The Feast of All Saints November 7, 2021 10:00 a.m.

Welcome to worship at St. Cross! We are a community that serves others as a sign of God’s love. We strive to live into the gospel ideal of being an open and welcoming community. We know it is hard when you see your favorite people after a year (and may even have a vaccine). However, with COVID, we ask that you respect other people’s personal space and per LA County, masks are required.

The entire service is printed in this bulletin and the people’s parts are in bold type. Generally, we sit for teachings and stand or kneel for prayers. Do not be concerned if you are unable to stand or kneel, do what is comfortable for you. Please let the ushers know if you need any other assistance, such as communion brought to your seat.

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Lessons and Sermon Notes A few words on today’s lessons about what you will hear, and what you will take with you

through the week.

Welcome to St. Cross Church. The church’s celebration of all the saints centers on baptism. It is in baptism that we have become members of the communion or fellowship of saints. Therefore we will join in renewing our baptismal promises along with those being baptized today. The term saint means “a holy person.” The church’s teaching about the saints is not that they are a few exceptional Christians who were holy in themselves; instead, it is that no one can become holy without the indwelling of God’s Spirit. The saints are all those who have received the Spirit of God, who leads them into holiness. Thus, the festival of All Saints’ Day is the celebration of all baptized people, for we have all been given the gift of the Holy Spirit.

From The Rite Light: Reflections on the Sunday Readings and Seasons of the Church Year. Copyright © 2007 by Michael W. Merriman. Church Publishing Incorporated, New York.

The altar flowers are given to the glory of God by the people of St. Cross:

in honor of Chloé, Finnley, Towers, and Walter

who are being baptized today, and

in memory of Jeff Terry by Sr. Patricia Sarah

If you would like to make a flower dedication, please go to www.stcross.org/flowers

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Liturgy of the Word

Prelude Rhosymedre -Ralph Vaughan Williams

Madrigals “Si Ch’io Vorei morire” and “Ah, dolente partita” -Claudio Monteverdi

He that shall endure (from Elijah) -Felix Mendelssohn

Crown City Brass Quintet

Opening Remarks

One family, we dwell in him

One Church, above, beneath;

Though now divided by the stream,

The narrow stream of death.

Charles Wesley

We begin our All Saints’ service today with a remembrance of the seventeen members of

St. Cross who died during this time of pandemic. We have not been able to fully gather to

communally mourn and give thanks for many of these lives. We walk with one another in

our most difficult and most joyous times as a sign of God’s love, grace and mercy at work

in our world. As family and friends place a candle, lit from the paschal candle that

represents our baptism and eternal life, by the photo of their loved one, I ask you to make

your own personal thanksgiving to God for all that these lives have meant to you.

(Adapted from Times and Seasons and NZBCP)

Gabriel’s Oboe -Ennio Morricone

Alexander Changus, oboe

God who creates us, we thank you that you have made each of us in your own image, and

given us gifts and talents with which to serve you, especially in our St. Cross community.

We thank you for the lives of N. …

We thank you for the years we shared with them, the grace we saw in them, the love we

received from them. Now give us strength and courage to leave them in your care, confident

in your promise of eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

(Adapted from NZBCP p 829)

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Opening Hymn Hymn 287 (vs. 1-4)

Please stand. Those vaccinated are invited to sing.

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Opening Acclamation

Celebrant Blessed be God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

People And blessed be God’s kingdom, now and for ever, Amen.

Celebrant There is one body and one Spirit;

People There is one hope in God’s call to us;

Celebrant One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism;

People One God and Father of all.

Collect of the Day Celebrant The Lord be with you.

People And also with you.

Celebrant Let us pray.

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.

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First Lesson Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9

Please be seated.

The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,

and no torment will ever touch them.

In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died,

and their departure was thought to be a disaster,

and their going from us to be their destruction;

but they are at peace.

For though in the sight of others they were punished,

their hope is full of immortality.

Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good,

because God tested them and found them worthy of himself;

like gold in the furnace he tried them,

and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them.

In the time of their visitation they will shine forth,

and will run like sparks through the stubble.

They will govern nations and rule over peoples,

and the Lord will reign over them forever.

Those who trust in him will understand truth,

and the faithful will abide with him in love,

because grace and mercy are upon his holy ones,

and he watches over his elect.

Lector The Word of the Lord.

People Thanks be to God.

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Psalm 24 The Psalm will be read responsively. The people read the parts in bold.

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,

the world and all who dwell therein.

For it is he who founded it upon the seas

and made it firm upon the rivers of the deep.

“Who can ascend the hill of the Lord?”

“and who can stand in his holy place?”

“Those who have clean hands and a pure heart,

who have not pledged themselves to falsehood,

nor sworn by what is a fraud.

They shall receive a blessing from the Lord

and a just reward from the God of their salvation.”

Such is the generation of those who seek him,

of those who seek your face, O God of Jacob.

Lift up your heads, O gates;

lift them high, O everlasting doors;

and the King of glory shall come in.

“Who is this King of glory?”

“The Lord, strong and mighty,

the Lord, mighty in battle.”

Lift up your heads, O gates;

lift them high, O everlasting doors;

and the King of glory shall come in.

“Who is he, this King of glory?”

“The Lord of hosts,

he is the King of glory.”

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Gospel John 11:32-44 Please stand and face the gospel book. It is customary to make a small cross on one’s

forehead, lips, and heart at the opening acclamation as a sign that we keep the gospel ever

in our minds, on our lips, and in our hearts.

Deacon The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.

People Glory to you, Lord Christ.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him,

"Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her

weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in

spirit and deeply moved. He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him,

"Lord, come and see." Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"

But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept

this man from dying?"

Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was

lying against it. Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man,

said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days."

Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of

God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I

thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this

for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man

came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a

cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

Deacon The Gospel of the Lord.

People Praise to you, Lord Christ.

Sermon The Rev. Rachel Nyback

Following the sermon a time of silence for private meditation is observed.

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Our service continues with the Baptismal Section, which can be found in the blue Book of

Common Prayer (BCP) in your pews.

Presentation and Examination of Candidates BCP, p. 301

Baptismal Covenant BCP, p. 304

Prayers for the Candidates BCP, p. 305

The Baptism BCP, p. 307

Peace All stand as you are able.

Celebrant The peace of the Lord be always with you.

People And also with you.

Please greet one another in the name of Christ by remaining by your seat and offering a

gesture of peace to your neighbors. Please keep social distancing even if vaccinated.

Announcements Announcements are made at this time.

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Liturgy of the Table

Offertory Sentence

Celebrant

But do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing

to God.

During the setting of the table a collection is taken online at www.stcross.org/give or has

been given in person, to support the life and ministry of St. Cross.

Offertory Anthem Pilgrims’ Hymn

text: Michael Dennis Browne

music: Stephen Paulus

Even before we call on Your name to ask You, O God, when we seek for the words

to glorify You, You hear our prayer. Unceasing love, O unceasing love surpassing

all we know. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Even with

darkness sealing us ink we breathe Your name, and through all the days that follow

so fast, we trust in You; Endless Your grace, O endless Your grace, beyond all

mortal dream. Both now and forever, and unto ages and ages. Amen.

Great Thanksgiving The people stand.

Celebrant The Lord be with you.

People And also with you.

Celebrant Lift up your hearts.

People We lift them to the Lord.

Celebrant Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

People It is right to give our thanks and praise.

The Celebrant proceeds

It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you,

Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.

For in the multitude of your saints you have surrounded us with a great cloud of witnesses,

that we might rejoice in their fellowship, and run with endurance the race that is set before

us; and together with them, receive the crown of glory that never fades away.

