The Fifth Sunday in Lent
March 17, 2024
9 a.m.
We welcome you to Christ Church Cathedral. Since 1839, this Christian community has gathered for worship. To learn more about the ministries we share in this place, you are invited to fill in one of the welcome cards found in the pew rack. We are glad you are here!
The Cathedral is equipped with a hearing loop for assisted listening via telecoil.
The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two
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)
Hymn 665 Michael
The Word of God
Penitential Order BCP page 351
Celebrant Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.
People His mercy endures for ever.
The Celebrant reads a sentence of scripture following which all are invited to kneel.
The General Confession page 352
Kyrie Eleison S 96 Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
The Collect of the Day
Celebrant The Lord be with you.
People And also with you.
Celebrant Let us pray.
Almighty 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. Amen.
The First Reading Jeremiah 31:31–34
Reader The Word of the Lord.
People Thanks be to God.
Respuesta/Refrain
The refrain is first sung by the cantor and then immediately repeated by the congregation and choir.
Respuesta/Refrain
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Lord you have the words of ev er last ing life.
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Respuesta/Refrain
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Respuesta/Refrain ñor, tú tie nes pa
- The pre cepts of the 2.
The Holy Gospel John 12:20–33
Lord you have the words
- mand of the Lord is clear,
Priest The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.
People Glory to you, Lord Christ.
After the Gospel reading, the Priest says
The Gospel of the Lord.
People Praise to you, Lord Christ.
The Children’s Sermon
The Sermon
The law of the Lord 1.
- - cree of the LORD is trust
- The pre cepts of the 2.
The Rev. Canon Liz Kronenberg and KariAnn Lessner, Minister for Children and Families
- mand of the Lord is clear,
The Rev. Canon Liz Kronenberg
The Nicene Creed page 358
The Prayers of the People Form II, page 385
The Peace
Celebrant The peace of the Lord be always with you. People And also with you.
The People greet one another in the name of the Lord, after which the people are seated for brief announcements.
The Holy Communion
Offerings of alms and bread and wine are received.
At the Offertory
Anthem John Hilton (c.1599-1657)
Lord, for thy tender mercies’ sake, lay not our sins to our charge, but forgive that is past, and give us grace to amend our sinful lives, to decline from sin and incline to virtue, that we may walk with a perfect heart before thee now and evermore.
— anon; from “Lidley’s Prayers,” 1566
The Great Thanksgiving Eucharistic Prayer A, page 361
Sanctus and Benedictus S 130
Franz Schubert
The Eucharistic Prayer continues page 362
The Breaking of the Bread
Celebrant Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; People Therefore let us keep the feast.
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
Anthem
Draw nigh and take the Body of the Lord, and drink the holy Blood for you outpoured. Salvation’s giver, Christ, the only Son, by his dear cross and blood the victory won.
Approach ye then with faithful hearts sincere, and take the pledges of salvation here.
Orlando Gibbons
— Antiphonary of Bangor, ca. 690; tr. John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Prayer after Communion page 365
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
Refreshments are available in Reynolds Hall.
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 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 continued on next page
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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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