St Barnabas Church Barbados (CPWI) - Last Sunday after the Epiphany - 6.30 am. Holy Eucharist

a blessed good morning brothers and sisters please stand us pray almighty god our heavenly father we thank you for this new day and the joy to sing your praises confess our sins and listen to your holy word may the holy spirit continue to be present with us bless all who are here in person and those in other social platforms that at the end of this holy eucharist we are closer to you to each other leading in christian witness to you all this we ask through jesus christ our lord amen [Music] oh [Music] good morning brothers and sisters welcome to our 6 30 a.m mass is the last sunday of epiphany and the hymn for the introit 559 we shall overcome we shall overcome him five five nine [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] you oh [Music] [Applause] so [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] is [Music] oh oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for the god who said out of darkness light shall shine has caused his light to shine in our hearts the light which is knowledge of the glory of god in the face of jesus the christ blessed be god father son and holy spirit hallelujah hallelujah blessed lord and father teach us almighty god you are heart fair okay all desires known and from you no secrets are hit cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your holy spirit that we may perfectly love you and worthy magnify your holy name through christ our lord amen [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] lord be with you let us pray [Music] o god who before the passion of your only begotten son reveal his glory upon the holy mountain grant to us that we beholden by faith the light of his countenance may be strengthened to bear our cross and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory through jesus christ o lord who lives and reigns with you and the holy spirit one god forever and ever [Music] please sit for the ministry of the word a reading from the word of god written in exodus chapter 34 verse 29 to 35. moses came down from my mount sinai as he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he was talking with god when aaron and all the israelites saw moses the skin of his face was shining and there were afraid to come near him but moses called to them and aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him and moses spoke with them after all the israelites came near and he gave them in commandment all that the lord had spoken with him on mount sinai when moses had finished speaking with them he put a veil on his face but whenever moses went in before the lord to speak with him he would take the veil off until he came out and when he came out and told the israelites what he had been commanded the israelites would see the face of moses that the skin of his face was shining and moses would put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with him the word of the lord we shall chant the appointed son psalm 99 found on page 597 in the book of common prayer that's psalm 9 9. [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] is [Music] is is [Music] [Music] is [Music] a reading from the word of god written in paul's second letter to the corinthians chapter 3 verses 12 to chapter 4 verse 2. since then we have such a hope we act with great boldness not like moses who put a veil over his face to keep the people of israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside but their minds were hardened indeed to this very day when they hear the reading of the old covenant that same veil is still there since only in christ it is set aside indeed to this very day whenever moses is read a veil lies over their minds but when one turns to the lord the veil is removed now the lord is spirit and where the spirit of the lord is there is freedom and all of us with unveiled faces seeing the glory of the lord as though reflected in a mirror are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another for this comes from the lord the spirit therefore since it is by god's mercy that we were engaged in this ministry we do not lose heart we are renounced the shameful things that one has we refuse to practice cunning or falsify god's word but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of god the word of the lord the hymn for the gradual 788. it is good lord to be here him 7 8 8. [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] jesus [Music] see [Music] the lord be with you the holy gospel of our lord and savior jesus christ according to lord [Music] [Music] say luke's gospel the ninth chapter beginning to read at the 28th verse about eight days after these days jesus took with him peter and john and james i went up on the mountain to pray and while he was praying the appearance of his face changed and his clothes became dazzling white and suddenly they saw two men moses and elijah talking to him they appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure which he was about to accomplish at jerusalem now peter and his companions were made down with sleep but since they had stayed awake they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him just as they were leaving him peter said to jesus master it is good for us to be here let us make three dwellers one for you one from moses a one for elijah not knowing what he said when he was saying this the cloud came and overshadowed them and they were terrified as they entered the cloud then from the cloud came a voice that said this is my son my chosen listen to him when the voice had spoken jesus was found alone and they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen and the next when they came down from the mountain a great crowd met him just then a man from the crowd shouted teacher i beg you to look at my son he is my only child suddenly a spirit sees him and all at risk and all at once he shrieks it convulses him until he forms at the mouth it mauls him and was scarce leave him i beg your disciples to cast it out but they could not jesus answered you faithless and perverse generation how much longer must i be with you and bear with