tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6734900686272032642024-03-05T08:11:44.890-08:00Pastor VickiBlog by Vicki Zust, Episcopal priest, rector of St. Paul's, Episcopal Church, Clarence, New YorkVicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-72795132235580330472020-07-02T06:46:00.000-07:002020-07-02T06:46:30.644-07:00Morning Prayer - July 5<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. <i>Philippians 1:2<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit
keep us in</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
eternal life. <b>Amen.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;">Lord, open our lips. <b>And our mouth shall proclaim your praise</b>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Glory to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and
will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The earth is the Lord’s for he made it: <b>Come let us adore him.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Jubilate</i> <em>Psalm 100</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b>Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Psalm 145:8-15</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is gracious and full of
compassion, slow to anger and of great kindness.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is loving to everyone and his
compassion is over all his works.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;">All your
works praise you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, and
your faithful servants bless you.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>They make
known the glory of your kingdom and speak of your power;<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;">That the
peoples may know of your power and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Your
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom; your dominion endures throughout all ages.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is faithful in all his words and
merciful in all his deeds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> upholds all those who fall; he
lifts up those who are bowed down.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Glory to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and
will be for ever.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jesus said to the crowd, “To what will I compare this
generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one
another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;<span style="font-family: MingLiU; mso-bidi-font-family: MingLiU;"><br />
</span>we wailed, and you did not mourn.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For John came neither eating nor
drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of Man came eating and
drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax
collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">At that time Jesus said, “I
thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these
things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over
to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one
knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal
him.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">“Come to me, all you that are
weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke
upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will
find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks
be to God.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><i>The Sermon</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="acreed"><i>A Song of Praise Benedictus es, Domine</i></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b>Glory to you,
Lord God of our fathers; you are worthy of praise; glory to you.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you for
the radiance of your holy Name; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you in
the splendor of your temple; on the throne of your majesty, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
seated between the Cherubim; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
beholding the depths; in the high vault of heaven, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The
Apostles' Creed</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born
of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;">The Lord be with you. <b>And also with you. </b>Let us pray.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><b>Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven. </b><b>Give us this day our daily bread. </b><b>And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. </b><b>And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. </b><b>For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;">Show us your mercy, O Lord; <b>And
grant us your salvation.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Clothe your ministers with righteousness; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let
your people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 111.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give peace, O Lord, in all the world; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, keep this nation under your care; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
Let your way be known upon earth; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your
saving health among all nations.</b><br />
Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor
the hope of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>Create in us clean hearts, O God; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And
sustain us with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.75in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">O</span> God,
you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our
neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you
with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through
Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one
God, for ever and ever. <b>Amen</b><i>.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.25in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in
their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. <b>Amen.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Parishioners</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Caldbick, Diane Cuyler, Barb
Dascomb, Bill & Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey
Hout, Helen Liarakos, Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Kathy
Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Patrick, Bret, Rich, Rob, Elaine
& Gordon, Donna, Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin & Shawn, Raven, Silas,
Ben, Luz & Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph, Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan,
James, Joan, Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce, Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen,
Kimberly, Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer, GG, Elizabeth, Nicole</span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Ann, Patrick, Michael, Veryan, Chelsea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Those who have
died<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gay Walser<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Those having
birthdays this week<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i>You may add your own
intercessions or thanksgiving silently or aloud</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><i>Thanksgiving for the Nation
(BCP page 838)</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">Almighty God, giver of all good
things: We thank you for the natural majesty and beauty of this land. They restore us, though often we destroy
them. <b>Heal us.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">We thank you for the great
resources of this nation. They make us rich, though we often exploit them. <b>Forgive
us.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">We thank you for the men and
women who have made this country strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are models for us, though we often fall short of them. <b>Inspire
us.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">We thank you for the torch of
liberty which has been lit in this land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It has drawn people from every nation, though we have often hidden from
its light. <b>Enlighten us.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">We thank you for the faith we
have inherited in all its rich variety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It sustains our life, though we have been faithless again and again. <b>Renew
us.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">Help us, O Lord, to finish the
good work here begun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strengthen our
efforts to blot out ignorance and prejudice, and to abolish poverty and
crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And hasten the day when all our
people, with many voices in one united chorus, will glorify your holy Name. <b>Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you
will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as
may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in
the age to come life everlasting. <b>Amen</b><i>.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <b>Amen.</b> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-29638345088102527312020-06-22T06:53:00.001-07:002020-06-22T06:54:00.502-07:00Morning Prayer June 28<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Morning
Prayer June 28</span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. </span><i style="text-align: left;">Philippians 1:2</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; </span></b><b>That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit
keep us in</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;">Lord, open our lips. <b>And our mouth shall proclaim your praise</b>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The earth is the Lord’s for he made it: <b>Come let us adore him.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Jubilate</i> <em>Psalm 100</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b>Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Psalm 13</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>How long,
O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>? will you forget me
for ever? how long will you hide your face from me?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>How long
shall I have perplexity in my mind, and grief in my heart, day after day? how
long shall my enemy triumph over me?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Look upon
me and answer me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> my
God; give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Lest my
enemy say, "I have prevailed over him," and my foes rejoice that I
have fallen.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>But I put
my trust in your mercy; my heart is joyful because of your saving help.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>I will
sing to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, for he has
dealt with me richly; I will praise the Name of the Lord Most High.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b>Glory to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><i>Matthew 10:40-42</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt;">Jesus said, “Whoever welcomes
you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever
welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward;
and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will
receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water
to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple-- truly I tell you, none
of these will lose their reward.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;">The Word of
the Lord. <b>Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="acreed"><i>A Song of Praise Benedictus es, Domine</i></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b>Glory to you,
Lord God of our fathers; you are worthy of praise; glory to you.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you for
the radiance of your holy Name; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you in
the splendor of your temple; on the throne of your majesty, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
seated between the Cherubim; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
beholding the depths; in the high vault of heaven, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The
Apostles' Creed</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born
of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b>The Lord be with you. <b>And also with you. </b>Let us pray.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b>Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven. </b><b>Give us this day our daily bread. </b><b>And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. </b><b>And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. </b><b>For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;">Show us your mercy, O Lord; <b>And
grant us your salvation.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Clothe your ministers with righteousness; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let
your people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 111.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give peace, O Lord, in all the world; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, keep this nation under your care; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
Let your way be known upon earth; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your
saving health among all nations.</b><br />
Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor
the hope of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>Create in us clean hearts, O God; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And
sustain us with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.75in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><i>The Collect of the Day</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24pt;">Almighty God, you have built
your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ
himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity
of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to
you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. <b>Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.25in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in
their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. <i>Amen.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty
God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common
supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that
when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i>Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><b><i>This is our
parish prayer list. You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions. Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week. If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b><i>Parishioners</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Patrick, Bret,
Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna, Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin &
Shawn, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz & Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph,
Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan, Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce,
Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly, Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer,
GG, Elizabeth, Nicole</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><i>Friends</i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Ann, Patrick, Michael, Veryan, Chelsea<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those Who Have Died <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marjory Helstrom<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-12257198718061169252020-06-17T06:34:00.001-07:002020-06-17T06:34:41.633-07:00Morning Prayer for June 21<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Morning Prayer –
June 21<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. <i>Philippians 1:2<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit
keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 44.2pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And our mouth shall proclaim your praise</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The earth is the Lord’s for he made it: <b>Come let us adore him.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jubilate</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><em><span style="color: black;">Psalm 100</span></em><i><span style="color: black;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Bow down
your ear, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, and answer
me, for I am poor and in misery.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Keep watch
over my life, for I am faithful; save your servant who puts his trust in you.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Be
merciful to me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, for
you are my God; I call upon you all the day long.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Gladden
the soul of your servant, for to you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,
I lift up my soul.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>For you,
O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, are good and
forgiving, and great is your love toward all who call upon you.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Give ear,
O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, to my prayer, and
attend to the voice of my supplications.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>In the
time of my trouble I will call upon you, for you will answer me.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Among the
gods there is none like you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,
nor anything like your works.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>All
nations you have made will come and worship you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, and glorify your Name.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>For you
are great; you do wondrous things; and you alone are God.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Turn to me
and have mercy upon me; give your strength to your servant; and save the child
of your handmaid.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Show me a
sign of your favor, so that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed; because
you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, have helped me
and comforted me.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b>Glory to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matthew 10:24-39<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">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!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">“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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">“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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">“Do not think that I have come
to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">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.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks
be to God.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 3;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><a name="acreed"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A Song of Praise<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Benedictus es, Domine<o:p></o:p></span></i></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
Lord God of our fathers; you are worthy of praise; glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you for
the radiance of your holy Name; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you in
the splendor of your temple; on the throne of your majesty, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
seated between the Cherubim; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
beholding the depths; in the high vault of heaven, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Apostles' Creed</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born
of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 44.2pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you. </b>Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Show us your mercy, O Lord; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And
grant us your salvation.</b><br />
Clothe your ministers with righteousness; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let
your people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 111.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give peace, O Lord, in all the world; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, keep this nation under your care; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
Let your way be known upon earth; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your
saving health among all nations.</b><br />
Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor
the hope of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>Create in us clean hearts, O God; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And
sustain us with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.75in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">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 lovingkindness;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever<b>. Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.25in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in
their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill
now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in
this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Patrick, Bret,
Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna, Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin &
Shawn, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz & Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph,
Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan, Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce,
Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly, Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer,
GG, Elizabeth, Nicole</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Ann, Patrick, Michael, Veryan, Chelsea<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-75789100293678427112020-06-10T12:00:00.000-07:002020-06-10T12:00:07.271-07:00Morning Prayer - June 14<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Morning Prayer – Sunday
June 14 – Proper 6, Year A<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. <i>Philippians 1:2<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit
keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 44.2pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And our mouth shall proclaim your praise</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The earth is the Lord’s for he made it: <b>Come let us adore him.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jubilate</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><em><span style="color: black;">Psalm 100</span></em><i><span style="color: black;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 3;"><i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 116:1, 10-17<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>I love
the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, because he has
heard the voice of my supplication, because he has inclined his ear to me
whenever I called upon him.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>How shall
I repay the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> for all
the good things he has done for me?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>I will
lift up the cup of salvation and call upon the Name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>I will
fulfill my vows to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> in
the presence of all his people.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>Precious
in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is
the death of his servants.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, I am your servant; I am your
servant and the child of your handmaid;<br />
you have freed me from my bonds.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>I will
offer you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call upon the Name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>I will
fulfill my vows to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> in
the presence of all his people,<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b>In the
courts of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>'S house, in
the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah!<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b>Glory to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 24.0pt; margin-right: 24.0pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -24.0pt;"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 3;"><i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matthew 9:35-10:8<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">Jesus went about all the cities
and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of
the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness. When he saw the
crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless,
like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is
plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to
send out laborers into his harvest.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">Then Jesus summoned his twelve
disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and
to cure every disease and every sickness. These are the names of the twelve
apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son
of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew
the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean,
and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">These twelve Jesus sent out with
the following instructions: “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town
of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As
you go, proclaim the good news, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Cure the
sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without
payment; give without payment. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks
be to God.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><a name="acreed"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A Song of Praise <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Benedictus es, Domine<o:p></o:p></span></i></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
Lord God of our fathers; you are worthy of praise; glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you for
the radiance of your holy Name; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you in
the splendor of your temple; on the throne of your majesty, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
seated between the Cherubim; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
beholding the depths; in the high vault of heaven, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Apostles' Creed</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born
of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 44.2pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you. </b>Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Show us your mercy, O Lord; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And
grant us your salvation.</b><br />
Clothe your ministers with righteousness; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let
your people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 111.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give peace, O Lord, in all the world; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, keep this nation under your care; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
Let your way be known upon earth; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your
saving health among all nations.</b><br />
Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor
the hope of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>Create in us clean hearts, O God; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And
sustain us with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.75in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">Keep, O Lord, your household the
Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we may proclaim
your truth with boldness, and minister your justice with compassion; for the
sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and for ever. <b>Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.25in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in
their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty
God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication
to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Patrick, Bret,
Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna, Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin &
Shawn, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz & Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph,
Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan, Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce,
Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly, Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer,
GG, Elizabeth, Nicole</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Ann, Patrick, Michael, Veryan, Chelsea<o:p></o:p></b></p><br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-42114311744459304132020-06-04T05:33:00.000-07:002020-06-04T05:33:13.294-07:00Morning Prayer June 7 - Trinity Sunday<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. <i>Philippians 1:2<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit
keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 44.2pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And our mouth shall proclaim your praise</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The earth is the Lord’s for he made it: <b>Come let us adore him.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jubilate</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><em><span style="color: black;">Psalm 100</span></em><i><span style="color: black;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><a name="acreed"><i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 8<o:p></o:p></span></i></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> our
Governor, how exalted is your Name in all the world!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>Out of the mouths of infants and children your
majesty is praised above the heavens.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>You have set up a stronghold against your
adversaries, to quell the enemy and the avenger.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>When I consider your heavens, the work of your
fingers, the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>What is man that you should be mindful of him? the
son of man that you should seek him out?<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>You have made him but little lower than the angels;
you adorn him with glory and honor;<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>You give him mastery over the works of your
hands; you put all things under his feet:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>All sheep and oxen, even the wild beasts of the
field,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>The birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and
whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> our
Governor, how exalted is your Name in all the world!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: 23.75pt; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b>Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the
Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matthew
28:16-20<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;">The
eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed
them. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came
and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything
that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of
the age.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;">The
Word of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A Song of Praise<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Benedictus es, Domine<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
Lord God of our fathers; you are worthy of praise; glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you for
the radiance of your holy Name; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you in
the splendor of your temple; on the throne of your majesty, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
seated between the Cherubim; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you
beholding the depths; in the high vault of heaven, glory to you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit; we will praise you and highly exalt you for ever. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Apostles' Creed</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born
of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 44.2pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you. </b>Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Show us your mercy, O Lord; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And
grant us your salvation.</b><br />
Clothe your ministers with righteousness; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let
your people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 111.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give peace, O Lord, in all the world; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, keep this nation under your care; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
Let your way be known upon earth; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your
saving health among all nations.</b><br />
Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor
the hope of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>Create in us clean hearts, O God; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And
sustain us with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 1.75in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">Almighty and everlasting God,
you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to
acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine
Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and
bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with
the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. <b>Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.25in;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Collect for Sundays</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in
their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty
God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common
supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that
when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Patrick, Bret,
Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna, Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin &
Shawn, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz & Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph,
Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan, Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce,
Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly, Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer,
GG, Elizabeth, Nicole</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Ann, Patrick, Michael, Veryan<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Those who have
died<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anna Mae Kraus<o:p></o:p></b></p><br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-29900329292561620352020-05-27T06:22:00.001-07:002020-05-27T06:22:37.294-07:00Morning Prayer - May 31 - Feast of Pentecost<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Daily Morning Prayer: Rite Two<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">May 31, 2020 – Feast of Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;
and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in Judea, and Samaria, and to
the ends of the earth. <i>Acts 1:8</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess our
sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; </span></b><b>That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy
Spirit keep us in eternal life. <b>Amen</b><i>.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b>Lord, open our lips. <b>And our mouth shall proclaim your praise</b>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b>Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span>Alleluia! The Spirit of the Lord renews the face of the earth: <b>Come let us adore
him. Alleluia!</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><i>Jubilate</i></b> <em>Psalm 100</em></p><p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b>Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is
everlasting; and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm
104:25-35, 37<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,
how manifold are your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is
full of your creatures.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yonder is the great and wide sea with its
living things too many to number, creatures both small and great.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There move the ships, and there is that
Leviathan, which you have made for the sport of it.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All of them look to you to give them their
food in due season.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You give it to them; they gather it; you
open your hand, and they are filled with good things.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You hide your face, and they are terrified;
you take away their breath, and they die and return to their dust.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You send forth your Spirit, and they are
