May 14, 2023 The Sixth Sunday of Easter

<p><strong>Entrance Hymn #191 <em>Alleluia, Alleluia! Hearts and Voices Heavenward Raise</em></strong></p><p><strong>Sequence Hymn #455 <em>O Love of God, How Strong and True</em></strong></p><p><strong>Offertory Anthem <em>Dona Nobis Pacem (Bach, arr. Althouse)</em></strong></p><p><strong>Communion Anthem <em>Ubi Caritas (Hurd)</em></strong></p><p><strong>Post-Communion Hymn #544 <em>Jesus Shall Reign</em></strong></p><p><strong>THE COLLECT OF THE DAY</strong></p><p>O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.&nbsp;<em>Amen.</em></p><p><strong>FIRST READING&nbsp;<em>Acts 17:22-31</em></strong></p><p>Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among&nbsp;them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I&nbsp;proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—&nbsp;though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For&nbsp;‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as&nbsp;even some of your own poets have said,</p><p>‘For we too are his offspring.’</p><p>Since we are God’s&nbsp;offspring, we ought not to think that the deity