson Psalm Epistle Passion Reading Nicene Creed p. 2 of the blue booklet Announcements Birthday Prayer Sermon Offertory Invitation p. 3 Offertory Go to Dark Gethsemane (J. Crandell) Prayer for Christ’s Church p. 4 Exhortation p. 5 General Confession p. 5 Absolution p. 5 Comfortable Words p. 5 The Holy Communion Sursum Corda p. 6 Sanctus et Benedictus p. 6 Prayer of Consecration p. 7 The Lord's Prayer p. 8 Prayer of Humble Access p. 8 Agnus Dei p. 9 The Act of Reception Prayers The Communion of the People Post-Communion Prayer p. 9 Benediction p. 10 Recessional #75 Dismissal

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