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All Saints’ Anglican Church
A Parish of the Diocese of the South
Anglican Catholic Church
The Most Rev. Mark Haverland, Ph.D., Primate and Diocesan
The First Sunday after Trinity
Sunday in the Octave of Corpus Christi
June 7, 2015
110 Fairfield Street - Aiken, S.C. 29801
(803) 648-9991
The First Sunday after Trinity
Sunday in the Octave of Corpus Christi
June 7, 2015
10:30 a.m.
Holy Communion
I will speak of all thy marvelous works;
I will be glad, and rejoice in thee:
yea, my songs will I make of thy Name,
O most highest.
Welcome to All Saints’
We welcome this morning our guests, and we invite all in attendance to join us
for refreshments in the Parish Hall following the Service. We also ask our
guests to please sign our Guest Book located in the Narthex.
If you are not familiar with our liturgical form of worship, please note the Anglican red Mass Books, located in each pew, which will help to guide you
through the service.
Our Church
All Saints' Anglican Church, founded in 1977, is located on Fairfield Street in
downtown Aiken, where we celebrate Holy Communion every Sunday at 8:30
and 10:30 a.m., and on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. We also observe major Holy
Days from the Historic Church Calendar with the Holy Communion, as announced.
We are a parish of the Anglican Catholic Church: Anglican because our practice
of the faith is rooted in the tradition of the Church of England, and Catholic
because we believe and practice the faith as once delivered by Jesus Christ to
the Apostles.
The Order for
The Administration of the Lord’s Supper
or
Holy Communion
(from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, with supplemental material from the American Missal)
Opening Prayer
Hymn (stand)
Collect for Purity (kneel or sit)
Hymn 273
p. 67
Introit
O LORD my God, in thy loving-kindness and mercy have I
trusted; and my heart is joyful in thy salvation: I will sing unto
the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me. Psalm 13.
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, forever: how long wilt
thou hide thy face from me? V. Glory be to the Father , and to
the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be, world without end, Amen.
Summary of the Law
Kyrie
Collect(s) of the Day
p. 69
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p. 188
Second Collect
O GOD, who in a wonderful Sacrament hast left unto us a
memorial of thy Passion: grant us, we beseech thee, so to
venerate the sacred mysteries of thy Body and Blood, that we
may ever perceive within ourselves the fruit of thy redemption.
The Epistle (sit)
1 St. John iv. 7
p. 189
Gradual
Missal
I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul, for I have
sinned against thee. V. Blessed is he that considereth the poor
and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble.
Alleluia, alleluia. V. Ponder my words, O Lord: consider my
meditation, alleluia.
The Holy Gospel (stand) St. Luke xvi. 19
The Nicene Creed (stand)
p. 190
p. 71
Sermon Hymn (stand)
Hymn 277
Sermon
Fr. Alexander
Offertory
Missal
Stablish the thing, O God, that thou has wrought in us: for thy
temple’s sake at Jerusalem, shall kings bring presents unto
thee, alleluia.
Offertory Hymn (stand)
Presentation of the Flag
Hymn 733
(4th Verse)
Hymn 141
Statement of Intentions
Priest:
Pray brethren that my sacrifice and yours may
be acceptable unto God the Father Almighty.
Congregation:
May the Lord receive this sacrifice at thy
hands to the praise and glory of His Name, to our
benefit, and that of all His Holy Church.
Prayer for the Whole Church (kneel or sit)
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Missal
Invitation and General Confession
Absolution
Comfortable Words
Sursum Corda
Proper Preface (Of the Purification)
Because in the mystery of the Word made flesh, thou hast
caused a new light to shine in our hearts, to give the knowledge
of thy glory in the face of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Sanctus
Benedictus:
p. 79
Blessed is he that cometh in the Name
of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION (kneel or sit)
Lord's Prayer
Agnus Dei
Prayer of Humble Access
(If you are a visitor and a communicant in your own church, then you are subject to the same
invitation that we are. It is found on page 75 of the Book of Common Prayer and begins, “Ye
who do truly and earnestly repent…” Please join us at the Altar. Children may be brought to
the Altar for a blessing.
Hymn (kneel or sit)
p. 83
Gloria in excelsis (stand)
p. 84
(Hymn 739)
Post Communion Collect(s) (kneel)
Missal
GRANT, we beseech thee, O Lord: that we who have been
satisfied with thy bounty may receive grace unto salvation and
never cease from thy praise. Through Jesus Christ thy Son our
Lord. Amen.
