Saint Patrick's Anglican Church Brevard, North Carolina Lent I (Purple) 2/26/2023

Saint Patrick’s Anglican Church
   Brevard, North Carolina
       “Biblical Faith and Morals, Traditional Anglican Worship”

                     Lent I
                    (Purple)

          “Christ Healing the Blind Man”, Eustache Le Sueur

                2/26/2023

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                                  From the Vicar

I pray you are working on deciding on your Lenten disciplines. If you need any
help, please feel free to call me.

This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. We will have the Ash Wednesday liturgy and
imposition of ashes (no communion.)

Remember we will begin Stations of the Cross this Friday at 5:30. It will continue
until Good Friday.

Mission Committee will be this Sunday after service. We will also have our intake
for Sharing House and out monthly pot-luck.

Please do remember the Bishop’s Lenten appeal.

Yours in Christ,
Nick Henderson+

                                 Upcoming Events

Feb. 22, 2023       12:15 Ash Wednesday – Liturgy and imposition of ashes.
Feb. 24, 2023       5:30 Stations of the Cross
Feb. 26, 2023       10:30 Lent I, intake for Sharing House, Mission Committee,
                    Potluck (sign up sheet.)
Mar.   1, 2023      12:15 John and Charles Wesley (white.)
Mar.   5, 2023      10:30 a.m. Lent II, update prayer list, VOM.
Mar.    8, 2023      12:15 Gregory of Nyssa
Mar.   12, 2023      10:30 Lent III.
Mar.   15, 2023      12:15 Saint Patrick of Ireland!

Apr.24-26, 2023            Clergy Conference.
Oct.10-12, 2023            Synod, (Joint with G3) Orlando, Florida

Those who serve:
Preacher: Fr. Nick.
Committee Member: Betty Jones
Lector: Jacquelyn Bray
Epistoler: Barb Liggett
Server: Philip Sheppard.

Birthdays and Anniversaries: JIM AND GINNY BOETTCHER (02/25.)

Music:

                                                           Lent I

                                         Note: setting is Merbecke

101 Prelude An Wasserflüssen Babylon
102 Pro 61 The glory of these forty days
104 Sequence 249 Thy Gospel Jesus
105 Sequence 249 Thy Gospel Jesus
106 Ser 55 Forty days and forty nights
107 Ant. When I survey the wondrous cross
108 Doxology
109 Merbecke Sanctus
110 706 Merbecke-Agnus Dei
111 Com 196 Bread of the world
112 Rec 59 Lord, who throughout these forty days
113 Postlude Christe, Du Lamm Gottes

                                                  Proper Lessons

                                           Old Testament Lesson

                                         Isaiah 58 (Pew Bible 818)
           (The Lesson is written in the 58th Chapter of the Book of Isaiah the Prophet, beginning at the first verse.)

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their
transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight
to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance
of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in
approaching to God. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?
wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the
day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for
strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do
this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen?
a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to
spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable
day to the LORD? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye
break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the
poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him;
and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth
as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness
shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward. Then shalt thou
call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou
take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and
speaking vanity; And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: And
the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat
thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose
waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The
repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot
from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a
delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine
own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt
thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places
of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the
LORD hath spoken it.

                                      Psalm 50

1 THE LORD, even the Most Mighty God, hath spoken, * and called the world,
from the rising up of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Sion hath God appeared * in perfect beauty.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; * there shall go before him a
consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.

4 He shall call the heaven from above, * and the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me; * those that have made a covenant with me
with sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; * for God is Judge himself.
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; * I myself will testify against thee, O Israel;
for I am God, even thy God.
8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices; * as for thy burnt-offerings, they
are alway before me.
9 I will take no bullock out of thine house, * nor he-goats out of thy folds.
10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine, * and so are the cattle upon a thousand
hills.
11 I know all the fowls upon the mountains, * and the wild beasts of the field are in
my sight.
12 If I be hungry, I will not tell thee; * for the whole world is mine, and all that is
therein.
13 Thinkest thou that I will eat bulls' flesh, * and drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving, * and pay thy vows unto the Most Highest.
15 And call upon me in the time of trouble; * so will I hear thee, and thou shalt
praise me.
16 But unto the ungodly saith God, * Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my
covenant in thy mouth;
17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed, * and hast cast my words behind thee?
18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst unto him; * and hast been partaker
with the adulterers.
19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickedness, * and with thy tongue thou hast set
forth deceit.
20 Thou sattest and spakest against thy brother; * yea, and hast slandered thine own
mother's son.
21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue, and thou thoughtest wickedly,
that I am even such a one as thyself; * but I will reprove thee, and set before thee the
things that thou hast done.
22 O consider this, ye that forget God, * lest I pluck you away, and there be none to
deliver you.
23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honoureth me; * and to him that
ordereth his way aright, will I show the salvation of God.

The Epistle

                                              2 Corinthians vi. 1.
                (The Epistle is written in the 6th chapter of the 2nd Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.)

WE then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the
grace of God in vain; (for he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the
day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold,
now is the day of salvation;) giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not
blamed: but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much
patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in
tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-
suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth,
by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the
left, by honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet
true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened,
and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as
having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

                                                    The Gospel

                                               St. Matthew iv. 1.

THEN was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command
that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the
temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is
written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall
bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him,
It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh
him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the
world, and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if
thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence,
Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto
him.

Prayer List

For the Peace of the World, especially in Ukraine, the Unity of the Body of Christ,
and the Lord’s blessings on Saint Patrick’s. For Sharing House and Holy Trinity
Cathedral, Jammalamadugu. For all who suffer from natural and man-made
disasters. For the return of domestic tranquility and civility. For all who suffer for
their faith. For the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

Sweet Repose and Holy Progress for the soul of Margaret.

Healing for: Bob, Bart, Libby, Dave, Faye, Mark, Andrew.

Special Intentions for: Jim, Julie, Bob and Sally, Scott, Roy, Karen, Patsy, Betty
and Edwin, Jessica and Jared and family, Jenny, Jameson, Bonnie and Jim, Jeff
and Vicky, Geretha, Mildred.

Fellowship Prayers for: Kathryn Hackett-Fields.

*Changes in Prayer List – call/text (843) 200-6446 or email:
drmpsheppard@gmail.com