St Lucy Parish Church Diocese of Barbados Nestfield, St. Lucy
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST: PROPER 16 23rd August 2026 Rector: The Rev’d Hugh Sandiford Deacon: The Rev’d Sharon King Church Wardens: Justice Anthony Blackman Mr. William Yearwood Organist: Mr. Matthew Banfield Sexton: Mrs. Jacqueline Ellis (Acting) Our Vision: To be an authentic community where all are accepted, loved and disciples are formed!
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Telephone/Whatsapp: 572-5336/230-9405 Email: stlucychurch1627@yahoo.com A Address: Nesfield, Saint Lucy, Barbados
ORDER OF SERVICE OPENING PRAYER INTROIT HYMN: 383 - Praise, my soul, the King of heaven 1
Praise, my soul, the King of heaven; to his feet thy tribute bring; ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, who like me his praise should sing? Alleluia, alleluia! Praise the everlasting King.
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Praise him for his grace and favour to our fathers in distress; praise him still the same as ever, slow to chide and swift to bless: Alleluia, alleluia! Glorious in his faithfulness.
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Father-like, he tends and spares us; well our feeble frame he knows; in his hands he gently bears us, rescues us from all our foes. Alleluia, alleluia! Widely as his mercy flows.
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Angels, help us to adore him; ye behold him face to face; sun and moon, bow down before him, dwellers all in time and space. Alleluia, alleluia! Praise with us the God of grace.
PRESIDENT: Good morning, brothers and sisters in Christ. A warm welcome to our Eucharistic worship. The mass will be a Said Mass. Today is the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 16 and our collect can be found on page 177. The church of St. Bartholomew celebrates its feasts of title tomorrow, 24th August. We remember the Priest-in-Charge and congregation in our prayers. The Eucharist continues on page 100.
OPENING SENTENCE: PRESIDENT: I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord. (Psalm 122: 1) VERSICLE & RESPONSE (BCP Page 101) PRESIDENT: Blessed be God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Alleluia. Alleluia. ALL:
And blessed be His Kingdom, now and forever. Amen. Alleluia. Alleluia.
ALL: Blessed Lord and Father, we have assembled in your name and in fellowship with one another. Enable us by your grace to offer the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; to proclaim and respond to your holy word. Teach us to pray for your world and your Church. Grant that we, confessing our sins, may worthily offer to you our souls and bodies as a living sacrifice and eat and drink of your spiritual food in this Holy Sacrament. Amen. COLLECT FOR PURITY (BCP Page 101) ALL: Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your Holy Name, through Christ our Lord. Amen. THE KYRIE (BCP Page 102) Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
GLORIA IN EXCELSIS (BCP Page 102) Glory to God in the highest, and peace to His people on earth. Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world: have mercy on us; you are seated at the right hand of the Father: receive our prayer. For you alone are the Holy One; you alone are the Lord: you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen. COLLECTS PRESIDENT: The Lord be with you. ALL: And also with you. PRESIDENT: Let us pray. Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
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PRESIDENT: Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. St. Bartholomew, the Apostle
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PRESIDENT: Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your Word: Grant that your Church may love
what he believed and preach what he taught; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. PRESIDENT: Kindly be seated for the ministry of the word. FIRST LESSON: Exodus 1:8-2:10
[Mrs. Beverley Edwards]
READER: A Reading from the Word of God, written in the book of Exodus, chapter one, beginning at the eighth verse. ILLUMINATION: READER: Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them. The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.” But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?” The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live.” Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank
of the river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him. The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him, “This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,” she said. Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, “because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.” READER: The word of the Lord. ALL: Thanks be to God. PSALM 124 1. If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say : if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; 2. They had swallowed us up quick : when thy were so wrathfully displeased at us. 3. Yea, the waters had drowned us : and the stream had gone over our soul. 4. The deep waters of the proud : had gone even over our soul. 5. But praised be the Lord : who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth. 6. Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler : the snare is broken, and we are delivered . 7. Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord : who hath made heaven and earth. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. SECOND LESSON: Romans 12:1-8
[Mrs. Jacqueline Ellis]
READER: A reading from the word of God written in Paul’s letter to the Romans, chapter twelve beginning at the first verse. ILLUMINATION:
READER: I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God-- what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness. READER: The word of the Lord. ALL: Thanks be to God. GRADUAL HYMN: 784 - Thou art the Christ, O Lord 1
Thou art the Christ, O Lord, the Son of God most high: for ever be adored that name in earth and sky, in which, though mortal strength may fail, the saints of God at last prevail.
