Join us ONLNE ONLY Tomorrow (30 January 2022) for Sunday Morning Worship
I am bending my knee
In the eye of the God
who created me
In the eye of the Son
who died for me
In the eye of the Spirit
who moves me
In love and in desire.
For the many gifts
you have bestowed on me
Each day and night
each sea and land
Each weather fair
each calm each wild
Thanks be to you O God
–J. Philip Newell, Celtic Prayers from Iona
The Rev. Peter Carey, Rector
St. Mary's Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Cathedral Road
30 January 2022 ~ Epiphany IV
The Holy Eucharist
Prelude Prelude Jacques Boyvin
God is love, Let heaven adore him Austin Lovelace
Hymn 449 O love, how deep Deo Gracias
The Holy Eucharist BCP 355
Gloria S 280 Powell
The Lesson Corinthians 13:1-13
Psalm 71:1-6
The Gospel
The Sermon Luke 4:21-30
Meditation Blessed Jesus, at thy word J.S. Bach
Prayers of the People BCP 387
The Peace
Offertory Hymn 440 Blessed Jesus, at thy word Leibster Jesu, wir sind hier
The Great Thanksgiving
Eucharistic Prayer A BCP 361
Sanctus S 130 Schubert
Fraction S 164 Schubert
Post-Communion Prayer BCP 365
Hymn 379 God is love, let heaven adore him Abbot’s Leigh
Postlude O love, how deep Percy Whitlock
The Collect
Almighty and everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Psalm 71:1-6
1 In you, O Lord, have I taken refuge; *
let me never be ashamed.
2 In your righteousness, deliver me and set me free; *
incline your ear to me and save me.
3 Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me safe; *
you are my crag and my stronghold.
4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, *
from the clutches of the evildoer and the oppressor.
5 For you are my hope, O Lord God, *
my confidence since I was young.
6 I have been sustained by you ever since I was born;
from my mother's womb you have been my strength; *
my praise shall be always of you.
Luke 4:21-30
Jesus began to speak in the synagogue at Nazareth: "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, "Is not this Joseph's son?" He said to them, "Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself!' And you will say, 'Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.'" And he said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian." When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.
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I am bending my knee
In the eye of the God
who created me
In the eye of the Son
who died for me
In the eye of the Spirit
who moves me
In love and in desire.
For the many gifts
you have bestowed on me
Each day and night
each sea and land
Each weather fair
each calm each wild
Thanks be to you O God
–J. Philip Newell, Celtic Prayers from Iona
☩ Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church ☩
630 East Cathedral Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19128
215.482.6300
☩ Gratitude ☩
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. ~Meister Eckhart
☩ Parish Prayer List ☩
Xander, Bob, Laura, Barbara, Jack, Roxane, Mary, Mary Lou, Jennie, Marietta, Gail,
C’ia, Connie, Sharon, Adele, Mark, Emily, Harold, Virginia, Megheara
If you would like to have us add someone to the Prayer List, please let Jane Cassel
or our Rector, Peter Carey, know. We move people off the prayer list every three
months unless specifically requested to leave people on our list.
☩ Vestry ☩
We are in need of new Vestry members who would join this important leadership
body of the parish in February 2022. Please consider nominating yourself for Vestry
or recommending someone else to serve in this ministry.
☩ Serving in Worship ☩
We always welcome new folks who may want to serve in our worship services as
readers, ushers, and altar assistants. We would love to have you participate in the
leading of worship. Please consider joining us.