RECOVERY EUCHARIST FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Please enter in silence and begin to quiet your thoughts.

In order to facilitate the proper flow of this special service, a traditional offering time will not be observed.
Please feel free to leave your offering in one of the baskets as you leave this evening.

The Welcome, by the Celebrant — The Rev. M. Cristina Paglinauan

The Call to Worship

The lighting of the candle, and a prayer, by a Reader.
Come into the circle of love and justice. Come into the community of mercy, holiness and health.
Come and you shall know peace and joy. I light this candle for all those who have not yet found the
path to recovery. (Lights a candle) May they be guided by the light of truth and hope. Amen.

Song “Amazing Grace” (verses 1-4, Newton, lyrics on-screen)

The Celebrant says the Collect of the Day.

Almighty and everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the
supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The Lessons
The Lesson, “The Summer Day,” (Mary Oliver) by a Reader

Song “He Leadeth Me” (Bradbury, music handout in your bulletin)

A Reading from the Gospel of Matthew (6:25-33), by the Celebrant

Homily - A Reflection
Manuel S., Spiritual Life Intern at Helping Up Mission.

Song “A Broken Spirit” (Nystrom, lyrics on-screen)

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The Prayers of the People (adapted from the 12 Steps)
Reader: Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power. That one is God. May
you find God now! Half measures avail us nothing. We stand at the turning point. We ask God’s
protection and care with complete abandon. These are the steps we take, which are suggested as a
program of recovery:

Reader: Step One: We admit we are powerless over our addiction – that our lives have become
unmanageable. People: Blessed are the poor in spirit.
Reader: Step Two: We come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
People: For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Reader: Step Three: We make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we
understand God. People: Blessed are those who mourn.

Reader: Step Four: We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

People: For they will be comforted.

Reader: Step Five: We admit to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our
wrongs. People: Blessed are the meek.

Reader: Step Six: We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
People: For they will inherit the earth.
Reader: Step Seven: We humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.

People: Blessed are the merciful.

Reader: Step Eight: We make a list of all persons we have harmed, and become willing to make amends
to them all. People: For they will receive mercy.
Reader: Step Nine: We make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so
would injure them or others. People: Blessed are the pure in heart.
Reader: Step Ten: We continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong, promptly admit it.
People: For they will see God.
Reader: Step Eleven: We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with
God, as we understand God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that
out. People: Blessed are the peacemakers.
Reader: Step Twelve: Having a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we try to carry this
message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. People: For they will be
called children of God.

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The Closing Collect, by the Celebrant and the People.
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the
things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

The Peace
Celebrant The peace of the Lord be always with you.

People And also with you.

The People join the Celebrant in a semi-circle around the altar.

PLEASE BRING YOUR BULLETIN WITH YOU AND JOIN THE CHOIR, SINGING…

“YOU ARE MY HIDING PLACE”

Song “You are My Hiding Place” (Ledner, a canon, accompanied on guitar)

The Eucharist
The Celebrant says the Eucharistic Prayer.

The Lord's Prayer (from the New Zealand Prayer Book), by All.
Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker,
Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is Heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world!
Your Heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on Earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
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In times of temptation and testing, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and for ever. Amen.

The Fraction Prayer, by the Celebrant and the People.

We break this bread to share in the Body of Christ.

We who are many are one body, for we all share in the one bread.

The Breaking of the Bread.

Celebrant Alleluia. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

People Therefore let us keep the feast. Alleluia.

Celebrant The gifts of God for the people of God.

All are welcome at God’s table to receive communion or a blessing.

 
To receive communion, receive Bread first, followed by the Cup, which is non-alcoholic.
Communion in one or both kinds is considered a full communion.

The Bread and the Cup are given with these words:
The Body of Christ, the bread of heaven.

The Blood of Christ, the cup of salvation.

To receive a blessing, simply cross your arms over your chest.

After receiving Communion, the People return to their seats

while the Choir sings.

Communion Anthem “Healing Grace“ (Chisum & Slaughter, sung by the Choir)

The Closing prayer (Prayer attributed to St. Francis), by the Celebrant and the People.
Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is discord, union;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

The Blessing
by the Celebrant

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Hymn “Strength of My Life” (Phillips, lyrics on-screen)

Verse 2:
Every day I look to you to be the strength of my life.
Breathe on me and make me new, be the strength of my life. (refrain)

The Celebrant dismisses the People.

A time of fellowship will follow, with refreshments in the narthex.

