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Invitation to Worship
Come, let us sing to Adonai, let us praise the God of all creation!
O Holy One,+ open my lips.
~And my mouth will proclaim your praise.
Let everything that lives and that breathes-
~give praise to Adonai, alleluia!
Sunday Morning Hymn
The first of all the days of time
The day that darkness lost its dread,
becomes the everlasting day
The first-born rose of all the dead.
So we arise again, alert,
Renewed by salutary sleep
To gird ourselves for life ahead,
Your loving covenant to keep.
Your Holy Spirit gives the words
To psalms and canticles we pray;
Give us this day our daily need
To join our hearts to what we say.
Grant, loving Abba, what we ask,
Addressed to you through Christ your Son,
Who with the Spirit Paraclete,
Have joined us all, to make us one. Amen.
Text: St. Meinrad (1967); Melody: Ambrosian Chant Mode 1
PSALMODY
Antiphon/Refrain
My house shall be called a house of prayer, says our God.
In it everyone who asks receives, and those who seek find,
and to all who knock it shall be opened!
Psalm 83/84
How glorious is your dwelling place,
O Adonai Sabbaoth!
My soul longs, yes aches,
yearning for the courts of Adonai.
My body and soul ring out their joy
to the Living Heart of Love!
As the sparrow herself seeks a home
and the swallow a nest for her brood,
I am eager to rest near your altars,
Adonai Sabbaoth! My God and my Love!
To live in your presence is joy,
to praise you and never stop.
Those you bless with strength and courage,
will bless you with grateful hearts.
When they cross the Valley of Thirst
they find the ground spaced with springs,
blessed with the rains of autumn.
They travel with growing excitement
to reach the God of gods in Zion.
Hear me, Adonai Sabbaoth!
Heed me, O God of Jacob!
Turn your eyes, O God, our Shield,
behold the face of your anointed.
One day within your courts
is worth a thousand spent elsewhere!
I would rather stand outside your Gates
than dwell in splendor with the wicked.
God is our support and our shield,
the giver of grace and glory.
Adonai never fails to bless
those who walk with integrity.
How blest, Adonai Sabbaoth,
are all those who trust in you!
Glory to the ONE and to the WORD
and to the BREATH of Love!
As always before,
so now and evermore. Amen
My house shall be called a house of prayer, says our God.
In it everyone who asks receives, and those who seek find,
and to all who knock it shall be opened!
READING James 2: 14-18
What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if a person claims to have faith but does not have works?
Can that faith save anyone?
If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day,
and one of you says to them,
“Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well, ”
but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?
So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Responsory
R. Bear one another’s burdens *and so fulfill the law of Christ.
V. Look to each other’s interests *and so fulfill the law of Christ.
V. Glory to the Abba and to the Word and to the Holy Breath of Love.
Canticle of Zachariah
Antiphon
Jesus said to Simon Peter: “Who do you say that I am?”
And Peter answered: “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
Blessed + be Adonai, the God of Israel,
Who visits this people to set us free
Raising for us a sign of salvation
In the house and family of David.
God promised throughout past ages
In words of holy prophets
To save us from our enemies,
And from the control of our oppressors.
Adonai favored our ancestors
And remembered the sacred covenant.
The pledge to Abraham and Sarah
Is now renewed for us;
That freed from the grip of our foes
We might worship without fear
And be both just and holy
For the rest of our days.
And you, child, called “prophet of the Most High,”
Will go ahead to prepare the way,
By teaching this people of salvation
Through forgiveness of their sins.
For the loving compassion of the Holy One
As the Rising Sun will shine upon us
To illumine the darkness and dispel death’s shadow
To guide our feet on the way of peace.
Glory to the ONE and to the WORD
And to the BREATH of Love!
As always before,
so now and evermore. Amen
Jesus said to Simon Peter: “Who do you say that I am?”
And Peter answered: “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”
Litany of Intercession
For those who suffer most, those rejected, abandoned, and forsaken,
~ Move us with your compassion, O God.
For those who are hungry, thirsty, or strangers in our land,
~ Move us with your compassion, O God.
For those who are naked, sick, or in prison,
~ Move us with your compassion, O God.
For those who are oppressed by racism, sexism, and classism,
~ Move us with your compassion, O God.
Send forth your Spirit, O God;
~ And renew the face of the Earth.
Prayer of Jesus
Our Dear Abba…
Closing Prayer & Blessing
God of Life and Love, you sent Jesus to announce the Reign of Heaven to the people of Israel in word and in deed; May we follow his example and share our compassion and concern to embrace those whom church, society or culture exclude or marginalize for any reason. For yours is the power and the glory of love, now and forever. ~Amen.
May the God whose healing is offered to all peoples, nations, and creatures, + bless us and all of creation with the fullness of life. ~Amen
Let us bless Adonai. ~Thanks be to God.