First Week in Lent
T HE H OLY E UCHARIST Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Welcome to the Monastery Chapel. We warmly invite you to participate fully in our worship. The Service Begins in Silence Opening Acclamation Presider People
Blessed be the God of our salvation: Who bears our burdens and forgives our sins.
Confession & Absolution of Sin Presider
People
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The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit; a broken and contrite heart God will not despise. Let us come to the Lord, who is full of compassion, and acknowledge our transgressions in penitence and faith. God of all mercy, we confess that we have sinned against you, opposing your will in our lives. We have denied your goodness in each other, in ourselves, and in the world you have created. We repent of the evil that enslaves us, the evil we have done, and the evil done on our behalf. Forgive, restore, and strengthen us through our Savior Jesus Christ, that we may abide in your love and serve only your will. Amen. Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through the grace of Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen.
Hymn of Supplication
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Hymn of Supplication
Holy God
St. Sergius Orthodox Mass (Gregory Myers)
Collect of the Day Presider Grant to your people, Lord, grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you, the only true God; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. People Amen.
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The Word of God First Lesson Isaiah 55:6–11 Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it. Psalm Psalm 34:15–22
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Gospel Reading Matthew 6:7–15 “When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. “Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. The Sermon
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The Prayers of the People
The Peace Offertory Hymn
Now let us all with one accord
Hymnal 147
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The Holy Communion The Great Thanksgiving
Sanctus, Holy, Holy…
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St. Sergius Orthodox Mass (Gregory Myers)
The Lord’s Prayer
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Fraction Anthem
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St. Sergius Orthodox Mass (Gregory Myers)
Longing Collect Presider
Loving Father, we who are physically distant now, groan inwardly as we await the day when we are restored to the company of our neighbors and brought to the fullness of your presence in the Eucharistic feast. Comfort us in our longing to be near each other, assure us of your indwelling presence, and hasten the day when we will abide with you and all our beloved siblings in that kingdom where there is neither sorrow nor crying but the fullness of joy with all your saints; through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Invitation to Communion Presider
The Gifts of God for the People of God. Take them in remembrance that Christ died for you, and feed on him in your hearts by faith, with thanksgiving.
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Post Communion Chant
Salvator mundi
Music from Taizé, Jacques Berthier
Prayer After Communion Presider People
Faithful God, in this holy bread you increase our faith and hope and love. Lead us in the path of Christ, who is your Word of life. We ask this in his name. Amen.
Presider
Bow down before the Lord. Grant, Almighty God, that your people may recognize their weakness and
put their whole trust in your strength, so that they may rejoice for ever in the protection of your loving providence; through Christ our Lord. People
Dismissal Postlude
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Amen.
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❖ Br. Todd Blackham, Presider & Preacher Mr. Robert Humphreville, Monastery Organist ❖
St Sergius Orthodox Mass, from An Order of Worship for the Holy Eucharist and Evening Prayer, in Commemoration of Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392 © 1988 The Episcopal Church Center. Supplementary hymns are used by permission and licensed to be reprinted for this service by OneLicense.Net: #A-725463
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