Sunday School
Music Time: Song, "As a Deer Pants for the Water."
Sunday School Themes:
Choosing what we decide to think about. We can think about good things or bad things and if we learn to think about good things, we can learn to choose happiness over sadness and anger.
The Parables of Jesus teach us two lessons:
What if God throws a party and the people who are invited decide not to come? How would God feel? Would God call the party off or invite other people who would want to come?
You can discuss unrequited feelings. Have a discussion about doing nice things for people but sometimes when people cannot appreciate what we do for them,how does it make us feel? Do we want to quit doing good things? Or do we just keep giving and find others who will receive our gifts?
The second parable is about choosing to be different at the wrong time. What would happen if you showed up for the soccer game and you did not not wear the team uniform for the game because you liked your own soccer uniform better. The coach would not let you play because you did not want to be a part of the team if you would not wear the uniform. Some times we want to be different because we do not want to share with others. And that can be a wrong kind of pride and selfishness.
Puppet Show
Mom and Joey
Joey: (with his soccer ball)
Mom: Hi, Joey. How did the soccer game go?
Joey: There wasn't any soccer game and it was no fun.
Mom: Why not Joey? You said that you were going to your soccer game and you took your ball with you. Didn't you play in the soccer game?
Joey: No, I didn't because they didn't have a soccer game.
Mom: Did they cancel the soccer game?
Joey: No, it was a baseball game, but I wanted to play soccer.
Mom: But, Joey it is baseball season and you are on the Little League Baseball team. Why did you take your soccer ball?
Joey: Because I felt like playing soccer today.
Mom: What happen?
Joey: I went out on the field with my soccer ball and the umpire and my coach told me to get off the baseball field.
Mom: Well, you really can't play soccer on the baseball field. You would get in the way of the baseball game. A baseball game and a soccer game do not mix.
Joey: But I wanted to play soccer; I did not want to play baseball.
Mom: Joey, you have learn to accept the rules of the game and you have to play the right game at the right time or you will make other people angry at you.
Joey: Well, I wanted to play soccer.
Mom: Jesus told a parable about a man who attended a wedding and everyone had their best wedding clothes on and this man crashed the party with his horseback riding gear on. The host was very upset and told him to leave the party.
Joey: Maybe the man had just come from riding his horse.
Mom: The point of the parable is sometimes we have to be willing to accept the conditions which God gives us to be equal in his grace and love. We just can't do what we want all of the time and expect that we will fit in. Joey, there is will other times to play soccer but now it baseball season. Can you be patient and learn to accept things and to learn to play by the rules?
Joey: Okay, I sure would be more popular if I played by the rules and I have learned an important lesson.
Mom: Good for you, Joey!
He makes me lie down in green pastures * and leads me beside still waters.
Children’s Creed
You have made us in your image
And then you gave us your Son, Jesus, born of Mary, nurtured by Joseph
Everlasting God, we have gathered for the meal that Jesus asked us to keep;
We have remembered his words of blessing on the bread and the wine.
And His Presence has been known to us.
We have remembered that we are sons and daughters of God and brothers
and sisters in Christ.
Send us forth now into our everyday lives remembering that the blessing in the
bread and wine spreads into each time, place and person in our lives,
As we are ever blessed by you, O Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Closing Song: O When the Saints (Christian Children’s Songbook, # 248).
1-When the saints, go marching in. O when the saints go marching in. Lord I want to be in that number, when the saints go marching in.
2-When the boys go marching in…
3-When the girls go marching in...
Intercession
Music Time: Song, "As a Deer Pants for the Water."
Sunday School Themes:
Choosing what we decide to think about. We can think about good things or bad things and if we learn to think about good things, we can learn to choose happiness over sadness and anger.
The Parables of Jesus teach us two lessons:
What if God throws a party and the people who are invited decide not to come? How would God feel? Would God call the party off or invite other people who would want to come?
You can discuss unrequited feelings. Have a discussion about doing nice things for people but sometimes when people cannot appreciate what we do for them,how does it make us feel? Do we want to quit doing good things? Or do we just keep giving and find others who will receive our gifts?
The second parable is about choosing to be different at the wrong time. What would happen if you showed up for the soccer game and you did not not wear the team uniform for the game because you liked your own soccer uniform better. The coach would not let you play because you did not want to be a part of the team if you would not wear the uniform. Some times we want to be different because we do not want to share with others. And that can be a wrong kind of pride and selfishness.
Puppet Show
Mom and Joey
Joey: (with his soccer ball)
Mom: Hi, Joey. How did the soccer game go?
Joey: There wasn't any soccer game and it was no fun.
Mom: Why not Joey? You said that you were going to your soccer game and you took your ball with you. Didn't you play in the soccer game?
Joey: No, I didn't because they didn't have a soccer game.
Mom: Did they cancel the soccer game?
Joey: No, it was a baseball game, but I wanted to play soccer.
Mom: But, Joey it is baseball season and you are on the Little League Baseball team. Why did you take your soccer ball?
Joey: Because I felt like playing soccer today.
