New Harmony St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Rev. Mary Bargiel

765-721-3037

mbargiel@me.com

 

 

DONATIONS FOR EASTER FLOWERS

are now being accepted. 

Please add your name and memorial information

on the sign up sheet at the back of the church.

PALM / PASSION SUNDAY, April 13th. 

We will be sharing Holy Eucharist with Rev. Mary Bargiel.

Thursday, April 17, 2025

The Food Pantry needs grocery bags. 

A basket is in the parish hall to receive your donated bags.

AGAPE FEAST

Thursday, April 17th at 6:00 p.m.

bring a side dish to share

GOOD FRIDAY CROSSWALK, April 18th at 1:00 p.m.

starting at the First Christian Church

and making stops at the traditional seven New Harmony churches. 

If it is raining or other acclimate weather,

the First Christian Church will be the location.

EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE

April 20th at 6:30 a.m. at The Roofless Church. 

Bring your own chair or sit on one of the stone benches. 

In case of acclimate weather,

the service will be held at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

with Rev. Mary Bargiel

Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

Sunday, April 27, 2025

after Coffee Hour

CHAIR YOGA

9:00 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays

Chair Yoga is a gentle form of yoga that is practiced sitting on a chair

or standing using a chair for support.  Good for all ages and levels.

Morning Prayer

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church | New Harmony, Indiana

April 6, 2025 | 10:00 a.m.

The Fifth Sunday in Lent

 

Welcome to worship. Please join in speaking the bolded words.

Prelude                                                          Liz and Bish Mumford

Announcements

The service begins with the ringing of the bell; the people stand as able.

When I survey the wondrous cross                                         H474

 

When I survey the wondrous cross

     where the young Prince of Glory died,

my richest gain I count but loss,

     and pour contempt on all my pride.

 

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,

     save in the cross of Christ, my God:

all the vain things that charm me most,

     I sacrifice them to his blood.

 

See, from his head, his hands, his feet

     sorrow and love flow mingled down!

Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,

     or thorns compose so rich a crown?

 

Were the whole realm of nature mine,

     that were an offering far too small;

love so amazing, so divine,

     demands my soul, my life, my all.

 

The Officiant says

Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.   Joel 2:13

Confession of Sin

Dearly beloved, we have come together in the presence of Almighty God our heavenly Father, to set forth his praise, to hear his holy Word, and to ask, for ourselves and on behalf of others, those things that are necessary for our life and our salvation.  And so that we may prepare ourselves in heart and mind to worship him, let us kneel in silence, and with penitent and obedient hearts confess our sins, that we may obtain forgiveness by his infinite goodness and mercy.

Silence may be kept; all kneel as able for the confession.

Most merciful God,

we confess that we have sinned against you

in thought, word, and deed,

by what we have done, and by what we have left undone.

We have not loved you with our whole heart;

we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.

We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.

For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ,

have mercy on us and forgive us;

that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.

The Officiant remains kneeling and says

Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. Amen.

The Invitatory & Psalter

All stand as able.

Lord, open our lips.

And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Officiant and People

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

The Lord is full of compassion and mercy:

Come let us adore him.

Venite, said responsively by half verse            Psalm 95:1-7; 96:9, 13

 

O come, let us sing unto the Lord;

          Let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving,

          And show ourselves glad in him with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God,

          And a great King above all gods.

In his hand are all the corners of the earth,

          And the strength of the hills is his also.

The sea is his and he made it,

          And his hands prepared the dry land.

O come, let us worship and fall down

          And kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For he is the Lord our God,

          And we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of

his hand.

O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;

          Let the whole earth stand in awe of him.

For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth,

          And with righteousness to judge the world and the

peoples with his truth.

Psalm 126                          In convertendo

 

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,

then were we like those who dream.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter,

and our tongue with shouts of joy.

Then they said among the nations,

"The Lord has done great things for them."

The Lord has done great things for us,

and we are glad indeed.

Restore our fortunes, O Lord,

like the watercourses of the Negev.

Those who sowed with tears

will reap with songs of joy.

Those who go out weeping, carrying the seed,

will come again with joy, shouldering their sheaves.

 

At the end of the Psalm, all say together

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

The Lessons

The people sit for the readings.

A period of silence will follow each reading.

First Reading  

A reading from the book of Isaiah.              (Isaiah 43:16-21)

Thus says the Lord,

who makes a way in the sea,

a path in the mighty waters,

who brings out chariot and horse,

army and warrior;

they lie down, they cannot rise,

they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:

Do not remember the former things,

or consider the things of old.

