9 AM HOLY EUCHARIST Sunday, October 20 Season after Pentecost. TRINITY CHURCH IN THE CITY OF BOSTON FROM THE RECTOR Dear Trinity Church and friends, Grace and Peace and Sunday greetings! With your calendars now marked for the two special Sundays I foreshadowed last week – October 27 (details on back cover) and November 10, I write to you today with more about our Stewardship programming (and yes – believe it or not – there is more!). Known & Loved Gatherings During our Stewardship season, we will seek to know and to love one another more and better. We have scheduled 17 small-group gatherings – 14 hosted by parishioners in their homes, and 3 hosted at the Rectory (233 Clarendon Street) by our Stewardship Committee. With options across greater Boston – from Beacon Hill to Hingham, Back Bay to Wellesley, Lexington to Roslindale, and all points between – we hope you will choose the event most convenient for you. The Lord and the MBTA willing, I will attend every one, and I look forward to deepening connections with you. Sign-ups are now available online at trinitychurchboston/news or by scanning the QR code. Brass-Tacks Forums If the season’s preaching, parishioner reflections, and small-group events lean into our theme’s “Loving,” then our Sunday-morning Forums lean into its “Knowing.” With the exception of the aforementioned mornings, each Sunday we’ll explore our congregations’ revenues and commitments with candor and clarity: October 20 Annual Stewardship 2005-2019 November 3 Endowments and Other Income November 17 Trinity Church Outreach & Justice Ministries November 24 2019-2020 Budgets I will facilitate these Forums within a common framework, while staff and parish leaders will deliver the content during each session. Known & Loved Reflections and Tuesday Emails This year, in lieu of “Stewardship Testimonials” delivered from the Eagle Lectern, the Stewardship Committee has invited parishioners to reflect in writing on their experience of being known and loved at Trinity Church. These reflections, teased by a short video clip, will be shared with the parish each Tuesday of the season, in an email formatted similarly to this message. While we might reprise the Testimonials from the Eagle Lectern during services in a future year, this fall’s format allows us to hear from couples and households, rather than from only an individual; and relieves presenters of any public-speaking anxieties—all while keeping our worship moving and preserving the maximum amount of time for our Forums. So welcome to the beginning of season begin! I am excited to consider with you how the Living Christ calls all of us to be generous toward God, the Church, and one another. Looking forward with love, The Rev. Morgan S. Allen 2 welcome 3 Prelude WORD OF GOD Two Choral-Improvisations: Hymn 400 ‘All creatures of our God and King’ Verses 1, 4, 5, 7 only. Gott des Himmels und der Erden O Gott, du frommer Gott Opening Acclamation & Collect for Purity Sigfrid Karg-Elert Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (1877-1933) And blessed be God’s kingdom, now and for ever. Amen. Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no Worship at Trinity secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Hymns may be found in the Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy blue Hymnal 1982, and page numbers refer to the black Book Name; through Christ our Lord. of Common Prayer (BCP). Both Amen. books may be found in the pew Gloria S-280 in front section of The Hymnal 1982 rack before you. Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth. Please note that our use of the Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father, BCP text may vary slightly to incorporate gender-neutral we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory. language when possible. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, When the text of this worship booklet is in bold, it is spoken or you take away the sin of the world: have mercy on us; sung by all. you are seated at the right hand of the Father: receive our prayer. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, Though the Celebrant’s posture (standing, sitting, or kneeling) will you alone are the Most High, cue many in the congregation, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, we invite you to participate as in the glory of God the Father. Amen. you are able and as your piety Collect of the Day prefers. The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us pray. Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the confession of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Reading Jeremiah 31:27-34 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. In those days they shall no longer say: “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge. The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with Anthems & Motets the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I are sung by the made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the choir. The Anthem land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the texts are available Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those at bit.ly/tcbAnthemTexts or by days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their scanning the QR code. hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they Title: Sanctus & Benedictus; Holy, holy, teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know holy. S-129. Music: Robert Powell (b. 1932). All rights reserved. Used with me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their permission. Reprinted under OneLicense. iniquity, and remember their sin no more. net #A-700138. • Title: Fraction Anthem. Music: Mode 6 melody; adapt. Mason The Word of the Lord. Martens (1933-1991) All rights reserved. Thanks be to God. Used with permission. Reprinted under OneLicense.net #A-700138. 9 am Holy Eucharist, Sunday, October 20, 2019 3 y Psalm 147:1-4, 8-12 Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God! * From this point, the congregation how pleasant it is to honor him with praise! will read the Psalm in unison with The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem; * the Lector. he gathers the exiles of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted * and binds up their wounds. He counts the number of the stars * and calls them all by their names. He covers the heavens with clouds * and prepares rain for the earth; He makes grass to grow upon the mountains * and green plants to serve mankind. He provides food for flocks and herds * and for the young ravens when they cry. He is not impressed by the might of a horse; * he has no pleasure in the strength of a man; But the Lord has pleasure in those who fear him, * Children’s Homily in those who await his gracious favor. During this hymn, children (Kindergarten-5th Grade) Hymn 551 ‘Rise up, ye saints of God!’ may gather beneath the pulpit. Gospel Luke 18:1-8 Our Director of Children’s Ministries, Cathy Portlock Pacitto, The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. will then lead the children Glory to you, Lord Christ. upstairs to the Parish House for Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose an age-appropriate homily and program. Cathy will then lead heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor the children’s return to their pews had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him during The Peace. and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’ For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” The Gospel of the Lord.