Fifth Sunday after Pentecost June 23, 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 Liz Kronenberg Celebrant
The Liturgy is found in The Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Hymns and service music (S) are in The Hymnal 1982.
Opening Voluntary Pastorale Herbert Sumsion (1899–1995)
Choral Introit Tone VII
V. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me. O Lord; for I am desolate, and in tribulation:
R. Look thou on mine affliction, and my travail; and forgive me all mine iniquities, O my God.
Hymn 11
The Word of God
Morning Hymn
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 Lord, we beseech thee, make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name, for thou never failest to help and govern those whom thou hast set upon the sure foundation of thy loving-kindness; 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 Job 38:1–11
Reader The Word of the Lord.
People Thanks be to God.
Psalm 107:1–3, 23–32
Simplified Anglican Chant
Give thanks to the L ORD, for he is / good, * and his mercy endures for / ever.
Let all those whom the L ORD has redeemed pro/claim * that he redeemed them from the hand of the / foe.
Second half of chant
He gathered them out of the / lands; * from the east and from the west, from the north and from the / south.
Some went down to the sea in / ships * and plied their trade in deep / waters; They beheld the works of the / L ORD * and his wonders in the / deep.
Then he spoke, and a stormy wind a/rose, * which tossed high the waves of the / sea. They mounted up to the heavens and fell back to the / depths; * their hearts melted because of their / peril. They reeled and staggered like / drunkards * and were at their / wits’ end.
Then they cried to the L ORD in their / trouble,* and he delivered them from their dis/tress.
He stilled the storm to a / whisper * and quieted the waves of the / sea.
Then were they glad because of the / calm, * and he brought them to the harbor they were / bound for.
Let them give thanks to the L ORD for his / mercy * and the wonders he does for his / children.
Let them exalt him in the congregation of the / people * and praise him in the council of the / elders.
The Second Reading 2 Corinthians 6:1–13
Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Hymn 559
Dulce carmen
Alleluia Tone II
V. Alleluia. Open my eyes, O Lord, R. That I may see the wonders of your law. Alleluia.
The Holy Gospel Mark 4:35–41
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 Rev. Canon Bradley Varnell
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
Solo César Franck (1822–1890)
Panis angelicus fit panis hominum; Dat panis coelicus figuris terminum: O res mirabilis! Manducat Dominum Pauper, servus et humilis.
Te trina Deitas unaque poscimus: Sic nos tu visita, sicut te colimus; Per tuas semitas duc nos quo tendimus, Ad lucem quam inhabitas.
MichelleThe Great Thanksgiving
Sursum Corda S 112
The angelic bread becomes the bread of men; The heavenly bread ends all prefigurations: What wonder!
The Lord is eaten by a poor and humble servant. Triune God, We beg of you: visit us, just as we worship you. By your ways, lead us where we are heading, to the light in which you dwell.
— Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
Girardot, soloist
Eucharistic Prayer II, page 340
Sanctus and Benedictus S 114
The People kneel as able.
Healey Willan (1880–1968)
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 Willan
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
Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore, Never tired pilgrim’s limbs affected slumber more, Than my wearied sprite now longs to fly out of my troubled breast. O come quickly, sweetest Lord, and take my soul to rest.
Ever-blooming are the joys of heav’ns high paradise, Cold age deafs not there our ears, nor vapor dims our eyes; Glory there the sun outshines, whose beams the blessed only see; O come quickly, glorious Lord, and raise my sprite to thee.
— Thomas Campion
Prayer after Communion page 339
The Blessing
Hymn 432 (omitting * stanzas)
The Dismissal
Laudate Dominum
Priest Let us go forth into the world, rejoicing in the power of the Spirit. People Thanks be to God.
Closing Voluntary
Final Jubilante
Healey Willan
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
Job 38:1–11
The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or continued on next page
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who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy? “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?— when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?”
The Epistle 2
Corinthians 6:1–13
As we work together with Christ, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, “At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you.” See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation! We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see — we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything. We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you. There is no restriction in our affections, but only in yours. In return — I speak as to children — open wide your hearts also.
The Gospel Mark 4:35–41
When evening had come, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
The Book of Remembrance
This week we remember Peter Hafner Squire and Elizabeth Morris Eikenburg.
The Beauty of Flowers
The flowers on the Cathedral Altar are given to the glory of God in loving memory of Jim Gorman Jr. by the Gorman family.
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