I am about to do a new thing;

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert.

The wild animals will honor me,

the jackals and the ostriches;

for I give water in the wilderness,

rivers in the desert,

to give drink to my chosen people,

the people whom I formed for myself

so that they might declare my praise.

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Silence may follow.

Canticle 14         A Song of Penitence            Kyrie Pantokrator

(WLP # 888; all stand as able.)

 

Almighty Lord Most High draw near

whose awesome splendor none can bear;

eternal God, in mercy hear,

receive once more the sinner’s prayer;

upon your word of grace we call

whose word of power has ordered all.

 

How measureless your mercies stand,

the hope and pledge of sins forgiven;

those sins, unnumbered as the sand,

that hide the very stars of heaven;

O God of grace, to us impart

a penitent and contrite heart.

 

From such a heart we bend the knee

and all our sin and shame confess.

Lord, your unworthy servants see,

and clothe us round with righteousness;

that loved and pardoned, healed and blest,

we taste your mercies manifest.

 

So lift on high the Savior’s praise

with all the hosts of heaven above,

and sing through everlasting days

the God of glory grace and love.

The Lord of all let us adore,

for ever and for evermore.

 

Second Reading

The people sit.

A Reading from the book of Philippians.      

(Philippians 3:4b-14)

If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Silence may follow.

Please stand as able.

Canticle 10       The Second Song of Isaiah   Quaerite Dominum

     (The canticle is read responsively by half verse; all stand as able.)

 

Seek the Lord while he wills to be found;

          Call upon him when he draws near.

Let the wicked forsake their ways

          And the evil ones their thoughts;

And let them turn to the Lord, and he will have compassion,

          And to our God, he will richly pardon.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

          Nor your ways my ways, says the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

          So are my ways higher than your ways, and my

thoughts than your thoughts.

For as rain and snow fall from the heavens

          And return not again, but water the earth,

Bringing forth life and giving growth,

          Seed for sowing and bread for eating,

So is my word that goes forth from my mouth;

          It will not return to me empty;

But it will accomplish that which I have purposed,

          And prosper in that for which I sent it.

Gospel Reading

The people are seated.

A Reading from the gospel of John.             (John 12:1-8)

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?" (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me."

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Homily                                       Karen Moser

The Apostles’ Creed

The people stand as able for the creed.

I believe in God, the Father almighty,

creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.

He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit

and born of the Virgin Mary.

He suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended to the dead.

On the third day he rose again.

He ascended into heaven,

and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the holy catholic Church, the communion of

saints,

the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the

body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Offertory

The people are seated.

Let us with gladness present the offering and oblations of our life and labor to the Lord.

Offertory Anthem                                     Liz and Bish Mumford

During the offertory (or at your own convenience), please consider giving to St. Stephens at the following link: https://onrealm.org/StStephensEpisc/-/give/now or by texting

SSNH to 73256 and following the prompts.  All donations go toward sustaining our church operations and our ministries.

The people stand.

Doxology                                                                           Hymnal 380 v. 3

 

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

The Prayers

The people stand or kneel as able for the prayers.

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Let us pray.

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name,

thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

The Suffrages

O Lord, show thy mercy upon us;

   And grant us thy salvation.

Endue thy ministers with righteousness;

   And make thy chosen people joyful.

Give peace, O Lord, in all the world;

   For only in thee can we live in safety.

Lord, keep this nation under thy care;

   And guide us in the way of justice and truth.

Let thy way be known upon earth;

   Thy saving health among all nations.

Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten;

   Nor the hope of the poor be taken away.

Create in us clean hearts, O God;

   And sustain us with your Holy Spirit.

The Collects

The Collect of the Day

Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

The Prayers of the People: Intercessions

In peace, let us pray to the Lord, saying, “Lord, have mercy”.

