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Sunday, March 17th, 2024  — 5th Sunday of Lent

Opening Hymn   Holy, Holy, Holy   AA-329
Opening Prayer    From “Black Liturgies” by Cole Arthur Riley
Celebrant:  Honest God, We confess that we, as individuals and nations, have engaged in self-protection and delusion. Let this be a season when we reclaim the practice of telling the truth about our histories, that we would no longer shield ourselves and others from the harm we have caused by coddling our guilt and insecurity. Let our love be made of un-apologetic truth-telling. Let those of us who have been gaslit find our stories centered and affirmed in this season. Guide us toward spaces that have grown weary of delusions, desiring to see the world for what it is in all its complexities, beauties, tragedies, and oppression. And as we cultivate honest communities let our healing and liberation rise to meet us.  Amen
Inhale   People:  I am not who I was.
Exhale  People:  I forgive myself.
Collect  Lectionary Insert
Hebrew Scriptures   Genesis  (4:17-24)
Canticle   Psalm 128
New Testament  I Corinthians (7:1-17)
Gospel Hymn  Jesus Paid It All  AA-357
Gospel  Mark (10:1-16)
Sermon  Rev. Peter Jarrett-Schell
Nicene Creed  BCP pg. 358
Calvary’s Mission Statement  (composed by Yvonne Lee)
We, the members of Calvary Episcopal Church, believe in taking the journey of God’s love and service to those who know Christ, and those who seek Christ.
Prayers of the People Lectionary Insert
Confession   from “Black Liturgies”
People: Creator God, We confess every attempt to steal and grant dignity, as if it’s something we have dominion over. We have lost ourselves in a world of anti- Blackness, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and misogyny. We have amplified the cool and the confident and alienated those who feel strange or awkward.  In demeaning others, we mistakenly believe that our own self-worth may be magnified, but in doing so we only become less human. We have not become bigger, but smaller. Not safer but more afraid. Every effort to diminish the worth of another has only distanced us from the truth of our own dignity. Forgive us. And remind us of who we are, what we’re made of, that a collective image of God is dwelling in and through us. May we forgive ourselves and become faithful keepers of our cosmic birthright to beauty, justice and belonging.
Celebrant: Let your soul receive this rest: The God who became seamstress, the God who knelt in the garden to make clothes for Eve and Adam covers you now. As the divine meets your shame with tenderness, you are freed to stand before the earth, neighbor, your God, and yourself.  Amen
Peace
The greenery on the altar is given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Frank Nash by his sister Frances Nash Powell.
Offertory   Am I A Soldier of The Cross   AA-482
If would like to make your offering electronically, you can do so at: www.calvarydc.net/donate

Doxology  Praise God   AA-650
The Eucharist   Our eucharist prayer was composed by the Rev. Dr. Gayle Fisher-Stewart

