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The Second Sunday After Pentecost Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and School Quinquagesima Saturday, March 2, 2019 Sunday, March 3, 2019 Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and School Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod 4206 West Elm Street • McHenry, IL 60050 (815) 385-0859 • [email protected] www.zionmchenry.org Rev. Mark Buetow Rev. Aden Loest Pastor & School Director Pastor Emeritus (618) 318-3680 (815) 385-0859 [email protected] [email protected] Thank you for worshiping with us at Zion. As you hear God’s Word, we pray that you would find peace and strength in our Lord, Jesus Christ. PRE-LENT is the season in which the Church begins to prepare for the Lenten Fast. It is the pre- game or warm up for Lent. Time to start thinking repentance and faith! Time to work out turning your eyes from you and putting them on Jesus! Time to start the countdown for Easter! PreLent is the season of the "Gesima” Sundays where the Church begins to count the days until Easter. Septuagesima means "70th." Sexagesima means "60th.” Quinquagesima means "50th." Each Sunday gives us a rough estimate of how many days we have until Easter. Happy Pre-Lent! Start getting ready, Lent is almost here! Communion Policy In the Lord's Supper, our Lord Jesus Christ gives to us His Body to eat and His Blood to drink for the remission of our sins (Matt. 26:26-28, Mark 14:22-24, Luke 22:19-2). Our Lord invites to His table those who trust His words and repent of all sins. Because Holy Communion is a proclamation and confession of the Faith which is confessed at this altar (1 Cor. 11:24-26), any who have not been instructed or who hold a confession different from that of this congregation or the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod and yet desire to receive the Sacrament are asked to speak with the Pastors or an elder before coming to the altar. The lighter colored cups contain the Blood of Christ which has been diluted by water (John 19:39). Prayer upon Entering the Church O Lord, our Creator, Redeemer, and Comforter, as we come together to worship You in spirit and in truth, we humbly pray that You would open our hearts to the preaching of Your Word so that we may repent of our sins, believe in Jesus Christ as our only Savior, and grow in grace and holiness. Hear us for His sake. Amen. 2 Order of Service: Divine Service, Setting 1 LSB 151 Opening Hymn “God, Whose Almighty Word” LSB 979 3 Confession and Absolution The sign of the cross may be made by all in remembrance of their Baptism. P In the name of the Father and of the T Son and of the Holy Spirit. C Amen. Matthew 28:19b; [18:20] P If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. C But if we confess our sins, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:8-9 Silence for reflection on God's Word and for self-examination. P Let us then confess our sins to God our Father. C Most merciful God, we confess that we are by nature sinful and unclean. We have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved You with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We justly deserve Your present and eternal punishment. For the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways to the glory of Your holy name. Amen. P Almighty God in His mercy has given His Son to die for you and for His sake forgives you all your sins. As a called and ordained servant of Christ, and by His authority, I therefore forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the T Son and of the Holy Spirit. C Amen. 4 Service of the Word Introit Ps. 31:1, 5, 9, 16; antiphon: Ps. 31:2b-3 Be a rock of ref- | uge for me,* a strong fortress to | save me! For you are my rock and my | fortress;* and for your name’s sake you lead me and | guide me. In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be | put to shame;* in your righteousness de- | liver me! Into your hand I commit my | spirit;* you have redeemed me, O LORD, | faithful God. Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am | in distress;* my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body | also. Make your face shine on your | servant;* save me in your | steadfast love! Glory be to the Father and | to the Son* and to the Holy | Spirit; as it was in the be- | ginning,* is now, and will be forever. | Amen. Be a rock of ref- | uge for me,* a strong fortress to | save me! For you are my rock and my | fortress;* and for your name’s sake you lead me and | guide me. Kyrie Lord, Have Mercy Mark 10:47 5 6 Gloria in Excelsis 7 Salutation and Collect of the Day 2 Timothy 4:22 P Let us pray. O Lord, mercifully hear our prayers and having set us free from the bonds of our sins deliver us from every evil; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Sit Old Testament Reading 1 Samuel 16:1-13 A The Old Testament Reading for Quinquagesima is from First Samuel, chapter sixteen. 1The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” 2And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’ 3And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.” 4Samuel did what the LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?” 5And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. 8 6When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.” 7But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.” 8Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the LORD chosen this one.” 9Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the LORD chosen this one.” 10And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen these.” 11Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.” 12And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.” 13Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah. A This is the Word of the Lord. C Thanks be to God. Gradual Ps. 77:14-15 You are the God who works | wonders;* you have made known your might among the | peoples. You with your arm redeemed your | people,* the children of Jacob and | Joseph. Epistle Reading 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 A The Epistle Reading is from First Corinthians, chapter thirteen. 1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 9 4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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