Welcome to CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH Santa Cruz, California Founder’s Day & Day of Lament for Racial Injustice June 21, 2020 Livestream Service Holy Eucharist, Rite II, 10:30am Today we celebrate the 156th anniversary of the laying of Calvary's Cornerstone on June 29, 1864, and honor the visionary and courageous pioneers who established our "little red church" in downtown Santa Cruz. As our inaugural service at Calvary became a requiem mass following the death of President Lincoln, race and racial injustice have long been a part of our community’s awareness and shared history. The blending of this year’s Day of Lament, shared across the Episcopal Church, with this year’s Founder’s Day is an opportunity to remember both the highs and the lows of our story. We at Calvary honor our baptismal covenant to “respect the dignity of every human being.” We celebrate the wonderful diversity of the human family, and strive to include a place for everyone at God’s table. Whether you’re young or old, rich or poor; married, partnered, or single; housed or homeless; gay, straight, trans, or questioning; native, documented, or undocumented – whoever you are (and just as you are), there is a place for you here. Come, the table is prepared. Prelude My Lord, what a morning Calvary Choir Elliott Nguyen, baritone Archive recording Litany of Thanksgiving for a Church Celebrant: Let us thank God whom we worship here in the beauty of holiness. Eternal God, the heaven of heavens cannot contain you, much less the walls of temples made with hands. Graciously receive our thanks for this place, and accept the work of our hands, offered to your honor and glory. For the Church universal, of which these visible buildings are the symbol, People: We thank you, Lord. Celebrant: For your presence whenever two or three have gathered together in your Name, People: We thank you, Lord. Celebrant: For this place where we may be still and know that you are God, People: We thank you, Lord. Celebrant: For making us your children by adoption and grace, and refreshing us day by day with the bread of life. People: We thank you, Lord. Celebrant: For the knowledge of your will and the grace to perform it, People: We thank you, Lord. Celebrant: For the fulfilling of our desires and petitions as you see best for us, People: We thank you, Lord. Celebrant: For the pardon of our sins, which restores us to the company of your faithful people, People: We thank you, Lord. Celebrant: For the blessing of our vows and the crowning of our years with your goodness, People: We thank you, Lord. Celebrant: For the faith of those who have gone before us and for our encouragement by their perseverance, People: We thank you, Lord. Celebrant: For the fellowship of all your Saints, People: We thank you, Lord. After a brief silence, the Celebrant concludes with the following Doxology Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty; For everything in heaven and on earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; And you are exalted as head over all. Amen. The Word of God Opening Acclamation Celebrant: Blessed be the one, holy, and living God. People: Glory to God forever and ever. Collect for Purity Celebrant: 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. Song of Praise I, the Lord of sea and sky WLP 812 Sung by all -2- Words: Daniel L. Schutte Music: Daniel L. Schutte Collect for Today Celebrant: God be with you People: And also with you Celebrant: Let us pray Almighty God, to whose glory we celebrate the dedication of this house of prayer: We give you thanks for the fellowship of those who have worshiped in this place. We recognize and lament those parts of our history that have contributed to racial inequality and perpetuated the institutional racism of our faith and society. We pray that all who seek you here may find you, may find welcome, acceptance, and equity in and from our community, and may be filled with your joy and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. The First Lesson: 1 Kings 8:22-23, 27b-30 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands to heaven. He said, ‘O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and steadfast love for your servants who walk before you with all their heart, ‘But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built! Have regard to your servant’s prayer and his plea, O Lord my God, heeding the cry and the prayer that your servant prays to you today; that your eyes may be open night and day towards this house, the place of which you said, “My name shall be there”, that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays towards this place. Hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray towards this place; O hear in heaven your dwelling-place; heed and forgive. Lector: Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people. People: Thanks be to God. -3- Psalm 84 Sung by all, please stand The Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 3:1-11, 16-17 And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready, for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarrelling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations? For when one says, ‘I belong to Paul’, and another, ‘I belong to Apollos’, are you not merely human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages according to the labour of each. For we are God’s servants, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ. Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. Lector: Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people. People: Thanks be to God. -4- Sequence Hymn Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen LEVAS 175 Sung by all; please stand Words: Traditional Music: Negro Spiritual The Gospel: Matthew 7:13-14, 24-25 Celebrant: The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew. People: Glory to you, Lord Christ. ‘Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it. ‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. Celebrant: The Gospel of the Lord. People: Praise to you, Lord Christ. -5- The Homily The Rev. Dr. Austin Leininger Nicene Creed Said by all; please stand We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, By the power of the Holy Spirit, he was incarnate from the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.