Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost August 11, 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 Luz Montes Celebrant
The Liturgy is found in The Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Hymns and service music (S) are in The Hymnal 1982.
Opening Voluntary
Psalm Prelude on Psalm 34
Herbert Howells (1892–1983)
Choral Introit Tone VII
V. God in his holy habitation, it is he that maketh brethren to be of one mind in an house:
R. He will give the dominion and pre-eminence unto his people.
Hymn 433 Kremser
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.
Grant to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as are right, that we, who cannot exist without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will; 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 1 Kings 19:4–8
Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Psalm 34:1– 8
Simplified Anglican Chant
I will bless the L ORD at / all times; * his praise shall ever be in my / mouth. I will glory in the / L ORD; * let the humble hear and re/joice.
Proclaim with me the greatness of the / L ORD;* let us exalt his Name to/gether.
I sought the L ORD, and he / answered me * and delivered me out of all my / terror.
Look upon him and be / radiant, * and let not your faces be a/shamed.
I called in my affliction and the L ORD / heard me * and saved me from all my / troubles.
The angel of the L ORD encompasses those who / fear him, * and he will de/liver them.
Taste and see that the L ORD is / good; * happy are they who / trust in him!
The Second Reading Ephesians 4:25–5:2
Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Hymn 341 Omni die
Alleluia
Tone II
V. Alleluia. Lord, thou hast been our refuge: R. From one generation to another. Alleluia.
The Holy Gospel John 6:35, 41–51
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 Bradley Varnell
The Nicene Creed page 326
The Prayers of the People Form III, page 387
The Confession and Absolution page 331
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 Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
O rest in the Lord, wait patiently for Him, and He shall give thee thy heart’s desires. Oh, rest in the Lord, wait patiently for Him, and He shall give thee thy heart’s desires. Commit thy way unto Him, and trust in Him, commit thy way unto Him, and trust in Him, and fret not thyself because of evil doers. O rest in the Lord, wait patiently for Him. And He shall give thee thy heart’s desires. Oh rest in the Lord. Oh rest in the Lord. And wait, wait, patiently for Him.
— Psalm 37
John Gallagher, soloist
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 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 Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) arr. Mark Schweizer (b.1956)
Bread of heav’n, on thee we feed, for thy flesh is life indeed. Vine of heav’n, thy Blood supplies this blest Cup of Sacrifice. And ever may our souls be fed with this Wine and living Bread. Lord, thy wounds our healing give, to thy cross we look and live. Day by day with strength supplied through the life of him who died. Jesus, may we always be ever, only, all for thee.
— Josiah Conder (1789–1855), alt.
If Lay Eucharistic Visitors are taking the Sacrament to members of our Cathedral family: Celebrant N., In the name of this congregation, I send you forth bearing these holy gifts, that those to whom you go may share with us in the communion of Christ’s body and blood. People We who are many are one body, because we all share one bread, one cup.
Prayer after Communion page 339
The Blessing
Hymn 376
The Dismissal
Priest Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Closing Voluntary
Hymn to Joy
Max Reger (1873–1916)
Choral Prelude on Lobe den herren (“Praise to the Lord”)
We welcome today’s organist, Andrew Bowen. Andrew came to Houston to be associate organist/director for St. Luke’s UMC and served other churches including The Church St. John the Divine. He completed his church music career with nine years as organist/choirmaster for Trinity Episcopal Church. From there he moved into the corporate talent management field with CenterPoint Energy, then Warner Bros UK (London) and finally Oracle. Having now retired, Andrew serves on boards for the Houston chapter of the American Guild of Organists and the Beersheba Springs Historical Society in the location of his second home in Tennessee.
Readings this Week from the Revised Common Lectionary
Old Testament 1 Kings 19:4–8
Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.” Then he lay down under the
broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.” He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.” He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
The Epistle Ephesians 4:25–5:2
Putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
The Gospel
John 6:35, 41–51
Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves. No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
The Book of Remembrance
This week we remember Jane Gaucher Montgomery.
The Beauty of Flowers
The flowers on the Cathedral altar are given to the glory of God in thanksgiving for the life and ministry of the Rev. John A. Logan Jr.
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