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<\/a><\/p>\nWorship Schedule<\/h3>\n
Sunday<\/span><\/span> Worship<\/em> \u00a0– 10:00 a.m.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n We are not an audience in worship: we are a gathered community around the message of the Gospel and the weekly meal of Holy Communion.\u00a0\u00a0 Worship at Messiah is both liturgical and informal.\u00a0 It is full of reverence yet has room for laughter.\u00a0 We take it seriously, but we make mistakes.\u00a0\u00a0 We love music, but most of us are not trained musicians.<\/p>\n The mystery of Holy Communion is that the Christ who was present with the disciples at the Last Supper is present with us today.\u00a0 If you are a baptized Christian desiring forgiveness and the strengthening of faith, you are welcome to come to the Lord’s Table believing the Christ is truly present in the bread and wine.\u00a0 For those who do not wish to have the wine<\/strong>, white grape juice is available in the communion trays.\u00a0 Simply point to the grape juice when the communion assistant come to you, and they will serve it to you.\u00a0 At the parents’ discretion, young children may receive the bread of Holy Communion or a blessing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The church year is marked by a cycle of seasons and festival Sundays: Advent, Christmas, Worship is the birthright of every child of God of every age.\u00a0 Children should be full participants in worship, using all their senses to open up to God\u2019s presence.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to a weekly children\u2019s time in worship and a children\u2019s bulletin, we invite young children at their parents\u2019 discretion to receive the bread at Holy Communion or to cross the arms over their chest to receive a blessing.\u00a0 Children can serve as ushers, greeters, readers, and acolytes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Messiah Lutheran Church (ELCA) 8590 Enterprise Drive South Mountain Iron, MN 55768 Worship Schedule Sunday Worship \u00a0– 10:00 a.m. Worship at Messiah We are not an audience in worship: we are a gathered community around the message of the Gospel … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.messiahmtiron.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.messiahmtiron.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.messiahmtiron.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.messiahmtiron.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.messiahmtiron.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.messiahmtiron.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.messiahmtiron.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.messiahmtiron.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.messiahmtiron.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h5>\n
Worship at Messiah<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Communion at Messiah<\/h5>\n
Celebrating the Seasons<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Epiphany, Lent, Holy \u00a0Week, Easter, Pentecost, \u00a0Ordinary Time,\u00a0and the Season of Creation.\u00a0 They help us focus on different aspects of the life into which God in Christ through the Spirit keeps drawing us.\u00a0 At Messiah we have both solemn and joyful traditions for celebrating the seasons and the festival days.<\/p>\nChildren in Worship \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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