Trinity Episcopal Church
Welcome visitors! We are glad to have you worship with us today and hope you will return often. Our Eucharist is open to all. Please fill out the information card in your pew and place it in the offering plate.
Please join us for
coffee and light refreshments following the service. Trinity is a parish of the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast. Chartered in 1836, Trinity Episcopal Church is Apalachicola’s historic “first church.” Services have been held here for more than 170 years. It is with great joy that we thank God for our blessings and for the beauty of this place.
Services
8:50 AM Prelude & healing prayers at altar
9:00 AM Holy Eucharist, Rite I
Ministries for the Day
Celebrant The Rev. Martha Harris
Homilist The Rev. Martha Harris
Acolyte Jon Hooper
Lectors C.T. Ponder and Jon Hooper
Prayers Kristin Anderson
Chalice Bearer Jon Hooper
Music Bedford Watkins, Organist
Eugenia Watkins, Choir Director
Greeters Jim and Geri Anderson
Altar Guild Aglaia Dolan and Susan Clementson
Flower Guild T. McLain
Hospitality Gloria Austin
Healing Ministers Kay Wheeler
Clergy, Wardens, and Vestry
Rector The Rev. Martha Caldwell Harris
Vestry Rennie Edwards, Sr. Warden (09); Gary Ulrich, Jr. Warden (08);
Jon Hooper (10), Shirley Taylor, (10), Richard Saucer (10) Landy Luther (09), C.T. Ponder (08)
Ina Margaret Meyer (08) Robert Daniels (09)
Treasurer Jim Anderson
Chancellor Robert Stallings
Web Site www.mytrinitychurch.org
e-mail trinitychurch@mchsi.com
The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
August 29, 2010 Rite I
9:00 a.m.
Prelude Prelude in Bb Minor Bach
Berceuse Gottschalk
Processional Hymn # 644 How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds
Opening Acclamation The Book of Common Prayer-323
The Collect for Purity BCP-323
Gloria in excelsis BCP-324
The Collect of the Day
First Reading Jeremiah 2: 4-13
Psalm 81:1, 10-16
Second Reading Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Sequence Hymn # 610 Lord, whose love through humble service
The Gospel Luke 14:1, 7-14
The Homily The Rev. Martha Harris
The Nicene Creed BCP-326
A litany for the Gulf of Mexico in a time of crisis (insert)
Confession and Absolution BCP-330
The Peace BCP-332
Welcome and Announcements
Offertory Hymn # 707 (all) Take my life, and let it be
At the Presentation Doxology (Hymn # 380, v.3)
The Great Thanksgiving
Eucharistic Prayer I (standing or kneeling) BCP-333
Sanctus S-114
The Lord’s Prayer BCP-336
The Breaking of the Bread BCP-337
Prayer of Thanksgiving BCP-339 Recessional Hymn # 656 Blest are the pure in heart
Dismissal
Postlude Dear Christians One and All Rejoice Praetorius
The flowers are given to the glory of God
and in loving memory of my mother, Helen Hay Anderson.
by Kristin Anderson
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Special Prayers for Greg Siler, Carol Harris, Lynn Wilson and her daughter, Alysia, Julia Anthony, Larry, Allen Smith, Ruby, Annie Mae Flowers, Hollie and Vonda, Ann Dexter, Jack Sherer, Ruth, Wallace, Bob Connors, Wayne, Buddy Carothers, Lisa Dean, Chelsea Repola, Michael Brandon, Elizabeth Marshall, Juanita McKenna, Louise Joyner, Alice Jean, Olga, David Wingate and family, Nancy Hicks, Betty Liles, Laura Randolph, Zelda Stanley, Captain Michael Dolan, Charlotte Kiester, Gracie Vaughn, Mary Flanagan, Sally Howell, Alex and Laura Moody, Allan Garry, Mary Virginia, the Krolls, Dan Wheeler, Lee Sewell, and Ryan Deming in Iraq.
We are saddened to announce the death of Art Albers, Jean Ulrich’s father. The funeral is today at Grace Lutheran Church in Tallahassee.
This is your last chance to find any of your missing stainless flatware. Check in kitchen and if you find your pattern, it’s yours.
WEDNESDAY: healing service at 11 in the memorial garden
Centering prayer at 4 pm in Benedict Hall
Trinity is bundling e-mail addresses of members. Slips of paper are in the pew racks; fill out with name and email address, then place in plate.
