Sunday Morning 9 am service June 6, 2021

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to you and those who are on zoom I wish you a very good day tomorrow today is the second Sunday after the holiday of pentecost is a day when we also remember those who died storming the beaches of normandy flying in gliders and landing in france and otherwise began to recapture the european continent from the axis powers and for those of us who served and for those of us who didn't it should be an important day to remember the sacrifice that others make for us today we celebrate the holy eucharist and today in this the oldest episcopal parish in the state of new jersey we gather and we gather at home, so As we gather, let us pray for each other and for all who were before you, blessed God, father, son and holy spirit, if you will join me in saying to you almighty god, all hearts are open, all desires known and no secrets are hidden from you cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your holy spirit so that we can love you perfectly and worthily magnify your holy name through Christ our lord amen triception has said three times holy god holy and powerful holy immortal have mercy on we holy god holy and strong holy immortal a holy god holy and strong holy immortal the lord be with you let us pray oh god from whom all good comes grant us that by your inspiration we may think what is right and by your merciful guidance I may do them through Jesus Christ our lord who lives and reigns with you in the holy spirit a god forever and ever amen our first reading is from the book of genesis they heard the sound of the lord god walking in the garden in the hour of the evening breeze and the man and His wife hid from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden but the Lord God called the man and told him where are you, he said, I heard your sound in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid, who told you? that you were naked, you ate from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat, the man said to the woman that you gave him to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree and I ate and the Lord God said to the woman, what is this that you have done? woman said the snake deceived me and I ate the lord god said to the snake why have you done this cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures on your belly you will go and dust you will eat all the days of your life I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers he will bruise your head and you will bruise his heel the word of the lord our psalm this

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is psalm 130 you will find it in your insert but we will read it together from the depths I have called you oh lord lord listen to my voice let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication if your lord knew what he will miss or lord who could defend there is forgiveness with you therefore you will be feared I wait for the lord my soul awaits him in his word is my hope my soul waits for the Lord more than morning watchmen more than morning watchmen or Israel waits for the Lord because with the Lord there is mercy with him there is much redemption and he will redeem Israel from all her sins yes, the holy gospel of our lord Jesus Christ As it marks glory to you, Lord Christ, the crowd gathered again so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat.

When his family found out, they went out to arrest him because the people said that he had gone crazy and the scribes who were coming down from Jerusalem said that He has Elizabeth and for the ruler of the demons he casts out our demons and called them and spoke to them in parables how can satan cast out satan if a kingdom is divided against itself that kingdom cannot stand and if a house is divided against itself that house will not be able to stand and if satan has risen against himself and is designed divided it cannot stand but its end has come but no one can enter the house of a strong man and plunder his property without first beginning to bind it. the strong man then certainly the house can be plundered in truth I tell you that the people will be forgiven for their sins and any blasphemies they commit but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit can never be forgiven but is guilty of an eternal sin because they had said that There was an unclean spirit so his mother and his brothers came and while they were outside they went to him and called him a crowd was sitting around him and they said to him your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside asking about you and he answered who are my mother and my brothers and looking at those who were sitting around him he said here are my mother and my brothers the one who does the will of God is my brother and my sister and my mother this is the gospel of the Lord thank you Lord take our mouth and let us speak to through them, take our ears and let us listen with them, take our hearts and set them on fire in the name of Jesus Christ.

Amen, please sit back, relax for a moment and before I begin the teaching, I would like to say the end of the sermon. How nice it is to see most of your faces and know that as we get more vaccinated, the rules will continue to change and, as you know, the mask rule, if you're vaccinated, you can now remove it. The only strange thing today the air conditioning is on but the windows are open and that is a Covid requirement that there be some kind of cross ventilation so we are blessed with the air conditioning because it is a little humid and it will probably be even hotter today .

