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Service for Sunday April 11th, 2021 - Easter II

Zoom link for online access to service at 10:00 a.m. second Sunday of Easter - April 11th:- https://zoom.us/j/7860586161?pwd=b2VaTm5zcktRYjJvYnJSUW9rYzhJdz09

Rejoice the Lord is King:-https://youtu.be/2N0iVysrykU

Come now is the time to worship:- https://youtu.be/NPWq8eM4lu8

Have you seen Jesus my Lord?:- https://youtu.be/wnHB9YUtllE

Opening sentences:-

Reader: Alleluia. Christ is risen.

All: The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia.

Almighty God, 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.

The confession and absolution

Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.

The Reader prays:

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who in his great mercy has promised forgiveness of sins to all those who with heartfelt repentance and true faith turn to him: have mercy on us, pardon and deliver us from all our sins, confirm and strengthen us in all goodness,

and bring us to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Collect for the second Sunday of Easter

Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ’s Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

The Word of God. One or more readings appointed for the day are read.

A reading from Isaiah 26:2-9, 19

2Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith. 3You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. 4Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal. 5He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust. 6Feet trample it down — the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor. 7The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth. 8Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. 9My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. 19But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The Psalm appointed for today is Psalm 111. We will say the Psalm in unison,

1Praise the LORD. I will extol the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

2Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.

3Glorious and majestic are his deeds, and his righteousness endures forever.

4He has caused his wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.

5He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.

6He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations.

7The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy.

8They are steadfast for ever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness.

9He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever — holy and awesome is his name.

10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever. Amen.

Righteousness, Peace, Joy:- https://youtu.be/Ulla5MLt_20

A reading from 1 John 5:1-6

1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 6This is the one who came by water and blood — Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

A reading from John 20:19-31

19On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 20After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. 21Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." 22And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven." 24Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it." 26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 27Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." 28Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" 29Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." 30Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

Today’s Reflection:

Message for the second Sunday after Easter :- https://youtu.be/dRUW5Pxg5oQ

We believe:- https://youtu.be/FtPmX7e_Rpw

Prayers of intercession

Deacon or other leader

Almighty God, as your Son our Saviour was born of a Hebrew mother, but rejoiced in the faith of a Syrian woman and of a Roman soldier, welcomed the Greeks who sought Him, and needed a man from Africa to carry His cross, so teach us to regard the members of all races as fellow heirs of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ our Lord.

In His Name, Amen

I ask your prayers for God’s people throughout the world, especially the worldwide Anglican communion, including the AMiA and Bishops Philip, Sandy, and Matt; Anglican Mission International and Bishop Carl; Archbishop Kolini; Archbishop Masimango, Bishop Bahati, and Bishop William (DRC); Bishops Silas and Peter (the AM Canada); Bishop Burnet (Anglican Mission Haiti); Bishop Ivan (The Mission India); Bishop James (Myanmar); and, Bishops Aaron, Darlington, and Sospeter (Tanzania); and for this gathering, and for all other ministers and people.

Pray for the Church.

Silence

I ask your prayers where April, May, and June are months when we need to focus our remembrances. April 7 is Holocaust Remembrance Day, when we remember the innocent millions slaughtered by the Nazis, & pray fervently, when many actually disbelieve this horror. April 7 is also the day when the Rwandan genocide began, resulting in the death, in 100 days, of 1,000,000 innocent people, and we remember countless thousands more who have died & continue to die in genocide. April 13 is the start of Ramadan, when Muslims pray to come close to a non-existent god, & April 15 marks the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, which China tries to ignore each year, but brave activists who were there remind us of that horror (& China is also assisting the illegal Burmese military to murder innocent Burmese citizens).

Please pray now, but also pray daily. Amen.

Silence

I ask your prayers for peace; for goodwill among nations; and for the well-being of all people.

Pray for justice and peace.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, and those in prison.

Pray for those in any need or trouble.

Silence

I ask your prayers for all who seek God, or a deeper knowledge of him. Pray that they may find and be found by him.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the departed [especially ______.].

Pray for those who have died.

Silence

Praise God for those in every generation in whom Christ has been honored.

Pray that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.

Silence

Reader: Lord, we beseech You mercifully to hear the prayers of Your people who call upon You; and grant that we may both perceive and know what things we ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them; through Jesus Christ Your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with You, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

All: Amen.

THE OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Hallelujah:- https://www.facebook.com/inspiremoreofficial/videos/891251438091997

Reader: The Lord be with you.

All: And also with you.

Reader: Rejoicing in God’s new creation,

let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:-

All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Reader: At this time when as a church family we would normally be celebrating the Eucharist together, let us now say this prayer of Saint Alphonsus as an act of spiritual communion.

All: My Jesus, I believe You are present in the most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.

Humble thyself:- https://youtu.be/sU8MAQKSbEI

The Conclusion

All our problems:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All our difficulties:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All the devil’s works:

We send to the cross of Christ

All our hopes:

We set on the risen Christ

My Redeemer lives:- https://youtu.be/XRW-jr_PnbQ

Alleluia, alleluia. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia.

