The Lord’s Day Service of Worship
Trinity Season 2010
Church Year Day: Ninth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
†CALL TO WORSHIP & PROCESSIONAL (†The congregation standing)
Call to Worship from the Lectionary Psalm of the Day (Psalm 107)
Minister: Arise now and ascend to the heavenly City in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit!
Congregation: Amen!
†Processional Hymn
(p. TSP 58)
Lift High the Cross
Minister: The grace and peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you!
People: And Also with you!
Minister: When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
Congregation: He ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things.
CONFESSION (The congregation
is invited to kneel through the Declaration of Absolution.)
Unison: O Lord our God, we come to You as Your sons and servants, grateful for the redemption that is ours in Jesus Christ, and yet aware of our continuing need of Your grace. We confess that we have sinned against You. We have broken Your commandments. We have fallen short of Your glory. We have not loved You with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. We have not loved our neighbor as ourselves. We were born in sin and have continued to sin. We acknowledge our guilt. We rightly fall under Your curse and judgment. Blot out our transgressions, wash us from our iniquities, deliver us from bloodguiltiness. Forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Have mercy upon us, O Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen.
ABSOLUTION
Minister: Lift up your heads and hear the good news! . . . Therefore, I declare that your sins are forgiven in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Congregation: Thanks be to God. Our sins are forgiven in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Minister: Therefore, stand in His presence, knowing your acceptance in the Savior. Hallelujah! The Spirit of the Lord filleth the world.
Congregation: O come, let us worship Him. Hallelujah!
†Ascension Hymn (p. TSP 56) Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder
†Collect for Ninth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Unison: Grant, O merciful God, that, as thine holy Apostle Saint James, leaving his father and all that he had, without delay was obedient unto the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him; so we, forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
THE LESSON - Hosea 11:1-11
Reader: The Word of the Lord. Congregation: Thanks be to God.
PSALM (Psalm 2, p. 4)
THE EPISTLE -
Colossians 3:1-11Reader: The Word of the Lord.
Congregation: Thanks be to God.
PSALM (Psalm 110, p. 150)
THE GOSPEL - Luke 12:13-21
Reader: The Gospel of Christ! Congregation: Praise be to You, O Christ!
†THE CREED
Unison: I believe in God, the Father almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic Church; the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen
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Gloria Patri (p. 436)
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SERMON
Dr. Gregg Strawbridge, PastorPASTORAL PRAYER
†The Lord’s Prayer (sung, p. 411)
(Lifting up holy hands, 1 Tim. 2:8)
[Mp3 Version]
OFFERTORY
We offer ourselves through tithes and offerings. It is the duty of Christians
to tithe to their local congregation and give to benevolence needs as they are
able; therefore, if you are visiting with us today feel no constraint to give to
support the ministry of All Saints.
†PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
THE EUCHARIST*
The Sursum CordaMinister: Lift up your hearts.
Congregation: We lift them up unto the Lord.
Minister: Let us give thanks unto our Lord God.
Congregation: It is good and right so to do.
Minister: It is very
meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all
places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God,
who, with thine only-begotten Son, and the Holy Ghost, art one God, one Lord, in
Trinity of Persons and in Unity of Substance. For that which we believe of thy
glory, O Father, the same we believe of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, without
any difference of inequality. Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of
heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee, and
saying,
Congregation: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy
glory: Glory be to thee, O Lord most High. Amen.
Words of Institution and Epiclesis
Minister: In the night in which He was betrayed, Jesus took bread and gave
thanks.
Let us pray. Blessed are you, Lord God, King of Creation who gives seed to the
sower and bread to the eater (Is. 55:11). Through your goodness we have received
this bread, which the earth has given and human hands have made, and through
Your surpassing mercy You have given us the bread of life. Blessed be God for
ever. Amen.
The Fraction of the Bread
THE Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, preserve your body and soul unto everlasting
life.
After the same manner also, after supper, Jesus took the cup, and gave thanks.
Let us pray. Blessed are you, Lord God, King of Creation who brings forth food
from the earth and wine which makes the heart of man glad (Psalm 104:14-15).
Through your goodness we have received this wine, fruit of the vine and work of
human hands, and through Your surpassing mercy You have given us the blood of
Your son. Blessed be God for ever. Amen.
The Pouring of the Wine
THE Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for you, preserve your body
and soul unto everlasting life.
Minister: The gifts of God for the people of God. [The
congregration is received at the rail for communion.]
Eucharist Psalms & Hymns - Lead On, O King Eternal (312), Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word
(368), Soul, Adorn Thyself with Gladness (214), We Now Implore God the Holy Ghost
(279)
Minister: Almighty God, You gave the true
bread that came down from heaven, even Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord: Grant
that we who have received this sacrament of His Body and Blood. May abide in
Him, and He is us, That we may be filled with the power of His endless life, And
serve Him with gladness and thanksgiving forever. Amen.
†BENEDICTION
Now the God of peace,
who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood
of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to
do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus
Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Minister: Let us go forth into the world, rejoicing in the power of the Spirit.
People: Thanks be to God! Alleluia, Alleluia!
†RECESSIONAL HYMN Hymn (p. 332) Tis By Thy Strength the Mountains Stand (vss 1-2)
POSTLUDE
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ALL HYMNS AND PSALMS FROM THE CANTUS CHRISTI HYMNAL (unless otherwise designated).
Redemptive Calendar & Liturgy -
*The Lord’s Supper or Eucharist ("thanksgiving") is open to all baptized Christians not censured from the Table by formal church discipline.
Our service is based upon a Reformed reading of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer which is an American formulation of English Reformed liturgy. Hence our principles of liturgy are Biblical, Reformed, and Historical.
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