Mom: What happen?
Joey: I went out on the field with my soccer ball and the umpire and my coach told me to get off the baseball field.
Mom: Well, you really can't play soccer on the baseball field. You would get in the way of the baseball game. A baseball game and a soccer game do not mix.
Joey: But I wanted to play soccer; I did not want to play baseball.
Mom: Joey, you have learn to accept the rules of the game and you have to play the right game at the right time or you will make other people angry at you.
Joey: Well, I wanted to play soccer.
Mom: Jesus told a parable about a man who attended a wedding and everyone had their best wedding clothes on and this man crashed the party with his horseback riding gear on. The host was very upset and told him to leave the party.
Joey: Maybe the man had just come from riding his horse.
Mom: The point of the parable is sometimes we have to be willing to accept the conditions which God gives us to be equal in his grace and love. We just can't do what we want all of the time and expect that we will fit in. Joey, there is will other times to play soccer but now it baseball season. Can you be patient and learn to accept things and to learn to play by the rules?
Joey: Okay, I sure would be more popular if I played by the rules and I have learned an important lesson.
Mom: Good for you, Joey!
Family Service
with Holy Eucharist
October
12, 2014: Eighteenth Sunday of Pentecost
Gathering Songs: He’s Got the Whole World,
Alleluia, Give Thanks, He is Lord, When the Saints
Liturgist:
Blessed be God, Father, Son and Holy
Spirit.
People: And Blessed be God’s kingdom, now and
forever. Amen.
Liturgist:
Oh God, Our hearts are open to you.
And you know us and we can hide nothing from you.
Prepare our hearts and our minds to love you and
worship you.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Song: He’s Got the Whole World
(Christian Children’s Songbook, # 90)
1-He’s got the whole world; in his hands he’s
got the whole wide world in his hands.
He’s got the whole world in his hands; he’s got the whole world in his
hands.
2-Little tiny babies.
3-Brother and the sisters
4-Mothers and the fathers
Liturgist: The
Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Lord, we pray that
your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given
to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and
the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
First Litany of
Praise: Alleluia (chanted)
O God, you are
Great! Alleluia
O God, you have made
us! Alleluia
O God, you have made
yourself known to us! Alleluia
O God, you have
provided us with us a Savior! Alleluia
O God, you have
given us a Christian family! Alleluia
O God, you have
forgiven our sins! Alleluia
O God, you brought
your Son Jesus back from the dead!
Alleluia
A reading from the
Letter to the Philippians
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
Liturgist: The Word of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
Liturgist: Let us
read together from Psalm 23
He makes me lie down in green pastures * and leads me beside still waters.
Children’s Creed
You have made us in your image
And then you gave us your Son, Jesus, born of Mary, nurtured by Joseph
Everlasting God, we have gathered for the meal that Jesus asked us to keep;
We have remembered his words of blessing on the bread and the wine.
And His Presence has been known to us.
We have remembered that we are sons and daughters of God and brothers
and sisters in Christ.
Send us forth now into our everyday lives remembering that the blessing in the
bread and wine spreads into each time, place and person in our lives,
As we are ever blessed by you, O Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Closing Song: O When the Saints (Christian Children’s Songbook, # 248).
1-When the saints, go marching in. O when the saints go marching in. Lord I want to be in that number, when the saints go marching in.
2-When the boys go marching in…
3-When the girls go marching in...
The LORD is my shepherd; * I shall not be in want.
Litany Phrase:
Thanks be to God! (chanted)
Litanist:
For the good earth,
for our food and clothing. Thanks be to God!
For our families and
friends. Thanks be to God!
For the talents and
gifts that you have given to us. Thanks be to God!
For this day of
worship. Thanks be to God!
For health and for a
good night’s sleep. Thanks be to God!
For work and for
play. Thanks be to God!
For teaching and for
learning. Thanks be to God!
For the happy events
of our lives. Thanks be to God!
For the celebration
of the birthdays and anniversaries of our friends and parish family.
Thanks be to God!
Liturgist: The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ according to Matthew
People: Glory to you, Lord Christ.
Once more Jesus
spoke to the people in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven may be
compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his slaves
to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not
come. Again he sent other slaves, saying, `Tell those who have been invited:
Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been
slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.' But they
made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, while
the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was
enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Then he said to his slaves, `The wedding is ready, but those invited were not
worthy. Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the
wedding banquet.' Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom
they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests. "But when the king came in to see the
guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, and he said
to him, `Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?' And he was
speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, `Bind him hand and foot, and
throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.' For many are called, but few are chosen.
Liturgist: The Gospel of the Lord.
People: Praise to you,
Lord Christ.
Sermon – Father Phil
We did not make
ourselves, so we believe that God the Father is the maker of the world.
Since God is so great
and we are so small,
We believe God came
into our world and was born as Jesus, son of the Virgin Mary.
We need God’s help
and we believe that God saved us by the life, death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
We believe that God
is present with us now as the Holy Spirit.
We believe that we
are baptized into God’s family the Church where everyone is
welcome.
