The Third Sunday In Lent
19 March 2017
The Gathering of the
Community
Gathering Music
Announcements
The Lenten Gathering Rite
Blessed are you, Lord God, our maker and
redeemer:
this
is your world and we are your people;
come
among us and save us.
The Presider leads the
Community in the Litany.
When
we wilfully misuse your gifts of creation:
Holy God, holy and mighty,
holy immortal one,
have mercy upon us.
When
we see the ill-treatment of others
and
do not go to their aid:
Holy God, holy and mighty,
holy immortal one,
have mercy upon us.
When
we condone evil and dishonesty
and
fail to strive for justice:
Holy God, holy and mighty,
holy immortal one,
have mercy upon us.
When
we hear the good news of Christ
but
fail to share it with others:
Holy God, holy and mighty,
holy immortal one,
have mercy upon us.
When
we do not love you with all our hearts
nor
our neighbours as ourselves:
Holy God, holy and mighty,
holy immortal one,
have mercy upon us.
May
almighty God have mercy upon you,
pardon
and deliver us from all your sins,
confirm
and strengthen you in all goodness,
and
keep you in eternal life;
through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Collect of the Day
Let us pray.
Gracious
God,
you provide us with living
water in abundance for all to share.
Nourish us with this
abundance,
so that we may be streams of
living water to those who thirst for you;
The Proclamation of the Word
The First Reading
A reading from Exodus (17.1-7).
17.1
From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed
by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no
water for the people to drink. 2
The people quarrelled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with
me? Why do you test the Lord?” 3 But the people thirsted there for
water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us
out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” 4 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people?
They are almost ready to stone me.” 5 The Lord said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take
some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which
you struck the Nile, and go. 6
I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of
it, so that the people may drink.” Moses
did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 He called the place Massah and
Meribah, because the Israelites quarrelled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
Thanks
be to God.
The Psalm
Psalm
95 with Refrain 2 from Songs for the Holy One.
Refrain
(sung twice): Gracious God, help us to serve you faithfully.
1 Come, let
us sing to the Lord; *
let us shout for
joy to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before the presence of the Lord
with thanksgiving *
and raise a loud shout to God with
psalms.
3 For you, O
Lord, are a great God, *
and a great
sovereign above all gods.
4 In your hand are the caverns of the earth,
*
and the heights of the hills are
yours also.
5 The sea is
yours, for you made it, *
and your hands have moulded the dry
land.
Refrain: Gracious
God, help us to serve you faithfully.
6 Come, let
us bow down, and bend the knee, *
and kneel before
the Lord our Maker.
7 For you are our God,
and we are
the people of your pasture and the sheep of your hand. *
Oh, that today we would hearken to
your voice!
8 “Harden
not your hearts, as your forebears did in the wilderness, *
at Meribah, and
on that day at Massah, when they tempted me.
9 They put me to the test, *
though they had seen my works.
10 Forty
years long I detested that generation and said, *
‘This people are
wayward in their hearts;
they do not know
my ways.’
11 So I swore in my wrath, *
‘They shall not enter into my
rest.’”
Refrain: Gracious
God, help us to serve you faithfully.
The Second Reading
A reading from Paul’s letter to the Romans (5.1-11).
5.1
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this
grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also
boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and
hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
6
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Indeed, rarely will anyone die
for a righteous person — though perhaps for a good person someone might
actually dare to die. 8 But
God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for
us. 9 Much more surely then,
now that we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from
the wrath of God. 10 For if
while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son,
much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life. 11 But more than that, we even
boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received
reconciliation.
Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
Thanks
be to God.
Hymn before the Gospel
‘Prepare the Way of the Lord’ Common
Praise #107 (with
repeat)
The Gospel
The Lord be with you.
And
also with you.
The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
according to John (4.5-42).
Glory
to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
4.5 So [Jesus] came to a
Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to
his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s
well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
7
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
8 (His disciples had gone to
the city to buy food.) 9 The
Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a
woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share
things in common with Samaritans.) 10
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying
to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given
you living water.” 11 The
woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our
ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank
from it?” 13 Jesus said to
her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14
but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them
a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir,
give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here
to draw water.”
16
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have
no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are
right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five
husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I
see that you are a prophet. 20
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where
people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe
me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this
mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is
from the Jews. 23 But the
hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who
worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know
that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will
proclaim all things to us.” 26
Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.”
27
Just then his disciples came. They were
astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you
want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water
jar and went back to the city. She said
to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have
ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can
he?” 30 They left the city
and were on their way to him.
31
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he said to them, “I have
food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one
another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to
do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘Four months
more, then comes the harvest’? But I
tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36 The reaper is already receiving
wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may
rejoice together. 37 For here
the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for
which you did not labour. Others have
laboured, and you have entered into their labour.”
39 Many Samaritans from
that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me
everything I have ever done.” 40
So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he
stayed there two days. 41 And
many more believed because of his word. 42
They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we
believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the
Saviour of the world.”
