The new fisherman march 23rd, 2014

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St. Peter’s Parish Church with St. Nicholas Chapel Orange Street, Speightstown St. Peter Rock Dundo St. Peter

Anglican Diocese of Barbados (Consecrated 1837)

Rector: Rev. Canon Peter Haynes

Assistant Priests: Rev. Dr. Ian Rock , Rev. Graveney Bannister

Seminarian: Mr. Christopher Roberts

Church Officers: Wardens: Mrs. Juliette Hall, Mr. Gay Griffith

Organist: Julian Bowen Assistant Organist: Paul Brazant Sexton: Peter Bowen

MISSION AND MINISTRY

To proclaim the good news of the kingdom

To teach, baptize and nurture new believers

To respond to human need by loving service

To seek to transform the unjust structures of

society

To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation

and sustain and renew the life of earth

SERVICES

Sunday: 7:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist

8:00 a.m. Sunday School

9:15 a.m. Sung Eucharist and

Sermon;

10:15 a.m. Youth Church

7:00 p.m. Evensong

Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist

Office Hour

Saturdays: 10:00 a.m.

Contact Information:

Rector: Home: (246) 432-9000; Fax: (246) 422-2181; E-mail: [email protected]

Church: (246) 422-3599; Fax: (246) 422-3599; Day Care Centre: Tele (246) 422-0138

E-mail: [email protected]; Facebook: St. Peter’s Parish Church, Barbados

Third Sunday in Lent Liturgical Colour: Purple Year A

Remember that the Gloria & Alleluias are omitted during Lent

ORDER OF SERVICE

OPENING PRAYER

COLLECT FOR PURITY - Page 101

OPENING SENTENCES - Page 97 - 100

THE KYRIE - Page 102

THE COLLECT - Third Sunday in Lent (Page 164 BCP)

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, for ever and ever. Amen.

REFLECTION FIRST LESSON: In our Old Testament story the people are at the point

of rebellion because they are without water in the wilderness.

1st LESSON: 7:30a.m. - Margo Clarke 9:15a.m. - Michael Hoyte

FIRSTFIRSTFIRSTFIRST LESSON: (OLD TESTAMENT): LESSON: (OLD TESTAMENT): LESSON: (OLD TESTAMENT): LESSON: (OLD TESTAMENT): Exodus 17:1-7

All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by

stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim; but there

was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and

said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you find fault with me?

Why do you put the LORD to the proof?" But the people thirsted there for water, and the

people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill

us and our children and our cattle with thirst?" So Moses cried to the LORD, "What shall

I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me." And the LORD said to Moses,

"Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your

hand the rod with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there

on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the

people may drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called

the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the faultfinding of the children of

Israel, and because they put the LORD to the proof by saying, "Is the LORD among us or

not?"

REFLECTION THE PSALM: A call to worship the Lord our God, with a warning not

to put God to the challenge.

INTROIT HYMN - 861 Supp

My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;

I dare not trust the sweetest frame.

But wholly lean on Jesus’ Name.

Refrain:

On Christ, the solid rock, I stand,

All other ground is sinking sand

All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness veils his lovely face,

I rest on his unchanging grace;

In every high and stormy gale

My anchor holds within the veil.

His oath, his covenant, and blood

Support me in the whelming flood;

When all around my soul gives way

He then is all my hope and stay.

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PSALM: PSALM: PSALM: PSALM: 95 (7:30a.m. - page 593 BCP)

1. O COME, let us sing unto the Lord : let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our

salvation.

2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving : and shew ourselves glad in him

with psalms.

3. For the Lord is a great God : and a great King above all gods.

4. In his hand are all the corners of the earth : and the strength of the hills is his also.

5. The sea is his, and he made it : and his hands prepared the dry land.

6. O come, let us worship and fall down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

7. For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his

hand.

8. To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts : as in the provocation, and as

in the day of temptation in the wilderness.

