The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost Holy Eucharist Trinity@316 September 11, 2022 10:00 am
Leader: The Lord be with you.
God of hope, you daily nurture Those who seek to follow you. You're not bound by any culture; You love rich and poor ones, too. In an ever-changing nation, May your churches welcome in Every child of your creation, Giving hope to all again. God of love, may we in worship Welcome our diversity. May we reach in trust and friendship To the poor and refugee. May we see Christ in the stranger, Breaking bonds of hate and fear. By your Spirit, may we offer Glimpses of your kin dom here.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Let us pray.
God of the dirtied hands, the wandering feet; you seek out the lost before they turn to you: take us with you into the abandoned places to find a new community outside our fortress walls: through Jesus Christ, the Searching One. Amen. Please be seated.
Opening Hymn Faithful God, You Sent Your Spirit
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Faithful God, you sent your Spirit Long ago at Pentecost. You gave life and said to share it, All as one, beneath your cross. May we see your wondrous blessing
Welcome The Rev. Dr. Lisa Tucker Gray
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
Prelude What a Wonderful World George David Weiss (Grace Mauk, piano) Bob Thiele
Please rise. (to the tune of “Come Thou Fount”)
When your people everywhere Work together, all confessing Faith that binds us, faith to share.
Collect of the Day Prayers for the Inclusive Church
Reader: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God.
The Lord said to Moses, "Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, `These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'" The Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, how stiff necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great Butnation."Moses
3 The First Reading Exodus 32:7 14 Reader: A reading from Exodus
implored the Lord his God, and said, "O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, `It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, `I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'" And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.
Forgive all that binds me in fear, that I might radiate love; cleanse me that Your Light might shine in me.
Lead me in the paths of justice, guide my steps on the paths of peace! Teach me, that I may know my weaknesses, the shortcomings that bind me, the unloving ways that separate me, that keep me from recognizing Your life in me.
The cantor will offer the first line and the congregation is invited to join on the second.
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Fill me with gladness; help me to transform weakness into strength. Look not on my past mistakes but on the aspirations of my heart. Create in me a clean heart, O Gracious One, And put a new and right spirit in me.
For, I keep company with fear, and dwell in the house of ignorance. Yet, I was brought forth in love, and love is my birthright. You have placed Your Truth in my inner being; Therefore, teach me the wisdom of the heart.
Have mercy on me. O Gracious One, according to your steadfast love. According to Your abundant kindness, forgive me where my thoughts and deeds have hurt others.
The Psalm Psalm 51:1 11 Psalms for Praying
Reader: A reading from First Timothy I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the foremost. But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making me an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
As we sing Holy, Holy, Holy After repeat: Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, Open the eyes of my heart I want to see you I want to see you.
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Reader: The Word of the Lord. People: Thanks be to God. Gradual Open the Eyes of My Heart arr. Trey McLaughlin Please rise. Repeat twice. Open the eyes of my heart, Lord Open the eyes of my heart I want to see you I want to see you Open the eyes of my heart, Lord Open the eyes of my heart I want to see you I want to see you High and lifted up Shining in the light of your glory Pour out your power and love
Sermon The Rev. Dr. Lisa Tucker Gray Affirmation of Faith From The New Zealand Prayerbook Please rise as you are able. You, O God, are supreme and holy. You create our world and give us life. Your purpose overarches everything we do. You have always been with us. You are God. You, O God, are infinitely generous, good beyond all measure. You came to us before we came to you. You have revealed and proved your love for us in Jesus Christ, who lived and died and rose again. You are with us now. You are God. You, O God, are Holy Spirit You empower us to be your gospel in the world. You reconcile and heal; you overcome death. You are our God. We worship you. Amen.
Deacon: The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to Luke.
So he told them this parable: "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, `Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.' Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. "Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, `Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.' Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."
Deacon: The Gospel of the Lord.
The Gospel Luke 15:1 10
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People: Praise to you, Lord Christ.
People: Glory to you, Lord Christ.
All the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Jesus. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them."
People: May they know the power of your healing love.
