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Welcome to St. Luke’s Harvest Thanksgiving Welcome & Prayer Welcome & Prayer The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all Al with you all. desires kn known, and from you no secr crets are And also with you. An hidden. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by Alleluia! Christ is risen. the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may The Lord is risen indeed. . Alleluia! perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. . Amen. May his grace and peace be with you. May he fj fjll our hearts with joy. Creator of the fruitful earth, you made us stewards of all things. . Give us grateful hearts for all your goodness, and steadfast wills to use your bounty well, that the whole human family, today A Song of Creation A Song of Creation and in generations to come, may with us give Song of the Three 35–36, 61–65 Song of the Three 35–36, 61–65 thanks for the rich ches of your creation. . We ask k this in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord. Am Amen.

Glorify the Lord, all you works of the Lord, Glorify the Lord, O spirits and souls of the righteous Praise God and highly exalt God for ever. Praise God and highly exalt God for ever. In the fjrmament of God’s power, glorify the Lord, You that are holy and humble of heart, Praise God and highly exalt God for ever. glorify the Lord, Let the people of God glorify the Lord Praise God and highly exalt God for ever. Praise God and highly exalt God for ever. Let us glorify the Lord: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Glorify the Lord, O priests and servants of the Lord, Praise God and highly exalt God for ever. Praise God and highly exalt God for ever. Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or Deuteronomy 8:7-18 Deuteronomy 8:7-18 that is in the water under the earth. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work. Take care that you do not forget the Lord your God, by failing to keep his commandments, his He made water fmow for you from fmint rock, and fed ordinances, and his statutes, which I am you in the wilderness with manna that your commanding you today. When you have eaten ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test your fjll and have built fjne houses and live in them, you, and in the end to do you good. Do not say to and when your herds and fmocks have multiplied, yourself, ‘My power and the might of my own hand and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that have gained me this wealth.’ But remember the you have is multiplied, then do not exalt yourself, Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to forgetting the Lord your God, who brought you out get wealth, so that he may confjrm his covenant of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing who led you through the great and terrible today. wilderness, an arid waste-land with poisonous snakes and scorpions.

The Word of the Lord. Psalm 65 Psalm 65 Thanks be to God. You are to be praised, O God, in Zion; to you shall vows be performed in Jerusalem. Awesome things will you show us in your righteousness, O God of our salvation, O Hope of To you that hear prayer shall all fm fmesh come, all the ends of the earth and of the seas that are because of their transgressions. far away. Our sins are stronger than we are, but you will You make fast the mountains by your power; they blot them out. are girded about with might. Happy are they whom you choose and draw to You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of your courts to dwell there! they will be satisfj fjed their waves, and the clamour of the peoples. by the beauty of your house, by the holiness of your temple. . You drench the furrows and smooth out the ridges; with heavy rain you soften the ground Those who dwell at the ends of the earth will and bless its increase. tremble at your marvellous signs; you make the dawn and the dusk k to sing for joy. You cr crown the year with your goodness, and your paths overfm fmow with plenty. You visit the earth and water it abundantly; you make it very plenteous; the river of God is full of May the fjelds of the wilderness be rich for water. grazing, and the hills be clothed with joy. You prepare the grain, for so you provide for the May the meadows cover themselves with fm fmock cks, earth. and the valleys cloak k themselves with grain; let them shout for joy and sing.

The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. As it is written, ‘He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever.’ He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You and by the generosity of your sharing with them will be enriched in every way for your great and with all others, while they long for you and pray generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God for you because of the surpassing grace of God through us; for the rendering of this ministry not only that he has given you. Thanks be to God for his supplies the needs of the saints but also overfmows indescribable gift! with many thanksgivings to God. Through the testing of this ministry you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ Gospel Reading Gospel Reading The Lord be with you. And also with you. The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ According to Luke Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, they called out, saying, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!’ When he saw Luke 17:11-19 Luke 17:11-19 them, he said to them, ‘Go and show yourselves to the priests.’ And as they went, they were made clean. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus asked, ‘Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them The Gospel of Christ found to return and give praise to God except this Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. foreigner?’ Then he said to him, ‘Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well.’ Creed Creed Let us confess our faith, as we say, I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. cr I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He sufg fgered under Pontius Pilate, was cr cruci cifj fjed, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead.

Creed Creed On the third day he rose again. . He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. . He will come again to judge the living and the Prayers of the People Prayers of the People dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. . Am Amen. Dear friends in Christ, God is steadfast in love and infjnite in mercy; he welcomes sinners and Confession & Absolution Confession & Absolution invites them to his table. Let us confess our sins, confjdent in God’s forgiveness. Most merci ciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. . Almighty God have mercy upon you, pardon and We have not loved you with our whole heart; we deliver you from all your sins, confjrm and have not loved our neighbours as ourselves. . We strengthen you in all goodness, and keep you in are truly sorry and we humbly repent. . For the eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us Amen. Am and forgive us, that we may delight in your will,and walk k in your ways,to the glory of your name. . Amen.