A Service for
Wholeness and
Healing
Easter 6
May 17, 2020
With
resources from the Church of England
(Prayer
of Thanksgiving from Beliefnet)
Are any among you sick?
They should call for the elders of the church
and have them pray over them,
anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.
James 5:14
All Creatures of Our God and King
All creatures of our God and King,
lift up your voice and with us sing
alleluia, alleluia!
Birght burning sun with golden beam,
pale silver moon that brightly gleams,
O praise him, O praise him,
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Great rushing winds that art so strong,
ye clouds that ride the heavens aloft,
O sing now, alleluia!
Fair rising morn, with praise rejoice,
stars nightly shining, find a voice,
O praise him, O praise him,
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Swift flowing water, pure and clear,
make music for your Lord to hear,
alleluia, alleluia!
Fire so intense and fiercely bright,
you give to us both warmth and light,
O praise him, O praise him,
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
All you with mercy in your heart,
forgiving others, take your part,
O sing ye, alleluia!
All you that pain and sorrow bear,
Sing praise and cast on God your care,
O praise him, O praise him,
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Let all things their Creator bless,
and worship God in humbleness,
O praise him, alleluia!
Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son,
and praise the Spirit, three in one,
O praise him, O praise him,
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Greeting
We meet in the presence of God
who knows our needs,
hears our cries,
feels our pain,
and heals our wounds.
Opening Prayer
Be
with us, Spirit of God;
nothing can separate us from your love.
Breathe
on us, breath of God;
fill us with your saving power.
Speak
in us, wisdom of God;
bring strength, healing and peace.
Silence is kept.
The
Lord is here.
His Spirit is with us.
Collect of
the Day
Risen Christ,
whose gift to us is the Spirit of truth:
come, make your home with us,
so that, keeping your commandments,
we may dwell with you and the Father. Amen.
Propers Working Group (2016)
Acts 17.22-31
Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said,
‘Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went
through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found
among them an altar with the inscription, “To an unknown god.” What therefore
you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and
everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines
made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed
anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.
From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he
allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where
they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him
and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For “In him we
live and move and have our being”; as even some of your own poets have said,
“For we too are his offspring.”
Since we are God’s
offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or
stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has
overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere
to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in
righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given
assurance to all by raising him from the dead.’
Hear what the Spirit
is saying to the Church.
Thanks be to God.
Psalm 66.7-20 Jubilate Deo
Bless our God, you
peoples;
make the voice of God’s
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;
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
I 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
the Lord has done for me,
The One to whom I called
out with my mouth
and whose 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
and has attended to the
voice of my prayer.
Blessed be God, who has
not rejected my prayer,
nor withheld steadfast
love from me.
1 Peter
3.13-22
Now who will harm you if you are eager to do
what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are
blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your
hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defence to anyone
who demands from you an account of the hope that is in you; yet do it with
gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are
maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to
shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s
will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for
all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was
put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went
and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not
obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the
ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through water. And
baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the
body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with
angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.
Hear
what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
Thanks
be to God.
Fairest Lord Jesus
Fairest Lord
Jesus, ruler of all nature,
O thou the
Godhead’s human son,
Thee will I
cherish, thee will I honor,
thou, my
soul's glory, joy, and crown.
Fair are the
meadows, fairer still the woodlands,
robed in the
blooming garb of spring:
Jesus is
fairer, Jesus is purer
who makes the
troubled heart to sing.
Fair is the
sunshine, fairer still the moonlight,
and fair the
twinkling starry host:
Jesus shines
brighter, Jesus shines purer
than all the
angels heaven can boast.
All Fairest
beauty, heavenly and earthly
wondrously
Jesus is found in thee,
None can be
nearer, fairer or dearer
than thou my saviour art to me.
The Gospel
The Lord
be with you.
And also with you.
The Holy
Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
according
to John.
Glory to
you, Lord Jesus Christ.
John 14.15-21
‘If you love
me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give
you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. This is the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You
know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
‘I
will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world
will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.
On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those
who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself
to them.’
The Gospel of Christ.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Sermon
Let us confess the
faith of our baptism as we say,
I believe in God,
the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and
earth.
I believe in Jesus
Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by
the power of the Holy Spirit
and born of the
Virgin Mary.
He 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,
and is seated at the
right hand of the Father.
He will come again
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,
and the life
everlasting. Amen.
O God of
Bethel, By Whose Hand
O God of Bethel, by
whose hand
thy people still are
fed,
who through this earthly
pilgrimage
thy multitudes have
led:;
Our vows, our
prayers, we now present
before thy throne of
grace;
God of our forebears,
be the God
of their succeeding
race.
Through each perplexing
path of life
our wandering
footsteps guide;
give us each day our
daily bread,
and raiment fit
provide.
O spread thy covering
wings around
till all our
wanderings cease,
and at our Father's
loved abode
our souls arrive in
peace.