you bring your son here while he was coming the demon dashed him to the ground in convulsions but jesus rebuked the unclean spirit healed the boy and gave him back to his father and all were astounded at the greatness of god this is the gospel of christ [Music] oh [Music] may speak to in the name of god who is father son and holy spirit amen where do you normally get the important news and the important information that you rely on every day where do you get the important news and the important information that you rely on every day you get it from a printed paper do you get it from an app on your phone do you get it from social media do you get it from a cable channel on your television what about a man or a woman standing in the middle of your neighborhood and shouting out the headlines to you well if you lived in england about a thousand years ago that is the way you would have gotten the latest news and the latest headlines from the town choir and you know that why that was so because in those days they didn't have social media they didn't have newspapers and people didn't read in those days and there was no simple way to spread news around the city and therefore the town criers were the source of people's information the tonkar's proclamations almost always followed the same pattern he would come he would stand at a central place in the city and then he will capture the people's attention by saying which means listen listen listen then he would read what the news was from the king and then he would nail that proclamation to the doorposts of a nearby inn of course these days we do not have tongue criers and such conveyors of information have no place in today's world and i know that by now you are trying to figure out now where is this strange priest going with this i know well all of that came to mind this week as i looked at the gospel for today because the reality is that sometimes god has to wake us up before you and i can experience god's power and i think that that is true for most of us because very often we need something important to break our cycle of busyness in our lives we need something transcendent to break the grip of our self-centeredness and you know that is why jesus spent regular times in prayer that is why jesus took peter james and john with him that day as he went up to this nearby mountain to pray because the disciples needed to be awakened to jesus's true identity the disciples needed to see just a glimpse of jesus's majesty so that when the doubts of life would nag them when following his lead became difficult for them they would remember that moment of awakening and they would find hope and courage to face the days ahead i wonder this morning whether or not we have ever had such an awakening experience then was there a time in your life when was there a time in my life when god broke through our everyday lives and then god became real for us as individuals did it happen when we were having a conversation with a friend did it happen one day while we were reading our bibles did it happen one night when we could not sleep did it happen when we had some painful experience in our lives did it happen when we had a moment of pure joy in life or maybe we are still waiting for our experience of god maybe we are still not sure that we have ever experienced god in a moving and convincing way but that is all right the fact is that we are here this morning and i hope that we can have an experience in which god speaks to us that we can have an experience in which god strengthens us that we can have an experience in which god becomes real to us in such a way that it changes our lives forever and that brings me to the second thing that we learn from this passage this morning because this passage is prayer prepares us to experience god prayer opens our minds to god's presence and god's will for us jesus took peter james and john with him up to a mountain to pray and as i said earlier this was jesus's regular practice jesus would go away often up to mountains to pray and to spend time with almighty god and the writer tells us that as jesus was praying the disciples were sleepy and the passage makes me flinch sometimes because here was jesus enjoying the presence of god here was jesus aligning his mind and his will with the heavenly father's mind and will here was jesus preparing himself to do some world-changing work for god and his disciples were slipping in to nap mood i wonder this morning how many opportunities you and i have missed to hear god's voice how many opportunities have you and i miss to do good works for god to do the things that god has set in front of us because we were too lazy to pray there is a question that should make a squirm [Music] how many times have we missed what god would have us do because we were too lazy to pray you see the truth hurts we do not want to listen either because listening to god is not like listening to a friend or listening to a colleague listening to god requires an act of submission to god when we listen to god we have to lay aside our own agendas when we listen to god we have to lay aside our own priorities when we listen to god we have to lay aside our own knees and open ourselves to the mind and to the middle of almighty god the word translated obey in the old testament means to hear in the new testament there are several words that describe this obedience and one word means to hear or to listen in a state of submission another word simply translate obey as to trust because you see our obedient response to god's word is a response of trust and faith and to really hear god's word means more than just hearing god's word it means that hearing god's word we obey what god is telling us to do you know it is easy to get stressed out or turned off by the subject of praying and too many of us have grown up with the belief that there is a right way and a wrong way to pray we thought we have been taught techniques and rules for praying but i wonder this morning whether it would change our practice of prayer if we thought of prayer simply as listening to god with an open heart and an open mind listen to god with an open heart and