Rector’s Desk
THE ACT OF PENITENCE ……………………………………………………………… BCP p123 THE PEACE …………………………………………………………………………………. BCP p124 THE NOTICES
Rev. Fr. S. Sebastian Campbell Campbell
Bahamas Anglican Men Cursillo # 22 is now in its 4th day. The three day weekend stretched from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th of June 2011 at Bahamas Youth Camp, here in New Providence. Fifteen men from our one hundred and ten churches offered as candidates. Sergio Kerr was our only man from St. Gregory the Great. Small numbers, however it was worth the investment. Didn’t our hearts burn within us as they testified to their spiritual flight last Sunday evening at our close out at Holy Trinity! To God alone be the glory. Today we look forward to more testimonies from these men, here in our own parish church. I am glad to have had the opportunity to have tarried with these men as their spiritual director assisted by other priests in the Diocese. The way forward in renewal is through the leadership of our men, pray that our women will follow leadership given by the men. Renewal must be the way forward and the buzz word in the parish. Cursilliastas! Let’s wake up and pull this ministry together. We must meet, attend ultreyas and create our own active community of Cursillo right at St. Gregory. We need make our every effort an intentional one. Cursilliastas are expected to lead the way in the parish, but we must galvanize, come together and do that which we must. Cursilliastas are to identify candidates and prepare them for future weekends. We are to sponsor candidates to weekends surfacing at weekends and give physical support. Ministries in the parish are to be undefended by Cursilliastas as they do apostolic action. Discovery weekends are “mini-cursillos” held at the parish level. This way we can immerse the entire parish in the renewal experience. Cursilliastas, I am calling on you to rally around me when we blow the trumpet to pull a team together. I look forward to our first adult discovery during lent of 2012. I beg your prayers. Happy Whitsuntide to all. This is the birthday of the church. We use Whitsuntide interchangeably with the term Pentecost. Pentecost became Whitsunday because it was a day for baptisms; the candidates were dressed in white baptismal robes to go down into the water. Thus the nick-name, WhitSunday (White Sunday). As a Christian country we celebrate the birthday of the church with a national holiday. So happy holidays to all; I wish you lots of joy and safety over all. On Thursday 23rd June, 7pm, I am inviting all Readers and Intercessors to a preliminary workshop. This will be a first in an ongoing series. These people are crucial to the conduct of worship and are infact worship leaders. It is opened to all those currently on roster and all who would like to be on roster. It is important that all be done in decency and order. * 10
OFFERTORY HYMN - 7:00 AM ……………………………………… A&M 156 (lyrics on p5) OFFERTORY HYMN - 9:30 AM …………………… ST. GREGORY’S SENIOR CHOIR THE PRESENTATION OF THE OFFERING …………………………………….. BCP p126 OFFERTORY HYMN 2 ………………………………………………… A&M 154 (Tune A&M 62) When God of old came down from Heav’n, In power and wrath He came; Before His feet the clouds were riven, Half darkness and half flame:
And as on Israel’s awe-struck ear The voice exceeding loud, The trump, that Angels quake to hear, Thrill’d from the deep, dark cloud;
But, when He came the second time, He came in power and love; Softer than gale at morning prime Hover’d His holy Dove.
So, when the Spirit of our God Came down His flock to find, A voice from Heav’n was heard abroad, A rushing, mighty wind.
The fires, that rushed on Sinai down In sudden torrents dread, Now gently light, a glorious crown, On every sainted head.
It fills the Church of God; it fills The sinful world around; Only in stubborn hearts and wills No place for it is found.
Come Lord, come Wisdom, Love and Power, Open our ears to hear; Let us not miss the accepted hour; Save, Lord, by love or fear. MINISTRY OF THE SACRAMENT EUCHARISTIC PRAYER: FORM A ….. BCP p126, p128, p131, p144 PROPER PREFACE ………………….......………………….............................. BCP p128 COMMUNION HYMNS ………………..…………………………………………….. A&M 315 Once, only once, and once for all, So He, Who once atonement wrought, His precious life He gave; Our Priest of endless power, Before the Cross our spirits fall, Presents Himself for those He bought And own it strong to save. In that dark noontide hour. “One offering, single and complete,” His Manhood pleads where now it lives With lips and heart we say; On heaven’s eternal Throne, But what He never can repeat And where in mystic rite He gives He shows forth day by day. Its Presence to His own. For, as the priest of Aaron’s line And so we show Thy death, O Lord, Within the Holiest stood, Till Thou again appear; And feel, when we approach Thy Board, And sprinkled all the mercy-shrine We have an Altar here. With sacrificial blood; All glory to the Father be, All glory to the Son, All glory, Holy Ghost, to Thee, While endless ages run. 7