The Church of Our Saviour The Redeemer
25 Lake Avenue South, Stoney Creek
Taize
March 13th , 2024
The Rev. Canon Bahman Kalantari
Every Tuesday, at 3 p.m. we are holding an alternate worship opportunity.
which consists of Taize music and includes the Holy Eucharist as
well as prayers for healing. This is a beautiful opportunity for
those who feel more comfortable gathering in a smaller,
more intimate setting to experience the love and power of Jesus.
At the beginning of the service, you are invited to light a candle – to affirm a personal vow, to pray for someone or a particular situation, to invite the light of Christ to shed light on your path, and to receive illumination.
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In the name of the Living God!
My soul magnifies the Lord.
My spirit rejoices in God, my savior.
For the Mighty One has done great things,
and holy is God’s name.
The Invitatory
The Promised One of God brings good news
to the oppressed
and binds up the brokenhearted.
We are witnesses to the light of Christ!
The Promised One of God proclaims liberty
to captives and release to prisoners.
We are witnesses to the light of Christ!
The Promised One of God comforts all
who mourn and gives a mantle of praise instead of a
faint spirit. Rejoicing always, praying without ceasing,
holding fast to what is good,
we are witnesses to the light of Christ!
Blessed Are You O Lord, teach me Thy statutes:
Psalm 11
In the Lord I take refuge.
How then can you say to me:
Flee like a bird to your mountain.
For look, the wicked bend their bows;
they set their arrows against the strings
to shoot from the shadows
at the upright in heart.
When the foundations are being destroyed,
what can the righteous do?”
The Lord is in his holy temple;
the Lord is on his heavenly throne.
He observes everyone on earth;
his eyes examine them.
The Lord examines the righteous,
but the wicked, those who love violence,
he hates with a passion.
He loves justice;
the upright will see his face.
Glory 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.
Let us now sing The Kingdom of God:
Prayer for Illumination
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Your word, Holy God, was written for our instruction.
By your Holy Spirit open our ears and fill us with the mysteries of your ancient love; through Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.
Gloria:
The Gospel
Luke 13:10-21
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Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are healed of your sickness!” Then he touched her, and instantly she could stand straight. How she praised God!
But the leader in charge of the synagogue was indignant that Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day. “There are six days of the week for working,” he said to the crowd. “Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.”
But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox or your donkey from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water? This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?”
This shamed his enemies, but all the people rejoiced at the wonderful things he did.
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Parable of the Mustard Seed
Then Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? How can I illustrate it? It is like a tiny mustard seed that a man planted in a garden; it grows and becomes a tree, and the birds make nests in its branches.”
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Parable of the Yeast
He also asked, “What else is the Kingdom of God like? It is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough.”
Let us now sing Stay With Me:
Statement of Faith (Philippians 2:5-11)
We adopt the attitude that was in Christ Jesus:
Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Lord’s Prayer:
Household Prayer
Light of the world,
you greet me this morning with new possibilities.
Shine brightly, I pray,
until I see into the dark places of this world,
and into the dark places of my own life.
I want to follow you in paths of justice,
speak up with you for liberty,
and bend with you toward the brokenhearted,
even the broken places within myself.
I trade in my faint spirit for your mantle of praise—
and with my whole being
I will rejoice in you. Amen.
We will now sing O Lord Hear My Prayer
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PRAYERS
God who restores,
you have done great things for us and we rejoice!
So often you have filled us with laughter,
even turning tears of sadness into shouts of joy.
You send prophets, who point the way to justice
and show the way to you.
We thank you for sending good news to us
and repairing so much that we have devastated.
In this season of light,
we lift up in prayer so many who wait in darkness:
people oppressed by poverty and discrimination,
by political upheaval or dangerous rulers;
people imprisoned wrongly
and also those imprisoned justly.
Right what is wrong among us and in us
and restore us to you,
to others,
to ourselves.
Make the brokenhearted whole again;
comfort those who mourn;
repair our ruined cities.
In all the jostling and jingling of these days,
do not let us lose sight of you
or those whom you especially came to serve:
people who are in need of healing,
people who are overlooked or underserved,
the ones who are lost,
and the ones we have made to feel little and least.
Light of the world,
live among us always,
full of grace and truth. Amen.
Let us now sing Jesus, Remember me:
Closing Prayer
The Lord bless us and keep us. The Lord make his face shine
on us and be gracious to us. The Lord look upon us with favor and grant us peace. Amen.
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