St. Paul’s Church in Nantucket (Episcopal)
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Holy Eucharist
Prelude
Opening Sentences (BCP 355)
Hymn How firm a foundation
Collect of the Day
The Lessons
A Reading from James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Psalm 54 (chanted) Deus, in nominee Vocalist
Setting: H. Walford Davies (1869-1941)
A Reading from the Gospel according to Mark.
(Mark 9:30-37)
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Sermon The Rev. Max Wolf
Music Meditation "En Priere" by Faure
In Prayer
If the voice of a child could reach up to you, O my Father,
Listen to the prayer of Jesus on His knees before You,
If You have chosen me to teach your laws on the earth,
I will know how to serve You, holy King of Kings, O Light!
Place on my lips, O Lord, the salutary truth,
So that whoever doubts should serve You with humility!
Do not abandon me, but give me the grace necessary
To alleviate pains, to relieve the suffering, the misery!
Reveal Yourself to me, Lord, in Whom I have faith, and I hope,
To suffer for You and die on the cross at Calvary
Prayers of the People Form III (BCP 387)
The Peace
The Peace of the Lord be always with you. And also with you.
Announcements
At the Offertory Eternal Spirit of the living Christ Vocalist
Words: Frank von Christierson (1900-1996), rev. Music: Flentge, Carl Flentge Schalk (b. 1929)
Eternal Spirit of the living Christ, I know not how to ask or what to say; I only know my need, as deep as life, and only you can teach me how to pray. ● Come, pray in me the prayer I need this day; help me to see your purpose and your will where I have failed, what I have done amiss; held in forgiving love, let me be still. ● Come with the vision and the strength I need to serve my God, and all humanity; fulfillment of my life in love outpoured my life in you, O Christ, your love in me.
The Holy Communion
The Breaking of the Bread
At the Communion Organ Meditation
Postcommunion Prayer (BCP 365)
Blessing
Hymn Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy
Dismissal
Voluntary
The flowers on the altar are given to the Glory of God,
and in celebration of the wedding Sunday afternoon
of Laura Ann Wharton and John Curtis Barnes.
Reader Ian Robertson
Ushers Peter Barnes, Trish Anderson
Altar Guild Olly Wolf, Christine Borneman, Susie O’Brien
Ministers of the Parish All Members of St. Paul’s Church