Contents
- Propers (Collect and Lessons) for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, with Hymns.
- YouTube link for the live-stream of our 10:30 a.m. (EDT) service.
- Parish Announcements for the week of September 8th, 2024
Propers for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity.
The Book of Common Prayer 1928.
KEEP, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy; and, because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
YE see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
The Gospel. Matthew vi. 24.
NO man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? There fore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (for after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Hymns:
Processional Hymn: A mighty fortress is our God – #551
Sermon Hymn: Rise up, O men of God – #535
Communion Hymn: Therefore we, before Him bending – #200
Recessional Hymn: Stand up, stand up for Jesus – #562
We have a new website!
The new website is live and may be found at cca-nc.org. Many thanks to John Fesq, our website and IT/social media coordinator, for all the hard work he has put into this! This website should simplify and streamline our information-sharing quite a bit, including the fact that our most current YouTube live-stream will always be found at “Watch this Sunday’s live-stream,” accessible from the menu-bar at the top of the page.
Watch this Sunday’s live-stream
The website is also a place to check our “Current operating status” – in other words, whether or not the church is open for services, in case of inclement weather (or unusual episodes like the sabotage of transformers a few years ago). If in doubt, check us out! Other options include
All of these links can also be found by scrolling down the main page, as can also sections on “Find Your Place” – ministries of the parish, which you may wish to join – “Recent Media,” both video and audio, and “Recent Posts” on our nascent blog page. The goal is for this to become a “one-stop shop” for information about Christ Church Anglican.
If you have any questions or issues, please contact our media team at [email protected]. And if you wish to volunteer for our media team, please contact our IT/AV/Social media specialist, John Fesq, at [email protected].
Announcements for the Week of September 8, 2024
If you are visiting us: Welcome to Christ Church Anglican, Southern Pines! Thank you for being with us. We are very pleased to have you join us for the service, and hope that your worship here is a blessing to you. Please sign the guest book on the table in the narthex, and provide appropriate contact information. Include your email address in order to be placed on our parish email list: you won’t be bombarded with mail, but it’s a good way to keep in touch. And may God bless you!
Fresh Eggs: A new batch of fresh, home-raised eggs are available from one of our esteemed members, Michele Burdick, who requests a donation to the church of $5/dozen. Thanks, Michele! Please note: most of these eggs have been washed, so it is necessary to refrigerate them.
Parish Pictorial Directory: We are looking to create a pictorial directory that will help both current members and new members to connect names with faces. The format we are planning on having is a mini 3 ring binder so that we can add new members without having to redo the entire directory. The directory will not be online. The cost for the pictorial directory will be in the ballpark of $12.50.
We will keep the price low by printing the directories with a local printer who supports churches, and completing the rest “in-house.” Each member (couple, family, individual) will have their own page. For an example of what a page will probably look like, please see the bulletin board. The current timeframe for this includes pictures being taken in early December and the books being available for pick up in January (barring unexpected delays). If you would like to have a pictorial directory, please sign your name on the order form on the bulletin board.
If you have questions, comments or concerns, please contact Cynthia Garner.
Fellowship Meals: We are very grateful for all those who have been contributing to our fellowship meal after the service, and we invite anyone who wishes to share a favorite meal or dish with our fellow-parishioners to sign up on the list hanging next to the back counter in our fellowship area.
It is encouraged to have several people sign up and provide a “potluck style” meal to make it easier on individuals, and more cost-effective. However, those who wist to provide all courses for a meal are always welcomed and appreciated.
And if anyone wishes to donate toward the cost of plates, napkins, flatware, salad dressings, drinks, or other incidentals, there will be a jar (or jars) on the back counter for that purpose. Many thanks to all!
Communion Reminder: Ladies are asked to please remember to remove lipstick before drinking from the chalice.
Holy Days for the Week of September 8th:
Sunday, September 8th (Commemoration): Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Thursday, September 12th: John Henry Hobart, Bishop (1830)
Friday, September 13th: St. Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr (258)
Saturday, September 14th: Exultation of the Holy Cross
Rector’s mini-Ramblings: the Exultation of the Holy Cross
Note: The Exultation of the Holy Cross commemorates the recovery of what has traditionally been believed to be the Holy Cross – the very Cross on which our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was crucified – which had been discovered and placed on Mt. Calvary by St. Helena (mother of Emperor Constantine the Great), c. 326, and preserved in Jerusalem, but then had fallen into the hands of Chosroas, King of the Persians. The precious relic was recovered and returned to Jerusalem by Emperor Heraclius in 629.
Adoration of the True Cross gave rise to the sale of its fragments, which were sought as relics. The Protestant Reformer John Calvin pointed out that all the extant fragments, if put together, would fill a large ship! His objection was regarded as invalid by some Roman Catholic theologians, who claimed that the blood of Christ gave to the True Cross a kind of material indestructibility, so that it could be divided indefinitely without being diminished.
Whatever the truth of the matter, such beliefs resulted in the multiplication of relics of the True Cross wherever Christianity expanded in the medieval world, and fragments were deposited in most of the great cities and in a great many abbeys. Reliquaries designed to hold the fragments likewise multiplied, and some precious objects of this kind survive.
In 2023 two fragments of the relic were donated by the Holy See to King Charles III of the United Kingdom as a gift on the occasion of Charles’s coronation. The fragments were placed inside the Cross of Wales, a processional cross of the Anglican Church in Wales that was used to lead the king into Westminster Abbey for the coronation ceremony.
[Source: “True Cross: Christian Relic.”]
