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DIOCESE OF NOVA SCOTIA AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2020 ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
PRAYER REQUESTS Anglican Cycle of Prayer Sunday, 16 August 2020 Pray for the Scottish Episcopal Church The Most Revd Mark Strange - Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church & Bishop of Moray, Ross & Caithness Monday, 17 August 2020 Okigwe (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Edward Osuegbu Okigwe North (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Godson Udochukwu Ukanwa Okigwe South (Nigeria) The Rt Revd David Onuoha Kebbi (Nigeria) The Most Revd Edmund Akanya Tuesday, 18 August 2020 Okinawa (Japan) The Rt Revd David Eisho Uehara Bukuru (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Jwan Zhumbes Wednesday, 19 August 2020 Oklahoma (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Edward Konieczny Bunbury (Australia) The Rt Revd Dr Ian Coutts Thursday, 20 August 2020 Okrika (Nigeria) The Rt Revd Tubokosemie Atere Bungoma (Kenya) The Revd George Mechumo Friday, 21 August 2020 Oleh (Nigeria) The Rt Revd John Usiwoma Aruakpor Bunyoro-Kitara (Uganda) The Rt Revd Samuel Kahuma Saturday, 22 August 2020 Kentucky (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Terry White Kericho (Kenya) The Rt Revd Ernest Kiprotich Ng'eno Khartoum (Sudan) The Most Revd Ezekiel Kumir Kondo (Primate) Our Diocese St. James’, Kentville The Revd Shirley Cole The Revd Catherine Desloges, Assistant Parish Priest, and Brian Brooklyn The Archdeacon Tom Henderson, Priest-in-Charge
Welcome Hymn: Morning Has Broken CP 3 Morning has broken like the first morning, blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing praise for the morning praise for them springing fresh from the Word Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven like the first dew fall on the first grass Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden sprung in completeness where His feet pass Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning born of the one light Eden saw play. Praise with elation, praise every morning God's recreation of the new day. Children’s Message The Gathering of the Community
AUGUST 16, 2020 3 Officiant The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all People And also with you. Officiant Let us pray. We thank you, O God, that you have again brought us together to praise you for your goodness and to ask your blessing. Give us grace to see your hand in the week that is past, and your purpose in the week to come; through Christ our Lord. People Amen. Officiant Dear friends in Christ, as we turn our hearts and minds to worship almighty God, let us confess our sins in penitence and faith, firmly resolved to keep God’s commandments and to live in love and peace with our neighbours. People Most merciful God, we confess that 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 neighbours as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us,
AUGUST 16, 2020 4 that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your name. Amen. Officiant Merciful God, grant to your faithful people pardon and peace, that we may be cleansed from all our sins and serve you with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Officiant The Lord is our light and our life. People O come, let us worship. Venite Come, let us sing to the Lord; * let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving * and raise a loud shout to him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God * and a great king above all gods. In his hand are the caverns of the earth, * and the heights of the hills are his also. The sea is his for he made it, * and his hands have moulded the dry land. Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, * and kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. * Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!
AUGUST 16, 2020 5 The Collect of the Day Holy One of Israel, covenant-keeper, you gather in what has been rejected, restoring what is lost and healing what is wounded. Give us faith to speak out boldly, so that the outcast may be welcomed and all may be blessed. Amen. Revised Common Lectionary Prayers (2002) alt. The Proclamation of the Word The first appointed reading is read, the reader first saying; a reading from Isaiah [56:1,6-7] Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the sabbath, and do not profane it, and hold fast my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. After the reading the reader shall say; Reader The word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
AUGUST 16, 2020 6 A reading of Psalm 67 1 May God be merciful to us and bless us, * show us the light of his countenance and come to us. 2 Let your ways be known upon earth, * your saving health among all nations. 3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; * let all the peoples praise you. 4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, * for you judge the peoples with equity and guide all the nations upon earth. 5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; * let all the peoples praise you. 6 The earth has brought forth her increase; may God, our own God, give us his blessing. 7 May God give us his blessing, * and may all the ends of the earth stand in awe of him. Blessed are you, Lord our God, light of the earth and health of the nations; you lead us in the way of justice and mercy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A reading from the Epistle to the Romans [11:1-2 & 29-32] I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I my- self am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, so they have now been disobedient in or- der that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now* receive mercy. For God has imprisoned all in disobedi- ence so that he may be merciful to all.
