2016 CEEP Conference Closing Eucharist

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ABOUT THIS EUCHARIST

For more than ten years at Saint Johns, a worshiping community called The Wilderness has gathered

on Sunday nights. Contemplative, creative, experimental, ancient/modern - these words try but fail

to capture all that characterizes the ever evolving liturgy.

Tonights Eucharist is heavily influenced by the current Lenten season of the Wilderness, called

Appaling Silence. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, Our lives begin to end the day we become silent

about things that matter. We are constantly tempted to remain silent about things that matter. Toooften we take the bait. And though our silence about the waywardness of the world may make living

in it somehow easier, it also makes us complicit. And so we ask tonight, What silences have you

kept when your voice mattered? What have we as a community been too quiet about?

As we journey toward the renewal of our Baptismal promises at Easter, let us turn from our hesitance

to shout from our lips the very hope Easter reveals and banish our reticence to show it in our lives.

This leaflet as well as a full text edition of tonights liturgy are available at www.sjcathedral.org/wilderness. The Reverend Canon Jadon

Hartsuff, Canon for Liturgy and Formation, would be happy to answer any questions about it. Contact him at [email protected].

THE ORDER OF SERVICE

OPENING SONG The Sound of Silence

by Simon and Garfunkel

All stand as the procession enters.

OPENING ACCLAMATION

Presider: We gather in the name of God, Eternal Majesty, Incarnate Word, Abiding Spirit:

People: One God, whose mercy endures forever.

The Presider offers an exhortation. Inspired by Isaiah 58:6-9.

CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION Inspired by Psalm 51.

Presider: Let us reveal our true selves before God.

People: Have mercy, O God, have mercy,

according to your faithful love;

wipe away my wrongdoings

according to your great compassion.

Wash me clean of my guilt

and purify me from my sin.

For I know my wrongdoings;my sin always faces me.

Create a clean heart in me, O God;

put a new, faithful spirit within me.

Deliver me from fear and indifference,

so that my tongue can sing of your righteousness.

Open my lips, O God,

that my mouth may proclaim your praise!

The Presider proclaims Absolution and the People respond: Thanks be to God.


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READING Genesis 37: 3-4, 12-28

CHANTED PSALM Psalm 105:1-5; 17-22 arr. Stephen Tappe

GOSPEL Matthew 21:33-43

SERMON Becca Stevens, Preacher

VIA SACRA

During this extended time of prayer you are invited to leave your pew and journey to the various

prayer stations that are set around the Cathedral. Visit one of the Stations of the Cross around theperimeter of the Nave. Light a candle to remind yourself of the light of Christ, given at Baptism, thatdwells within you. Dip your finger into the Thistle Farms Exodus Oil and trace a cross on your fore-

head to remind yourself that at Baptism you were enlivened by the Holy Spirt for a life of ministry.

Return to your pews at your liesure or after the Presider offers the closing prayer, during the Peace.

THE PASSING OF THE PEACE

OFFERTORY MUSIC Brave, by Sarah Bareilles

AT THE COMMUNION

Ushers will guide you to the nearest station. Gluten-free Hosts are available by asking as you ap-proach. If you would rather receive a blessing, please signify by crossing your hands over your chest.

HYMN DURING COMMUNION HYMN 143


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PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Presider: Let us pray.

All say: O God,

you took upon yourself

the yoke of humanity

and the burden of love,

and did not find it easy:

let us learn from youto share the weight of this aching world,

that our souls may be light,

and our hearts rested,

as together we are carried by you

in Jesus Christ.

Amen.

BLESSING AND DISMISSAL

CLOSING HYMN HYMN 692

Hymns are from the Hymnal 1982, arranged for the Wilderness by Ryan McCarthy and Chad Johnson, Copyright 2015, All Rights Reserved.

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