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A Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance

Holy Eucharist II
Celebrating the Season of Creation and
the 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Year C, Proper 19)

September 11, 2022            9:00 am Rite II Service

Welcome to Trinity Episcopal Church. We are delighted that you are gathered together with us today. Please follow along with the following order of service. All participation is optional and all are welcome at Christ’s Table for Holy Communion.

Assisting with the Service Today

Presider                The Rev. John Elliott Lein

Acolyte*               Tessa Scrimgeour

Lector                   Touie Jackson

Music                   Liz Pekkela

Ushers                  Cindi Scrimgeour & Katherine Coté

Coffee Hour          

Digital Minister     Wayne Stochaj

Vestry Liaison       Sarah Prevelige

Altar Guild          Lisa Ruggiero

* While the Eucharistic Minister distribution of wine is on hold during the pandemic, the Acolyte assists the Presider.

For Children and Families

There is provision for young children in the Narthex (rear of church) and a room with toys to the right downstairs. Children are welcome in our services! We offer age-appropriate programs October-May yearly.


“Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead God set before your eyes the things that God had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”  — St. Augustine of Hippo

The Word of God

Prelude

As the procession enters, the People may stand for praise

Processional Hymn                                       #400
All creatures of our God and King

Opening Acclamation       Season of Creation

Presider    Blessed be the One who creates all things.

People       The Holy One’s love is new every morning.

The Collect for Purity                           bcp 355

All-loving God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love all, and worthily magnify your holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Song of Praise    A Greeting for Creation

Leader      Greetings in the name of our God who is good:

People       Whose love endures forever.

Leader      Greetings to you, sun and moon,
you stars of the northern sky;

People       Give to our God your thanks and praise.

Leader      Sunrise and sunset, night and day;

People       Give to our God your thanks and praise.

Leader      Greetings to you, hills and valleys, rivers and ponds, sea and rain;

People       Give to our God your thanks and praise.

Leader      Greetings to you, oak and pine,
hemlock and birch, tammarack and maple;

People       Give to our God your thanks and praise.

Leader      Greetings to you, hawks and sparrows, cardinals and robins, bats and blue jays, ravens and crows;

People       Give to our God your thanks and praise.

Leader      Greetings to you, bears and deer, chipmunks and squirrels, and beaver and bobcats;

People       Give to our God your thanks and praise.

Leader      Greetings to you, people of all genders, elders and children, indigenous and colonists, diverse cultures of this rainbow land;
Nurses and teachers, scientists and artists, cleaners and clerks, students and job-seekers,
All who care, who love, and who pray,
Who laugh and learn, who rest and who play;

People       Give to our God your thanks and praise.
Amen.

The Collect of the Day     Season of Creation

The Creator be with you. And also with you. Let us pray.

O God, having shown us how far your love goes in saving the lost and forgotten, mercifully grant that we might join you in the work of reuniting with all creatures; through Jesus Christ the Wisdom of Creation, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.

The People may be seated for the readings

A Reading from the book of the prophet Jeremiah (4:11-12, 22-28)

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights in the desert toward my poor people, not to winnow or cleanse—a wind too strong for that. Now it is I who speak in judgment against them.

“For my people are foolish,
they do not know me;

they are stupid children,
they have no understanding.

They are skilled in doing evil,
but do not know how to do good.”

I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void;
and to the heavens, and they had no light.

I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking,
and all the hills moved to and fro.

I looked, and lo, there was no one at all,
and all the birds of the air had fled.

I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert,
and all its cities were laid in ruins
before the Lord, before his fierce anger.

For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Because of this the earth shall mourn,
and the heavens above grow black;

for I have spoken, I have purposed;
I have not relented nor will I turn back.”

Lector       Hear what Creation says to the Churches.

People       Thanks be to the Creator.


The song appointed for today is the 14th Psalm

The People will recite as instructed

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” *
All are corrupt and commit abominable acts;
there is none who does any good.

The Lord looks down from heaven upon us all, *
to see if there is any who is wise,
if there is one who seeks after God.

Every one has proved faithless; all alike have turned bad;*
there is none who does good; no, not one.

Have they no knowledge, all those evildoers *
who eat up my people like bread
and do not call upon the Lord?

See how they tremble with fear, *
because God is in the company of the righteous.

Their aim is to confound the plans of the afflicted, *
but the Lord is their refuge.

Oh, that Israel's deliverance would come out of Zion!*
when the Lord restores the fortunes of his people,
Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad.

