`THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

Proper 8

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.

Organ Voluntary

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

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

Hymn 518                                                                                 Christ is made

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

Canticle 13                           S-236                                                        Rutter

Collect of the Day                                                                 (Bulletin insert)

First Lesson                                                              (Track 1, Bulletin insert)

Psalm

Epistle                                                                                     (Bulletin insert)

Hymn 404                                                                             We will extol you

Alleluia

Gospel (Bulletin insert)

Sermon                                                                                     Thomas Kreek

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

Nicene Creed                                                                                    page 358

Prayers of the People                    Form I                                         page 383

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for the Diocese of Durgarpur (North India). In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for St. Peter’s, Springfield, and the Province of New England.

Confession                                                                                        page 360 

The Peace

Announcements

THE LITURGY OF THE HOLY TABLE

Offertory Hymn 521                                                            Put forth, O God

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

           prayer requests are presented. 

Eucharistic Prayer A                                                                       page 361

Sanctus                                 (Front of Hymnal)                                   Proulx

(The people may stand or kneel.)

Lord’s Prayer

The 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 675 (standing)                                                        Take up your cross

The Prayer of Thanksgiving page 365

(The people may stand or kneel.)

The Blessing

Hymn 414                                                God, my king, thy might confessing

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

Response: Thanks be to God!

Organ Voluntary

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 good fellowship over coffee and snacks following the service.