5th Week of the Easter Season

4.28.2018

Title Text

Subtitle

Celebrate Last Week's Benevolence

April 21 Offering: $570.53

directly toward doing good

JustChurch's intentionally minimal operational expenses

Overview of Worship

Welcome

Song

Prayer

Offering

Eucharist

Prayer for Illumination

Readings

Sermon

Song

Creed

Prayers

Peace

Blessing

Song

Dismissal

Meditation Bowl

Three times throughout the service, when the bowl rings, you are invited to find expansiveness

through silence.

Come,

Holy Spirit

Serapion of Thmuis (4th century Egypt) composed the earliest known "Prayer for Illumination."

A Prayer for Illumination comes before scripture readings and

     calls on God

     to send the Spirit

     to illumine Jesus Christ.

Stay With Me

Draw Us in the Spirit's Tether

Veni,

Sancte Spiritus

This sung Prayer for Illumination

comes from the Taize Community,

an ecumenical monastic community in France.

A reading from the book of Acts (8:26-40)

Word of God; Word of Life. Thanks be to God.

Stay With Me

Psalm 22:25-31

A reading from 1 John (4:7-21)

Cornel West

Word of God; Word of Life.

Thanks be to God.

John

15:1-8

John 15:1-8

Were there words or phrases that touched you?

Word of God; Word of Life.

Thanks be to God.

Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine),

Woman Reading, ca. 1927, oil and pencil on canvas.

We complete the sermon together

In what ways do you bear fruit in this world?

How do you envision JustChurch as a bearer of fruit in this community?

One Bread,

One Body

Nicene Creed

We believe in one God,
           the Father, the Almighty,
           maker of heaven and earth,
           of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
           the only Son of God,
           eternally begotten of the Father,
           God from God, Light from Light,
           true God from true God,
           begotten, not made,       

 of one Being with the Father;
           through him all things were made.
           For us and for our salvation
                  he came down from heaven,
                       was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary
                       and became truly human.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
     he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
     in accordance with the scriptures;
     he ascended into heaven
     and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,

    who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
    who with the Father and the Son

          is worshiped and glorified,
    who has spoken through the prophets.

We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.

We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

We look for the resurrection of the dead,
       and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Prayers of Intercession

• For the Church throughout the World
  • Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
• For all of God's creation
  • Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
• For the nations/world
  • Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
• For those in need
  • Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
• For this community
  • Lord in your mercy, Hear our prayer.

The Peace of Christ be with you always. And also with you.

$ Offering

operates the

institutionally-light JustChurch

directly toward doing good

Eucharist

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 our thanks and praise.

...we praise your name and join their unending hymn:

Holy, holy, holy Lord,

God of power and might,

heaven and earth are full of your praises.

Syria, 3rd century--oldest, extant sanctus in a Eucharistic prayer

Our Father in heaven,
    hallowed be your name,
    your kingdom come,
    your will be done,
        on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
    as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
    and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours,
    now and forever. Amen.
 

Gluten-free &

dairy-free  bread

at big table

Bread (gluten) at side tables

White

grape juice

Red wine

When you give someone bread,  say,

“The body of Christ given for you.”

When you give someone the cup, say,

“The blood of Christ shed for you.”

Song: Lamb of God

Canticle of the Turning

Mary's words of praise

set to a traditional Irish melody

Go in peace

to know Jesus and

to do Justice.

Thanks be to God.

Acknowledgements 

• Liturgical texts, hymns, and prayers reprinted from SundaysandSeasons.com, ©2014 Augsburg Fortress.  All rights reserved.
• Reprinted with permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #23534 and  OneLicense.net License #A-703442.
  
• Eucharistic Welcome, Liturgical texts; St. John's Lutheran Church; Atlanta, GA
• Eucharistic Prayer, Liturgical texts; St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church; San Francisco, CA
• Biblical texts from New Revised Standard Version Bible. All rights reserved. 

Worship leads to the world.

• Meet a new friend.
• Greet someone who differs from you.
• Deepen a connection.
• Help finish the wine and bread.
• Enter the world, belly and spirit nourished, to boldly do justice in the name of Jesus.

• Every Saturday @5 @MERGE: Worship
• Starting the week of May 6 (check out the "gathering" webpage of JustChurch.com):
  • Pints of Grace
  • Breathing Space
  • Ancient Spiritual Practices
  • Justice Seminar
• In late July/early August: Group discernment regarding JustActions