Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany

January 31, 2016

Rector Rev Dr Von E Watson

Assistant Curate

Rev Reginald Knight

Parish Bulletin

“Equipping the Saints for the work of Ministry,

and building the body of Christ”

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 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. 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 Walder Dunlop Holder Archbishop of the West Indies and Bishop of Barbados

Pastoral & Parish Staff

Rector: Rev Dr Von E Watson (246) 424-2461 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

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Order of Service - 8:00 am Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, BCP CPWI, Year C

Introit 363 Opening Sentence Page 97

Acclamation 101 Collect for Purity Page 101

The Kyrie Page 102 Gloria in Excelsis Page 102

The Collect

The Ministry of The Word Lesson ~ Jeremiah 4: 1 - 10

Reader: Ushers’ Guild Psalm 71: 1 - 6

Epistle ~ 1 Corinthians 13: 1 - 13 Reader: Health Guild

Presentation Youth The Holy Gospel according to Luke 4: 21 - 30

The Sermon Presentation Health Guild

The Nicene Creed Pages 104 - 105 Intercession

Act of Penitence Page 123 The Absolution Page 124

The Greeting of Peace Page 124 Form A

The Ministry of The Sacrament The Offertory

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 D Page 140

The Lord’s Prayer Page 144

The Breaking of the Bread Page 145 Form 1

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The Communion Invitation Page 146 Form C

Agnus Dei (Administration of the Holy Communion)

Page 147 Form A

Communion Hymns

Blessing of the Children

Post Communion Prayer

The Blessing

Greetings and Announcements

Recessional 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.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are

appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible

-- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

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February 1 Verona Tinnis, 95 years (Shut-in)

February 3 George Ellis

February 4 Sylvester Niles

February 6 Marguerite Williams

February 7 Elaine Forde (Shut-in)

February 8 Alan Griffith

February 2 Doris King-Seale, 79 years

February 7 Carlotta Eversley

February 10 Christianne King (studying overseas): Jerry Daisley; Darien Taylor; Claudette Yearwood

Anniversary of

Confirmation

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Winifred Rudder February 7, 2006

connecting through Christ

Please continue to pray for the Rector, Father Von, and Mrs Watson as they recuperate.

We remind those of you who have not yet collected your 2016 Sunday Offering Envelopes to do so. You will find them at the back of the Church. An Usher will assist you.

Wednesday February 10 is the First day of Lent, Ash Wednesday. See page 16 for the schedule of services.

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.

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

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worship as memorial gifts. You may also wish to donate articles used in worship as you celebrate 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.

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. There will be no service at the Church.

The Martindale and McCollin families express thanks to all who attended the funeral, sent wreaths, cards or in any way sympathised with them on the passing of their loved one, Delphine Gibson.

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Fourth Sunday

after the Epiphany

Lections are from the Revised Common Lectionary.

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

Theme of the Lections

To speak God’s word is to risk rejection from those around us.

Lesson – Jeremiah 1: 4 - 10

Jeremiah is called to speak for God. He says, “Ah Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy”. But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not say, “I am only a boy”; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you … See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms…’”

Psalm 71: 1 - 6

The psalmist prays for God’s continuing protection.

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Epistle - 1 Corinthians 13: 1 - 13

Paul reminds the congregation at Corinth that they are the cautions the congregation at Corinth about the use of the gift of speaking in tongues. “One who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret.”

Gospel – Luke 4: 21 - 30

The people in the synagogue knew Jesus’ family and were puzzled and angered by his words. He spoke of Elijah and Elisha and their miraculous help to a widow and a leper who were not Israelites. The people led Jesus to a hill intending to throw him over the edge. He walked into the crowd and away from them, and went to Capernaum where he continued to teach.

The Collect

ALMIGHTY AND, everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Lesson ~ Jeremiah 1: 4 - 10 A Reading from the Word of God written in the First Chapter of the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, beginning at the fourth verse. NOW THE word of the LORD came to me saying,

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

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and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.” But the LORD said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am only a boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you, Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD.”

Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me,

“Now I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Psalm 71: 1 - 6* In te, Domine, speravi (* from 1662 Book of Common Prayer until further notice) IN THEE O Lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion: but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness, incline thine ear unto me, and save me. 2. Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may alway resort: thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence and my castle.

