The Sixth Sunday in Easter - May 17, 2020

Trinity Episcopal Church PROGRESSIVE  INCLUSIVE 

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The Sixth Sunday of Easter

Morning Devotion 

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May 17, 2020

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10:00am

 The Liturgy of the Word  Prelude

How Firm a Foundation

John Rippon

(Nate Leonard, organist)

Welcome

The Rev. Dr. Lisa Tucker-Gray

Opening Hymn

I Will Enter Her Gates

(Nate Leonard, Chelsie Cree, and Kim Buehler)

I will enter Her gates with thanksgiving in my heart!

I will enter Her courts with praise!

I will say “This is the day that the Lord has made!”

I will rejoice for She has made me glad!

She has made me glad; She has made me glad!

I will rejoice for She has made me glad!

She has made me glad; She has made me glad!

I will rejoice for She has made me glad!

I will enter Her gates with thanksgiving in my heart!

I will enter Her courts with praise!

I will say “This is the day that the Lord has made!”

I will rejoice for She has made me glad!

She has made me glad; She has made me glad!

I will rejoice for She has made me glad!

She has made me glad; She has made me glad!

I will rejoice for She has made me glad!

She has made me glad; She has made me glad!

I will rejoice for She has made me glad!

She has made me glad; She has made me glad!

I will rejoice for She has made me glad!

Opening Statement Celebrant: People:

Alleluia! Christ is risen!

The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!

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Collect of the Day Celebrant: People: Celebrant:

But Not Held

The Work of The People (TWOTP)

by Walter Brueggemann

Read by Lisa Tucker-Gray

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Let us pray.

Christ is Risen! We watch this Jeremiah mired down in mud, in cistern in fear and hostility all around him finally extricated by watching friends who have done your work. We watch this Jesus, set deep in the grip of death…but not held! Held overnight, but not held; held two nights, but not held; Because the power of death could not hold him. We know ourselves to be held, overnight, for two nights, too long, held by fear and anxiety, held by grudge and resentment; held by doubt and fatigue; held by too much stuff, by all manner of the forces of death. Held, powerless…but turned toward you. You in your risen-ness, make Sundays even for us, even among us, even here, even now, no longer held. Amen.

FIRST READING Reader:

ACTS 17: 22-31 Read by Terry Kahler

A reading from Acts

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.”

Reader: People:

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

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THE PSALm

Psalm 66: 8-15

Psalms for Praying (Offered by Chelsie Cree & Kim Buehler, Jobst Choral Scholars)

The plain text will be offered by the cantor; the congregation is invited to respond by singing the text in bold.

Bless the Beloved, Heart of our hearts, let the sound of our praises / be heard.

You keep us attuned to life and guide our feet on / solid ground.

For You, O Love, have / tested us; You have tried us as si- / lver is tried.

You have allowed us to fall into / the net; You have watched us reap all that / we have sown; We went through fire and through / water, Yet You have brought us through pain and into your in- / dwelling place.

I enter your Heart surrendered / to Love; I commend my soul into / your keeping; All that my lips uttered, all that my mouth promised when I was in trouble / and pain, I offer up to You; I abandon myself in- / to your hands.

SECOND READING Reader:

1 Peter 3: 13-22 Read by Larry Meyer

A reading from First Peter

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 defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for 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 persons, 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.

Reader: People:

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God. 4

Gradual

All Day, All Night (Kim Buehler, Chelsie Cree, and Nate Leonard)

Otis L. McCoy

All night, All day; Angels watching over me, my Lord!

All night, All day; Angels watching over me! (repeat 3x)

THE GOSPEL Celebrant: People:

John 14: 15-21 The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John Glory to you, Lord Christ.

Offered through the Visual Liturgy of The Work of The People (TWOTP)

Jesus said, “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 forever. 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.”

Celebrant: People:

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Christ.

Sermon

The Rev. Dr. Lisa Tucker-Gray

Affirmation of FAITH

The United Church of Canada

The congregation is invited to join.

Led by Jason Rahe

We are not alone, we live in God's world.

