Worship

November 17, 2024

Procession Hymn What A Mighty God We Serve AA-478
Opening Prayer
Opening Meditation From “Black Liturgies” by Cole Arthur Riley

INHALE God is alive.
EXHALE And God’s breath is freedom.
INHALE Libration comes in a body.
EXHALE I will honor mine.

Collect Lectionary Insert
Hebrew Scriptures II Kings (24:8-15)
Canticle Psalm 79
New Testament Revelation (18:1-8)
Gospel Hymn I Will Trust In The Lord AA-391
Gospel Luke (7:11-23)
Sermon Rev. Peter Jarrett-Schell
Nicene Creed BCP pg. 358
Calvary’s Mission Statement (composed by Yvonne Lee)
People: “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
Peace
The flowers on the altar are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of our mother, Mary Bain, whose 108th birthday would have been November 18th. From her children Sheila, Margaret, Enoch, Clement, Gemma, and Glaudia.

Offertory I’ve Got A Feeling’ AA-313
If you would like to make your offering electronically, you can do so at: www.calvarydc.net/donate
Doxology Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flow AA-402
The Eucharist Our Eucharist Prayer was composed by Rev. Dr. Gayle Fisher-Stewart.
Celebrant: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you.
Celebrant: Lift up your 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: It is right, 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. Hosanna in the highest.
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!
The Lord’s Prayer AA-663
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 doubt- ful, to be made strong in faith. Come, when you are regretful, and be made whole. Come, everyone; there is room for all!
Communion Hymns What A Friend We Have In Jesus AA-431
Post Communion Prayer BCP pg. 365
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 re- member 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. —From “Black Liturgies”
Announcements
Final Hymn We’ll Understand It Better By and By AA-418

We are blessed to have Howard Moore lead worship music today.

LECTIONARY INSERT

November 17, 2024

Today’s scriptural translations are by drawn from “A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church” By The Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney,

Collect

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly di- gest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

A Reading from the Second Book of Kings (24:8-15)
Eighteen years was Jehoiachin at his reign; three months he reigned in Jerusalem and the name of his mother was Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. And he did what was evil in the sight of the RIGHTEOUS ONE, just as his father had done. At that time the slave- troops of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, came up to Jerusalem and the city was besieged. And Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, came to the city, while his slave-troops were besieging it. Then Jehoi- achin, King of Judah, went out surrendering to the king of Babylon: himself, his mother, his enslaved bureaucrats, his leaders, and his most trusted officials and the king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign. Thus Nebuchadnezzar brought out all the treasures of the house of the HOLY ONE and the treasures of the house of the king and he cut up all the vessels of gold in the house of the HOLY ONE which Solomon, King of Israel, had made; just as the ALL-KNOWING GOD had said. And Nebuchadnezzar exiled all Jeru- salem, all the leaders, all the warriors, ten thousand exiles, all the arti- sans and the smiths; no one remained except the poorest people of the land. So he exiled Jehoiachin to Babylon and the mother of the king, the women of the king, his most trusted officials, and the men called the rams of the land, Nebuchadnezzar took into captivity from Jerusa- lem to Babylon.
The Word of the Lord
Thanks be to God

Psalm 79
God, the nations have come into your possession;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have turned Jerusalem in ruins.
They have given the corpses of your slaves,
women, children, and men,
as food to the birds of the air; the flesh of your faithful ones,
women, children, and men, to the wild animals of the earth.
They have poured their blood like water around Jerusalem,
and there was none left to bury.
We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
the scorn and derision of those around us.
How long, HOLY GOD? Will you be angry for all time,
your jealous wrath burn like fire?
Pour out your anger upon the nations that do not know you,
and upon the dominions that do not call on your Name.
For they have devoured Rachel’s lineage
and decimated their habitation.
Remember not the former iniquities against us;
let your mother-love come speedily to meet us,
for we are brought very low.
Help us, God of our salvation, for the sake of the glory of your Name;
and deliver us and forgive our sins, for the sake of your Name.
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let it be known among the nations before our eyes,
vengeance for the poured out blood of your servants.
May the groaning of prisoners come before you,
according to the great strength of your arm;
preserve those destined for death.
Now return to our neighbors sevenfold, into their bosom,
the taunts with which they taunted you, Holy One!
Then we, your people, the flock of your pasture,
will give thanks to you for all time;
from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
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 Revelation to John (18:1-8)
I saw an angel coming down from the heavens, one who had great au- thority and the earth was illuminated with its splendor. It called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! Now she has become a den of demons, a bastion of every unclean spirit, a bastion of every unclean bird, a bastion of every unclean and hateful beast. Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you do not take part in her sins, and so that her plagues you do not receive. For her sins touch the heavens, and God has remembered her iniquities. Pay her back what she herself has paid out, and pay her back double, double for her works; in the cup she mixed, mix her a double. Just as she glorified herself and lived running wild, likewise give her just as much torment and sorrow. Now then, in her heart she says, `I sit a queen; I am no widow, and sorrow shall I never see.’ Therefore in a single day her blows will come. death and sorrow and famine. And with fire shall she be burned; for mighty is the Sovereign God who judges her.”
The Word of the Lord
Thanks be to God

The Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Luke (7:11-23)
Glory to you Lord Christ
The day after healing a centurion’s slave Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. He had just approached the gate of the town and suddenly, being carried out was a man who had died, his mother’s only son and she was a widow; with her was a large crowd from the town. When the Messiah saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then Jesus came forward and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, rise!” The dead man sat up and began to speak and Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized all of them; and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen among us!” and “God visited God’s people!” This word about Jesus spread throughout Judea and all the surrounding country. Now the disciples of John reported about all these things to him. Then John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to the Savior to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or for another should we wait?” When they had come to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptizer has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or for another should we wait?'” In that hour Jesus healed many women, children, and men of diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits and gave sight to many who were blind. Then Jesus responded, saying, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, those with diseased skin are made whole, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them. And blessed is anyone who is not scandalized by me.”
The Gospel of the Lord
Praise to you Lord Christ

Prayers of the People
In communion with all the saints, and in the name of Jesus, let our prayers ascend to God whose children we are, saying:
Hear us, O Holy One.
For the Church, that we may daily turn to God for strength, vision, and the courage to be faithful disciples, and to bear witness to God’s love and justice in the world.
Hear us, O Holy One.
For this parish family, that we may love, care for and support one another.
Hear us, O Holy One.
For peace in our world, and in our cities, that God will open our minds and hearts to respect the dignity of every human being.
Hear us, O Holy One.
For those living in the shadows of fear, violence, and poverty, that they may be kept safe in the hollow of God’s hand.
Hear us, O Holy One.
In the wake of our election, we pray that this nation may be guided by the Holy Spirit, and follow in God’s Way of Love.
Hear us, O Holy One.
Lifting our voices with all creation, with Mary, the God-bearer, with the spirits of the blessed, with the holy patriarchs, prophets, and martyrs, and all the saints and souls of God, let us offer ourselves and one another to the living God through Christ.
Hear us, O Holy One.
Lord Jesus Christ, we lift up to you all these prayers. Be with us, strengthen us, guide us and protect us, for your name’s sake. Amen