March 13, 2016

Priest-in-charge The Rev Canon Wayne E Isaacs

Assistant Curate The Rev Reginald Knight

Church Office: (246) 426-3746

Church Wardens

Mr Ian Inniss Mr Hector Sealy

Administrative Assistant: Mrs Maureen Massiah

Organist and Director of Music: Mr Victor Pilgrim

Sexton: Ms Mylene Haynes

Diocese of Barbados

P O Box 361, Bridgetown BB11000 Consecrated July 25, 1827

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We extend special greetings to those who are worshipping with us for the first time. An Usher would be happy to assist you. We sincerely want you to feel welcomed at this Church. If you do not have a home Church, we invite you to consider making St Mary’s your home. Please sign the Visitors’ Book at the back of the Church. Please pray for:

The Diocese of Barbados

His Grace, the Most Reverend & Dr The Hon John W.D. Holder, Archbishop of the West Indies and Bishop of Barbados

Order of Service Fifth Sunday in Lent, BCP CPWI, Year C

Introit 143

Opening Sentence Page 98 Acclamation Page 101

Collect for Purity Page 101 The Kyrie Page 102

The Collect

The Ministry of The Word Lesson ~ Isaiah 43: 16-21

Readers 7:00 am Denis Cumberbatch

8:45 am Women’s Fellowship/Evangelism & Prayer Group

Psalm 126

Epistle ~ Philippians 3: 4b-14 Readers

7:00 am Stephanie Ashby 8:45 am Donne Austin

Gradual 133

The Holy Gospel according to John 12:1-8

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The Sermon

The Nicene Creed Pages 104 – 105 The Intercession

Leaders 7:00 am Inez Straughn

8:45 am Stephen Leacock

Act of Penitence Page 123 The Absolution Page 124

The Greeting of Peace Page 124 Form A

The Ministry of the Sacrament The Offertory 144

The Presentation of the Offerings Page 126 Form B

The Eucharistic Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer Page 144 The Breaking of the Bread Page 145 Form 1

The Communion Invitation 146 Form C

Agnus Dei (Administration of the Holy Communion) Page 147 Form A

Communion Hymns 138, 142, 581, 587

Blessing of the Children 657

Post Communion Prayer The Blessing

Greetings and Announcements

Recessional 145

Dismissal

Organ Postlude

Diocesan Theme for 2016 - 2018

“Being a Beacon of Christ’s Presence in the Community.”

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Birthdays and Anniversaries

Birthdays:

March 13 - Joyce Maloney March 14 – Cora Williams; Joyce Archer; Leigh Roachford

Anniversary of Confirmation:

March 14 – Ermine Barker (45 years) March 16 – Gertrude King; Beverley Brathwaite

In memory of Robert Toppin, March 13, 2006

Maria Brathwaite has donated a case of Communion Wine to the honour and glory of Almighty God and in thanksgiving for her birthday.

Your assistance is needed to make Palm Crosses on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week.

The Reverend Mark Harewood, Rector of St.

Barnabas Church has been appointed Rural Dean of St. Michael, effective March 1, 2016.

The Harvest Festival of Thanksgiving is

scheduled for Sunday April 17, 2016.

Please collect your Lenten Journals for 2016 from the Ushers.

Please remember in your prayers Enid Sobers, Doriel Chandler, Elsie Griffith, Merle Maynard, Sydney Griffith, Joyce Greaves, Winifred Harris.

Gifts of remembrance or thanksgiving – As you remember your loved ones who have passed, we encourage you to donate articles used in worship as

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memorial gifts. You may also wish to donate articles used in worship as you celebrate birthdays, wedding and confirmation anniversaries and other achievements.

St Michael Deanery Lenten Service

The St Michael Deanery Lenten Service will be held at St Mary’s Church today March 13, 2016, at 6:00 pm. The Service will take the form of evensong from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Father Luther Johnson will be the preacher.

Today’s Readings

Old Testament Reading – Isaiah 43: 16 - 21 A Reading from the Word of God written in the Forty-third Chapter of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, beginning at the sixteenth verse.

Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,

who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior;

they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:

Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.

I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

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The wild animals will honour me, the jackals and the ostriches;

for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert,

to give drink to my chosen people, the people whom I formed for myself

so that they might declare my praise.

