ST. DAVID’S CHURCH CHRIST CHURCH WITH THE
THE CHAPEL OF ST. BASIL
THE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER ROGATION SUNDAY 21ST MAY, 2017 Rector: The Rev’d Canon Noel A. Burke, M.A. Tel. No.: 435-4272 E-mail: nburke@anglican.bb Associate: The Very Rev’d William G. St. C. Dixon, CBE, MA [Dean Emeritus of the St. Michael Cathedral] Tel. No.: 427-3169 E-mail: spod@caribsurf.com
ORDER OF THE HOLY MASS Introit Hymn 641 Easter Sentence Acclamation Collect for Purity Kyries Gloria In Excelsis The Collect:
THE ENTRANCE RITE
All Things Bright and Beautiful Page 98 Page 101 Page 101 Page 102 Page 102 Page 170
THE LITURGY OF THE WORD 1st Reading: Acts 17:22-31 Psalm 66:8-18 Page 548 The Epistle: 1 Peter 3:13-22 Gradual Hymn 270 Come Down, O Love Divine THE HOLY GOSPEL: John 14:15-21 The Sermon The Nicene Creed Page 106 Intercession H Page 120 Act of Penitence & Absolution Page 123 The Greeting of Peace Page 124 Anthem: If ye love me - Thomas Tallis - The Church Choir THE LITURGY OF THE SACRAMENT Offertory Hymn 189 To Thee O God we fly Presentation of the Offering Page 126 The Sursum Corda Page 126 Easter Preface Page 128 “Therefore we praise you” Page 131 Sanctus et Benedictus Qui Venit Page 131 Consecration Prayer B Page 135 The Lord’s Prayer Page 144 The Breaking of Bread Page 145 The Invitation Page 147 Administration of Holy Communion 266 Breathe on me, Breath of God 573 Bread of heaven, on Thee we feed 732 Jesus, where'er thy people meet Post Communion Prayer Page 148 THE DISMISSAL RITE Easter Blessing Page 150 Notices and Announcements Recessional Hymn 371 Let All the world
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LECTORS & INTERCESSORS AT MASS TODAY 6:15am
7:45am
8:30 a.m.
1st Reading
Kerry Massiah
Bradston Clarke
Shacourtnee Estwick
The Epistle
Kathy Greenidge
Mervin Watson
Jadee St. Hill-Pinder
Intercession
Aline Bushell
Natalie Ifill
Samantha Peterkin
THE COLLECT: page 170 THE FIRST READING: READER:
A Reading from the Word of God written in the Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17 beginning at the 22nd verse.
Then 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 them an altar with the inscription, 'To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I 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--though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For 'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.’ Since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead." !3
Reader: ALL:
Here ends the Reading Thanks be to God.
Psalm 66:8-18
Page 548
THE EPISTLE READER:
A Reading from the Word of God written in 1st Peter Chapter 3 beginning at the 13th verse.
Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God's will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you--not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him. Reader: ALL:
Here ends the Reading Thanks be to God.
THE HOLY GOSPEL The Lord be with you. And also with you. A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John !4
Glory to Christ our Saviour. Jesus said "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. "I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them." The Gospel of Christ Praise to Christ our Lord
ASCENSION DAY Holy Mass & Homily on Ascension Day (Thursday May 25) at 6:15am. Come and celebrate our Lord’s return to Heaven (Please see page 11 of this bulletin) !5
From The Rector’s Notebook Greetings: According to Professor Patrick Regan, OSB in his book Advent to Pentecost The Feast of the Ascension is the start of a second subdivision of the Easter season, tempus Ascensionis, or “Time of Ascension,” Regan reminds us of a sermon delivered by Pope St. Leo the Great (390-461) in which the Pope declared that: “since the Ascension of Christ is our elevation, and since, where the glory of the Head has preceded us, there hope for the body is also invited, let us exult, dearly beloved, with worthy joy and be glad with a holy thanksgiving.” (Leo the Great, Sermon 73, 4, in FC 93, 324) Theologically and spiritually, the Feast of the Ascension is extremely important for faith and worship. The collect for Ascension Day along with the readings from sacred scripture (Acts 1: 1- 11; Psalm 47; Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:44-53) give us the reason for this. Indeed in the collect for Ascension we pray that our Saviour Jesus Christ, who was born in Bethlehem, taught his disciples, performed many miracles, died and rose again, ascended far above the heaven, is therefore described as being transcendent. When in prayer we call on the name of Jesus we recall that it is in his resurrected and ascended !6
form that we greet him; in other words we pray to Christ in his transcendent glory. In the same context we acknowledge in the collect that he is imminent or near, in that he abides with his church on earth; not in physical form, but again in his glorified state. The church in its presentation of Christ, never loses sight of this. It is for this reason that so much time and attention goes into the preparation of the sacred liturgy, for in our worship we bow and adore the Lord of glory in his awesome splendor until the end of time. In a recent article Fr. Bill Peckman made the point that one of the major errors of the contemporary church was ditching the notion of the transcendent. With this, he says that it means we act as if Jesus was merely human, a self help teacher, or social worker extraordinaire in which the Holy Mass started looking less like the worship of God and more like a ‘pep rally’. We must worship our Lord, risen, ascended, glorified in the beauty of worship and then in turn go out to be his servants. May God almighty bless us as we observe Ascension Day on Thursday of this week.