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O surely he was blest with blessedness unpriced, who, taught of God, confessed the Godhead in the Christ; for of thy Church, Lord, thou didst own thy saint a true foundation-stone.
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Thrice fallen, thrice restored, the bitter lesson learnt, that heart for thee, O Lord, with triple ardour burnt. The cross he took he laid not down until he grasped the martyr's crown.
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THE GOSPEL: Matthew 16:13-20 DEACON: The Lord be with you. ALL: And also with you. DEACON: The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew, the sixteenth chapter beginning at the thirteenth verse. ALL: Glory to Christ our Saviour ILLUMINATION: DEACON: When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah. DEACON: This is the Gospel of Christ ALL: Praise to Christ our Lord HYMN: 784 4
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O bright triumphant faith, O courage void of fears, O love most strong in death, O penitential tears! By these, Lord, keep us lest we fall, and make us go where thou shalt call.
THE SERMON
PRESIDENT: Let us now stand and reaffirm our faith in the Triune God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), in the words of the Nicene Creed. NICENE CREED [BCP page 104] We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen or unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. Through Him all things were made. For us and for our salvation He came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit He was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; He suffered, died and was buried. On the third day He rose again in fulfilment of the Scriptures; He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and His kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father. With the Father and the Son He is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen. INTERCESSION FORM D
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[Usher’s Guild]
LEADER Our Heavenly Father has promised through our Lord Jesus Christ to hear us when we pray in faith. Let us therefore pray for the Church and the World, and let us thank God for His goodness. Silence may be kept. LEADER We pray for the Church of God in every place; especially for this Diocese, our Bishop Michael and all the people of God. ALL Strengthen your Church to carry forward the work of Christ; that we and all who confess your Name may unite in truth, live together in your love, and reveal your glory to the world. LEADER We pray for our country, for all the nations of the world, and for all peoples in their various callings. ALL Direct this nation and all nations in the ways of justice and truth. Give wisdom to all in positions of public trust and authority; that they may promote the prosperity, godliness and peace of your people everywhere. LEADER We pray for our own community, for this parish, for our families, friends, and all who live and work with us.
ALL Give grace to all our friends and neighbours in Christ, that we may serve Him in one another and grow together in His love. LEADER We pray for the poor, the sick, the unemployed, the physically challenged; all who have requested our prayers and all who seek the prayers of the Church in their time of trouble. ALL Give healing and strength to all who suffer in body, mind or spirit. Give them courage and hope in their troubles and sustain all who remember and care for them. LEADER We commemorate the departed. ALL We commend all people to your unfailing love, that in them your will may be fulfilled; and we rejoice at the faithful witness of your saints in every age, praying that we may share with them in your eternal kingdom. Silence may be kept. Ushers’ Prayer READER: Lord, you made all kinds of people, even people like me. In your love you gather them into your Church. As you gather your people this day, help me to serve them in a Christlike manner, even as your Son served those who gathered about him. Make me prayerful and patient, helpful and understanding, and may I radiate the joy that faith brings as I serve their needs. Give me your strength to support my fellow ministers. May all who assemble to celebrate our common faith in the risen Saviour be glad of heart for being here and for having encountered your Son in one another, in our priest, at the tables of the book and the Bread, and through the ministry of ushers like me. I ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen. Choristers’ Prayer READER: Bless, O Lord, us your servants who minister in your temple. Grant that what we sing with our lips we may believe in our hearts, and what we believe in our hearts we may show forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayer for God’s protection during this Hurricane Season ALL: Almighty God, governor of all things in Heaven and earth: Receive now, we pray, our supplications for protection from storms or hurricanes. We acknowledge that we are unworthy for the least of your mercies, yet we humbly pray that you will so hold the winds of heaven that we may dwell safely without fear of evil; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen LEADER Accept these prayers, O Lord our God, for the sake of your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. ALL
Amen.
ACT OF PENITENCE (BCP Page 123) PRESIDENT: 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 will forgive our sins, and cleanse us from all un-righteousness. A period of silence shall be kept. PRESIDENT: Let us therefore confess our sins. FORM A (BCP Page 123) ALL: Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we have sinned against you and one another, in thought, word and deed, and in what we have left undone. We are sorry and repent of all our sins. For your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, forgive us all that is past, and grant that we may serve you in newness of life to the glory of your Name. Amen THE ABSOLUTION (BCP Page 124) PRESIDENT: Almighty God, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and keep you in life eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. ALL: Amen.
