A Beacon of Christs Love, Spirit Fed, Serving Others

St. Martins Episcopal Church

September 2, 2012 8:00a.m.

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Welcome! We are glad you are worshiping here today. We encourage all to settle in to a spirit of prayer before the service begins. Please be sensitive to the needs of your fellow worshipers by silencing cell phones and maintaining a spirit of God focused peace. Thank you.

THE WORD OF GOD The Holy Eucharist: Rite I Opening Acclamation

The people standing, the Clebrant says, People

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Hearing assist devices are available from the ushers.

Amen.

Blessed be God; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And blessed be Gods kingdom, now and for ever.

Collect for Purity Celebrant Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. People Amen. The Summary of the Law 324 Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ saith: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

The Gloria 324 The Collect of the Day Celebrant The Lord be with you. People And with thy spirit. Celebrant Let us pray. Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. People Amen.
The people sit.

The First Lesson

Song of Solomon 2:8-13

The voice of my beloved!

Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice. My beloved speaks and says to me: Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, 2

and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God.
Reader

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Psalm 45:1-2, 7-10

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My heart is stirring with a noble song;

let me recite what I have fashioned for the king; * my tongue shall be the pen of a skilled writer.
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You are the fairest of men; * grace flows from your lips, because God has blessed you for ever. Your throne, O God, endures for ever and ever, * a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom; you love righteousness and hate iniquity. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you * with the oil of gladness above your fellows. All your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes, and cassia, * and the music of strings from ivory palaces makes you glad. Kings' daughters stand among the ladies of the court; * on your right hand is the queen, adorned with the gold of Ophir. 3

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The Second Lesson James 1:17-27 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures. You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God's righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act-they will be blessed in their doing. If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Reader People Thanks

The Word of the Lord. be to God.

The Holy Gospel Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Celebrant The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark. People Glory be to thee, O Lord. Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing 4

them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.' You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition." Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person." Celebrant The Gospel of the Lord. People Praise be to thee, O Christ. The Sermon The Nicene Creed
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The Rev. Jon Hall 326

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The Prayers of the People

Celebrant

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The Confession 5

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Celebrant

The Absolution The Peace (stand) Celebrant The peace of the Lord be always with you. People And with thy spirit. Welcome and Announcements Invitation for Birthday & Anniversary Blessings

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THE HOLY COMMUNION

The Offertory Celebrant All things come of Thee, O Lord, People And of Thine own have we given Thee. THE GREAT THANKSGIVINGEUCHARISTIC PRAYER I The Sursum Corda The Proper Preface The Sanctus Prayer of Consecration The Lords Prayer The Fraction The Agnus Dei Prayer of Humble Access Invitation
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All baptized Christians are invited to receive Holy Communion when visiting the Episcopal Church. When you kneel at the altar rail, place one hand over the other to receive the bread in the palm of your hand, then lift it to your mouth. Gently hold the chalice by the base and guide it to your lips or you may hold the wafer and when the chalice comes before you, dip the wafer into the wine. Full Communion is received in either the bread or the wine individually. Those who do not wish to receive are invited to come to the altar rail and kneel to receive a blessing. Cross your arms over your chest as a sign that you are covered by the cross of Christ and the priest will be glad to offer you a blessing. If you are unable to come to the communion rail, please notify an usher, so that communion may be brought to you in the pew.

The Post Communion Prayer

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The Blessing May the Spirit of truth lead you into all truth, giving you grace to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, and to proclaim the wonderful works of God; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you, and remain with you always. People Amen. The Dismissal Celebrant Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. People Thanks be to God. 340

Liturgical Participants
Celebrant Crucifer Lector Chalice Bearer Ushers Altar Guild Turner Murphy The Rev. Jon Hall Tom Soule Loretta Go Loretta Go Honor & Rich Herbenstreit Ruth Minster, Helen Sherrie Algren

St. Martins Episcopal Church

15764 Clayton Rd. Ellisville, Missouri 63011 Phone: 636.227.1484 Fax: 636.227.1494 www.stmartinschurch.org http://www.facebook.com/stmartinschurch

The Rt. Reverend George Wayne Smith, Bishop of Missouri The Reverend Jon W. Hall, Rector, jhall@stmartinschurch.org The Reverend Emily Hillquist Davis, Assistant Priest, edavis@stmartinschurch.org Michelle Magee, Administrative Assistant to Clergy, mmagee@stmartinschurch.org Janet Theiss, Parish Administrator, jtheiss@stmartinschurch.org Janis Greenbaum, Communications Coordinator, jgreenbaum@stmartinschurch.org Tom Warrington, Sexton Susan Cupini, Sexton Steve Young,
(2014) (2015) (2013) Sr. Warden (2013) (2015)

The Vestry Tom Baranowski, Stewardship Liaison

Lynn Corning, Steve Gillies,
Outreach Liaison

Clem Brooke, Jr. Warden Jane Klieve,

Clerk (2014)

Children, Youth Liaison

Larry Cornelius, Treasurer (2014) Loretta Go, Parish Life Liaison (2015) Stewart Wiles, Asst. Treasurer, Packwood Fund Chair (2013) Mike Reeves,
Parish Life Liaison (2015) Elizabeth Arras, Pastoral Care Liaison (2013) Ralph

Trieschmann,

Evangelism

Liaison (2014) *Date in parentheses is the end of the term of service in January of the year noted.

Convention Delegates Larry Cornelius (2012), Wayne Peters (2013), Lincoln Drake (2013) Dana Griggs (2014), Carolann Sternberg (Alternate 2012)

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