9. When your fathers tempted me : proved me, and saw my works.

10. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said : It is a people that do err

in their hearts, for they have not known my ways;

11. Unto whom I sware in my wrath : that they should not enter into my rest.

REFLECTION SECOND LESSON: In this reading Paul bids the disciples to rejoice in

the reconciliation and hope which are theirs because of the sacrifice of Christ on be-

half of sinners.

2nd LESSON: 7:30a.m. - Sandra Waterman 9:15a.m. - Mothers’ Union

SECOND LESSON (EPISTLE): SECOND LESSON (EPISTLE): SECOND LESSON (EPISTLE): SECOND LESSON (EPISTLE): Romans 5:1-11

Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in

our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings,

knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and char-

acter produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been

poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. While we were

still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Why, one will hardly die for a

righteous man -- though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die. But God shows

his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we

are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of

God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,

much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. Not only so, but we

also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received

our reconciliation.

GRADUAL HYMN - 874 Supp

The Lord’s our Rock, in Him we hide:

A shelter in the time of storm!

Secure whatever ill betide:


Oh, Jesus is a rock in a weary land!

A weary land, a weary land;

Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,


A shade by day, defence by night:


No fears alarm, no foes affright:


The raging storms may round us beat:


We’ll never leave our safe retreat,


O Rock Divine, O Refuge dear:


Be thou our helper ever near,


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REFLECTION THE GOSPEL: Our Gospel tells the story of Jesus’ meeting with the

Samaritan woman by Jacob’s well. The narrative is rich with themes. Jesus is willing to

break with custom in order to talk with one who is both a woman and a foreigner. During

an interval in the story, Jesus speaks with his disciples concerning his true food and

drink, and tells them that the time of harvesting for eternal life is at hand. True worship of

God is tied to no place. He himself offers a living water which wells up to eternal life. The

woman learns that Jesus is the expected Messiah, and later others from the town come to

believe that he is the world’s Saviour.

THE GOSPEL: THE GOSPEL: THE GOSPEL: THE GOSPEL: John 4:5-26, (27-38) 39-42

Jesus came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son

Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down

beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. There came a woman of Samaria to draw

water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." For his disciples had gone away into the city

to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of

me, a woman of Samaria?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered

her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, `Give me a drink,'

you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said

to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that

living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from

it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?" Jesus said to her, "Every one who drinks of this

water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never

thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to

eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor

come here to draw." Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." The

woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, `I

have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not

your husband; this you said truly." The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a

prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that in Jerusalem is the

place where men ought to worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is

coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You

worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the

Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the

Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and

those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." The woman said to him, "I

know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will show us

all things." Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he." [Just then his disciples came.

They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What do you wish?" or,

"Why are you talking with her?" So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the

city, and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be

the Christ?" They went out of the city and were coming to him. Meanwhile the disciples

besought him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you

do not know." So the disciples said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his

work. Do you not say, `There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift

up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. He who reaps receives

wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For

here the saying holds true, `One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which

you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."] Many

Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me

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Stephen Archer Dixon Benn Cynthia Blackman Lolita Bowen

Marjorie Edwards B. Gale Dorothy Haynes Marcia Haynes

Eugene Jackman Sandra Alleyne-Richards Terrance Richards Rosalind Russell

Kaye Springer Taylor Walcott and all who request our prayers

all that I ever did." So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with

them; and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They

said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have

heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world."

THE SERMON

THE NICENE CREED - Page 104

Bidding Prayer

Let us pray to God who knows the secrets of all hearts.

May the Lord who gives the living water to all who come to him in faith, give grace to the

Church, so to drink of that water that she may bring life to many…May he lift our eyes to

see where the time is ripe for harvest and seek to be worthy labourers for the coming of

the Kingdom.

Give the word of truth to the world, where there is strife between nations and races, where

faiths can be hostile and gender divisive…May honesty overcome all shame and deceit,

so that wrongs that have been hidden may be brought to light and healed.