We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus, the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit.

We trust in God. We are called to be the Church: to celebrate God's presence,

to live with respect in Creation, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.

In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.

We are not alone.

Thanks be to God. Amen.

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Prayers of the People

Offered by Elizabeth Cousino

Praise Song for the Pandemic, by Christine Valters Painter (from TWOTP) Praise be the nurses and doctors, every medical staff bent over flesh to offer care, for lives saved and lives lost, for showing up either way, Praise for the farmers, tilling soil, planting seeds so food can grow, an act of hope if ever there was, Praise be the janitors and garbage collectors, the grocery store clerks, and the truck drivers barreling through long quiet nights, give thanks for bus drivers, delivery persons, postal workers, and all those keeping an eye on water, gas, and electricity, Blessings on our leaders, making hard choices for the common good, offering words of assurance, Celebrate the scientists, working away to understand the thing that plagues us, to find an antidote, all the medicine makers, praise be the journalists keeping us informed, Praise be the teachers, finding new ways to educate children from afar, and blessings on parents holding it together for them, Blessed are the elderly and those with weakened immune systems, all those who worry for their health, praise for those who stay at home to protect them, Blessed are the domestic violence victims, on lock down with abusers, the homeless and refugees, Praise for the poets and artists, the singers and storytellers, all those who nourish with words and sound and color, Blessed are the ministers and therapists of every kind, bringing words of comfort, Blessed are the ones whose jobs are lost, who have no savings, who feel fear of the unknown gnawing, Blessed are those in grief, especially who mourn alone, blessed are those who have passed into the Great Night, Praise for police and firefighters, paramedics, and all who work to keep us safe, praise for all the workers and caregivers of every kind, Praise for the sound of notifications, messages from friends reaching across the distance, give thanks for laughter and kindness, Praise be our four-footed companions, with no forethought or anxiety, responding only in love, Praise for the seas and rivers, forests and stones who teach us to endure, Give thanks for your ancestors, for the wars and plagues they endured and survived, their resilience is in your bones, your blood, Blessed is the water that flows over our hands and the soap that helps keep them clean, each time a baptism, Praise every moment of stillness and silence, so new voices can be heard, praise the chance at slowness, Praise be the birds who continue to sing the sky awake each day, praise for the primrose poking yellow petals from dark earth, blessed is the air clearing overhead so one day we can breathe deeply again.

And when this has passed may we say that love spread more quickly than any virus ever could, may we say this was not just an ending but also a place to begin. AMEN. 6

Announcements Offertory A virtual offering plate, titled Sunday, May 17 Offering, has been created on our website’s Online Giving page. Through this online resource, you can make a regular Sunday offering or a pledge contribution. www.trinitytoledo.org/online-giving/.

Offertory

River

Leon Bridges

(Grace Hirt, Jobst Choral Scholar)

Lord’s Prayer

The New Zealand Prayer Book

The congregation is invited to join.

Led by Stan & Sande Johnson

Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain bearer, Life-giver, Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, Loving God, in whom is heaven: The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!

The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world!

With the bread we need for today, feed us.

In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.

Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!

Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth!

In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.

From trials too great to endure, spare us.

From the grip of all that is evil, free us.

For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.

Amen.

Blessing

May the rain fall off your shoulders when you’re caught in a storm.

When the frost comes a callin’ may it find you safe and warm.

May your place be set, and may your promises be kept.

And may you never forget that you are loved.

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Sending Hymn

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past

Isaac Watts

(Members of Trinity Canterbury Choir)

Dismissal Leader: People:

Let us go forth in the power of the Resurrection. Alleluia! Alleluia!

Thanks be to God. Alleluia! Alleluia!

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Trinity’s Daily Bread- As a community of faith, we are called to love and be loved; to serve and be served, to give and to receive. In short, we don’t want anyone to “fall behind or drop out.” In this season of connecting in new ways, we are introducing Trinity’s Daily Bread. Please let us know if you need prayer, assistance or connection by filling out our Daily Bread form on our website, www.trinitytoledo.org!