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Service for Sunday March 28th, 2021 - Palm Sunday

Zoom link for online access to service at 10:00 a.m. for Palm Sunday - March 28th:- https://zoom.us/j/7860586161?pwd=b2VaTm5zcktRYjJvYnJSUW9rYzhJdz09

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Liturgy of the Palms

The Psalm appointed for this is Psalm 118:19-29

19 Open for me the gates of the righteous; I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.

20 This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous may enter.

21 I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation.

22 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;

23 the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

24 The Lord has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.

25 Lord, save us! Lord, grant us success!

26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. From the house of the Lord we bless you.

27 The Lord is God, and he has made his light shine on us.

With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up to the horns of the altar.

28 You are my God, and I will praise you; you are my God, and I will exalt you.

29 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.

All hail King Jesus:- https://youtu.be/FSi8f38kfcY

Hosanna (Praise is Rising):- https://youtu.be/VMBDWG9tseU

A reading from Matthew 21:1-11

1As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, tell him that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.” 4This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: 5“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ” 6The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 7They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them. 8A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!” 10When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?” 11The crowds answered, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

All Glory Laud and Honour:- https://youtu.be/h3a8fTTrAdE

Reader: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

All: Hosanna in the highest.

Amen.

The confession

All: Most merciful God, we confess to you, before the whole company of heaven and one another, that we have sinned in thought, word and deed and in what we have failed to do.

Forgive us our sins, heal us by your Spirit and raise us to new life in Christ. Amen.

The Reader prays:

and bring us to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Collect for Palm Sunday

Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

The Word of God. One or more readings appointed for the day are read.

A reading from Isaiah 45:21-25

21Declare what is to be, present it - let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me. 22"Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. 23By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear. 24They will say of me, 'In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.' " All who have raged against him will come to him and be put to shame. 25But in the LORD all the descendants of Israel will be found righteous and will exult.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The Psalm appointed for today is Psalm 22:1-11.

1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?

2O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.

3Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.

4In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.

5They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

7All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:

8"He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him."

9Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast.

10From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.

11Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever. Amen.

A reading from Philippians 2:5-11

5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death -- even death on a cross! 9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. Mark 15:1-39

1Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate. 2“Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “You have said so,” Jesus replied. 3The chief priests accused him of many things. 4So again Pilate asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.” 5But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed. 6Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested. 7A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. 8The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did. 9“Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate, 10knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. 11But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead. 12“What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?” Pilate asked them. 13“Crucify him!” they shouted. 14“Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!” 15Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified. 16The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers. 17They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. 18And they began to call out to him, “Hail, king of the Jews!” 19Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him. 20And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him. 21A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. 22They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 23Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 24And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get. 25It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. 26The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews. 27They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. 29Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, 31come down from the cross and save yourself!” 31In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! 32Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him. 33At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). 35When some of those standing near heard this, they said, “Listen, he’s calling Elijah.” 36Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to take him down,” he said. 37With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. 38The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”

Today’s Reflection:

Jesus Paid It All:- https://youtu.be/2nYPmL5OiDI

We believe:- https://youtu.be/FtPmX7e_Rpw

Prayers of intercession

Deacon or other leader

Pray for the Church.

Silence

I ask your prayers for peace; for goodwill among nations; and for the well-being of all people.

Pray for justice and peace.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, and those in prison.

Pray for those in any need or trouble.

Silence

I ask your prayers for all who seek God, or a deeper knowledge of him. Pray that they may find and be found by him.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the departed [especially ______.].

Pray for those who have died.

Silence

Praise God for those in every generation in whom Christ has been honored.

Pray that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.

Silence

All: Amen.

THE OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Reader: The peace of the Lord be always with you.

All: And also with you.

Landfillharmonic:- https://youtu.be/yYbORpgSmjg

Reader: The Lord be with you.

All: And also with you.

Reader: Trusting in the compassion of God, let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:-

All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Reader: At this time when as a church family we would normally be celebrating the Eucharist together, let us now say this prayer of Saint Alphonsus as an act of spiritual communion.

Knowing You:- https://youtu.be/4r8XfE_VNb0

The Conclusion

All our problems:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All our difficulties:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All the devil’s works:

We send to the cross of Christ

All our hopes:

We set on the risen Christ

The wonderful cross (When I survey):- https://youtu.be/oaO3XOI8P6w

Reader: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

Service for Sunday March 21st, 2021 - Lent V

Zoom link for online access to service at 10:00 a.m. for the fifth Sunday of Lent - March 21st:- https://zoom.us/j/7860586161?pwd=b2VaTm5zcktRYjJvYnJSUW9rYzhJdz09

This Lent, Lord, help me leave behind the distractions of my daily life and make this a time of spiritual retreat, of letting go all that holds me back from taking the risk of drawing closer to You, allowing Your Spirit to lead me, and to speak to my heart. Forty days, or four, or forty minutes or four! Whatever I can manage! The time spent is not the key, I know, but my willingness to look into my frailty, and then to trust in You and to seek Your Will for me.