created; and so you renew the face of the earth.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">May the glory of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> endure for ever; may the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> rejoice in all his works.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He looks at the earth and it trembles; he
touches the mountains and they smoke.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will sing to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> as long as I live; I will
praise my God while I have my being.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">May these words of mine please him; I will
rejoice in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 23.75pt; margin-right: .3in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -23.75pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bless the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, O my soul. Hallelujah!<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 2:1-21<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">When the day of Pentecost had
come, the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven
there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire
house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among
them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the
Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them
ability.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">Now there were devout Jews from
every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd
gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native
language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not all these
who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own
native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia,
Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the
parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Cretans and Arabs-- in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's
deeds of power." All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another,
"What does this mean?" But others sneered and said, "They are
filled with new wine."</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">But Peter, standing with the
eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, "Men of Judea and all who
live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed,
these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the
morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 24.0pt;">`In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour
out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and
your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in
those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show
portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and
smoky mist. The sun shall be turned to
darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord's great and
glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
"</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks be to
God.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>You are God - </i><i>Te Deum laudamus</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
are God: we praise you;<br />
You are the Lord; we acclaim you;<br />
You are the eternal Father:<br />
All creation worships you.<br />
To you all angels, all the powers of heaven,<br />
Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise:<br />
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven
and earth are full of your glory.<br />
The glorious company of apostles praise you.<br />
The noble fellowship of prophets praise you.<br />
The white-robed army of martyrs praise you.<br />
Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims you;<br />
Father, of majesty unbounded, your true and only Son,
worthy of all worship,<br />
and the Holy Spirit, advocate and guide.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You,
Christ, are the king of glory, the eternal Son of the Father.<br />
When you became man to set us free you did not shun the Virgin's womb.<br />
You overcame the sting of death and opened the kingdom of heaven to all
believers.<br />
You are seated at God's right hand in glory.<br />
We believe that you will come and be our judge.<br />
Come then, Lord, and help your people, bought with the
price of your own blood,<br />
and bring us with your saints to glory everlasting.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Apostles' Creed</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b>The Lord be with you. <b>And also with you. </b>Let us pray.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b>Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven. </b><b>Give us this day our daily bread. </b><b>And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. </b><b>And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. </b><b>For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 394.0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i> <b><i>Suffrages
A</i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And grant us
your salvation.</b><br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let your
people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 111.0pt;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Give peace, O Lord, in
all the world;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in
you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us
in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your saving
health among all nations.</b><br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor the hope
of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And sustain us
with your Holy Spirit.</b></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A</span>lmighty God, on this
day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised
gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the
preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through
Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: center 3.25in;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span>Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in
their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. <i>Amen.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><i>You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Prayer of St. Chrysostom</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Patrick, Bret,
Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna, Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin &
Shawn, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz & Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph,
Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan, Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce,
Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly, Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer,
GG, Elizabeth, Nicole</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Ann, Patrick, Michael, Veryan<o:p></o:p></b></p><br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-39454790402830786512020-05-21T05:55:00.002-07:002020-05-21T05:55:21.434-07:00Morning Prayer for May 24<br />
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Daily Morning Prayer: Rite Two<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">May 24, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia! Christ is risen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord is risen
indeed. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit
keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Invitatory and Psalter<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
our mouth shall proclaim your praise</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord is risen
indeed: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Come let us adore him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Jubilate</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"> <em>Psalm 100</em><i><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Psalm or
Psalms Appointed<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let God arise, and let his enemies be
scattered; let those who hate him flee before him.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let them vanish like smoke when the wind
drives it away; as the wax melts at the fire, so let the wicked perish at the
presence of God.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But let the righteous be glad and rejoice
before God; let them also be merry and joyful.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sing to God, sing praises to his Name; exalt
him who rides upon the heavens; YAHWEH is his Name, rejoice before him!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Father of orphans, defender of widows, God
in his holy habitation!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God gives the solitary a home and brings
forth prisoners into freedom; but the rebels shall live in dry places.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">O God, when you went forth before your
people, when you marched through the wilderness,<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The earth shook, and the skies poured down
rain, at the presence of God, the God of Sinai, *<br />
at the presence of God, the God of Israel.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You sent a gracious rain, O God, upon your
inheritance; you refreshed the land when it was weary.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your people found their home in it; in your
goodness, O God, you have made provision for the poor.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; sing
praises to the Lord.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He rides in the heavens, the ancient
heavens; he sends forth his voice, his mighty voice.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ascribe power to God; his majesty is over
Israel; his strength is in the skies.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How wonderful is God in his holy places!
the God of Israel giving strength and power to his people! Blessed be God!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lesson<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 17:1-11<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Jesus looked up to heaven and
said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify
you, since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life
to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they may know
you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on
earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. So now, Father, glorify me
in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the
world existed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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”I have made your name known to
those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to
me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given
me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and
they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have
believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on
behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are
yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in
them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am
coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me,
so that they may be one, as we are one.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks be to
God.</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Song to the Lamb</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> -
<i>Revelation 4:11, 5:9-10, 13</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Splendor
and honor and kingly power are yours by right, O Lord our God,<br />
For you created everything that is, and by your will they were created and have
their being;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
yours by right, O Lamb that was slain, for with your blood you have redeemed
for God,<br />
From every family, language, people, and nation, a kingdom of priests to serve
our God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
so, to him who sits upon the throne, and to Christ the Lamb,<br />
Be worship and praise, dominion and splendor, for ever and for evermore.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Apostles' Creed</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Prayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you. </b>Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suffrages
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And grant us
your salvation.</b><br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let your
people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Give peace, O Lord, in
all the world;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in
you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us
in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your saving
health among all nations.</b><br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor the hope
of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And sustain us
with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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O God, the King of glory,
you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom
in heaven: Do not leave us comfortless, but send us your Holy Spirit to
strengthen us, and exalt us to that place where our Savior Christ has gone
before; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in
their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Patrick, Bret, Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna,
Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin & Shawn, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz &
Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph, Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan,
Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce, Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly,
Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer, GG, Elizabeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Ann, Patrick, Michael, Veryan<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-21800384764007744392020-05-14T06:03:00.002-07:002020-05-14T06:03:12.806-07:00Morning Prayer: May 17<br />
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Daily Morning Prayer: Rite Two<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">May 17, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia! Christ is risen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord is risen
indeed. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit
keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Invitatory and Psalter<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
our mouth shall proclaim your praise</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord is risen
indeed: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Come let us adore him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Jubilate</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"> <em>Psalm 100</em><i><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Psalm or
Psalms Appointed<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 66:7-18<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bless our God, you peoples; make the voice
of his praise to be heard;<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Who holds our souls in life, and will not
allow our feet to slip.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For you, O God, have proved us; you have
tried us just as silver is tried.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You brought us into the snare; you laid
heavy burdens upon our backs.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You let enemies ride over our heads; we
went through fire and water; but you brought us out into a place of
refreshment.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will enter your house with
burnt-offerings and will pay you my vows, which I promised with my lips and
spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will offer you sacrifices of fat beasts with
the smoke of rams; I will give you oxen and goats.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Come and listen, all you who fear God, and
I will tell you what he has done for me.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I called out to him with my mouth, and his
praise was on my tongue.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If I had found evil in my heart, the Lord
would not have heard me;<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But in truth God has heard me; he has
attended to the voice of my prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blessed be God, who has not rejected my
prayer, nor withheld his love from me.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lesson<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 14:15-21<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Jesus said, ”If you love me, you
will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you
another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him,
because he abides with you, and he will be in you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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”I will not leave you orphaned;
I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you
will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that
I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments
and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my
Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks be to
God.</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Song to the Lamb</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> -
<i>Revelation 4:11, 5:9-10, 13</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Splendor
and honor and kingly power are yours by right, O Lord our God,<br />
For you created everything that is, and by your will they were created and have
their being;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
yours by right, O Lamb that was slain, for with your blood you have redeemed
for God,<br />
From every family, language, people, and nation, a kingdom of priests to serve
our God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
so, to him who sits upon the throne, and to Christ the Lamb,<br />
Be worship and praise, dominion and splendor, for ever and for evermore.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Apostles' Creed</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Prayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you. </b>Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suffrages
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And grant us
your salvation.</b><br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let your
people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Give peace, O Lord, in
all the world;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in
you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us
in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your saving health
among all nations.</b><br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor the hope
of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And sustain us
with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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O God, you have prepared
for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into
our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above
all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing through
our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in
their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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A Prayer of St. Chrysostom</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Patrick, Bret, Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna,
Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin & Shawn, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz &
Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph, Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan,
Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce, Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly,
Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer, GG<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Ann, Patrick, Michael, Veryan<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Deceased this past week</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dick<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-2507529039638076962020-05-07T05:26:00.003-07:002020-05-07T05:26:54.734-07:00Morning Prayer - Sunday May 10<br />
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Daily Morning Prayer: Rite Two<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">May 10, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia! Christ is risen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord is risen
indeed. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit
keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Invitatory and Psalter<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
our mouth shall proclaim your praise</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord is risen
indeed: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Come let us adore him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Jubilate</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"> <em>Psalm 100</em><i><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Psalm or
Psalms Appointed<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, have I taken refuge; let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Incline your ear to me; make haste to
deliver me.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me
safe, for you are my crag and my stronghold; for the sake of your Name, lead me
and guide me.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Take me out of the net that they have
secretly set for me, for you are my tower of strength.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Into your hands I commend my spirit, for
you have redeemed me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,
O God of truth.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My times are in your hand; rescue me from
the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Make your face to shine upon your servant,
and in your loving-kindness save me."<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lesson<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 14:1-14<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Jesus said, “Do not let your
hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house
there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I
go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be
also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him,
“Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said
to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on
you do know him and have seen him.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Philip said to him, “Lord, show
us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with
you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me
has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe
that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I
do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe
me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then
believe me because of the works themselves. Very truly, I tell you, the one who
believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater
works than these, because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask
in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in my name you
ask me for anything, I will do it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks be to
God.</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Song to the Lamb</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> -
<i>Revelation 4:11, 5:9-10, 13</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Splendor
and honor and kingly power are yours by right, O Lord our God,<br />
For you created everything that is, and by your will they were created and have
their being;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
yours by right, O Lamb that was slain, for with your blood you have redeemed
for God,<br />
From every family, language, people, and nation, a kingdom of priests to serve
our God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
so, to him who sits upon the throne, and to Christ the Lamb,<br />
Be worship and praise, dominion and splendor, for ever and for evermore.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Apostles' Creed</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Prayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you. </b>Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suffrages
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And grant us
your salvation.</b><br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let your
people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Give peace, O Lord, in
all the world;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in
you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us
in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your saving
health among all nations.</b><br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor the hope
of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And sustain us
with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Almighty God, whom truly to know
is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be
the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in
the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who
lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before you for all members of your holy Church, that in
their vocation and ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette Andruscavage,
Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill & Lu Ess, Jim
Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos, Sue Petherick,
Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Patrick, Bret, Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna,
Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin & Shawn, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz &
Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph, Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan,
Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce, Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly, Micky,
Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer, GG<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Dale, Ann, Patrick, Michael<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-36983618868901517502020-04-29T08:05:00.002-07:002020-04-29T08:05:31.426-07:00Morning Prayer for May 3<br />
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Daily Morning Prayer: Rite Two<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">May 3, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia! Christ is risen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord is risen
indeed. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy
Spirit keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Invitatory and Psalter<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
our mouth shall proclaim your praise</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord is risen
indeed: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Come let us adore him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Jubilate</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"> <em>Psalm 100</em><i><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve
the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into
his courts with praise; give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Psalm or
Psalms Appointed<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 23<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is
my shepherd; I shall not be in want.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He makes me lie down in green pastures and
leads me beside still waters.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He revives my soul and guides me along
right pathways for his Name's sake.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; <br />
for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You spread a table before me in the
presence of those who trouble me; you have anointed my head with oil, and my
cup is running over.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Surely your goodness and mercy shall follow
me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> for ever.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lesson<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 10:1-10<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Jesus said, “Very truly, I tell
you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by
another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd
of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his
voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought
out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they
know his voice. They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him
because they do not know the voice of strangers.” Jesus used this figure of
speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So again Jesus said to them,
“Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before me
are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate.
Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find
pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they
may have life, and have it abundantly.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks be to
God.</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Song to the Lamb</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> -
<i>Revelation 4:11, 5:9-10, 13</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Splendor
and honor and kingly power are yours by right, O Lord our God,<br />
For you created everything that is, and by your will they were created and have
their being;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
yours by right, O Lamb that was slain, for with your blood you have redeemed
for God,<br />
From every family, language, people, and nation, a kingdom of priests to serve
our God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
so, to him who sits upon the throne, and to Christ the Lamb,<br />
Be worship and praise, dominion and splendor, for ever and for evermore.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Apostles' Creed</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Prayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
also with you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suffrages
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And grant us
your salvation.</b><br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let your
people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Give peace, O Lord, in
all the world;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in
you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us
in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your saving
health among all nations.</b><br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor the hope
of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And sustain us
with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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O God, whose Son Jesus is
the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice we may know
him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the
Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Collect for Sundays</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before<br />
you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry
they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Patrick, Bret, Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna,
Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin & Shawn, Kristen, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz
& Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph, Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James,
Joan, Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce, Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly,
Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer, GG<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Dale, Amani, Ann, Patrick<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-389064018171710952020-04-22T10:54:00.001-07:002020-04-22T10:54:44.279-07:00Morning Prayer for April 26<br />
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Daily Morning Prayer: Rite Two<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">April 26, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia! Christ is risen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord is risen
indeed. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
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.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That we may
delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy
Spirit keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Invitatory and Psalter<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
our mouth shall proclaim your praise</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord is risen
indeed: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Come let us adore him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Christ our Passover</span></i></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>Pascha nostrum</em><i><br />
<em>1 Corinthians 5:7-8; Romans 6:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:20-22</em></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Alleluia.<br />
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the
feast,<br />
Not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened
bread of<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">sincerity and
truth. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Christ being raised from the dead will never
die again; death no longer has dominion over<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">him.<br />
The death that he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he
lives to God.<br />
So also consider yourselves dead to sin, and alive to God in Jesus Christ our
Lord. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Christ has been raised from the dead, the
first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.<br />
For since by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the
dead.<br />
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Psalm or
Psalms Appointed<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I love the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, because he has heard the voice of
my supplication, because he has inclined his ear to me whenever I called upon
him.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The cords of death entangled me; the grip
of the grave took hold of me; I came to grief and sorrow.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Then I called upon the Name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>: "O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, I pray you, save my life."<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How shall I repay the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> for all the good things he has
done for me?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will lift up the cup of salvation and
call upon the Name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will fulfill my vows to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> in the presence of all his
people.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Precious in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is the death of his servants.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,
I am your servant; I am your servant and the child of your handmaid; you have
freed me from my bonds.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will offer you the sacrifice of
thanksgiving and call upon the Name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will fulfill my vows to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> in the presence of all his
people,<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In the courts of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>'S house, in the midst of you, O
Jerusalem. Hallelujah!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lesson<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luke 24:13-35<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Now on that same day two of
Jesus' disciples were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from
Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had
happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and
went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to
them, “What are you discussing with each other while you walk along?” They
stood still, looking sad. Then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered
him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things that
have taken place there in these days?” He asked them, “What things?” They
replied, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed
and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and leaders
handed him over to be condemned to death and crucified him. But we had hoped
that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the
third day since these things took place. Moreover, some women of our group
astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning, and when they did not
find his body there, they came back and told us that they had indeed seen a
vision of angels who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us
went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but they did not see
him.” Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to
believe all that the prophets have declared! Was it not necessary that the
Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?” Then
beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things
about himself in all the scriptures.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As they came near the village to
which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on. But they urged
him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day
is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them. When he was at the table
with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their
eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.