We believe that
Christ is kind and fair.
We believe that we
have a future in knowing Jesus Christ.
And since we all must
die, we believe that God will preserve us forever. Amen.
Intercession
Litany Phrase: Christ,
have mercy. (chanted)
For fighting and war to cease in our world. Christ, have mercy.
For peace on earth and good will towards all. Christ, have mercy.
For the safety of all who travel. Christ, have mercy.
For jobs for all who need them. Christ, have mercy.
For care of those who are growing old. Christ, have mercy.
For the safety, health and nutrition of all the children in
our world. Christ, have mercy.
For the well-being of our families and friends. Christ, have mercy.
For the good health of those we know to be ill. Christ, have mercy.
For the remembrance of those who have died. Christ, have mercy.
For the forgiveness of all of our sins. Christ, have mercy.
Liturgist: The
Peace of the Lord be always with you.
People: And also with you.
Song during the preparation of the Altar and the receiving
of an offering
Offertory
Music: Rejoice in the Lord Always
Round:
Rejoice in the Lord,always and again I say rejoice. / Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice. Rejoice. Rejoice. And again I say rejoice. Rejoice. Rejoice. And again I say rejoice.
Rejoice in the Lord,always and again I say rejoice. / Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice. Rejoice. Rejoice. And again I say rejoice. Rejoice. Rejoice. And again I say rejoice.
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all
creatures here below.
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost.
Prologue to the
Eucharist
Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, for to them belong
the kingdom of heaven.”
All become members of a family by birth or adoption.
Baptism is a celebration of our birth into the family of
God.
A family meal gathers and sustains each human family.
The Holy Eucharist is the special meal that Jesus gave to
his friends to keep us together as the family of Christ.
The Lord be with you
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts
We lift them up to
the Lord.
Let us give thanks to God.
It is right to give God thanks and praise.
It is very good and right to give thanks, because God made
us, Jesus redeemed us and the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts. Therefore with Angels and Archangels and all
of the world that we see and don’t see, we forever sing this hymn of praise:
Holy, Holy, Holy (Intoned)
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God
of Power and Might. Heav’n and earth are
full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
Hosanna in the Highest.
(Children may gather around the altar)
Our grateful praise we offer to you God,
our Creator;
And you gave us many men and women of faith to help us to
live by faith:
Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob
and Rachael.
And he called us to be sons and daughters of God.
Your Son called us to live better
lives and he gave us this Holy Meal so that when we eat
the bread and drink
the wine, we can know that the Presence
of Christ is as near to us as
this food and
drink that becomes a part of us.
And so, Father, we bring
you these gifts of bread and wine. Bless and sanctify them by your Holy Spirit
to be for your people the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ our Lord. Bless and sanctify us by your Holy Spirit so
that we may love God and our neighbor.
On the night when Jesus was betrayed
he took bread, said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to his friends,
and said, "Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for you. Do this for
the remembrance of me."
After supper, Jesus took
the cup of wine, gave thanks, and said, "Drink this, all of you. This is
my Blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the
forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this for the remembrance of
me."
Father, we now celebrate
the memorial of your Son. When we eat this holy Meal of Bread and Wine, we are
telling the entire world about the life, death and resurrection of Christ and
that his presence will be with us in our future.
Let this holy meal keep
us together as friends who share a special relationship because of your Son
Jesus Christ. May we forever live with
praise to God to whom we belong as sons and daughters.
By Christ, and with
Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit all honor and glory
is yours, Almighty Father, now and for ever. AMEN.
And
now as our Savior Christ has taught us, we now sing,
(Children rejoin their parents and take up
their instruments)
Our Father: (Renew # 180, West Indian Lord’s Prayer)
Our Father who art in
heaven: Hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy
Will be done: Hallowed be thy name.
Done on earth as it is
in heaven: Hallowed be thy name.
Give us this day our
daily bread: Hallowed be thy name.
And forgive us all our debts: Hallowed be thy name.
As we forgive our debtors: Hallowed be thy name.
Lead us not into temptation: Hallowed be thy name.
But deliver us from evil: Hallowed be thy name.
Thine is the kingdom, power, and glory: Hallowed be thy
name.
Forever and ever: Hallowed be thy name.
Amen, amen, amen: Hallowed be thy name.
Amen, amen, amen, amen: Hallowed be thy name.
Breaking of the
Bread
Celebrant: Alleluia.
Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
People: Therefore let us keep the feast.
Alleluia!
Words
of Administration
Communion Song : He Is Lord (Renew! # 29)
1-He is Lord. He is Lord.
He is risen from the dead and He is Lord. Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord!
2-He is King. He is King.
He will draw all nations to him, He is king. And the time shall be when the world shall
sing that Jesus Christ is King.
3-He is Love. He is Love. He has shown us by his life that He is
Love. All his people sing with one voice
of joy that Jesus Christ is Love.
Post-Communion Prayer
Dismissal:
Liturgist: Let us
go forth in the Name of Christ.
People: Thanks be to God!