Amen.

The wonderful cross (When I survey):-https://youtu.be/oaO3XOI8P6w

Give us clean hands:- https://youtu.be/J8TCeqLabu4

Create in me a clean heart:-https://youtu.be/2fVliokreqE

Reader: Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.

All: His mercy endures forever.

Amen.

The confession

All: Most merciful God, we confess to you, before the whole company of heaven and one another, that we have sinned in thought, word and deed and in what we have failed to do.

Forgive us our sins, heal us by your Spirit and raise us to new life in Christ. Amen.

A Collect for the fifth Sunday of Lent

Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Amen.

The Word of God. One or more readings appointed for the day are read.

A reading from Jeremiah 31:31-34

31“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. 21It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The Psalm appointed for today is Psalm 51:11-16

11Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.

12Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

13Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.

14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

15Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.

16You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever. Amen.

A reading from Hebrews 5:1-10

1Every high priest is selected from among the people and is appointed to represent the people in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. 3This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people. 4And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was. 5In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.” 6And he says in another place, “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” 7During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John 12:20-33

20Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. 21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” 22Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus. 23Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. 27“Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 28Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him. 30Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine. 31Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. 32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.

Today’s Reflection:

Parable of the grain of wheat:- https://youtu.be/xJ1vs_bYFRc

We believe:- https://youtu.be/FtPmX7e_Rpw

Prayers of intercession

Deacon or other leader

I ask your prayers for God’s people throughout the world, especially the worldwide Anglican communion, including the AMiA and Bishops Philip, Sandy, and Matt; Anglican Mission International and Bishop Carl; Archbishop Kolini; Archbishop Masimango, Bishop Bahati, and Bishop William (DRC); Bishops Silas and Peter (the AM Canada); Bishop Burnet (Anglican Mission Haiti); The Mission India; Bishop James (Myanmar); and, Bishops Aaron, Darlington, and Sospeter (Tanzania); and for this gathering, and for all other ministers and people.

Pray for the Church.

Silence

I ask your prayers for peace; for goodwill among nations; and for the well-being of all people.

Pray for justice and peace.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, and those in prison.

Pray for those in any need or trouble.

Silence

I ask your prayers for all who seek God, or a deeper knowledge of him. Pray that they may find and be found by him.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the departed [especially ______.].

Pray for those who have died.

Silence

Praise God for those in every generation in whom Christ has been honored.

Pray that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.

Silence

All: Amen.

THE OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Reader: The peace of the Lord be always with you.

All: And also with you.

You are worthy of my praise:- https://youtu.be/hEcWkt7rxrg

Reader: The Lord be with you.

All: And also with you.

Reader: Trusting in the compassion of God, let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:-

All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Reader: At this time when as a church family we would normally be celebrating the Eucharist together, let us now say this prayer of Saint Alphonsus as an act of spiritual communion.

Young Man:- https://youtu.be/5PiH3Tv9gLY

The Young Man by Robin Mark

All on a Friday evening as the sun went down

The body of a man who wore a thorn made crown

Was carried to a graveyard in the fading light

And laid with deep affection in a garden

Up on the hill the shadow of his gallows fell

And faded as the sun descended lower still

The ground was worn and bare where many feet had trod

To watch the execution of the young man

And what of me, so distant from that far, gone, place?

Still the wonder of that moment crosses time and space

With mystery and majesty none can explain

For it draws me to the story of the young man.

The next day being Sabbath, was a day of rest

And one of some reflection for the young man’s friends

No longer messianic zeal consumed their hearts

Just sorrow for the killing of the young man

And I suppose some tears were shed ‘til sleep came last

Then rising early morning once the Sabbath passed

A woman made her way to find the garden tomb

To leave her oil and flowers for the young man

Now history tells of heavy stone to bar the way

Was fixed by many soldiers on the open grave

For when she found it rolled aside and emptied tomb

She grieved the stolen body of the young man

A gardener called her by her name as she kneeled down

And asked her why she searched about the burial ground

And wiping bitter tears away with the dawns first light

She saw the risen glory of the young man.

The Conclusion

All our problems:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All our difficulties:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All the devil’s works:

We send to the cross of Christ

All our hopes:

We set on the risen Christ

Arise:- https://youtu.be/YEjWMMJyTyg

Reader: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

Service for Sunday March 14th, 2021 - Lent IV

Zoom link for online access to service at 10:00 a.m. for the fourth Sunday of Lent - March 14th:- https://zoom.us/j/7860586161?pwd=b2VaTm5zcktRYjJvYnJSUW9rYzhJdz09

Amen.

Lift high the Cross:- https://youtu.be/GbcBXYP4AlE

Amazing grace (My chains are gone):- https://youtu.be/Jbe7OruLk8I

Crucified Man:-https://youtu.be/GEWnoH0nyKc

Reader: Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.

