THE ORDER OF WORSHIP

Sunday, February 4th, 2018

The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany PRELUDE Prelude in e minor Dmitri Shostakovich

Holy Communion (V) WELCOME

INVOCATION

INTRODUCTION In the name of the Father, and of the (+)Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
In Isaiah it is the one God who sits above the earth and numbers the stars—
it is that God who strengthens the powerless. So in Jesus’ healing work we GATHERING SONG: Creating God, Your Fingers Trace (ELW 684)
see the hand of the creator God, lifting up the sick woman to health and
service (diakonia). Like Simon’s mother-in-law, we are lifted up to health GREETING
and diakonia. Following Jesus, we strengthen the powerless; like Jesus, we
seek to renew our own strength in quiet times of prayer. The grace of our Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the
Holy Spirit be with you all.
CHILDREN are always welcome to our Worship Service. Rainbow bags And also with you.
and a cry room are available. A staffed nursery is also available if needed.
An usher will gladly provide you with assistance. CANTICLE OF PRAISE

As a worship courtesy, we ask that you please turn off or set to vibrate
all cellular telephones and pagers during the worship service.

We ask that all present today please fill out the Attendance and Communion
registration card found in your bulletin and place it in the offering plate so
that we may record your presence with us.

PRAYER UPON ENTERING THE PEW

Almighty and merciful God, you are the only source of health and healing;
you alone can bring calmness and peace. Grant to us, your children, an
awareness of your presence and a strong confidence in you. In our pain,
our weariness, and our anxiety, surround us with your care, protect us by
your loving might, and permit us once more to enjoy health and strength
and peace; through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.
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To whom then will you compare me,
or who is my equal? says the Holy One.
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Lift up your eyes on high and see:
Who created these?
He who brings out their host and numbers them,
calling them all by name;
because he is great in strength,
PRAYER OF THE DAY
mighty in power,
not one is missing.
Compassionate God, you gather the whole universe into your radiant
presence and continually reveal your Son as our Savior. Bring wholeness to 27
Why do you say, O Jacob,
all that is broken and speak truth to us in our confusion, that all creation
and speak, O Israel,
will see and know your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.
“My way is hidden from the LORD,
Amen.
and my right is disregarded by my God”?
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Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Please be seated.
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE and BLESSING OF CANDLES
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
FIRST READING Isaiah 40:21-31 29
He gives power to the faint,
and strengthens the powerless.
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The Judeans in exile have a good reason to be hopeful: the one who will Even youths will faint and be weary,
bring them to freedom is the God who created the world, the God who and the young will fall exhausted;
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subdues the rulers of the earth and gives strength to those who are weary. but those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
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Have you not known? Have you not heard? they shall walk and not faint.
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? The word of the Lord.
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It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, Thanks be to God.
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, Silence for reflection on the reading.
and spreads them like a tent to live in;
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who brings princes to naught,
and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
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Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows upon them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
PSALM: Psalm 147:1-11, 20c SECOND READING: 1 Corinthians 9:16-23

Refrain: God entrusted Paul with the responsibility of bringing the gospel to diverse
people. Hence the focus of Paul’s ministry is not his own rights or
privileges as an apostle but the privilege of serving God by freely sharing
the good news of Christ with others.

Tone: 16
If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an
obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the
gospel! 17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my
own will, I am entrusted with a commission. 18What then is my reward?
Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so
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Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises | to our God! as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.
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How pleasant it is to honor | God with praise! For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to
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The LORD re- | builds Jerusalem, all, so that I might win more of them. 20To the Jews I became as a Jew, in
and gathers the ex- | iles of Israel. order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law
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The LORD heals the | brokenhearted (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the
and binds | up their wounds. law. 21To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I
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The LORD counts the number | of the stars am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win
and calls them all | by their names. R those outside the law. 22To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the
weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save
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Great is our LORD and might- | y in power; some. 23I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its
there is no limit | to God’s wisdom. blessings.
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The LORD lifts | up the lowly,
but casts the wicked | to the ground. The word of the Lord.
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Sing to the LORD| with thanksgiving; Thanks be to God.
make music upon the harp | to our God,
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who covers the heav- | ens with clouds and prepares rain for the earth, Please stand for the reading of the gospel.
making grass to grow up- | on the mountains. R
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
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God provides food | for the cattle All sing the Alleluia. The choir will sing the verse, all repeat the Alleluia
and for the young ravens | when they cry.
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God is not impressed by the might | of a horse,
and has no pleasure in the speed | of a runner,
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but finds pleasure in those who | fear the LORD,
in those who await God’s steadfast love. 20c| Hallelujah! R

Verse: The servant of God took | our infirmities*

and bore | our diseases. (Matt. 8:17)
GOSPEL Mark 1:29-39 HYMN OF THE DAY: Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love (ELW 708)

As the Gospel is announced, worshippers are invited to trace a cross upon CREED
their forehead, then over their lips, and then over their hearts, silently As they recite the creed, worshippers are invited to bow beginning with the
praying, “May the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ be ever on my mind, on words “born of the Virgin Mary,” until the words “he descended to the
my lips, and in my heart.” dead.”

