The Fifth Sunday in Lent March 17, 2024
11 a.m.
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The Cathedral is equipped with a hearing loop for assisted listening via telecoil.
The Holy Eucharist: Rite One
The Very Rev. Nathaniel Katz, Dean Celebrant
The Liturgy is found in The Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Hymns and service music (S) are in The Hymnal 1982.
Opening Voluntary
Voluntary in A minor Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Choral Introit Tone VII
V. The sorrows of death came about me; the pains of hell got hold upon me: R. And in my tribulation I made my prayer unto the Lord, and he regarded my supplication out of his holy temple.
Hymn 665 Michael
The Word of God
Penitential Order BCP page 319
Celebrant Bless the Lord who forgiveth all our sins.
People His mercy endureth for ever.
The Celebrant reads a sentence of scripture following which all are invited to kneel.
The General Confession page 320
The people stand.
Kyrie Eleison Short Communion Service Adrian Batten (1591-1637)
The Collect of the Day
Celebrant The Lord be with you.
People And with thy spirit.
Celebrant Let us pray.
O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men: Grant unto thy people that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
The First Reading
Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Jeremiah 31:31–34
Psalm 51:1–13
The Hymnal 1982, Service Music - #411 Chant setting
Simplified Anglican chant
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving-/kindness; in your great compassion blot out my of/fenses.
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Wash me through and through from my / wickedness and cleanse me from my / sin.
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For I know my trans/gressions, and my sin is ever be/fore me.
Against you only have I / sinned and done what is evil in your / sight.
And so you are justified when you / speak and upright in your / judgment.
Indeed, I have been wicked from my / birth, a sinner from my mother’s / womb.
For behold, you look for truth deep with/in me, and will make me understand wisdom / secretly.
Purge me from my sin, and I shall be / pure; wash me, and I shall be clean in/deed.
Make me hear of joy and / gladness, that the body you have broken may re/joice.
Hide your face from my / sins and blot out all my in/iquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O / God, and renew a right spirit with/in me.
Cast me not away from your / presence and take not your holy Spirit / from me.
2nd half of chant
Give me the joy of your saving help a/gain and sustain me with your bountiful / Spirit.
The Second Reading Hebrews 5:5–10
Hymn 474 Rockingham
Verse before the Gospel Tone II
V. If any one serves me, he must follow me, says the Lord; R. And where I am, there shall my servant also be.
The Holy Gospel John 12:20–33
Priest The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. People Glory be to thee, O Lord.
After the Gospel reading, the Priest says The Gospel of the Lord. People Praise be to thee, O Christ.
The Sermon The Rev. Canon Liz Kronenberg
The Nicene Creed page 326
The Prayers of the People Form II, page 385
The Peace
Celebrant The peace of the Lord be always with you. People And with thy spirit.
The People greet one another in the name of the Lord, after which the people are seated for brief announcements.
Needlepoint Dedication
The Holy Communion
Offerings of alms and bread and wine are received.
At the Offertory
Anthem Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nostri.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
--para. John 1:29; introduced to mass proper by Pope Sergius (687-701)
The Great Thanksgiving Eucharistic Prayer I, page 333
Sursum Corda S 112
Sanctus and Benedictus Short Communion Service Adrian Batten
The Eucharistic Prayer continues page 334
Fraction Anthem
Celebrant Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; People Therefore let us keep the feast.
Agnus Dei Short Communion Service Adrian Batten
The sacrament of Holy Communion has been precious to Christians for 2,000 years. It is a way in which many sense the reality of God’s forgiveness, our union with God and each other, and the eternal life to which we belong. Please know that you do not have to be an Episcopalian to receive Communion. To receive, you may kneel or stand at the altar rail. Receive the Bread in the palm of your hand and the Wine either by drinking from the cup or by intinction, touching the Bread to the Wine. Gluten-free Bread is available; simply ask at the altar rail. If you need Communion brought to you in the pew, please tell an usher.
At the Administration
John Dowland (1562-1626)
Anthem arr. William Bradley Roberts (b.1947)
Lord, hear our supplication,
Regard our petition,
Thou who dost grant salvation.
To those who love thy son.
‘Neath thy wings hide us, Lord, until our hearts restored, Bow down before thee, Praise and adore thee.
Glory to the Creator, eternally sing praise, Glory be ever greater, rejoice through endless days.
—William Bradley Roberts
Prayer after Communion page 339
Hymn 495 In Babilone
The Lenten Dismissal
Priest Bow down before the Lord.
The people kneel.
Priest Look with compassion, O Lord, upon this your people; that, rightly observing this holy season, they may learn to know you more fully, and to serve you with a more perfect will; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Closing Voluntary
Voluntary in D minor Orlando Gibbons
Cathedral tours highlighting the lore of the building, its windows, its woodwork and more are given by a guide each Sunday following the 11 o’clock service.
Look for the guide under the crucifixion window at the rear of the nave.
Readings this Week from the Revised Common Lectionary
The Old Testament
Jeremiah 31:31–34
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt — a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
The Epistle Hebrews 5:5–10
Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”; as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of continued on next page
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Melchizedek.” In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
The Gospel John 12:20–33
Now 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. Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say — ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.
The Book of Remembrance
This week we remember Ronald Craig Schindler.
The Beauty of Flowers
The flowers on the Cathedral Altar are given to the glory of God in loving memory of Rose Anne Scott by her family.
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