All: His mercy endures forever.

Amen.

The confession

All: Most merciful God, we confess to you, before the whole company of heaven and one another, that we have sinned in thought, word and deed and in what we have failed to do.

Forgive us our sins, heal us by your Spirit and raise us to new life in Christ. Amen.

A Collect for the fourth Sunday of Lent

Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Amen.

The Word of God. One or more readings appointed for the day are read.

A reading from 2 Chronicles 36:14-23

14Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. 15The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. 16But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy. 17He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men or young women, the elderly or the infirm. God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar. 18He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials. 19They set fire to God’s temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there. 20He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to power. 21The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah. 22In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing: 23“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the Lord their God be with them.’”

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The Psalm appointed for today is Psalm 122

1I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

2Our feet are standing in your gates, Jerusalem.

3Jerusalem is built like a city that is closely compacted together.

4That is where the tribes go up — the tribes of the Lord — to praise the name of the Lord according to the statute given to Israel.

5There stand the thrones for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure.

7May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels.”

8For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”

9For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your prosperity.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever. Amen.

A reading from Ephesians 2:4-10

4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved. 6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John 6:4-15

4The Jewish Passover Festival was near. 5When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

7Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages[a] to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!” 8Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, 9“Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?” 10Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). 11Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. 12When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” 13So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. 14After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” 15Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

Today’s Reflection:

The Lost Instrument – the Amazing Story of How God Reached a Forgotten Tribe in the Philippines

Dear Friends,

Many believers have recently told us they are struggling, with Covid lockdowns and economic stress causing them to feel confused and fearful of the future. In this newsletter we want to share a remarkable testimony of how the Lord Jesus Christ spoke to a young missionary, Caleb Byerly, who comes from a small town in North Carolina. Through a series of incredible events, God used him to reach a previously unknown tribe, the Tinananon, who dwell deep in the mountains of the southern Philippines.

We hope you will be greatly encouraged, and God will remine you of His matchless power and grace. If He put together such a loving and detailed plan to reach this small tribe, He certainly has not forgotten you, your family or your community! Keep trusting the Lord and study His Word each day. He has everything under control!

After reading our brief summary, please scroll down and watch the links to two videos, which show Caleb personally telling the remarkable testimony.

In 2013, Caleb Byerly woke up from a vivid God-given dream and began to furiously write everything he saw in his journal.

In the dream, Caleb was looking out across a mountain and he saw a tribe he had never seen before. In the dream he asked who they were, and the people replied: “We are the Tinananon!” Then a chief walked toward him carrying a strange musical instrument. Caleb happens to make instruments, so he carefully studied the designs of the instrument he saw in the dream, which was unlike anything he had seen before. He said:

“It had 30 strings going all the way around the top of a golden bowl, from the outside, crisscrossing in the middle of the instrument. I suddenly got a full download of everything about this instrument, its dimensions, what material it was made of, and even how it was tuned and played. The tribal chief took two small sticks and began to play it, and the whole tribe rejoiced and worshipped the Living God. It was as if heaven and earth collided. After that I woke up from the dream.”

Caleb wrote down all the details he had seen, and the name of the Tinananon tribe. He then made detailed drawings of the bowl and its dimensions and materials. He then searched online for any reference to the Tinananon people but found nothing. They still do not feature on any mission or Bible translation lists of people groups.

As a professional instrument maker, he was intrigued by the idea of recreating the instrument he had seen in the dream, but the task proved too complicated. In frustration he put the whole thing aside and gave up on the dream.

About six months later, Caleb took a mission trip to the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. As he was traveling in the back of a jeepney (a kind of open van widely used in the Philippines), a man sitting opposite Caleb and couldn’t stop staring at him.

Caleb engaged the man in polite conversation, and discovered he was a Christian, and his name was Manigos. Caleb felt the Holy Spirit impress on his heart: “Ask him about the Tinananon tribe.”

After initially resisting, Caleb finally mustered the courage and asked the man, “Do you know the Tinananon?”

The man’s eyes immediately grew large and his mouth fell open. He leaned forward and said, “Hey, they are my tribe! I am a Tinananon! How do you know about my people?”

Manigos explained that his tribe lives in a dangerous and remote mountainous region of Mindanao that people from the outside world rarely enter. Caleb invited Manigos to come to the place where he was staying, and he showed him his journal entry with the word Tinananon.

Manigos began shaking his head, and tears streamed down his face. He said, “Remember earlier on the bus when I kept staring at you? I knew I had seen you before, and now I know where. I also saw you in a dream!” He explained that he left the Tinananon area as a young man, and later met Jesus Christ while living in the large city of Davao. Some time later, God called him back to his tribe through a dream where he saw himself returning to evangelize his people–with Caleb!