They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was
talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?” That
same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and
their companions gathered together. They were saying, “The Lord has risen
indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!” Then they told what had happened on the
road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks be to
God.</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
Song to the Lamb</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> -
<i>Revelation 4:11, 5:9-10, 13</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Splendor
and honor and kingly power are yours by right, O Lord our God,<br />
For you created everything that is, and by your will they were created and have
their being;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
yours by right, O Lamb that was slain, for with your blood you have redeemed
for God,<br />
From every family, language, people, and nation, a kingdom of priests to serve
our God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
so, to him who sits upon the throne, and to Christ the Lamb,<br />
Be worship and praise, dominion and splendor, for ever and for evermore.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Apostles' Creed</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Prayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
also with you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suffrages
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And grant us
your salvation.</b><br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let your
people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Give peace, O Lord, in
all the world;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in
you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us
in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your saving
health among all nations.</b><br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor the hope
of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And sustain us
with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Officiant then says one or more of the following Collects<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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O God, whose blessed Son
made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of
our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and
reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before<br />
you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry
they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Patrick, Bret, Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna,
Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin & Shawn, Kristen, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz
& Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph, Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James,
Joan, Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce, Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly,
Micky, Theresa, Bob & Mary, Jennifer<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Dale<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-49649358209548913182020-04-16T08:54:00.000-07:002020-04-16T08:54:01.899-07:00Morning Prayer for April 19<br />
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">April 19, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia! Christ is risen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord is risen
indeed. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what
we have done,<br />
and by what we have left undone.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our
Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy
Spirit keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Invitatory and Psalter<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
our mouth shall proclaim your praise</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alleluia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord is risen
indeed: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Come let us adore him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Christ our Passover</span></i></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>Pascha nostrum</em><i><br />
<em>1 Corinthians 5:7-8; Romans 6:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:20-22</em></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Alleluia.<br />
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the
feast,<br />
Not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened
bread of<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">sincerity and
truth. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Christ being raised from the dead will never
die again; death no longer has dominion over<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">him.<br />
The death that he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he
lives to God.<br />
So also consider yourselves dead to sin, and alive to God in Jesus Christ our
Lord. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Christ has been raised from the dead, the
first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.<br />
For since by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the
dead.<br />
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Psalm or
Psalms Appointed<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 16<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Protect me, O God, for I take refuge in
you; I have said to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,
"You are my Lord, my good above all other."<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All my delight is upon the godly that are
in the land, upon those who are noble among the people.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But those who run after other gods shall
have their troubles multiplied.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Their libations of blood I will not offer,
nor take the names of their gods upon my lips.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,
you are my portion and my cup; it is you who uphold my lot.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My boundaries enclose a pleasant land;
indeed, I have a goodly heritage.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will bless the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> who gives me counsel; my heart
teaches me, night after night.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I have set the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> always before me; because he is at my right hand I
shall not fall.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit
rejoices; my body also shall rest in hope.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For you will not abandon me to the grave,
nor let your holy one see the Pit.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">You will show me the path of life; in your
presence there is fullness of joy,<br />
and in your right hand are pleasures for evermore.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lessons<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 2:14a,22-32<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Peter, standing with the eleven,
raised his voice and addressed the crowd, “You that are Israelites, listen to
what I have to say: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with deeds
of power, wonders, and signs that God did through him among you, as you
yourselves know— this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan
and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those
outside the law. But God raised him up, having freed him from death, because it
was impossible for him to be held in its power. For David says concerning him,<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘I saw the
Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken;<o:p></o:p></div>
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therefore my
heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; moreover my flesh will live in hope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For you will
not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One experience corruption.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You have made
known to me the ways of life; you will make me full of gladness with your<o:p></o:p></div>
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presence.’<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Fellow Israelites, I may say to
you confidently of our ancestor David that he both died and was buried, and his
tomb is with us to this day. Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn
with an oath to him that he would put one of his descendants on his throne.
Foreseeing this, David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, saying,<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘He was not
abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh experience corruption.’<o:p></o:p></div>
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This Jesus God raised up, and of
that all of us are witnesses.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Word of the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thanks
be to God.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">The First Song of Isaiah</span></i></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>Ecce, Deus</em><br />
<em>Isaiah 12:2-6</em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Surely, it is God who saves me; I will trust in
him and not be afraid.<br />
For the Lord is my stronghold and my sure defense, and he will be my Savior.<br />
Therefore you shall draw water with rejoicing from the springs of salvation.<br />
And on that day you shall say, Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his Name;<br />
Make his deeds known among the peoples; see that they remember that his Name is<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">exalted.<br />
Sing the praises of the Lord, for he has done great things, and this is known
in all the<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">world.<br />
Cry aloud, inhabitants of Zion, ring out your joy, for the great one in the
midst of you is<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">the Holy One of
Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 20:19-31<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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When it was evening on that day,
the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had
met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said,
"Peace be with you." After he said this, he showed them his hands and
his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to
them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send
you." When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
"Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are
forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."<o:p></o:p></div>
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But Thomas (who was called the
Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other
disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them,
"Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the
mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe."<o:p></o:p></div>
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A week later his disciples were
again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut,
Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." Then
he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your
hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe." Thomas answered
him, "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said to him, "Have you believed
because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come
to believe."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now Jesus did many other signs
in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these
are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son
of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of the Lord. <b>Thanks be to
God.</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">The Song of the
Redeemed</span></i></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>Magna
et mirabilia</em><br />
<em>Revelation
15:3-4</em><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">O ruler of the
universe, Lord God, great deeds are they that you have done, surpassing<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">human understanding.<br />
Your ways are ways of righteousness and truth, O King of all the ages.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Who can fail to
do you homage, Lord, and sing the praises of your Name? for you only are<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">the Holy One.<br />
All nations will draw near and fall down before you, because your just and holy
works have<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been revealed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Apostles' Creed</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God,
the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Prayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
also with you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suffrages
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And grant us
your salvation.</b><br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let your
people sing with joy.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
V. Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For only in
you can we live in safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And guide us
in the way of justice and truth</b>.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Your saving
health among all nations.</b><br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nor the hope
of the poor be taken away.<br />
</b>V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And sustain us
with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Officiant then says one or more of the following Collects<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Almighty and everlasting God,
who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation:
Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body may
show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through Jesus
Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God,
for ever and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before<br />
you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry
they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Amen</span></b><i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thanks be to God.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our parish
prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these names in
the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Please keep these people in your prayers through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make any changes to the prayer
list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess, Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos,
Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Patrick, Bret, Rich, Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna,
Karen, Lorna, Anna, Caitlin & Shawn, Kristen, Raven, Silas, Ben, Luz
& Tony, Patty, Libby & Cliff, Joseph, Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James,
Joan, Nan, Kimberly, Kevin, Barbara, Bruce, Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly,
Micky, Theresa<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Erik, Skylar,
Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally, Denise,
Charles, Ron, Arlene & family, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben &
Mildred, Mary, Pat, Mona, Dale<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-60761667651687563512020-04-02T07:32:00.001-07:002020-04-02T07:32:47.647-07:00Holy Week Worship<i>This is the worship booklet for all of the services in Holy Week. Join us on St. Paul's Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/St-Pauls-Episcopal-Church-Harris-Hill-177000109025463/" target="_blank">here</a> </i><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22.0pt;">HOLY WEEK<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sunday to Easter <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>April
5-12, 2020</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>A
book of personal devotions to use alone, or to use with online worship during
COVID-19 2020, when gathering at the church is suspended.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>St.
Paul’s Church – Clarence, New York<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Welcome, wherever you are, to
Holy Week. For many centuries, followers of Jesus have gathered together to
retrace and remember the last days of Jesus Christ, especially the three sacred
days that make up the Triduum (“three days”). We believe that these days cannot
be separated from one another, so they are celebrated as one liturgy. This
year, we cannot gather as a community, because of the COVID-19 virus. We are
refraining from being together, and we may still enter into the Holy Week of
Jesus in our homes and places of refuge. We are dispersed but not despairing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;">Make
a holy place. Throughout this week, we will be attentive to the worshipful-ness
of our homes and places where we observe Holy Week. Set aside a holy place in
your home for Holy Week. Perhaps a simple side table covered with a cloth, of
any color. Whatever you have, is enough. Place a few things to help you enter
the presence of God: a cross, a bible, a candle. If you have children,
encourage them to choose one item for your holy place. The table should have at
most 5-6 things—simplicity is best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You will also find in this
book links to online worship, which you are also encouraged to use. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you live alone, you may
read and pray the words. If you are living with others, share the reading and
the prayers. Notes or instructions during the devotions will be found in<i>
italics</i>. These are not meant to be read aloud but are to help guide you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Worship at 10 am<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Facebook – <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/St-Pauls-Episcopal-Church-Harris-Hill-177000109025463/">https://www.facebook.com/St-Pauls-Episcopal-Church-Harris-Hill-177000109025463/</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Or search for St. Paul’s –
Harris Hill on Facebook<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Palm Sunday is the day when
we remember Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem: “As he rode along, they spread their
garments on the road” (Luke 19:36). Palm Sunday also includes the long reading
of the Passion of Jesus, from his Last Supper to his death. This day ends with
uncertainty, for uncertain times. It encompasses all of humanity—the glory of
welcome and the shame of betrayal and the hope of forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;">Find
or gather some branches from a garden or outside of your door, or something
growing. A houseplant is fine, or even a picture of a tree. Place it where you
have set apart space to pray this Holy Week in your home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
Liturgy of the Palms<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Book of Common Prayer 270<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Blessed is the King who comes
in the name of the Lord:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peace in heaven and glory in the highest.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Assist us mercifully with your
help, O Lord God of our salvation, that we may enter with joy upon the
contemplation of those mighty acts, whereby you have given us life and
immortality; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen</b><i>.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The
Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let
us give thanks to the Lord our God. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It
is right to give him thanks and praise.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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It is
right to praise you, Almighty God, for the acts of love by which you have
redeemed us through your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. On this day he entered the
holy city of Jerusalem in triumph, and was proclaimed as King of kings by those
who spread their garments and branches of palm along his way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let
these branches be for us signs of his victory, and grant that we who bear them
in his name may ever hail him as our King, and follow him in the way that leads
to eternal life; who lives and reigns in glory with you and the Holy Spirit,
now and for ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amen</span>.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Blessed is the one who comes
in the name of the Lord:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hosanna in the highest.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The
Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you</b>.
Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></div>
Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent
your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer
death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully
grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his
resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and
the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen</b>.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The people sit. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isaiah 50:4-9a<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Lord
GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the
weary with a word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morning by morning he
wakens-- wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Lord
GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I did not turn backward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I gave my
back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I did not
hide my face from insult and spitting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Lord
GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face
like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me
is near.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Who will
contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who are my adversaries? Let them
confront me. It is the Lord GOD who helps me; who will declare me guilty?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Word of the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please remain seated for the singing of the
Psalm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read the Psalm in unison<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have mercy on me, O
LORD, for I am in trouble; <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">my eye is consumed with sorrow, and also my throat and my belly. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For my life is wasted
with grief, and my years with sighing; <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">my strength fails me because of affliction, and my bones are consumed. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I have become a
reproach to all my enemies and even to my neighbors, a dismay to those of my
acquaintance; <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">when they see me in the street they avoid me. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am forgotten like a
dead man, out of mind; <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am as useless as a broken pot. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For I have heard the
whispering of the crowd; fear is all around; <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">they put their heads together against me; they plot to take my life. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But as for me, I have
trusted in you, O LORD. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I have said, "You are my God. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My times are in your hand; <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">rescue me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Make your face to
shine upon your servant, <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">and in your loving-kindness save me."</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Philippians 2:5-11<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Let the same mind be in you that
was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard
equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself,<br />
taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And being found in human form, he humbled
himself and became obedient to the point of death-- even death on a cross. Therefore
God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and
under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Word of the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thanks be to God.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, according to
Matthew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Matthew 27:11-54<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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<span class="initcap"><span style="color: black;">J</span></span><span style="color: black;">esus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him,
“Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You say so.” But when he was
accused by the chief priests and elders, he did not answer. Then Pilate said to
him, “Do you not hear how many accusations they make against you?” But he gave
him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly
amazed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Now at the festival the
governor was accustomed to release a prisoner for the crowd, anyone whom they
wanted. At that time they had a notorious prisoner, called Jesus Barabbas. So
after they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release
for you, Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” For he realized
that it was out of jealousy that they had handed him over. While he was sitting
on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that
innocent man, for today I have suffered a great deal because of a dream about him.”
Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas
and to have Jesus killed. The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do
you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.” Pilate said to
them, “Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” All of them
said, “Let him be crucified!” Then he asked, “Why, what evil has he done?” But
they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So when Pilate saw that he
could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and
washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood;
see to it yourselves.” Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us
and on our children!” So he released Barabbas for them; and after flogging
Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Then the soldiers of the
governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the
whole cohort around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and
after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a
reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King
of the Jews!” They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.
After mocking him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on
him. Then they led him away to crucify him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">As they went out, they came
upon a man from Cyrene named Simon; they compelled this man to carry his cross.
And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull),
they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but when he tasted it, he
would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes
among themselves by casting lots; then they sat down there and kept watch over
him. Over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus,
the King of the Jews.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Then two bandits were
crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. Those who passed by
derided him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple
and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down
from the cross.” In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes
and elders, were mocking him, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.
