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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
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Sunday, September 21, 2025
  
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time  
  
 
=We Gather in God's Name=
 
=We Gather in God's Name=
  
====Opening Reflection====
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====Opening Prayer====
 
 
Clarence Jordan (1912-1969)
 
 
 
A son of the American South, Clarence Jordan was troubled by his people's comfortable embrace of both Jesus and racism.  After studying for a doctorate in New Testament at the Southern Baptist Seminary, Jordan and his family returned to Georgia in 1942 to start Koinonia Farm, an interracial community in the heart of the Jim Crow South.  Greeted by Ku Klux Klan members who told him, "We don't let the sun set on people like you around here," Jordan smiled and replied, "Pleased to meet y'all.  I've been waiting all my life to meet someone who could make the sun stand still."
 
 
 
[silent reflection]
 
 
 
Leader: May a great move of God spread
 
 
 
'''People: through earth, as through the heavens.'''
 
  
 
====Opening Song====
 
====Opening Song====
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"Holy Holy Holy"
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''Amazing Grace''
 
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=We Hear God's Word=
 
=We Hear God's Word=
  
====Psalm 140:1-3, 7-9====
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====First and Second Scripture Readings====
[http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=187018249 Read passage online at oremus.org (NRSV)]
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''Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 and Luke 16:1-13 NRSV''
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*[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%208%3A18-9%3A1%3B%20Luke%2016%3A1-13&version=NRSVUE Click here to read the passage at Biblegateway.com]
  
Leader: May a great move of God spread
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====Third Scripture Reading====
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''1 Timothy 2:1-7''
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'''People: through earth, as through the heavens.'''
 
 
====Ezra 10:1-17====
 
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Leader: May a great move of God spread
 
 
'''People: through earth, as through the heavens.'''
 
 
====Titus 1:1-16====
 
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Leader: May a great move of God spread
 
 
'''People: through earth, as through the heavens.'''
 
  
 
=We Respond in Prayer=
 
=We Respond in Prayer=
Clarence Jordan wrote, "Jesus has been so zealously worshiped, his deity so vehemently affirmed, his halo so brightly illumined, and his cross so beautifully polished that in the minds of many he no longer exists as a man.  By thus glorifying him we more effectively rid ourselves of him than did those who tried to do so by crudely crucifying him."
 
  
====Prayers for One Another====
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====Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession====
(Please stand when offering a prayer, so others will know you have the floor.)
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Please stand when offering a prayer, so others will know you have the floor.
  
 
====The Lord's Prayer====
 
====The Lord's Prayer====
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
  
 
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.   
 
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 debts as we forgive our debtors.   
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Give us this day our daily bread,  
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and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.   
  
 
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,  
 
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,  
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===Closing Prayer===
 
===Closing Prayer===
God, you never fail to dazzle us with your grace and mercy. We pray for the boldness to await the fulfillment of life that you promise, through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.
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''The Song of Blessing''
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=We Go in Peace=
 
=We Go in Peace=
  
===Passing the Peace of Christ===
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====Passing of the Peace====
(Each person says a line of the blessing, adding the name of someone present at the end of the line.  If there are more than 8 people present, two or more names may be added at the end of a line). 
 
 
 
'''May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you, [name]'''
 
 
 
'''wherever he may send you, [name]'''
 
 
 
'''may he guide you through the wilderness, [name]'''
 
 
 
'''protect you through the storm, [name]'''
 
 
 
'''may he bring you home rejoicing, [name]'''
 
 
 
'''at the wonders he has shown you, [name]'''
 
 
 
'''may he bring you home rejoicing, [name]'''
 
 
 
'''once again into our doors, [name].'''
 

Latest revision as of 16:38, 21 September 2025

Sunday, September 21, 2025

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

We Gather in God's Name

Opening Prayer

Opening Song

"Holy Holy Holy"


We Hear God's Word

First and Second Scripture Readings

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 and Luke 16:1-13 NRSV

Third Scripture Reading

1 Timothy 2:1-7


We Respond in Prayer

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession

Please stand when offering a prayer, so others will know you have the floor.

The Lord's Prayer

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 debts as we forgive our debtors.

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,

for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.

Amen.

Closing Prayer

The Song of Blessing

We Go in Peace

Passing of the Peace