For the holy Church of God, that it may be filled with truth and love, and be found without fault at the day of your coming, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For Sean Rowe, our Presiding Bishop, for Jennifer, our Bishop, for all bishops and other ministers, and for all the holy people of God, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For all who fear God and believe in you, Lord Christ, that our divisions may cease, and that all may be one as you and the Father are one, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For the mission of the Church, that in faithful witness it may preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For those who do not yet believe, and for those who have lost their faith, that they may receive the light of the Gospel, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For those in positions of public trust, that they may serve justice, and promote the dignity and freedom of every person, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For all who live and work in this community, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For a blessing upon all human labor, and for the right use of the riches of creation that the world may be freed from poverty, famine, and disaster, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For the poor, the persecuted, the sick and all who suffer; for refugees, prisoners, and all who are in danger; that they may be relieved and protected, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For this congregation – those who are present, and for those who are absent, that we may be delivered from hardness of heart, and show forth your glory in al that we do, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For our enemies and those who wish us harm; and for all whom we have injured or offended, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For ourselves; for the forgiveness of our sins, and for the grace of the Holy Spirit to amend our lives, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For all who have commended themselves to our prayers; for our families, friends, and neighbors; that being freed from anxiety, they may live in joy, peace, and health we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For others: ___________, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

For all who have died in the communion of your church, and those whose faith is known to you alone, that, with all the saints, they may have rest in that place where there is no pain or grief, but life eternal, we pray to you, O Lord.

Lord, have mercy.

 

Rejoicing in the fellowship of all the ever-blessed Virgin Mary, blessed St. Stephen, and all the saints, let us commend ourselves and one another, and all our life to Christ our God.

To you, O Lord our God.

 

Silence.  The People may add their own petitions.

 

Intercessor:  I invite your additional prayers out loud, in the silence of your heart, in the comments below the Facebook Live Stream.

 

Silence

 

Lord, in your mercy,

Hear our prayers.

The General Thanksgiving

Almighty God, Father of all mercies,

we your unworthy servants give you humble thanks

for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all whom you have made.

We bless you for our creation, preservation,

and all the blessings of this life;

but above all for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ;

for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

And, we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies,

that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives,

by giving up ourselves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days;

through Jesus Christ our Lord,

to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit,

be honor and glory throughout all ages. Amen.

For yours is the majesty, O Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, now and for ever. Amen.

Almighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication unto thee, and hast promised through thy well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name thou wilt be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting.  Amen.

 

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing                       H344

 

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing;

     fill our hearts with joy and peace;

let us each, thy love possessing,

triumph in redeeming grace:

     O refresh us, O refresh us

traveling through this wilderness.

 

Thanks we give and adoration

     for thy Gospel’s joyful sound:

may the fruits of thy salvation

in our hearts and lives abound:

     ever faithful, ever faithful

to thy truth may we be found;

 

so that when thy love shall call us,

     Savior, from the world away,

fear of death shall not appall us,

glad thy summons to obey.

     May we ever, may we ever

reign with thee in endless day.

 

The Dismissal

Let us bless the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.              2 Corinthians 13:14

 

Postlude                                                  Liz and Bish Mumford

Announcements

• DONATIONS FOR EASTER FLOWERS are now being accepted.  Please add your name and memorial information on the sign up sheet at the back of the church.
• PALM / PASSION SUNDAY, April 13th.  Join us as we celebrate Holy Eucharist with Rev. Mary Bargiel.
• FOOD PANTRY, Thursday, April 17th.
• MAUNDY THURSDAY AGAPE FEAST, April 17th at 6:00  Please sign the volunteer sheet for the pot luck side dish you are bringing.
• GOOD FRIDAY CROSS WALK, April 18th at 1:00 p.m. beginning at the First Christian Church and making stops at the traditional seven New Harmony churches.  If it is raining or other acclimate weather, the First Christian Church will be the location.
• EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE April 20th at 6:30 a.m. at The Roofless Church.  Bring your own chair or sit on one of the stone benches.  In case of acclimate weather the service will beheld at St. Stephen’s Episcopal church.
• HOLY EUCHARIST with Rev. Mary Bargiel on Easter Sunday, April 20th.
• VESTRY, April 27th.
• Deadline for submissions for the newsletter is at 9:00 a.m. on Mondays and 9:00 a.m. on Wednesdays for bulletins.
• CLOSINGS:  If church services or other church events are canceled due to weather, this will be announced via email, Facebook and WFIE channel 14.

Thanks to those serving!

Altar Guild, Peggy Meyer; Phyllis Westfall

Greeter, Phyllis Westfall

Facebook Greeter,

Tech Coordinator,

Officiant, Karen Moser

Lector, Bish Mumford

Intercessor,

Music, Liz and Bish Mumford

Homilist, Karen Moser

 

 

 

 

 

 

Offertory, Gloria, Doxology, Sanctus, & Communion Anthem

 used with permission © Windelm Music.