The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Psalm 126 (* from 1662 Book of Common Prayer)

The congregation sits for the Psalm)

WHEN the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion: then were we like unto them that dream. 2. Then was our mouth filled with laughter: and our tongue with joy. 3. Then said they among the heathen: The Lord hath done great things for them. 4. Yea, the Lord hath done great things for us already: whereof we rejoice. 5. Turn our captivity, O Lord: as the rivers in the south. 6. They that sow in tears: shall reap in joy. 7. He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed: shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him.

Epistle ~ Philippians 3: 4b-14 A Reading from the Word of God written in the Third Chapter of Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, beginning at the fourth verse.

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If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

The Gospel ~ John 12: 1-8

The Lord be with you And also with you. A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Glory to Christ Our Saviour. Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was

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one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?" (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.) Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me." The Gospel of Christ. Praise to Christ Our Lord.

Daily Readings – March 14-19

Monday (March 14, 2016): Psalm 20; Exodus

40:1-15; Hebrews 10:19-25 Tuesday (March 15, 2016): Psalm 20; Judges 9:7-

15; 1 John 2:18-28 Wednesday (March 16, 2016): Psalm 20;

Habakkuk 3:2-15; Luke 18:31-34 Thursday (March 17, 2016): Psalm 31:9-16; Isaiah

53:10-12; Hebrews 2:1-9 Friday (March 18, 2016): Psalm 31:9-16; Isaiah

54:9-10; Hebrews 2:10-18 Saturday (March 19, 2016): Psalm 31:9-16;

Leviticus 23:1-8; Luke 22:1-13

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Crossword Puzzle

Across 3

Who said "....and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed"?

4 What did Mary pour onto Jesus’ feet? (4,4) 5 How many days before Passover did Jesus go to Bethany? 6 Whose house did Jesus go to in Bethany? 8 What produces many seeds when it dies? (5,2,5) 10 Who objected to Mary wasting the perfume on Jesus? Down 1 The daughter of whom should not be afraid? 2 What is the man in, who does not know where he is going? 4

What did the crowd take as they went out to meet Jesus? (4,8)

6 Jesus said he had come into the world as a what? 7 Who came to Philip requesting to see Jesus? 9 Where had Lazarus been raised from?

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This Week at St Mary’s Fifth Sunday in Lent

7:00 am 8:45 am

6:00 pm

Holy Eucharist and Sermon Solemn Eucharist and Sermon Women’s Fellowship and Evangelism & Prayer Group in joint Corporate Worship St Michael Deanery Lenten Service

Monday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Open Church Ministry

Tuesday 9:00 – 11:00 am

10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Office hours Open Church Ministry

Wednesday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Open Church Ministry Midday Lenten Devotions and Address

Thursday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

St Patrick, Bishop Open Church Ministry

Friday 9:30 am

10:00 am – 2:00 pm 10:45 am – 12 noon

5:00 pm

Cyril of Jerusalem Holy Mass and Homily Open Church Ministry Office hours Stations of the Cross

Saturday

St Joseph Preparation for Worship

Next Sunday … Sunday of the

Passion 7:00 am

8:45 am

Palm Sunday Holy Eucharist and Sermon Blessing and Distribution of Palms Solemn Eucharist and Sermon Distribution of Palms (St Mary’s Home) Mothers’ Union in Corporate worship

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Remember those of this congregation, their families and friends who

need our prayers. May Jesus Christ grant them heavenly healing.

Please let us know of any such persons and especially those who are

members, so that we may have their communion taken to them.

CONDOLENCES

We extend condolences to the family of Gweneth Fowler on her passing. Details of the funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date. May she rest in peace.

SERVICES FOR HOLY WEEK AND EASTER

Palm Sunday 7.00 a.m. Mass 8.45 a.m. Procession and Sung Mass The procession begins at the St. Mary's Home

Wednesday 12.00 Midday Devotions

Maundy Thursday 7.30 p.m. Sung Mass with the washing

of feet and stripping of the Altar (Prayer Book, page 235)

Good Friday 9.00 a.m. Family Service

12.00 The Good Friday Liturgy- ( Prayer Book, page 235. Please note this is not a 3 hour service)

Easter Eve 7.00 p.m. The Easter Vigil (Prayer Book, page 251) Please bring a candle

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Easter Day 7.00 a.m. Mass 9.00 a.m. Sung Mass

The Five Marks of Mission of the Anglican Communion are:

To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom

To teach, baptise and nurture new believers

To respond to human need by loving service

To transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and pursue peace and reconciliation

To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth