Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 6, 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 Simón Bautista Betances Celebrant
The Liturgy is found in The Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Hymns and service music (S) are in The Hymnal 1982.
Opening Voluntary Air Gerre Hancock (1934-2012)
Choral Introit Tone VII
V. Behold, O God, our defender, and look upon the face of thine Anointed: R. For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand.
Hymn 657 Hyfrydol
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 S 202 Healey Willan (1880-1968)
The Collect of the Day
Celebrant The Lord be with you.
People And with thy spirit.
Celebrant Let us pray.
Almighty and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve: Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The First Reading Genesis 2:18-24
Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Psalm 8
Simplified Anglican Chant
O L ORD our / Governor, * how exalted is your Name in all the / world! Out of the mouths of infants and / children * your majesty is praised above the / heavens. You have set up a stronghold against your / adversaries, * to quell the enemy and the a / venger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your / fingers, * the moon and the stars you have set in their / courses, What is man that you should be / mindful of him? * the son of man that you should seek him / out? You have made him but little lower than the / angels; * you adorn him with glory and / honor; You give him mastery over the works of your / hands; * you put all things under his / feet: All sheep and / oxen, * even the wild beasts of the / field, The birds of the air, the fish of the / sea, * and whatsoever walks in the paths of the / sea.
O L ORD our / Governor, * how exalted is your Name in all the / world!
The Second Reading Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12
Reader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Lift Every Voice and Sing Hymn 213 (stanzas 1-3)
Alleluia Tone II
V. Alleluia. Show thy marvelous loving kindness, O Lord: R. Thou art the Saviour of them who put their trust in thee. Alleluia.
The Holy Gospel Mark 10:2-16
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. Nancy Frausto, Director of Latinx Studies, Seminary of the Southwest
The Nicene Creed page 326
The Prayers of the People Form IV, page 388
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
Anthem Howard Hanson (1896-1981)
O Lord, our Lord, how excellent thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the Son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet. Alleluia.
—Psalm 8:1, 4-7
The Great Thanksgiving Eucharistic Prayer II, page 340
Sursum Corda S 112
Sanctus and Benedictus S 114
The People kneel as able.
Healey Willan
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 Ned Rorem (1923-2022)
Sing, my soul, his wondrous love, Who from you bright throne above, Ever watchful o’er our race, Still to man extends his grace.
Heav’n and earth by him were made; All is by his scepter sway’d; What are we that he should show So much love to us below?
God, the merciful and good, Bought us with the savior’s blood, And, to make our safety sure, Guides us by his spirit pure.
Sing, my soul, adore his name! Let his glory be thy theme: Praise him till he calls thee home; Trust his love for all to come.
—Anon. Hymn 22 (III, I) of the Protestant Episcopal Church U.S.A. (1841)
When Lay Eucharistic Visitors are taking the Sacrament to members of our Cathedral family:
Celebrant 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 397 Nun danket alle Gott
The Dismissal
Priest Let us go forth in the name of Christ. People Thanks be to God.
Closing Voluntary
Choral Improvisation on Nun danket alle Gott
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
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
Old Testament Genesis 2:18-24
The Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.” Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. But someone has testified somewhere, “What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them? You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor, subjecting all things under their feet.” Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their control. As it is, we do not yet see everything in subjection to them, but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters, saying, “I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters, in the midst of the congregation I will praise you.”
The Gospel Mark 10:2-16
Some Pharisees came, and to test Jesus they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.” People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.” And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.
The Book of Remembrance
This week we remember Clifton Earl Speir.
The Beauty of Flowers
The flowers on the Cathedral Altar are given to the glory of God in loving memory of Lisa Ardoin Albright by Anne, Brynne, Joe II, and Joe Albright.
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