People: That we may respect one another in freedom and truth.
The Prayers of the People
Intercessor: God of truth, inspire with your wisdom those whose decisions affect the lives of others,
Intercessor: Make us willing agents of your compassion.
People: Grant that we may walk in your presence: your love in our hearts, your truth in our minds, your strength in our wills; until, at the end of our journey, we know the joy of our homecoming and the welcome of your embrace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
People: May we serve Christ in one another, and love as he loves us.
Intercessor: Awaken in us a sense of wonder for the earth and all that is in it.
Intercessor: We pray for those on our Trinity Prayer List, and those we now name silently or aloud. God of hope, comfort and restore all who suffer in body, mind or spirit.
People: Strengthen us as we share in making people whole.
People: Bring them peace in their time of loss.
People: Teach us to care creatively for its resources.
Intercessor: Creator of All, you have promised to hear when we pray in the name of your Son. Therefore, in confidence and trust we pray for the Church. God, enliven the Church for its mission:
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Intercessor: Give grace to all whose lives are linked with ours.
People: Give us power to reveal Christ in word and action.
Intercessor: Creator of all, lead us and every people into ways of justice and peace.
People: That all may act with integrity and courage.
Intercessor: Give comfort to those who mourn.
Intercessor: We praise you for all your saints who have entered your eternal glory.
People: That we may be salt of the earth and light to the world.
People: May their example inspire and encourage us.
Intercessor: Breathe fresh life into your people.
Intercessor: Lord, you have called us to serve you.
Loose offerings (cash or checks) can be placed in the Offertory Plate as it is passed through the congregation during the Offertory or deposited in our Giving Box stationed at the back of the sanctuary. To give online, use the attached QR code or visit www.trinitytoledo.org/online giving/, choose GIVE NOW and today’s date. You can also text the word “Give” to 419 OMG LOVE (419 664 5683) to make your weekly offering. Offertory No One is Alone Stephen Sondheim (Chelsie Cree and Grace Mauk) from Into The Woods
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People: To you Lord, all hearts are open, no secrets are hidden. Forgive our secret sins; Forgive our habitual sins; Forgive our unnoticed sins; Our sins against ourselves, Our sins against others, Our sins against you.
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Lord, let our hearts provide no harbor for hatred of another.
Leader: Let us confess our sins to God.
The Confession of Sin & Absolution Celtic Confession
Leader: Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy on you. Pardon and deliver you from all our sins, confirm and strengthen you is all goodness, and keep you in life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
THE PEACE Deacon: The peace of the Lord be always with you. People: And also with you.
Lord, let our attitudes be no associate in the condemnation of another. Lord, let our tongues be no accomplice in the judgment of another.
Lord, let our memory provide no shelter for bitterness against another. Lord, let our minds provide no foothold for prejudice against another.
All that is spectacular, all that is plain have their origin in you. All that is lovely, all who are loving, point to you as their fulfillment. Therefore we gladly join our voices to the song of the Church on earth and in heaven: Sanctus Tune of “Ol Time Religion” Welcome Table
The Liturgy of the Table
All: And also with you.
Celebrant: The Lord be with you.
All: It is right to give God thanks and praise. We praise you, O God, whom eternity cannot contain, for coming to earth and entering time in Jesus. We praise you for his life which informs our living, for his compassion which changes our hearts, for his clear speaking which contradicts our harmless generalities, for his disturbing presence, his innocent suffering, his fearless dying, his rising to life breathing forgiveness and restoring us forever to you. For these gifts we praise and worship you.
The Great Thanksgiving A Wee Worship Book, Iona Community
All: We lift them to the Lord.
Celebrant: Lift up your hearts.
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Celebrant: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
So now we do as Jesus did. We offer this bread and this wine to each other, and proclaim the mystery of faith: Celebrant and People Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. We ask that these signs of your love be filled with the fullness of Jesus. Let that same love rest on us, converting us from the patterns of this passing world, until we conform to the shape of him whose food we now share. Amen.