The Trinity Church Choir will begin regular rehearsals at 5 pm on Wednesday, September 1st. We are always glad to have new members to join in our praise of God on Sunday mornings. Just come!
September 8th at 6 pm there will be an organizational and informational meeting of The Episcopal Community. It will be held in the rectory and supper served.
September 25th Trinity’s Stewardship 2011 campaign will begin with a Wine and Chocolate “Raise the Roof” gala. Price of admission is one bottle of red. An auction of un-decanted wines and chocolate treats with proceeds going toward Benedict Hall. Also, bring old photos and memories to share toward our Stewardship album. If you make a great Chocolate desert call Nancy L. at 227-6735.
Trinity will have a Relay for Life Team again this year! Become a team member by contacting Beverly Connors at 850-508-8566 or e-mail her at beconnors@mchsi.com. The Relay is scheduled for April 8 & 9, 2011 and will be held at the Consolidated Franklin County School football field. Our goal this year is to raise $2000.
Folding Bay Views at 10 am on Monday. HELP!!!!!!
All: HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD OF POWER AND MIGHT,
HEAVEN, EARTH, HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE FULL OF YOUR GLORY,
ALL GLORY TO YOUR NAME.
BLESSED, BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD,
BLESSED, BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES
IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.
HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
Celebrant: Hear us, O Christ,
and breathe your Spirit upon us
and upon this bread and wine.
May they become for us your body,
vibrant with your life,
healing, renewing and making us whole.
And as the bread and wine which we now eat and drink
are changed into us,
may we be changed again into you,
bone of your bone,
flesh of your flesh,
loving and caring in the world.
The Communion
Celebrant: Look, the body of Christ is broken for the life of the world.
Here is Christ coming to us in bread and wine.
The gifts of God for the people of God.
Blessing
Celebrant: Bless to us, O God, the moon that is above us,
the earth that is beneath us,
the friends who are around us,
your image deep within us. Amen.
Trinity Episcopal Church
August 29, 2010
8 a.m. at Lafayette Park
Opening Acclamation
Celebrant Thanks be to you, O God, that we have risen this day.
People TO THE RISING OF THIS LIFE ITSELF.
Celebrant Be the purpose of God between us and each purpose.
People THE HAND OF GOD BETWEEN US AND EACH HAND,
Celebrant The pain of Christ between us and each pain,
People THE LOVE OF CHRIST BETWEEN US AND EACH LOVE
Celebrant O God, who brought us to the bright light of this new day
People BRING US TO THE GUIDING LIGHT OF ETERNITY.
The Collect of the Day
Celebrant God be with you.
People And also with you.
Celebrant Let us pray.
Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.
Prayer of Confession and Restoration
All: Eternal God, maker of the skies above,
lowly Christ, born amidst the growing earth,
Spirit of life, wind over the flowing waters,
in earth, sea and sky,
you are there
O hidden mystery,
sun behind all suns,
soul behind all souls,
in everything we touch,
in everyone we meet,
your presence is around us,
and we give you thanks.
But when we have not touched
but trampled you in creation,
when we have not met
but missed you in one another,
when we have not received
but rejected you in the poor,
forgive us,
and hear now our plea for mercy.
Celebrant: Holy God,
All: Holy and mighty,
Holy and immortal,
Have mercy on us.
Celebrant: Hear now the words of Jesus
for all who are truly sorry
and seek to renew their lives:
Your sins are forgiven.
Go in peace;
come and follow me.
Lead us now, O God,
to acknowledge your costly generosity
by living as forgiven people,
until heaven and earth rejoice
and the whole earth cries Glory!
through Christ our Lord. Amen..
Made one with Christ
and thus one with each other,
let us offer these gifts and with them ourselves,
a single, holy, living sacrifice.
The Prayer of Thanks
Celebrant: The Lord be with you,
People: AND ALSO WITH YOU.
Celebrant: Lift up your hearts,
People: WE LIFT THEM UP TO GOD.
Celebrant: Let us give thanks to God,
People: IT IS RIGHT TO GIVE BOTH THANKS AND PRAISE.
The Prayer of Thanksgiving
Celebrant: We offer you praise, dear God,
and hearts lifted high,
for in the communion of your love
Christ comes close to us
and we come close to Christ.
