WELCOME washington national cathedral March 22, 2020 Preaching Today Welcome to Your Online Cathedral The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde Wherever you’re watching from, welcome to Washington National Cathedral. We’re so glad you’re here! This unprecedented pandemic has upended life for everyone, and has forced each of us to reorder our lives. For us here at the Cathedral, it has meant shifting our energies into finding virtual ways to bring you the beauty and wonder of this sacred space. Announcement Highlights Even though we can not gather physically to spend time where to watch together in God’s embrace, we are committed to gathering Services are webcast from our homepage, our Facebook online, where we can share the peace of God in these page and our Youtube page. Tuesday evening spiritual tumultuous times. practices are webcast from the Center for Prayer and We are encouraged by your response. Last Sunday, some Pilgrimage Facebook page. 25,000 people around the world tuned in to our first more info online-only Eucharist, and it’s since been viewed by more All of the links in this document are active. Click on any than 125,000 people. Each day, we’re offering morning and evening services of prayer, and we’re so thrilled that we underlined text to link for additional information. are reaching tens of thousands of people each day. prayer requests During these anxious times, try to remember the ways During this time of uncertainty, we invite you to submit God has blessed you. Put another way, ask yourself: What prayers for yourself, those you love, and the world. am I grateful for? There’s a roof over your head, food to Each day at 2:30 pm (Monday – Saturday) a priest or lay eat, family to draw close to. Taking stock of the blessings minister offers these prayers and those of others during a in our lives can help when the world around us can seem time of prayer and intercession. Submit your request on at overwhelming. cathedral.org/prayer We invite you to find more online resources and offerings at cathedral.org, where we will be adding additional content in the days and weeks to come. There’s ways to submit a prayer request, log your acts of goodness as part of our Seeds of Faith initiative, and to learn how we’re building a new online community. Thank you for joining us! . Faithfully, Randy+ The Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith Dean, Washington National Cathedral The Holy Eucharist The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 22, 2020 • 11:15 AM Washington National Cathedral Worship lies at the heart of the Christian life. It is in worship that we express our theology and define our identity. It is through encountering God within worship that we are formed and transformed as the people of God. One of the glories of the Episcopal Church is its liturgical worship. Liturgy refers to the patterns, forms, words, and actions through which public worship is conducted. The people’s responses are in bold. This type of note, offering directions about the service is called a “rubric,” which comes from the Latin wordrubrica (red)—referring to a time when these instructional notes were always written in red. The Entrance Rite When the service is accompanied by music, it often begins with an instrumental piece of music, during which the congregation can prepare for worship. prelude Aria Paul Manz (1919-2009) Trust me Richard Smallwood (b. 1948) We’ve come this far by faith Albert A. Goodson (b. 1933) hymn at the procession • 8 Morning has broken Sung by all. Bunessan We begin our worship as a gathered community by praising God in song. the opening acclamation Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins. God’s mercy endures for ever. the penitential sentences If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:8, 9) the confession & absolution 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. The bishop offers absolution and the people respond, Amen. kyrie eleison Avon Gillespie (1938-1989) Introduced by the worship leader, then sung by all. The Word of God the collect for the fourth sunday in lent The collect is the prayer appointed for each Sunday that “collects” or captures the theme of the day or season of the Church year. It summarizes the attributes of God as revealed in the scriptures for the day. The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us pray. Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, 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. 2 the first reading This reading is typically from the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) which Jesus knew and from which he often referred or quoted. 1 Samuel 16:1-13 1 Samuel 16:1-13 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over El Señor dijo a Samuel: «¿Hasta cuándo vas a estar Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill triste por causa de Saúl? Ya no quiero que él siga siendo your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the rey de Israel. Anda, llena de aceite tu cuerno, que quiero Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among que vayas a la casa de Jesé, el de Belén, porque ya escogí his sons.” Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears of it, como rey a uno de sus hijos.» «¿Y cómo haré para he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with ir?» respondió Samuel. «¡Si Saúl llega a saberlo, me you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ Invite matará!» El Señor le contestó: «Toma una ternera y di Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall que vas a ofrecérmela en sacrificio. Después invita a Jesé do; and you shall anoint for me the one whom I name al sacrificio, y yo te diré lo que debes hacer. Consagra to you.” Samuel did what the Lord commanded, and como rey a quien yo te diga.» Samuel hizo lo que el came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet Señor le mandó. Y cuando llegó a Belén, los ancianos him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?” He de la ciudad salieron a recibirle con cierto temor, y le said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord; preguntaron: «¿Vienes en son de paz?» «Así es» sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” respondió Samuel. «Vengo a ofrecer un sacrificio al And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to Señor. Purifíquense y acompáñenme a participar en el the sacrifice. When they came, he looked on Eliab and sacrificio.» Luego Samuel purificó a Jesé y a sus hijos, y thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is now before the los invitó al sacrificio. Cuando ellos llegaron, Samuel vio Lord.” But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on a Eliab y pensó: «Con toda seguridad éste es el hombre his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I que el Señor ha escogido como rey.» Pero el Señor le dijo: have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals «No te fijes en su apariencia ni en su elevada estatura, see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord pues yo lo he rechazado. No se trata de lo que el hombre looks on the heart.” Then Jesse called Abinadab, and ve; pues el hombre se fija en las apariencias, pero yo me made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Neither has fijo en el corazón.» Entonces Jesé llamó a Abinadab, the Lord chosen this one.” Then Jesse made Shammah y se lo presentó a Samuel; pero Samuel comentó: pass by. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this «Tampoco a éste ha escogido el Señor.» Luego le one.” Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, presentó Jesé a Samá; pero Samuel dijo: «Tampoco and Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen any ha escogido a éste.» Jesé presentó a Samuel siete de sus of these.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” hijos, pero Samuel tuvo que decirle que a ninguno de And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but he is ellos lo había elegido el Señor. Finalmente le preguntó: keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and «¿No tienes más hijos?» «Falta el más pequeño, que bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.” es el que cuida el rebaño» respondió Jesé. «Manda a He sent and brought him in.