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Sunday, February 5, 2012
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year B
Ordinance of Holy Communion
Call to Worship
Leader: Praise the Lord! How good it is to sing praises to our God; for he
is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.
People: The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel. He
heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds. He determines the number
of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.
All: Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond
measure. - Psalm 147.1-5 (NRSV
Responsive Reading – Isaiah 40.21-31 (NRSV)
Leader: 21 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told
you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the
earth?
People: 22 – It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its
inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a
curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;
Leader: 23 – Who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers of the earth
as nothing.
People: 24 – Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their
stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and
the tempest carries them off like stubble.
Leader: 25 – “To whom then will you compare me, or who is my equal?” says
the Holy One.
People: 26 – Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? He who
brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he
is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing.
Leader: 27 – Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden
from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God?
People: 28 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the
everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or
grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Leader: 29 – He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless.
People: 30 – Even youths will faint, and be weary, and the young will fall
exhausted;
All: But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall
mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall
walk and not faint. |
