Welcome to St. Luke’s Twelth Sunday After Pentecost 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. Al Almighty God, we are taught by your word that all our doings without love are worth nothing. Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts Venite Venite that most excellent gift of love, Psalm 95:1-7 Psalm 95:1-7 the true bond of peace ce and of all virtue; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. . Am Amen.
For the Lord is a great God, Come, let us sing to the Lord; and a great ki king above all gods. let us shout for joy to the rock ck of our salvation. In his hand are the caverns of the earth, and Let us come before his presence with the heights of the hills are his also. thanksgiving and raise a loud shout to him The sea is his for he made it, and his hands with psalms. have moulded the dry land. Come, let us bow down, and bend the kn knee, and kn kneel before the Lord our maker. Exodus 1:8-2:10 Exodus 1:8-2:10 For he is our God,and we are the people of his pasture and thesheep of his hand. Oh, that today we would hearken to his voice! Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, "Look, the The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks Israelite people are more numerous and more on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, fjeld labour. They were ruthless in all the tasks that join our enemies and fjght against us and escape they imposed on them. The king of Egypt said to from the land." Therefore they set taskmasters over the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named them to oppress them with forced labour. They built Shiphrah and the other Puah, "When you act as supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. But midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the more they were oppressed, the more they the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came she shall live." to dread the Israelites.
But the midwives feared God; they did not do as Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the boys live. So the king of Egypt summoned the the Nile, but you shall let every girl live." Now a man midwives and said to them, "Why have you done from the house of Levi went and married a Levite this, and allowed the boys to live?" The midwives woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are and when she saw that he was a fjne baby, she hid not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous him three months. When she could hide him no and give birth before the midwife comes to them." longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and So God dealt well with the midwives; and the plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the people multiplied and became very strong. And child in it and placed it among the reeds on the because the midwives feared God, he gave them bank of the river. families. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him. The daughter of Pharaoh came So the girl went and called the child's mother. down to bathe at the river, while her attendants Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and walked beside the river. She saw the basket among nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages." So the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she the woman took the child and nursed it. When the opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's she took pity on him, "This must be one of the daughter, and she took him as her son. She named Hebrews' children," she said. Then his sister said to him Moses, "because," she said, "I drew him out of Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get you a nurse the water." from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes." The Word of the Lord. Psalm 124 Psalm 124 Thanks be to God.
then would the raging waters have gone right If the Lord had not been on our side, let Israel over us. now say; Blessed be the Lord! he has not given us over to if the Lord had not been on our side, when be a prey for their teeth. enemies rose up against us; We have escaped like a bird from the snare of then would they have swallowed us up alive in the fowler; the snare is broken, and we have their fjerce anger toward us; escaped. Then would the waters have overwhelmed us Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of and the torrent gone over us; heaven and earth. I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifjce, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will Romans 12:1-8 Romans 12:1-8 of God - what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgement, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We The Word of the Lord. have gifts that difger according to the grace given Thanks be to God. to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness.
Gospel Reading Gospel Reading The Lord be with you. And also with you. An Matthew 16:13-20 Matthew 16:13-20 The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ According to Matthew Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will that the Son of Man is?" And they said, "Some say build my church, and the gates of Hades will not John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them, kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Then he living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that you, Simon son of Jonah! For fmesh and blood has he was the Messiah. not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. The Gospel of Christ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Creed Creed Creed Creed Let us confess our faith, as we say, On the third day he rose again. . He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the I believe in God, the Father almighty, right hand of the Father. cr creator of heaven and earth. He will come again to judge the living and the I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. dead. He was conce ceived by the power of the Holy I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic c Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. Church, the communion of saints, the He sufg fgered under Pontius Pilate, forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, was cr cruci cifj fjed, died, and was buried. and the life everlasting. . Amen. He descended to the dead. Prayers of the People Confession & Absolution Prayers of the People Confession & Absolution 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. . Dear friends in Christ, God is steadfast in love We have not loved you with our whole heart; we and infjnite in mercy; he welcomes sinners and have not loved our neighbours as ourselves. . We invites them to his table. Let us confess our sins, are truly sorry and we humbly repent. . For the confjdent in God’s forgiveness. sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy cy on us and forgive us, that we may delight in your will,and walk k in your ways,to the glory of your name. . Amen.
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