An Reading from Laudato Si’ by Pope Francis

When we speak of the “environment,” what we really mean is a relationship existing between nature and the society which lives in it. Nature cannot be regarded as something separate from ourselves or as a mere setting in which we live. We are part of nature, included in it and thus in constant interaction with it. Recognizing the reasons why a given area is polluted requires a study of the workings of society, its economy, its behavior patterns, and the ways it grasps reality. Given the scale of change, it is no longer possible to find a specific, discrete answer for each part of the problem. It is essential to seek comprehensive solutions which consider the interactions within natural systems themselves and with social systems. We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental. Strategies for a solution demand an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature.

Lector       Hear what Creation says to the Churches.

People       Thanks be to the Creator.

The People may stand for the Gospel


Sequence Chant                Wehlander & Good

The Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ
According to Luke (15:1-10)

People       Glory to you, Lord Christ.

All the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Jesus. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

So he told them this parable: “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

“Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Christ.

Homily                     The Rev. John Elliott Lein

Profession of Faith           Season of Creation

The People may stand and join together in recitation

We believe in God, who creates all things,
who embraces all things, who celebrates all things,
who is present in every part of the fabric of creation.

We believe in God as the source of all life,
who baptizes this planet with living water.

We believe in Jesus Christ, the suffering one, the poor one,
the malnourished one, the climate refugee,
who loves and cares for this world
and who suffers with it.

And we believe in Jesus Christ, the seed of life,
who came to reconcile and renew this world
and everything in it.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the breath of God,
who moves with God
and who moves among and with us today.

We believe in everlasting life in God.

And we believe in the hope that one day God will put an end to death and all destructive forces. Amen.

The Prayers of the People   Season of Creation

The People may stand or kneel for the prayers
and respond to each petition as instructed

Intercessor   Blessed God, whose love calls the whole creation into covenant with you, and who puts in our hands responsibility for the care of the earth and its creatures: we pray for all to whom you have given life and being, saying, “Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.”

Intercessor  For the well-being of the earth; for its resources of water, air, light, and soil, that they may be tended for the good of all creatures, we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  For the waters of the earth; for their careful use and conservation, that we may have the will and the ability to keep them clean and pure, we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  For the mineral and energy resources of the planet, that we may learn sustainable consumption and sound care of the environment from which they come, we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  For the animals of the earth, wild and domestic, large and very small, that they may know the harmony of relationship that sustains all life, we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  For the creatures of the earth who do us harm and those whose place in your creation we do not understand or welcome, that we may see them as beloved creatures of God, we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  For all who shape public policies affecting the planet and its creatures, that they may consider wisely the well-being of all who come after us, we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  For all those engaged in conservation, in agriculture and ranching, in aquaculture and fishing, in mining and industry, and in forestry and timber-harvesting, that the health, fruitfulness, and beauty of the natural world may be sustained alongside human activity,
we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  For the creatures and the human beings of your world who are ill, or in danger, pain, or special need, and all those on our parish prayer list: for the Falcone/Jones family; Larry Poch; Ed Manley; the Garretson family; Bitsy; Sal & Vas Ferreira; Laura Uretsky; Barbara; Valerie; Beth & Terry; Esther McKenzie; Judy Shea; Chrissy & Mark; Thomas Scano; the Canali Family; all those in public service, especially Brendan Wood; and for all who suffer from the unjust, violent, or wasteful use of the earth’s resources or their devastation by war, that all may one day live in communities of justice and peace, we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  For the gifts of science and technology and for those who practice these skills, that they may be wise, visionary, and compassionate in their work, we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  For the creatures and the people of the earth whose lives and deaths have contributed to the fruitful abundance of this planet, we pray:

People       Creator, keep your planet and people in peace.

Intercessor  Joining our voices together, we pray:

All          God of unchangeable power, when you fashioned the world the morning stars sang together and the host of heaven shouted for joy; open our eyes to the wonders of creation and teach us to use all things for good, to the honor of your glorious name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.


Confession of Sin               Season of Creation

Let us confess our sins against God and all Creation.

Silence may be kept. Then All pray:

Holy and merciful God,

we confess that we have failed to honor you

by rightly claiming our kinship with all your creatures.

We have walked heavily on your earth,

overused and wasted its resources,

taken for granted its beauty and abundance,

and treated its inhabitants unjustly,

holding future generations hostage to our greed.

Have mercy on us and forgive us our sin.

Renew in us the resolve to keep and conserve your earth as you desire and intend,

with grateful and compassionate hearts,

through your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

The Presider gives the Absolution

Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen.

The Peace of Creation     Season of Creation

The People may stand. The Presider says

Presider     The God of heaven has made a home on earth.

All          Christ dwells among us and is one with us.

Presider     The peace of Christ be always with you.

People       And also with you.

The People may greet one another in the name of the Lord,
and then sit to prepare for the Holy Eucharist.
Please be respectful of the wishes of others for physical contact.


