The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
THE HOLY EUCHARIST
September 3, 2023
Welcome to the Monastery Chapel. We warmly invite you to participate fully in our worship.
Prelude Five Communion Hymn Interludes James Woodman
Entrance Hymn On this day, the first of days Hymnal 47
Opening Acclamation
Presider Blessed be God who creates all things. People God’s love is new every morning.
Collect for Purity
Presider Almighty God, People to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Hymn of Praise Glory to God in the highest Hymnal S 280
Collect of the Day
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THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading Exodus 3:1-15
Gradual: Psalm 105 BCP, p. 738
Second Reading Romans 8:19-23
The Holy Gospel Matthew 16:21-28
Sermon Nicene Creed Hymnal S 105
The Prayers of the People
Confession and Absolution of Sin
Presider Holy and merciful God, People we confess that we have failed to honor you by rightly claiming our kinship with all your creatures. We have walked heavily on your earth, overused and wasted its resources, taken for granted its inhabitants unjustly, holding future generations hostage to our greed. Have mercy on us and forgive us our sin.
Renew in us the resolve to keep and conserve your earth as you desire and intend, with grateful and compassionate hearts, through your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
The Peace
THE HOLY COMMUNION
The Collection of Gifts and Offerings
Your financial gifts support the Brothers’ life and our ministry to many, here at our Monastery in Cambridge and at our rural Monastery, Emery House, in West Newbury, and others whom we reach electronically and in our travels on mission.
Offertory Hymn Gracious Spirit, give your servants Hymn Sheet The Great Thanksgiving
Invitation to Communion
Presider
The Gifts of God for the People of God.
People Thanks be to God.
Communion Hymn What wondrous love is this Hymnal 439
Healing
The Church’s Sacramental Ministry of Healing with the Laying on of Hands and Anointing with Prayer is offered today. If you would like to receive this ministry, make your way to the St. John’s Chapel after receiving Communion. Tell the Brother your name and briefly describe for whom or what you would have him pray.
A Note about Holy Communion
Following Diocesan guidelines, please refrain from intinction (dipping the Bread into the Chalice). If you wish to abstain from receiving from the Chalice, remember that the Church catholic has always taught that the fullness of the Sacrament is received even when only one form is received.
Please indicate to the Brother administering Bread at Holy Communion if you require a Gluten-Free host.
The
Fraction
Sanctus Hymnal S 129
Lord’s Prayer Hymnal S 148
Anthem Lamb of God Hymnal S 163
Prayer after Communion
Presider Loving God, People we give you thanks for restoring us in your image and nourishing us with spiritual food in the Sacrament of Christ’s Body and Blood. Now send us forth a people, forgiven, healed, renewed; that we may proclaim your love to the world and continue in the risen life of Christ our Savior. Amen.
Dismissal
Postlude
Wondrous Love James Woodman
Br. Curtis Almquist, Presider & Preacher
Rev. Daphne Noyes, Deacon
Br. Lucas Hall, Acolyte
Mr. James Woodman, Monastery Organist
The Monastery as Sanctuary
We want our Monastery to be a sanctuary for our guests and for the Brothers. Please silence your electronic devices. We also ask you not to photograph, video, or record services in the Chapel, or to photograph other guests or Brothers without their express permission.
Post-Communion Hymn From
the skies Hymnal 380
all that dwell below
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