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Pentecost 13B LECTIONARY GENERATED LITURGY Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Year B Song of Solomon 2:8-13; Ps.45:1-2,6-9; James 1:17-27; Mk 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 Rec. text -NRSV. Hymns are from the Australian Hymn Book (AHB) or Together in Song (TIS) unless otherwise indicated. Worship Leader - normal type. Congregational responses - bold type Permission is granted to churches to use this material in services of worship. This liturgy remains the property of Moira B Laidlaw Additional resources for Pentecost 13B: A ‘heart sized’ stone and a ‘heart’ cut out from foam rubber and covered in red mateial (felt etc); ALL TOGETHER EVERYBODY . Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide, South Australia, 1991; AUSTRALIAN PRAYERS . Bruce Prewer, Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide, South Australia, 1983 CALL TO WORSHIP: Based on Song of Solomon 2:10-13 NRSV My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, for now the winter is past...The freesias and jonquils, the daffodils and tulips, colourfully signal the arrival of spring. The voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.....the air is fragrant with blossom...the time for singing has come”. TIS 137/AHB 77: “For the beauty of the earth” TIS 156/AHB 91: “Morning has broken” PRAYER OF ADORATION Loving God, we praise you for welcoming and accepting us as your beloved children. You embrace us in Jesus, and if we could, we would echo the sounds and mimic the colours of your creation in thanksgiving. As the earth responds to the caress of spring with buds and blooms; so we raise our voices in praise and adoration in response to your love and care for us. God of life and love, of growth and fruitfulness, we pray that our faith will blossom and flourish as, renewed by your Spirit and sustained by your Son, we worship and adore you. This we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen SUGGESTION FOR CHILDREN’S TALK - Have a heart sized stone as a prop and if possible, a piece of foam rubber cut into a heart shape and covered with red material. Ask the children/young people how healthy a person might be if their heart was as hard as the stone. Not healthy at all. Our hearts have to be like the other muscles in our bodies - supple and strong. Strong enough to pump our blood through our bodies - illustrate the flexibility of the foam rubber ‘heart’. We know that what we eat affects our heart, but in today’s gospel reading, Jesus is saying that our behaviour can affect our hearts also. Ask them if they believe that the act of coming to church/Sundayschool automatically makes them ‘good’ - could they learn about Jesus and want to live like him on Sundays and be nasty to someone at home or school on ;Mondays and/or the rest of the week? ( At this point you could elaborate on the behaviour of the Pharisees and the scribes as described in the gospel ) Each time we do an ‘un-Jesus-like’ thing, it is not only hurtful for the person we’re doing it to, it’s hurtful to us, to our hearts, and can end up making them insensitive and hard, like the stone. Jesus loves us and wants us to be loving too - all the time - when we are, our hearts remain sensitive and tender, like his. Let the children/young people feel the difference between the hard (stone) heart and the foam rubber heart AHB 177 “Jesus, good above all other” ; TIS 229/AHB 166 “Jesus loves me” TIS 685: “Lord I come to you, let my heart be changed” (The power of your love) TIS 670: “Jesus put this song into our hearts” EPISTLE: James 1: 17-27 PRAYER OF CONFESSION - When the busyness of our lives erodes the intentions of our hearts: Merciful God, Forgive us. When our personal agendas take precedence over reaching out to others: Merciful God, Forgive us When we keep putting off being more active “doers of the word”: Merciful God Forgive us When we resist change, knowing that our acting and thinking are limited by our prejudice and ignorance: Merciful God Forgive us When we only half-listen to those who cry out to be fully heard: Merciful God Forgive us A time of silence to contemplate these words and how they apply to us personally and as a community of faith. Gracious and merciful God, forgive us for past faults and help us in the present and future to make ourselves more available to the hurting world that surrounds us - the world that begins on our doorsteps. Equip us to be patient and compassionate listeners, proclaiming the gospel not in overbearing ways but sensitively and lovingly. Strengthen us with the Holy Spirit to be fruitful and active witnesses to Jesus in all we do and say. The prayer concludes with singing, while seated, the prayer of St Francis: TIS 607/SA 66 “Make me a channel of your peace” ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS: As we become doers of the word and not merely hearers, we discover that it is “in pardoning that we are pardoned, in