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Our prayers are requested for:

Susan Haugh, Ebert Landman, Shirley Noll, Richard Truelove, Shirley Cobb, Mary Kay Krus, Rae Hamilton, Molly
Cairnes, Marsha Carow, Dod Poe, Katie Blazek, Carol Mullan, John Steuart, Jen Lake, Madeleine & Grace, Don
DeBona, Dottie Towsley, Kathryn Syre, Bob and Mary Beth Runkle, Jenny Barnstein, Sue Plitt, Jim Storrier, Loris
Hardy, Gay and Jud Williams, Sarah, Cathy Bennett, Ashby Thompson, Cathy Sherman, Missy Robinson,
Kathryn Gaertner, Jesse Terry, Susan Bellamy, Maddie Andersen, Edward Johnson, Francis Fox, Betsy Cotton,
Barbara Steuart, Lloyd Patterson, Carl Ten Hoopen, Gail Hongladarom, Marie Hawkins Lucas, Robert Lopez, Jr.,
Jim Crowder +, Barbara Fegley, James Lange, Elle Humes, The Blonquist family, Beckie Voneiff, Margo Lion, Jim
Haugh,  Andrew Parks, William Weller, Joan Weller, Lucy Prosser, Janet and Eddie Dunn, Jeane K. Judges, Joen
Blanton, Charlie Evans, Molly McGoldrick, Bob Daly+, Jody deButts
Ordinarily names remain on our prayer list for a month.. If you would like someone’s name to continue – please contact the office.

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 The Readings

The Lesson: “The Summer Day" (by Mary Oliver)

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean-

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

A Reading from the Gospel of Matthew (6:25-33)

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will
drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body
more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather
into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than
they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why
do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they
neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like
one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and
tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What
will we wear?’ For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your
heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom
of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.


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Noteworthy Announcements
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Evensong for the Feast of the Presentation: This evening at 5:00 p.m.  in the chapel will feature
Batten Evening Service in a minor and Eccard’s “When to the temple Mary went” with the Evensong
Schola.

Redeemer's Strong Schools Maryland Team will meet this morning from 11:30-12:15 in the
Women's Council Room.  Strong Schools Maryland is an advocacy group working to build a world-
class education system for every student in Maryland. The meeting will include a short status report on
the Kirwan Commission and legislative session, a Strong Schools action, and planning for our visit to
Annapolis.  All are welcome, especially new members interested in transforming education in the state
of Maryland.

Rescheduled MLK Day of Service

Join us on Monday, February 18 (Presidents Day) at Civic Works! The service project will be indoors.
Gwen Kokes, our Civic Works liaison/volunteer coordinator, suggested that Redeemer folks make
seed bursts (also known as seed bombs) to give to community members to grow wildflowers on
vacant lots. Even though the project is inside, folks should still dress warm and be ready to get dirty!
This is Option #2 on the list of options.  Visit http://civicworksinc.formstack.com/forms/
rescheduledmlk2019  to sign-up.

Folks who would like to carpool together from Redeemer to the Mansion at 2701 St. Lo Drive to make
seed bursts should plan to meet in the circular driveway in front of church at 8 a.m. on Presidents Day,
2/18 to depart no later than 8:15 a.m., so we can arrive directly at volunteer site by 8:30 a.m. 

Clothing for Paul’s Place

Do you have used clothing in good condition to donate to Paul’s Place? We now have a bin style cart
on wheels located next to the Welcome Center to receive your clothing contributions in good to
excellent condition. Men's clothing is always in short supply, especially during the winter.  Basic things
like underwear, socks (these items should be new) and sweaters, jeans and tennis shoes (nearly new)
and coats are at the top of the list.

CASA of Baltimore County is looking for volunteers to serve as Court Appointed Special Advocates
(CASAs) for children in foster care. Anyone interested in learning more about CASA and the role of an
advocate  should visit the CASA of Baltimore County website at  www.casabaltco.org.  CASA will
host  an Open  Information Session on Wednesday, February 13, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the
CASA Office, 305 W. Chesapeake Avenue, Suite 117, in Towson. Everyone is welcome!

Writers LIVE: Steve Luxenberg

Wednesday, February 13 @ 7:00 p.m. in the church

Steve Luxenberg  is the author of  the critically acclaimed  Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family
Secret. During his thirty years as a Washington Post senior editor, he has overseen reporting that has
earned numerous national honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes.    Separate:  The Story of Plessy v.
Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation  depicts indelible figures such as the
resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans, led by Louis Martinet, a lawyer and
crusading newspaper editor; Homer Plessy's lawyer, Albion Tourgée, a best-selling author and the
country's best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery
New England, whose majority ruling endorsed separation; and Justice John Harlan, the Southerner
from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for
justice. This program is hosted by Redeemer in partnership with the Pratt Library's Writer's LIVE
series.

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