(1) we are using the complementary series for the first reading and the psalm and
(2) we are beginning a different entrance rite for this Sunday as well as a different hymn before and after the Gospel.
The Sixth
Sunday after Pentecost
16 July 2017
The Gathering
of the Community
Gathering Music
Announcements
Opening Hymn
‘All Creatures of
Our God and King’ Common Praise #355 vv. 1, 2, 3, 4
Blessed be God, the
holy and undivided Trinity, one God:
this is your world and we are your people;
blessed are you for ever and ever. Amen.
After each bidding the Community sings the Kyrie.
When we have
willfully misused your gifts of creation:
Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison. [ii]
When we have seen
the ill-treatment of others
and have not gone
to their aid:
Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison.
When we have
condoned evil and dishonesty
and failed to
strive for justice:
Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison.
When we have heard
the good news of Christ
but have failed to
share it with others:
Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison.
When we have not
loved you with all our heart
nor our neighbours
as ourselves:
Kyrie, Kyrie, eleison.
The Collect of the Day
Let us pray.
Almighty God,
we thank you for planting in us the seed of
your word.
By your Holy Spirit help us to receive it
with joy,
live according to it, and grow in faith, hope
and love,
through Jesus Christ, our Saviour and
Lord. Amen.
[iii]
The
Proclamation of the Word
The First Reading
A reading from the
prophet Isaiah (55.10-13).
55.10 For as the rain and
the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered
the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread
to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it
shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and
succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
12 For you shall go out
in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall
burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come
up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be
to the Lord for a memorial, for an
everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Hear what the
Spirit is saying to the Church.
Thanks be to God.
The Psalm
Psalm 65.9-13 from Songs for the Holy One.
Refrain (sung twice): We
praise and thank you, Holy One, for your gifts to us.
You visit the earth
and it flourishes, greatly enriched.
The divine river is full of water.
You have prepared
the earth to provide grain for everyone.
You drench earth’s furrows, smooth her
ridges,
soften her with showers, and bless her
growth.
Refrain: We
praise and thank you, Holy One, for your gifts to us.
You crown the year
with your bounty
and your passing
flows with fatness.
Even the desert pastures flow with fatness!
The hills are surrounded with joy!
The meadows are
clothed with flocks;
the valleys are dressed in grain.
They shout and sing!
Refrain: We
praise and thank you, Holy One, for your gifts to us.
The Second Reading
A reading from Paul’s
Letter to the Romans (8.1-11).
8.1 There is therefore
now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God has done what the law,
weakened by the flesh, could not do: by
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he
condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the just requirement of the
law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according
to the Spirit. 5 For those
who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but
those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the
Spirit. 6 To set the mind on
the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For this reason the mind that is
set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law — indeed it
cannot, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the
flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ
does not belong to him. 10
But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is
life because of righteousness. 11
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who
raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through
his Spirit that dwells in you.
Hear what the
Spirit is saying to the Church.
Thanks be to God.
Hymn before the Gospel
‘Alleluia’ Common
Praise #709 (sung twice)
The Gospel
The Lord be with
you.
And also with you.
The Holy Gospel of
our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew (13.1-9, 18-23).
Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
13.1 That same day Jesus
went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 2 Such great crowds gathered around
him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the
beach. 3 And he told them
many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell
on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. 5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground,
where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had
no depth of soil. 6 But when
the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered
away. 7 Other seeds fell
among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 8 Other seeds fell on good soil and
brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9 Let anyone with ears listen!”
18 [Jesus said to his
disciples,] “Hear then the parable of the sower. 19 When anyone hears the word of
the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away
what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path. 20 As for what was sown on rocky
ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with
joy; 21 yet such a person has no root, but endures only for a while,
and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person
immediately falls away. 22 As
for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the
cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.
23 But as for what was sown
on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed
bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in
another thirty.”