The Gospel of Christ.
Praise
to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Hymn after the Gospel
‘Prepare the Way of the Lord’ Common
Praise #107 (with
repeat)
The Homily
The Affirmation of Faith
As a people created by water and the Holy Spirit,
let us confess the faith of our baptism.
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only
Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the
Father,
and he will come to judge the living and
the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
The Prayers of the Community
Intercessions,
Thanksgivings and Petitions
The Exchange of the Peace
May the peace of the Lord be always with you.
And
also with you.
The Holy Communion
Offertory Hymn
‘Tree of Life and Awesome Mystery’ Common
Praise #179 vv. 1, 2, 5, 6d
Prayer over the Gifts
Let
us pray.
Source
of life and Source of goodness,
receive all we offer you this
day,
and bring us to the living
water,
Jesus Christ, your Son our
Lord. Amen. [iii]
Thanksgiving at the Table
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord
our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
It is right to give you thanks
and praise,
O Lord, our God, sustainer of the
universe,
you are worthy of glory and
praise.
Glory to you for ever and ever.
At your command all things came
to be:
the vast expanse of interstellar
space,
galaxies, suns, the planets in
their courses,
and this fragile earth, our
island home;
by your will they were created
and have their being.
Glory to you for ever and ever.
From the primal elements
you brought forth the human race,
and blessed us with memory,
reason, and skill;
you made us the stewards of
creation.
Glory to you for ever and ever.
But we turn against you, and
betray your trust;
and we turn against one another.
Again and again you call us to
return.
Through the prophets and sages
you reveal your righteous
law.
In the fullness of time you sent
your Son,
born of a woman, to be our
Saviour.
He was wounded for our
transgressions,
and bruised for our iniquities.
By his death he opened to us
the way of freedom and
peace.
Glory to you for ever and ever.
Therefore we praise you,
joining with the heavenly chorus,
with prophets, apostles, and
martyrs,
and with those in every
generation
who have looked to you in hope,
to proclaim with them your glory,
in their unending hymn:
Holy, holy, holy Lord,
God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of
your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord.
Blessed are you, Lord our God,
for sending us Jesus, the Christ,
who on the night he was handed
over
to suffering and death,
took bread, said the blessing,
broke the bread, gave it to his
friends,
and said, “Take this, and eat
it:
this is my body which is given
for you.
Do this for the remembrance of
me.”
In the same way, after supper,
he took the cup of wine;
he gave you thanks,
and said, “Drink this, all of
you:
this is my blood of the new
covenant,
which is shed for you and [for
all people]
for the forgiveness of sins.
Whenever you drink it,
do this for the remembrance of
me.”
Glory to you for ever and ever.
Gracious God,
we recall the death of your Son
Jesus Christ,
we proclaim his resurrection and
ascension,
and we look with expectation for
his coming
as Lord of all the nations.
We who have been redeemed by him,
and made a new people by water
and the Spirit,
now bring you these gifts.
Send your Holy Spirit upon us
and upon this offering of your
Church,
[so that] we who eat and drink at
this holy table
may share the divine life of
Christ our Lord.
Glory to you for ever and ever.
Pour out your Spirit upon the
whole earth
and make it your new
creation.
Gather your Church together
from the ends of the earth into
your kingdom,
where peace and justice are
revealed,
[so that] we, with all your
people,
of every language, race, and
nation,
may share the banquet you have
promised;
through Christ, with Christ, and
in Christ,
all honour and glory are yours, [Creator]
of all.
Glory to you for ever and ever. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer
As our Saviour taught us, let us pray,
Our
Father in heaven,
hallowed
be your name,
your
kingdom come,
your
will be done,
on
earth as in heaven.
Give
us today our daily bread.
Forgive
us our sins
as
we forgive those who sin against us.
Save
us from the time of trial,
and
deliver us from evil.
For
the kingdom, the power,
and
the glory are yours,
The Breaking of the Bread
We break this bread,
communion
in Christ’s body once broken.
Let your Church be the wheat
which bears its fruit in dying.
If
we have died with him,
we
shall live with him;
if
we hold firm,
we
shall reign with him.
The gifts of God for the people of God.
Thanks
be to God.
The Communion
The Hymn after Communion
‘Jesus, the Joy of Living Hearts’ Common
Praise #70
The Sending Forth of the
Community
Prayer after Communion
Let
us pray.
God
of our pilgrimage,
we have found the living
water.
Refresh and sustain us
as we go forth on our journey,
in the name of Jesus Christ
the Lord. Amen. [vi]
The
Presider then says the following Prayer over the People.
Look mercifully on this your family, Almighty God,
[so that] by your great goodness
they may be governed and preserved evermore;
Closing Hymn
‘What Wondrous Love Is This’ Common
Praise #400
Dismissal
The
Deacon sends the Community forth with an appropriate Dismissal.
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