10 Jesus was always the guest. In the homes of Peter and Jairus, Martha and Mary, Joanna and Susanna, he was always the guest. At the meal tables of the wealthy where he pled the case of the poor, he was always the guest. Upsetting polite company, befriending isolated people, welcoming the stranger, he was always the guest.
This is the time when Christ can make us new. So come, you who hunger and thirst for a deeper faith, for a better life, for a fairer world. Jesus Christ, who has sat at our tables, now invites us to be his guests. On their last night together, and as they were sitting at a meal, Jesus gave thanks, took a piece of bread and broke it. He gave it to the disciples saying, “This is my body. It is broken for you. Do this to remember me.”
But here, at this table, he is the host. Those who wish to serve him must first be served by him. Those who want to follow him must first be fed by him. For this is the table where God intends us to be nourished.
Later, after they had eaten, he took a cup of wine, gave thanks and said, “This cup is the new relationship with God made possible because of my death. Drink this all of you, to remember me.”
And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we now pray this James Burklo contemporary version of the Lord’ s prayer; Dear One, closer to us than our own hearts, farther from us than the most distant star, you are beyond naming. May your powerful presence become obvious not only in the undeniable glory of the sky, but also in the seemingly base and common processes of the earth. Give us what we need, day by day, to keep body and soul together, because clever as you have made us, we still owe our existence to you. We recognize that to be reconciled with you, we must live peaceably and justly with other human beings, putting hate and bitterness behind us. We are torn between our faith in your goodness and our awareness of the evil in your creation, so deliver us from the temptation to despair. Yours alone is the universe and all its majesty and beauty.
Sending Hymn Down By The Riverside LEVAS #201 See insert.
Celebrant: The Gifts of God for the people of God; holy food for holy people.
Dismissal Deacon: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!
People: Thanks be to God!
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Invitation to Communion
The Fraction: Breaking of the Bread Enriching Our Worship
Celebrant: Let us pray.
Jesus, we have feasted on the bread of life. Together we have tasted the love of your kin dom here on earth. In your risen power you have united us with all of those who have come before, with those gathered today, and with those yet to find their way to this table of love set and ready to welcome all. May the sense of a new heaven and a new earth strengthen and renew us today and in the days to come. Now, send us out into the world to do the work you have given us to do offering your fearless love and priceless peace to all we meet in the name of our loving, liberating life-giving God. Amen Sung Benediction May the rain fall off your shoulders when you’re caught in a storm. When the frost comes a callin’ may it find you safe and warm. May your place be set, and may your promises be kept And may you never forget that you are loved.
Please be seated until you are invited to come forward to receive communion. Please let us know if you would like the bread brought to you or if you would like a gluten free option.
Communion Hymn Just As I Am LEVAS #137
People: We who are many are one body, for we all share in the one bread.
Communion Hymn Let Us Break Bread Together 1982 Hymnal #325 The Post Communion Prayer (Please rise.) The Rev. Dr. Lisa Tucker Gray
Celebrant: We break this bread to share in the Body of Christ.
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The Great Thanksgiving: Prayer 3, Enriching Our Worship
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Trinity’s Daily Bread- As a community of faith, we are called to love and be loved; to serve and be served, to give and to receive. In short, we don’t want anyone to “fall behind or drop out.” In this season of connecting in new ways, we are introducing Trinity’s Daily Bread. Please let us know if you need prayer, assistance, or connection by filling out our Daily Bread form on our website, www.trinitytoledo.org!
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Lord’s Prayer: Parker Palmer
Vestry Leadership Donna Steppe, Sr. Warden, Jeffrey Albright, Jr. Warden Leah Reed, Clerk, Gary Franklin, Treasurer Dennis Degnan, Becky Koskinen, Fritz Hany, Karen Keune & Jamie Paul Parish Staff
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES & COPYRIGHT INFO: Collect of the Day: Prayers for an Inclusive Church, Steven Shakespeare. Readings and Gospel from: Revised Common Lectionary: lectionarypage.net, 2021. Psalm: Psalms for Praying, Nan Merrill.