Both men were filled with awe at the way God brought them together, and they worshipped and prayed together for several days. Manigos invited Caleb to visit his tribe, but he first had to return to the United States. While there, Caleb went into his workshop and cried out to God, asking Him to give him wisdom and insight so he could make the instrument. The Lord helped him, and when he put the strings on it for the first time he said: “I tuned it the way I heard it in the dream. I got the two little sticks and I started to play it. It was the same sound that I heard in the dream, and I was really excited.”

Caleb bought a plane ticket and left the next day for the Philippines, taking the instrument with him. Along with a friend, Caleb met Manigos and the three of them rode on one motorcycle into the mountains, heading for the Tinananon area. After many trials and dangers, they finally arrived at the edge of a Tinananon village, and Caleb again sensed the Holy Spirit prod him, “I want you to take the instrument to the chief.”

They asked how to find the chief’s house, and learned he lived another three and a half hours away, on the other side of the mountain. By the time they reached the chief’s house it was almost dark. Mud covered their clothing as they approached a small wooden hut and knocked on the door.

The chief opened the door and was shocked to see a white man. Caleb told him: “I have come here to give you a gift,” and he held the instrument in his outstretched arms, covered by a blanket.

When Chief Suhat took the blanket off he was speechless and kept asking, “Where did you get this instrument?”

“Well, I made it,” Caleb replied.

“No, no, I’m serious. Where did you get it from?” the chief repeated.

“Well, if you really want to know, last year I had a vivid dream, in which I heard the name of your tribe, the Tinananon, for the first time. I also saw this musical instrument, and I felt like my God showed me how to design it.

The chief shook his head in disbelief as he carefully examined the instrument, asking questions about it. He summoned other tribal leaders and they walked around it incredulously, pointing at it and saying the word: “Salimbaa.”

Finally, the chief motioned to them and said, “I need to show you something.” They walked down a small pathway to a structure called a Paluvaran, which means ‘house of prayer’ in their language.

This was the place where the Tinananon people worship, and it also served as a storehouse where pottery, metalwork, weaving, and other artefacts are retained as evidence that their tribe has been in existence for many centuries.

The chief said they had different musical instruments for each of their gods. They had a god of trees, a god of stones, and a god of the river. Caleb noticed that one spot was empty on the wall between the other instruments. The chief said that between 100 and 150 years ago there was a tribal war, and their most valuable musical instrument that worshiped the God of all gods had been taken away from them.

In response, the Tinananon people created a lament which they had sung ever since, which says: “The Salimbaa was taken away from us, but the God of all Gods is going to return it one day so we can worship Him.”

They excitedly said, ‘Today, you have returned the lost Salimbaa to us!’”

A gathering of tribal leaders was arranged, and when they saw the instrument and heard it being played they all cried out, “This is it! This is the Salimbaa!”

They told Caleb of a legend they had long held. In the last days, the God above all gods, who they call Manama, would come down from heaven, and would gather all righteous people to Himself. The leaders began praying to Manama, and they dedicated the instrument back to God.

Caleb with the Tinananon chief and the Salimbaa.

As a sign of special honor, the chief placed a headpiece on Caleb’s shoulder. “We now consider you a chief of the Tinananon tribe,” he said. “Whatever you believe God is calling us to do, we will follow you.”

Caleb was humbled by the gesture, but he had to leave the village after spending three days praying for the chief. He returned a few months later to find the chief had an encounter with the Lord Jesus, and he had given his life to serve the true God.

On the second visit, the chief asked if Caleb could help translate the Bible into their language. A team of translators met with all 50 chiefs and elders of the Tinananon people, and the process began.

Chief Suhat passed away in 2015, shortly after the translation began. Since then, four churches have been planted among the Tinananon, with Manigos being used by God to help his own people come to know the Lord.

Caleb adds, “It’s amazing how the chiefs have opened the door for the Gospel among their tribe. In 2019 we again visited the Tinananon and found that Manigos had led the small group of believers well, and now it has grown to hundreds of Christians!”

Please enjoy these brief videos, as Caleb Byerly shares how God led him to reach the Tinananon people for Christ.

The Salimbaa story: https://youtu.be/Uz6hS-8qmt4

36 Stringed Salimbaa:- https://youtu.be/l1SCwHfloTI

We believe:- https://youtu.be/FtPmX7e_Rpw

Prayers of intercession

Deacon or other leader

I ask your prayers for God’s people throughout the world, especially the worldwide Anglican communion, including the AMiA and Bishops Philip, Sandy, and Matt; Anglican Mission International and Bishop Carl; Archbishop Kolini; Archbishop Masimango, Bishop Bahati, and Bishop William (DRC); Bishops Silas and Peter (the AM Canada); Bishop Burnet (Anglican Mission Haiti); The Mission India; Bishop James (Myanmar); and, Bishops Aaron, Darlington, and Sospeter (Tanzania); and for this gathering, and for all other ministers and people.

Pray for the Church.

Silence

I ask your prayers for peace; for goodwill among nations; and for the well-being of all people.

Pray for justice and peace.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, and those in prison.

Pray for those in any need or trouble.