Celebrant: We are the body of Christ.
People:  His Spirit is with us.
Celebrant: Let us lift up our hearts.
People:  We lift them to the Lord.
Celebrant:  Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People:  It is right to give God our thanks and praise.
Celebrant: Because you sent your beloved Son to redeem us from sin and death, and to make us heirs in him of everlasting life; that when he shall come again in power and great triumph to judge the world, we may without shame or fear rejoice to behold his appearing. Blessed are you, O God, who sets the table of creation and invites us to feast with you in a cosmic celebration of love and desire. As we again await, Immanuel, God with us, we thank you for Jesus, whose life, prayer, and ministry opened our eyes to the glory of life and fueled our hunger for your long anticipated reign of justice, mercy, and peace. You call all people to follow your paths of justice and peace, beating their swords into plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks. In the light of your holy Word we look for the day when nations shall not lift up sword against nations, or learn war any more. Therefore, with the entire company of heaven, and with your people on earth who live in this hope, we praise you and join in the never-ending hymn:
People:  Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Celebrant:  We thank you for Christ’s passionate solidarity with the suffering of all the earth; for as he bore in his own body the wounds of creation, he embraced us in our brokenness and gathered us into his wholeness so that we might know ourselves beloved and serve with him as priests forever in an all-embracing Eucharist. Blessed is our brother Jesus, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh; who, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, blessed it and said:
People:  This is my body which is given for you. Do this to remember me.
Celebrant: In the same way, Jesus took the cup after supper and said:
People:  This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this whenever you drink it, to remember me.
Celebrant:  So, as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the mystery of our faith:
People:  Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
Celebrant: Here in this place, we celebrate the life that death could not hold, the life that Jesus has shared among his community through the centuries, and shares with us now. Made one with him, and thus, with each other, we lay before you these gifts of bread and wine, tokens of our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, for here we offer and present to you ourselves, our bodies, minds and spirits, to be a holy and continuous sacrifice to you,
People:  Come, Holy Spirit, Come.  Come, Holy Spirit Come.
Celebrant: Come and brood over these bodily things, this bread and this wine. May they be for us the body and blood of Christ; healing, renewing, and making us whole.
People:  Come, Holy Spirit, Come.  Come, Holy Spirit Come.
Celebrant:  Come and embrace us with your life-giving power that as bread and wine are made one with us, we may become one with you; bone of your bone, flesh of your flesh.
People:  Come, Holy Spirit, Come.  Come, Holy Spirit Come.
Celebrant:  Come and make your gathered people the real presence of Christ for the world, living our prayer and praying our life until heaven and earth are reconciled, and all are free as Christ is free.
People:  Glory be to you, O God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; one God and Mother of all creation; as in the beginning, so now, and forever.  Amen!

Lord’s Prayer    BCP pg. 364 (sung)
Celebrant:  Lamb of God
People:  You take away the sins of the world.
Celebrant:  Lamb of God
People:  You take away the sins of the world
Celebrant:  Lamb of God
People:  Grant us your peace
Celebrant: These are the gifts of God for you, God’s people. This is the Lord’s table. Come, when you are fearful, to be made new in love. Come when you are doubtful, to be made strong in faith. Come, when you are regretful, and be made whole. Come, everyone; there is room for all!
Communion Hymn   The Blood Will Never Lose It’s Power  AA-256
Post Communion Prayer    BCP pg. 365
Benediction  
from the “Black Liturgies”    
Celebrant:  May the God who made all things and holds together all things remind you of your making. May you rest in the immanence of your own worth, knowing you have nothing to prove and everything to love. Constant as the moon, which is tethered to us by unseen forces, which is suspended above us in the dark and the light, let our dignity remain, be it visible or invisible to those below. And may we remember the same dignity that holds us, so too holds together every person and piece of the cosmos at once and evermore. Go, in honor, to claim all that you are worthy of. May it be so. Amen.
Announcements 
Final Hymn   Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah   AA-138
We are blessed to have Susan Walls lead our music service today.

Sunday, March 17th, 2024   Scriptural Readings – 5th Sunday of Lent
Our scriptural translations today are from. “A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church, Year B,” by Dr. Wil Gafney

Collect  
Oh God, we are blessed and called to walk in a status, with or without others, that is uniquely ours. Help us to focus and under- stand that we have your guidance to follow, so that like a child, we can wholeheartedly put our trust in you, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

A Reading from the Book of Genesis  (4:17-24)
Now Cain knew his woman intimately and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch and he built a city and named it Enoch after his child Enoch. Then born to Enoch was Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael and Mehujael fathered Methushael and Methushael fa- thered Lamech. Then, Lamech took two women: the name of the one was Adah and the name of the second, Zillah. And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the ancestor of those who live in tents surrounded by livestock. And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the ancestor of all those who take up the lyre and pipe. Then Zillah gave birth to Tubal-Cain who forged every kind of implement of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah. Lamech said to his women: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you women of Lamech, hear well what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, and a boy-child for striking me. If sev- enfold Cain is avenged, then Lamech seventy and seven.”
The Word of the Lord
Thanks be to God

Psalm (128)
Happy are all who revere the FOUNT OF LIFE,
walking in her ways.
Of the labor of your hands shall you eat;
you shall be happy and it shall go well with you.
Your woman, a fruitful vine flanking your house;
your children, olive shoots around your table.
Thus shall the person be blessed
who reveres the SOURCE OF LIFE.
The WELLSPRING OF LIFE
bless you from Zion
and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
And, may you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
As it was in the beginning, is now and will be forever. Amen.

