Second Sunday after Pentecost June 2, 2024 11:00 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 One
The Rev. Canon Bradley Varnell Celebrant
The Liturgy is found in The Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Hymns and service music (S) are in The Hymnal 1982.
Opening Voluntary
Chorale, Op. 37, No. 4 Joseph Jongen (1873–1953)
Choral Introit Tone VII
V. The Lord is my refuge and my upholder; and he brought me forth into a place of liberty:
R. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Hymn 388 Hanover
The Word of God
Celebrant
Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. BCP page 323 People And blessed be his kingdom, now and for ever. Amen.
The Collect for Purity and the Summary page 323
Gloria in Excelsis S 204 Old Scottish Chant
The Collect of the Day
Celebrant The Lord be with you. People And with thy spirit.
Celebrant Let us pray.
O God, whose never-failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth: We humbly beseech thee to put away from us all hurtful things, and to give us those things which are profitable for us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The First Reading Deuteronomy 5:12-15
Reader The Word of the Lord.
People Thanks be to God.
Sing with joy to God our / strength * and raise a loud shout to the God of / Jacob. Raise a song and sound the / timbrel, * the merry harp, and the / lyre. Blow the ram’s-horn at the / new moon, * and at the full moon, the day of our / feast. For this is a statute for / Israel, * a law of the God of / Jacob. He laid it as a solemn charge upon / Joseph, * when he came out of the land of / Egypt. I heard an unfamiliar voice / saying * “I eased his shoulder from the burden; his hands were set free from bearing the / load.” You called on me in trouble, and I / saved you; * I answered you from the secret place of thunder and tested you at the waters of / Meribah. Hear, O my people, and I will ad / monish you: * O Israel, if you would but / listen to me! There shall be no strange god a /mong you; * you shall not worship a / foreign god. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and / said, * “Open your mouth wide, and I will / fill it.”
The Second Reading 2 Corinthians 4:5–12
Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Hymn 490 Houston
Alleluia Tone II
V. Alleluia. O Lord my God, in thee have I put my trust: R. Save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me. Alleluia.
The Holy Gospel Mark 2:23–3:6
Priest The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark. 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 Very Rev. Nathaniel Katz, Dean
The Nicene Creed page 326
The Prayers of the People Form VI, page 392
The Confession and Absolution page 393
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.
The Holy Communion
Offerings of alms and bread and wine are received.
At the Offertory
Anthem C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918)
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways; Reclothe us in our rightful mind; In purer lives, thy service find, In deeper rev’rence, praise.
In simple trust like theirs who heard, Beside the Syrian sea, The gracious calling of the Lord, Let us, like them, without a word, Rise up and follow thee.
Drop thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease:
Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of thy peace.
Breathe thro’ the heats of our desire Thy coolness and thy balm; Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm.
— John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
The Great Thanksgiving Eucharistic Prayer II, page 340
Sursum Corda S 112
Sanctus and Benedictus S 114 Healey Willan (1880–1968)
The People kneel as able.
The Eucharistic Prayer continues page 341
Fraction Anthem
Celebrant Alleluia. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; People Therefore let us keep the feast. Alleluia.
Agnus Dei S 158
Healey WillanThe 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 Arlen Clarke (b.1954)
Help Lord my faith, my hope increase, And fill my portion in thy peace, Live ever bread of love and be My life, my soul, my surer self to me.
Come love, come Lord, and that long day For which I languish, come away, When this dry soul those eyes shall see, And drink the unsealed source of thee.
Rise Royal Sion, rise and sing, Thy soul’s kind shepherd, thy heart’s king, Give love for life nor let my day grow, But in new powers to thy name, and praise.
— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274); trans. Richard Crashaw (1613–1649)
Prayer after Communion page 339
The Blessing
Hymn 437
The Dismissal
Birmingham
Priest Let us go forth into the world, rejoicing in the power of the Spirit. People Thanks be to God.
Closing Voluntary
Postlude in D minor, Op. 105, No. 6 Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
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 Deuteronomy 5:12–15
Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you. Remember that you were a slave in the land continued on next page
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of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
The Epistle 2 Corinthians 4:5–12
We do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.
The Gospel Mark 2:23–3:6
One sabbath Jesus and his disciples were going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.” Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.” Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come forward.” Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
The Book of Remembrance
This week we remember Patty Parrish Hurt and Betty Trelford Hellman.
The Beauty of Flowers
The flowers on the Cathedral Altar are given to the glory of God in joyful thanksgiving of Mark and Tony Ruisinger and the staff of Mark Anthony Florists. After providing flowers to the Cathedral for over 40 years, Mark is retiring and closing the doors to their shop.
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