October 15, 2023 The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost

<p><strong>Entrance Hymn #569 <em>God the Omnipotent! </em>Psalm (10:00am)</strong></p><p><strong> #645 <em>The King of Love My Shepherd Is </em></strong></p><p><strong>Sequence Hymn #408 <em>Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em>Offertory Anthem <em>Loving Shepherd (Bach, arr. various) </em></strong></p><p><strong>Communion Anthem <em>O Salutaris Hostia (Beethoven)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em>Post-Communion Hymn #556 <em>Rejoice, Ye Pure In Heart </em></strong></p><p><strong>THE COLLECT OF THE DAY </strong>Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. <em>Amen. </em></p><p><strong>FIRST READING <em>Isaiah 25:1-9 </em></strong>A Reading from the Prophet Isaiah. O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a city no more, it will never be rebuilt. Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you. For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat. When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rainstorm, the noise of aliens like heat in a dry place, you subdued the heat with the shade of clouds; the song of the ruthless was stilled. On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear. And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever. Then the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LO