This is the same text, absent the lectionary reading, I use when I lead Morning Services at a Convention.
There are references to "reader," "leader," and " people" within the text this is for when the services are done "in person." You are invited to read aloud those portions if you wish
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(OPENING RESPONSES)
leader: The world
belongs to God
all: The earth and all its
people
leader: How good it
is, how wonderful,
all: To live together in
unity
leader: Love and
faith come together,
all: Justice and peace join
hands
leader: If Christ's
disciples keep silent
all: These stones would shout
aloud
leader: Open our
lips, O God,
all: And our mouths shall
proclaim your praise
Leader: Holy God,
Maker of all
all: Have
mercy on us
Leader: Jesus
Christ, Servant of the poor
all: Have mercy on us
leader: Holy
Spirit, Breath of life
all: Have Mercy on us
leader: Let us in
silence confess our faults and admit our frailty
(A BRIEF PERIOD OF
SILENCE IS KEPT)
Leader: Before God,
with the people of God,
I confess to my brokenness:
to the ways I wound my life,
the lives of others,
and the life of the world.
ALL: May God forgive you, Christ
renew you,
and the Spirit enable
you to grow in love
Leader: Amen.
All: Before God, with the
people of God,
we confess to our
brokenness:
to the ways we wound our
lives,
the lives of others,
and the life of the
world
Leader: May God
forgive us, Christ Renew us,
and the Spirit enable us to grow in
love.
All: Amen
(PRAYER FOR GOD'S HELP)
Leader: Move among
us, O God; give us life:
All: Let your people rejoice
in you
Leader: Make our
hearts clean within us:
All: Renew us in mind and
spirit.
Leader: Give us
again the joy of your help:
All: With your spirit of
freedom sustain us.
Leader: And now, as
Jesus taught us, we say:
ALL: Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed by 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 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.
(AFFIRMATION)
Leader: With the
whole church
All: We affirm
That we are made in
God's image,
befriended by Christ,
empowered by the Spirit.
Leader: With people
everywhere
All: We affirm
God's goodness at the
heart of humanity,
Planted more deeply than
all that is wrong.
Leader: With all
creation
All: We celebrate
The miracle and wonder
of life;
The unfolding purposes
of God,
Forever at work in
ourselves and the world.
Prayer for
Thanksgiving
Blessed are you, Lord God of our
salvation,
to you be praise and glory for ever.
As once you ransomed your people from Egypt
and led them to freedom in the promised land,
so now you have delivered us from the dominion of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of your risen Son.
May we, the first fruits of your new creation,
rejoice in this new day you have made,
and praise you for your mighty acts.
Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
to you be praise and glory for ever.
As once you ransomed your people from Egypt
and led them to freedom in the promised land,
so now you have delivered us from the dominion of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of your risen Son.
May we, the first fruits of your new creation,
rejoice in this new day you have made,
and praise you for your mighty acts.
Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
All: Blessed be God for ever.
Christ has been
raised from the dead: •
the first fruits of those who sleep.
For as by man came death: •
by man has come also the resurrection of the dead;
for as in Adam all die: •
even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
the first fruits of those who sleep.
For as by man came death: •
by man has come also the resurrection of the dead;
for as in Adam all die: •
even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
(PSALM: said responsively
- by one of the worshipers)
93 Dominus
regnavit
1 The Lord is King;
he has put on splendid apparel; *
the Lord has put on his apparel
and girded himself with strength.
2 He has made the whole world so sure *
that it cannot be moved;
3 Ever since the world began, your throne has been established; *
you are from everlasting.
4 The waters have lifted up, O Lord,
the waters have lifted up their voice; *
the waters have lifted up their pounding waves.
5 Mightier than the sound of many waters,
mightier than the breakers of the sea, *
mightier is the Lord who dwells on high.
6 Your testimonies are very sure, *
and holiness adorns your house, O Lord,
for ever and for evermore.
1 The Lord is King;
he has put on splendid apparel; *
the Lord has put on his apparel
and girded himself with strength.
2 He has made the whole world so sure *
that it cannot be moved;
3 Ever since the world began, your throne has been established; *
you are from everlasting.
4 The waters have lifted up, O Lord,
the waters have lifted up their voice; *
the waters have lifted up their pounding waves.
5 Mightier than the sound of many waters,
mightier than the breakers of the sea, *
mightier is the Lord who dwells on high.
6 Your testimonies are very sure, *
and holiness adorns your house, O Lord,
for ever and for evermore.
