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Holy Communion Service in English

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March 08, 2026

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02:00 PM

Holy Communion Service in English

Lectionary Theme: Call to be inclusive (The Fourth Sunday of the Lent)

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    1. Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.

    2. Happy is the mortal who does this, the one who holds it fast, who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it, and refrains from doing any evil.

    3. Do not let the foreigner joined to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and do not let the eunuch say, “I am just a dry tree.”

    4. For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,

    5. I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

    6. And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the sabbath, and do not profane it, and hold fast my covenant—

    7. these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

    8. Thus says the Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather others to them besides those already gathered. The Corruption of Israel’s Rulers

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    9. After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.

    10. They cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

    11. And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

    12. singing, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

    13. Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?”

    14. I said to him, “Sir, you are the one that knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

    15. For this reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.

    16. They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat;

    17. for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

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    23. Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed.

    24. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.

    25. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian,

    26. for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.

    27. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

    28. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

    29. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.

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    21. Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

    22. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.”

    23. But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.”

    24. He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

    25. But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”

    26. He answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”

    27. She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

    28. Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed instantly. Jesus Cures Many People