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The Celebrant continues

Therefore we praise you, joining our voices with Angels and Archangels and with all the

company of heaven, who for ever sing this hymn to proclaim the glory of your Name:

Sanctus Hymnal S-128

The People stand or kneel and the Celebrant continues

We give thanks to you, O God, for the goodness and love which you have made known to

us in creation; in the calling of 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 Savior 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 before he died for us, 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.”

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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 all for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this for the

remembrance of me.”

Therefore, according to his command, O Father,

Celebrant and People together say

We remember his death,

We proclaim his resurrection,

We await his coming in glory;

And we offer our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to you, O 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 may be acceptable through him, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

In the fullness of time, put all things in subjection under your Christ, and bring us to that

heavenly country where, with ________________________ and all your saints, we may

enter the everlasting heritage of 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.

Celebrant and People together say

By him, and with him, and in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit all honor and glory

is yours, Almighty Father, now and for ever. AMEN.

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The Lord’s Prayer

Celebrant

And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to say,

People and Celebrant say together

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,

for ever and ever. Amen.

Breaking of the Bread

Celebrant Alleluia! Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

People Therefore let us keep the feast. Alleluia!

Invitation to Communion

Celebrant

See who you are, become what you see.

At St. Cross all who come in faith, seeking deeper knowledge and love of Jesus Christ are

welcome to receive Holy Communion. Come forward to the altar as directed by the usher.

Take the sacrament of bread back to your seat and consume the sacrament at your seat. If

you would prefer not to receive the sacrament, cross your arms over your chest and the

clergy will offer a (non-touch) blessing instead.

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Communion Hymn Hymn 620

Those vaccinated are invited to sing.

Communion Music Pastorale -Barnes

Crown City Brass Quintet

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Prayer After Communion

After Communion, the people stand or kneel as they are able and the Celebrant says

Let us pray.

People and Celebrant

God in heaven,

whose church on earth is a sign of your heavenly peace,

an image of the new and eternal Jerusalem:

grant to us in the days of our pilgrimage

that, fed with the living bread of heaven,

and united in the body of your Son,

we may be the temple of your presence,

the place of your glory on earth,

and a sign of your peace in the world;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Blessing

The Priest blesses the people

May God give you God's comfort and peace, God's light and joy, in this world and the next;

and the blessing of God Almighty, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer be with you now and

evermore. Amen.

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Closing Hymn Hymn 618 Those vaccinated are invited to sing.

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Dismissal

Deacon Neither death nor life can separate us from the love of God in Jesus

Christ our Lord.

People Thanks be to God.

Postlude Fantasie -J.S. Bach

Crown City Brass Quintet

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St. Cross Prayer List

To add names to the prayer list, please go to www.stcross.org/pray.

Continuing Prayers: Bo, Anne, Micky, Autumn, John, Susan, Nicky, Susan, Nancy, Maria, Christi, Kelly Anne, Lindsey, Zelda, Carlton, Tina, David, Astin, Alice, Bill, Sue, Pete, Jill, Elizabeth, Karen, Abbe, Lori, Jake, Morena, Len, Ryder, Sean, McKenzie, Ruth, Andy, Jim, Karla, the Alarcon family, Jonathan, Marilyn, Amanda, Sean, Afghan refugees, Amanda D, Wanda, Sandra, Jeri, the Hunter family, Patrick, Jef

For Healing: Oscar, Alan, Jack, Clair, Dave, Caden, Peter, Lori, May, George, Sharon, Alice, Dale, Alan, Judie, Jill, Zoe, Alice, Elizabeth, Ellen, Louise, Ann, Jon, Patrick

For Peace/Comfort/Guidance/Those without a job at this time: Steve, Sebastian, Rebecca, Mary, Elaine, Dave, Casey, Beth, Dennis, Lynn, Mark, the Danly family

For Safe Travel:

For Thanksgiving: The Ministries of Peace and Justice, and Habitat for Humanity

For Those Who Have Died:

For Military Personnel: Jason, Marcus, Andrew, Jared, Mike, Mathew, Jim, Jake, Paul, Andy, Ron, Daniel, Bryce, Austin PLEASE NOTE: This is the time of year when we renew our list of active service military personnel. If you would like to have a name remain, or have one added, or have one deleted, please fill out a prayer card and drop it in the collection plate, or email the office at info@stcross.org.

