SAINT PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH We believe that God is healing and restoring the world, and that we are recipients of and participants in that healing and restoration. SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2021 THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER 415 SOUTH 18TH ST., MOUNT VERNON WA 98274-4658 360-424-1822 E-MAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: WWW.STPAULSMV.ORG Morning Prayer, Rite II Prelude Welcome and Announcements Please stand as you are able. Opening Hymn Come Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain Here & next page. The Hymnal 1982 - #199 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain 1 The Hymnal 1982 - #199 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain Come Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain cont’d. Opening Sentence Officiant: Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57 Confession of Sin The Officiant says to the people: Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor. Silence may be kept. 2 Officiant and People together, all kneeling: 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 Officiant stands and says: Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen. The Invitatory and Psalter All stand, as able. Officiant: Lord, open our lips. People: And our mouth shall proclaim your praise. Officiant and People: Glory to the Creator, and to the Redeemer, and to the Sanctifier: * as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia. Officiant: Alleluia. The Lord is risen indeed: People: Come let us adore him. Alleluia. 3 TheThe HymnalHymnal 1982,1982, ServiceService MusicMusic -- #46#46 DailyDaily MorningMorning PrayerPrayer II,II, ChristChrist ourour Passover:Passover: Christ our Passover Pascha Nostrum Here & next page. PaschaPascha NostrumNostrum 4 Christ our Passover Pascha Nostrum cont’d. 1 Alleluia.The people are seated. Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the feast, Psalm2 Not 4 with theCum old invocarem leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Answer me whenAlleluia. I call, O God, defender of my cause; * 3 Christ beingyou raised set me from free thewhen dead I am will hard-pressed; never die again; death no longerhave mercy has dominion on me and over hear him. my prayer. 4 The death that he died, he died to sin, once for all; 2but “Youthe life mortals, he lives, how he long lives will to youGod. dishonor my glory; * 5 So also considerhow long yourselves will you worshipdead to dumbsin, idols and alive toand God run in after Jesus false Christ gods?” our Lord. Alleluia. 5 6 3Christ Know has that been the raised Lord from does thewonders dead, for the faithful; * the first fruitswhen of I thosecall upon who the have Lord, fallen he asleep.will hear me. 7 For since by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 8 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. Alleluia. 4 Tremble, then, and do not sin; * speak to your heart in silence upon your bed. 5 Offer the appointed sacrifices * and put your trust in the Lord. 6 Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see better times!” * Lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O Lord. 7 You have put gladness in my heart, * more than when grain and wine and oil increase. 8 I lie down in peace; at once I fall asleep; * for only you, Lord, make me dwell in safety. Readings A period of silence will follow each reading. Acts 3:12-19 The people remain seated. Peter addressed the people, “You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glori- fied his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you. “And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer. Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out.” 6 Lector: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God Silence. All stand, as able. Canticle A A Song of Wisdom Sapientia liberavit Wisdom 10:15-19,20b-21 Wisdom freed from a nation of oppressors * a holy people and a blameless race. She entered the soul of a servant of the Lord, * withstood dread rulers with wonders and signs. To the saints she gave the reward of their labors, * and led them by a marvelous way; She was their shelter by day * and a blaze of stars by night. She brought them across the Red Sea, * she led them through mighty waters; But their enemies she swallowed in the waves * and spewed them out from the depths of the abyss. And then, Lord, the righteous sang hymns to your Name, * and praised with one voice your protecting hand; For Wisdom opened the mouths of the mute, * and gave speech to the tongues of a new-born people. 1 John 3:1-7 The people are seated. See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 7 Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righ- teous. Lector: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God. Silence. All stand, as able. Canticle C The Song of Hannah 1 Samuel 2:1-8 My heart exults in you, O God; * my triumph song is lifted in you. My mouth derides my enemies, * for I rejoice in your salvation. There is none holy like you, * nor any rock to be compared to you, our God. Do not heap up prideful words or speak in arrogance; * Only God is knowing and weighs all actions. The bows of the mighty are broken, * but the weak are clothed in strength. Those once full now labor for bread, * those who hungered now are well fed. The childless woman has borne sevenfold, * while the mother of many is forlorn. 8 God destroys and brings to life, casts down and raises up; * gives wealth or takes it away, humbles and dignifies. God raises the poor from the dust; * and lifts the needy from the ash heap To make them sit with the rulers * and inherit a place of honor. For the pillars of the earth are God’s * on which the whole earth is founded. Luke 24:36b-48 The people are seated. Officiant: A reading from the Gospel of Luke. Jesus himself stood among the disciples and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be pro- claimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.