Silence

I ask your prayers for all who seek God, or a deeper knowledge of him. Pray that they may find and be found by him.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the departed [especially ______.].

Pray for those who have died.

Silence

Praise God for those in every generation in whom Christ has been honored.

Pray that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.

Silence

All: Amen.

THE OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Reader: The peace of the Lord be always with you.

All: And also with you.

Doxology:- https://youtu.be/gF0MgnOjeiw

Reader: The Lord be with you.

All: And also with you.

Reader: Trusting in the compassion of God, let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:-

All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Reader: At this time when as a church family we would normally be celebrating the Eucharist together, let us now say this prayer of Saint Alphonsus as an act of spiritual communion.

Is He Worthy:- https://youtu.be/OIahc83Kvp4

The Conclusion

All our problems:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All our difficulties:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All the devil’s works:

We send to the cross of Christ

All our hopes:

We set on the risen Christ

Holy is the Lord:- https://youtu.be/V0VGEYrWngo

Reader: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

Service for Sunday March 7th, 2021 - Lent III

Zoom link for online access to service at 10:00 a.m. for the third Sunday of Lent - March 7th:- https://zoom.us/j/7860586161?pwd=b2VaTm5zcktRYjJvYnJSUW9rYzhJdz09

How firm a foundation:- https://youtu.be/8_EjMrrW8CY

The wonderful cross (When I survey):- https://youtu.be/oaO3XOI8P6w

As the Deer:-https://youtu.be/UZv3jzOTE70

Reader: Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.

All: His mercy endures forever.

Amen.

The confession

All: Most merciful God, we confess to you, before the whole company of heaven and one another, that we have sinned in thought, word and deed and in what we have failed to do.

Forgive us our sins, heal us by your Spirit and raise us to new life in Christ. Amen.

A Collect for the third Sunday of Lent

Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

The Word of God. One or more readings appointed for the day are read.

A reading from Exodus 20:1-17

1And God spoke all these words: 2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3“You shall have no other gods before me. 4“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. 7“You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. 8“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 12“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 13“You shall not murder. 14“You shall not commit adultery. 15“You shall not steal. 16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The Psalm appointed for today is Psalm 19:7-14

7The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.

7The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

9The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous.

10They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb.

11By them your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

12But who can discern their own errors? Forgive my hidden faults.

13Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression.

14May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever. Amen.

A reading from Romans 7:13-25

13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. 14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do — this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[b] a slave to the law of sin.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John 2:13-22

13When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” 18The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” 19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” 20They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

Today’s Reflection:

Corresponding reading in Luke 19:- https://youtu.be/tltdhsNYduY

We believe:- https://youtu.be/FtPmX7e_Rpw

Prayers of intercession

Deacon or other leader

I ask your prayers for God’s people throughout the world, especially the worldwide Anglican communion, including the AMiA and Bishops Philip, Sandy, and Matt; Anglican Mission International and Bishop Carl; Archbishop Kolini; Archbishop Masimango, Bishop Bahati, and Bishop William (DRC); Bishops Silas and Peter (the AM Canada); Bishop Burnet (Anglican Mission Haiti); The Mission India; Bishop James (Myanmar); and, Bishops Aaron, Darlington, and Sospeter (Tanzania); and for this gathering, and for all other ministers and people.

Pray for the Church.

Silence

I ask your prayers for peace; for goodwill among nations; and for the well-being of all people.

Pray for justice and peace.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, and those in prison.

Pray for those in any need or trouble.

Silence

I ask your prayers for all who seek God, or a deeper knowledge of him. Pray that they may find and be found by him.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the departed [especially ______.].

Pray for those who have died.

Silence

Praise God for those in every generation in whom Christ has been honored.

Pray that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.

Silence

All: Amen.

THE OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Reader: The peace of the Lord be always with you.

All: And also with you.

Just a closer walk with Thee:- https://youtu.be/uSK10j1is80

Reader: The Lord be with you.

All: And also with you.

Reader: Trusting in the compassion of God, let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:-

All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Reader: At this time when as a church family we would normally be celebrating the Eucharist together, let us now say this prayer of Saint Alphonsus as an act of spiritual communion.

Jesus Messiah:- https://youtu.be/FwJzTV1uurU

The Conclusion

All our problems:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All our difficulties:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All the devil’s works:

We send to the cross of Christ

All our hopes:

We set on the risen Christ

My Redeemer lives:- https://youtu.be/XRW-jr_PnbQ

Reader: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

Service for Sunday February 28th, 2021 - Lent II

Zoom link for online access to service at 10:00 a.m. for the second Sunday of Lent - February 28th:- https://zoom.us/j/7860586161?pwd=b2VaTm5zcktRYjJvYnJSUW9rYzhJdz09

All hail the power of Jesus Name:- https://youtu.be/of_8E1PudSQ

Hosanna (Praise is rising):- https://youtu.be/oAaQ5EEXidc

Be still and know:-https://youtu.be/BgaHaioAjyg

Reader: Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.

