Sunday Service:
Holy Eucharist
at 9:30 am
Child care is available
Church of Our
Saviour
191 Flanagan Way
(Rt 153)
Secaucus, NJ 07094
Tel: 201-863-1449
Fax: 201-863-1474
Mark A. Lewis, Vicar MLewis@secaucus.org
Dorothy Fowlkes
Pastoral Associate
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Worship for
the Lord's Day
The
Fourth Sunday in Lent
22 March 2009
Holy Eucharist - 9:30 am
Gracious Father, your Son Jesus came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world. Give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him. We ask this with confidence in your love. Amen.
Today's
Lessons
II Chronicles 36:14-23 / Psalm
122
Ephesians 2:4-10 / John 6:4-15
Today's
Hymns
686
- Come, thou fount of every blessing
533
- How wondrous and great
620 - Jerusalem, my happy home
690
- Guide me, O thou great Jehovah
A Reading
from the Second
Book of Chronicles 36:14-23
All the leading priests and the people also were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
The LORD, the God of their ancestors, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place; but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against his people became so great that there was no remedy.
Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their youths with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or young woman, the aged or the feeble; he gave them all into his hand. All the vessels of the house of God, large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his officials, all these he brought to Babylon. They burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.
He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom and also declared in a written edict: "Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him! Let him go up."
(To be read by Thurman Hart)
Psalm 122 Laetatus sum
I was glad when they said to
me,
"Let us go to the house of the LORD."
Now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is built as a city
that is at unity with itself;
To which the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD,
the assembly of Israel,
to praise the Name of the LORD.
For there are the thrones of
judgment,
the thrones of the house of David.
Pray for the peace of
Jerusalem:
"May they prosper who love you.
Peace be within your walls
and quietness within your towers.
For my brethren and companions'
sake,
I pray for your prosperity.
Because of the house of the LORD
our God,
I will seek to do you good."
(To be read by Mary Beth Hart)
A reading
from Paul's letter
to the Ephesians 2:4-10
God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-- by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God-- not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
(To be read by Thurman Hart)
The Gospel according to John 6:4-15
Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?"
He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.
Philip answered him, "Six months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little."
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?"
Jesus said, "Make the people sit down."
Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted.
When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, "Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost."
So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets.
When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, "This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world."
When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
(To be read by Dorothy Fowlkes)
The Prayers of the People will be led by Howie Allen
Comments on the Readings
The Diocese of Montreal offers an attractive and useful guide to the lectionary readings. Because it comes from of the Anglican Church of Canada, the readings sometimes may vary from those of the Episcopal Church, but it is still helpful. Link
The Sunday Bulletin Link
Reflections on Sermons
Mark Lewis's
sermons have been interpreted for reading on the internet.
They are indexed at the bottom of the Sunday
page.
Link
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