AUGUST 16, 2020 7 After the reading the reader shall say; Reader The word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God. The congregation stands for the Gospel reading. The reader says The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew [15:10-28] People Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that de- files a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.’ Then the disciples approached and said to him, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees took offence when they heard what you said?’ He answered, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind.* And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.’ But Peter said to him, ‘Explain this parable to us.’ Then he said, ‘Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.’ Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.’ But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, ‘Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.’ He
AUGUST 16, 2020 8 answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’ But she came and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, help me.’ He answered, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ She said, ‘Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.’ Then Jesus answered her, ‘Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.’ And her daughter was healed instantly. At the conclusion the reader says The Gospel of Christ. People Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. A hymn, or a period of silent reflection, may follow. A sermon or other comment on the readings is delivered. Sermon The officiant invites the people, to join in the Creed. Officiant Let us confess the faith of our baptism All I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
AUGUST 16, 2020 9 He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Intercessions and Thanksgivings The Lord’s Prayer Officiant Gathering our prayers and praises into one, Let us pray as our Saviour taught us, All Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Blessing Hymn: We Cannot Measure How You Heal CP 292 We cannot measure how you heal or answer every sufferer’s prayer,
AUGUST 16, 2020 10 yet we believe your grace responds where faith and doubt unite to care. Your hands, though bloodied on the cross, survive to hold and heal and warn, to carry all through death to life and cradle children yet unborn. The pain that will not go away, the guilt that clings from things long past, the fear of what the future holds, are present as if meant to last. But present too is love which tends the hurt we never hoped to find, the private agonies inside, the memories that haunt the mind. So some have come who need your help and some have come to make amends, as hands which shaped and saved the world are present in the touch of friends. Lord, let your Spirit meet us here to mend the body, mind and soul, to disentangle peace from pain, and make your broken people whole. Dismissal Officiant Let us bless the Lord People Thanks be to God
*Adapted and excerpted from Occasional Celebrations, copyright © 1992 by the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada and published by ABC Publishing, Anglican Book Centre, 80 Hayden Street, Toronto M4Y 3G2.”
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AUGUST 16, 2020 13 St. George’s Soup Kitchen Our Outreach Committee continues to provide meals for St. George’s Soup kitchen, and the next meal they will be providing will be on Saturday, August 23. The Soup kitchen is currently operating on a take-out basis. We are thankful for the continued ministry of our Outreach Committee.
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Our People RECTOR & DEAN The Very Revd Paul Smith ASSOCIATE PRIEST & PRIEST IN CHARGE OF THE PARISH OF FALKLAND, ST. JAMES The Revd Dr Helen Ryding HONORARY ASSISTANTS The Revd Dr Davena Davis The Revd Ronald Harris The Revd Canon Fred Krieger The Revd John Swain The Revd Canon Keirsten Wells DEACONS The Revd Heather MacEachern The Revd Ray Carter, TSSF The Revd Maggie Whittingham-Lamont SACRISTAN Maureen Yeats VERGER Howard D’Arcy ORGANIST & CHOIR DIRECTOR Paul Halley 9 AM MUSIC MINISTRY Russ Hall ORGANIST EMERITUS Dr James Burchill ASSISTANT TO THE ORGANIST Nicholas Halley CATHEDRAL WARDEN Andrew Black DEAN’S WARDEN Dr Frank Lovely LICENSED LAY READERS William Black Heather Carter Margaret Withrow Susan Drain Maureen Yeats Patricia Fordham EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Andrew Black Mayann Francis Gordon Young Deborah Vandewater Murray Vandewater TREASURER Peter Flemming
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