FURTHER THOUGHTS ON THE READINGS
PARISHES ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE SUNDAY CALLED SEXAGESIMA
Prayer – Please remember the following persons in your prayers this week:
Our Armed Forces in Afghanistan; For the safety of our lobster fishermen.
The Sick: Anson Conrad; Marjorie Edwards, Art Frauzel, Jerry Fultz, Karen
Micivar, Jerry and Lisa McMahan, Percy Pernette, David Phillips, Juanita
Smith, Dominic Williams.
Missions: Our World Vision Children; The Bishop McAllister College, Uganda
Anglican Cycle of Prayer: Matlosane - (South Africa) Bp Stephen Diseko
Diocesan Cycle of Prayer:
Parish of the Resurrection, Sydney
Rev Frederick Rhymes; Rev Valeria Rhymes
Diocese of Moosonee:
St. James Memorial, Geraldton
Rev Hal Graham and Margaret
St. John-in-the-Wilderness, Longlac; St. Mark's, Kapuskasing
We are called to make good the soil of our own souls, to cultivate
the word of God within us, with understanding and devotion –
deeply, and not just superficially; to practice our religion with
steadiness of purpose, and thus “to bring forth fruit with
patience”. Renewed attentiveness to the word of God, renewed
commitment to the practice of religion, to prayer and works of
charity: that is the challenge of today’s scriptures, and that is
precisely the challenge of the Lenten season for which these
lessons are intended to prepare us. Next Sunday’s lesson will
complete the prescription, reminding us that all our striving, all
our struggles, without charity are nothing worth, and setting
before us the charity of Christ as he sets out for Jerusalem to die
and rise again. But just now, for this week, the emphasis is on the
conflict and the perils that beset our spiritual quest, and I think
that seems a particularly timely consideration to many of us in the
church these days.
Each year, at this season, we keep the festival of the Purification
of St Mary, the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, sometimes
called Candlemas (Feb 2) On Candlemas, we celebrate St. Mary’s
presentation of the infant Christ in the Temple at Jerusalem,
according to the ceremonies prescribed in ancient Jewish Law…
The Holy Mother Mary, who is the symbol of the church presents
the infant Christ, the eternal Word of God, in the temples of our
souls. Those temples are to be sanctuaries of his presence, the
altars of offering and sacrifice, “in spirit and in truth”. Here in
this holy Sacrament, Christ, the Word of God, is presented in the
temples of our souls. The seed of God’s word is planted there: in
honest and good hearts. May we keep that word, cherish and
cultivate that word, and “bring forth fruit with patience”.
As a hymn for the Feast of the Purification puts it:
O Light of all the world
Thy children wait for thee;
Come to thy temples here,
That we, from sin set free,
Before thy Father’s face
May all presented be.
Robert Crouse
from a Sermon on the Gospel
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Welcome to Worship
The Anglican Parishes of Petite Riviere & New Dublin
The Sunday called Sexagesima
February 15, AD 2009
THIS WEEK
Daily Bible Readings
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer
Monday Gen. 18
Mt. 19:16-20:16
Gen. 19:1-29
Rom. 7
Tuesday Gen. 21
Mt. 20:17-34
Gen. 22:1-19
Rom. 8:1-17
Mt. 21:1-22
Gen. 24:1-28
Rom. 8:18-39
Mt. 21:23-46
Gen. 25:7-34
Rom. 9
Mt. 22:1-33
Gen. 27:1-40
Rom. 10
Mt. 22:34-23:12
Gen. 29:1-20
Rom. 11
Wednesday Gen. 23
Thursday Gen. 24:29-67
Friday Gen. 26:1-5;12-35
Saturday Gen. 27:41-28:22
Annual Meetings RESCHEDULED due to broken leg.
Mon Feb 16
Petite Riviere (2 pm)
St Michael’s Rectory, Petite
Mon Feb 16
New Dublin (7pm)
St James’ Church, LaHave
The Parable of the Sower, Sir John Everett Millais 1864
Wednesday February 18
2:00pm MOVIE DAY – FILM CHOCOLATE at St. Michael’s Rectory
NEXT SUNDAY
Sunday February 22 – Quinquagesima
9:30am St. Mark’s Broad Cove
11:00am St. Michael's Petite Riviere
4:00pm New Dublin at St. John’s West Dublin
Holy Communion
Holy Communion
Evening Prayer
But that seed which fell on the good ground
are they which in an honest and good heart,
having heard the word, keep it,
and bring forth fruit with patience.
