Bulletin - 7th March 2010

ORDER OF SERVICE FOR SOLEMN SUNG MASS

7:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

7^th March 2010 - Lent III

Celebrant –  7:00 a.m. – Fr. Bernard Been

                    10:30 a.m. – Archdeacon I. Ranfurly Brown

Introit Hymn - ”My God I love Thee, not because...”  – A&M 106

Opening Sentences

Prayer of Intention - BCP Page 101

Collect for Purity - BCP Page 101

Kyries  - BCP Page 102

Gloria - BCP Page 102

COLLECT FOR  THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT – BCP Page 163

Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

COLLECT FOR ASH WEDNESDAY – BCP Page 163

Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, on God, forever and ever.  Amen.

The Proclamation of the Word

FIRST LESSON

A reading from the Word of God written in Exodus 3:1-15

Reader:  7:00 a.m. – Monique Mitchell

              10:30 a.m. – Roniqua Wright

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.  There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed.  Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.”   When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”  Then he said, “Come no closer! Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”  He said further, “I am the god of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”  And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.  Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters.  Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.  The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.  So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites out of Egypt.”  But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”   He said, “I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you that it is I who sent you; when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God on this mountain.”  But Moses said to God, “If I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”  God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”  He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, “I AM has sent me to you.”  God also said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’: This is my name forever, and this my title for all generations.”  

The Word of the Lord.                           All:  Thanks be to God.

PSALM 103:1-11

1. Bless the Lord, O my soul * and all that is within me, bless his holy Name.
2. Bless the lord, O my soul, * and forget not all his benefits.
3. He forgives all your sins * and heals all your infirmities;
4. He redeems your life from the grave * and crowns you with mercy and loving kindness;
5. He satisfies you with good things, * and your youth is renewed lie an eagle’s.
6. The Lord executes righteousness * and judgement for all who are oppressed.
7. He made his ways known to Moses * and his works to the children of Israel.
8. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, * slow to anger and of great kindness.
9. He will not always accuse us, 8 nor will keep his anger for ever.
10. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, * nor rewarded us according to our wickedness.
11. For as the heavens are high above the earth, * so is his mercy great upon those who fear him.

THE EPISTLE

A reading from the Word of God written in 1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Reader: 7:00 a.m. – Allan Wright

             10:30 a.m. – Jerome Sawyer

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink.  For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.  Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.  Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.  Do not become idolaters as some of them did; as it written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.” We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.  We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.  And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.  These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.  So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall.  No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone.  God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.

The Word of the Lord                                All:  Thanks be to God.

Gradual Hymn – “O Merciful Creator, hear” – A&M 87

The HOLY GOSPEL of our Lord according to Luke 13:1-9

All:  Glory be to Christ our Saviour

At that very time there were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.  He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans?  No I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.  Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them – do you think they were sores offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem?  No I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.”  The he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.  So he said to the gardener, ‘See here!  For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none.  Cut it down!  Why should it be wasting the soil?’  He replied, ‘Sir, let it along for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it.  If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but it not, you can cut it down.”

The Gospel of Christ                               All:  Praise to Christ our Lord.

7:00 a.m. - Solo by:  Karrolann Jervis

10:30 a.m. – Selection by Primary Choir

Sermon:   7:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. – Archdeacon Brown

Creed

Intercessions - Form B – BCP Page 107

                          7:00 a.m. – Edward Archer

Chorus: “I’m praying for you”                    

Act of Penitence

The Greeting of Peace

                                       MINISTRY OF  THE SACRAMENT

Selection – By Senior Choir – “Lenten Meditations”

Doxology -  “Praise God from whom all blessings flow”

Offertory Hymn – “O Thou Who dost to man accord” – A&M 86

The Eucharistic Prayer

Selection – By Senior Choir – “Let us break bread together”

Communion Hymns –

             “We pray Thee, heavenly Father” – A&M 321

                    “Beneath the cross of Jesus” – A&M 667                                          

             “O Food that weary pilgrims love” – A&M 319

Hymn for Blessing – “Do no sinful action” – A&M 569

Birthday and Anniversary Blessings                                                                                   

Post Communion Prayer – BCP Page 148

The Blessing

News and Notices

Recessional Hymn – “Forty days and forty nights” – A&M 92

SOLEMN EVENSONG, SERMON, BENEDICTION

6:30 P.M.

Officiant – Canon warren Rolle

Introit Hymn – “Take up thy cross, the Saviour said” – A&M 263

Responses – BCP Page 62

Prayer – BCP Page 63

“O Gracious Light” - BCP Page 63

Confession and Absolution - BCP Pages 65-66

Psalms – 34

First Lesson – Jeremiah 6:9-15

Office Hymn – “O Merciful Creator, hear” – A&M 87

Second Lesson -  John 5:19-24

“Nunc Dimittis” - BCP Page 55

“Apostles’ Creed” – BCP Page 69

Prayer of Dedication – BCP Page 73

News and Notices

Hymn – “O Lord, turn not Thy Face from me” – A&M 93

Sermon – Fr. Neil Nairn

Offertory Hymn – “Jesu, our Lenten fast to Thee” - A&M 90

BENEDICTION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Recessional Hymn – “All ye who seek for sure relief”  – A&M 112

ANTIPHON

Behold now is the accepted time, behold now is the day of Salvation.  Let us therefore in these days approve ourselves as servants of God, in watchings, in fastings and by love unfeigned.