Day of Pentecost Traditional Worship 8:30 and 11:00 Am May 20, 2018
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Traditional Worship 8:30 and 11:00 am Day of Pentecost May 20, 2018 Welcome to Trinity Lutheran Church! Please sign the red Worship Witness booklet to record your attendance with us this day, and indicate how many are communing. Then pass the booklet to the worshipers beside you in your row. If you are a guest, name tags are available for you to wear---we would be delighted to greet you by name. Hearing assistance devices and large print bulletins are available from an usher. about today’s service On the fiftieth day of Easter we celebrate the Spirit, through whom and in whom the people of God are created and re-created. Pentecost is sometimes called the church’s birthday, but might more appropriately be called its baptism day, since the gift of the Spirit is the fullness of baptism. Ezekiel’s vision shows the Spirit resurrecting and re-creating not just individuals but a whole people. Romans makes it clear that God is in the process of re-creating the entire cosmos; yet the Spirit is also at work in the most intimate and personal way, praying in us “with sighs too deep for words” when we do not know how to pray. P: Presiding Minister A: Assisting Minister L: Lector C: Congregation Instructional Liturgy As all have been united in Christ at baptism, all participate in the worship liturgy. Liturgy (which means “work of the people”) is the order of worship passed to us from both the Jewish synagogue and the early years of the Christian church. The first section of the Liturgy is the Gathering when we assemble as one single household of worshipers and prepare to worship God. page 2 + Gathering + Prelude: Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart arr. Kevin McChesney …Teach me to love You as Your angels love; one holy passion filling all my frame; The baptism of the heaven ascended Dove; My heart an altar, and Your love the flame… Adult Bells Welcome Mission Moment Capital Appeal Team [Stand] Confession and Forgiveness Confession and Forgiveness is our opportunity to have all sins taken away by God’s declaration in the Pastor’s Words of Absolution. We are forgiven because God says so in Jesus’ death and by his promise – not because we feel forgiven. P: Blessed be the holy Trinity, + one God, who forgives all our sin, whose mercy endures forever. C: Amen. P: Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom 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 Jesus Christ our Lord. C: Amen. P: Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another. Silence is kept for reflection. P: Gracious God, C: have mercy on us. We confess that we have turned from you and given ourselves into the power of sin. We are truly sorry and humbly repent. In your compassion forgive us our sins, known and unknown, things we have done and things we have failed to do. Turn us again to you, and uphold us by your Spirit, so that we may live and serve you in newness of life through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen. P: God, who is rich in mercy, loved us even when we were dead in sin, and made us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved. In the name of + Jesus Christ, your sins are forgiven. Almighty God strengthen you page 3 with power through the Holy Spirit, that Christ may live in your hearts through faith. C: Amen. Gathering Hymn No. 400: God of Tempest, God of Whirlwind CWM RHONDDA (11:00) Please turn to face the cross as it enters our midst. Songs give us the opportunity to praise and thank God. The first songs we sing are gathering songs which call us together as the body of Christ. Greeting The Greeting, often called the Apostolic Greeting, is a paraphrase of Paul's salutation or blessing that ends his Second Letter to the Corinthians in the New Testament. P: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. C: And also with you. Veni Sancte Spiritus The congregation repeats the refrain continuously until all verses are sung. Cantors: Come, Holy Spirit, from heaven shine forth with your glorious light. Veni Sancte Spiritus. Come, from the four winds, O spirit; come, breath of God; Disperse the shadows over us, renew and strengthen your people. Veni Sancte Spiritus. You are our only comforter, peace of the soul. In the heat you shade us: in our labor you refresh us, And in trouble, you are our strength. Veni Sancte Spiritus. Kindle in our hearts the flame of your love. page 4 That in the darkness of the world it may glow and reach to all forever. Veni Sancte Spiritus. Hymn of Praise page 5 Prayer of the Day The Prayer of the Day, once called the Collect, brings together the themes of the day. This prayer ends the Gathering and begins the Liturgy of the Word. P: The Lord be with you. C: And also with you. P: Let us pray. Mighty God, you breathe life into our bones, and your Spirit brings truth to the world. Send us this Spirit, transform us by your truth, and give us language to proclaim your gospel, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. C: Amen. [Sit] page 6 + Word + The Liturgy of the Word centers on the spoken and preached Word. It is based on the liturgy used in the synagogues during the time of the apostles and was well known to early Christians. The readings rotate on a three-year lectionary cycle which assigns the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke (and the other readings) to a particular church year that begins with Advent and ends with Christ the King. Readings from the Gospel of John are assigned to all three lectionary cycles. A responsive reading of a psalm may be included. First Reading Ezekiel 37:1-14 The Hebrew word ruach means spirit, wind, or breath. This reading plays on the different meanings of the word. Just as the dry bones in Ezekiel’s vision are given new life, flesh, and breath (or spirit), so God will give the exiles his spirit and will bring them home to the land of Israel. 1The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.” 7So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” 10I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude. 11Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’ 12Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13And you shall know that I am the Lord, page 7 when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. 14I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord.” L: The word of the Lord. C: Thanks be to God. Second Reading Acts 2:1-21 Originally Pentecost was a Jewish thanksgiving-type festival celebrated seven weeks after Passover. On this particular Pentecost, however, the Holy Spirit is poured out upon the entire community of believers just as Jesus had promised and the scriptures had prophesied. Empowered by the Spirit, the entire community bears witness to God’s activity in multiple languages. 1When the day of Pentecost had come, [the apostles] were all together in one place. 2And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.