CHURCH OF SS MARY & JOHNNUGEGODA

“Armour against hell: Stir Up Our Faith and Accountability”

Proper 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Leader

Response

Through Christ let us offer our sacrifices of praise to God

Let our lips proclaim His praise cf Hebrews 13:15

Hymn 367

Introductory Sentence

“But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.” 1Thessalonians 5:8

Leader Blessed be God.

Response Blessed be God’s Reign forever. Amen.

Invitation To

Confession

Brothers and Sisters, as

we prepare to celebrate

let us call to mind our

sins.

ConfessionSilence

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we have sinned against you through our own fault, in thought and word and deed, and in what we have left undone. We are heartily sorry and repent for all our sins. For your Son our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, forgive us all that is past; and grant that we may serve you in newness of life to the glory of your name. Amen.

Absolution

May Almighty God have mercy on

us, forgive us our sins, and bring

us to everlasting life, through

Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Glory to God in the Highest, and peace to God’s people on earth. Lord God, heavenly Sovereign, Almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory. Lord, Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God,

Gloria

you take away the sins of the

world, have mercy upon us. You

are seated at the right hand of

the Father; receive our prayer.

For you alone are the holy one,

You alone are the Lord, You

alone are the most high Jesus

Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the

glory of God the Father. Amen

Collect

Lord God of all ages, the One who is, who was, and who is to come: stir up within us a longing for your kingdom, keep our hearts steady in times of trial, and grant us patient endurance until the Sun of justice dawns. We make our prayer through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Ministry Of The Word

Zephaniah 1:7, 12 - 18Old Testament

7 The day is near when the Lord will sit in judgment; so be silent in his presence. The Lord is preparing to sacrifice his people and has invited enemies to plunder Judah. 12 “At that time I will take a lamp and search Jerusalem. I will punish the people who are self-satisfied and confident, who say to themselves, ‘The Lord never does anything, one way or the other.’  14 The great day of the Lord is near—very near and coming fast!

That day will be bitter, for even[a] the bravest soldiers will cry out in despair! 15 It will be a day of fury, a day of trouble and distress, a day of ruin and destruction, a day of darkness and gloom, a black and cloudy day, 16 a day filled with the sound of war trumpets and the battle cry of soldiers attacking fortified cities and high towers. 17 The Lord says, “I will bring such disasters on the human race that everyone will grope about like someone blind. 

They have sinned against me, and now their blood will be poured out like water, and their dead bodies will lie rotting on the ground.”

18 On the day when the Lord shows his fury, not even all their silver and gold will save them. The whole earth will be destroyed by the fire of his anger. He will put an end—a sudden end—to everyone who lives on earth.

Reader This is the word of the Lord

Response Thanks be to God

Psalm 90: 1 – 8

Response

Before the hills in order stood or earth received her frame from everlasting thou art God to endless years the same.

Silence

Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Response

Before the hills in order stood or earth received her frame from everlasting thou art God to endless years the same.

Response

3 You turn us back to dust, and say, "Turn back, you mortals." 4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night.

Before the hills in order stood or earth received her frame from everlasting thou art God to endless years the same.

Response

5 You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning; 6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. 7 For we are consumed by your anger; by your wrath we are overwhelmed. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

Before the hills in order stood or earth received her frame from everlasting thou art God to endless years the same.

New Testament 1Thessalonians5:1- 11

There is no need to write you, friends, about the times and occasions when these things will happen. 2 For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night. 3 When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

4 But you, friends, are not in the darkness, and the Day should not take you by surprise like a thief. 5 All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6 So then, we should not be sleeping like the others; we should be awake and sober. 7 It is at night when people sleep; it is at night when they get drunk. 8 But we belong to the day, and we should be sober.

We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet.  9 God did not choose us to suffer his anger, but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us in order that we might live together with him, whether we are alive or dead when he comes.11 And so encourage one another and help one another, just as you are now doing.

Silence

Reader This is the word of the Lord

Response Thanks be to God

Hymn

Gospel AcclamationHallelu Yah! Hallelu Yah!

Hallelu Yah! Hallelu Yah!

“Stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand” Luke 21:

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Gospel Matthew. 25:14 - 30 Response Glory to Christ Our Saviour

14 “At that time the Kingdom of heaven will be like this. Once there was a man who was about to leave home on a trip; he called his servants and put them in charge of his property. 15 He gave to each one according to his ability: to one he gave five thousand gold coins, to another he gave two thousand, and to another he gave one thousand. Then he left on his trip.

16 The servant who had received five thousand coins went at once and invested his money and earned another five thousand. 17 In the same way the servant who had received two thousand coins earned another two thousand. 18 But the servant who had received one thousand coins went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money. 19 “After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.

20 The servant who had received five thousand coins came in and handed over the other five thousand. ‘You gave me five thousand coins, sir,’ he said. ‘Look! Here are another five thousand that I have earned.’ 21 ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant!’ said his master. ‘You have been faithful in managing small amounts, so I will put you in charge of large amounts. Come on in and share my happiness!’  22 Then the servant who had been given two thousand coins came in and said, ‘You gave me two thousand coins, sir. Look! Here are another two thousand that I have earned.

23 ‘Well done, you good and faithful servant!’ said his master. ‘You have been faithful in managing small amounts, so I will put you in charge of large amounts. Come on in and share my happiness!’24 Then the servant who had received one thousand coins came in and said, ‘Sir, I know you are a hard man; you reap harvests where you did not plant, and you gather crops where you did not scatter seed. 25 I was afraid, so I went off and hid your

money in the ground. Look! Here is what belongs to you.’ 26 ‘You bad and lazy servant!’ his master said. ‘You knew, did you, that I reap harvests where I did not plant, and gather crops where I did not scatter seed? 27 Well, then, you should have deposited my money in the bank, and I would have received it all back with interest when I returned. 28 Now, take the money away from him and give it to the one who has ten thousand coins.

29 For to every person who has something, even more will be given, and he will have more than enough; but the person who has nothing, even the little that he has will be taken away from him. 30 As for this useless servant—throw him outside in the darkness; there he will cry and gnash his teeth.’

Praise to Christ our Lord

Sermon

Reader This is the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ

Response

Affirmation

Of Faith

Page 27 in your Prayer Book

Intercessions

God called us to live in peace. The peace of the Lord be always with you. - cf 1 Corinth 7.17

Introduction to The Greeting of PeaceLeader

The peace of the Lord be always with you.

And Also With YouResponse

And now we give you thanks as

we look forward to the day

When you will make all things

new as you come to judge the

world.

Proper Preface

Hymn 343

Ministry Of The Sacrament

Generous God, you have fed us

at your heavenly table, set us

on fire with your Spirit that

when Christ comes again we

may shine like lights before His

face, who with you and the

Spirit lives forever. Amen

Post Communion Prayer

The love of the Lord Jesus draw

you to himself, the power of the

Lord Jesus strengthen you in His

service, the joy of the Lord Jesus

fill your hearts; and the blessing

of God Almighty, the Father, the

Son and the Holy Spirit be among

you and remain with you always

Amen.

Blessing

Dismissal

In the name of Christ. Amen.

Response

Go in Peace to Love and serve the Lord.

Hymn

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