“To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.”                                   — Wendell Berry

The Holy Communion
Eucharistic Prayer from the Season of Creation

Offertory Sentence                                           

The offering plate is passed while the Table is set

Offertory Anthem                                        #372
Praise to the living God                                       

Sursum Corda                         Lift up your hearts

The Presider invites the People stand for Thanksgiving

                  The Creator be with you.
People          And also with you.
Presider       Lift up your hearts.
People          We lift them to the Lord.
Presider       Let us give thanks to the Creator our God.

People          It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Praise and thanks are yours, our Creating God. From the dust of the earth you shaped human beings in your own image, and you filled the earth and seas and skies with a myriad of wonders. Yet we consistently turn your generosity into our scarcity, your elegance into our meanness, and your simplicity into our corruption. Though we poison and destroy your good Creation, you continue to offer us your abundance. In your mercy, you have redeemed us through your Son, Jesus, transforming death into life.

Through the Spirit you continue to call us into covenant with you—for the restoration of Creation and the reconciliation of all people.

And so we give you thanks, rejoicing with all of Creation, as we join the saints and angels in their unending hymn:

The Sanctus & Benedictus

The People may kneel or stand as the Presider continues

Verba                                     Words of Institution

In the night that Jesus was betrayed, he took bread, and gave thanks to God. He broke the bread, gave it to his friends and said: “Take and eat, for this is my body, given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

He took the wine, and gave thanks to God, Creator. He gave it to his friends saying: “This is my blood of the new covenant, shed for you and for all creation for the forgiveness of sins. Every time you drink of the wine, do this in remembrance of me.”

Anamnesis            Reminiscence of Saving Deeds

So we proclaim the mystery of faith:

All join together in proclaiming

Dying, you destroyed our death.
Rising, you restored our life.
Christ Jesus, come in glory!

Epiclesis                 Invocation of the Holy Spirit

Merciful God, we come to this table seeking reconciliation: with you, with one another, and with all creation. Through these mysteries reconcile us to our world and empower us to restore your Creation and fulfill your will. Send your life-giving Spirit upon us, and upon this bread and wine. Stir in us the creative and redeem the destructive.

Heal your stricken world, that the soil, the skies, and the seas may be filled with your life anew.

Fill every heart with the sure and certain hope that we shall enter into the fullness of your joy, when your whole Creation is justified by faith and sanctified by love, and you are all in all. Through Christ and with Christ and in Christ, in the unity of the Spirit, all honor and glory is yours, everlasting God, now and forever…

All join strongly together in “The People’s Amen”

AMEN.

The Prayer Jesus Taught  Season of Creation

As Jesus taught his disciples, we now pray responsively,

Presider     Our Creator in heavens

People       You are also at home in the air, soil, forests and oceans

Presider     Hallowed be your name

People       By the care we take of your Creation

Presider     Your kingdom come

People       All that you see is good

Presider     Your will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven

People       Your will to till and care

Presider     Give us this day our daily bread

People       That all may have enough to live life in fullness

Presider     Forgive us our trespasses

People       Our greed, our exploitation, our lack of concern for other species and for future generations

Presider     As we forgive those who trespass against us

People       By reconciliation with justice and peace.

Presider     Lead us not into temptation

People       The temptation to equate dominion with exploitation

Presider     And deliver us from evil

People       The evil of destroying your gift of creation

Presider     For yours is the kingdom

People       Yours, not ours

Presider     The power and the glory

People       In death and new life

Presider     For ever and ever

People       You are the beginning and you are the end. Amen. (So be it)

Fraction                               Season of Creation

Presider     This is Living Bread, given for all Creation.

People       All who eat this bread share in Christ’s Body.

Invitation                                                    bcp 364

The Gifts of God for the People of God. Take them in remembrance that Christ died for you, and feed on him in your hearts by faith, with thanksgiving.

The People may be seated before coming forward in turn

The Reception of Communion               bcp 457

All are welcome at Christ’s Table. Please come forward in turn to receive. Gluten-free bread is available on request. Cross your arms over your chest if you wish a blessing instead. The fullness of the sacrament is currently received in the bread alone.

Communion Anthem                               wlp #812
Here I Am, Lord                                                      

The Post-Communion Prayer                            

The People may stand or kneel. All pray together

Holy One,

you feed us with bread from heaven

and the gifts of mother earth.

In this communion, you have drawn us into your embrace

and you call us to friendship with one another.

You have given us the gift of reconciliation.

May we who have tasted that gift from you,

offer ourselves in peace and humility to one another.

And may you always walk among us as friend. Amen.

