Holy Week Taize Serviceupdated

St.
Stephen’s
Episcopal Church
Connecting with God, with each other, and with the world
Holy Week
Taizé Style Service
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Please enter in quiet.
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This evening’s service is one in which we invite you to enter into the
simplicity, rhythm, spirit of the song and scripture shared here
tonight. Short prayers, easily repeated chants, and periods of silence.
In the words of Brother Roger of the Taizé community, “Often God’s voice
comes in a whisper, in a breath of silence. Remaining in silence, open to the
Spirit, is already prayer.”
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The Lighting of the Altar Candles
Welcome
Collect for Wednesday in Holy Week
Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior was betrayed and gave his body to be
whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the suf-
ferings of the present time, confident of the glory that shall be revealed;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the
Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Opening Song—Let Go, Let Be

Instrumental Introduction
Cantor introduces the chant
All sing and repeat 7 times
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Psalm 70 (read responsively by half verse)
1 Be pleased, O God, to deliver me; *

O Lord, make haste to help me.
2 Let those who seek my life be ashamed
and altogether dismayed; *
let those who take pleasure in my misfortune
draw back and be disgraced.
3 Let those who say to me "Aha!" and gloat over me turn back, *
because they are ashamed.
4 Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; *
let those who love your salvation say for ever,
"Great is the Lord!"
5 But as for me, I am poor and needy; *
come to me speedily, O God.
6 You are my helper and my deliverer; *
O Lord, do not tarry.
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+ The Readings +
The First Reading: Isaiah 50:4-9a:
The Lord God has given me
the tongue of a teacher,
that I may know how to sustain
the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens--
wakens my ear
to listen as those who are taught.
The Lord God has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious,
I did not turn backward.
I gave my back to those who struck me,
and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;
I did not hide my face
from insult and spitting.
The Lord God helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame;
he who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who are my adversaries?
Let them confront me.
It is the Lord God who helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
Reader: The Word of the Lord

People: Thanks be to God
Song: My Spirit Rests in You Alone
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Cantor sings once
All sing and repeat 7 times
A moment of silence
Gospel Reading from John 13:21-32

At supper with his friends, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, "Very tru-
ly, I tell you, one of you will betray me." The disciples looked at one another,
uncertain of whom he was speaking. One of his disciples-- the one whom Jesus
loved-- was reclining next to him; Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to
ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. So while reclining next to Jesus, he asked
him, "Lord, who is it?" Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I give this piece
of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." So when he had dipped the piece
of bread, he gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot. After he received the piece
of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "Do quickly what you are
going to do."
Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. Some thought that, be-
cause Judas had the common purse, Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need
for the festival"; or, that he should give something to the poor. So, after receiv-
ing the piece of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.
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When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified,
and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will
also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once."
Reader: The Word of the Lord

People: Thanks be to God.
A Time of Silence for Meditation
Song - Christ before me

Cantor Verse 1 once through
All Verse 1 twice, Verse 2 twice, Verse 1 twice again.
+ The Prayers +
For our life of prayer - All

O God of peace, you have taught us that in returning and rest we shall be
saved, and in quiet and confidence shall be our strength. We pray that by the
might of your spirit you will lift us to your presence where we may be still and
know that you are God. Amen.
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The Lord’s Prayer - All
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 thie is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
Benediction Litany
Leader: On our hearts and in our homes
People: The blessing of God
Leader: In our comings and our goings

People: The peace of God
Leader: In our life and our believing

People: The love of God
Leader: At our end and new beginning

People: The arms of God, to welcome us and bring us home. Amen.
Closing Song: You Shine Within Us

Cantor sings once through
All sing through 3 times.
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You may remain for a time of quiet and prayer. Please depart in silence.
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Credits:
The following Songs were composed and published by Kristopher Lindquist and
appear on his CD Let Go, Let Be Chants for Meditation and Celebration, © 2009.
 Let go, Let be
 My Spirit Rests in You Alone
 Christ Above Me
 You Shine Within Us
The Prayer for our Life of Prayer is from the Daughters of the King, accessed
from https://www.doknational.org/page/DaughtersPrayers 27 March 2019.
Benediction Litany is from the Iona Abbey Worship Book, Wild Goose Publica-
tions, 2001. www.ionabooks.com.
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Opening Song—Let Go, Let Be

1 Be pleased, O God, to deliver me; *

Reader: The Word of the Lord

Gospel Reading from John 13:21-32

Reader: The Word of the Lord

A Time of Silence for Meditation

Song - Christ before me

For our life of prayer - All

Leader: In our comings and our goings

Leader: In our life and our believing

Leader: At our end and new beginning

Closing Song: You Shine Within Us

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