He is the King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will
believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he wants to; for
he said, ‘I am God’s Son.’” The bandits who were crucified with him also
taunted him in the same way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From noon on, darkness came
over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus
cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my
God, why have you forsaken me?” When some of the bystanders heard it, they
said, “This man is calling for Elijah.” At once one of them ran and got a
sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to
drink. But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save
him.” Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last. At that
moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth
shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of
the saints who had fallen asleep were raised. After his resurrection they came
out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many. Now when the
centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the
earthquake and what took place, they were terrified and said, “Truly this man
was God’s Son!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sermon:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>If
you can’t join us on-line, the reflection question is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you read this reading, what was the thing
that most stood out for you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does
that tell you about Jesus? What does that mean for you this week?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The
Nicene Creed<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in one God, the Father, the
Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the
only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from
Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the
Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came
down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the
Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius
Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in
accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the
right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and
the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father
and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He has spoken through the Prophets.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in one holy catholic and
apostolic Church.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We acknowledge one baptism for the
forgiveness of sins.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We look for the resurrection of the dead, and
the life of the world to come. Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Let
us pray for the Church and for the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Grant,
Almighty God, that all who confess your Name may be united in your truth, live
together in your love, and reveal your glory in the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Guide
the people of this land, and of all the nations, in the ways of justice and
peace; that we may honor one another and serve the common good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Give
us all a reverence for the earth as your own creation, that we may use its
resources rightly in the service of others and to your honor and glory.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Bless
all whose lives are closely linked with ours, and grant that we may serve
Christ in them, and love one another as he loves us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Comfort
and heal all those who suffer in body, mind or spirit; give them courage and
hope in their troubles, and bring them the joy of your salvation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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We
commend to your mercy all who have died, that your will for them may be
fulfilled; and we pray that we may share with all your saints in your eternal
kingdom.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Lord
Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles, “Peace I give to you; my own peace I
leave with you:” Regard not our sins, but the faith of your Church, and give to
us the peace and unity of that heavenly City, where with the Father and the
Holy Spirit you live and reign, now and forever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be
thy Name,<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on
earth as it is in heaven.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Give us this day our daily bread.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive those who trespass against us.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i>Psalm 36:7-8<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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How priceless is
your love, O God! your people take refuge under the shadow of your wings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They feast upon
the abundance of your house; you give them drink from the river of your
delights.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>A
Reading<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John
12:1-8<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Six days before
the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised
from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was
one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of
pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was
filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his
disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, "Why was this
perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the
poor?" (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he
was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.)
Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for
the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always
have me." <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>Having read this, think on these things:</i></b><i>
How can I offer the gentleness of anointing to the poor close to me or my
community? When have I been given this gentleness? Can you think of a hard
choice—between caring for yourself, or others? Offer these things to God.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Almighty God,
whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered
not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in
the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the
Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Lord’s
Prayer<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Psalm
71:5-6<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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For you are
my hope, O Lord God, <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>my confidence since
I was young.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have been
sustained by you ever since I was born; <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>from
my mother's womb you have been my strength; <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>my praise shall be always
of you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>A
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12:20-26, 36<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Among those who
went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who
was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, "Sir, we wish to see
Jesus." Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told
Jesus. Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth
and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world
will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I
am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After Jesus had
said this, he departed and hid from them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>Having read this, think on these things:</i></b><i>
What is dying inside of you, and what is growing? What in our world is
changing, and how can Jesus be our hope in the midst of this time?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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O God, by the passion of your
blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of
life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer
shame and loss for the sake of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Lord’s
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70:5-6<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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me, I am poor and needy; come to me speedily, O God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You are my
helper and my deliverer; O Lord, do not tarry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>A
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13:21-30<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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At supper with
his friends, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, "Very truly, I
tell you, one of you will betray me." The disciples looked at one another,
uncertain of whom he was speaking. One of his disciples-- the one whom Jesus
loved-- was reclining next to him; Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask
Jesus of whom he was speaking. So while reclining next to Jesus, he asked him,
"Lord, who is it?" Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I give
this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." So when he had
dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot. After he
received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him,
"Do quickly what you are going to do." Now no one at the table knew
why he said this to him. Some thought that, because Judas had the common purse,
Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the festival"; or, that
he should give something to the poor. So, after receiving the piece of bread,
he immediately went out. And it was night. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>Having read this, think on these things:</i></b><i>
How is money used to glorify God? When is it used and it does not glorify God?
What do you imagine Jesus was feeling and thinking on this day?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Lord God, whose
blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit
upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time,
confident of the glory that shall be revealed; through Jesus Christ your Son
our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
and ever. <i>Amen</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Lord’s
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meaning “commandment,” and it is Jesus’ final commandment to his followers in
John’s Gospel, “Love one another as I have loved you,” that we remember today.
The washing of feet, which has its origins in the Gospel according to St. John,
is one of the most ancient and universal rites in the Christian Church. It is a
reminder of the humility necessary to be ministers with one another. On Maundy
Thursday we also remember the last supper that Jesus ate with his friends,
which has become for us the Holy Eucharist. This year, we can remember the last
time we received Holy Communion, and look again to receive this gift, together,
in the future. This prayer from Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) describes the heart
of Maundy Thursday<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Christ
has no body now on earth but yours;<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>no
hands but yours; no feet but yours.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Yours
are the eyes through which the compassion of Christ must look out on the world.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Yours
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<i>Yours
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to your place set apart for Holy Week a bowl of water and a clean washcloth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bless
the Lord who forgives all our sins.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His mercy endures forever.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The
Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you</b>.
Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on
the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully
grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our
Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who
now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in
the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it
shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of
Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family,
a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it
shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in
proportion to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish,
a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall
keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled
congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of
the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which
they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted
over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw
or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner
organs. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that
remains until the morning you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your
loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you
shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the LORD. For I will pass through
the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the
land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will
execute judgments: I am the LORD. The blood shall be a sign for you on the
houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no
plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This day shall be a day of
remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD;
throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I love the LORD,
because he has heard the voice of my supplication, because he has inclined his
ear to me whenever I called upon him. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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LORD for all the good things he has done for me? <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will lift up the
cup of salvation and call upon the Name of the LORD. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will fulfill my
vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Precious in the sight
of the LORD is the death of his servants. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">O LORD, I am your
servant; I am your servant and the child of your handmaid; you have freed me
from my bonds. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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sacrifice of thanksgiving and call upon the Name of the LORD. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people, <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In the courts of the
LORD'S house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah! <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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For I received from the Lord what I
also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed
took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said,
"This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In
the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, "This cup is the
new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of
me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim
the Lord's death until he comes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Word of the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thanks be to God.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory to you, Lord Christ</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come
to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were
in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the
heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper Jesus,
knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had
come from God and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer
robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and
began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied
around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going
to wash my feet?" Jesus answered, "You do not know now what I am
doing, but later you will understand." Peter said to him, "You will
never wash my feet." Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no
share with me." Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but
also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him, "One who has bathed
does not need to wash, except for the feet, but is entirely clean. And you are clean,
though not all of you." For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason
he said, "Not all of you are clean."<o:p></o:p><br />
After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the
table, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? You call me
Teacher and Lord--and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord
and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are
messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you
are blessed if you do them. <o:p></o:p><br />
Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been
glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him
in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a
little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to
you, `Where I am going, you cannot come.' I give you a new commandment, that
you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one
another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love
for one another." <o:p></o:p><br />
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The
Gospel of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Praise to you, Lord Christ.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Sermon<span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Nicene Creed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in one God, the Father, the
Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the
only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from
Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the
Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came
down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the
Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius
Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in
accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the
right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and
the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father
and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He has spoken through the Prophets.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in one holy catholic and
apostolic Church.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We acknowledge one baptism for the
forgiveness of sins.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We look for the resurrection of the dead, and
the life of the world to come. Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I ask
your prayers for God’s people throughout the world; for our Presiding Bishop
Michael our Bishop Sean; for this gathering; and for all ministers and people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pray
for the Church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I ask
your prayers for peace; for goodwill among nations; and for the well-being of
all people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pray
for justice and peace.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I ask
your prayers for the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, and those in
prison.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pray
for those in any need or trouble. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I ask
your prayers for all who seek God, or a deeper knowledge of him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pray
that they may find and be found by him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I ask
your prayers for the departed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pray
for those who have died.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I ask
your prayers for those in any need or trouble.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I ask
for your thanksgivings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Praise
God for those in every generation in whom Christ has been honored <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pray
that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Heavenly
Father, you have promised to hear what we ask in the Name of your Son: Accept
and fulfill our petitions, we pray, not as we ask in our ignorance, nor as we
deserve in our sinfulness, but as you know and love us in your Son Jesus<o:p></o:p></div>
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Christ
our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amen</span>.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Lord’s Prayer<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>This service ends with the
chanting of Psalm 22.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally we would
strip the altar during that time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GOOD FRIDAY + April 10 + Worship at noon<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Facebook – <o:p></o:p></div>
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Or search for St. Paul’s –
Harris Hill on Facebook<o:p></o:p></div>
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</w:wrap></v:imagedata></v:shape><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><i>Good Friday is the most solemn day
of the Church Year. Elements of the liturgy date to the 4<sup>th</sup> century
practices of Jerusalem, which moved among the actual places of the events of
Jesus’s last week. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Much of what we know of Holy Week comes from the account of a woman named
Egeria, widely regarded to be the author of a detailed account of a pilgrimage
to the Holy Land. The long letter, titled Peregrinatio or Itinerarium Egeriae,
is addressed to a circle of women at home. Historical details it contains set
the journey in the early 380s, making it the earliest of its kind. Many of the
acts of Good Friday worship are as Egeria described so long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Blessed
be our God, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For ever and ever. Amen</b>.
Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Almighty
God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus
Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to
suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amen</span>.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The
Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">After he said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples and
crossed over to the other side of the Kidron Valley. He and his disciples
entered a garden there.</span><span style="color: black;"> <sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Judas, his betrayer, also knew
the place because Jesus often gathered there with his disciples.</span> <sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Judas brought a company of
soldiers and some guards from the chief priests and Pharisees. They came
there carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Jesus knew everything that was to happen to him, so he went out
and asked, “Who are you looking for?” <sup> </sup>They answered,
“Jesus the Nazarene.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">He said to them, “I Am.” (Judas, his betrayer, was
standing with them.)</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">When he said, “I Am,” they shrank back and fell to the ground.</span> <sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">7 </span></sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">He asked them again, “Who
are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Jesus answered, “I told you, ‘I Am.’ If you are looking
for me, then let these people go.”</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">This was so that the word he had spoken might be
fulfilled: “I didn’t lose anyone of those whom you gave me.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high
priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.)</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Jesus told Peter, “Put your sword away!
Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given me?”</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Then the company of soldiers, the commander, and the guards from
the Jewish leaders took Jesus into custody. They bound him<sup> </sup>and
led him first to Annas. He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest
that year. (Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was
better for one person to die for the people.)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Because this
other disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high
priest’s courtyard.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">However, Peter stood outside near the gate. Then the other
disciple (the one known to the high priest) came out and spoke to the woman
stationed at the gate, and she brought Peter in.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The servant woman stationed at the gate asked Peter, “Aren’t you
one of this man’s disciples?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">“I’m not,” he replied.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The servants and the guards had made a fire because it was cold.
They were standing around it, warming themselves. Peter joined them there,
standing by the fire and warming himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile, the chief priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his
teaching.</span> <sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Jesus answered, “I’ve spoken openly to the world. I’ve always
taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews gather. I’ve said
nothing in private.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Why ask me? Ask those who heard
what I told them. They know what I said.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">After Jesus spoke, one of the guards standing there slapped Jesus
in the face. “Is that how you would answer the high priest?” he asked. <sup> </sup>Jesus
replied, “If I speak wrongly, testify about what was wrong. But if I speak
correctly, why do you strike me?”<sup> </sup>Then Annas sent him, bound,
to Caiaphas the high priest.</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing with the guards, warming
himself. They asked, “Aren’t you one of his disciples?” Peter denied it,
saying, “I’m not.” <sup> </sup>A servant of the high priest, a relative of
the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said to him, “Didn’t I see you in the
garden with him?”</span><span style="color: black;"> <sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Peter denied it again, and
immediately a rooster crowed.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Jewish leaders led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s
palace. It was early in the morning. So that they could eat the Passover,
the Jewish leaders wouldn’t enter the palace; entering the palace would have
made them ritually impure. So Pilate went out to them and asked, “What charge
do you bring against this man?” They answered, “If he had done nothing wrong,
we wouldn’t have handed him over to you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pilate responded, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your
Law.” The Jewish leaders replied, “The Law doesn’t allow us to kill anyone.”</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">(This was so that Jesus’ word might be
fulfilled when he indicated how he was going to die.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pilate went back into the palace. He summoned
Jesus and asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus answered, “Do you say this on your
own or have others spoken to you about me?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pilate responded, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your nation and its chief
priests handed you over to me. What have you done?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus replied, “My kingdom doesn’t
originate from this world. If it did, my guards would fight so that I wouldn’t
have been arrested by the Jewish leaders. My kingdom isn’t from here.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“So you are a king?” Pilate said.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. I was born and
came into the world for this reason: to testify to the truth. Whoever accepts
the truth listens to my voice.”</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">“What is truth?” Pilate asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After Pilate said this, he returned to the Jewish leaders and said, “I
find no grounds for any charge against him.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">You have a custom that I release one prisoner for you at Passover.
Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">They shouted, “Not this man! Give us Barabbas!” (Barabbas was an
outlaw.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Pilate had Jesus taken and
whipped.</span><span style="color: black;"> <sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his
head, and dressed him in a purple robe.</span> <sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Over and over they went up to
him and said, “Greetings, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the
face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pilate came out of the palace
again and said to the Jewish leaders, “Look! I’m bringing him out to you to let
you know that I find no grounds for a charge against him.”<sup> </sup>When
Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to
them, “Here’s the man.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">When the chief priests and their deputies saw him, they shouted
out, “Crucify, crucify!”</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Pilate told them, “You take him and crucify him. I don’t find any
grounds for a charge against him.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Jewish leaders replied, “We have a Law, and according to this Law he ought to
die because he made himself out to be God’s Son.”</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">When Pilate heard this word, he was even more afraid.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">He went back into the residence and spoke to
Jesus, “Where are you from?” Jesus didn’t answer.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">So Pilate said, “You won’t speak to me? Don’t you know that I have
authority to release you and also to crucify you?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus replied, “You would have no
authority over me if it had not been given to you from above. That’s why the
one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">From that moment on, Pilate wanted to release Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the Jewish leaders cried out,
saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t a friend of the emperor! Anyone
who makes himself out to be a king opposes the emperor!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">When Pilate heard these words, he led Jesus out and seated him on
the judge’s bench at the place called Stone Pavement (in Aramaic, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Gabbatha</span></i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">).</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">It was about noon on the Preparation
Day for the Passover. Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, “Here’s your king.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Jewish leaders cried out, “Take him away! Take him away!
Crucify him!”</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Pilate responded, “What? Do you want me to crucify your king?” “We
have no king except the emperor,” the chief priests answered.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The soldiers took Jesus prisoner.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Carrying his cross by himself, he went out to a place called Skull
Place (in Aramaic, </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Golgotha</span></i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">).</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">That’s where they crucified him—and two others
with him, one on each side and Jesus in the middle. <sup> </sup>Pilate had
a public notice written and posted on the cross. It read “Jesus the Nazarene,
the king of the Jews.”</span> <sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></sup><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was
crucified was near the city and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Therefore, the Jewish chief priests complained to Pilate, “Don’t
write, ‘The king of the Jews’ but ‘This man said, “I am the king of the
Jews.”’” <sup> </sup>Pilate answered, “What I’ve written, I’ve written.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and his
sandals, and divided them into four shares, one for each soldier. His shirt was
seamless, woven as one piece from the top to the bottom.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">They said to each other, “Let’s not tear it.