Announcements

Departing Blessing            Season of Creation

May God who established the dance of creation,

Who marveled at the lilies of the field,

Who transforms chaos to order,

Lead us to transform our lives and the Church

To listen to the voice of all creatures

That reflect God’s glory in creation.

Recessional Hymn                                                               #362
Holy, holy, holy

Dismissal

Priest       Tend the earth,
care for God’s good Creation;
as you have received freely, so give freely.
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

People       Thanks be to God.

Postlude                                                   J.S. Bach
Werde munter (Come with us, O blessed Jesus)  






 





 

Upcoming Parish & Church Events

Today         The 14th Sunday after Pentecost
 9:00 am Holy Eucharist II with music
      Coffee Hour following
10:30 am Formation “Creation: Learn”

Thursday     4:00 pm Community Dinner

Sep 11           The 15th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 am Holy Eucharist II with music
      Coffee Hour following
10:30 am Act: “Formation for the Birds”

Sep 21          12:30 pm JULIETs at Sorrento Room

Sep 24          5:00 pm Creation Movie Night
all ages at Trinity with potluck

Oct 2            2:00 pm Blessing of the Animals
at St. Mary’s Rectory

Oct 15          Women’s Retreat coordinated by Dianne Belamarich (508-397-9487)
at St. Paul’s Episcopal in Hopkinton

Announcements

·    The Season of Creation is ecumenically celebrated by many Christian Churches between September 1, the World Day of Prayer for Creation, and October 4, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Our Sunday liturgies are based on the resource published by Fr. John and the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas and authorized for use in the dioceses of WMA, MA, VT, and ME. Our Creation Care parish group has planned out weekly activities to connect with our dioceses’ five priorities: Pray, Learn, Act, Advocate, and Bless.

·    Sunday Formation sessions during the Season of Creation will be for all ages and held in the parish hall at 10:30 am.

·    Next Sunday please join us for a special morning for families and kids! We will hold the Blessing of the Backpacks at the 9:00 am Eucharist and then our 10:30 am “Formation for the Birds” will offer a variety of hands-on activities for different ages as we “act” (Creation theme) to help our winged friends.

·    Food insecurity is rising and our community is helping. Community Dinners recently supplied:

o   Aug 4:     150 meals distributed (140 restaurant)

o   Aug 11:   149 meals cooked and served

o   Aug 18:   150 meals cooked and served

o   Aug 25:   152 meals cooked and served


Every Week (Summer)

Sunday       1st Sun/month: 8:00 am Holy Eucharist I
9:00 am Holy Eucharist
II with music
      Coffee Hour following in parish hall

Thursday     12:00/2:00 pm Volunteers prepare meals
4:00 pm Community Dinner served

Friday          10:00 am Painting Class (Murray Hall)

Every Month

The Vestry typically meets every third Monday of the month via Zoom. All parishioners are always welcome.

Luncheon groups of women (JULIETs) and men (ROMEOs) meet monthly at local restaurants.

Youth (8th-12th grades) meet for fun, fellowship, and formation monthly during the school year.

Community Programs

Community Dinners are prepared and served weekly to all, alternating between restaurant and cooked meals.

Laundry Love provides supplies and quarters; pandemic distribution by police dispatcher Lisa Trusas.

Eyeglass and food donations collected in the side narthex and given to the Lion’s Club and Daily Bread.

Parish Office

The office is often open between 10 am and 2 pm Monday through Thursday.
Please contact for an appointment:

Father John, Priest
rector@trinitychurchmilford.org
508-381-9389 (cell)

The Ministers of Trinity
are
THE PEOPLE OF THIS PARISH

led by
The Right Rev. Doug Fisher, Bishop
The Rev. John Elliott Lein, Rector
Beth Moeller and Lisa Ruggiero, Sr. & Jr. Wardens
Cheryl Taylor, Treasurer
Ann Marie Lockwood, Clerk
Joan Campbell, Lucille Clinkman, Mary Johnson, Sarah Prevelige, Cindi Scrimgeour,
Tessa Scrimgeour, and Beth Stochaj, Vestry
Paul Del Molino, Sexton

We serve all God’s Creation as the easternmost Parish
of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts,
part of The Episcopal Church (USA),
a member of the global Anglican Communion.

Trinity Episcopal church
​milford, Massachusetts

17 Congress St, Milford MA 01757
office@trinitychurchmilford.org
(508) 473-8464​​​

Weekly schedule

SUNDAY
9:00 am — Holy Eucharist Rite II
10:00 am — Coffee Hour community

10:30 am — Spiritual Formation for all ages (not in summer)
WEDNESDAY
7:00 pm — Contemplative Gathering (not in summer)
THURSDAY
4:00 pm — Community Dinner (Grab 'n Go)
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