an open mind and you are praying there is a well-known author who has written many books on prayer and he was given this seminar and during the question and answer period somebody raised the hand and asked sir how should i pray and that noted expert on the subject answered that is simple ask god that is simple ask god you see instead of judging ourselves for attempts prayer we just need to ask god to show us how to pray it is the simplest way of receiving god's power and i think that that is a great description of prayer we just need to pray to god we just need to empty our hearts to god we need to tell god that we need god's help that we need god i think that's the kind of prayer that we should feel comfortable praying more importantly that is the kind of prayer that god listens to the other point i want to make this morning is that when we experience god when we have opened ourselves to god when we have allowed ourselves to hear god's message and get that message in our hearts we are called to share that life-giving experience with others you see when we experience god we now carry the life-changing opportunity and the life-changing responsibility of giving and sharing that experience with others on that mountain top this morning peter james and john saw god's plan for god's people come together the great lord given moses the great prophet elijah pointed the nation of israel to god but now in jesus the christ god has come in human form to share god's truth and to share god's salvation with all of us as human beings and just to seal the deal god spoke from heaven and said this is my son whom i have chosen listen to him and that is important this is my son whom i have chosen listen to him we spoke a little earlier about the words used for listening in scripture that they also imply obedience and one which we hear god's word once god has spoken to us then we need to go and do what it is that god is telling us to do so why did peter james and john keep this wondrous experience to themselves because jesus told them to keep it to themselves why we do not know but obviously jesus had his reasons and they were simply obeying the master but in matthew's gospel chapter 17 jesus tells peter james and john to keep this moment on the mountain in secret until after jesus has been raised from the dead well guess what folks jesus has been raised from the dead it's after time which means it is time to share the truth of who jesus is with everyone that you and i can when we have an experience of god it is an opportunity and responsibility to share that experience with others so that they too can know the truth and the hope and the joy and the peace of god that is revealed in jesus the cries you know in this life we do not get many mountaintop experiences in my experience at least we only get a few moments in this life when we see or hear the present and the glory of god right in front of us and usually it's a life-changing experience and we need to ask ourselves this morning have an experience god what am i supposed to do with an experience like that too often people keep it to themselves but that is not what we are called to do we are called to take that hope to take that joy to take that truth the truth of that moment and we are called to go down to the valleys and to share that multi-top experience with others we need to share it with our neighbors but we also need to deepen our commitment to action and service in the name of jesus christ our motion top experience my friends is an opportunity to share the life-changing power of jesus with others so that they too can view from the mountain and pass that message on to others hence this morning what we need to ask ourselves is whether or not we have experienced god in such a way that when we leave this the house of god this morning when we go back out into the world where we have to live out that message whether that experience of god is so great that we want to tell whoever we encounter that we have had an experience of god and what that experience of god has meant for us and what it can mean for them as they live out their lives in the world my prayer this morning is that that is what we will do because that is the only way in which it makes a difference for if we stay on the mountaintop and we do not go down to the valley to share that message then that experience is of little worth may god grant us the courage to descend to the valley and be the witnesses we are called to be amen let us now confess our faith in the words of the nice and creed we believe in one god tonight for us and for our salvation on the third day r is is prayers of the people yeah i got a prayer here charm e found on page 112. let us pray for the fellowship of the church of christ and for all god's creatures with all who confess the name of jesus as lord and savior we offer our prayers and praise in spirit and in truth father in heaven with christ jesus our great high priest whoever lives to intercede for us we uphold all ministers of god's word and sacraments that they may fulfill their high calling in the faith father in heaven we pray for the unfailing guidance of the holy spirit on those who are called to interpret and expound with the will of the lord to others father in heaven we pray for all organizations within the fellowship of the body of christ that their work may edify the people of god and bear faithful witness to the gospel father in heaven we pray for all persons who do not share our confession of faith that with courage truth and love we may work together with them and promote the common good father in heaven for the leaders of our country and all who were all who made decisions on our behalf that they may be guided by the spirit to direct our affairs in righteousness and peace father in heaven for our judges matters and all who are minister justice that in all things they may seek to do your will and to protect the rights and freedom of your people father in heaven in our schools and in all other places of learning may true knowledge sound wisdom and godly discipline ever be found father in heaven to the poor the hungry the unemployed and all victims