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Worship for Sunday, August 30, 2020

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  The 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday, August 30, 2020 To view videos on this site, just click on  the attached   blue-colored  link! To give your offering online  to St. John's, please click   http://www.stjohnspearlcity.org/giving OUR WORSHIP FOR TODAY THE OPENING SENTENCE The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.         OPENING HYMN: "Built On a Rock"  (Video Link):    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ou5n2nQ3o             PRAYER OF THE DAY O God, we thank you for your Son, who chose the path of suffering for the sake of the world.  Humble us by his example, point us to the path of obedience, and give us strength to follow your commands, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.  Amen. FIRST READING: Jeremiah 15:15-21 O Lord, you know;    remember me and visit me,    and bring down retribution for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance do not take me away;    know that on your account I suffer insult. Your words were found, a

Worship for Sunday, August 23, 2020

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  The 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday, August 23, 2020 To view videos on this site, just click on  the attached   blue-colored  link! To give your offering online  to St. John's, please click   http://www.stjohnspearlcity.org/giving OUR WORSHIP FOR TODAY THE OPENING SENTENCE The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.         OPENING HYMN: "Built On a Rock"  (Video Link):    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6QXn-V4b9U     PRAYER OF THE DAY O God, with all your faithful followers of every age, we praise you, the rock of our life.  Be our strong foundation and form us into the body of your Son, that we may gladly minister to all the world, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.  Amen. FIRST READING: Isaiah 51:1-6 Listen to me, you that pursue       righteousness,    you that seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you       were hewn,    and to the quarry from which you       were dug. Look to Abraham your father    and to Sarah who

Worship for Sunday, August 16, 2020

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  The 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday, August 16, 2020 To view videos on this site, just click on  the attached   blue-colored  link! To give your offering online  to St. John's, please click   http://www.stjohnspearlcity.org/giving OUR WORSHIP FOR TODAY THE OPENING SENTENCE The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.         OPENING HYMN: "In Christ There Is No East or West"  (Video Link):    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHix6GRSPYQ     PRAYER OF THE DAY God of all peoples, your arms reach out to embrace all those who call upon you. Teach us as disciples of your Son to love the world with compassion and constancy, that your name may be known throughout the earth, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.  Amen.   FIRST READING: Isaiah 56:1, 6-8 Thus says the Lord:    Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come,    and my deliverance be revealed. And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,    to