Let’s cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the scripture, “</span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">They divided my clothes among
themselves,</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">and they cast lots
for my clothing.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">That’s what the soldiers did.</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Jesus’ mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary Magdalene stood near the cross.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing
nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.”<sup> </sup>Then
he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that time
on, this disciple took her into his home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">After this, knowing that everything was already completed, in
order to fulfill the scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”<sup> </sup>A
jar full of sour wine was nearby, so the soldiers soaked a sponge in it, placed
it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">When he had received the sour wine, Jesus
said, “It is completed.” Bowing his head, he gave up his life.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Silence<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">It was the Preparation Day and the Jewish leaders didn’t want the
bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath, especially since that Sabbath was
an important day. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of those crucified
broken and the bodies taken down.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Therefore, the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who
were crucified with Jesus.<sup> </sup>When they came to Jesus, they saw that
he was already dead so they didn’t break his legs.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and
immediately blood and water came out.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The one who saw this has
testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he speaks the truth, and he
has testified so that you also can believe.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">These
things happened to fulfill the scripture, “</span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">They won’t break any of his bones</span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">.”</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">And another scripture
says, “</span></span><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: normal; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">They
will look at him whom they have pierced<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.”</i></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">After this Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate if he could take away
the body of Jesus. Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one because he
feared the Jewish authorities. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took
the body away.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Nicodemus, the one who at first
had come to Jesus at night, was there too. He brought a mixture of myrrh and
aloe, nearly seventy-five pounds in all.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Following Jewish burial
customs, they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the spices, in linen
cloths.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">There was a garden in the place where Jesus
was crucified, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever been
laid.</span> <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Because it was the Jewish Preparation Day and
the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus in it.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Dear
People of God: Our heavenly Father sent his Son into the world, not to condemn
the world, but that the world through him might be saved; that all who believe
in him might be delivered from the power of sin and death, and become heirs
with him of everlasting life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We
pray, therefore, for people everywhere according to their needs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let
us pray for the holy Catholic Church of Christ throughout the world;<o:p></o:p></div>
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For
its unity in witness and service<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
all bishops and other ministers and the people whom they serve<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For Sean
our Bishop, and all the people of this diocese<o:p></o:p></div>
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For
all Christians in this community<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
those about to be baptized <o:p></o:p></div>
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That
God will confirm his Church in faith, increase it in love, and preserve it in
peace.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Almighty
and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is
governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers which we offer
before you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and
ministry they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amen</span>.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Let
us pray for all nations and peoples of the earth, and for those in authority
among them;<o:p></o:p></div>
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For Donald,
the President of the United States<o:p></o:p></div>
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For
the Congress and the Supreme Court<o:p></o:p></div>
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For
the Members and Representatives of the United Nations<o:p></o:p></div>
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For
all who serve the common good<o:p></o:p></div>
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That
by God’s help they may seek justice and truth, and live in peace and concord.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Almighty
God, kindle, we pray, in every heart the true love of peace, and guide with
your wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth; that in
tranquillity your dominion may increase, until the earth is filled with the
knowledge of your love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amen</span>.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Let
us pray for all who suffer and are afflicted in body or in mind; <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
the hungry and the homeless, the destitute and the oppressed<o:p></o:p></div>
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For
the sick, the wounded, and the crippled<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
those in loneliness, fear, and anguish<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
those who face temptation, doubt, and despair<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
the sorrowful and bereaved<o:p></o:p></div>
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For
prisoners and captives, and those in mortal danger<o:p></o:p></div>
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That
God in his mercy will comfort and relieve them, and grant them the knowledge of
his love, and stir up in us the will and patience to minister to their needs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Gracious
God, the comfort of all who sorrow, the strength of all who suffer: Let the cry
of those in misery and need come to you, that they may find your mercy present
with them in all their afflictions; and give us, we pray, the strength to serve
them for the sake of him who suffered for us, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amen</span>.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Let
us pray for all who have not received the Gospel of Christ;<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
those who have never heard the word of salvation<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
those who have lost their faith<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
those hardened by sin or indifference<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
the contemptuous and the scornful<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
those who are enemies of the cross of Christ and persecutors of his disciples<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
For
those who in the name of Christ have persecuted others<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
That
God will open their hearts to the truth, and lead them to faith and obedience.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Merciful
God, creator of all the peoples of the earth and lover of souls: Have compassion
on all who do not know you as you are revealed in your Son Jesus Christ; let
your Gospel be preached with grace and power to those who have not heard it;
turn the hearts of those who resist it; and bring home to your fold those who
have gone astray; that there may be one flock under one shepherd, Jesus Christ
our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amen</span>.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Let
us commit ourselves to our God, and pray for the grace of a holy life, that,
with all who have departed this world and have died in the peace of Christ, and
those whose faith is known to God alone, we may be accounted worthy to enter into
the fullness of the joy of our Lord, and receive the crown of life in the day
of resurrection.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silence<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
O God
of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church,
that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence,
carry out in tranquility the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and
know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had
grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their
perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our
Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God,
for ever and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amen</span>.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
We
glory in your cross, O Lord,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and
praise and glorify your holy resurrection; for by virtue of your cross joy has
come to the whole world.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
May
God be merciful to us and bless us, show us the light of his countenance, and
come to us.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let
your ways be known upon earth, your saving health among all nations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Let
the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We
glory in your cross, O Lord, and praise and glorify your holy resurrection; for
by virtue of your cross joy has come to the whole world</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
We adore
you, O Christ, and we bless you,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because
by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
If we
have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also
reign with him.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We
adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy cross you have
redeemed the world.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The hymn “Sing, my tongue, the glorious
battle,” is chanted.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be
thy Name,<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on
earth as it is in heaven.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Give us this day our daily bread. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And forgive us our trespasses, as we
forgive those who trespass against us.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory,<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for ever and ever. Amen.</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Lord
Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, we pray you to set your passion, cross,
and death between your judgment and our souls, now and in the hour of our
death. Give mercy and grace to the living; pardon and rest to the dead; to your
holy Church peace and concord; and to us sinners everlasting life and glory;
for with the Father and Holy Spirit you live and reign, one God, now and for
ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amen</span>.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HOLY SATURDAY AND THE GREAT VIGIL + April 11 + Worship @ 4 pm<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Or search for St. Paul’s –
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life and earth: fire, water, bread, wine. We use the power of sacred story to
remember that we are the people of God and God works in us and through us in
the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">At St. Paul’s, we have long done an adaptation of the Vigil for children
& families and we will be further adapting it this year.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; mso-no-proof: yes;">Before the service gather – a candle or flashlight; a bowl of
water and something that will make noise like a bell or tamborine or even a pot
and spoon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tonight we take a break from what we usually do and think
about God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We remember that Jesus died
and that on Easter he left death behind and rose from the dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also remember that, long before Jesus,
while the people of Israel were slaves in Egypt, that the angel of death passed
by their houses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We remember both of
these things because Jesus shares his victory over death with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that because of Jesus lives, we will
live forever with him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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O God, in your Son, Jesus, you have given us, and all your
people, your light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bless this
fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make us excited for you and for
Jesus so that as we celebrate Easter, we will always be a part of the light
that you bring to the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Light your candle or turn
on your flashlight.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The Exsultet is one of the
most ancient songs of the church – it tells about Jesus’ victory over death.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Rejoice now, heavenly hosts
and choirs of angels, and let your trumpets shout Salvation for the victory of
our mighty King.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rejoice and sing now, all the
round earth, bright with a glorious splendor,<o:p></o:p></div>
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for darkness has been
vanquished by our eternal King.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rejoice and be glad now,
Mother Church, and let your holy courts, in radiant light, resound with the
praises of your people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is truly right and good,
always and everywhere, with our whole heart and mind and voice, to praise you,
the invisible, almighty, and eternal God, and your only-begotten Son, Jesus
Christ our Lord; for he is the true Paschal Lamb, who at the feast of the
Passover paid for us the debt of Adam's sin, and by his blood delivered your
faithful people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the night, when you
brought our fathers, the children of Israel, out of bondage in Egypt, and led
them through the Red Sea on dry land.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the night, when all
who believe in Christ are delivered from the gloom of sin, and are restored to
grace and holiness of life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the night, when Christ
broke the bonds of death and hell, and rose victorious from the grave.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How wonderful and beyond our
knowing, O God, is your mercy and loving-kindness to us, that to redeem a slave,
you gave a Son.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How holy is this night, when
wickedness is put to flight, and sin is washed away. It restores innocence to
the fallen, and joy to those who mourn. It casts out pride and hatred, and
brings peace and concord.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How blessed is this night,
when earth and heaven are joined and we are reconciled to God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Holy Father, accept our living
sacrifice of this candle in your honor. May Christ, the light of the world,
bring us healing. May Christ, your light in us, drive away darkness and fear.
May Christ, the Morning Star who knows no setting, find our faith ever burning,
our love of mercy and justice ever afire – he who gives his light to all
creation, and who lives and reigns for ever and ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Vigil always includes
stories of the relationship between God and people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year we will tell only two stories.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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We are now going to hear some of the stories of what God has
done in the past, how he saved his people in the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are going to pray that God will be with us
today too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Story of Creation – Genesis 1:1-2:4a<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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O God, you created all people and even better you restored
us and made us all special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grant that
we can share eternal life with Jesus in the same way that he shared human life
with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Israel’s deliverance through at the Red Sea – Exodus
14:10-31; 15:20-21<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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O God, the great things that you did long ago seem great
even today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By your power you saved your
people from slavery under Pharaoh, to remind us that you save us by the water
of baptism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through Jesus Christ bring
all people into the family of Abraham & the people of Israel. Make us all
your people. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through Baptism we share in Jesus’ death & we share in
his rising from the dead and live a new life in Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that we have finished the fasts &
prayers of Lent, we renew the promises that were made when we were baptized and
promise again to serve God and be a part of the Church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Do you choose again to reject evil & do you choose again
to follow Jesus Christ? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I do.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Do you believe in God the Father?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I believe in God, the
Father almighty, creator of heaven & earth.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Do you believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I believe in Jesus
Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He was conceived by
the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He suffered under
Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He descended to the
dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the third day he rose again.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He ascended into
heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He will come again to
judge the living and the dead.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Do you believe in the God the Holy Spirit?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I believe in the Holy
Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of
sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Will you continue in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship,
in the breaking of the bread and in the prayers?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will with God’s
help.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Will you persevere in resisting evil, and whenever you fall
into sin, repent and return to the Lord?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will with God’s
help.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Will you proclaim by word and example the Good News of God
in Christ?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will with God’s
help.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your
neighbor as yourself?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will with God’s
help.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and
respect the dignity of every human being?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will with God’s
help.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Almighty God, with the water of our baptism, you washed away
our sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the power of your Holy
Spirit you have given us new life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Remind us that we have eternal life because Jesus loves us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Take your bowl of water and sprinkle some around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sprinkle water to remind us of our
baptisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the sprinkling is over
have the youngest person in the room shout <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Alleluia, Christ is risen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Everyone else shout back<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lord is risen
indeed, Alleluia.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i>Ring your bells and shout </i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alleluia.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And
also with you. </b>Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></div>
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O God, you made this night special because we remember
Jesus’ rising from the dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give all of
us, and everyone in the Church, joy and energy so that we can worship you in
joy and take that joy into the world. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to
Matthew.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory to you, Lord
Christ.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">After the
sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary went to see the tomb. And suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an
angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and
sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men. But the angel said
to the women, "Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who
was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see
the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has been
raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you
will see him.' This is my message for you." So they left the tomb quickly
with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them
and said, "Greetings!" And they came to him, took hold of his feet,
and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell
my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me."</span><i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The Gospel of the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Praise
to you, Lord Christ.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">EASTER SUNDAY + April 12 + Worship at 10 am<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Facebook – <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/St-Pauls-Episcopal-Church-Harris-Hill-177000109025463/">https://www.facebook.com/St-Pauls-Episcopal-Church-Harris-Hill-177000109025463/</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Jesus
Christ is Risen Today<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Jesus
Christ is risen today, Alleluia! Our triumphant holy day, Alleluia! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Who
did once upon the cross, Alleluia! Suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hymns
of praise then let us sing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alleluia!
Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who
endured the cross and grave, Alleluia! Sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></div>
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But
the pains which he endured, Alleluia! Our salvation have procured, Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></div>
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No
above the sky he’s King. Alleluia! Where the angels ever sing. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sing
we to our God above, Alleluia! Praise eternal as his love, Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Praise
him, all ye heavenly host, Alleluia! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alleluia.
Christ is risen. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lord is risen
indeed. Alleluia</b>.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Almighty
God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are
hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit,
that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy Name; through
Christ our Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">men</span>.</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The
Lord be with you. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And also with you</b>.
Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></div>
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O God, who for our redemption gave
your only-begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by his glorious
resurrection delivered us from the power of our enemy: Grant us so to die daily
to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the
Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Acts 10:34-43<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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Then Peter began to speak to them:
"I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation
anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the
message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ--he is
Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after
the baptism that John announced: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the
Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who
were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses to all that
he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on
a tree; but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not to
all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and
drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the
people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living
and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in
him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Word of the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 <o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Give thanks to the
LORD, for he is good; his mercy endures for ever. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let Israel now
proclaim, "His mercy endures for ever." <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The LORD is my
strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There is a sound of
exultation and victory in the tents of the righteous: <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"The right hand
of the LORD has triumphed! the right hand of the LORD is <o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>exalted! the right hand of the LORD
has <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>triumphed!" <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I shall not die, but
live, and declare the works of the LORD. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The LORD has punished
me sorely, but he did not hand me over to death. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Open for me the gates
of righteousness; I will enter them; I will offer thanks to the<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LORD. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"This is the
gate of the LORD; he who is righteous may enter." <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will give thanks to
you, for you answered me and have become my salvation. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The same stone which
the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This is the LORD'S
doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">On this day the LORD
has acted; we will rejoice and be glad in it. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1 Corinthians 15:19-26<o:p></o:p></span></i></h3>
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<span class="initcap"><span style="color: black;">I</span></span><span style="color: black;">f for this life
only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But in
fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have
died. For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead
has also come through a human being; for as all die in Adam, so all will be
made alive in Christ. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then
at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he hands
over the kingdom to God the Father, after he has destroyed every ruler and
every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies
under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Word of the Lord. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thanks be to God.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The
Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory to you, Lord Christ</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="initcap"><span style="color: black;">E</span></span><span style="color: black;">arly
on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to
the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and
went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said
to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where
they have laid him.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward
the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter
and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings
lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and
went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that
had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a
place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went
in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture,
that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she
bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where
the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.
They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have
taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” When she had
said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know
that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you
looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you
have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him
away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!”
