Tuesday, December 5, 2023, Advent Feria, Holy Eucharist

Advent Feria

T HE H OLY E UC HARIS T Tuesday, December 5, 2023 Welcome to the Monastery Chapel.

We warmly invite you to participate fully in our worship.

The service begins in silence.

Opening Acclamation Presider

Light and peace in Jesus Christ our Lord.

People

Thanks be to God.

Presider

Let us pray.

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

People

Amen.

Advent Candle-Lighting Anthem Hymn for Light

Creator of the stars of night (stanzas 1-5)

Sung by the Schola Hymnal 60

Collect of the Day

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THE LITURGY OF THE WORD First Reading

Isaiah 11:1-10

Gradual: Psalm 72

BCP, p. 685

The Holy Gospel

Luke 10:21-24

Sermon The Prayers of the People Confession and Absolution of Sin Presider

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.

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

How bright appears the Morning Star

Hymnal 497

The Great Thanksgiving Sanctus

Service Music Card

The Lord’s Prayer

Hymnal S 148

Fraction Anthem

Lamb of God

Service Music Card

Invitation to Communion Presider

The Gifts of God for the People of God.

People

Thanks be to God.

A Note about Holy Communion 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.

Post-Communion Hymn

Jesus shall reign where’er the sun

Hymnal 544

Prayer after Communion Presider

God for whom we wait,

People

you have fed us with the bread of eternal life.

Keep us ever watchful, that we may be ready to stand before the Son of man.

We ask this in the name of Christ the Lord. Amen.

Blessing and Dismissal Postlude

Postlude on “Duke Street”

Mark A. Radice

❖ Br. Curtis Almquist, Presider & Preacher Br. Lain Wilson, Acolyte Mr. Carson Cooman, 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.