The 9:15 Worship Service at Port Wallis is about 35 minutes long and follows the format of Celtic Morning Prayer.  There is high congregational participation in this form of Worship.  The music is laity chosen and played and varies each Sunday according to the musician's musical instrument, their choice of hymns, and their ability.   The scripture lesson is one of the four lessons set out in the Ecumenical Lectionary and is usually the Gospel.  The "Teaching Time" is a time of explaining the Scripture and usually ends up with a question to go home and ponder. The Pastoral Prayer Format is call and response where the minister says a line and the congregation repeats.  We end up by saying the Lord's Prayer together.  There are several set parts of the Liturgy that remain the same Sunday to Sunday.
 
Five times a year we have Communion ( First Sunday of Advent, Sunday before Lend, Easter, Pentecost, and World Wide Communion) and at these times, we have a communion Bulletin and Liturgy.
 
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Blessings
The Rev. Ivan Gregan

Sermon Notes, October 9:

Luke 17: 11 – 19  THE 10 LEPERS

Jerusalem – seat of religious power

Border between Samaria and Galilee

-          borders – fringes of society, edge of territory

-          Samaritans – despised ethnic group

-          Galileans – people of whom others made jokes

Going into a village

-          entering a community

-          as Jesus is doing this he meets people who have been pushed out of community

10 men

-          10 = a summary of the whole, refer to numbers chart

-          10 men – min. number for a Jewish Community (even one is a foreigner)

leprosy

-          Greek “lepra” could mean leprosy or could mean ‘spot’ or ‘stain’.  Lets go for latters.

Stood at a distance

-          not wanting to insult him or ‘stain’ his reputation by being seen to hang out with Him.

Voice

-          wanting to speak but having been silenced

“Jesus, Master, have mercy/pity upon us”

-          mercy – understand our plight, offer a response, give us courage to cease response, give us courage to incorporate your response and give us courage to live it out.

Go and show yourselves to the priests

-          no record of Jesus touching them

-          Jesus did not up set religious norms

-          Priests who had evicted them from community must be the one who receive them back

As they went, they were cleansed

-          not immediately

-          as they gained courage to present themselves, they were cleansed from within one of them

-          not all 10 only one

-          he was a Samaritan – a visible minority, one who could not cover his differences

Jesus asked…

-          Where is our thankfulness

-          A Samaritan – a half-Jew, one who was despised, he returned.

Who are the modern lepers?