The holy gospel according to Mark. I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
Glory to you, O Lord.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived
Everywhere Jesus goes, many people expect him to set them free from by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius
oppression. Everywhere he goes, he heals them and sets them free. Disease, Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead.
devils, and death are running for their lives. The forces that diminish On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at
human life are rendered powerless by Jesus. the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and
29 the dead.
As soon as [Jesus and the disciples] left the synagogue, they entered the
house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30Now Simon’s mother-
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of
in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. 31He
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her,
everlasting.
and she began to serve them.
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That evening, at sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or
possessed with demons. 33And the whole city was gathered around the
PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION
door. 34And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and cast
out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because
Confident that God our light and our salvation hears us when we pray, let
they knew him.
35 us offer our prayers for the church, the world, and all people in need.
In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a
deserted place, and there he prayed. 36And Simon and his companions Please sit or kneel as you are able.
hunted for him. 37When they found him, they said to him, “Everyone is Each petition ends with:
searching for you.” 38He answered, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns, let us pray.
so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to Have mercy, O God.
do.” 39And he went throughout Galilee, proclaiming the message in their
synagogues and casting out demons. Merciful God, you hear our prayers even before we speak them. Receive
them for the sake of the one through whom you have revealed your
The gospel of the Lord. goodness, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.
Praise to you, O Christ. Amen.
Please be seated.
CONFESSION OF SINS AND PROCLAMATION OF FORGIVENESS
SERMON Pastor Charles Peterson
Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another.
Silence for reflection, then we invite you to stand and sing:
Most merciful God,
we confess that we are captive to sin and cannot free ourselves. We
have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have
done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our
whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. For the
sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us,
and lead us, so that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways,
to the glory of your holy name.
Amen.

God, who is rich in mercy, loved us even when we were dead in sin, and
made us alive together through Christ. By grace you have been saved. In
the name of ☩ Jesus Christ, your sins are forgiven. Almighty God
strengthen you through the Holy Spirit, that Christ may live in your hearts
and show forth in your lives.
Amen.

We invite you to greet one another in the peace of the risen Christ.

PEACE

The peace of Christ be with you always.

And also with you.

Please be seated.

ANTHEM AT THE OFFERING Lord, Have Mercy Mendelssohn

We invite you to please stand and sing.

OFFERING PRAYER
OFFERTORY HYMN Let All Things Now Living (ELW 881)
Merciful God, receive the gifts we bring, ourselves, our time, and our
possessions. Through this meal unite us as your body, shining with the light
of your justice and mercy; for the sake of him who gave himself for us,
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
DIALOGUE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
Worshippers are invited to bow with the consecration of the Lord’s body
and blood, each time the words “Do this for the remembrance of me,” are
spoken.

Holy God, Creator of all and Source of life, at the birth of time your word
brought light into the world.

In the fullness of time, you sent your Word, born of Mary, to shine in our
darkness and to make us your daughters and sons.

In the night in which he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and gave
thanks; broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take and eat; this is
my body, given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me.

Again, after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it for all to
drink, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood, shed for you and
PREFACE for all people for the forgiveness of sin. Do this for the remembrance of me.

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Remembering, therefore, his birth and life among us, his death and
resurrection, we await his coming again when all things will be restored in
him.

By your Spirit bless us and this bread and cup, that held and nourished by
you, we may live as your children, shining with the light of your Son.

Through him all glory and honor is yours, Almighty Father, with the Holy
Spirit, in your holy Church, both now and forever.
Amen.

LORD'S PRAYER

Lord, as we turn to live in and to live out your Kingdom, teach us to pray:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom
come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who
trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
forever and ever.
Amen.
INVITATION TO COMMUNION COMMUNION HYMN: We Come to You for Healing, Lord (ELW 617)

The time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of heaven is here! All who wish to
turn to God and live in Christ, come to the feast.

Please be seated.

All baptized people are welcome to the table to receive Christ’s body and
blood. If you have not been baptized, you are also welcome to the table as
God’s guest; we are honored by your presence. We recognize the Body of
Christ as the community of the baptized, so if you would like to become part
of the Body of Christ, we encourage you to seek baptism. If you can’t or
don’t wish to receive today, we encourage you to hold your hands over
your chest for a blessing as you come forward.

LAMB OF GOD

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Radiant God, with our eyes we have seen your salvation, and in this meal
we have feasted on your grace. May your Word take flesh in us, that we
may be your holy people, revealing your glory made known to us in Jesus
Christ our Savior.
Amen.

MINISTRY ANNOUNCEMENTS

SENDING OF HOLY COMMUNION

O God of tender compassion, as you healed the sick and welcomed the
stranger, bless those who leave this assembly to share the gifts of this table
with our sisters and brothers who are sick/homebound/imprisoned. May
they be sustained by the love and prayers of this community, and by the
Bread of Life that satisfies all hunger, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
BLESSING UPCOMING COMMEMORATIONS

God Almighty send you light and truth to keep you all the days of your life.
The hand of God protect you; the holy angels accompany you; and the
blessing of almighty God, Father, + Son, and Holy Spirit, be upon and
remain with you forever.
Amen.
We invite you to please stand.
The Martyrs of Japan, died 1597
Monday, February 5, 2018
Christianity was brought to Japan in the sixteenth century by Jesuit and
Franciscan missionaries. The religion was suppressed, however, and in
1597 twenty-six missionaries and converts were crucified. Nevertheless,
Christianity survived and later prospered.

SENDING SONG: God Be with You Till We Meet Again (ELW 536) The Altar flowers are administered by the worship committee. The 2018
Altar Flower chart is posted on the bulletin board in the lower lobby and
DISMISSAL there is attached to it a tear-off sheet for donors to complete and hand into
the office or place in the offering plate for proper publication in the
Go in peace. Christ is with you. bulletin.
Thanks be to God.
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POSTLUDE of someone, please sign up. The cost is $35 per arrangement, and checks
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in the church office (614) 224.6818 or email: office@oldtrinity.com.
Please do not remove flowers unless you purchased them or made
arrangements.

The flowers on the altar are given to the glory of God and
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