of persecution and discrimination of any kind may god in christ help us all to bring relief justice and protection father in heaven to all who suffer no from pain and disease from human discomfort and misery may god in christ bring healing and joy for the renewal of their faith father in heaven that we may use or write the fullness of the earth that our pursues in science and the advancement of all skills may ever be in service of that true humanity which is created in the image of god father in heaven that we may never become the slaves of money or of the lust for power but rather strive for victory through the power of love father in heaven that with all who belong to the communion of saints both living and departed we may ever rejoice in the blessed assurance of that hope which has been won for us in christ father in heaven [Music] as we gather this morning in a world that is very much in a state of war let us remember the people of ukraine as they continue to suffer remember especially the women and children the innocent victims of all of these wars pray that god will continue to cast his protected hands over them and that there will be peace in that land eternal god in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness no strength is known but the strength of love so mightily spread abroad your spirit that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the prince of peace as children of the one god to whom be dominion and glory now and forever amen i also ask you to remember in your prayers this morning cuthbert jones pray that god will continue to grant him healing and strength if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins god is faithful and just and god will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness let us therefore confess our sins almighty god our heavenly father almighty god have mercy upon us pardon and deliver us from all our sins confirm and strengthen us in all goodness and keep us in life eternal through jesus christ our lord we are the body of christ by the one spirit we were all baptized into one body and have all been made to drink of the one spirit the peace of the lord be always with you [Music] [Music] this oh [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] our service continues with the ministry of sacrament the offertory hymn 550. i danced in the morning him five zero [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] [Music] hey [Music] me [Music] wherever you are [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] two [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] let us pray father we offer to you these gifts which you have given this bread this wine and this money with them we offer ourselves our lives and our work to become through your holy spirit a reasonable holy and lively sacrifice as this bread and wine become the body and blood of christ be in all your containers of your life [Music] the lord be with you [Music] lift up your heart [Music] let us give the hands to the lord of god [Music] it is right and a good and joyful thing always and everywhere to give you thanks father almighty everlasting god through jesus christ o lord because in coming to dwell among us says man he revealed the radiance of his glory and brought us out of darkness into his own marvelous life therefore we praise you joining our vices with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven who forever sing this him to proclaim the glory of your name [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] holy and gracious father all creation rightly gives you praise all life all holiness comes from you through your son jesus christ o lord whom you set to share our human nature to live and die as one of us to reconcile us to you the god and father of all we therefore bring you these gifts and we ask you to make them holy by the power of your spirit that they may become the body and blood of your son or savior jesus christ who offer themselves in obedience to your will the perfect sacrifice for all humankind on the night he was betrayed he took bread and many given thanks to you he broke it and gave it to his disciples and said take this and eat it this is my body which is given for you do this for the remembrance of me after supper he took the cup of wine of any given thanks he gave it to them and said drink this all of you this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this whenever you drink it for the remembrance of me [Music] let us proclaim the mystery of our faith [Music] falling to mind the death signing joint for our salvation his glorious resurrection and ascension his continual intercession for us in heaven and looking for his coming again in glory we offer you in thanksgiving this holy and life-giving sacrifice favor on your church is offering them grant that we who eat and drink these holy gifts may be filled with your holy spirit and become one body in christ and serve you in unity constancy and peace may make us a perpetual offering to you and enable us in communion with blessed mary and the whole company of heaven to share in the inheritance of your sins with him and in him and through him by the power of the holy spirit we worship you father almighty with all who stand before you in earth and heaven in sounds of everlasting praise [Music] as our savior has told us so we prayed [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] we break this bread to share in the body of christ [Music] oh [Music] [Music] no um [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] the gifts of god for the people of god that is christ the bread of heaven friend of the body of christ hmm patrick the body of christ the brethren center of the body of christ the bread of heaven mighty the blood of christ the bread of heaven here in the body of christ the brethren body of christ the bread of heaven body of christ the brethren body of christ the brother of heaven our first hymn during the ministration of holy communion and blessings is him 572. be still my soul for god is near him five seven [Music] the body of two body of christ [Music] is [Music] [Music] the red one [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] right