All: His mercy endures forever.

Amen.

The confession

All: Most merciful God, we confess to you, before the whole company of heaven and one another, that we have sinned in thought, word and deed and in what we have failed to do.

Forgive us our sins, heal us by your Spirit and raise us to new life in Christ. Amen.

A Collect for the second Sunday of Lent

O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

The Word of God. One or more readings appointed for the day are read.

A reading from Genesis 22:1-14

1Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 2Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love — Isaac — and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” 3Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.” 6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” 8Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together. 9When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 12“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” 13Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The Psalm appointed for today is Psalm 16:5-11

5Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.

6The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

7I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.

8I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

9Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,

10because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.

11You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever. Amen.

A reading from Romans 8:31-39

31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark 8:31-38

31He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” 34Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Today’s Reflection:

Mark 8:31-38:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MELy9MWIOEE

:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1DdKxN-k8U

We believe:- https://youtu.be/FtPmX7e_Rpw

Prayers of intercession

Deacon or other leader

I ask your prayers for God’s people throughout the world, especially the worldwide Anglican communion, including the AMiA and Bishops Philip, Sandy, and Matt; Anglican Mission International and Bishop Carl; Archbishop Kolini; Archbishop Masimango, Bishop Bahati, and Bishop William (DRC); Bishops Silas and Peter (the AM Canada); Bishop Burnet (Anglican Mission Haiti); The Mission India; Bishop James (Myanmar); and, Bishops Aaron, Darlington, and Sospeter (Tanzania); and for this gathering, and for all other ministers and people.

Pray for the Church.

Silence

I ask your prayers for peace; for goodwill among nations; and for the well-being of all people.

Pray for justice and peace.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, and those in prison.

Pray for those in any need or trouble.

Silence

I ask your prayers for all who seek God, or a deeper knowledge of him. Pray that they may find and be found by him.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the departed [especially ______.].

Pray for those who have died.

Silence

Praise God for those in every generation in whom Christ has been honored.

Pray that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.

Silence

All: Amen.

THE OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Reader: The peace of the Lord be always with you.

All: And also with you.

Holy is our God:- https://www.facebook.com/RobinMarkMusic/posts/3889038067823962

Reader: The Lord be with you.

All: And also with you.

Reader: Trusting in the compassion of God, let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:-

All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Reader: At this time when as a church family we would normally be celebrating the Eucharist together, let us now say this prayer of Saint Alphonsus as an act of spiritual communion.

Jesus, all for Jesus:- https://youtu.be/8u92h1iHV7M

The Conclusion

All our problems:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All our difficulties:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All the devil’s works:

We send to the cross of Christ

All our hopes:

We set on the risen Christ

Everlasting God:- https://youtu.be/nuudVoMyZyE

Reader: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

Service for Sunday February 21st, 2021 - Lent I

Zoom link for online access to service at 3:00 p.m. for the first Sunday of Lent - February 21st:- https://zoom.us/j/7860586161?pwd=b2VaTm5zcktRYjJvYnJSUW9rYzhJdz09

A Mighty Fortress:- https://youtu.be/FY4DCG-nFBI

Mighty to Save:- https://youtu.be/W1jmqVU4RDo

Create in me a clean heart:-https://youtu.be/2fVliokreqE

Reader: Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.

All: His mercy endures forever.

Amen.

The confession

All: Most merciful God, we confess to you, before the whole company of heaven and one another, that we have sinned in thought, word and deed and in what we have failed to do.

Forgive us our sins, heal us by your Spirit and raise us to new life in Christ. Amen.

A Collect for the first Sunday of Lent

Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan; Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations; and, as you know the weaknesses of each of us, let each one find you mighty to save; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

Amen.

The Word of God. One or more readings appointed for the day are read.

A reading from Genesis 9:8-17

8Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10and with every living creature that was with you — the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you — every living creature on earth. 11I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” 17So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The Psalm appointed for today is Psalm 25:3-9

3No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause.

4Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths.

5Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

6Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.

7Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.

8Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

9He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever. Amen.

A reading from 1 Peter 3:18-22

18For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits — 20to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also — not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand — with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark 1:9-13

9At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” 12At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, 13and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.

Today’s Reflection:

Why Ash Wednesday and Lent:- https://youtu.be/PeR8kxkFWZg

We believe:- https://youtu.be/FtPmX7e_Rpw

Prayers of intercession

Deacon or other leader

I ask your prayers for God’s people throughout the world, especially the worldwide Anglican communion, including the AMiA and Bishops Philip, Sandy, and Matt; Anglican Mission International and Bishop Carl; Archbishop Kolini; Archbishop Masimango, Bishop Bahati, and Bishop William (DRC); Bishops Silas and Peter (the AM Canada); Bishop Burnet (Anglican Mission Haiti); The Mission India; Bishop James (Myanmar); and, Bishops Aaron, Darlington, and Sospeter (Tanzania); and for this gathering, and for all other ministers and people.