It was yesterday, but we also have to remember that we are growing and changing in relation to this disease that has ravaged the nation and the world. Now let's get back to the lessons. How many of you know why we read the Bible? That's not rhetoric. question, if someone wants to say why we read the Bible, they can go ahead and say or they can say, tell us, okay, I'll read the Bible because it talks about me. I read the Bible because it talks about you. I read the Bible. because it speaks to all of us and what we learn from the Scriptures is that eternal learning that comes from inspired people whom God chose to express things whether verbally, orally or in writing and all our Scriptures were first transmitted from mouth to ear, not of pencil on paper and so the people were told the stories and those that contained the truth, that others also felt that the inspiration of God at work would remember them and when the time came to write them on scrolls of any paper of the time , they were written so that we still have them today, so what I see is how people respond to each other and how people respond to god god entered the garden that had been there before he had given it as a place to Adam and Eve living their lives was wonderful, it was during a time when we would say it was during a time when all people were hunter-gatherers, they didn't have to tilt the earth, they didn't have to work, although they probably did have to do it.

I worked to find all the good things to eat but he came back and he came back and Adam and Eve had hidden they weren't visible well God knew where they were and God knew while they were hiding but he said why did you hide and the good Adam He spoke before he thought, he said he was afraid, so I went and hid because I was naked and God said: How did you know you were naked? Nudity is not a sin, by the way, it is how God created us. I have yet to see a The baby came with shoes, we were born naked and there was a time in society when people were naked and the climate made it necessary.

They needed clothes, they made the clothes and put them on them, but Adam said that he was naked and he was afraid. God said who told you if you ate from that tree I told you never to touch it the only thing I told you was not to eat from the tree how many of you remember your own childhood? Has there ever been anything more tempting? from what they told you you couldn't have well that's for adults only so you go out behind the barn or the shed or the street and take a little puff or you go to the candy store and you have a little more candy than you should and possibly even a little more than you paid, although I didn't realize that the owner of the candy store had my dad's phone number that didn't work at all, so Adam did the best he could do.

He's a guy who knows how to get out of trouble. Blame the earth, this is human nature. I got caught with my hand in the cookie jar and I was like, oh, it wasn't me. I had to get the other person's hand out of here and mine got stuck. I make up an excuse for whatever I think. I can get away with it because that's part of human nature, so God turned to Eve and said, What about you? Oh, it was the snake. There's no one else around me I can blame, but that little thing crawling on the floor was what she did.

I do, the difference between men and women is visible, the difference between the way they act in many cases is surprisingly wide, but sometimes, in some cases, they basically do the same thing, which is the most human thing. I want to get off the hook how many of you have ever heard or said I understand, it doesn't necessarily mean you understood but it means you understood that you got caught and you want the person to stop harping on that? oh oh, there I am again breaking in and doing those things that are not very helpful for my spiritual life and my relationship with God and others, so I read, I read the Bible to see stories of how people lived and learn how to do what what they did They did or learned to do what they didn't do it's like being parents I'm not going to ask you to raise your hand some of us had good parents other people didn't and it's hard for those of us who had loving parents to imagine a Parents are not loving, but All you have to do if you still have them is read the newspaper or watch the television news.

People being mistreated even to the point of death by those who should care for them and so we learn behavior and we learn ways to compare our behavior with what God wants us to do the continuation of this story is the next stage in human development what people did after From being hunter-gatherers they began to till and plant they began to raise animals. To use it, they began to move on to the next step and saw the previous step as a wonderful, easy and good one. You and I live in a world where we often hear others remember the simplest moments in life when I was a child. or when my parents were kids or whatever and I looked at old newspapers.

Sometimes I was in the library, looking at an old newspaper, and just as many terrible things happened in those days as they do today, but we are much faster. with television so that everyone knows what is going on and not just readers in a particular area but people all over the world can see the madness of the world we live in, it has always been there, the world has never been a totally safe and easy place to visit. "We are in a place that has all kinds of problems and they ask us to solve them by coming here in the car we were talking about, I missed the turn I had, so I got into the conversation, I missed the turn," said my daughter Mary.

