Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Louise Samuelson (9 am) & The Rev. Sutton Lowe (11:15 am)
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Sutton Lowe
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. John Sundara
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Louise Samuelson & The Rev. Sutton Lowe

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship in the HLC (11:15 am - with Announcements) 
  

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

Prayer: Conversations with God – Hall Life Center
Scripture Meditation Group – Nau Family Room
Family Matters – Scout Room
Introduction to (Episcopal) Christianity– Parlor

Children's Sunday School
2 months - age 2: First floor nursery Rm 104 (8:30 am — 12:30 pm)
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 | Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Level 2 | Lower level: L17
OR Traditional Sunday school | Lower level: L16
4th - 5th grade | Traditional Sunday school | Lower level: L21 (girls), L20 (boys)

Youth Sunday School – Room 238
Youth Confirmation

*Preparation for Communion — 9 am in Room L17

Happening Today

SJD Parish Flu Vaccinations
St. John the Divine again offers vaccinations for the flu starting at 9 am in Doris Sumners Hall. Please bring a copy of your insurance card. Traditional Medicare and insurance plans from BCBS PPO, Aetna TRS, and United Health Care will be accepted.

Prayer: Conversations with God
Many of us know that prayer is something we “should” do, but we may not know how to begin, why it matters, or even what prayer even truly is. This fall, St. John the Divine invites you into a season of exploring prayer through Sunday lectures, a parish renewal weekend, and a lay-led Bible study series. Our hope is that this will be a time of deepening our connection with God as we learn more about what "talking to God" looks like. This Sunday hear from Kira Moolman Pettit on Prayer in Real Life at 10:15 am in the Hall Life Center.

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. 

Luke 16:19-31

16:19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. 24 And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”

Musical Offering in the Church

Today, our liturgy begins with a prelude and introit by 20th-century American composer Leo Sowerby. The prelude is a meditation on “Picardy,” a French medieval folk melody often sung to the text “Let all mortal flesh keep silence.” At the Introit, we hear the prayer “Eternal light, shine in our heart,” a prayer taken from Alcuin, an 8th century monk, and later expanded by an Anglican priest in 1977. This prayer calls us into discipleship with this life-giving light.

At the Offertory, the chorale sings contemporary British composer Simon Lole’s energetic anthem “Angels,” in commemoration of the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, which is September 29. St. Michael is the archangel who fights against the devil and protects Christians. In England, this festival, also known as Michaelmas, marks the end of summer and the beginning of autumn.

At the Ministration, we hear the Latin communion motet “Venite comedite” (Come and eat my bread), by English Renaissance composer William Byrd. He is considered among the most significant of the period, and he wrote much sacred music for Anglican services. After becoming Roman Catholic later in his life, he began to write Latin sacred music for use in that branch of the Church.

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