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Community News

Lectern Announcement and Community News Deadline is Wednesday at noon.

Please email them to Trudy at info@stcross.org

Adult Ed – Nov/Dec 2021 11/7 – Clergy Offering 11/14 – Diocesan Convention (No Class) 11/21 – “The Women of Luke” 11/28 – Thanksgiving (No Class) 12/5 – Clergy Offering

Tis the season for Giving Tree 2021! Stop by Parker Hall next Sunday the 14th to pick a child (or two!) to sponsor this holiday season. It will be busy due to Consecration Sunday, but our dutiful elves will be waiting for you after the 10am service. Since there is no 8am service next week, we’ll have the boards out throughout the afternoon lunch and program. See you then!

Coffee Hour Needs YOU! If you would like to see coffee hour return, please email Rev. Rachel at Rnyback@stcross.org and let her know you are willing to volunteer for two hours once a month.

Consecration Sunday - Sunday, Nov 14. There will be one service only, at 10 am.

Messiah Concert December 5: If you have an interest in singing in the choir, please contact Sean O'Neal at soneal@stcross.org. St. Cross Covid Chronicles - You can go to stcross.org/covid-chronicles-submission and submit online. Any questions? Please contact kathyshinkle@verizon.net or patsybrierley@gmail.com. The submission date has been extended, so please continue to submit your stories.

Photo Directory Days – November 7, November 14.

Upcoming Events November 10 Service for Jerry Saunders, 2pm

November 10 Faith and Blue, 7:30pm ONLINE November 11 OFFICE CLOSED - VETERAN’S DAY Nov 13 & 14 Diocesan Convention November 16 Vestry Meeting

November 24 Laundry Love Nov 25 & 26 OFFICE CLOSED - THANKSGIVING

December 5 Messiah Concert, 4pm December 19 Pageant, 5pm

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Staff

The Rev. Dr. Rachel A. Nyback · Rector Rnyback@stcross.org

The Rev. Stephen Smith Associate for Christian Formation ssmith@stcross.org

The Rev. Josh Paget Associate for Pastoral Care and Community Development jpaget@stcross.org

The Rev. Patti Angelo · Deacon pangelo@stcross.org

The Rev. Cn. Robert (Bob) Cornner Priest in Residence

The Rev. Cn. Paul Lawson Rector Emeritus

Sean O’Neal · Organist and Choirmaster soneal@stcross.org

Trudy Bush · Parish Administrator info@stcross.org

Merrill Whatley · Communications Coordinator connect@stcross.org

David Dawson · Facilities Manager facilities@stcross.org

Judi Kelly · Bookkeeper bookkeeper@stcross.org

Cameron Johnson · Connection Coordinator cjohnson@stcross.org

Today’s Ministers – 10:00am

Celebrant The Rev. Stephen Smith

Preacher The Rev. Rachel Nyback

Deacon The Rev. Josh Paget

Organist/Choirmaster Sean O’Neal

Cantor Dan Wilson

Lector Alison Wilcox

Intercessor Ruth Krusic

Ushers Terry Eddy Sandy Lawton Brian Wilcox

Crown City Brass Quintet:

Rob and Marty Fenton Frear, Trumpet Sarah Bach, Horn Nick Daley, Trombone Steve Trapani, Bass Trombone

Vestry

Seth Barnes, Senior Warden Greg Bellavia

David Charlton, Junior Warden

Sherry Graham, Secretary

Jessica Gregg

Steve Pringle

Ann Rogerson

Courtney Shott

Jim Sullivan, Treasurer

Lizabeth Thompson

Anne Tittle

James Wikkramatilleke