May our Lord be with us in our homes and in all the homes of this community, to teach us

by his word, to sustain us with the food of loving obedience and lead us to worship in

spirit and in truth…Make us honest in our dealings with one another and repentant for our

sins.

Have mercy on all whose lives are distressed by broken relationships, by

misunderstandings that have turned to bitterness, by the suppressed anxiety that eats away

the heart…May those who have found only partial truth be led into the right way, to know

and to perform the will of God.

May those who have passed from this world and now drink of the living water that flows

from the throne of God, rejoice in the eternal worship which is beyond all place and

time…May we by grace come to the same rejoicing.

We pray in the name of Christ, the Messiah of all who worship in the spirit and truth.

Amen.

INTERCESSION:- 7:30a.m. - Susan Belle 9:15a.m. - Junia Arthur

SICK AND SHUT-INS:

Let us pray for the Sick & Shut-ins of: Ashton Hall, Black Bess, Lower Bakers, Rock

Dundo, White Hall: Jennifer Austin, Theophilus Blackman, Barbara Boyce, St. Clair

Boyce, Vera Carrington, Henderson Cumberbatch, Winifred Dottin, Elise Douglas,

Joyce Edwards, Kenneth Gilkes, Peggy Griffith, Eulene Nicholls, Edwin Small, Rita

Sobers;

Our Community:

ACT OF PENITENCE - Page 123

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THE ABSOLUTION - Page 124

THE GREETING OF PEACE - Pages 124-125

NOTICES

Welcome to all visitors worshipping with us

today.

Sunday, 23rd March:

7:30a.m. Holy Eucharist

8:00a.m. Sunday School

9:00a.m. Sung Eucharist & Sermon

10:15a.m. Youth Church

5:30p.m. Deanery Mission Service –

St. Philip-The-Less Church

No Evensong

Monday, 24th March:

7:30p.m. Annual General Meeting. All are invited

Tuesday, 25th March: Feast of the Annunciation

Rector’s 31st Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood.

10:00a.m. Deanery Chapter Meeting – St. Philip-The-Less Church

7:00p.m. AA Meeting

7:30p.m. Mission Service at St. Peter – Church Army –Theme: “Renewal”

Wednesday, 26th March:

8:45a.m. School Service – Roland Edwards Primary School

9:30a.m. Church Army Cottage Meeting at the home of Doreen Bradshaw

12:00p.m. Midday Devotions – Speightstown Methodist Church

2:00p.m. Funeral Service for the late Martin Stuart

7:30p.m. Bible Study

Thursday, 27th March:

8:00a.m. Communion to the Sick

6:30p.m. Choir Practice

Friday, 28th March:

8:00a.m. Communion to the Sick

Saturday, 29th March:

8:00a.m. Mothers’ Union Cake Sale—South Gate

8:00a.m. Scouts Cake Sale - Jordan’s Supermarket

9:00a.m. Office Hour

3:00p.m. Scout Practice

Sunday, 30th March: Fourth Sunday in Lent: Mothering Sunday Year A

7:30a.m. Holy Eucharist

8:00a.m. Sunday School

9:15a.m. Sung Eucharist & Sermon

10:00a.m. Youth Church

5:30p.m. Deanery Mission Service – St. John-The-Baptist Church

Upcoming!!!

Saturday 05 April – Meeting with the Communications Team from the Churches in the

Deanery.

March Birthdays

23rd Rakaya Phillips

Zaheer Popo 24th Jon-Mykul Bowen

29th Ria Headley

March Anniversaries

23rd Cardinal & Cindalin Spencer

29th Alfred & Carmen Richards

(56th Anniv.)

Deighton & Marjorie Worrell

(55th Anniv.)

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1. We extend condolences to Brenda Griffith at the death of her uncle, Martin Stuart.

Tuesday Mission Services

Theme:- “Renew, Revive, and Rededicate.”