Your friend and priest,
Noel A. Burke, MA (The Rev’d Canon) Rector !7
NOTICES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK 24th Terriah Belle 27th Joshua King, Lewis Kirton. WEDDING ANNIVERSARY We congratulate Ken and Joy Brancker who celebrate their wedding anniversary on the 22nd of May. We pray this week for Leroy Allder, Grace Armstrong, Sylvia Atkins, Maureen Bagot & family, Carl Barrow, Ina Beamish, Norma Belle, Elrita Blackman, Joan & Cliff Bradford, Audine Brewster, Ethan Brooker, Ianthe Browne, Patricia Browne, Estelle Davis, Nancy Durant, Jean Farmer, Sylvia Fields. YOUNG ORGANISTS IN CONCERT The Commission on Liturgy, Spirituality and Music presents “Young Organists in Concert”. Come and hear Mathew Banfield, Christopher Browne, Janaye Burgess, Ahkanni Drakes, Keimar Greene, Nathan Lovell, Nicholas Stevenson and Dequan Rowe on Saturday June 3rd, 2017 at 6:00pm in the St. James Parish Church. Admission $25.00 in aid of the organ scholarship Fund. MAY MEASUREMENT MONTH We support the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Faculty of medical Sciences (UWI) as they join the Global effort of recording 25 million Blood Pressure (BP) readings during the month of May. Get checked! Know your BP reading. HEALTH GUILD WALK The monthly walk of the St. David's Health Guild takes place on Saturday, May 27th beginning at 5:30am. The route is as follows:- Turn right at the car park, proceed through 'The Grove' Development, Upton, along American University of Barbados (BET) property. Proceed along the Highway, pass the Life of Barbados onto Sargeant's Village Main Road. Continue along and make the left turn before the Chapel of St. Basil. Continue through Regency Park and return to the Church via Kent. !8
HEALTH CORNER BY: SOPHIA MARSHALL, PH.D INTERESTING FOOD FACTS There are so many interesting facts about the food we eat, here are a few: ✓
Crackers have small holes in them to prevent air bubbles from ruining the baking process.
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There are 7,500 varieties of apples throughout the world.
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Ingesting large doses of nutmeg can cause hallucinations.
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Ranch dressing contains titanium dioxide which makes it appear whiter. This chemical is used in sunscreen and paint for the same reason.
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Coconut water can be used as blood plasma.
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The softening agent L-cysteine which is used in some bread is made from human hair and duck feathers.
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An average ear of corn has an even number of rows, usually 16.
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The tea bag was created by accident! Samples of tea were sent in small bags but consumers thought that the entire bag was to be placed in the pot rather than emptying its contents.
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A 2010 study in the Journal of Pain revealed that ginger can help reduce exercise-induced muscle pain by up to 25%.
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Adding citrus juice to green tea increases the level of antioxidants that survive the digestion system up to 13 fold!
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“… he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.: Acts 1:9
ASCENSION DAY Holy Mass & Sermon Thursday May 25, 2017 6:15am - 7:15am
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THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH Today
ST. DAVID Holy Mass & Sermon Solemn Mass & Sermon Sunday School 10:00am Administration of Holy Comm. & Homily 8:30am Said Mass & Sermon Sunday School 6:15am 7:45am
ST. BASIL Monday
10:00am 5:30pm
Silver Stars Line dancing
Tuesday
9:30am 6:30pm
Bible Study Choir Rehearsal
Wednesday
7:00pm
Said Mass & Homily
Thursday
10:00am
Prayer Group
Friday
10:00am 5:00pm
Office Hours Bible Study (Children)
Saturday
9:00am
Confirmation Class
NEXT SUNDAY: Seventh SUNDAY OF EASTER ST. DAVID 6:15am Holy Mass & Sermon 7:45am Solemn Mass & Sermon Sunday School ST. BASIL
8:30am
Said Mass & Sermon Sunday School
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