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The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
Proper 17
Rite I
Prelude on the Hymn Tune "Nicaea" Arr. Lari Goss
Processional Hymn 450
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
Gloria In Excelsis S 204
Psalm 26: 1-8
Setting for Cantor and Choir by Leo Sowerby
Sequence Hymn 707
Take My Life And Let it Be
Offertory "O Divine Redeemer" Charles Gounod
Janet Whitsell, soprano Roberta Hendricks, alto
The Doxology
Sanctus S113
Fraction Anthem
Seed Scattered and Sown
Communion Hymns
Be Still And Know That I Am God (Pew Card)
O For A Closer Walk With God 684
Recessional Hymn ( Pew Card)
Lord, Here Am I
Closing Organ Improvisation
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 Liturgical Support for August 28, 2011
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LECTOR
Karen Bonnell
CHALICE SERVERS
Michael Plunk
Jennifer Plunk
ACOLYTES
Nicholas G. - Crucifer
Sarah S. - Torchbearer
Michael Plunk - Torchbearer
GREETER K. Reeve USHERS C. Farmer C. Smith Altar Guild
Sheila M.
Suzie W.
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 ...a few thoughts from C.S. Lewis
"It is often asserted in modern England that the world must return to Christian ethics in order to preserve civilization, or even in order to save the human species from destruction. It is sometimes asserted in reply that Christian ethics have been the greatest obstacle to human progress and that we must take care never to return to a bondage from which we have at last so fortunately escaped. I will not weary you with a repetition of the common arguments by which either view could be supported. My task is a different one. Though, I myself am a Christian untinged with modernist reservations and committed to supernaturalism in its full rigour, I find myself quite unable to take my place beside the upholders of the first view.
The whole debate between those who demand and those who deprecate a return to Christian ethics, seems to me to involve presuppositions that I cannot allow... Who could ever have supposed that by accepting a moral code, like the animal, is free from all problems. The man who has not learned to count is free from mathematical problems. A man asleep is free from all problems. Within the framework of general human ethics - problems will, of course arise and will sometimes be solved wrongly. This possibility of error is simply the symptom that we are awake and not asleep, that we are men and not beasts or gods.
If I were pressing you on a panacea, if I were recommending traditional ethics as a means to some end, I might be tempted to promise you the infallibility which I actually deny. But that, you see, is not my position. I send you back to your nurse and your father, to all poets and sages and law givers, because, in a sense, I hold that you are already there whether you recognize it or not: that there is really no ethical alternative: that those who urge us to adopt new moralities are only offering us the mutilated or expurgated text of a book which we already possess in the original manuscript.
They all wish us to depend on them instead of on that original, and then to deprive us of our full humanity. Their activity is in the long run always directed against our freedom."
From "Christian Reflections" pp. 44 and 56 |
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