Prayers of the People
Anglican Communion
Pray for the Anglican Church of Korea
The Most Revd Moses Nagjun Yoo
Primate of Korea and Bishop of Daejeon
Anglican Church of Canada
Diocese of Fredericton
the Right Reverend David Edwards, Bishop
Council of the North
Diocese of Moosonee
The
Most Reverend Anne Germond, Bishop
The Most Reverend Fred Hiltz, Assisting
Bishop
The Diocese of Edmonton
The clergy on a leave of
absence
and the
Interim Ministry Team
Buyé Diocese
Bible School
Daniel
Bizimana, Director
Alfred
Uwimanihaye, Teacher
Louis Bull
Tribe
We continue to pray for Burundi and our
twinned parishes
Kabanga and St. Luke’s
Bigombo
We also pray for the Canadian Armed Forces
serving at home and abroad.
God the Father,
your will for all
people is health and salvation.
We
praise and bless you, Lord.
God the Son,
you came that we
might have life,
and have it more
abundantly.
We
praise and bless you, Lord.
God the Holy Spirit,
you make our bodies
the temple of your presence.
We
praise and bless you, Lord.
Holy Trinity, one
God,
in you we live and
move and have our being.
We
praise and bless you, Lord.
Grant to all who are
lonely, anxious or depressed
a knowledge of your will
and an awareness of your presence.
Hear
us, Lord of life.
Grant to all who
minister to those who are suffering
wisdom and skill,
sympathy and patience.
Hear
us, Lord of life.
Mend broken
relationships,
and restore to those
in distress soundness of mind and serenity of spirit.
Hear
us, Lord of life.
Sustain and support
those who seek your guidance
and lift up all who
are brought low by the trials of life.
Hear
us, Lord of life.
Grant to the dying
peace and a holy death,
and uphold by the
grace and consolation of your Holy Spirit
those who are
bereaved.
Hear
us, Lord of life.
Restore to wholeness
whatever is broken by human sin,
in our lives, in our nation,
and in the world.
Hear
us, Lord of life.
You are the Lord who
does mighty wonders.
You
have declared your power among the peoples.
With you, Lord, is
the well of life
and
in your light do we see light.
Hear us, Lord of
life:
heal
us, and make us whole.
Let us pray.
Silence
O Lord our God,
accept the fervent
prayers of your people;
in the multitude of
your mercies
look
with compassion upon us
and all who turn to
you for help;
for you are gracious,
O lover of souls,
and to you we give glory,
Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit,
now and forever. Amen.
Our
God is a loving God, gentle and merciful,
whose
desire for us
is
wholeness of body, mind, and spirit.
It
is with this knowledge in our hearts
that
we have gathered here today as a community.
We
have reconciled ourselves to God and to each other.
We
have heard God’s holy word
and
pondered upon it in our hearts and minds.
We
know that God is steadfast and true
and
so we are able to pray with faith and trust:
Loving
God,
By
the power of your Spirit
may
your blessing rest on all who approach you.
May
they be made whole in body, mind, and spirit,
restored
in your image, renewed in your love,
to
serve you as sons and daughters in your kingdom. Amen.
Love divine, all loves excelling,
Joy of heav'n to earth come down:
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown:
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
pure, unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation,
enter ev'ry trembling heart.
Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit
into ev'ry troubled breast;
let us all in thee inherit,
let us find the promised rest:
take away the love of sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
End of faith, as its Beginning,
set our hearts at liberty.
Come, Almighty to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return, and never,
nevermore thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above,
pray and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.
Finish, then, thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be:
let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee;
changed from glory into glory,
'til in heav'n we take our place,
'til we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Prayer of Thanksgiving
God in creation New Patterns for Worship Church of England
You,
Christ, are the image of the unseen God,
the
first-born of all creation.
You
created all things in heaven and on earth:
everything
visible and everything invisible,
thrones,
dominions, sovereignties, powers,
all
things were created through you and for you.
Lord
of all creation
we
worship and adore you.
You
are the radiant light of God's glory:
you
hold all creation together by your word of power.
Lord
of all creation
we
worship and adore you.
You
are the first to be born from the dead.
All
perfection is found in you,
and
all things were reconciled through you and for you,
everything
in heaven and everything on earth,
when
you made peace by your death on the cross.
Lord
of all creation
we
worship and adore you.
The
Church is your body,
you
are its head.
You
take your place in heaven
at
the right hand of the divine majesty,
where
we worship and adore you
with
all your creation, singing:
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.
Hosanna
in the highest.
And now,
as our Saviour Christ has taught us,
we are
bold to pray,
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.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and glory,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Blessing
The peace of God which passes all understanding,
keep your hearts and minds
in the knowledge and love of God
and of his son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Guide Me, O
Thou, Thy Great Jehovah
Guide me, O my great Redeemer,
pilgrim through this barren land;
I am weak, but you are mighty;
hold me with your powerful hand.
Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
feed me now and evermore,
feed me now and evermore.
Open now the crystal fountain,
where the healing waters flow.
Let the fire and cloudy pillar
lead me all my journey through.
Strong Deliverer, strong
Deliverer,
ever be my strength and shield,
ever be my strength and shield.
When I tread the verge of Jordan,
bid my anxious fears subside.
Death of death, and hell's
Destruction,
land me safe on Canaan's side.
Songs of praises, songs of
praises
I will ever sing to you,
I will ever sing to you.
Dismissal
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