Luke 8:15
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PARISH DIRECTORY
HOLY COMMUNION
EVENING PRAYER
9:30am – St. James’ LaHave
11:00am – St. Alban’s Vogler’s Cove
7:00pm – St. Mary’s Crousetown
www.prnd.ca
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Susan Moxley, Bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia & PEI
The Rt. Rev. Ron Cutler, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of NS & PEI
both can be reached at:
5732 College Street, Halifax NS, B3H 1X3 Tel: (902) 420-0717
Website: www.nspeidiocese.ca
The Rev. David G. Phillips, Rector
St. Michael’s Rectory, 5822 Highway 331, Petite Riviere, NS, B4V 5Y3
Rectory: (902) 688-2228 E-mail: revdgphillips@hotmail.com
The Rev. Canon Dr. Robert Crouse, Honorary Assistant Priest and Organist
Opening Hymn…………#103 Almighty God, thy word is cast
The Lord’s Prayer and Collect for Purity……………………p. 67
R.R. #2 Italy Cross, NS, B0J 1V0 Website: www.prayerbook.ca/crouse
Summary of the Law…………………………...…………….p. 69
The Parish of Petite Riviere
Wardens:
Mr. George Hilchey 688-2117
Mr. Barry Smith 677-2070
The Parish of New Dublin
Wardens:
Mr. Jerry Fultz
688-2778
Mr. Brady Himmelman 688-2531
Collect……………………………………………...……….p. 134
Treasurer:
Mrs. Evelyn Baker 677-2727
Treasurer and Organist:
Mrs. Yvonne Haughn 688-2651
Assistant Organist: Mr. Paul Shields
Gradual Hymn…………...............#411 Oft in danger, oft in woe
Lesson:
Gospel:
THE CROWN OF THE YEAR
Weekly Paragraphs for the Holy Sacrament
2 Corinthians 11:12ff……………………p. 134
St. Luke 8:4ff………..................................p. 135
Nicene Creed…………...…………………………….............p. 71
Sermon
By Austin Farrer
Offertory Hymn………………..#497 O Word of God Incarnate
SEXAGESIMA
Intercession …………………………………………………..p. 75
ST PAUL glories in his heroic sufferings; looking back on them,
he would not be without them. Some of them are splendid and
dramatic, but others of them, even in retrospect, are boring and
miserable: appeasing Jewish spite or neutralising Christian
treason, sitting up when he was dropping with sleep, working on
when he was tired and longed to stop. Besides his own burdens,
there are everyone else’s: ‘Who is sick at heart and I am not sick,
who falls from grace and I do not die of shame?’ He takes his
friends into his heart, both for good and for evil, and in this above
all he may justly glory. It is the living out of our unity in Christ,
that we should care for one another with the heart of Christ, and
by our prayers throw ourselves into the deepest concerns of our
friends. Let us not offer this holy sacrifice without praying for
some other man, as though we were that man himself. It is an
excellent thing, indeed, often to say all the prayers of the eucharist
in the place and person of another man saying them; being that
man in God’s sight, so far as we know how.
Invitation, Confession, Absolution, Comfortable Words….. 76-78
Sursum Corda……………………………………...…………p. 78
Opening Hymn…………#103 Almighty God, thy word is cast
Opening Sentences
Exhortation, Confession and Absolution………………..pp. 18, 19
Lord’s Prayer
Opening Versicles and Responses……………………………p. 20
Psalm:
81…………..……...........................p. 434
First Lesson
Magnificat (sung)…………………...……………………......p. 21
Second Lesson
Nunc Dimittis (sung)………………………………………p. 22
Apostles Creed (said)
Collects……………………………………………pp. 134, 23, 24
Hymn………………….................#411 Oft in danger, oft in woe
Sermon
Offertory Hymn.........................# 497 O Word of God Incarnate
Prayers and Grace
Closing Hymn………….#407 Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
Sanctus and Benedictus………………………………………p. 81
Prayer of Consecration………………………………...……..p. 82
Prayer of Humble Access and Agnus Dei………….…...pp. 83-84
The Communion
Communion Hymn..#237 Thy heavenly Word proceeding forth
The Lord’s Prayer and Thanksgiving………………………...p. 85
The Gloria……………………………………………………p. 86
Blessing
Closing Hymn………….#407 Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
...you must never be afraid, if you are troubled by a flood of thoughts,
that the enemy is too strong against you, that his attacks are never
ending, that the war will last for your lifetime, and that you cannot avoid
incessant downfalls of all kinds. Know that our enemies, with all their
wiles, are in the hands of our divine Commander, our Lord Jesus Christ,
for Whose honor and glory you are waging war. Since He Himself leads
you into battle, He will certainly not suffer your enemies to use violence
against you and overcome you, if you do not yourself cross over to their
side with your will. He will Himself fight for you and will deliver your
enemies into your hands, when He wills and as He wills, as it is written:
'The Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and
to give up your enemies before you' (Deut. 23:14).
Lorenzo Scupoli (Unseen Warfare: Chapter 15)