is [Music] oh body of christ our second hymn 536 o master let me walk with thee him five three six the body of christ the bread of heaven [Music] body of christ [Music] christmas [Music] oh [Music] hello [Music] one price [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] [Music] our third hymn 538 o thou who chemist from above in five three eight [Music] [Music] [Music] prayers [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the lord be with you let us pray a second post-communion prayer on page 148 eternal god and heavenly father we thank you for feeding us with the body and blood of your son jesus christ send us now into the word and peace and grant us strength and courage love and serve christ the son of god glad in our hearts with the good news of his kingdom and may the blessing of god almighty the father the son and the holy spirit be with us and remain with us and all whom we love and pray for this day and forevermore amen a blessed good morning my brothers and sisters in christ we welcome all visitors any visitors who are worshiping with us this morning yes sir would you like to stand good morning yeah you are my name is wayne waltres i'm celebrating 47 years of confirmation and a way to embrace anakinism is to visit all of the african churches across the diocese so probably this yes yes go ahead win wall chat rain wall dress welcome to saint barnabas church we're happy to have you with us this morning and of course we welcome those who are watching us on youtube youtube channel this morning we hope you continue to enjoy the service we pray for our power sick and housebound members of our of our church and their names are listed there for you in the bulletin we also offer prayers for those who have died greenfield cutting whose funeral service will be tomorrow and doreen herbert that will be announced at a future date rest eternal grant to them oh lord and let perpetual shine upon them we pray for the powers of sin david during the week in our diocese and our organizations who are with us this morning the church army and of course we always pray for our youth as well we offer thanksgiving and celebrate with those who are celebrating birthdays this week anyone celebrating a birthday and any other anniversary or brother who is with us this morning is also celebrating his confirmation how many years did you say um sir 47 47 years of confirmation wonderful may god continue to be with you as you worship him in spirit and in truth we offer thanksgiving especially if you don't let me omit um daphne weeks her birthday she will celebrate 100 years today that many weeks her birthday is today another centenarian in our midst praise be to god for her life and her witness the membership list is continually updated remember to drop your forms your completed forms in the box provided at the back of the church if you haven't yet taken up a form remember to do so and complete it and return it and also reminder that the uh the center reopens tomorrow and if you have not yet collected your stewardship envelopes there's still some there you can get them during the week the fundraising task force would like to thank all persons who contributed in any way towards the success of our cuckoo sale yesterday our volunteers those who uh prepared the meals meal no pun intended those who helped on before the day those who helped on the day those who came out um and who contributed in any form shape or fashion either by your presence or your monetary gifts and other and gifts and kind donations and contributions in kind and of course we want to thank especially those who patronized the event and contributed to his success without your support we would not have been able to pull that off our growth takens yesterday were approximately two thousand dollars and we thank you for all of your efforts and everything that you did towards that effort to god be the glory this afternoon at 3 30 there will be a viewing of the late dawn blackman and all and then at 6 00 pm the choir will have their first in-person choir practice for a while at six o'clock tomorrow evening the pcc will meet in person at seven o'clock on wednesday march the 2nd that's the first day of lent at wednesday there will be a midday service 12 o'clock midday service and at 7 30 pm holy eucharist with the imposition of ashes saturday morning march the 5th the cleaners will assemble as usual to keep our church looking pristine you're welcome to join them and at six o'clock barnabas in motion will be out exercising as usual also on saturday saturday evening the anglican men's association will have their agm their annual general meeting and at 5 p.m altar servers guild will meet also next sunday march the 6th the first sunday in lent 6 30 a.m holy eucharist with the ministry of the word for children sunday school resumes on sunday march the 6th in person we had two very good online services but we and we will resume in person with the ministry of the world at 6 30 a.m and at 9 15 a.m the children will assemble in the center our service as usual we will have holy eucharist at 9 15 also our next fundraising effort will be on march 26 and that will be a put themselves sale and we will ask you to put your minds towards that and we look forward and appreciate and welcome your assistants with that upcoming effort you're reminded that office time is by appointment only with dr williams please call him on two three one nine seven four seven to arrange a date and a time dr williams anything from you this morning thank you for your attention my brothers and sisters stay dry we i see the sun is trying to peek out but we welcome the showers and the sunshine them both and we thank god for his blessings have a wonderful day enjoy your week ahead and may god be with you or recessional hymn 618 sent forth by god's blessing or true faith confessing him six one eight [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] boys [Music] [Music] [Applause] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] for jesus [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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