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CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH

WORSHIP WITH HOLY COMMUNION

Adapted from Sundays and Seasons.com. Copyright 2021 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved.

Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #SAS022858.

New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

M a y 3 0 , 2 0 2 1 † T h e H o l y Tr i n i t y

John 3: 5

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When we say God is the triune God, we are saying something about who God is beyond, before, and after the universe: that there is community within God. Our experience of this is reflected in Paul's words today. When we pray to God as Jesus prayed to his Abba (an everyday, intimate parental address), the Spirit prays within us, creating between us and God the same

relationship Jesus has with the one who sent him.

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P In the name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

C Amen.

P Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

C Amen.

P Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another.

Silence is kept for reflection.

P Most merciful God,

C 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.

P In the mercy of almighty God, Jesus Christ was given to die for us, and for his sake God forgives us all our sins. As a called and ordained minister of the church of Christ, and by his authority, I therefore declare to you the entire forgiveness of all your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

C Amen.

Evangelical Lutheran Worship

Holy Communion Setting IV

Christ Lutheran Church, Newburgh

Livestreamed from Christ Lutheran

at 10:00 am

facebook.com/christnewburgh

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P The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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P Let us pray.

Almighty Creator and ever-living God: we worship your glory, eternal Three-in-One, and we praise your power, majestic One-in- Three. Keep us steadfast in this faith, defend us in all adversity, and bring us at last into your presence, where you live in endless joy and love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C Amen.

SERVICE OF THE WORD

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Isaiah 6: 1–8

This reading narrates Isaiah’s vision of the Lord surrounded by angels. They sing “Holy, holy, holy,” a song the church sings at the beginning of the great thanksgiving. This liturgical text invites the church and all creation to sing in praise of God’s glory. That glory is God’s mercy toward sinners.

R The First Lesson is from the 6th chapter of Isaiah.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the LORD sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 2Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings:

with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

3And one called to another and said:

"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;

the whole earth is full of his glory."

4The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. 5And I said: "Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

6Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: "Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out." 8Then I heard the voice of the LORD saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I;

send me!"

R The Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

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Psalm 29 Read in unison

Worship the L./0 in the beauty of holiness. (Ps. 29:2)

1Ascribe to the LORD, you gods, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

2Ascribe to the LORD the glory due God's name;

worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

3The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; the God of glory thunders;

the LORD is upon the mighty waters.

4The voice of the LORD is a powerful voice; the voice of the LORD is a voice of splendor.

5The voice of the LORD breaks the cedar trees; the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon;

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6the LORD makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Mount Hermon like a young wild ox.

7The voice of the LORD bursts forth in lightning flashes.

8The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness;

the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

9The voice of the LORD makes the oak trees writhe and strips the forests bare.

And in the temple of the LORD all are crying, "Glory!"

10The LORD sits enthroned above the flood;

the LORD sits enthroned as king forevermore.

11O LORD, give strength to your people; give them, O LORD, the blessings of peace.

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Romans 8: 12–17

In describing the new life of faith, Paul refers to all three persons of the Trinity: the Spirit leads us to recognize that we are children of God the Father and sisters and brothers with Christ the Son.

R The Second Lesson is from the 8th chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans.

Brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—13for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption.

When we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ—if, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

R The Word of the Lord C Thanks be to God.

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John 3: 1–17

Jesus’ miracles prompt Nicodemus to visit him in secrecy. Jesus tells him about being born of the Spirit and about the Son who has been sent by God to save.

P The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the 3rd chapter.

C Glory to you, O Lord.

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God." 3Jesus answered him, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above."

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4Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" 5Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.' 8The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." 9Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" 10Jesus answered him,

"Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

11Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. 12If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

16For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

17Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

P The Gospel of the Lord.

C Praise to you O Christ.

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After Nicodemus’s opening statement in John 3:2, we only hear him speak in questions.