(which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have
not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am
ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary
Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she
told them that he had said these things to her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The
Gospel of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Praise to you, Lord Christ.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Sermon<span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in one God, the Father, the
Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the
only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from
Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the
Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came
down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the
Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius
Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in
accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the
right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and
the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father
and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He has spoken through the Prophets.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We believe in one holy catholic and
apostolic Church.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We acknowledge one baptism for the
forgiveness of sins.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We look for the resurrection of the dead, and
the life of the world to come. Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Let
us pray for the Church and for the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Grant,
Almighty God, that all who confess your Name may be united in your truth, live
together in your love, and reveal your glory in the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Guide
the people of this land, and of all the nations, in the ways of justice and
peace; that we may honor one another and serve the common good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Give
us all a reverence for the earth as your own creation, that we may use its
resources rightly in the service of others and to your honor and glory.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Bless
all whose lives are closely linked with ours, and grant that we may serve
Christ in them, and love one another as he loves us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Comfort
and heal all those who suffer in body, mind or spirit; give them courage and
hope in their troubles, and bring them the joy of your salvation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
We
commend to your mercy all who have died, that your will for them may be
fulfilled; and we pray that we may share with all your saints in your eternal
kingdom.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Lord
in your mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hear our prayer.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Lord
Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles, “Peace I give to you; my own peace I
leave with you:” Regard not our sins, but the faith of your Church, and give to
us the peace and unity of that heavenly City, where with the Father and the
Holy Spirit you live and reign, now and forever. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amen.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
The
Lord’s Prayer & Blessing<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i>Welcome
Happy Morning<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“Welcome,
happy morning!” age to age shall say: hell today is vanquished, heaven is won
today!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lo!
the dead is living, God for evermore! Him their true Creator, all his works
adore!<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Welcome,
happy morning!” age to age shall say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Earth
her joy confesses, clothing her for spring, all fresh gifts returned with her
returning King:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bloom
in every meadow, leaves on every bough, speak his sorrows ended, hail his triumph
now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Welcome,
happy morning!” age to age shall say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Months
in due succession, days of lengthening light, hours and passing moments praise
thee in their flight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brightness
of the morning, sky and fields and sea, vanquisher of darkness bring their praise
to thee,<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Welcome,
happy morning!” age to age shall say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Maker
and Redeemer, life and health of all, thou from heaven beholding human nature’s
fall,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of
the Father’s Godhead true and only Son, mankind to deliver, manhood didst put
on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Welcome,
happy morning!” age to age shall say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Thou
of life the author, death didst undergo, tread the path of darkness, saving
strength to show;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Come
then true and faithful, now fulfill thy word. ‘tis thine own third morning!
Rise, O buried Lord!<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Welcome,
happy morning!” age to age shall say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
Loose
the souls long prisoned, bound with Satan’s chain; all that now is fallen raise
to life again;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Show
thy face in brightness, bid the nations see; bring again our daylight: day
returns with thee!<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Welcome,
happy morning!” age to age shall say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>About this Book….<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<i>This booklet was adapted by the work done by The Rev.
Mary Kate Schroeder and the people of St. Aidan’s Church in Boulder,
Colorado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Readings from The New Revised Standard Version of the
Bible © 1989 by The Division of Christian Education of The National Council of
the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., used by permission. Artwork is used with
permission. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Prayers are drawn from The Book of Common Prayer 1979 and
The Book of Occasional Services 2018. Some of the notes “Having heard/read
this, think on these things:” are drawn from the work of Gail Ramshaw and
Gordon Lathrop for Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church, Holy Week for 2020,
used with permission. Modifications to the Book of Common Prayer recommended by
Dr. James Farwell, Virginia Theological Seminary, particular to this season of
the church not gathering publicly for COVID-19<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<i></i>Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-80311390580917952162020-03-24T08:18:00.002-07:002020-03-24T08:18:20.307-07:00Morning Prayer for Sunday March 29<br />
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Daily Morning Prayer: Rite
Two<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">March 29, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">You can divide the parts of
the service among members of your household.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The Officiant is the person
leading the service.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Usually the Confession, the
Jubilate, the Psalm, the Canticles after the readings, the Apostles’ Creed and
the Lord’s Prayer are said in unison.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The Suffrages (or responsive
prayers) are said with one person reading the part marked V and everyone else
responding with the part marked R.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If we say 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. <i>I John 1:8, 9</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be
kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what
we have done,<br />
and by what we have left undone.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<br />
that we may delight in your will,<br />
and walk in your ways,<br />
to the glory of your name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Invitatory and Psalter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord is full
of compassion and mercy: Come let us adore him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jubilate</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Psalm 100</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness
and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his
faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it
was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Psalm or Psalms Appointed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 130<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Out of the
depths have I called to you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>;
<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, hear my voice; let your ears
consider well the voice of my supplication.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, were to note what is done amiss, O
Lord, who could stand?<o:p></o:p></div>
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For there is
forgiveness with you; therefore you shall be feared.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wait for
the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>; my soul waits for
him; in his word is my hope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My soul waits
for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, more than
watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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O Israel,
wait for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, for with
the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> there is mercy;<o:p></o:p></div>
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With him
there is plenteous redemption, and he shall redeem Israel from all their sins.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it
was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>The Lessons<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One or two lessons, as appointed, are read, the Reader first
saying<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ezekiel
37:1-14<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">T</span>he hand of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> came upon me, and he brought
me out by the spirit of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> and
set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all
around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry.
He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>, you know.” Then he said to me,
“Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the
Lord. Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span> to
these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay
sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin,
and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am
the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly
there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I
looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin
had covered them; but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me,
“Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the
Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>: Come from the four
winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” I
prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived,
and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel.
They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off
completely.’ Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>: I am going to open your graves, and
bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the
land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your
graves, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I
will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, have spoken and will act,” says
the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Word of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Canticle 10</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>The Second Song of Isaiah</b> <i>Quaerite
Dominum</i><br />
<i>Isaiah 55:6-11</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seek the Lord while he wills to be found; call upon him when he
draws near.<br />
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the evil ones their thoughts;<br />
And let them turn to the Lord, and he will have compassion, and to our God, for
he will richly pardon.<br />
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, says the Lord.<br />
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways,<br />
and my thoughts than your thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For as rain and snow fall from the heavens and return not again,
but water the earth,<br />
Bringing forth life and giving growth, seed for sowing and bread for eating,<br />
So is my word that goes forth from my mouth; it will not return to me empty;<br />
But it will accomplish that which I have purposed, and prosper in that for
which I sent it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it
was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John
11:1-45<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">N</span>ow a certain man was ill, Lazarus
of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who
anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother
Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you
love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to
death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified
through it.” Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus,
after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place
where he was.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” The
disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and
are you going there again?” Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of
daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the
light of this world. But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is
not in them.” After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen
asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord,
if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.” Jesus, however, had been
speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to
sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. For your sake I am glad
I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” Thomas, who
was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may
die with him.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb
four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many of the
Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. When
Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.
Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have
died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.”
Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to him, “I know
that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to
her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though
they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the
Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and
told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” And when she
heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the
village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. The Jews who were
with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They
followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to
him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus
saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly
disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, “Where have you laid him?” They
said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, “See
how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of
the blind man have kept this man from dying?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and
a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the
sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because
he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you
believed, you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And
Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew
that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd
standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said
this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out,
his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth.
Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what
Jesus did, believed in him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="acreed"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>A
Song to the Lamb</b> <i>Dignus es</i><br />
<i>Revelation 4:11,
5:9-10, 13</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Splendor and honor and kingly power are yours by
right, O Lord our God,<br />
For you created everything that is, and by your will they were created and have
their being;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And yours by right, O Lamb that was slain, for
with your blood you have redeemed for God,<br />
From every family, language, people, and nation, a kingdom of priests to serve
our God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And so, to him who sits upon the throne, and to
Christ the Lamb,<br />
Be worship and praise, dominion and splendor, for ever and for evermore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Apostles' Creed</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and
earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Prayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And also with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy
Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Suffrages <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. And grant us your salvation.<br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. Let your people sing with joy.<br />
V. Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;<br />
R. For only in you can we live in safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. And guide us in the way of justice and truth.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. Your saving health among all nations.<br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. Nor the hope of the poor be taken away.<br />
V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. And sustain us with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Officiant then says one or more of the following Collects<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A</span>lmighty
God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners:
Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that,
among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be
fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before<br />
you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry
they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord.<br />
<i>Thanks be to God.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b>Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje
Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos, Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John
Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Patrick, Bret, Rich,
Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna, Karen, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lorna,
Anna, Caitlin & Shawn, Kristen, Raven, Silas, Ben, Lūz & Tony, Patty,
Libby & Cliff, Joseph, Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan, Nan, Kimberly,
Kevin, Barbara, Bruce, Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly, Micky<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Erik,
Skylar, Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally,
Denise, Charles, Ron, Arlene, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben & Mildred,
Mary<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-66694707800316731822020-03-17T06:20:00.001-07:002020-03-17T06:20:42.280-07:00Morning Prayer for March 22<br />
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Daily Morning Prayer: Rite
Two<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">March 22, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">You can divide the parts of
the service among members of your household.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The Officiant is the person
leading the service.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Usually the Confession, the
Jubilate, the Psalm, the Canticles after the readings, the Apostles’ Creed and
the Lord’s Prayer are said in unison.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The Suffrages (or responsive
prayers) are said with one person reading the part marked V and everyone else
responding with the part marked R.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If we say 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. <i>I John 1:8, 9</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be
kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what
we have done,<br />
and by what we have left undone.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<br />
that we may delight in your will,<br />
and walk in your ways,<br />
to the glory of your name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Invitatory and Psalter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord is full
of compassion and mercy: Come let us adore him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jubilate</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Psalm 100</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness
and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his
faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it
was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Psalm or Psalms Appointed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm 23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is my shepherd; I shall not be
in want.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He makes me
lie down in green pastures and leads me beside still waters.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 24.0pt; text-indent: -24.0pt;">
He revives my
soul and guides me along right pathways for his Name's sake.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil; for you are
with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You spread a
table before me in the presence of those who trouble me; you have anointed my
head with oil, and my cup is running over.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Surely your
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in
the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> for
ever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it
was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>The Lessons<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One or two lessons, as appointed, are read, the Reader first
saying<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Samuel 16:1-13<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over
Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil
and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for
myself a king among his sons.” Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears of it,
he will kill me.” And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> said,
“Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.’ Invite Jesse to the sacrifice,
and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for me the one whom
I name to you.” Samuel did what the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> commanded,
and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and
said, “Do you come peaceably?” He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to
the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>; sanctify yourselves
and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and
invited them to the sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When they came, he looked on
Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is now before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.” But the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> said to Samuel, “Do not look
on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him;
for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> does not
see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> looks on the heart.” Then
Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Neither has
the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> chosen this
one.” Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> chosen this one.” Jesse made
seven of his sons pass before Samuel, and Samuel said to Jesse, “The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> has not chosen any of these.”
Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet
the youngest, but he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and
bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.” He sent and brought
him in. Now he was ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> said, “Rise and anoint him;
for this is the one.” Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
presence of his brothers; and the spirit of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> came mightily upon David from that day forward.
Samuel then set out and went to Ramah.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Word of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Canticle 10</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>The Second Song of Isaiah</b> <i>Quaerite
Dominum</i><br />
<i>Isaiah 55:6-11</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seek the Lord while he wills to be found; call upon him when he
draws near.<br />
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the evil ones their thoughts;<br />
And let them turn to the Lord, and he will have compassion, and to our God, for
he will richly pardon.<br />
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, says the Lord.<br />
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways,<br />
and my thoughts than your thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For as rain and snow fall from the heavens and return not again,
but water the earth,<br />
Bringing forth life and giving growth, seed for sowing and bread for eating,<br />
So is my word that goes forth from my mouth; it will not return to me empty;<br />
But it will accomplish that which I have purposed, and prosper in that for
which I sent it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it
was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John
9:1-41<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">A</span>s Jesus walked along, he saw a man
blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his
parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his
parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.
We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when
no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and
spread the mud on the man’s eyes, saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of
Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see.
The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is
this not the man who used to sit and beg?” Some were saying, “It is he.” Others
were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.”
But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The
man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam
and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” They said to him,
“Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. Now it
was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. Then the
Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them,
“He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see.” Some of the Pharisees
said, “This man is not from God, for he does not observe the sabbath.” But
others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And they were
divided. So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him? It
was your eyes he opened.” He said, “He is a prophet.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his
sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight and
asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now
see?” His parents answered, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born
blind; but we do not know how it is that now he sees, nor do we know who opened
his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” His parents said
this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that
anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they
said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.” He
answered, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that
though I was blind, now I see.” They said to him, “What did he do to you? How
did he open your eyes?” He answered them, “I have told you already, and you
would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become
his disciples?” Then they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we
are disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this
man, we do not know where he comes from.” The man answered, “Here is an
astonishing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my
eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one
who worships him and obeys his will. Never since the world began has it been
heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. If this man were not
from God, he could do nothing.” They answered him, “You were born entirely in
sins, and are you trying to teach us?” And they drove him out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said,
“Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered, “And who is he, sir? Tell me,
so that I may believe in him.” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and the
one speaking with you is he.” He said, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshiped him.
Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see
may see, and those who do see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees near him
heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?” Jesus said to
them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We
see,’ your sin remains.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><strong><span style="color: black;">13</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <strong>A Song of Praise</strong> <em>Benedictus
es, Domine</em><br />
<em>Song of the
Three Young Men, 29-34</em><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
Lord God of our fathers; you are worthy of praise; glory to you.<br />
Glory to you for the radiance of your holy Name; we will praise you and highly
exalt you for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you in
the splendor of your temple; on the throne of your majesty, glory to you.<br />
Glory to you, seated between the Cherubim; we will praise you and highly exalt
you for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><span style="color: black;">Glory to you,
beholding the depths; in the high vault of heaven, glory to you.<br />
Glory to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; we will praise you and highly exalt
you for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Apostles' Creed</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and
earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Prayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And also with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy
Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Suffrages <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. And grant us your salvation.<br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. Let your people sing with joy.<br />
V. Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;<br />
R. For only in you can we live in safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. And guide us in the way of justice and truth.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. Your saving health among all nations.<br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. Nor the hope of the poor be taken away.<br />
V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. And sustain us with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Officiant then says one or more of the following Collects<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">G</span>racious
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. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before<br />
you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry
they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You may add your own intercessions and thanksgivings here..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
A Prayer of St. Chrysostom</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord.<br />
<i>Thanks be to God.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is our
parish prayer list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may add these
names in the place in the service for intercessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please keep these people in your prayers
through the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to make
any changes to the prayer list, please email Liz at <a href="mailto:paulspals@gmail.com">paulspals@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Parishioners<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b>Bette
Andruscavage, Doris Bohn, Adel Borsick, Diane Cuyler, Barb Dascomb, Bill &
Lu Ess,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim Forman, Malinda Gay, Marje
Hagberg, Audrey Hout, Helen Liarakos, Sue Petherick, Jeanette Scheib, John
Selin, Gay Walser, Kathy Zigrossi<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Patrick, Bret, Rich,
Rob, Elaine & Gordon, Donna, Karen, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lorna,
Anna, Caitlin & Shawn, Kristen, Raven, Silas, Ben, Lūz & Tony, Patty,
Libby & Cliff, Joseph, Chris, Mike, Liz, Susan, James, Joan, Nan, Kimberly,
Kevin, Barbara, Bruce, Leighton, Kaitlyn, Karen, Kimberly<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Military<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matthew, Alex, Jimmy<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friends</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">Erik,
Skylar, Riley, Meghan, Lucas, Kim, Allie, Christina, Gladys, Rita, Sally,
Denise, Charles, Ron, Arlene, Eleanor, Joe, Kate, Irene, Ben & Mildred<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-49738407696654620562020-03-11T06:40:00.001-07:002020-03-11T06:40:51.957-07:00Morning Prayer for March 15<span style="color: red;"><i>If you are choosing to stay home from church, you can use this service to worship at home. We will post a version with the readings for the next Sunday for as long as health officials are recommending social distancing for people at risk or with people at risk in their households.</i></span><br />
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the service among members of your household.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The Officiant is the person
leading the service.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Usually the Confession, the
Jubilate, the Psalm, the Canticles after the readings, the Apostles’ Creed and
the Lord’s Prayer are said in unison.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The Suffrages (or responsive
prayers) are said with one person reading the part marked V and everyone else
responding with the part marked R.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If we say 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. <i>I John 1:8, 9</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us confess
our sins against God and our neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Silence may be
kept.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most merciful
God, <br />
we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what
we have done,<br />
and by what we have left undone.<br />
We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as
ourselves.<br />
We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.<br />
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us;<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God have
mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us
in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in<br />
eternal life. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Invitatory and Psalter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord, open our lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is
now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord is full
of compassion and mercy: Come let us adore him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jubilate</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Psalm 100</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness
and come before his presence with a song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and call upon his Name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his
faithfulness endures from age to age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it
was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Psalm or Psalms Appointed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Come, let us
sing to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>; let us
shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let us come
before his presence with thanksgiving and raise a loud shout to him with
psalms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is a great God, and a great
King above all gods.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In his hand
are the caverns of the earth, and the heights of the hills are his also.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The sea is
his, for he made it, and his hands have molded the dry land.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Come, let us
bow down, and bend the knee, and kneel before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> our Maker.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For he is our
God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. <br />
Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Harden not
your hearts, as your forebears did in the wilderness, at Meribah, and on that
day at Massah, when they tempted me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They put me
to the test, though they had seen my works.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Forty years
long I detested that generation and said, "This people are wayward in
their hearts;<br />
they do not know my ways."<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I swore in
my wrath, "They shall not enter into my rest."<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it
was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>The Lessons<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One or two lessons, as appointed, are read, the Reader first
saying<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exodus 17:1-7<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the
Israelites journeyed by stages, as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> commanded.