Mission Service 01 April – Prayer Group – St. Nicholas

08 April - Ushers & Readers Guild – St. Peter

15 April – Youth – St. Peter

Wednesday in Lent - Midday Devotions

26 March Pastor Edward Bullin Speightstown Methodist Church

02 April Rev. Peter Haynes St. Peter’s Church

09 April Capt. Jean Speightstown Methodist Church

16 April Pastor Coral Richards St. Peter’s Church

Deanery Mission Services in Lent

Sunday 30 March – St. John-The-Baptist

Sunday 06 April – St. Andrew

Sunday 13 April – St. Thomas

Sunday 20 April – Easter Day - St. Peter’s Evensong

OFFERTORY HYMNS - 494

THE PRESENTATION OF OFFERINGS -Page 126

THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER - Page 126 - Page 143

THE LORD’S PRAYER - Page 144

THE BREAKING OF BREAD - Page 145

AGNUS DEI - Page 147

THE INVITATION - Page 145-146

COMMUNION HYMNS – 504, 497, 522,

POST COMMUNION PRAYER - Page 147-148

Dedication Prayer Lord, be with us this day and throughout the week; Within us to purify us; Above us to

draw us up; Before us to lead us; Behind us to restrain us; Around us to protect us.

Amen.

BLESSING

RECESSIONAL HYMN - 764 A&M

RESCUE the perishing, Care for the dying,

Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;

Weep o’er the erring one, Lift up the fallen,

Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.

Rescue the perishing, Care for the dymg;

Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.

Though they are slighting Him, Still He is

waiting,

Waiting the penitent child to receive;

Plead with them earnestly, Plead with them

gently;

He will forgive if they only believe.

Down in the human heart, Crush’d by the

tempter,

Feelings lie buried that grace can restore;

Touch’d by a loving heart, Waken’d by

kindness,

Chords that were broken will vibrate once

more.

Rescue the perishing; Duty demands it;

Strength for thy labour the Lord will

provide:

Back to the narrow way Patiently win them;

Tell the poor wand’rer a Saviour has died.

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Readers & Intercessors for the 5th Sunday in March (30th): Lent 4: Year A

7:30a.m. - Mavis Kellman David Yearwood Intercession: Gina Belle

9:15a.m. - Gay Griffith Violet Griffith Intercession: Judy Busby

Smile: Robert goes golfing every Saturday. One Saturday, he comes home three hours

late. His wife asks him, "What took you so long?" The guy says, "That was the worst

game of golf I've ever had. We got up to the first tee, and Charlie hit a hole-in-one and

immediately dropped dead of a heart attack." The guy's wife says, "That's terrible!" The

guy says, "I know. Then, for the rest of the game, it was hit the ball, drag Charlie, hit the

ball, drag Charlie, hit the ball, drag Charlie. . ."

Moral Stories: To Let Go

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

To let go is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization that I can’t control another.

To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To let go is not to try to change or blame another, it’s to make the most of myself.

To let go is not to care for, but to care about.

To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to af-

fect their own destinies.

To let go is not to be protective, it’s to permit another to face reality.

To let go is not to criticize, or regulate anyone, but to try to become what I dream I can

do.

To let go is to fear less, and to love more. Author Unknown

Moral Stories: Believe in Yourself

There may be days when you get up in the morning and things aren’t the way you had

hoped they would be.

That’s when you have to tell yourself that things will get better. There are times when

people disappoint you and let you down.

But those are the times when you must remind yourself to trust your own judgments and

opinions, to keep your life focused on believing in yourself.

There will be challenges to face and changes to make in your life, and it is up to you to

accept them.

Constantly keep yourself headed in the right direction for you. It may not be easy at

times, but in those times of struggle you will find a stronger sense of who you are.

So when the days come that are filled with frustration and unexpected responsibilities,

remember to believe in yourself and all you want your life to be.

Because the challenges and changes will only help you to find the goals that you know

are meant to come true for you.

Keep Believing in Yourself! Author Unknown

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