Weren't we supposed to turn there? I said yes, but we can turn again at the next stop, so we did, but anyway you get so caught up in trying to figure out what to do and feeling like we don't have all the tools to do it. I look at the Scriptures, I look at the Scriptures and I enjoy them, I see ways to behave, ways not to behave and then they move on to the last lesson of the Gospel and what we need to know is who are our brothers and sisters, who are the people that we need. be able to share and it is not just or maybe not even our biological family, it can be that family that God gives us in a community like this, who become our brothers and sisters, those with whom we work, live and share, those with whom we try to repair our bridges as quickly as possible our mothers fathers brothers and sisters are those around us we may be separated by family origin we may be separated by culture race education but we are brothers and sisters from each other jesus said that is enough for me and when we come together, we come together as a family, not just as individuals coming to worship God, which, by the way, you can do at home on your own to come together in a community and be in that community to support others and be supported. for others that is all I have to say for today may God's blessing be upon each of us as we try to solve that simple saying these are my brothers my mother and my sisters in the name of Jesus amen copy can you be so capable and share the creed of seeing pleasant in response to the word of God we believe in one Lord God Christ the only Son of God descended from heaven by the power of the Holy Spirit was incarnated from the Virgin Mary I was made man for us was crucified under conscious pirate he suffered death and was there on the third day he was resurrected with the scriptures he ascended to 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 will believe in the holy spirit the lord our giver of life who proceeds from the father to the son with the father and the son is worshiped glorified hasspoken through the protests we believe in one catholic saint and apostolic church we have knowledge of baptism for the forgiveness of sins we look to the resurrection of the dead and the light of the world this

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is offered for the glory of god and in loving memory by winnifred tyson given by her family come among this lord of god and give us your love and compassion to abound as you walk through this challenging season lord in your mercy here you are, come among us holy god kill your church so that our worship be more and more pleasant for you that prayers change our minds instead of trying to change yours lord in your mercy hear our prayer come among us holy god and grant your wisdom to those who lead the lord to make decisions with widespread consequences lord in your mercy hear our prayer us holy guard and support and strengthen health workers enliven the minds of medical researchers and coordinate our collective response to the coronavirus the crisis lord in your mercy hear our prayers come among us holy god fill our lives with your presence so that every day more and more everything we do, say and hope is an act of worship towards you and an expression of love towards others Lord in your mercy hear our prayer come among us holy God and be with all those who suffer illnesses and for all who care for them we pray for the elderly and the vulnerable we pray for those who are sick and for any other concerns we carry in our hearts this morning we pray for debbie lighter butch bryson mckay gilliam barbara jankowski joel lighter joyce james william meyer kenneth meyer mike genove lan genove josephine royce franco casankini and trisha slatterly and all of you who care for all who mourn with the knowledge that you do not abandon the soul to the grave but will raise your saints to the resurrection life and joy we remember especially of those who now need lord in your mercy we also pray for the forgiveness of our sins through Jesus Christ almighty god have mercy on you forgive all your sins through our lord Jesus Christ strengthen you in all goodness and by the power of the holy spirit keep you in eternal life.

Amen, would you please stand up if Abel and greet your brothers and sisters saying may the peace of the Lord be upon you and with you also peace thank you for the christ peace to all on the line yes peace peace peace can I hear you hello peace to all peace is there anyone here that requires gluten free hosts? Excuse me if he wants me to help him. I think bless you, lord god of all creation, through your goodness we have this money. to offer the fruit of our labor and skills that you have given us take us in our possessions to do your work in the world bless us God forever the lord be with you and also lift up your heart let us give thanks to the lord our god He is just and good and joyful Give thanks always and everywhere, almighty father, creator of heaven and earth, because you are a source of light and life, you made us in your image and called us to a new life in Jesus Christ, our Lord.

We praise you by uniting our voices with the angels and archangels and with the entire company of heaven that forever we sing this he to proclaim the glory of your name holy holy holy lord god of power and strength 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 we thank you oh god for the goodness and love that you have made known to us in creation in the call of israel to be your people in your words spoken to Through the prophets and above all in the word made flesh, Jesus, your son, because in these last days you sent him to incarnate from the Virgin Mary to be the savior and redeemer of the world, you have freed us from evil and made us worthy of being before you.

