Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday

• Traditional Services
  8 am & 5 pm | Chapel
  Jonathan Blackham (8 am ) & The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill (5 pm)
  9 am & 11:15 am | Church 
  Dr. Kira Moolman Pettit (9 am) & The Rev. Lars Skoglund (11:15 am)
  
• Awesome Worship (Families)
  9:15 am | Hall Life Center
  The Rev. Libby Garfield
  
• Modern Worship
  11:15 am | Hall Life Center
  The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill
  
• Worship at Ascension
  8 am & 10:30 am | 2525 Seagler Rd
  The Rev. Louise Samuelson
  

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Includes Order of Service & Announcements

• Traditional Service | Church | 9 am
• Modern Worship | Hall Life Center | 11:15 am

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

• A Church Given to the Spirit | Hall Life Center
• Dynamic Faith, Vibrant Church (Newcomers) | Parlor
• Scripture Meditation Group – Nau Family Room

• Family Matters – Scout Room

• Children's Sunday School 
  Nursery | 8:30 am — 12:30 pm
  2 months - age 2 | First floor nursery: Rm 104
  Sunday School  | 10:15 — 11:10 am
  2-year-olds | First floor: Rm 110 & 112
  Age 3 - Kinder | Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Level 1 | Lower level: L07, L08
  1st-3rd grade | Traditional Sunday school | Lower level: L16
  4th - 5th grade | Traditional Sunday school | Lower level: L21 (girls), L20 (boys)

• Youth Sunday School | Room 234 & 238
• Youth Confirmation

Happening Today

Pickleball Lessons: Intermediate Doubles Adult  *Class is Full*
Whether you're picking up a paddle for the first time or looking to sharpen your skills, join long-time pickleball enthusiast and former instructor Eugene Leong for this fun, hands-on series. With eight years of teaching experience, Eugene will help players build confidence, improve technique, and enjoy one of the fastest-growing sports in the country. Cost: $25 per series. Limited to 10 adult players per series. See upcoming classes.

The Collect of the Day

O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Matthew 21:23-32

21:23 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” 24 Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ 26 But if we say, ‘From man,’ we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet.” 27 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

28 “What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ 29 And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind and went. 30 And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.

Musical Offering in the Church

In today’s appointed Epistle, the Apostle Paul quotes one of the oldest Christian hymns known to us. In recognition of this historic text, we sing At the Name of Jesus as our Processional Hymn. Its text is based largely on this ancient hymn and was penned by nineteenth-century English author Caroline Noel.

At the Offertory, we hear the motet Christus factus est by nineteenth-century Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. An a cappella setting of Philippians 2:8–9, this motet is dramatic in its expression of the text:

“Christ became obedient unto death, even the death on a cross. Wherefore God also has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.”

The Gregorian hymn Ubi caritas (“Where charity and love are, God is there”) has long been used as one of the antiphons sung during the washing of feet on Maundy Thursday. At the Ministration, we hear a contemporary, ethereal setting of this hymn by English composer and organist David Briggs. Like the famous setting by the French composer Maurice Duruflé, Briggs places the plainsong melody in the alto part.

Interestingly, both of the anthems sung this morning draw their texts from propers traditionally associated with Maundy Thursday.

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