giving of ourselves that we receive” - surely evidence of “the implanted word that has the power to save our souls” (James 1:21) - Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. Thanks be to God! OLD TESTAMENT: Song of Solomon:2:8-13 GOSPEL: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 SERMON TIS 596/AHB 515: “Fill thou my life, O Lord my God” All Together Everybody 300: “Practise love” This is based on James 1 TIS 657: “God of freedom, God of justice”;TIS 610: “ God you touch the earth with beauty, make my heart anew” ; TIS 681/BE OUR FREEDOM, LORD p.432f: “Lord, let me see” SUGGESTIONS FOR PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND INTERCESSION “Springtime” page 114f. Australian Prayers This could be followed by prayers for people on the land and in country towns affected by drought - those who are not experiencing any new spring growth on farms, lives or businesses dependent on farm produce/maintenance etc.Prayers could also be offered for those, young and old, who do not experience any joy over the changing of the seasons - who have lost any ‘spring in their step’ for whatever reason - illness, loneliness, unemployment, abuse, violence, addiction , broken relationships etc. OFFERING and OFFERTORY PRAYER All generous acts have their beginning in God’s generosity towards us. A generosity revealed above all in Jesus - the greatest gift of all. Such a gift invites us to generous giving also. Receive these gifts, O God for we offer them and our lives to be blessed and used in the “doing of your word” - witnessing to Jesus’ love and serving others in his name. May what we give and what we do in Jesus’ name be true and worthy actions of our hearts. Amen TIS 534: “Love is his word, love is his way” TIS 511/AHB 433: “Let us break bread together with the Lord!” ALL TOGETHER WHATEVER 476: “Here is bread” TIS 508/AHB 427: “Jesus, we thus obey your last and kindest word” INVITATION Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” John 6: 35 GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING The Lord be with you. And also with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord. Let us give thanks to God. It is right to give God our thanks and praise. Living God, we offer our thanks and praise to you; creator of all things, lover of all humanity. You revealed your unending love as you spoke freedom to your people enslaved in Egypt and led them through the wilderness. “Come away” you said, “the winter of your lives is past.” Come away to a land of promise.” And, having led them to the land of promise, they remembered your goodness with their mouths, but failed to reflect your goodness with their lives . You spoke through the prophets and when their words went unheeded, You spoke a new Word which would be an eternal reminder that the language of your love is unchanging and endless as your word became flesh and lived among us. And so, with all the company of heaven and earth we praise your holy name saying Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest Holy God, this meal which we share today is indeed the celebration of your love for the world - love spoken and revealed by Jesus, your beloved Son, our Lord. In him, the living bread from heaven, our hunger is eternally satisfied and our thirst forever quenched. For, on the night of his betrayal, as he sat at the table and broke bread with his friends, he said: ‘Take and eat; this is my body which is broken for you. Remember me each time you do this.’ After they had eaten, he took the cup, and said: ‘Remember me as you drink from this, for it is my life, poured out for you - the beginning of a new relationship with God.’ God of all power, we praise you for these signs of your everlasting love and pray that you will breathe your Holy Spirit upon us, and upon these gifts of bread and wine, that they may be for us the life of Christ and that we may make that life visible through our faithful witness to him. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen THE LORD’S PRAYER BREAKING THE BREAD We break this bread and take this cup so that we can all share in the life of Christ. God’s gifts for God’s people. LAMB OF GOD DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Eternal God, we thank you for making this no ordinary meal. It has been one in which we have been fed and nourished with Jesus, the living bread. May we go from here, refreshed and eager, to nourish others with his life and love. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen TIS 531: “Sent forth by God’s blessing...” ; TIS 495: “Father, we give you thanks, who planted” TIS 521: “Lord Christ, at your first eucharist you prayed” TIS 628/ AHB 555: “In faith and hope and love” TIS 626/ AHB 557: “Lord of creation, to you be all praise” In AHB 557 - invite people to substitute “our” for “man’s” in verse 3 BENEDICTION: Go, blessed by the generous love of God; the perfect love of Jesus, and the empowering love of the Holy Spirit. THREEFOLD AMEN |