March 12, 2017 | The Second Sunday of Lent

9am Communion in-the-Round

Presider at the Word, Kaili Kinnon, Youth & Young Adults Minister Presider at the Sacrament, Andrew Federle Preacher, Richard Webb Director of Music, Daniel Webb

Welcome to St Clement’s! We are grateful you’ve joined us and pray you will experience God’s presence today. We invite all newcomers to take one of the red Welcome bags (available at each entrance) and to join us after the service for refreshments. Questions? Ask anyone wearing their nametag on a red lanyard.

Children and youth are full participants in all our worship services at St Clement’s and always welcome to sit with you. Every Sunday, we also offer excellent, staffed leadership in our Nursery, Children, and Youth ministries. Children and Youth enjoy their own dedicated programming during the first half of the service, joining the wider community at Communion, our family meal. Our youngest members may remain in the Nursery for the entire service. Nursery (ages 0-3): Located just up the stairs and to the right. Feel free to stay with your child until s/he feels comfortable. Please pick up your child here after the service. Children (JK-Grade 5): Located up the stairs in Canon Nicholson Hall. Kids do a “sticker sign-in” at our colourful Welcome table. Youth (Grades 6-12): Located at the top of the stairwell past Canon Nicholson Hall. Junior and Senior Youth gather in the youth room, with the Junior Youth and their leaders heading to the Sunroom at 11:10.

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We seek to be a community that is easy to enter; where you can discover God and yourself; and live a transformed life.

No one will make a good end to the life into which s/he is born unless s/he is born again before s/he

ends it.

-St. Augustine

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Enter

We Enter into the presence of God and of one another.

Prelude Haydn: The seven last words of our Redeemer on the cross Sonata II (Grave e cantabile) Hodie mecum eris in paradiso (“Today you will be with me in paradise”)

Played by Kirk Vandezande

Please help yourself to a hot or cold drink, or refill the one you have. Enjoy the music as you find a seat wherever you feel comfortable.

Welcome

please stand Gathering Song 533 Jesus, lover of my soul

Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly, while the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high. Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, till the storm of life is past; safe into the haven guide; O receive my soul at last. Other refuge have I none; hangs my helpless soul on thee. Leave, ah! leave me not alone; still support and comfort me. All my trust on thee is stayed, all my help from thee I bring; cover my defenceless head with the shadow of thy wing. Thou, O Christ, art all I want; more than all in thee I find! Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, heal the sick, and lead the blind. Just and holy is thy name, I am all unrighteousness; false and full of sin I am; thou art full of truth and grace. Plenteous grace with thee is found, grace to cover all my sin; let the healing streams abound; make and keep me pure within. Thou of life the fountain art; freely let me take of thee; Spring thou up within my heart; rise to all eternity.

Leader Holy God, Maker of all, All Have mercy on us. Leader Jesus Christ, servant of the poor. All Have mercy on us. Leader Holy Spirit, breath of life, All Have mercy on us. Leader Let us in silence remember our own faults and failings. The Silence of Lent

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Enter

Leader I confess to God and in the company of all God’s people that my life and the life of the world are broken by my sin.

All May God forgive you, Christ renew you, and the Spirit enable you to grow in love.

Leader Amen, thanks be to God. All We confess to God and in the company of all God’s people that our lives and the life

of the world are broken by our sin.

Leader May God forgive you, Christ renew you, and the Spirit enable you to grow in love. All Amen, thanks be to God.

Prayer of the Day Leader Almighty God, All by the prayer and discipline of Lent may we enter into the mystery of Christ’s

sufferings, and by following in his Way come to share in his glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Discover

We Discover more of God and of ourselves.

Reading John 3:1-17 read by Emma Andison

Reader A reading from the Gospel According to John. Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He 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.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” 4 Nicodemus 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?” 5 Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ 8 The 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.” 9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? 11 Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 For 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. 17 Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. “

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Reader This is the Word of the Lord. All Thanks be to God.

Responsive Song God of grace

God of grace, amazing wonder, irresistible and free; oh, the miracle of mercy—Jesus reaches down to me. God of grace, I stand in wonder, as my God restores my soul. His own blood has paid my ransom; awesome cost to make me whole. God of grace, who loved and knew me long before the world began; sent my Saviour down from heaven; perfect God and perfect man. God of grace, I trust in Jesus; I’m accepted as his own. Every day new grace sustains me, as I lean on him alone.

God of grace, I stand astounded, cleansed forgiven and secure. All my fears are now confounded and my hope is ever sure. God of grace, now crowned in glory, where one day I’ll see your face; and forever I’ll adore you in your everlasting grace.

please be seated

Message Richard Webb Your notes:

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Discover

Every week we rotate through one of the following “Discovery” elements:

1. Q & A with today’s speaker 2. Silence 3. Responding through music 4. Take home question of the week:

How might we begin to see life and live differently if we accept that as followers of Jesus we are spiritually renewed, being “born from above”?