In him you have brought us from error to the truth of sin to righteousness from death to life the night before dying for us our Lord Jesus Christ took bread and giving thanks to you, he broke it and gave it to his disciples and said, take, eat. , this is my body that is given for you, do this in memory of me my lord of my god after dinner he took the cup of wine and having given thanks he gave it to them and said to drink this all of you this is my blood of the new covenant that is poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins whenever you drink it do this in memory of me therefore according to your command father we remember his death we proclaim his resurrection we await his coming in glory and we offer you our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, oh lord of all, presenting you from your creation this bread and this, we beseech you, merciful god, to send your holy spirit upon these gifts so that they may be the sacrament of the body of christ and his blood of the new covenant unite us with your son and to his sacrifice so that we may be acceptable through him being sanctified by the holy spirit in the fullness of time submit all things under your christ and bring us to that heavenly homeland where with saint peter and all your saints we enter into the eternal inheritance of your sons and daughters through Jesus Christ our Lord the firstborn of all creation head of the church and author of our salvation through him and with him and in the unity of the holy spirit all honor and glory is yours almighty father now and always amen and Now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to say, Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we also forgive those who trespass against us and do not let us fall into temptation but deliver us from evil because yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever amen hallelujah christ our easter is sacrificed for us who can we pray together the prayer of spiritual communion to share with those people who are with us Through the foolish Lord Jesus Christ our constant companion you promise to be with us until the end of time and make us together with others to your body the church that you yourself give in this holy sacrament the seal of your love that is stronger than death friend and Lord, so that we may receive you whether gathered at this table or dispersed in our homes and thus strengthen the ties of our common life so that with all your people everywhere we can praise you and serve you until we reach the joys of your heavenly banquet.

Amen, this is the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen, so strange first, oh, uh, oh, please, so our post-communion prayer continues in your bullets. let us pray eternal god heavenly father who has graciously accepted us as living members of your son our savior jesus christ and has nourished us with spiritual food in the sacrament of his body and blood send us now into the world in peace and grant us strength and courage to love you and serve you with joy and simplicity of heart through christ our lord amen christ the good shepherd who gave his life for the sheep draw you and all who hear his voice to be within a single flock and the blessing of god the father almighty the son and the spirit holy be with you and with all who love this day almost in the morning it is announcement time today after the

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we have conversations about the differences part two sponsored by the way to stay call the team the login information is in the bulletin it's also in the weekly email and it will be at 10 15 today this saturday we will have chocolate bar bingo at the back door sponsored by the hospitality committee and youth group advisors which is saturday at 3 30. the cards will be They will distribute at 3:15 and the first game starts at 3:30. um we would also like to congratulate Jason Hunt, who is graduating this year, received the St.

Peter's scholarship and is going to Seton Hall for digital design and creative writing. Yesterday we honored our first communion class on Saturday. service, it was nice to be able to see everyone again and see faces and I think Ralph has a couple of announcements as well. Good morning, family of San Pedro parish. As you know, things are changing very quickly, so I want to tell you a little about how. We will be handling the new CDC suggestions here in St Peters. There are no longer masses that require a service, but if you wish to wear a mask, you may do so.

We will also ask those who are speaking that this is a requirement. and those who are singing in the church who have to show us verification that they are fully vaccinated so they will be asked to verify by selling their cdc card the card will not be copied there will be a person at the back of the church and Someone available at the Saturday night service to write down the information that they sing the card and that you are good. You only have to do this once. As far as seeing, the riot team met and we determined that we're going to take it easy, okay, summer. a lot of people are away so we need to rush things so the distancing as you see now while sitting will remain in place until at least September.

The reason is that, as we read the suggestion from the diocese, not all children are fascinated by what their family wants to come with. Their children can feel comfortable that no one will approach their children and they also suggested that those who are not vaccinated do not establish separate seats for them and have them, for example, in the back, that would not be correct now in the other message June 13 is our meeting, our town meeting where we are asking the congregation of Christians to select which direction want to go, it's the selection of a new director to make To make sure we reach as many people as possible, we did a mass mailing, so look for that mail in your PO box and in your mailbox during the next week, in that package you will find how to connect to the town hall meeting via computer, smartphone and home. phone you will also find in that email the three options that the diocese informed us about, review them carefully and read them we also have the sacristy game when we saw how the pros and cons of each option in your package will be the verification of the questions of the survey one who responds to them and attaching that package is a stamped envelope already addressed and we suggest that you try to cancel on June 17.

Once we get the results, it will contact the viruses and start moving forward, so put your seat belts on, thank you. Hello everyone. I said this last week, but I'll say it again. The town hall meeting is your chance to be heard as we move toward searching for a new priest, so please read the information before you say goodbye. Can I make an edit? Surely, remember, each person who is baptized and therefore a member of this congregation who is 16 years old or older has a voice and vote and so do not leave your children out of this.

Thank you, it is worth it if you go in peace to love and serve the Lord, hallelujah. you