“Equipping the Saints for the work of Ministry, and building

the body of Christ”

The First Sunday after Christmas December 27, 2015

Priest-in-charge:

Canon Winston Layne

Parish Bulletin

Diocese of Barbados P O Box 361, Bridgetown BB11000

Consecrated July 25, 1827

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e extend special greetings to those who are worshipping with us for the first time. An Usher will be happy to assist you. We sincerely want

you to feel welcome at this Church. If you do not have a home Church, we invite you to consider making St Mary’s your home. We invite you to 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 Walder Dunlop Holder Archbishop of the West Indies and Bishop of Barbados

Pastoral & Parish Staff Rector: Rev Dr Von E Watson (246) 424-2461 Priest-in-charge: Canon Winston Layne (246) 421-6508 Assistant Curate: Rev Reginald Knight (246) 426-3746 or (246) 422-1044 Church Office: (246) 426-3746 Administrative Assistant: Mrs Maureen Massiah Organist and Director of Music: Mr Victor Pilgrim Sexton: Ms Mylene Haynes

Church Wardens Mr Ian Inniss Mr Hector Sealy

Notices for the Parish Bulletin Please submit your notices, in writing, no later than Tuesday at 2:00 pm.

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Order of Service - 8:00 am The First Sunday after Christmas, BCPWI, Year C

Introit 67, 65

Opening Sentence Page 97 Acclamation Page 101

Collect for Purity Page 101 The Kyrie Page 102

Gloria in Excelsis Page 102 The Collect

The Ministry Of The Word Lesson ~ Isaiah 61: 10 – 62: 3

Reader: Doris Gajadhar Psalm 147: 13 - 20

Epistle ~ Galatians 3: 23 – 25, 4: 4 - 7 Reader: Jennifer Michael

Gradual 89

The Holy Gospel according to John 1: 1 - 18

The Sermon The Nicene Creed Pages 104 - 105

The Intercession ~ Form E Page 112 Leader: Angela Cummins

Act of Penitence Page 123 The Absolution Page 124

The Greeting of Peace Page 124 Form A

The Ministry of The Sacrament The Offertory 88, 77

The Presentation of the Offerings Page 126 Form B

The Eucharistic Prayer The Sursum Corda Pages 126 - 127

Proper Preface “Therefore we praise you…” Page 131

Sanctus et Benedictus Qui Venit Page 131 Eucharistic Prayer C Page 137

The Lord’s Prayer Page 144

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The Breaking of the Bread Page 145 Form 1

The Communion Invitation Page 146 Form C

Agnus Dei (Administration of the Holy Communion)

Page 147 Form A

Communion Hymns 66, 79, 569, 602

Blessing of the Children 642 Post Communion Prayer

The Blessing

Greetings and Announcements

Recessional 60

Organ Postlude

Be silent, be reverent, be thoughtful, for this is the House of God. Before the service, speak to the Lord; during the service, let the Lord speak to you; after the service, speak to one another.

The Augmented Choir of St Mary’s

presents

The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Today Sunday December 27, 2015

6:00 pm

Admission: $20.00

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The 12 days of Christmas The 12 days each traditionally celebrate a feast day for a saint and/or have different celebrations:

Day 1 (25th December): Christmas Day - celebrating the Birth of Jesus.

Day 2 (26th December also known as Boxing Day): St Stephen’s Day. He was the first Christian martyr.

Day 3 (27th December): St John the Apostle. Day 4 (28th December): The Feast of the Holy

Innocents. Day 5 (29th December): St Thomas Becket.

Archbishop of Canterbury in the 12th century, murdered on 29th December 1170 for challenging the King’s authority over Church.

Day 6 (30th December): St Egwin of Worcester. Day 7 (31st December): New Year’s Eve. Pope

Sylvester I is traditionally celebrated on this day. He was one of the earliest popes (in the 4th Century).

Day 8 (1st January): Mary, the Mother of Jesus Day 9 (2nd January): St. Basil the Great and St.

Gregory Nazianzen, two important 4th century Christians.

Day 10 (3rd January): Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. This remembers when Jesus was officially 'named' in the Jewish Temple. It's celebrated by different churches on different dates!

Day 11 (4th January): St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American saint, who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Day 12 (5th January also known as Epiphany Eve): St. John Neumann who was the first Bishop in American. He lived in the 19th century.

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December 28 Malcolm Murray December 30 Gavin Firebrace (Sunday School) January 1 Merle Maynard; Mary Walters January 2 Sydney Griffith; Hugh Walker

January 1 Dennis & Gladwyn Clarke,

52 years

Heather Leacock December 21, 2013

Parish News … connecting through Christ

Please continue to pray for the Rector,

Father Von, and Mrs Watson as they recuperate.

During the Rector’s absence Canon Winston Layne will be in charge of the Parish. Please remember him in your prayers.