Trinity Episcopal Church Vestry Leadership Donna Steppe, Sr. Warden, Roberta Durham, Jr. Warden Leah Reed, Clerk, Jane Bueche, Treasurer, Jeffrey Albright, Dennis Degnan, Fritz Hany, Bob Meeker & Jamie Paul

Parish Staff The Rev. Dr. Lisa Tucker-Gray, Rector Nate Leonard, Director of Music & the Arts Heather Meyer, Director of Operations and Community Development Lynzi Miller, Next To New Manager & Communications Coordinator Nick Zurawski, Sexton Additional Resources & Copyright Info:

Opening Collect: But Not Held, written by Walter Brueggemann used with subscription permission

through The Work of the People, Liturgy Project) https://www.theworkofthepeople.com Readings from: Revised Common Lectionary: lectionarypage.net, 2020.

Psalm: Psalms for Praying: An Invitation for Wholeness, Nan Merrill, Continuum International Publishing, 2003

Prayers of the People : Praise Song for the Pandemic, by Christine Valters Paintner, used with

subscription permission through The Work of the People, Liturgy Project) https://www.theworkofthepeople.com

Bulletin Image: Photograph taken by Heather Meyer, Trinity Director of Operations

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The Sixth Sunday of Easter

May 17, 2020

TODAY 5/17, 11:00am, Virtual Coffee Hour – We will offer a 30-minute virtual coffee hour following our 10:00 online worship service. You can find the Zoom connection information at www.trinitytoledo.org/virtualcoffee-hour/.

Tuesday 5/19, 9:00pm, Evening Exhale - Join us on Facebook each Tuesday evening for the next four weeks for our Evening Exhale, a time to relax our bodies and calm our spirits before bed. We’ll offer an opening proverb and close with a final benediction from Lisa. Choreographer, Dominic Glover from Modern Dance Co., will lead us each week in a series of stretches and holding poses that can be performed nightly before bed. Each week the video will also be posted to our Trinity@Home page on our website.

Wednesday 5/20, 7:00pm, Lectio Divina – Each Wednesday evening from 7:00-8:00PM we will engage with the Scriptures, together reading a portion of the Gospel text for the upcoming Sunday and enjoy a time of reflection, sharing, silence, and prayer. You can find the Zoom dial-in information on our website www.trinitytoledo.org/lectio-divina/.

Friday 5/22, 9:00pm, Compline – Every Friday evening we will round off our day and prepare for a quiet night with a Compline Zoom evening prayer. You can find the Zoom dial-in information on our website www.trinitytoledo.org/compline/. All are welcome and wanted.

Please remember those who have asked for our prayers:

Eleanor Paul Judy Moon Angel Tristan Kim Buehler Wagoner Family JP

Bashi Paul Daniel & Krysta Romona Dianne Swartz Tammy Brian Russell Janet Rhonda & Wealthy Sheilah Wilson Charlotte Preston Carol Gray Betty Andy & Kathy Schornick Tishie Bozeman Alexis Bueche-Hall Please remember those who have recently died:

Holly Joy Dunn Jeff Habib Jack Brenda

Lee Anne Kleeberger To add your name or the name of someone you love on the Prayer List, please email lynzi@trinitytoledo.org.

Birthdays

5/3 Karen Johnson-Webb 5/6 Amy Saylor 5/17 Wes Snyder 5/21 Alexis Bueche-Hall 5/27 Bonnie Loss

Anniversaries

5/5 Becky Koskinen 5/9 Wendy Steinman 5/19 Heather Meyer 5/24 Doug Johnson 5/31 Becky Roth 10

5/5 Lois Nelson 5/13 Keith Burris 5/20 Norah Melden 5/24 Sherre Smith 5/31 John Woellner

5/6 Michael Fischer 5/15 Ben Bueche 5/21 Rueben Bueche 5/26 Jess Isaac

5/28 Dennis Degnan & Amy Saylor To have your birthday or anniversary listed, please email the office: admin@trinitytoledo.org