The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Welcome to The Historic Saint Agnes Episcopal Church! We are glad to have you worship with us.
Additional information about Historic Saint Agnes and our ministries may be found
online here at www.stagnesepiscopalchurch.org and on social media (FB, IG) @historicsaintagnes.
Our Rector, Fr. Denrick E. Rolle, is today’s Celebrant and Preacher.
Our mass, Communion Service is either in E-flat by Frank Adlam or Robert Cruickshank, is sung with hymns , is sung with hymns which can be found in the red Hymnal 1940 online. Follow along in the Book of Common Prayer (Prayer Book online).
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ORDER OF WORSHIP
ORGAN VOLUNTARY Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copeland
At the ringing of the chimes the congregation will stand. The Voluntary is played as the procession moves to the altar, once in place:
INTROIT HYMN 367 TUNE: Wiltshire
1. Through all the changing scenes of life,
in trouble and in joy,
the praises of my God shall still
my heart and tongue employ.
2. Of his deliv'rance I will boast,
till all that are distressed,
from my example comfort take
and lay their griefs to rest.
3. O magnify the LORD with me,
exalt his holy name;
when in distress to him I called,
he to my rescue came.
4. The hosts of God encamp around
the dwellings of the just;
deliv'rance he affords to all
who in his promise trust.
5 O taste and see that he is good;
experience will decide
how blest are they, and only they
who in the LORD confide.
6. Fear him, you saints, and you will then
have nothing else to fear;
make serving him your sole delight,
your wants shall be his care.
THE OPENING ACCLAMATION
Celebrant: Blessed be God: + Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
People: And Blessed be God’s Kingdom now and forever, Amen.
THE COLLECT FOR PURITY Prayer Book pg. 355
THE GLORIA
sung by all standing, for text see Prayer Book pg. 356
AT THE COLLECT
Celebrant: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Celebrant:
O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
People: Amen.
The congregation is seated
THE WORD OF GOD
At the end of each lesson, in response to the reader "The Word of the Lord" or "Here Ends the Reading", the people respond: “Thanks be to God”
FIRST LESSON Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17
PSALM Psalm 127 Nisi Dominus
At the end of the Psalm, the Gloria Patri:
Celebrant: + Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
People: As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
SECOND LESSON Hebrews 9:24-28
SEQUENCE HYMN TUNE: Solid Rock
sung by all standing
1 My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean on Jesus' name
REFRAIN: On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand:
all other ground is sinking sand;
all other ground is sinking sand.
2 When darkness veils his lovely face,
I rest on his unchanging grace;
in every high and stormy gale,
my anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain]
3 His oath, his covenant, his blood,
support me in the whelming flood;
when all around my soul gives way,
he then is all my hope and stay. [Refrain]
4 When he shall come with trumpet sound,
O may I then in him be found:
dressed in his righteousness alone,
faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain]
THE HOLY GOSPEL Mark 12:38-44
Celebrant: + The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark
People: Glory be to Thee, Lord Christ.
AFTER THE READING OF THE GOSPEL
Celebrant: The Gospel of the Lord.
People: Praise be to Thee, Lord Christ.
The congregation is seated at the Preacher’s invitation
THE SERMON The Reverend Fr. Denrick E. Rolle
The congregation stands following the sermon
THE NICENE CREED
Sung by all standing, for text see Prayer Book pg. 358
THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Form III, Prayer Book pg. 387
THE PEACE Prayer Book pg. 393
Following the exchange, the congregation will be seated
WELCOME and ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE HOLY EUCHARIST
OFFERTORY SELECTIONS Give Online
The Anthem “Souls of the Righteous” by T. Noble
OFFERTORY HYMNS 590, 125. TUNE: Alford, Deerhurst
THE OFFERTORY PRAYER/INTENTION OF THE MASS
Celebrant and people:
Father, we offer you these gifts which have been given to us, this bread, this wine, this money. With them we offer ourselves, our lives and work. As this bread and wine become the Body and Blood of our Lord, so may we and all Your Holy Church become more effective instruments of your reconciling love through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Celebrant:
Pray, brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Father Almighty.
People:
May the Lord receive this sacrifice at your hands to the praise and glory of His Name, to our benefit and to that of His Holy Church.
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
Eucharistic Prayer A, Prayer Book pg. 361-364
COMMUNION HYMNS 415c, 449, and 211 TUNE: Martyn, Olivet, Jesu Joy
POST COMMUNION PRAYER Prayer Book pg. 365
THE BLESSING and DISMISSAL
Celebrant:
And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, + the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be upon you and remain with you forever.
People: Amen.
Please stand.
THE DISMISSAL
Celebrant: Let us go forth in peace to love and serve the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
RECESSIONAL HYMN 600. TUNE: Darwall
ORGAN VOLUNTARY He is King of Kings by Ralph Simpson
The Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.