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Second Sunday in Lent Holy Eucharist 

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February 25, 2024 10:00AM

 The Liturgy of the Word  Prelude

Deep River (Merwin Siu, violin and Grace Mauk, piano)

arr. Coleridge-Taylor and Kanneh-Mason

Welcome Opening Hymn

The Summons

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John Bell

Collect of the Day

Prayers for an Inclusive Church by Steven Shakespeare

Leader: The Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Leader: Let us pray.

God of dispossession, you rebuke our refusal to give up our idols, separate and safe: send us with Jesus on the way of the cross, that we might lose our love of death and take the risk of life, through Jesus Christ, the new covenant. Amen.

The First Lesson Reader:

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16

A reading from Genesis.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.” Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

Reader: People:

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

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Psalm

Psalm 32

Text: Psalms for Praying by Nan Merrill Taizé Community

All are invited to join on the refrain. The choir will offer the verses.

Refrain:

REFRAIN To You, O Beloved, I lift up my voice in the great congregation; for You promise to remain with those whose love is steadfast.

The hungry shall eat and be satisfied; Those who seek You shall sing praises! Your Heart is our dwelling place forever!

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Love’s way; And all the families of the nations shall bow down with grateful hearts.

For power and authority belong to the Most High, who rules over the nations.

REFRAIN Yes, the proud of the earth shall be humbled, while those who still live in fear and illusions will separate themselves not knowing the indwelling Peace of the Beloved.

Posterity shall know and serve Love, telling of the One who abides in all to the coming generations, And proclaiming deliverance to a people yet unborn that the Most High dwells among us.

REFRAIN

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The Second Lesson

Romans 4:13-25

Reader: A reading from Romans.

For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.

For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”) —in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. Hoping against hope, he believed that he would become “the father of many nations,” according to what was said, “So numerous shall your descendants be.” He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Therefore his faith “was reckoned to him as righteousness.” Now the words, “it was reckoned to him,” were written not for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

Reader: People:

Sequence

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God. We Found Love in a Hopeless Place

Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris

Sung twice.

We Found Love in a Hopeless Place We Found Love in a Hopeless Place We Found Love in a Hopeless Place We Found Love in a Hopeless Place

The Gospel Deacon: People:

Mark 8:31-38 The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to Mark.

Glory to you, Lord Christ.

Jesus began to teach his disciples that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”

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He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Deacon: People:

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Christ.

Sermon

The Rev. Dr. Stephen Applegate

Affirmation of Faith

from A Sanctified Art; Words for Worship

We believe in a God who meets us in the shadows, who welcomes our questions, who invites us to begin again.

We believe that Jesus showed us a new way, a deeper faith, a more compassionate existence.

We believe that all our beginnings should return us to this foundation and that no matter how many times we lose our way, God always welcomes us home. Amen.

Prayers of the People

John Birch Intercessor: God of love, hear the cry of those who yearn for love; fractured families, broken homes, neglected, unwanted, alone. God of love, People: Hear our prayer.

Intercessor: God of justice, hear the cry of those who yearn for justice; persecuted and oppressed, exploited, ill-treated, broken. God of justice, People: Hear our prayer.

Intercessor: God of peace hear the cry of those who yearn for peace; in battle zones and broken states, frightened, fearful, anxious. God of peace, People: Hear our prayer.

Intercessor: God of healing, hear the cry of those who yearn for healing; physical and spiritual hurting, weakened, depressed. God of healing, People: Hear our prayer.

Intercessor: God of mercy, Hear the cry of those who yearn for mercy; convicted, in need of your Grace, contrite, humble, bowed down. God of mercy, People: Hear our prayer.

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Intercessor: God of community, We pray for those on our Trinity Prayer List, and those we now name silently or aloud. (You are invited to share your prayers aloud or silently.)

Lord, in your mercy, People: Hear our prayer.

Priest:

May you know the peace of God, the love of God, the justice of God, the healing and mercy of God, this day and all days. Amen.

THE PEACE Priest: People:

The peace of the Lord be always with you.

And also with you.

Announcements Offertory Invitation To give online, visit www.trinitytoledo.org/online-giving/, choose GIVE NOW and today’s date. You can also text the word “Give” to 419-OMG-LOVE (419-664-5683) to make your weekly offering. This season we will not “pass the plate” at the time of the offertory; offerings can be deposited in our Giving Box stationed at the back of the sanctuary.

Offertory

Total Praise Trinity Choir

Richard Smallwood

 The Liturgy of the Table  The Great Thanksgiving Celebrant: All: Celebrant: All: Celebrant: All:

A Wee Worship Book, Iona Community

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Lift up your hearts.

We lift them to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give God thanks and praise.

We praise you, O God, whom eternity cannot contain, for coming to earth and entering time in Jesus. We praise you for his life which informs our living, for his compassion which changes our hearts, for his clear speaking which contradicts our harmless generalities, for his disturbing presence, his innocent suffering, his fearless dying, his rising to life breathing forgiveness and restoring us forever to you. For these gifts we praise and worship you.