5. Visuals

The Creed please stand Leader Do you believe and trust in God the Father, source of all being and life, the one for whom

we exist? People We believe and trust in God.

Leader Do you believe and trust in God the Son, who took our human nature, died for us and

rose again? People We believe and trust in God.

Leader Do you believe and trust in God the Holy Spirit, who gives life to the people of God and

makes Christ known in the world? People We believe and trust in God. Leader This is the faith of the Church. People This is our faith. We believe and trust in one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Amen.

The Prayers of the People read by Eleanor Gooday

Leader We pray to you, Lord. All Lord, have mercy. Lenten Outreach Focus

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Discover Giving Back to God We invite you to come forward as we circle around the table up front. Bread, wine, and money are collected and placed on the table as symbols of our lives and labours. If you are visiting with us today, you are our special guests, so please do not feel compelled to give financially.

Song All for Jesus

Jesus, all for Jesus, All I am and have and ever hope to be. Jesus, all for Jesus, All I am and have and ever hope to be.

All of my ambitions, hopes and plans I surrender these into Your hands. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans I surrender these into Your hands.

For it’s only in Your will that I am free, For it’s only in Your will that I am free, Jesus, all for Jesus, All I am and have and ever hope to be.

Live

As we prepare to Live transformed lives, our communion meal reminds us of Jesus with us.

Prayer over the Gifts Leader God of wisdom, People may the light of the eternal Word, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, guide us to

your glory. We ask this in his name. Amen.

The Eucharistic Prayer please stand or kneel

Leader The Lord be with you. All And also with you. Leader Lift up your hearts. All We lift them to the Lord. Leader Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. All It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Leader Blessed are you, gracious God, creator of heaven and earth, because you bid your faithful people to cleanse their hearts and to prepare with joy for the paschal feast; that reborn through the waters of baptism and renewed in the eucharistic mystery, we may be more fervent in prayer and more generous in the works of love. Therefore we raise our voices to you in praise to proclaim the glory of your name.

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All Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Leader We give thanks to you, Lord our God, for the goodness and love you have made known

to us in creation; in calling Israel to be your people; in your Word spoken through the prophets; and above all in the Word made flesh, Jesus your Son. For in these last days you sent him to be incarnate from the Virgin Mary, to be the Saviour and Redeemer of the world. In him, you have delivered us from evil, and made us worthy to stand before you. In him, you have brought us out of error into truth, out of sin into righteousness, out of death into life.

On the night he was handed over to suffering and death, a death he freely accepted, our Lord Jesus Christ took bread; and when he had given thanks to you, he broke it, and gave it to his disciples, and said, “ Take, eat: this is my body which is given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me.”

After supper he took the cup of wine; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and said, “Drink this, all of you: this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this for the remembrance of me.” Therefore, Father, according to his command,

All we remember his death, we proclaim his resurrection, we await his coming in glory; Leader and we offer our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to you, Lord of all; presenting to you,

from your creation, this bread and this wine.

We pray you, gracious God, to send your Holy Spirit upon these gifts, that they may be the sacrament of the body of Christ and his blood of the new covenant. Unite us to your Son in his sacrifice, that we, made acceptable in him, may be sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

In the fullness of time, reconcile all things in Christ, and make them new, and bring us to that city of light where you dwell with all your sons and daughters; through Jesus Christ our Lord, the firstborn of all creation, the head of the Church, and the author of our salvation;

by whom, and with whom, and in whom, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honour and glory are yours, almighty Father, now and for ever. Amen.

The Lord’s Prayer Wyse

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Meal

Receiving bread, wine, or blessing are all valued ways of participating around Jesus' table. Baptized persons of any age are welcome to receive the bread and wine, and gluten-free wafers are available. If you wish to receive a blessing, please cross your arms over your chest. If you wish, the Deacon will bring communion to where you are seated.

Communion Song Be the centre

Kids

Join in!

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Communion Song

Give thanks to the Lord

Kids

Join in!

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Closing Prayers Leader We thank you, Lord, All that you have fed us in this bread and wine, united us with Christ, and given us a

foretaste of the heavenly banquet prepared for each of us. Amen.

Leader Glory to God, All whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.

Glory to God from generation to generation, in the Church and in Christ Jesus, for ever and ever. Amen.

Living it Out

Sending Song Where the road runs out

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Sending

Leader Go forth in the name of Christ to keep a holy Lent. All Thanks be to God.

Please join us for coffee after the service.

The flowers at the altar today are given to the glory of God, and

in loving memory of James M. Ham, Jane E. Ham, & Harriet B. Ham by Mary Ham.

Flowers are arranged this week by Helen Skinner.

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