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3. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly: out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 4. For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope, even from my youth. 5. Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; my praise shall be always of thee. 6. I am become as it were a monster unto many: but my sure trust is in thee. 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 ~ 1 Corinthians 13: 1 - 13 A Reading from the Word of God written in the Thirteenth Chapter of Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, beginning at the first verse. IF I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It

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bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

The Gospel ~ Luke 4: 21 - 30

The Lord be with you And also with you. A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. Glory to Christ Our Saviour. JESUS BEGAN to speak in the synagogue at Nazareth, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, “Is not this Joseph's son?” He said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’ And you will say, ‘Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.’” And he said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's hometown. But

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the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way. The Gospel of Christ. Praise to Christ Our Lord.

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

February 1 - 6

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Monday (February 1, 2016): Psalm 5; Jonah 4:1-11; Acts 8:26-40

Presentation of the Lord (February 2, 2016): Malachi 3:1-4, Psalm 84, Hebrews 2:14-18, Luke 2:22-40

Wednesday (February 3, 2016): Psalm 5; Nehemiah 1:1-11; Acts 3:1-10

Thursday (February 4, 2016): Psalm 99; Deuteronomy 9:1-5; Acts 3:11-16

Friday (February 5, 2016): Psalm 99; Deuteronomy 9:6-14; Acts 10:1-8

Saturday (February 6, 2016): Psalm 99; Deuteronomy 9:15-24; Luke 10:21-24

Anglican studies –

A programme for

all members of the church

The aim of these sessions is to provide opportunities for members of the church to broaden their knowledge of the Christian Faith from an Anglican perspective and to equip them for witness in their communities. These sessions and other activities sponsored by the Diocese will be cognizant of the theme for 2016 “Being a Beacon of Christ’s Presence in the Community.” Sessions will be conducted on Tuesdays from 7.30-9.00p.m. at the Church of Christ the King. There is a registration fee of $20.00 per module payable at the first class of each module Following is the schedule for the first module.

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Module 1 - Presenter: The Reverend Canon George Knight The Book of Revelation with special reference to the message to the seven churches February 16 Introduction to the Book of Revelation February 23 The Message to Ephesus March 01 The Message to Smyrna (2:8-11); The Message to Pergamum (2:12-17) March 08 The Message to Thyatira (2:18-29) March 15 The Message to Sardis (3:1-6); The Message to Philadelphia (3:7-13) March 29 The Message to Laodicea (3:14-22)

7:00 am Holy Mass and Sermon

Blessing and Imposition of Ashes 9:00 am School Service 12 noon Holy Mass and Sermon

Blessing and Imposition of Ashes

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Crossword Puzzle 1

Across

4 What did the devil tell Jesus to turn the stone into?

6 Where did Jesus go after being driven out of Nazareth?

7 How many days did Jesus spend in the desert? 8

Whose home did Jesus go to whose owners mother-in-law was ill?

10 Where did the devil lead Jesus to the highest point of the temple?

11 What was shut for three and a half years? Down 1 What threw the man down before leaving him? 2

In Isaiah's writings who was proclaimed freedom for?

3 Who was the Syrian who was cleansed? 5 At what time did Jesus go to a solitary place? 9

What did Jesus say you must not put the Lord your god to?

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Crossword Puzzle 2

Across

3 What am I who has faith to move mountains but no love?

5 Love hopes and what? 7

What sort of ways were behind me when I became a man?

8 Love does not what?

Down

1 Love keeps no record of what? 2 What is patient and kind? 4

I gain nothing if without love I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to what? (3,6)

5 What gift have I, if I can fathom all mysteries? 6 Love does not delight in what? 7

If I speak in tongue of angels without love I am only a clanging what?

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This Week at St Mary’s Fourth Sunday after

the Epiphany 8:00 am

Family Service Holy Eucharist and Sermon All organisations in Corporate Worship

Monday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Open Church Ministry

Tuesday

10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple Open Church Ministry

Wednesday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Anskar, Bishop Open Church Ministry Midday Devotions and Address

Thursday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Cornelius the Centurion Open Church Ministry

Friday 9:30 am

10:00 am – 2:00 pm

The Martyrs of Japan Holy Mass and Homily Open Church Ministry

Next Sunday … Last Sunday

after the Epiphany 10:00 am

Diocesan Service Right Reverend Robert Thompson, Suffragan Bishop of Kingston, Jamaica Garfield Sobers Gymnasium

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emember 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, Muriel Goodman District Hospital Velma Lavine (St Michael); Ira Slocombe (Gordon Cummins)