Wedding Anniversary

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The Readings (Lections) for Year C are from the Revised Common Lectionary. Scripture texts are from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible.

Dennis & Gladwyn Clarke have donated a case of Communion Wine to the honour and glory of Almighty God and in thanksgiving for their 52nd wedding anniversary.

Nola Trotman has donated a case of Communion Wine to the honour and glory of Almighty God and in remembrance of her son, Damian André Gerard Alleyne, whose date of birth is December 29.

Elliott Mottley has donated a case of Communion Wine to the honour and glory of Almighty God and in thanksgiving for his wedding anniversary.

The 2016 Diocesan Liturgical calendars are available at $5.50 each.

The 2016 Sunday Offering Envelopes are at the back of the Church. Please take your box. An Usher will assist you.

Sunday Parish Bulletin available in electronic format: If you prefer to receive your copy of the Sunday Parish Bulletin in electronic format, please submit your name and e-mail address to the Administrative Assistant, Maureen Massiah. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your device in order to access and read the document. The App is available free from Google Play or the App Store.

Please note that until further notice, with the exception of Feast Days, there will be

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no celebration of Holy Mass on Tuesdays.

Working for the Common Good: In order to do the work for the common good and to build up the Body of Christ here at St Mary, the Rector invites members and friends of this Church to offer themselves to the following areas of Mission and Ministry:

• Mission, Outreach and Fellowship • Finance and fundraising • Youth and Education • Heritage, Open Church and Property

Please consider these prayerfully and be guided by the Holy Spirit as you seek to make your choice. Please contact the Rector if you have any questions. Remember that the Father desires our availability and He will give us the ability! We therefore encourage you to come forward.

Please remember in your prayers Enid Sobers, Doriel Chandler, Elsie Griffith, Gweneth Fowler, Merle Maynard, Jewel Carter, Sydney Griffith, Joyce Greaves.

The CPWI Hymnal (words only edition) is now available at $20.00. Copies with words and music are available at $55.00 each. If you wish to purchase a copy please contact the Administrative Assistant.

Gifts of remembrance or thanksgiving – As you remember your loved ones who have passed, we encourage you to donate articles used in worship as memorial gifts. You may also wish to donate articles used in worship as you celebrate

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birthdays, wedding and confirmation anniversaries and other achievements.

The Book of Common Prayer of the Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI) (Revised Version) is available at $20.00. If you wish to obtain a copy, please contact Maureen Massiah, Administrative Assistant.

The Holy Name of Jesus - New Year’s Eve

10:30 pm Sung Eucharist and Sermon There will be a booklet of Hymns and Readings. Please bring your CPWI Book of Common Prayer.

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The First Sunday after Christmas

Lections are from the Revised Common Lectionary.

Scripture texts are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

Themes of the Collect • God has poured the new light of his incarnate Word

upon us. • We ask that this new light may shine in our lives.

Lesson – Isaiah 61: 10 – 62: 3 The promise of a new name for Jerusalem

given by God himself speaks of a Jerusalem redeemed and delivered according to God’s promise.

Psalm 147: 13 - 20 A hymn of praise of God, his power over nature

and in history, his goodness to those who are faithful.

Epistle – Galatian 3: 23 – 25, 4: 4 - 7 Paul describes the law as having been the temporary guardian of God’s children. Now that faith has come we are all children of God, baptised into

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union with Jesus Christ. Through the spirit of his son, we can call God by the name his Son uses, “Abba! Father!”

Gospel – John 1: 1 - 18 Christ is described as the Word who was with God from the beginning and through whom all things come to be. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only S9on from the Father.” No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is with the Father, has made him known.

The Collect

ALMIGHTY GOD, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever..Amen. Lesson ~ Isaiah 61: 10 – 62: 3 A Reading from the Word of God written in the Sixty- First Chapter of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah beginning at the tenth verse. I WILL greatly rejoice in the LORD, my whole being shall exult in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,

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so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations. For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning torch. The nations shall see your vindication, and all the kings your glory; and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give. You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Psalm 147: 13 - 20 * Laudate Dominum (* from 1662 Book of Common Prayer until further notice)

FOR HE hath made fast the bars of thy gates: and

hath blessed thy children within thee. 14. He maketh peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the flour of wheat. 15. He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: and his word runneth very swiftly. 16. He giveth snow like wool: and scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. 17. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who is able to abide his frost? 18. He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he bloweth with his wind, and the waters flow. 19. He sheweth his word unto Jacob: his statutes and ordinances unto Israel. 20. He hath not dealt so with any nation: neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws.

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Glory be to the Father, and to Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning Is now and ever shall be World without end. Amen.

Epistle ~ Galatians 3: 23 – 25, 4: 4 - 7

A Reading from the Word of God written in the Third Chapter of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, beginning at the twenty-third verse.

NOW BEFORE faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian.