(Old Testament: Read by one of the worshipers)
Leviticus
25:1-17
25The
Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying: 2Speak to the people of
Israel and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land
shall observe a sabbath for the Lord. 3For six years you shall sow
your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in
their yield; 4but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of
complete rest for the land, a sabbath for the Lord: you shall not sow your
field or prune your vineyard. 5You shall not reap the aftergrowth of
your harvest or gather the grapes of your unpruned vine: it shall be a year of
complete rest for the land. 6You may eat what the land yields during
its sabbath—you, your male and female slaves, your hired and your bound
labourers who live with you; 7for your livestock also, and for the
wild animals in your land all its yield shall be for food.
8 You
shall count off seven weeks* of years, seven
times seven years, so that the period of seven weeks of years gives forty-nine
years. 9Then you shall have the trumpet sounded loud; on the tenth
day of the seventh month—on the day of atonement—you shall have the trumpet
sounded throughout all your land. 10And you shall hallow the
fiftieth year and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its
inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: you shall return, every one of you,
to your property and every one of you to your family. 11That
fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you: you shall not sow, or reap the
aftergrowth, or harvest the unpruned vines. 12For it is a jubilee;
it shall be holy to you: you shall eat only what the field itself produces.
13 In
this year of jubilee you shall return, every one of you, to your property. 14When
you make a sale to your neighbour or buy from your neighbour, you shall not
cheat one another. 15When you buy from your neighbour, you shall pay
only for the number of years since the jubilee; the seller shall charge you
only for the remaining crop-years. 16If the years are more, you
shall increase the price, and if the years are fewer, you shall diminish the
price; for it is a certain number of harvests that are being sold to you. 17You
shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord
your God.
.
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God. Epistle
2 My brothers and sisters,* whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy, 3because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance; 4and let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you. 6But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind; 7, 8for the doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 16Do not be deceived, my beloved.*
17 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.* 18In fulfilment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
(READING FOR THE
DAY)
Leader: This
morning's reading comes from the Gospel of John
Listen now for the Word of God.
Luke 12:13-21
13 Someone in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’ 14But he said to him, ‘Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?’ 15And he said to them, ‘Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.’ 16Then he told them a parable: ‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly. 17And he thought to himself, “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” 18Then he said, “I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” 20But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” 21So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich towards God.’
The Word of the
Lord.
Thanks be to
God.
(a period of
silence is kept)
Leader: For the Word of God in
Scripture,
for the Word of God among us,
for the Word of God within us
ALL: Thanks be to God.
(Homily by leader)
(PRAYERS OF GRATITUDE AND CONCERN)
Leader. Let not the
needy, O Lord, be forgotten;
All: Nor the hope of the poor
be taken away.
Leader: Create in
us clean hearts, O God;
All: And sustain us with your
Holy Spirit.
Leader: For each of
our prayers, please add, aloud or silently,
your own concerns
Leader: Give
guidance and care for the needs of the world at large,
and for the life of Your church
God, in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer
Leader: For the
concerns of our cities, towns and nations,
give guidance to our leaders and care
for their people
God, in Your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer
Leader: For the
concerns and comfort of those of us here, our families,
for those absent or those who are ill,
and in remembrance of those who are
gone,
God in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Leader: Remember
all those the world has forgotten,
Those without family, or those on the
streets,
Those who are damaged by drugs,
alcohol or their own minds.
Remember the unemployed, the widow,
the orphan,
and the prisoner.
God in your mercy,
All: Hear our prayer.
Leader: Living God, may we not fail
you,
All: Nor we fail them
Leader: O God, set
Your blessing on us
as we begin this day together.
Confirm us in the truth by which we
rightly live;
confront us with the truth from which
we wrongly turn.
We ask not for what we want,
but for what You know we need,
as we offer this day and ourselves for
You and to You,
Through Jesus Christ, our Savior.
ALL: Amen
A Prayer of
St. Chrysostom
Almighty God, you have given us grace at this
time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have
promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered
together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our
desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world
knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.
(CLOSING)
Leader: This is the
day that God has made;
All: We will rejoice and be
glad in it.
Leader: We will not
offer to God
All: Offerings that cost us
nothing.
Leader: Go in peace
to love and to serve;
All: We will seek peace and
pursue it.
Leader: In the name
of the Trinity of Love,
All: God in community, holy
and One.
Amen
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