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During the month of August, we will be collecting supplies for the Teachers’ Supply Closet, a non-profit organization that provides free school supplies to teachers in the tri-county area who work at schools where 73% of the students are on free or reduced meal program. Please help us support this organization by bringing any of the following items and placing them in the little red wagon in the narthex:
Composition notebooks, glue sticks, crayons, end cap erasers, #2 pencils, scissors (small, blunt tip), and a ream of copy paper (critical need for teachers.)
For any questions contact Mary Lou Waitschies at waycheese@att.net or (843)224-3854.
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Altar Flower Dates Available for September
We currently have several dates open if you are interested in providing the flowers for the altar. Please contact Diane McDanel at (843)532-3161 or ddmcdanel@aol.com. Thanks for your help!
We are calling all singers! You are invited to join the choirs of Holy Spirit Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, St. John's Lutheran Church, and St. Johannes Evangelical Lutheran Church, as well as many local musicians to form the Lowcountry Lutheran Choir! We will present “Prepare the way of the Lord!” A Hymn Festival of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love on Sunday, November 7th! Singers do not have to be Lutheran to join us for this wonderful evening of music, all they need is a willingness to make a joyful noise to the Lord! For more information or to sign up, email Justin Wham at holyspiritelcmusic@gmail.com or Sean Holleran at Music@stjohanneschurch.org .
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Fourteenth Sunday of Pentecost
Kyrie eleison, on our world and on our way. Kyrie eleison, every day!
August 29, 2021
10:00 AM Service
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Prayer of the Day:
O God our strength, without you we are weak and wayward creatures. Protect us from all dangers that attack us from the outside, and cleanse us from all evil that arises from within ourselves, that we may be preserved through your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.
Amen.
Lessons
Jesus protests against human customs being given the weight of divine law, while the essence of God’s law is ignored. True uncleanness comes not from external things, but from the intentions of the human heart. Last week Jesus told us “the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John 6:63). Now James says God has given us birth by the word of truth. We who were washed in the word when we were born in the font return to it every Sunday to ask God to create in us clean hearts
First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9
The Israelites believed the law was a divine gift that provided guidelines for living out the covenant. Moses commands the people to obey the law and to neither add to nor subtract from it. The Israelites are also to teach the law to their children and their children’s children.
1So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God with which I am charging you.
6You must observe them diligently, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!” 7For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him? 8And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?
9But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children.
Psalm 15
Lord, who may dwell in your tabernacle? (Ps. 15:1)
1Lord, who may dwell in your tabernacle?
Who may abide upon your holy hill?
2Those who lead a blameless life and do what is right,
who speak the truth from their heart;
3they do not slander with the tongue, they do no evil to their friends;
they do not cast discredit upon a neighbor.
4In their sight the wicked are rejected, but they honor those who fear the Lord.
They have sworn upon their health and do not take back their word.
5They do not give their money in hope of gain, nor do they take bribes against the innocent.
Those who do these things shall never be overthrown.
Second Reading: James 1:17-27
The letter of James was intended to provide first-century Christians with instruction in godly behavior. Here Christians are encouraged to listen carefully and to act on what they hear, especially by caring for those least able to care for themselves.
17Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. 18In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
19You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness. 21Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.
22But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. 23For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; 24for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. 25But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.
26If any think they are religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless. 27Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
The Gospel Reading: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Mark’s gospel depicts Jesus as challenging traditional ways in which religious people determine what is pure or impure. For Jesus, the observance of religious practices cannot become a substitute for godly words or deeds that spring from a faithful heart.
1Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around [Jesus], 2they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) 5So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” 6He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
7in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.’
8You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”
14Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”
21For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, 22adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. 23All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
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Pray for those people who are hurting and going through some unimaginable circumstances. Pray for those who want their lives to be better and to be free from those things that may be holding them back. Even though you may not know them, God knows their situation!
Death in Family: Pray for the family and friends of George Kornahrens.