They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. The
people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to
them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>?” But the people thirsted there for
water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us
out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” So Moses
cried out to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, “What
shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” The <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Go on ahead of
the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand
the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will be standing there in
front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of
it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of
Israel. He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites
quarreled and tested the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>,
saying, “Is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> among
us or not?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Word of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Canticle 10</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>The Second Song of Isaiah</b> <i>Quaerite
Dominum</i><br />
<i>Isaiah 55:6-11</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seek the Lord while he wills to be found; call upon him when he
draws near.<br />
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the evil ones their thoughts;<br />
And let them turn to the Lord, and he will have compassion, and to our God, for
he will richly pardon.<br />
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, says the Lord.<br />
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your
ways,<br />
and my thoughts than your thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For as rain and snow fall from the heavens and return not again,
but water the earth,<br />
Bringing forth life and giving growth, seed for sowing and bread for eating,<br />
So is my word that goes forth from my mouth; it will not return to me empty;<br />
But it will accomplish that which I have purposed, and prosper in that for
which I sent it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it
was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 4:5-42<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot
of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and
Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her,
“Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The
Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a
woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus
answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to
you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you
living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is
deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor
Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty.
The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to
eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may
never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.”
The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right
in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you
have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” The woman said to
him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this
mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in
Jerusalem.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you
will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship
what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship
the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship
him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and
truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called
Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” Jesus said to her,
“I am he, the one who is speaking to you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he
was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are
you speaking with her?” Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the
city. She said to the people, “Come and see a man who told me everything I have
ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” They left the city and were on
their way to him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat
something.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know
about.” So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him
something to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who
sent me and to complete his work. Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes
the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe
for harvesting. The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit
for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the
saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for
which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their
labor.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of
the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” So when the
Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there
two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman,
“It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard
for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thanks be to God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Canticle 14</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>A Song of Penitence</b> <i>Kyrie
Pantokrator</i><br />
<i>Prayer of
Manasseh 1-2, 4, 6-7, 11-15</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Especially suitable in Lent, and on other penitential occasions<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O Lord and Ruler of the hosts of heaven, God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and of all their righteous offspring:<br />
You made the heavens and the earth, with all their vast array.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All things quake with fear at your presence; they tremble because
of your power.<br />
But your merciful promise is beyond all measure; it surpasses all that our
minds can fathom.<br />
O Lord, you are full of compassion, long-suffering, and abounding in mercy.<br />
You hold back your hand; you do not punish as we deserve.<br />
In your great goodness, Lord, you have promised forgiveness to sinners, that
they may repent of their sin and be saved.<br />
And now, O Lord, I bend the knee of my heart, and make my appeal, sure of your
gracious goodness.<br />
I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I know my wickedness only too well.<br />
Therefore I make this prayer to you: Forgive me, Lord, forgive me.<br />
Do not let me perish in my sin, nor condemn me to the depths of the earth.<br />
For you, O Lord, are the God of those who repent, and in me you will show forth
your goodness.<br />
Unworthy as I am, you will save me, in accordance with your great mercy, and I
will praise you without ceasing all the days of my life.<br />
For all the powers of heaven sing your praises, and yours is the glory to ages
of ages. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Apostles' Creed</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: acreed;"></span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and
earth;<br />
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.<br />
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and
born of the Virgin Mary.<br />
He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died,
and was buried.<br />
He descended to the dead.<br />
On the third day he rose again.<br />
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right
hand of the Father.<br />
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.<br />
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Prayers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lord be with
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Officiant<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy
Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.<br />
Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.<br />
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<br />
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;<br />
R. And grant us your salvation.<br />
V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness;<br />
R. Let your people sing with joy.<br />
V. Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;<br />
R. For only in you can we live in safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. Lord, keep this nation under your care;<br />
R. And guide us in the way of justice and truth.<br />
V. Let your way be known upon earth;<br />
R. Your saving health among all nations.<br />
V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;<br />
R. Nor the hope of the poor be taken away.<br />
V. Create in us clean hearts, O God;<br />
R. And sustain us with your Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Collect of the Day</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to
help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls,
that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and
from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus
Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God,
for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>A Collect for Sundays</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O God, you make us glad with the weekly remembrance of the
glorious resurrection of your Son our Lord: Give us this day such blessing
through our worship of you, that the week to come may be spent in your favor;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>A Collect for Guidance</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We
humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the
cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that
we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of
your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and
prayers which we offer before<br />
you for all members of your holy Church, that in their vocation and ministry
they may truly and devoutly serve you; through our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord
to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your
well-beloved Son that when two<br />
or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them:
Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting
us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life
everlasting. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us bless the Lord.<br />
<i>Thanks be to God.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the
Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. <i>Amen.</i> <i>Ephesians
3:20,21</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i></i></span>Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-90140940095027434032020-01-05T11:18:00.000-08:002020-01-05T11:18:07.949-08:00Bible Challenge: The WritingsIn January and February in the St. Paul's Bible Challenge we will be looking at a collection of books in the Old Testament called the writings. Actually we will be looking at some of the books called the writings. The Writings (which are the third section of the Old Testament: The Law and The Prophets being the other two sections) are made up of Ruth, Esther, Job, Ezekiel, Daniel, Psalms, Proverbs & the Song of Solomon. In this section of the Bible Challenge we are looking at Ruth, Esther, Job, Ezekiel & Daniel.<br />
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What all of these books have in common is that they tell stories that are meant to illustrate the nature of God, God's relationship with his people and how God wishes for those who follow him to behave.<br />
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The book of Ruth tells the story of the great grandmother of King David and of how she came to be a part of the history of Israel. The book was written at the same time as the books Ezra and Nehemiah. This is after the Babylonian captivity of the nation of Israel and the major debate in Israel at that time was whether non-Jews who were faithful to the God of Israel had a place in the nation. A story that identified the great grandmother of King David, the greatest king in the history of Israel, as a Moabite, not only a foreigner but an enemy, clearly puts God on the side of inclusion.<br />
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The book of Esther actually exists in two versions, a shorter version in Hebrew and a long version in Greek. The shorter version is found in the Old Testament, the extension is found in the apocrypha, under the title "The Rest of the Book of Esther". The book of Esther tells the story of a Jewish woman who becomes Queen of Persia and prevents the massacre of her people. The extensions attempt to make God, rather than Esther herself, the principle actor in the story. <br />
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The book of Job tells the story of a man named Job, who God points to as a just and honorable man in a conversation with Satan. God then gives Satan permission to test Job, and in the course of trials and conversations with some of his friends and then with God, Job's faith is exposed and challenged, and ultimately made stronger. <br />
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The book of Ezekiel is sometimes classed as prophecy, but it is as much poetry and history as it is prophetic oracles. Ezekiel is almost exactly divided in half. The first half of Ezekiel is oracles of judgement against the people of Israel. The second half are words of support and hope in various forms. Ezekiel is one of the newest books in the Old Testament and shows the movement to a development of an understanding of Scripture that makes the Torah the center piece.<br />
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The book of Daniel is an example of apocalyptic literature. The stories are set during the Babylonian captivity, but the book was actually written about 150 years BC, rather than in the mid 500's BC when the Babylonian captivity happened or in the century immediately following. The stories about Daniel (which means God is my judge or God has judged) are meant to encourage and strengthen the faith of the people.<br />
<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-86188169009074184682019-11-01T07:31:00.000-07:002019-11-01T07:31:02.738-07:00Bible Challenge: Acts & RevelationFor the Bible Challenge in November we are reading the books of Acts and Revelation. The reason we are reading these two books together is that they are the only two books in the New Testament that aren't either a Gospel (that is a story of the life and teaching of Jesus) or an epistle (that is a letter to someone or some community).<br />
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Acts is the second part of the book of Luke. It was written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke and to the same audience. Luke was probably a student of Paul and is believed to have traveled with him on his third missionary journey which took them around what is today north Africa, Turkey, Greece and Grecian islands from 52 - 57 CE. Acts was written about 30 years after that journey - between 80 - 85 CE and recounts the story of the early church beginning with the Ascension of Jesus and Pentecost and through Paul's journeys. Acts is written to the same audience as the Gospel of Luke, that is Gentile Christians living in the cosmopolitan areas of what is today Turkey and Greece. The goal of the book is to use the story of the earliest days of Christianity to strengthen the faith of readers and hearers and to instruct them in how to live their faith. <br />
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Revelation is an entirely different kind of book. Revelation is a part of the books known as the Johanine corpus, that is books written by John (or by someone closely connected with John). The other books in that corpus are the Gospel of John and the epistles known as 1, 2 & 3 John. The Johanine community were, as far as we know, committed Christians and the writings, including revelation, are more focused on exploring theology more deeply than teaching the basics of the faith. Revelation is an example of what is known as apocalyptic literature. This is a kind of writing that was common from about 250 BCE until about 200 CE. The common thread in this kind of literature is a negative view of the world and hope for salvation either in a new world or in a new life. <br />
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Revelation was probably written in the 80's or 90's CE when the Roman Emperor was requiring his subjects to address him as Lord and God and to worship his image. It is likely that Revelation was, at least in part, written to give Christians both hope and instruction in dealing with the political situation they were facing, but by setting it as a story about the end of the world, made it safer to distribute and pass around.<br />
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<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-56475166815193724712019-09-07T11:05:00.000-07:002019-09-07T11:05:01.972-07:00Bible Challenge: The EpistlesWelcome back to the Bible Challenge.<br />
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If you are new to the Bible Challenge, we read the Bible in sections from September to June. There are readings for 6 days each week. If you follow the Bible Challenge for two years you will have read the whole Bible.<br />
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The first section of the Bible Challenge this fall is the Epistles.<br />
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The word Epistle means letter in Greek and that is what all of these books are - letter from a leader of the early Christian movement to congregations of believers all over what is today Italy, Greece, Turkey, and most of the middle east.<br />
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What happened was that copies were made of these letters and they were passed around from community to community. Most of the epistles were written between about 50 CE and about 80 CE. That means that most of the epistles are some of the earliest Christian writings that we have.<br />
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There are 4 categories of epistle:<br />
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The Pauline epistles are those written (as far as we can tell) by St. Paul himself. These are 1& 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians & Philemon<br />
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The pseudo-Pauline epistles are those written (as far was we can tell) by one or more of Paul's disciples, some of them after St. Paul's death. These are Ephesians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus and Colossians<br />
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The Johanine epistles are those that came out of the same theological school as the gospel of John. These are 1, 2 & 3 John<br />
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The pastoral epistles are written to individuals giving them advice. These are James, 1 & 2 Peter and Jude.<br />
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As you read the epistles, notice that most of them are focused on giving advice to the new Christians about what it means to live as a follower of Christ. Most of the epistles are concerned with the new Christians living differently enough from the world around them that people notice they are different, but not being so different from the people around them that they are seen as so strange that they should be avoided. That is because the followers of Christ at the time of the epistles believe that Jesus is coming back soon and that they need to share the Gospel with as many people as possible before Jesus returns.<br />
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Here are the readings for the section on the Epistles.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Week of September 8– Romans<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 1 – Chapters 1-3 Day 2 –
Chapters 4–6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 3 – Chapters 7-9 Day 4 –
Chapters 10-12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 5- Chapters 13-14 Day 6 –
Chapters 15-16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Week of September 15 – 1 Corinthians<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 1 – Chapters 1-3 Day 2 –
Chapters 4-6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 3 – Chapters 7-9 Day 4 –
Chapters 10-12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 5 – Chapters 13-14
Day 6 – Chapters 15-16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Week of September 22 – 2 Corinthians
& Galatians<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 1 – Chapters 1-4 Day 2 –
Chapters 5-8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 3 – Chapters 9-11 Day 4 –
Chapters 12-13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Begin Galatians<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 5 – Chapters 1-3 Day 6 –
Chapters 4-6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Week of September 29 – Ephesians,
Philippians & Colossians<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 1- Chapters 1-3 Day 2-
Chapters 4-6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Begin Philippians<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 3 – Chapters 1-2 Day 4 –
Chapters 3-4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Begin Colossians<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 5 – Chapters 1-2 Day 6 –
Chapters 3-4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Week of October 6 – 1&2
Thessalonians, 1&2 Timothy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 1 – Chapters 1-3 Day 2 –
Chapters 4-5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 3 – 2 Thessalonians <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Begin 1 Timothy<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 4 – Chapters 1-3 Day 5 –
Chapters 4-6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 6 – 2 Timothy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Week of October 13 – Titus, Philemon
& Hebrews</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 1 –Titus Day 2 – Philemon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Hebrews<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 3 – Chapters 1-4 Day 4-
Chapters 5-7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 5- Chapters 8-10 Day 6 –
Chapters 11-13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Week of October 20 – James, 1&2
Peter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 1- Chapters 1-3 Day 2 –
Chapters 4-5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Begin 1 Peter<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 3- Chapters 1-3 Day 4-
Chapters 4-5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 5 – 2 Peter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Week of October 27 –</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> <b>1,2 &3
John, Jude</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 1 – Chapters 1-3 Day 2 –
Chapters 4-5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Day 3 – 2 John Day 4 – 3 John<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Day 5 – Jude</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span>Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-107023177997413082019-05-03T08:22:00.000-07:002019-05-03T08:22:02.210-07:00Bible Challenge: Wisdom LiteratureThe last section of the Bible Challenge for the 2018-2019 program year is Wisdom Literature.<br />
