June 21, 2020 10:00 am The Third Sunday after Pentecost Digital Morning Prayer Welcome to this new medium of corporate worship here at St. John’s! The current necessity to practice social distancing enables us to remain attentive to the care for the vulnerable among us, which is tied to the well-being of the entire human family. It also challenges us. We are attentive as well to caring for our need for collective worship and praise of God. So, we forge forward together with new ways of worship and ask for God’s grace and love to be known as we venture with trust into the unfamiliar. Thank you for joining us today. Whether a long-standing parishioner, a new member, or someone joining us for the first time, this is new for all of us! We hope you will, through the words and music we raise to God together, sense God’s work within you and among us all. May our worship ground, strengthen, and guide us this day and always. DIGITAL MORNING PRAYER PRELUDE: Last uns erfreuen (All creatures of our God and King) Geistliche Kirchengeseng Ellie and Caroline Fox, violins HYMN 686 O Come, thou fount of every blessing Nettleton 1 Come, thou fount of every blessing, 3 Oh, to grace how great a debtor tune my heart to sing thy grace! daily I’m constrained to be! Streams of mercy never ceasing, Let thy goodness, like a fetter, call for songs of loudest praise. bind my wandering heart to thee: Teach me some melodious sonnet, prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, sung by flaming tongues above. prone to leave the God I love; Praise the mount! Oh, fix me on it, here’s my heart, oh, take and seal it, mount of God’s unchanging love. seal it for thy courts above. 2 Here I find my greatest treasure; hither, by thy help, I’ve come; and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger wandering from the fold of God; he, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood. OPENING ACCLAMATION Officiant Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. People And blessed be God’s kingdom, now and for ever. Amen. THE SUMMARY OF THE LAW Jesus said, “The first commandment is this: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is the only Lord. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:29-31 JUBILATE Psalm 100 Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; * serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song. Know this: The Lord himself is God; * he himself has made us, and we are his; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise; * give thanks to him and call upon his Name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; * and his faithfulness endures from age to age. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia. FIRST READING: Jeremiah 20:7-13 O LORD, you have enticed me, and I was enticed; you have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me. For whenever I speak, I must cry out, I must shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. For I hear many whispering: “Terror is all around! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” All my close friends are watching for me to stumble. “Perhaps he can be enticed, and we can prevail against him, and take our revenge on him.” But the LORD is with me like a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they will not prevail. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten. O LORD of hosts, you test the righteous, you see the heart and the mind; let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have committed my cause. Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers. Reader Here ends the Reading. GOSPEL READING: Matthew 10:24-39 Jesus said to the twelve disciples, “A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. And even the hairs of your head are all counted. So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows. Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven. Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.” Reader Here ends the Reading. SERMON The Reverend Dina E. Widlake ANTHEM: Ain'-a That Good News! William L. Dawson SALUTATION Officiant The Lord be with you. People And also with you. Officiant Let us pray. KYRIE ELEISON Officient Lord, have mercy. People Christ, have mercy. Officient Lord, have mercy. THE LORD’S PRAYER 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, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. COLLECT OF THE DAY O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Let us pray for the Church and for the world, saying in response: Hear our prayer. THE PEACE Officiant The peace of the Lord be always with you. People And also with you. WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Hymn 380 (verse 3) Old 100th Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host: praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. HYMN 717 (verse 4) America Our fathers’ God, to thee, author of liberty, to thee we sing; long may our land be bright with freedom’s holy light; protect us by thy might, great God, our King. THE BLESSING AND DISMISSAL Officiant Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Alleluia, alleluia. People Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia. HYMN 432 O praise ye the Lord! Laudate Dominum 1 O praise ye the Lord! 3 O praise ye the Lord! Praise him in the height; All things that give sound; rejoice in his word, each jubilant chord ye angels of light; re-echo around; ye heavens, adore him loud organs, his glory by whom ye were made, forth tell in deep tone, and worship before him, and sweet harp, the story in brightness arrayed. of what he hath done. 2 O praise ye the Lord! 4 O praise ye the Lord! Praise him upon earth, Thanksgiving and song in tuneful accord, to him be outpoured all ye of new birth; all ages along! praise him who hath brought you For love in creation, his grace from above, for heaven restored, praise him who hath taught you for grace of salvation, to sing of his love. O praise ye the Lord! ZOOM COFFEE TIME This Sunday, June 21 following the 10:00 am service Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82455771204?pwd=Y2pBZGNZOTlWOEY5V2tob2s1WkgrUT09 Call in number +1 301 715 8592 US Meeting ID: 824 5577 1204 Password: 075350 WEDNESDAY CHOIR REHEARSALS 5:00 pm Zoom Youth Choir Rehearsal 7:00 pm Zoom Adult Choir Rehearsal Please Email [email protected] for Zoom code.