Sick and/or Recovering: Diane Hogue, Dwight Jenkinson, Betty Ann Heinsohn, Julie Riel, Bob Oswald, Betty Addison, Victor Thompson, Sharon Masso, Monte Mims, Tammy Tanner, Marcy Floyd, Connie Morgan, Anne Foster, Marie Mood, Barbara Lyerly, Mary Sweat, Elmore Marlow, Bill Cornwell, Marilyn Stehmeier, Mary Ann and Dick Murley, Meg Reavey, and Bryan Steele.
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From sundaysandseasons.com.Copyright © 2020 Augsburg Fortress.
All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #24142.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, Copyright © 1989,
Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Revised Common Lectionary, Copyright © 1992 Consultation on Common Texts, admin Augsburg Fortress.
Used by permission.
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St. Johannes will continue to hold in-person services.
The online video for Holy Trinity Sunday is below as well as the music for Setting 6 of the liturgy. This is the last service video as Chuck is taking off June, July, and August while we evaluate our online plans for the future. The E-blast will continue weekly! We are holding in-person services and hope that you will join us every Sunday!
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Join us on Sunday, June 6th to celebrate Pastor's Rich's 50th Anniversary of his Ordination. A special toast will be held in The Parsonage Garden.
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CHANGES IN PROTOCOLS FOR SUNDAY WORSHIP
Beginning Sunday, we have some relaxing of the protocols for worship upon the recommendations of the Worship and Re-Opening Committees. They are as follows:
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Open all pews for use and encourage distancing
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Continue the offering plates at the entrance to the sanctuary
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Continue wearing masks
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Join in the singing of the hymns and liturgy
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Discontinue temperature checks on entering church
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Discontinue gloves for the ushers
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Discontinue the card sign-in
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Discontinue the wipes in the pews
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Communion distribution will continue with the pastor distributing the wafers with mask and glove. The assisting minister will only be masked with the distribution of the wine.
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Continue to open the doors for ventilation and close the center aisle doors during the service to reduce street noise
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Continue dismissal starting at the rear of the church
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Encourage people who wish to visit each other to gather on the portico
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Pastor will greet people at the door following the service
The committees will evaluate every 2 weeks for any needed changes. In about a month they will look at benchmarks for resuming use of Gatch Hall for socialization and Education rooms for Christian Education.
Please let Pastor or Amy know of any concerns you have with these decisions, so that we can discuss the steps to move ahead.
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Special thanks to Lynn and Cynthia for being the 2 delegates to the 2021 SC Synod Assembly on June 26th! We look forward to receiving their report on how churches are recovering from the pandemic! Please pray for them while they participate.
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All Creation Sings is a new, comprehensive song and prayer collection for every worshiping community. Supplementing Evangelical Lutheran Worship, this resource contains expansive hymns and liturgies that invite us to join our voices with God's whole creation.
All Creation Sings
a liturgy and song supplement in the Evangelical Lutheran Worship resource family.
All Creation Sings includes:
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Two liturgies of Holy Communion with new musical settings
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A Service of Word and Prayer designed especially for contemplative worship
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More than seventy-five new prayers and liturgical forms for diverse occasions and circumstances
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Approximately 200 hymns and songs, many of them newly created over the last fifteen years, supporting the church year and a wide range of topics
Hand in hand with Evangelical Lutheran Worship, this supplement invites us to expand our prayer and song, joining our voices with the praise, and sighs, of the whole creation God so marvelously made.
Links will be provided each week to the liturgies and new hymns.
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Hymn: Filled With Hope and Gratitude. Click on this box to play an excerpt from the hymn presented by Paul Damico-Carper.
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Holy Trinity
Sunday
Kyrie eleison, on our world and on our way. Kyrie eleison, every day!
May 30, 2021
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ELW Setting 6 of the Liturgy
The video shows Sean teaching the congregation the new liturgy we will be using for the first part of the Sundays After Pentecost. The new liturgy is rhythmic, light, and fun to sing! Check out the video link below to become familiar with the music!
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Sean teaches Setting 6 of the Liturgy.
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Even though COVID-19 put a damper on events at The Parsonage this past year, 2021 is showing a return to destination weddings and events! Take a moment and visit our website and Instagram account for more information!
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Meet The Parsonage Manager, Barbara Pace. She is very knowledgeable and professional in managing all events. She is ready and available to help you make your special event a memorable one. Contact her through the website.