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Wisdom Literature is the term used to cover the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Song of Solomon.<br />
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Most of us are somewhat familiar with the Psalms, if only because one is always included on Sunday mornings. The other four books are probably less familiar.<br />
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They are called "Wisdom Literature" both because of the content of the books and the style of them. Starting with style. They are all, in the main, books of poetry. That doesn't mean that they all rhyme, but they are all poetic books. They make extensive use of symbolism. They also all show the characteristic repetition of the same idea in two different ways of Hebrew poetry.<br />
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The content is, broadly, about human response to environment and events. The books all contain a variety of reflections on how people, individuals and nations, attempt to come to terms with their reactions to the work of God in their lives and the world around them.<br />
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These books were some of the last to come into their final forms, Psalms was the earliest to reach its current form, while many of the psalms are more ancient, the last edits to the book as we have it happened only a couple of hundred years before the birth of Jesus. The final editing of the other books happened after that. <br />
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As you read these books, remember that they are poetry, so look for symbolism and meanings beyond the words themselves.<br />
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The Bible Challenge will take a break for the summer. Year Two of the Bible Challenge will begin in the fall.Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-57888696584649346052019-04-12T12:27:00.000-07:002019-04-12T12:27:01.093-07:00The Major Prophets: LamentationsSometimes called the Lamentations of Jeremiah, this book it is generally considered possible that it may have been written by the prophet Jeremiah.<br />
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The book consists of five poems written in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of Jerusalem by the forces of Babylon and the carrying off of much of the population into captivity.<br />
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The poems are in slightly different forms:<br />
Chapters 1, 2 & 4 are in the form of a funeral dirge. Rather than being a dirge for an individual, they are dirges for the nation as a whole.<br />
Chapter 3 is an individual lament by the author<br />
Chapter 5 is a community lament.<br />
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A lamentation is a cry of pain, it is a response to circumstances that challenge our sense of safety and purpose. <br />
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Lamentations begins by acknowledging the magnitude of the current suffering. It then turns to the past and acknowledges the power of God and the fact that the nation had become an enemy of God because it had turned away from him and that this was the cause of their destruction. There is a small bit of hope at the end that God will not exile the people forever, but the majority of the book is confession and repentance.<br />
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Bible Challenge Reading:<br />
Read Lamentations on April 12 & 13 - it will be an appropriate preparation for Holy Week.Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-57092651989244522032019-03-25T12:17:00.000-07:002019-03-25T12:17:10.479-07:00The Major Prophets: JeremiahThe book of Jeremiah was written in Jerusalem between 627 and approximately 587. The major concepts are that because of Judah's sin, God will use the Babylonians to destroy the land, but God will be with them in exile and eventually they will return to the land.<br />
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The years of Jeremiah's writing saw the decline of Judah and the carrying away of the leaders, educated and skilled people into captivity in Babylon.<br />
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Jeremiah was part of a priestly family, but it is not clear whether or not he followed his father into priestly service before becoming a prophet. <br />
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Jeremiah continued to call the people to repentance. This was not well received by either the king or the people. Some of the most poignant pieces of the book are Jeremiah being rejected by the people. <br />
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Jeremiah remained behind when many were carried off into Babylon. He was a part of the remnant working to rebuild life in the land. <br />
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Readings from Jeremiah for the Bible Challenge are:<br />
March 26 - 30 - Jeremiah 1 - 16<br />
March 31 - April 6 - Jeremiah 17 - 40<br />
April 7 - 9 - Jeremiah 41 - 52Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-86779298463579858932019-03-02T11:58:00.000-08:002019-03-02T11:58:06.078-08:00The Major Prophets: IsaiahIn our Bible Challenge we are beginning our look at the major prophets. They are called major because they are long books in comparison to the other prophetic books in the Old Testament. However, both Isaiah & Jeremiah are certainly major theological work as well.<br />
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Remember that the word "prophecy" in Biblical literature doesn't necessarily refer to foretelling the future, but about calling the people of Israel, or the king, or the religious leaders or all three to repent and return to the ways of God.<br />
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This post is about the book of Isaiah.<br />
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Isaiah is actually not one book, but three. The three are set far apart both in time and in the events of the history of Israel.<br />
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First Isaiah (sometimes just called Isaiah) is chapters 1 - 39.<br />
This was written in Jerusalem during the years from 742 to 701 BC. The key ideas of the book are that God, who is holy and just, demands that the people be righteous and that they trust in him. The people will be judged, but a remnant will be preserved and God will raise up a king from the line of David.<br />
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First Isaiah took place during the reigns of the kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah. Isaiah's call story places his call to be a prophet in the year of Uzziah's death. Uzziah's reign was a time of peace in Israel and because there was peace, it was a time when wealth increased for many of the people of Israel. That continued during the reign of Jotham, but when Ahaz came to the throne in 735, the Assyrian empire was gaining in power and more and more Assyria exerted power over Israel, even to the point of a temple being built to the Assyrian god in Jerusalem and the king participating in worship and sacrifice (possibly even including his own son) to that god.<br />
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The prophet of first Isaiah calls not only the king, but all the people to return to the ways of God, but fears that they will not and that they will be judged. He holds out hope that after the judgement of God, a remnant of the people will remain and that from that remnant God will raise up a king from the line of David who will rule not only Israel, but the world and will restore them to righteousness. Many of the writings about that king were believed, after the Babylonian captivity, to refer to king Cyrus of Persia and by the time of Jesus were being read to refer to the Messiah who would one day come to free the people of Israel.<br />
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Second Isaiah is chapters 40 - 55.<br />
This was written in Babylon, during the captivity of the people of Israel. The book was written shortly before 539 BCE, or about 200 years after First Isaiah. The main concept is that God has forgiven the people and will restore them to their land. The ministry of the "servant of God" will extend the knowledge of God to all the nations.<br />
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Israel had been defeated by King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon in the 570's BC. The walls of the city of Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed, all the leaders who survived, all the priests, anyone who could read or write and anyone with any skill was taken into captivity, leaving behind the poor and subsistence farmers in Israel. The author of Second Isaiah was among those taken into captivity. <br />
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After the death of King Nebuchadrezzar in 562, the Babylonian empire began to decline and in 539 BCE Babylon surrendered to King Cyrus of Persia. King Cyrus sponsored the return of the captives to Israel and sent Nehimiah to oversee the rebuilding of the temple and the walls of Jerusalem.<br />
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Second Isaiah holds out hope that the people of Israel will be returned to their land and that a servant of God will prepare the way for them and then spread the knowledge of God beyond the people of Israel. In it's own time the servant of God was taken to by Cyrus of Persia, but by the time of Jesus these verses had also come to be considered to refer to the coming Messiah.<br />
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Third Isaiah is chapters 59 - 66.<br />
This is written in Jerusalem after 538 BC, after Cyrus of Persia had conquered Babylon. The main concept is that God vindicates the righteous and destroys the wicked.<br />
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Third Isaiah focuses a good deal on the universal love of God and the forgiveness and grace of God. <br />
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The Bible Challenge reading of Isaiah is:<br />
March 3 - 9 - Isaiah 1 - 18<br />
March 10 - 16 - Isaiah 19 - 40<br />
March 17 - 23 - Isaiah 41 - 58<br />
March 24 & 25 - Isaiah 59 - 66<br />
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<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-63449257241387599642019-01-07T07:03:00.000-08:002019-01-07T07:03:04.354-08:00Bible Challenge: The Minor ProphetsThe next section of the Bible Challenge has the books called The Minor Prophets. They are called this not because they are less important, but because they are shorter than the Major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah & Lamentations). These books span a period of about 400 years beginning about 800 years before the birth of Christ.<br />
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When we hear the word prophecy we think about people predicting the future. That is not really what Biblical literature means by prophecy. In the context of the Bible prophets are people chosen by God to deliver a message to the leaders, the people or both. Usually this involves telling the king, the religious leaders and/or the people that they have strayed from the ways of God and that they better shape up. Prophecy usually includes the hope that God will not forsake the people, that God will rescue the people etc.... but that message is in the context of the admonition to shape up and return to the ways of God.<br />
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Hosea: This book is basically a rejection of Israel's politics and religious practice. Hosea appeals to the history of Israel to remind the people that God is their savior and to remind them that faithful love and kindness are the responses that God requires of them. The book is dated between 750 and 732 BCE.<br />
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Joel: This books falls into two sections, the first two chapters, which focus on plague and drought and chapters three and four which focuses on the coming of the Day of the Lord. This book is hard to date, a majority of scholars place it after 515 BCE., but a strong minority place it much earlier, from 837 - 800 BCE.<br />
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Amos: This book mostly consists of a series of oracles. You will find four themes in the book: Judgement; Social Justice; Religious Practice and Ignoring the Word of God. In all of these areas Amos (and God) find the people wanting. Internal evidence places this book between 786 and 742 BCE.<br />
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Obadiah: Nearly the entirety of the book is oracles against the nation of Edom, a traditional enemy of Israel. It concludes with a warning of the coming of the Day of the Lord which will include punishment for all nations. The book was written no earlier than 587 BCE and no later than 312 BCE.<br />
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Micah: Calls the people out on their rejection of God. He sees punishment coming. Sin is the reason for that and the King of Assyria will be the tool God uses. The book is dated to between 740 and 687 BCE.<br />
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Nahum: In this book the prophecy is largely through poetry. There is only one message to this book, God will execute judgement on Ninevah (the capital of the Assyrian empire). The book is usually dated to between 663 and 612 BCE.<br />
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Habakkuk: Some scholars believe that this book in mostly made up of prophecy written for use in worship. Nearly unique in prophetic literature, this book directions questions to God directly and calls God's justice into question. This book is very hard to date, but it is usually placed between 626 BCE and the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 587 BCE.<br />
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Zephaniah: Written at a time of great political turmoil, the book's dominant theme is the coming of the Day of the Lord, when God will punish both the nations who are enemies of Israel and the people of Israel themselves and will purify the nation. This book is dated to between 640 and 609 BCE.<br />
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Haggai: Haggai was one of the people responsible for the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem following the captivity of much of the nation of Israel in Babylon. This book is an effort encourage the people in that effort. The book is dated to between 521 and 486 BCE.<br />
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Zechariah: This is actually two different books, probably by two different authors. Chapters 1 to 8 are the first part, the second is chapters 9 - 14. It is difficult to precisely date either part, but in and around the end of the Babylonian captivity, around 500 BCE seems likely.<br />
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Malachi: Malachi is directed at the priests and it calls them to reform and return to the true worship of God. It is dated to after 515 BCE.<br />
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<br />Vicki+http://www.blogger.com/profile/09359552118391957728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673490068627203264.post-27701293711489553872018-12-30T11:43:00.000-08:002018-12-30T11:43:14.059-08:00New Year's Resolution for the SpiritNew Year's Resolutions are a big part of conversation as the end of the year approaches. Gyms gear up for a January onslaught of people who made resolutions to exercise more (and for the usual March drop off of many of those people). Book stores also prepare for a rush on self-help books on a variety of topics.<br />
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If your New Year's Resolution involves your spiritual life here are some ideas of ways to pick up a spiritual practice for 2019:<br />
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<u>You could add prayer to your day (once or several times)</u><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The easiest way to begin integrating prayer is
to pick a part of your day and add prayer to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That can be as simple as saying grace before
lunch or dinner every day or saying a prayer when you wake up or go to bed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Prayer, at its base, is talking & listening
to God – so it doesn’t have to be formal “Good morning God” is as good a way to
begin as any other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Many people find that having a structure to
their prayers help a lot<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Forward Day by Day has a short devotion every
day (it also lists the readings for that day at the top).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can pick up one in any of the literature
racks at church or go to <a href="http://prayer.forwardmovement.org/">http://prayer.forwardmovement.org/</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a link to Forward Day by Day so you
can read it on-line<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Many people pray some portion of what is called “the
Daily Office”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is Morning Prayer, Noonday
Prayer, Evening Prayer, & Compline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can do all of those or start with one (if you are starting with one,
start with Noonday Prayer or Compline, which is late night prayer).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can find instructions for the Daily
Office in the front part of the Book of Common Prayer and a schedule of Daily
Office readings in the back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can get
a Book of Common Prayer for your kindle or on-line at bcponline.org.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want a hard copy you can order it from
Amazon or let Pastor Vicki know and she can give you one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If you want to pray the daily office on-line you
can do that in a couple of places<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Prayer.forwardmovement.org posts all four of the
Daily Office prayers every day <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Mission Saint Claire also offers the Daily
Office on-line every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This includes
some hymns that you can play if you would like - <a href="http://www.missionstclare.com/english/">http://www.missionstclare.com/english/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The Book of Common Prayer also has a section
called “Daily Devotions for Individuals and Families”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is on pages 137 – 140.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are prayers for Morning, Noon, Early
Evening and Close of Day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Many people find that keeping a prayer journal
if very helpful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can be as simple
as writing down each day what you are praying about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want more structure, try making four sections:
People & Thinks I’m Praying For: People & Things I’m Thankful for:
Things I am sorry about: Praise to God and writing something in each section
each day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>You could add Bible Study or Reflection to your day<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Reading the Bible regularly is one of the best
ways to stay connected with God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->At the prayer.forwardmovement.org website you
can find a link to a series of daily readings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->St. Paul’s is also doing a Bible Challenge that
has readings for 6 of the 7 days of the week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In January we are starting the minor prophets – the short books at the
end of the Old Testament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can pick
up a pamphlet about the Bible Challenge on the Way of Love bulletin boards in
the hallway and the library.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If you want to start reading through the whole
Bible, you might with the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) rather than
with Genesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another way to start is to
read one Psalm each day (there are 150 Psalms)<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If you are looking to purchase a Bible for you
or your child, the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is what we read in
church on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Common English
Bible (CEB) is a newer translation that is accurate and readable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The CEB aims for a 7<sup>th</sup> – 8<sup>th</sup>
grade reading level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The NRSV is at
about an 11<sup>th</sup> grade reading level.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If you want to read Bible stories with children
there are several good Bible story books<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Tomie dePaola’s Book of Bible Stories (GP
Putnam’s, 1990), ages 2-10.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Spark Story Bible: Sunday School Edition
(Augsburg Fortress, 2009), ages 3-7.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Children
of God Storybook Bible</i> by Desmond Tutu (Zonderkidz, 2010), ages 4-8.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shine On</i>:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Story Bible </i>(MennoMedia, 2014),
ages 8-11<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Complete Illustrated Children’s Bible</i> by Janice Emmerson (Harvest House,
2014), ages 7-11.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Children’s Illustrated Story Bible</i> by Selena Hastings (Dorling Kindersley,
2004), ages 8-12.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lion
Bible</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for Children</i> by Murray
Watts, Helen Cann (Lion Hudson, 2014), ages 9-12. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Thank you to Church Publishing Incorporated for
this list from their Way of Love for Families resource.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Worship is an important part of the life of the spirit<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Gathering with other Christians to praise God and be in
community is an important part of keeping our spiritual life balanced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Committing (or recommitting) to regular
attendance at worship can help ground our spiritual lives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Rest is also a part of the life of the spirit<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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It is very difficult for us as 21<sup>st</sup> century
Americans to really rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tend to try
to schedule or program our rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One way
to start adding rest to your spiritual practice is to pick a few hours each
week (it doesn’t have to be the same time each week) where you don’t schedule
anything, create a space of time where you can just be and not have to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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