Questions are a good theme for this day, as the doctrine of the Trinity both addresses some age-old questions about God and raises still more. (With Nicodemus, one might ask, “How can these things be?”) In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke offers a famous reflection on questions: “Stay patient with all that is still unresolved in your own heart, to try to love the very questions. . . . For just now, live the questions. Maybe you little by little, almost without noticing, one distant day live your way into the answers” (Sonnets to Orpheus with Letters to a Young Poet, trans. Stephen Cohn, Manchester, England: Carcanet Press, 2000; ebook 2012, p. 212).

The concept of the Trinity challenged the church for centuries, and sometimes pastors and teachers still do mental and theological gymnastics to try to explain it. Perhaps hearing of the three persons of God in the scriptures for the day with the simple, accepting faith of a child is what is needed. The Trinity, after all, is about loving relationships—among and between the persons of the Trinity, between God and humankind, and between Christians. We have been loved, rescued, and led by a nurturing, redeeming, and inspiring God. Isn’t that all we really need to know?

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Today is one of only a handful of days on the church's liturgical calendar that celebrates an idea. And while certainly words like " dogma" and " doctrine" carry with them negative connotations in today's religious landscape, they needn't do so. Today, we can certainly benefit from taking seriously the controversies that led to the formulation of the trinitarian dogmas. Indeed, in a world that creates for itself just as many gods (if not more) than in the ancient world, are these controversies any less pertinent?

All language for God is inadequate, and no theological construct can appropriately

understand the divine. Today is, however, an attempt, and—in fact—it is the attempt that the church has settled on as being its official attempt. Certainly at times individuals (even those who lead the church's liturgy) may have difficulty believing certain attempts of the church.

But today is not about the faith of any one individual, it is about the faith of the community of Jesus. We do not preach our own faith, we preach the faith of the church catholic.

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R Let us come before the triune God in prayer.

Silence

After each prayer petition:

R Lord, in your mercy, C hear our prayer.

R We lift our prayers to you, O God, trusting in your abiding grace.

C Amen.

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Do NOT physically shake hands or embrace. Extend a sign of Christ’s peace to those around you with a wave, nod or bow and establish eye contact. In this way we can safely share the peace of Jesus with fellow members.

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C We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty,

maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father,

God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father;

through him all things were made.

For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven,

was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary and became truly human.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;

he suffered death and was buried.

On the third day he rose again in accordance with the scriptures;

he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son,

who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.

We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.

We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

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SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION

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P Let us pray.

Blessed are you, O God, maker of all things. Through your goodness you have blessed us with these gifts: our selves, our time, and our possessions. Use us, and what we have gathered, in feeding the world with your love, through the one who gave himself for us, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.

C Amen.

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P The Lord be with you.

C And also with you.

P Lift up your hearts.

C We lift them to the Lord.

P Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

C It is right to give our thanks and praise.

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P 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 for all people for the forgiveness of sin.

Do this for the remembrance of me.

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P Lord, remember us in your kingdom, and teach us to pray:

C 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.

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P Let us pray.

We give you thanks, almighty God, that you have refreshed us through the healing power of this gift of life. In your mercy, strengthen us through this gift, in faith toward you and in fervent love toward one another; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.

C Amen.

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P The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord’s face shine on you with grace and mercy.

The Lord look upon you with favor and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, and of the +Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

C Amen.

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P The body and blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ strengthen you and keep you in his grace and peace.

C Amen.

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C Thanks be to God.

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Although Nicodemus comes to Jesus claiming to know that Jesus comes from God, it is clear from the remainder of the conversation that he has deep questions on his heart. And after all of Jesus’ talk of being born of water and Spirit Nicodemus almost pleads: “How can these things be?” (John 3:9).

What questions do you bring to worship with you today?

As we gather around the baptismal font, we do so with Luther’s reminder that “daily a new person is to come forth and rise up to live before God in righteousness and purity

forever” (Evangelical Lutheran Worship, p. 1165). We too might ask, “How can these things be?” Does today feel like a new day of righteousness and purity? Does today feel any different than yesterday or the day before? Sometimes the answer is yes, but often it does not seem there is anything “new” about any given day.