MAKE us, we beseech thee, O Lord, to be filled with the
everlasting fruition of thy Godhead: which is foreshadowed in
this life by the reception of thy precious Body and Blood.
Who with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
livest and reignest, world without end. Amen.
The Dismissal (kneel)
Priest:
All:
Priest:
All:
The Lord be with you.
And with thy spirit.
Depart in peace.
Thanks be to God.
(kneel)
p. 84
Processional Hymn (stand)
Hymn 288
Assisting at today’s Service
Clergy
The Rev. Fr. George F. Alexander, Rector
The Rev. Fr. Beau M. Davis, Assistant
Administration of the Holy Communion
Priest: Behold the Lamb of God, Behold Him
That takest away the sins of the world.
All :
Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest
Come under my roof, but speak the word only
And my soul shall be healed.
Hymn 202
Post Communion Thanksgiving (kneel or sit)
The Blessing
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Hymn 706
p. 82
(1st Tune)
Organist:
Mrs. Elizabeth Blount
Acolytes:
Usher:
Ken Gordon
Chris Roberts
Lector:
Altar Guild:
Jack Miller
Beverly Kimmel &
Carol Sue Roberts
Parish Intercessions
Announcements
Birthdays: Mike Wood, Jill Aulisi,
Anniversaries: Lee & Alice Larison
Those who are ill or have special needs:
Family & Friends
Kate
Cecelia Davies
Laura Greco
Ross
Cass
Bob Ruddy
Treva Byers
William Crocker
Shannon Marshall
Tommy Minnick
Kathy Bellissimo
Cecil Raborn
Richard & Phyllis Clark
Alfred Merchant
Betty Adair
Dawn Veldman
Parishioners
Linzee Whittaker
Bobbie Graves
Muff Herbruck
Jack Cannon
Lee Larison
Jo Cunningham
Kirsten Collins
Diane Gordon
John Cunningham
Elise Lehman
Jan Jenkins
Betty Christensen
Pat Miller
Alan Wingard
Onesta Carswell
Alice Larison
John
Michael & Family
Chuck Thomas
Christina
Bernice
Suzanne & Family
Doretha Bates
Beverly Thompson
Clarke Saunders
Clergy
Frank Martin, Pr.
Garrett Clanton, Pr.
Edward Keel, Pr.
Daniel McAughey, Pr.
Ted Atwood, Pr.
Those serving in the Armed Forces
Michael Alexander, Joshua Connor, Evan Kotti,
Kasci & Daniel Lopez, and William Shepherd
Weekday Services
Wednesday: Holy Communion at 5:30 pm
Anglican Studies at 6:15 pm
Thursday:
St. Barnabas, Holy Communion at 5:30 pm
This Week:
Classic Book Club will meet on Monday, June 8th, 4:00 pm, in
Fairfield House. Their current selection is The Forsyte Saga.
Vestry will meet on Monday, June 8th, at 5:00 pm, in the Parish
Hall.
Bag Lunch Studies: Join Fr. Beau Wednesday at 12:15 p.m., at
Fairfield House. This week’s topic will be Other Eastern Religions.
Parish Night Out is Wednesday, June 10th. Any suggestions for a
restaurant to visit, please pass along to Chris Roberts.
Feast of St. Barnabas, Apostle is Thursday the 11th with Holy
Communion at 5:30 pm.
Next Week:
ACW Luncheon is Tuesday, June 16th at 12:30, at Ridgecrest, a new
coffee shop at 2502 Wagener Rd.
Upcoming:
Bishop’s Annual Visitation is June 21st. Persons interested in being
Received or Confirmed, please see Fr. Alexander.
Men of All Saints’ June meeting is set for the 23rd at 6:00 pm at the
Red Pepper.
Additionally Services in June:
St. Barnabas, Apostle & Martyr
Thursday, June 11th, 5:30 pm
St. Peter, Apostle & Martyr
Monday, June 29th, 5:30 pm
St. Paul, Apostle & Martyr
Tuesday, June 30th, 5:30 pm
News Needed for the monthly Newsletter. Share with the Parish what
you’re doing as well as what members of your family are doing. Pictures
are welcome, too!
The On-going Library Inventory: Volunteers are still needed by
the Fairfield House Committee to help with the inventory of books. If
interested, contact Lawrence Kurland at 860-309-4381, or one of the
committee members: Sara Wood, Larry Byers, Gail King, or Fr. Beau.
