WORSHIP

 

 

OPENING SENTENCE                  

If you love me, you will keep my word, and my Father will love you, and we will come to you.                              John 14.23

 

OPENING HYMN    God Is Our Fortress and Our Rock

                                                                                    Blue Book CP526

 

 

 WELCOME & TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 

 

CONFESSION         Come let us return to the Lord and say:

 

Lord God, we have sinned against you; we have done evil in your sight. We are sorry and repent. Have mercy on us according to your love. Wash away our wrongdoing and cleanse us from our sin. Renew a right spirit within us and restore us to the joy of your salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Loving Creator, have mercy upon us, we pray. Pardon and deliver us from all our sins, confirm and strengthen us in all goodness, and keep us in eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

JUBILATE DEO                         Psalm 100

Be joyful in the Lord, all you lands;*

serve the Lord with gladness and come into the divine presence with a song.

Know this: the Lord, the Creator, is God; *

the One who made us and to whom we belong;

we are God’s people, the sheep of God’s pasture.

Enter the gates of the Lord with thanksgiving; go into God’s courts with praise; *

give thanks to God and call upon the name of the Lord.

For the Lord is good, whose steadfast love is everlasting; *

and whose faithfulness endures from age to age.

 

GATHERING PRAYER

The night has passed, and the new day lies open before us; let us pray with one heart and mind.

Silence is kept

As we rejoice in the gift of this new day, so may the light of your presence, O God, set our hearts on fire with love for you; now and for ever. Amen.

 

CANTICLE              The Song of Zechariah

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;*

he has come to his people and set them free.

He has raised up for us a mighty Saviour,*

born of the house of his servant David.

Through his holy prophets he promised of old, that he would save us from our enemies,*

From the hands of all who hate us.

He promised to show mercy to our fathers*

and to remember his holy covenant.

This was the oath that he swore to our father Abraham,*

to set us free from the hands of our enemies.

Free to worship him without fear,*

holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.

You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the most high,*

for you will go before the lord to prepare his way,

To give his people knowledge of salvation*

by the forgiveness of their sins.

In the tender compassion of our God*

the dawn from on high shall break upon us,

to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death,*

and to guide our way into the way of peace.

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

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

 

FIRST READING       Acts 17.22–31

PSALM              Psalm 66.7–18

 

Bless our God, you peoples; *

          make the voice of his praise to be heard;

Who holds our souls in life, *

          and will not allow our feet to slip.

For you, O God, have proved us; *

          you have tried us just as silver is tried.

You brought us into the snare; *

          you laid heavy burdens upon our backs.

You let enemies ride over our heads;

we went through fire and water; *

          but you brought us out into a place of refreshment.

I will enter your house with burnt-offerings

and will pay you my vows, *

          which I promised with my lips

          and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble.

I will offer you sacrifices of fat beasts

with the smoke of rams; *

          I will give you oxen and goats.

Come and listen, all you who fear God, *

          and I will tell you what he has done for me.

I called out to him with my mouth, *

          and his praise was on my tongue.

If I had found evil in my heart, *

          the Lord would not have heard me;

But in truth God has heard me; *

          he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer, *

          nor withheld his love from me.

 

 

God of power and might, you bring your people out of darkness and slavery into light and freedom through the waters of salvation. Receive our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, and keep us always in your steadfast love, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

SECOND READING       1 Peter 3.13–22

 

GRADUAL HYMN     Come Down, O Love Divine      Blue Book CP 645

 

GOSPEL READING    John 14.15–21

 

SERMON 

 

HEAR O ISRAEL

Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

This is the first and the great commandment. The second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.

There is no commandment greater than these.

 

OFFERATORY HYMN      How Firm a Foundation   

                                                                                                Blue Book CP527

 

PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS

God of glory, accept all we offer you this day, and bring us to that eternal city of love and light, where Christ is King. We ask this in his name.

 

Parish Prayer

Al, Alice, Annette, Ben & Jen, Beryl, Brenda, Brynlee, Callie, Carol, Darlene, Darrell, Dave & Bev, David-Anthony, Doreen, Dylan, Effie, Emily, Frances, Gabe, Gavin, Gene & Ken, Graham, Heather, Heather, Jackie, Janessa, Janet, Jean, Jerry, Jerry, Jill, Jodi, John, Judy, Karen, Kathleen & Team, Ken, Kristina & Family, Lee, Marcia, Margaret, Mary, Maureen, Nathan & Chloe, Parker, Pat, Pauline, Peter, Ralph, Sarah, Simone, Spencer & Diana, Sue, Zoë

 

COLLECT OF THE DAY

 

Merciful God, you have prepared for those who love you riches beyond imagination. Pour into our hearts such love toward you, that we, loving you above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.

 

 

THE LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heav’n, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heav’n.

Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive them that trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;

for thine is the kingdom and pow’r and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

 

THE SENDING

        

          May the Christ who walks on wounded feet

walk with you on the road.

May the Christ who serves with wounded hands

stretch out your hands to serve others.

May the Christ who loves with a wounded heart

open your hearts to love.

May you see the face of Christ in everyone you meet,

and may everyone you meet see the face of Christ in you. Amen.

 

DISMISSAL

        

          May the Risen Lord be our strength, go in peace.

Thanks be to God. Alleluia! Alleluia!! 

 

SENDING HYMN          Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee    

                                                                                      Blue Book CP425

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St Saviour's Anglican Church​

150 Orchard Ave Penticton, BC

250.492.4325

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Deacon: Rev. Richard Simpson - Deacon: Rev. Pat Simons

Bishop's Warden: Pat Rowles - People's Warden: Beth Hook​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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