Throughout the gospels we hear about people’s responses to their encounters with Jesus.

They go away healed and rejoicing, grieving or angry. We get no such exit with Nicodemus.

Jesus speaks about God’s love for the world and is soon on the move again. What happened to Nicodemus? He will reappear in the seventh chapter of John, defending Jesus as the leaders wonder why Jesus has not been arrested, and in the nineteenth chapter to help lay Jesus in the tomb. In both cases today’s encounter with Jesus is remembered. It seems that Nicodemus’s questions and his struggle to understand are the beginning of a slow reshaping of his life.

Bring your questions to the water today. Bring your questions again and again. Dip your hands in the water; mark yourself with the cross; know that the water and the Spirit will reshape you in ways you may not understand today but will certainly remember in later chapters of life.

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Holy. Glory. These words in the first reading and psalm testify to awe at God’s transcendent sovereignty, fearsome majesty, and infinite mystery. No mortal can see God’s face or hear God’s voice and live. The fear expressed in these readings is personal—a living mortal in awe of the living God. In our age, awe at transcendent mystery tends toward the impersonal—at the invisibly small (in physics, quarks and strings) and the unimaginably large (space and time).

Does anyone in our age still cultivate the fear of an unmanageable transcendent God, or is the notion too connected to images of a heavenly bully to be useful? Besides, Paul and Jesus each offer a picture of God’s immanence. Paul invites us to revel in God’s approachability, affirming that we can cry, “Abba! Father!” Jesus proclaims the most famous Bible verse of all, telling of God’s great love and desire to save.

But both Jesus and Paul testify that any presumption of easy friendship and comfortable intimacy with the triune God is as out of place now as ever. The immanent God is still the transcendent God! And it is still true: no mortal can see God’s face or hear God’s voice and live—even if the face and voice belong to Jesus through the Holy Spirit. The life God desires for us is accomplished through Jesus’ death—and through our own through baptism. Those deaths are as utterly terrifying as death always is, but with this grace: the death leads to our holy birth from above into a life where “we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him” (Rom. 8:17).

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TODAY’S WORSHIP LEADERS

Joyce Messmer, Organist Usher: Carol Giangrasso

Cantor: Sandra Miller Reader: Deacon Irma Bahr-Madrid

Communion Assistant: Deacon Irma Bahr-Madrid Deacon Irma Bahr-Madrid, Children’s Sermon the Rev. Ernst Mossl, Presiding and Preaching

DURING THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS

ATTEND WEARING A FACEMASK or

All worship services livestreaming at

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Worship with Holy Communion

Each Sunday at 10:00 am

M a y 3 0 , 2 0 2 1 † T h e H o l y T r i n i t y

Preparing for Next Week

Monday (Visit of Mary to Elizabeth) P salm 20. Tuesday (Justin, martyr at Rome, died 165) 1 Corinthians 2: 1-10. Wednesday Numbers 6: 22-27.

Thursday (The Martyrs of Uganda, died 1886; John XXIII, Bishop of Rome, died 1963)

Psalm 103: 1-13, 22. Friday 2 Peter 1: 1-11. Saturday (Boniface, Bishop of Mainz, missionary to Germany, martyr, died 754) Ezekiel 16: 53-63.

Second Sunday after Pentecost

Genesis 3: 8-15; Psalm 130; 2 Corinthians 4: 13—5: 1; Mark 3: 20-35.

On this Memorial Day weekend, we keep in mind the sacrifices that service members have made, and also the innocent whose lives were lost during war.

All Powerful God, we honor those military personnel—our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, —who have laid down their life for their country. Whether weary or emboldened, quiet or defiant, vulnerable or ready when you called them home, their sacrifice is too humbling for words except these uttered in prayer.

Help us to never forget the service that they gave. Loving Lord, bless them forever in your eternal peace. We also beg your strength and comfort for the innocent victims of war; grant them peace of mind, healing of body, and a renewed faith in your protection and care. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen

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