All that is spectacular, all that is plain have their origin in you. All that is lovely, all who are loving, point to you as their fulfillment. Therefore we gladly join our voices to the song of the Church on earth and in heaven: 7

Sanctus

John Bell

Jesus was always the guest. In the homes of Peter and Jairus, Martha and Mary, Joanna and Susanna, he was always the guest. At the meal tables of the wealthy where he pled the case of the poor, he was always the guest. Upsetting polite company, befriending isolated people, welcoming the stranger, he was always the guest.

But here, at this table, he is the host. Those who wish to serve him must first be served by him.

Those who want to follow him must first be fed by him. For this is the table where God intends us to be nourished. This is the time when Christ can make us new. So come, you who hunger and thirst for a deeper faith, for a better life, for a fairer world. Jesus Christ, who has sat at our tables, now invites us to be his guests.

On their last night together, and as they were sitting at a meal, Jesus gave thanks, took a piece of bread and broke it. He gave it to the disciples saying, “This is my body. It is broken for you. Do this to remember me.”

Later, after they had eaten, he took a cup of wine, gave thanks and said, “This cup is the new relationship with God made possible because of my death. Drink this all of you, to remember me.”

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So now we do as Jesus did. We offer this bread and this wine to each other, and proclaim the mystery of faith: Celebrant and People Christ has died.

Christ is risen.

Christ will come again.

We ask that these signs of your love be filled with the fullness of Jesus. Let that same love rest on us, converting us from the patterns of this passing world, until we conform to the shape of him whose food we now share. All these things we ask through Jesus Christ. By Christ, and with Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honor and glory are yours, Almighty God, now and forever. Amen.

And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to pray,

The Lord’s Prayer 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, and the power, and the glory, Forever and ever. Amen.

The Fraction: Breaking of the Bread Celebrant: People: Celebrant:

Enriching Our Worship

We break this bread to share in the Body of Christ.

We who are many are one body, for we all share in the one bread.

The Gifts of God for the people of God; holy food for holy people.

Invitation to Communion Please be seated until you are invited to come forward to receive communion. Please let us know if you would like the bread brought to you. ALL are welcome to the table of love.

Communion Music

American Lullaby (Chelsie Cree and Grace Mauk)

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Gladys Rich

Communion Music

I Can Hear My Savior Calling

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LEVAS #144

The Post Communion Prayer

(Please stand as you are able.)

Celebrant: Let us pray.

Lord of this feast, beyond measure and price; we thank you for meeting us in our brokenness so that none might be lost: liberate us now to share bread with our neighbor, each receiving from the other what we need for ourselves. Amen.

Solemn Collect Keep this your family, Lord, with your never-failing mercy, that relying solely on the help of your heavenly grace, they may be upheld by your divine protection; through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Sending Hymn

Take Up Your Cross

The Hymnal 1982 #675

Dismissal Deacon: People:

Postlude

Go in peace to serve our loving, liberating, life-giving God. Thanks be to God. Allegro, from Violin Sonata, Op. 5 (Ken Stoops, organ) 11

arr. by Kevin Norris Arcangelo Corelli

Vestry Leadership Donna Steppe, Sr. Warden, Jeffrey Albright, Jr. Warden Karen Keune, Clerk, Margaret Baehern, Treasurer Dennis Degnan, Becky Koskinen, Kimberly Kefalas-Siu, Gary Franklin, Leah Reed & Jamie Paul

Parish Staff The Rev. Dr. Stephen Applegate, Interim Rector The Rev. Dcn. Meribah Mansfield, Deacon The Rev. Robert Gahler, Assisting Priest, Retired Heather Meyer, Director of Operations George M. Benson, Director of Community Engagement Chelsie Cree, Director of Music and the Arts Grace Mauk, Assistant Director of Music and the Arts ADDITIONAL RESOURCES & COPYRIGHT INFO:

Collect of the Day: Prayers for an Inclusive Church, Steven Shakespeare. Readings and Gospel from: Revised Common Lectionary Psalm: From Psalms for Praying © 2007 Nan C. Merrill, Reprinted with permission of the publisher The Great Thanksgiving: A Wee Book of Worship from the Iona Community.

Lord’s Prayer: Traditional. Bulletin Images: Created on Canva with subscription. Fraction, Breaking of the Bread: Enriching Our Worship. All printed music from The Hymnal 1982, Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, My Heart Sings Out, Wonder, Love, and Praise was used by permission through purchase of riteseries.org. All other printed music permission through purchase of CCLI Copyright license #20577215 Size B Streaming License #20577284 Size B Secular music permission through purchase of CCS WORSHIPcast Copyright license #13190 All printed music from Gather permission through purchase of onelicense.net License # A-700000 .

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