Therefore, with the whole realm of nature
around us,
with earth, sea and sky,
we sing to you.
With the angels of light who envelop us,
with Luke and the host of heaven.
with all the saints before and beside us,
with brothers and sisters, east and west,
we sing to you.
And with our loved ones,
separate from us now,
who yet in this mystery are close to us,
we join in the song of your unending greatness.
So, come to this table, you who have much faith
and you who would like to have more;
you who have been to this sacrament often,
and you who have not been for a long time;
you who have tried to follow Jesus,
and you who have failed. Come.
It is Christ who invites us to meet him here.
The Story of the Last Supper
Celebrant: Blessed is our brother Jesus, who walks with us the road of our world’s suffering.
and who is known to us in the breaking of bread.
On the night of his arrest Jesus took bread
and having blessed it
he broke the bread
and gave it to his disciples, saying,
‘This is my body, given for you‘.
In the same way he took wine
and having given thanks for it
he poured it out
and gave the cup to his disciples, saying,
‘This cup is the new relationship with God,
sealed with my blood.
Take this and share it.
I shall drink wine with you next
in the coming Kingdom of God.’
Loving God,
it is through your goodness that we have
this bread and wine to offer,
which earth has given and human hands have made.
In the sharing of this bread,
may we know your resurrection presence,
and may we know that, in touching all bread, all matter,
it is you that we touch.
What we do here is celebrate the life that
Jesus has shared among his community
through the centuries and shares among us now.
New Testament Lesson Hebrews 13: 1-8, 15-16
Psalm 81: 1, 10-16
1 Sing with joy to God our strength&
and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob.
10 I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt and said,*
“Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.”
11 And yet my people did not hear my voice,*
and Israel would not obey me.
12 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts,*
to follow their own devices.
13 Oh, that my people would listen to me!*
that Israel would walk in my ways!
14 I should soon subdue their enemies*
and turn my hand against their foes.
15 Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him,*
and their punishment would last for ever.
16 But Israel would I feed with the finest wheat*
and satisfy him with honey from the rock.
Gospel Luke 14: 1, 7-14
Homily Martha
An Affirmation of Faith
All: We believe in God above us,
maker and sustainer of all life,
of sun and moon,
of water and earth,
of male and female.
We believe in God beside us,
Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh,
born of a woman, servant of the poor,
tortured and nailed to a tree.
A man of sorrow, he died forsaken.
He descended into the earth
to the place of death.
On the third day he rose from the tomb.
He ascended into heaven
to be everywhere present,
and his kingdom will come on earth.
We believe in God within us,
the Holy Spirit of Pentecostal fire,
life-giving breath of the church,
spirit of healing and forgiveness,
source of resurrection and of eternal life. Amen.
The Prayers of the People
Leader: It is in the mystery of communion with Christ
that we pray for the church throughout the world,
praying in particular for:
We pray for this community of faith and for all people, praying in particular for:
We pray for the sick, the bereaved, the oppressed,
and the homeless, praying in particular for:
We pray for the broken and torn fabric of the earth
as it yearns for healing, praying in particular for:
And because you are one with us, O Christ, enable
us to share your life with the world by sharing
our own lives with the world.
And so we pray, in the words you have taught us:
OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME,
YOUR KINGDOM COME,
YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS HEAVEN,
GIVE US TODAY OUR DAILY BREAD,
FORGIVE US OUR SINS,
AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO SIN AGAINST US,
SAVE US IN THE TIME OF TRIAL
AND DELIVER US FROM EVIL,
FOR THE KINGDOM, THE POWER
AND THE GLORY ARE YOURS,
NOW AND FOR EVER. AMEN.
Sharing of the Peace
Celebrant: Many grains were gathered together to make this bread,
many grapes were mixed to make this wine.
So we who are many, and come from many places,
are one in Christ. May the peace of Christ be with you.
People: And also with you.
Celebrant: Let us greet one another with signs of peace.
Welcome and Announcements
Offertory
The Invitation
Celebrant: The table of bread and wine is now to be made ready.
It is the table of company with Jesus,
and with all those who love him.
It is the table of sharing with the poor of the world,
with whom Jesus identified himself.
It is the table of communion with the earth
in which Christ became incarnate.