A Reading from the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians  (7:1-17)
Now, about what you have written: It is good for a man not to take hold of a woman. But because of sexual immorality, each man should have his own woman and each woman her own man. For the wife, the husband should do his duty and likewise the wife for her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, rather the husband does; likewise the hus- band does not have authority over his own body, yet the wife does. Do not ever defraud one another except by agreement for a time to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. This I say as a concession, not a command. I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has their own gift from God, indeed one to one and another to another. To the unmar- ried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain so. But if they are not showing self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn. To the married I give this com- mand—not I but the Most High—a woman should not separate from her man, though if she does separate, let her remain un- married or else be reconciled to her man; also a man should not divorce his woman. To the rest I say—I and not the Most High—that if a believer has a woman who is an unbeliever and she agrees to live with him, he should not divorce her. And if a woman has a man who is an unbeliever and he agrees to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving man is made holy through his woman, and the unbelieving woman is made holy through her man. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, yet now they are holy. Now if the unbeliever leaves, let them leave; a sister or brother is not bound in such circumstanc- es. It is to peace that God has called you. For woman, how do you know whether you will save your man, and how do you know, man, whether you will save your woman? However let each walk through life as the Holy One has designated and as God has called them. This is what I instruct all the churches.

The Word of the Lord
Thanks be to God

The Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Mark (10:1-16)
Glory to you Lord Christ
Now Jesus arose from Capernaum and went to the region of Ju- dea and beyond the Jordan and crowds of women, children, and men again gathered around him, and as was his custom, again he taught them. Then came Pharisees, asking him if it was permis- sible for a man to divorce, testing Jesus. But he answered, say- ing to them, “What did Moses command you?” Now, they said, “Moses allowed writing a document of release and divorce.” But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hard-heartedness he in- scribed this commandment for you all. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them female and male.’ ‘Because of this a man shall leave his mother and father and be joined to his woman, and the two shall become one flesh.’ Thus they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined to- gether, let no mortal separate.” Then in the house, again the dis- ciples asked Jesus about this. He said to them, “Whoever divorc- es his woman and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her man and marries another, she commits adultery.” Also, women and men were bringing him children so that he might hold them and the disciples rebuked them. Yet when Jesus saw he became angry and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not prevent them. For to such ones the reign of God belongs. Truly I tell you all, whoever does not re- ceive the reign of God as a little child will not enter it.” Then he embraced them, blessing them, laying his hands on them.
The Gospel of the Lord
Praise to you Lord Christ

Prayers of the People
God made Christ a high priest for our salvation. As we prepare for the Paschal feast let us lift up our prayers and supplications to God, through his Son, saying, Hear us, O God,
For your mercy is great.
For the Church, that all the people of God may know the Lord through the covenant of love written in their hearts. Hear us, O God,
For your mercy is great.
For our parish families, that in this holy season we may walk with Christ, entrust our lives to God, and allow God to raise up new life within us. Hear us, O God,
For your mercy is great.
For the leaders of the nations, and all in authority, that God will give them the grace and will to work for peace, so that the broken body of the world may rejoice. Hear us O God,
For your mercy is great.
For the grace to live for others, that God will guide us in offering our lives in loving service, to help others along life’s journey. Hear us O God,
For your mercy is great.
For all those who lay down their lives for others, that God will guide and strengthen parents, caregivers for the sick, police and other first- responders, that they may be instruments of God’s love and compas- sion. Hear us, O God,
For your mercy is great.
We give thanks, Lord, and still there are so many needs, and we lift up to you all the prayers of our hearts, thanksgivings and petitions and intercessions for our own needs, and those of others. For what else shall we pray:
We invite you to offer the prayers of your heart.
Hear us, O God,
For your mercy is great.
For those who have died, that, as they have been sown with Christ in death, so may they also be part of Christ’s abundant harvest in eter- nal life. Hear us, O God,
For your mercy is great.
Lifting our voices with all creation, with Mary, the God-bearer, and all the saints, let us offer ourselves, and one another, to the living God through Christ.
To you, O Lord our God.  Amen.

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