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From sundaysandseasons.com.Copyright © 2020 Augsburg Fortress.
All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #24142.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, Copyright © 1989,
Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Revised Common Lectionary, Copyright © 1992 Consultation on Common Texts, admin Augsburg Fortress.
Used by permission.
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E-Blast editor and designer: Chuck Long
Assistant editor: Amy Bifano
Webmaster: Bob Mays
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Each month we will collect a designated item or group of items to meet the needs of the clients of TFM. We will be continuing our donation drive for canned vegetables and meats for the clients of Tricounty Family Ministries. Donations made be made by bringing canned goods to church on Sunday mornings OR by making a monetary donation. $18 will cover the cost of a case of canned vegetables, and we’ll do the shopping for you!!! (Checks should be made to “St.Johannes” and marked for “TFM - canned vegetables.” For questions contact Mary Lou Waitschies at waycheese@att.net or (843)224-3854.
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8th Sunday
After Pentecost
Kyrie eleison, on our world and on our way. Kyrie eleison, every day!
July 18, 2021
10:00 AM Service
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Prayer of the Day:
O God, powerful and compassionate, you shepherd your people, faithfully feeding and protecting us. Heal each of us, and make us a whole people, that we may embody the justice and peace of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.
Lessons
This is a day for the sheep to be fed, that warring factions to come to peace, the aliens to become citizens, the building that is the church to stand upon Christ.
First Reading: Jeremiah 23:1-6 The choice of Jeremiah 23 today exemplifies the historic use that the church has made of the Old Testament: to understand the New Testament. Verse 3 describes God as the worthy shepherd, and Mark 6:34 assumes the hearer knows this metaphor when it hints that Jesus is that shepherd. Like Jeremiah, Christ was also rejected by his hearers.
Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Lord. 2 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord. 3 Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply. 4 I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the Lord. 5 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6 In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. And this is the name by which he will be called: “The Lord is our righteousness.” The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; 3 he restores my soul.
He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff—they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.
Second Reading: Ephesians 2:11-22
Today with the author of Ephesians, we can say that there is no more dividing wall between different flocks. Christ the Shepherd is our peace, the single cornerstone on which the church builds. 11 So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— 12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. 15 He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, 16 and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. 17 So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; 18 for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, 20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
The Gospel Reading: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 We can understand ourselves as like sheep; we are God's creatures, the divine flock, nurtured to serve the community with food and clothing, always needing the care of a shepherd. Jesus and his disciples rarely rest, since there is a perpetual need for them to teach and heal. We are the sheep requiring God's care, we are those touch the fringe of his cloak for healing. 30 The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. 31 He said to them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. 32 And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. 33 Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. 34 As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. 53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. 54 When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him, 55 and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. 56 And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed. Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
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Pray for those people who are hurting and going through some unimaginable circumstances. Pray for those who want their lives to be better and to be free from those things that may be holding them back. Even though you may not know them, God knows their situation!
Death in Family: Pray for the Long Family on the loss of their son Charles III.
Sick and/or Recovering: George Kornahrens, Diane Hogue, Dwight Jenkinson, Betty Ann Heinsohn, Julie Riel, Bob Oswald, Betty Addison, Victor Thompson, Sharon Masso, Monte Mims, Tammy Tanner, Marcy Floyd, Connie Morgan, Charles Long III, Anne Foster, Marie Mood, Barbara Lyerly, Mary Sweat, Elmore Marlow, Bill Cornwell, Marilyn Stehmeier, and Bryan Steele. Also requesting prayers are January Little and Rock!
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From sundaysandseasons.com.Copyright © 2020 Augsburg Fortress.
All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #24142.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, Copyright © 1989,
Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Revised Common Lectionary, Copyright © 1992 Consultation on Common Texts, admin Augsburg Fortress.
Used by permission.
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E-Blast editor and designer: Chuck Long
Assistant editor: Amy Bifano
Webmaster: Bob Mays
If you wish something to be announced in E-Blast, please email me at clongteach@comcast.net no later than Tuesday at 12:00 PM.