Pray for the Church.

Silence

I ask your prayers for peace; for goodwill among nations; and for the well-being of all people.

Pray for justice and peace.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, and those in prison.

Pray for those in any need or trouble.

Silence

I ask your prayers for all who seek God, or a deeper knowledge of him. Pray that they may find and be found by him.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the departed [especially ______.].

Pray for those who have died.

Silence

Praise God for those in every generation in whom Christ has been honored.

Pray that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.

Silence

All: Amen.

THE OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Reader: The peace of the Lord be always with you.

All: And also with you.

Doxology:- https://youtu.be/EsBpM9IcBts

Reader: The Lord be with you.

All: And also with you.

Reader: Trusting in the compassion of God, let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:-

All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Reader: At this time when as a church family we would normally be celebrating the Eucharist together, let us now say this prayer of Saint Alphonsus as an act of spiritual communion.

Whiter than Snow:- https://youtu.be/Vep_Ty4Zx1o

The Conclusion

All our problems:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All our difficulties:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All the devil’s works:

We send to the cross of Christ

All our hopes:

We set on the risen Christ

Forty days and forty nights:- https://youtu.be/fBs0POk0I6Y

Reader: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

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Service for Sunday - February 14th, 2021 - Last Epiphany

Zoom link for online access to service at 10:00 a.m. for the last Sunday of Epiphany - February 14th:- https://zoom.us/j/7860586161?pwd=b2VaTm5zcktRYjJvYnJSUW9rYzhJdz09

Be Thou my vision:- https://youtu.be/UhuZYXy_YmI

Shine Jesus shine:- https://youtu.be/nTIGVIcHsFE

There is a Redeemer:-https://youtu.be/tUqfdaCLm0Y

Reader: Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.

All: His mercy endures forever.

Amen.

The confession

All: Most merciful God, we confess to you, before the whole company of heaven and one another, that we have sinned in thought, word and deed and in what we have failed to do.

Forgive us our sins, heal us by your Spirit and raise us to new life in Christ. Amen.

A Collect for the last Sunday of Epiphany

O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

The Word of God. One or more readings appointed for the day are read.

A reading from 1 Kings 19:9-18

9There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 10He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” 11The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. 12After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 14He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”

15The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. 16Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. 17Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu. 18Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The Psalm appointed for today is Psalm 27:5-11

5For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.

6Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the Lord.

7Hear my voice when I call, Lord; be merciful to me and answer me.

8My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, Lord, I will seek.

9Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, God my Savior.

10Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.

11Teach me your way, Lord; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever. Amen.

A reading from 2 Peter 1:16-21

16For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” 18We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain. 19We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. 20Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. 21For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though hu

The Word of the Lord

Thanks be to God

The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark 9:2-9

2After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. 3His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 5Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters — one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 6(He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.) 7Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!” 8Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus. 9As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

Today’s Reflection:

God on the Run - Luke #34:- https://youtu.be/RT0FHCuDVZY

We believe:- https://youtu.be/FtPmX7e_Rpw

Prayers of intercession

Deacon or other leader

I ask your prayers for God’s people throughout the world, especially the worldwide Anglican communion, including the AMiA and Bishops Philip, Sandy, and Matt; Anglican Mission International and Bishop Carl; Archbishop Kolini; Archbishop Masimango, Bishop Bahati, and Bishop William (DRC); Bishops Silas and Peter (the AM Canada); Bishop Burnet (Anglican Mission Haiti); The Mission India; Bishop James (Myanmar); and, Bishops Aaron, Darlington, and Sospeter (Tanzania); and for this gathering, and for all other ministers and people.

Pray for the Church.

Silence

I ask your prayers for peace; for goodwill among nations; and for the well-being of all people.

Pray for justice and peace.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, and those in prison.

Pray for those in any need or trouble.

Silence

I ask your prayers for all who seek God, or a deeper knowledge of him. Pray that they may find and be found by him.

Silence

I ask your prayers for the departed [especially ______.].

Pray for those who have died.

Silence

Praise God for those in every generation in whom Christ has been honored.

Pray that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.

Silence

All: Amen.

THE OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Reader: The peace of the Lord be always with you.

All: And also with you.

Seek ye first:- https://youtu.be/EsBpM9IcBts

Reader: The Lord be with you.

All: And also with you.

Reader: Believing the promises of God, let us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us:-

All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Reader: At this time when as a church family we would normally be celebrating the Eucharist together, let us now say this prayer of Saint Alphonsus as an act of spiritual communion.

Be still for the presence of the Lord:- https://youtu.be/Vep_Ty4Zx1o

The Conclusion

All our problems:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All our difficulties:

We send to the cross of Christ.

All the devil’s works:

We send to the cross of Christ

All our hopes:

We set on the risen Christ

Days of Elijah - Paul Wilbur:- https://youtu.be/u7gu8ng78SI

Reader: Alleluia, alleluia. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia.

Service for Sunday April 11th, 2021 - Easter II

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