March 14, 2021 Fourth Sunday of Lent Holy Eucharist Rite II 9:00 AM Welcome A Penitential Order: Rite II BCP 351 Welcome to St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral; we are so glad you are here. St. Paul’s is a safe and welcoming place for all people. If you are new to St. Paul’s we encourage you to get connected with our weekly email A Solemn Procession newsletter. You can sign up online at stpaulsokc.org. [Please stand as you are able] A friendly reminder to those who are worshiping in- Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins. person, please have your mask on (covering your His mercy endures for ever. mouth and nose) and maintain social distancing at all times during the service. Additionally, we cannot have congregational singing at this time, so during the hymns we invite you to listen to the choristers and follow along with the words printed in the bulletin. We thank you in advance for adhering to these Diocesan The Decalogue: Contemporary protocols which keep us all safe and allow for us to BCP 350 worship in-person. Hear the commandments of God to his people: I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Prelude Music bondage. Organ You shall have no other gods but me. O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß J.S. Bach Amen. Lord have mercy. (O Man, bewail thy great sin) You shall not make for yourself any idol. Amen. Lord have mercy. Schola Also hat Gott Melchior Franck You shall not invoke with malice the Name of the Lord your God. Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt Amen. Lord have mercy. dass er seinen einigen Sohn gab, auf daß alle, die an ihn glaudben, Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. nicht verloren werden, Amen. Lord have mercy. sondern das ewige Leben haben. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that all who believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Text: John 3:16 Honor your father and your mother. Absolution Amen. Lord have mercy. Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all You shall not commit murder. your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen Amen. Lord have mercy. you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen. You shall not commit adultery. Amen. Lord have mercy. You shall not steal. Kyrie Hymnal S86 Amen. Lord have mercy. Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy on us. You shall not be a false witness. Christe eleison. Christ, have mercy on us. Amen. Lord have mercy. Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy on us. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor. Amen. Lord have mercy. Collect of the Day The Lord be with you. Jesus said, “The first commandment is this: Hear, O And also with you. Israel: The Lord your God is the only Lord. Love the Let us pray. Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ with all your mind, and with all your strength. The came down from heaven to be the true bread which second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, is no commandment greater than these.” that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Confession Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor. 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 neighbors 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; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen. 2 Lesson Numbers 21:4-9 Some were fools and took to rebellious / ways; * [You may be seated] they were afflicted because / of their sins. From Mount Hor the Israelites set out by the way They abhorred all manner of / food * to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but and drew / near to death’s door. the people became impatient on the way. The people Then they cried to the LORD in their / trouble, * spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you and he delivered them from / their distress. brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this He sent forth his word and / healed them * miserable food.” Then the Lord sent poisonous ser- and saved them / from the grave. pents among the people, and they bit the people, so Let them give thanks to the LORD for his / mercy * that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and the wonders he does / for his children. and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away Let them offer a sacrifice of thanks/giving * the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. and tell of his acts with / shouts of joy. And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous ser- All the ends of the earth shall remember pent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten and turn to the / LORD, * shall look at it and live.” So Moses made a serpent of and all the families of the nations bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent shall / bow before him. bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live. For kingship belongs to the / LORD; * The Word of the Lord. he rules o/ver the nations. Thanks be to God. To him alone all who sleep in the earth bow down in / worship; * all who go down to the dust / fall before him. Psalm 107:1-3,17-22 My soul shall live for him; my descendants shall / serve him; * they shall be known as the / LORD’S for ever. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is / good, * They shall come and make known and his mercy en/dures for ever. to a people yet un/born * Let all those whom the LORD has redeemed the saving deeds that / he has done. pro/claim* that he redeemed them from the hand / of the foe. He gathered them out of the / lands; * from the east and from the west, from the north and / from the south. 3 Lesson Ephesians 2:1-10 4. Then grant us, Lord, like them to be full oft in fast and prayer with thee; You were dead through the trespasses and sins in our spirits strengthen with thy grace, which you once lived, following the course of this and give us joy to see thy face. world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are dis- 5. O Father, Son, and Spirit blest, obedient. All of us once lived among them in the pas- to thee be every prayer addressed, sions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and who art in threefold Name adored, senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like from age to age, the only Lord. everyone else. But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive to- Gospel John 3:14-21 gether with Christ-- by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages according to John. to come he might show the immeasurable riches of Glory to you, Lord Christ. his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this Jesus said, “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the is not your own doing; it is the gift of God-- not the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are whoever believes in him may have eternal life. what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way so that everyone who believes in him may not perish of life. but may have eternal life. The Word of the Lord. “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to Thanks be to God. condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are Gospel Hymn Hymnal 143 condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the [Please stand as you are able] judgment, that the light has come into the world, and 1. The glory of these forty days people loved darkness rather than light because their we celebrate with songs of praise; deeds were evil.