The Gospel of
Christ.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Hymn after the Gospel
‘Alleluia’ Common
Praise #709 (sung twice)
The Homily
An Affirmation of Faith
Let us affirm our faith in God.
We believe in God
the Creator,
from whom every
family
in heaven and on
earth has its being.
We believe in God
the Word incarnate,
who lives in our
hearts through faith,
and fills us with
the perfect love which casts out fear.
We believe in God
the Spirit of counsel and wisdom,
who strengthens us
with power from on high.
We believe in one
God,
the Father, the
Son and the Holy Spirit,
The Prayers of
the Community
Intercessions, Petitions and Thanksgivings
The Prayers of
the Community
Intercessions, Petitions and Thanksgivings
The Exchange of the Peace
May the peace of
Christ be always with you.
And also with you.
The Holy
Communion
Offertory Hymn
‘Sing Ye Praises to
the Father’ Common Praise #391
Prayer over the Gifts
Let us pray.
Holy God, gracious and merciful,
you
bring forth food from the earth
and
nourish your whole creation.
Turn our
hearts toward those who hunger in any way,
so that
all my know your care;
and
prepare us now to feast on the bread of life,
Jesus
Christ, our Saviour and Lord. Amen. [v]
The 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.
We give you thanks and praise, almighty God, for the
gift of a world full of wonder, and for our life which comes from you. By your power you sustain the universe.
Glory to
you for ever and ever.
You created us to love you with all our heart, and
to love each other as ourselves, but we rebel against you by the evil that we
do.
In Jesus, your Servant, you bring healing to our
world and gather us into one great family.
Therefore, with all who serve you on earth and in heaven, we praise your
wonderful name, as we sing,
Holy,
holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your
glory. Hosanna in the highest.
We give you thanks and praise, loving Creator,
because in sending Jesus, your Beloved, to us you showed us how much you love
us. He cares for the poor and the
hungry. He suffers with the sick and the
rejected.
Betrayed and forsaken, he did not strike back but
overcame hatred with love. On the cross
he defeated the power of sin and death.
By raising him from the dead you show us the power of your love to bring
new life to all your people.
Glory to
you for ever and ever.
On the night before he gave up his life for us,
Jesus, at supper with his friends, took bread, gave thanks to you, broke it,
and gave it to them, saying, “Take this, all of you, and eat it: this is my body which is given for you.”
After supper, Jesus took the cup of wine, said the
blessing, gave it to his friends, and said, “Drink this, all of you: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the
new and eternal covenant, which is shed for you and for all people. Do this in memory of me.”
Glory to
you for ever and ever.
Gracious God, with this bread and wine we celebrate
the death and resurrection of Jesus, and we offer ourselves to you in him.
Send your Holy Spirit on us and on these gifts, so that we may know the presence of
Jesus in the breaking of bread, and share in the life of the family of your
children.
Glory to
you for ever and ever.
Giver of life, you call us to be your servants; fill
us with the courage and love of Jesus, so that all the world may gather in joy
at the table of your kingdom.
We sing your praise, God our Creator, through Jesus,
our Lord, in the power of the Holy Spirit, now and for ever.
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,
now and for ever. Amen.
The Breaking of the Bread
We break this bread
to share in the
body of Christ.
We, being many, are one body,
for we all share in the one bread.
These are the gifts
of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God.
Communion
The Hymn after Communion
‘Breathe on Me,
Breath of God’ Common Praise #649
The Sending
Forth of the Community
Prayer after Communion
Let us pray.
O God,
we give
you thanks
that you
have set before us this feast,
the body
and blood of your Son.
By your
Spirit strengthen us to serve all in need
and to
give ourselves away as bread for the hungry,
through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. [viii]
Glory to God,
whose power, working in us,
can do infinitely more
than we can ask or imagine.
Glory to God from generation to generation,
in the Church and in Christ Jesus,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Closing Hymn
‘Sent Forth by God’s
Blessing’ Songs for a Gospel People #96
Dismissal
The Deacon sends the Community forth with an
appropriate Dismissal.
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