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Copyright © 2021 St. Johannes Evangelical Lutheran Church, All rights reserved.
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St. Johannes will continue to hold in-person services.
The online video for Holy Trinity Sunday is below as well as the music for Setting 6 of the liturgy. This is the last service video as Chuck is taking off June, July, and August while we evaluate our online plans for the future. The E-blast will continue weekly! We are holding in-person services and hope that you will join us every Sunday!
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Join us on Sunday, June 6th to celebrate Pastor's Rich's 50th Anniversary of his Ordination. A special toast will be held in The Parsonage Garden.
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CHANGES IN PROTOCOLS FOR SUNDAY WORSHIP
Beginning Sunday, we have some relaxing of the protocols for worship upon the recommendations of the Worship and Re-Opening Committees. They are as follows:
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Open all pews for use and encourage distancing
-
Continue the offering plates at the entrance to the sanctuary
-
Continue wearing masks
-
Join in the singing of the hymns and liturgy
-
Discontinue temperature checks on entering church
-
Discontinue gloves for the ushers
-
Discontinue the card sign-in
-
Discontinue the wipes in the pews
-
Communion distribution will continue with the pastor distributing the wafers with mask and glove. The assisting minister will only be masked with the distribution of the wine.
-
Continue to open the doors for ventilation and close the center aisle doors during the service to reduce street noise
-
Continue dismissal starting at the rear of the church
-
Encourage people who wish to visit each other to gather on the portico
-
Pastor will greet people at the door following the service
The committees will evaluate every 2 weeks for any needed changes. In about a month they will look at benchmarks for resuming use of Gatch Hall for socialization and Education rooms for Christian Education.
Please let Pastor or Amy know of any concerns you have with these decisions, so that we can discuss the steps to move ahead.
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Special thanks to Lynn and Cynthia for being the 2 delegates to the 2021 SC Synod Assembly on June 26th! We look forward to receiving their report on how churches are recovering from the pandemic! Please pray for them while they participate.
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All Creation Sings is a new, comprehensive song and prayer collection for every worshiping community. Supplementing Evangelical Lutheran Worship, this resource contains expansive hymns and liturgies that invite us to join our voices with God's whole creation.
All Creation Sings
a liturgy and song supplement in the Evangelical Lutheran Worship resource family.
All Creation Sings includes:
-
Two liturgies of Holy Communion with new musical settings
-
A Service of Word and Prayer designed especially for contemplative worship
-
More than seventy-five new prayers and liturgical forms for diverse occasions and circumstances
-
Approximately 200 hymns and songs, many of them newly created over the last fifteen years, supporting the church year and a wide range of topics
Hand in hand with Evangelical Lutheran Worship, this supplement invites us to expand our prayer and song, joining our voices with the praise, and sighs, of the whole creation God so marvelously made.
Links will be provided each week to the liturgies and new hymns.
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Hymn: Filled With Hope and Gratitude. Click on this box to play an excerpt from the hymn presented by Paul Damico-Carper.
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Holy Trinity
Sunday
Kyrie eleison, on our world and on our way. Kyrie eleison, every day!
May 30, 2021
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ELW Setting 6 of the Liturgy
The video shows Sean teaching the congregation the new liturgy we will be using for the first part of the Sundays After Pentecost. The new liturgy is rhythmic, light, and fun to sing! Check out the video link below to become familiar with the music!
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Sean teaches Setting 6 of the Liturgy.
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Even though COVID-19 put a damper on events at The Parsonage this past year, 2021 is showing a return to destination weddings and events! Take a moment and visit our website and Instagram account for more information!
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Meet The Parsonage Manager, Barbara Pace. She is very knowledgeable and professional in managing all events. She is ready and available to help you make your special event a memorable one. Contact her through the website.
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From sundaysandseasons.com.Copyright © 2020 Augsburg Fortress.
All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #24142.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, Copyright © 1989,
Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Revised Common Lectionary, Copyright © 1992 Consultation on Common Texts, admin Augsburg Fortress.
Used by permission.
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E-Blast editor and designer: Chuck Long
Assistant editor: Amy Bifano
Webmaster: Bob Mays
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