Saint of the Week
St. Margaret of Scotland, Queen & Widow (1045 - 1093)
St. Margaret of Scotland was born an English princess of the House of Wessex
in exile in Hungary, granddaughter of King Edmund Ironside and sister of the
dethroned King Edgar Aetheling. Her family returned to England briefly in
1066, but fled to Scotland upon the invasion of William of Normandy. She became the Queen Consort of Scotland upon her marriage to Malcolm III in 1070.
Margaret led a pious life from a very early age, and her influence on the Church
in Scotland and upon politics was renowned. She is said to have tamed her husband and civilized his manner by reading him stories from the Bible. She instituted religious reform by pushing the Scottish Church to conform to the worship practices of Rome, with the help of the future Archbishop of Canterbury,
Lanfranc. Her sway guided the religious lives of those around her, including her
children: three of whom became King of Scotland, one who became an abbot,
and one who became Queen of England. She was charitable. She served the
poor and the orphaned every day. She established a ferry for pilgrims to the
monastery at Dunfermline and one to St. Andrews.
Margaret died three days after the deaths of her husband and their eldest son on
November 16th, 1093. She was buried at Dunfermline Abbey, but her head was
moved to Edinburgh in 1560 as a relic to Mary Queen of Scots. All of the remains of Saint Margaret were lost in the Scottish Reformation. She was canonized in 1250. Her feast is on June 10th in the Anglican tradition, but November
16th in the Roman Church.
Liturgically Speaking
What is Prayer?
Liturgically Speaking continued….
member the prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, just before the betrayal, where praying so intensely that His sweat was as droplets of blood, Jesus said Thy will be done.
Prayer is a form of discipline. It is not just something to be done on occasion, once-ina-while, or whenever, as we say, the spirit moves us; it is something that should be
done every day, as when we rise in the morning and retire in the evening, as well as
before meals.
While there are many devotional books to assist in the discipline of prayer, the Book of
Common Prayer stands above all others with Morning and Evening Prayer, as well as
the section on Family Prayer, and various other prayers.
In developing our relationship with God through prayer, we find that there are different
kinds of prayer: adoration, confession, petition, intercession, and thanksgiving, each
describing relationships essential to our communion with God.
A primary impulse of worship is adoration, where we give ourselves to God in love and
honest admiration: we adore Him, the all sustaining God of love.
While we adore Him, we are also awed and humbled with a sense of our own unworthiness due to the frailty of our own human nature; thus, we come to realize ourselves
for what we really are, accepting and acknowledging our words and actions which alienate us from God. We confess our sinfulness, as in the General Confession:
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from
time to time, most grievously have committed by thought, word, and deed,
against Thy Divine Majesty....
We also acknowledge our dependence as we petition God for those things which are
requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul. And, in petitioning God,
we are not presuming upon Him and reminding Him of our necessities, rather we are
exercising and building a relationship with Him. Through prayer, we are grow in
knowledge of what is good for us and for what purposes He has in store for us.
If we were to ask the question, what is prayer, we would get many different answers;
but, there are several answers which should head the list.
When we intercede for others in our prayers, we are expressing that we have a responsibility to others. In so doing, we come to share in God's concern for all His creation.
Prayer is communion with God. It is not that we don't enjoy communion with God
through our corporate worship, but we also need to have communion on a personal
level. That is where private prayer comes in to play, for as we learn the secret of
prayer, we find ourselves coming into a closer communion with God; indeed, we find
a two-way communication where prayer becomes for us a means of conversation with
God, as we learn to really listen as part of our meditation.
And, in thanksgiving, we express our gratitude for all God's blessings and especially for
our relationship with Him. We thank Him for all His goodness and loving-kindness
to us, and to all men.... and we also bless Him for our creation, preservation, and
all the blessings of this life...
Prayer is a natural desire of the soul. In a sense, all our thoughts and desires are a kind
of prayer, even our attitude toward God, and by focusing our thoughts and desires on
God, we can realize the power that comes from prayer. Our wholes lives can become a
form of prayer.
Prayer is submission of self to the will of God. When the disciples asked our
Lord to teach them to pray, He gave them what we know as the Lord's Prayer, in
which we ask that God's Will be done on earth just as it is in heaven. We may also re(Continued next page.)
But most of all, we offer our praise and thanksgiving for the fact that He so loved us He
became one of us, lived among us, suffered with us and for us so that we might have the
means of grace and the hope of glory.
Thus, in the final analysis, prayer is an act of love. It is our responding to God's reconciling love for us and participating in a relationship with Him as we open our hearts and
minds to His guidance.
