Tuesday, April 5, 2022, Fifth Week in Lent, Holy Eucharist

Fifth Week in Lent

T HE H OLY E UCHARIST Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Welcome to the Monastery Chapel.

We warmly invite you to participate fully in our worship.

The Service Begins in Silence Opening Acclamation Presider Blessed be the God of our salvation: People Who bears our burdens and forgives our sins.

Confession & Absolution of Sin Presider God’s love is shown for us in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Let us then show our love for God by confessing our sins in penitence and faith.

God of all mercy, People 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.

Presider

People

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 THE

Holy God

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Hymn of Supplication

Holy God

St. Sergius Orthodox Mass (Gregory Myers)

Collect of the Day Presider Almighty God, through the incarnate Word you have caused us to be born anew of an imperishable and eternal seed: Look with compassion upon those who are being prepared for Holy Baptism, and grant that they may be built as living stones into a spiritual temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ 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

Numbers 21:4–9

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.” So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.

Gradual

Psalm 102:15–22

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Gospel Reading

John 8:21–30

Again he said to them, “I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” Then the Jews said, “Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.” They said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Why do I speak to you at all? I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.” They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me. And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.” As he was saying these things, many believed in him.

The Sermon

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The Prayers of the People

The Peace

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Offertory Hymn

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When I survey the wondrous cross

Hymnal 474

The Holy Communion The Great Thanksgiving

Sanctus, Holy, Holy…

St. Sergius Orthodox Mass (Gregory Myers)

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The Lord’s Prayer

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Fraction Anthem

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

Prayer After Communion Presider Merciful God, People you have called us to your table and fed us with the bread of life.

Draw us and all people to your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

Presider

People

Bow down before the Lord.

Look down in mercy, Lord, on your people who bow before you; and grant that those whom you have nourished by your Word and Sacraments may bring forth fruit worthy of repentance; through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Dismissal Postlude

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Improvisation

Robert Humphreville

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❖ Br. David Vryhof, Presider Br. Keith Nelson, 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.

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