Welcome to St. Luke’s Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost Welcome & Prayer Welcome & Prayer The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be Al Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all with you all. desires kn known, and from you no secr crets are An And also with you. hidden. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by Alleluia! Christ is risen. the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may The Lord is risen indeed. . Alleluia! perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. . Amen. May his grace and peace be with you. May he fj fjll our hearts with joy. Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people, that richly bearing the fruit of good works, we may by you be rich chly rewarded; Venite Venite through Jesus Christ our Lord, Psalm 95:1-7 Psalm 95:1-7 who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Am Amen.
For the Lord is a great God, Come, let us sing to the Lord; and a great ki king above all gods. let us shout for joy to the rock ck of our salvation. In his hand are the caverns of the earth, and Let us come before his presence with the heights of the hills are his also. thanksgiving and raise a loud shout to him The sea is his for he made it, and his hands with psalms. have moulded the dry land. Come, let us bow down, and bend the kn knee, and kn kneel before the Lord our maker. Exodus 12:1-14 Exodus 12:1-14 For he is our God,and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Oh, that today we would hearken to his voice! The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning month; then the whole assembled congregation of of months; it shall be the fjrst month of the year for Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. each family, a lamb for each household. If a They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join eat it roasted over the fjre with unleavened bread its closest neighbour in obtaining one; the lamb and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled shall be divided in proportion to the number of in water, but roasted over the fjre, with its head, people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without legs, and inner organs. You shall let none of it blemish, a year old male; you may take it from the remain until the morning; anything that remains sheep or from the goats. until the morning you shall burn.
This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your stafg in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of Egypt This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. that night, and I will strike down every fjrstborn in You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; throughout your generations you shall observe it as on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgements: I a perpetual ordinance. am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. The Word of the Lord. PSALM 149 PSALM 149 Thanks be to God. Let the faithful rejoice in triumph; let them be joyful Hallelujah! Sing to the Lord a new song; sing his on their beds. praise in the congregation of the faithful. Let the e prais ises s of God be e in in their eir throat and a two- Let Israel rejoice in his maker; let the ch children of edged ed ed sword in in their eir hand; Zion be joyful in their ki king. To wreak vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples; Let them praise his name in the dance; let them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp. To bin ind thei eir kin ings s in in chain ins s and their eir noble les wit with links lin s of f iron; For the Lord takes pleasure in his people and To infmict on them the judgement decreed; this is adorns the poor with vict ctory. glory for all his faithful people. Hallelujah!
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfjlled the law. The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet"; and any other commandment, Romans 13:8-14 Romans 13:8-14 are summed up in this word, "Love your neighbour as yourself." Love does no wrong to a neighbour; therefore, love is the fulfjlling of the law. Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armour of light; let us live The Word of the Lord. honourably as in the day, not in revelling and Thanks be to God. drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the fmesh, to gratify its desires. Gospel Reading Gospel Reading The Lord be with you. And also with you. An Matthew 18:15-20 Matthew 18:15-20 The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ According to Matthew Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus said, "If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be you have regained that one. But if you are not bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth listened to, take one or two others along with you, will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two so that every word may be confjrmed by the of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it evidence of two or three witnesses. If the member will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if where two or three are gathered in my name, I am the ofgender refuses to listen even to the church, let there among them." such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. The Gospel of Christ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Creed Creed Creed Creed Let us confess our faith, as we say, On the third day he rose again. . He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the I believe in God, the Father almighty, right hand of the Father. cr creator of heaven and earth. He will come again to judge the living and the I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. dead. He was conce ceived by the power of the Holy I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic c Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. Church, the communion of saints, the He sufg fgered under Pontius Pilate, forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, was cr cruci cifj fjed, died, and was buried. and the life everlasting. . Amen. He descended to the dead.
Prayers of the People Confession & Absolution Prayers of the People Confession & Absolution Most merci ciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. . Dear friends in Christ, God is steadfast in love We have not loved you with our whole heart; we and infjnite in mercy; he welcomes sinners and have not loved our neighbours as ourselves. . We invites them to his table. Let us confess our sins, are truly sorry and we humbly repent. . For the confjdent in God’s forgiveness. sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy cy on us and forgive us, that we may delight in your will,and walk k in your ways,to the glory of your name. . Amen. Almighty God have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confjrm and The peace of the Lord be always with you. strengthen you in all goodness, and keep you in eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. An And also with you. Am Amen.
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