Trinity Sunday
An online service of worship
Scripture Text: Genesis 1:1-2:4a ; Psalm 8:1-10; Acts 2:14a, 22-36; Matthew 28:16-20
Order of Worship • Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2020
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Collect
Hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, God Almighty
Lyrics: Reginald Heber; Music: “Nicea,” John B. Dykes
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!
Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore thee,
casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
which wert and art, and evermore shalt be.
Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee,
though the eye made blind by sin thy glory may not see,
only thou art holy; there is none beside thee
perfect in pow’r, in love and purity.
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea.
Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!
Apostolic Greeting
Kyrie
Prayer of the Day
Genesis 1:1-2:4a
Psalm 8:1-8 (responses are even-numbered verses)
1O Lord our Lord,
how exalted is your Name in all the world!
2Out of the mouths of infants and children
your majesty is praised above the heavens.
3You have set up a stronghold against your adversaries,
to quell the enemy and the avenger.
4When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,
5What is man that you should be mindful of him?
the son of man that you should seek him out?
6You have made him but little lower than the angels;
you adorn him with glory and honor;
7You give him mastery over the works of your hands;
you put all things under his feet:
8All sheep and oxen,
even the wild beasts of the field,
9The birds of the air, the fish of the sea,
and whatsoever walks in the paths of the sea.
10O Lord our Lord,
how exalted is your name in all the world!
Acts 2:14a, 22-36
Matthew 28:16-20
The Athanasian Creed
Whoever wants to be saved should above all cling to the catholic faith.
Whoever does not guard it whole and inviolable will doubtless perish eternally.
Now this is the catholic faith: We worship one God in trinity, and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being.
For the Father is one person, the Son is another, and the Holy Spirit is still another.
But the deity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is one, equal in glory and coeternal in majesty.
What the Father is, the Son is, and so is the Holy Spirit.
Uncreated is the Father; uncreated is the Son; uncreated is the Spirit.
The Father is infinite; the Son is infinite; the Holy Spirit is infinite.
Eternal is the Father; eternal is the Son; eternal is the Spirit. And yet there are not three eternal beings, but one who is eternal, as there are not three who are uncreated and unlimited beings, but one who is uncreated and unlimited.
Almighty is the Father; almighty is the Son; almighty is the Spirit. And yet there are not three almighty beings but one who is almighty.
Thus the Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spirit is God. And yet there are not three Gods but one God.
Thus the Father is Lord; the Son is Lord; the Holy Spirit is Lord. And yet there are not three Lords but one Lord.
As Christian truth compels us to acknowledge each distinct person as God and Lord, so catholic religion forbids us to say that there are three gods or three lords.
The Father was neither made nor created nor begotten.
The Son was neither made nor created, but was alone begotten by the Father.
The Spirit was neither made nor created, but is proceeding from the Father and the Son.
Thus there is one Father and not three fathers, one Son and not three sons, one Holy Spirit and not three spirits.
And in this Trinity, no one is before or after, greater or less than the other, But all three persons are in themselves coeternal and coequal, and so we must worship the Trinity in unity and the one God in three persons.
Whoever wants to be saved must think thus about the Trinity.
It is necessary for eternal salvation that one also faithfully believe that our Lord Jesus Christ became flesh.
For this is the true faith that we believe and confess: that our Lord Jesus Christ, God’s Son, is both God and man.
He is God, begotten before all worlds from the being of the Father, and he is man, born in the world from the being of his mother, existing fully as God and fully as man, with rational soul and a human body, equal to the Father in divinity and subordinate to the Father in humanity.
Although he is God and man, he is not divided but is one Christ.
He is united because God has taken humanity into himself; he does not transform deity into humanity.
He is completely one, in the unity of his person, without confusing his natures. For as the rational soul and body are one person, so the one Christ is God and man.
He suffered for our salvation.
He descended into hell, and rose again from the dead.
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.
At his coming, all people shall rise bodily to give an account of their own deeds. Those who have done good will enter eternal life, and those who have done evil will enter eternal fire.
This is the catholic faith. One cannot be saved without believing this firmly and faithfully.
Offering
Create In Me
Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer
Blessing
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Rev. Mark E. Ryman serves as Interim Pastor for St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, NC. Previously, Pastor Ryman has pastored other congregations in North Carolina and Ohio, as well as served on the staff of the North American Lutheran Church, and on the Board of Regents for the North American Lutheran Seminary. He currently serves a call to specialized ministry with Sola Publishing.
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