THE NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

Proper 20

Visitors and friends: we welcome you and hope that in your worship here you will receive the blessing God desires for you. We offer the following as an aid to worship: the service begins on page 355 in the red Book of Common Prayer. Hymns are in the blue book ("S" numbers toward the front). Hymns marked LEV are found in the red and black hymnal. The insert carries the day's readings. Key page numbers are printed in the bulletin.

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

All who are able please stand for the entrance of the liturgical ministers

Hymn 527                                                          Singing songs of expectation

Celebrant: Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.                 page 355

People: And blessed be God’s kingdom, now and forever. Amen.

Collect for Purity

Gloria                                    (Back of Hymnal)                                     Lee 

Collect of the Day                                                                (Bulletin insert)

First Lesson                                                              (Track 1, Bulletin insert)

Psalm (cantor sings refrain, then congregation sings it; cantor sings two or three verses at a time, congregation responds with the refrain) (Track 1, Bulletin insert)

Epistle                        (Bulletin insert)

Hymn 404                                                                             We will extol you

Alleluia                                                                    (follow the cantor’s lead)

Gospel (Bulletin insert)

Sermon                                                                            The Rev. Eliot Moss

(The sermon is followed by a brief period of prayerful  silence.)

Nicene Creed                                                                                    page 358

Dedication of Plaques                                                              (special insert)

Prayers of the People                   Form VI                                       page 392

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for the Diocese of Ibadan North (Ibadan, Nigeria). In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for St. Andrew’s, North Grafton, and the National Cathedral Association.

The Peace

Announcements

THE LITURGY OF THE HOLY TABLE

Offertory Hymn 309                                               O Food to pilgrims given

          The Bread and the Wine are brought forward, and the alms and

           prayer requests are presented. 

Eucharistic Prayer A                                                                       page 361

Sanctus                                 (Back of Hymnal)                                        Lee

(The people may stand or kneel.)

Lord’s Prayer he Breaking of the Bread

Fraction Anthem                            S-154                                               Hurd

Holy Communion

(All who love God and are drawn to Christ are

welcome to receive Holy Communion.)

Hymn 304                                                     I come with joy to meet my Lord

The Prayer of Thanksgiving page 365

(The people may stand or kneel.)

The Blessing

Hymn 541                                                                               Come, labor on

Dismissal: Let us go forth in the name of Christ.

Response: Thanks be to God!

Prayer Basket

We invite you to put your written petitions, thanksgivings, and intentions in the basket at the back of the church.  We present them at the Offertory, and keep them in our prayers throughout the week.

Visitors and Newcomers

We welcome you! Please join with us in our annual Homecoming brunch at St. John’s Corner (across the street) following the service.