God is ready to give us more than we want or deserve, to pour upon us the abundance
of His mercy, to forgive us, to bestow His blessings upon us regardless of our worthiness.
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Liturgically Speaking continued….
Liturgically Speaking continued....
In this regard, our Lord left us a model prayer, the Lord's Prayer, which the disciples
would recite daily at the end of their ordinary prayers and, in early Church tradition,
it was customary to say the Lord's Prayer three times a day.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
The Lord's Prayer was not a prayer given as an illustration; it was a set form of words
to be learned by heart, and used habitually.
The disciples asked: Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.
And so we pray, to:
Our Father which art in heaven: not my Father. We are brethren, we are family,
and we may not selfishly pray for ourselves without praying for others.
And God is our Father because He created us, made us in His image, and, in the Christian sense, we are His sons by adoption and reconciled to Him by the death of
Christ.
Hallowed be thy name: Thy name be regarded as holy by all creatures in heaven and
earth. We worship, we reverence God, for His name is His revealed nature.
This doxology was a liturgical addition, dating before the year 100, and conformed to
the responses in the Temple services where the people did not say Amen, rather they
responded:
Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom for ever.
In a world where everything seems to move at the speed of light; where traditional
values and institutions seem to be under constant attack; where the emphasis seems to
be on amassing not only wealth, but also power; when all else appears hopeless, there
is a certain comfort in prayer, and a certain power.
If we did nothing else than what was expected of the early Christian disciples, to recite
the Lord's Prayer three times a day, and if we did so in earnestness, we could realize
certain spiritual strength from which there are so many possibilities for good.
Vestry
Mrs. Sara Wood,
Mr. Alan Wingard,
Thy kingdom come: that is, may justice triumph over injustice, truth over error,
kindness over cruelty, purity over lust, peace over enmity.
Senior Warden
Junior Warden
Mrs. Gabby Philipp,
Mr. Larry Byers,
Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven: a prayer for grace to enable us to conform our wills to the will of God, and for perseverance to carry out that will in action.
Secretary
Chairman, Finance Committee
Mrs. Phoebe Marshall
Mr. Ken Connor
Give us this day our daily bread: we pray that we may feed daily by faith on Jesus
Christ for He is our true daily bread, that we may be worthy partakers of the Bread of
Blessing which unites us with Him.
Mr. Michael Hardwick
Mr. Chris Roberts
Remember the words spoken as we receive the Sacrament at the Altar: Take and eat
this in remembrance that Christ died for you and feed on Him in thy heart by
faith with thanksgiving.
And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors: unless we forgive, we cannot be
forgiven and this is perhaps the most difficult of all prayers, to ask God to forgive us as
we forgive others.
Can we sincerely put away all malice and bitterness, hatred and revengeful feelings
from our hearts?
Just how far do we go when we forgive someone of a wrong they have committed
against us? And what do we expect from God in the way of forgiveness?
To ask God to forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who have trespassed
against us; how often do we really think about what we are saying with those words.
I shudder to think that God could only be as merciful and forgiving as I am!
And lead us not into temptation: here we pray that we may not be tempted above
what we are able to bear.
But deliver us from evil: that God may keep us from all sin and wickedness, from our
spiritual enemies, and from everlasting death and separation from God.
We conclude the Lord's Prayer with this doxology:
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Treasurer
Mr. Ken Gordon
Organist & Choir Director
Mrs. Elizabeth Blount
Choir
Dr. Anthony Harris
Mrs. Lainey Keller
Mrs. Phoebe Marshall
Mr. Linzee Whittaker
Mrs. Sara Wood
Mrs. Becky Davis
Ms. Heather Sargent
Acolyte Master
Altar Guild
Mr. Alan Wingard
Mrs. Betty Alexander, Director
Anglican Church Women
Usher Chairman
Mrs. Gabby Philipp, President
Dr. Ray Vaughters
Men of All Saints’
Lector Chairman
Mr. Kenneth Gordon, Chairman
Mr. Jack Miller
Flower Chairman
Mrs. Sara Wood
All Saints’ Anglican Church
Clergy
The Rev. Fr. George F. Alexander, Rector
The Rev. Beau M. Davis, Deacon
Rector Emeritas
The Ven. Garrett M. Clanton
Parish Office Hours
By appointment.
Fr. Alexander (803) 270-0406
Dn. Beau Davis (770) 378-4658
(803) 648-9991
(Voice Mail ONLY)
www.allsaintsaiken.org
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