Event Information:
- Sun21Mar2021
Fifth Sunday in Lent
We invite you to worship with us during this pandemic either in-person or online.
LIVESTREAM video available at www.vimeo.com/trinityworcester
Holy Eucharist is offered in the Trinity Nave at 10:00 a.m. every Sunday. All attendees wear face-masks and follow posted physical distancing guidelines. Up to six singers with masks sing from the organ gallery during the liturgy. The assembly does not sing. We commune with the bread only, received directly from the Presiding Minister in mask and gloves. This worship service is also available to watch and hear online via our Vimeo channel or through our congregational website.
In light of the ongoing risk posed by the coronavirus we invite you to make a responsible and healthy decision regarding your participation in our worship. Lutherans teach and confess that Christ is present in the assembly gathered around the proclaimed Word of God, in the water and the Word of Holy Baptism, and in the shared meal of bread and wine at Holy Communion.
BIBLE READINGS, PSALM & SONG, & THEMES
Commemoration of Thomas Cranmer, Bishop of Canterbury, martyr, 1556
Jeremiah 31:31-34 A new commandment written on the heart
Hebrews 5:5-10 Through suffering Christ saves
John 12:20-33 The grain of wheat dying in the earth
Psalmody: Psalm 51:1-12 Create in me a clean heart, O God
Hymn of the Day: Hymn 330 Seed That in Earth Is Dying, SÅKORN SOM DØR I JORDEN
We are nearing the conclusion of Lent. In this Sunday’s gospel, Jesus is likened to a grain of wheat that once buried in the earth comes alive to bear much fruit. We hear the word and receive the meal and so renew God’s covenant among us.