23rd Sunday after Pentecost: All Saints' Day w/ Rev Martha
Celebrant: Rev. Martha Clark
November 1st at 11am11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
27 Good Shepherd Road
Bluemont, VA 20135
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Join us as we celebrate All Saints' Day with special remembrances for our loved ones who have gone on before us. For this 23rd Sunday after Pentecost we will have a special All Saints' liturgy of readings, music, and prayers, and we will celebrate Holy Eucharist, Rite II, with Rev. Martha Clark, celebrant and preacher.
Our LIVE service begins at 11am. Masks are available in the Narthex, with hand sanitizer stationed throughout the church.
If you are more comfortable continuing to keep your distance, we understand.
You can still join us for online worship, via Zoom, using the following link:
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Meeting ID: 230 268 4545 | Password: Get2gether
See our home page for a PDF copy of this week's bulletin.
The following prayers and readings used in church will be the ones for All Saints' Day. Also included below are the prayers and readings for 23 Pentecost (Proper 26).
The Collect for All Saints' Day:
Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
Revised Common Lectionary readings for All Saints' Sunday:
Revelation 7:9-17
Psalm 34:1-10, 22
1 John 3:1-3
Matthew 5:1-12
The Collect of the Day (Proper 26):
Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Revised Common Lectionary Collect and readings (Track 1) for this Sunday (Proper 26):
Joshua 3:7-17
Psalm 107:1-7, 33-37
1 Thessalonians 2:9-13
Matthew 23:1-12
A prayer for All Souls:
Eternal Lord God, you hold all souls in life: Give to your whole Church in paradise and on earth your light and your peace; and grant that we, following the good examples of those who have served you here and are now at rest, may at the last enter with them into your unending joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