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.

The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

The Gospel ~ John 1: 1 - 18

The Lord be with you And also with you. A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.

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Glory to Christ Our Saviour. IN THE beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. (John testified to him and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.'") From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known. The Gospel of Christ. Praise to Christ Our Lord.

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Reflections for First Sunday after

Christmas Immediately after Christmas we celebrate the martyrdom of St Stephen and of the Holy Innocents. Even amidst our Christmas joy we are reminded that salvation always has its price. We are reminded that our joy calls us to surrender ourselves to God’s ways, to spend ourselves for the good of others.

Reprinted from Liturgical Ministry 16 (Spring 2007). Used with permission.

Each of us decides if Jesus is to be the special one, the unique one, the one who makes all the difference, the one who provides the ground of deepest meaning in our lives. If this is true, then no wonder this yearly festival can makes us glad. It can be what snatches that gladness from the grasping and demanding hands of sorrow or pain or loss. We will know that we are celebrating again the birthing of everything that holds meaning in life for us.

Herbert O’Driscoll, Prayers for the Breaking of Bread

Daily readings expand the range of biblical reading in worship and personal devotion by providing daily

December 28 = January 2

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citations for the full three-year cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary. These readings complement the Sunday and festival readings: Thursday through Saturday readings help prepare the reader for the Sunday ahead; Monday through Wednesday readings help the reader reflect on and digest what they heard in worship.

• Monday (December 28, 2015): Psalm 148; Isaiah 54:1-13; Revelation 21:1-7

• Tuesday (December 29, 2015): Psalm 147:12-20; 1 Chronicles 28:1-10; 1 Corinthians 3:10-17

• Wednesday (December 30, 2015): Psalm 147:12-20; 2 Chronicles 1:7-13; Mark 13:32-37

• Thursday (December 31, 2015): Psalm 147:12-20; 1 Kings 3:5-14; John 8:12-19

December 27 – First Sunday after Christmas 6:00 pm Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Holy Name of Jesus - New Year’s Eve 10:30 pm Sung Eucharist and Sermon

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2016 Diocesan Service The Diocesan Service is scheduled for Sunday, 7 February 2016 at the Garfield Sobers Gymnasium at 10:00 am The preacher is the Right Reverend Robert Thompson, Suffragan Bishop of Kingston, Jamaica. Choir Rehearsals will begin 2 January 2016 at the Church of Christ the King at 5:00 pm.

Memorials and Thanksgiving The following may be offered as a memorial or thanksgiving.

• Flowers $160.00 • Wafers $55.00 • Incense $85.00 • Wine (case) $112.00 • Charcoal $90.00

If you wish to donate any of the above items, please complete a Memorial and Thanksgiving Form available from the Office. Return the completed form to the Administrative Assistant, along with the donation and you will receive a receipt.

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Crossword Puzzle (Luke 2)

Across 1 Which Caesar decreed a census? 6 Which was the town of David? 7 Who was governor of Syria? 10 What tribe was Anna from? 11 Where did Mary place her new-born baby? Down 2 Where did Joseph and Mary go after they completed what was required by law?

3 Whose house did Jesus tell his parents he had been in whilst in Jerusalem?

4 Who was the man in Jerusalem who had the Holy Spirit on him?

5 Where did Joseph and Mary go every year at Passover? 8 The glory of whom shone around the shepherds? 9 Who was Phanuel's daughter?

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This Week at St Mary’s

First Sunday after Christmas

8:00 am 6:00 pm

Solemn Eucharist and Sermon Nine Lessons and Carols

Monday

10:00 am – 2:00 pm

St John, Apostle and Evangelist (transferred) Open Church Ministry

Tuesday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

The Holy Innocents Open Church Ministry

Wednesday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Open Church Ministry

Thursday 10:30 pm

New Year’s Eve Mass of the Holy Name

Friday

New Year’s Day

Saturday 10:00 am

Gregory of Nazianzus Preparation for Worship Flower Guild

Next Sunday …

Second Sunday after

Christmas 7:00 am 8:45 am

Holy Eucharist and Sermon Solemn Eucharist and Sermon Youth in Corporate Worship

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Remember those of this congregation, their families and friends. 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.

Sick and Shut-ins Jean Thornhill, Dorothy Burke, Vanita Herbert, Lorna Griffith, Joyce Carrington, Gladys Trotman, Elsie Drayton, Geraldine Kippins, Norma Hayde, Mardelle Walton, Daisy Haynes, Verona Tinnis, Harold Taitt, Waple Lovell, Elaine Goddard, Muriel Layne, Muriel Gittens, Rudolph Hinds, Eileen Burrowes, Elaine Forde, Velda Crawford, Courtney and Christina Gibson, Gladys and Leo Ashby District Hospital Velma Lavine (St Michael); Ira Slocombe (Gordon Cummins)