THE GREETING OF PEACE (BCP Page 124-125) FORM A PRESIDENT: 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. ALL: Let us then pursue the things that make for peace and build up the common life. PRESIDENT: The peace of the Lord be always with you. ALL: And also with you. PRESIDENT: Let us share that peace. SONG FOR THE PEACE: Let there be peace on earth Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be. With God as our Father, brothers all are we. Let us walk with each other in perfect harmony. Let peace begin with me. Let this be the moment now. With ev’ry breath I take let this be my solemn vow: To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally. Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. OFFERTORY HYMNS: 310, 348
HYMN: 310 - Glorious things of thee are spoken 1
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God; he whose word cannot be broken formed thee for his own abode. On the Rock of Ages founded, what can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's walls surrounded, thou mayest smile at all thy foes.
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See, the streams of living waters, springing from eternal love, well supply thy sons and daughters, and all fear of want remove. Who can faint while such a river ever flows their thirst to assuage; grace, which like the Lord the Giver, never fails from age to age?
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Round each habitation hovering, see the cloud and fire appear, for a glory and a covering showing that the Lord is near. Thus they march, the pillar leading, light by night and shade by day; daily on the manna feeding which he gives them when they pray.
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Saviour, since of Zion's city, I, through grace, a member am, let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name. Fading is the world's best pleasure, all its boasted pomp and show; solid joys and lasting treasure none but Zion's children know.
HYMN: 348 - The church’s one foundation 1
The church's one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord; she is his new creation by water and the word. from heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride; with his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died.
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Elect from every nation, yet one o'er all the earth; her charter of salvation, one Lord, one faith, one birth; one holy name she blesses, partakes one holy food, and to one hope she presses, with every grace endued.
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Though with a scornful wonder men see her sore opprest, by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distrest, yet saints their watch are keeping; their cry goes up, "How long?" And soon the night of weeping shall be the morn of song.
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‘Mid toil and tribulation, and tumult of her war, she waits the consummation of peace forevermore; till, with the vision glorious, her longing eyes are blest, and the great church victorious shall be the church at rest.
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Yet she on earth hath union with God the Three in One, and mystic sweet communion with those whose rest is won. O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we like them, the meek and lowly, on high may dwell with thee.
THE PRESENTATION OF OFFERING - FORM B
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PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE Father, we offer to you these gifts which you have given us; this bread, this wine, 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, so may we and all your people become channels of your love; through the same Christ our Lord. Amen. THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYERS SURSUM CORDA PRESIDENT: The Lord be with you. ALL: And also with you. PRESIDENT: Lift up your hearts. ALL: We lift them up to the Lord. PRESIDENT: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. ALL: It is right to give God thanks and praise. PRESIDENT: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Father Almighty, everlasting God: For you are the source of light and life; you made us in your image, and called us to new life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore, we praise you; joining our voices with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven, who forever sing this hymn to proclaim the glory of your Name: ALL: Holy, holy, holy, Lord, God of power and might; heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. EUCHARISTIC PRAYER B
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PRESIDENT: Holy and gracious Father, all creation rightly gives you praise. All life, all holiness, comes from you through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, whom you sent 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, our Saviour Jesus Christ, who offered Himself in obedience to your will, the Perfect Sacrifice for all mankind. On the night he was betrayed, he took bread, and when he had 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 and when he had 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." ALL:
When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim the death of Christ until he comes again.
PRESIDENT: Father, calling to mind the death your Son endured 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. Look with favour on your Church's offering, and 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 He make us a perpetual offering to you and enable us, in communion with blessed Mary, St. Lucy and the whole company of heaven, to share in the inheritance of your saints. 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 songs of everlasting praise: ALL Blessing and honour and glory and power be yours for ever and ever. Amen. THE LORD’S PRAYER (BCP Page 144) PRESIDENT: As our Saviour has taught us, so we pray: ALL: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen. THE BREAKING OF BREAD (BCP Page 145) PRESIDENT: We break this bread to share in the body of Christ. ALL: Though we are many, we are one body, because we all share in one bread.
THE AGNUS DEI (BCP Page 147) Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world: have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world: have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world: grant us peace. THE INVITATION (BCP Page 145-146) FORM B DEACON: The Gifts of God for the People of God. ALL: Our souls will feast and be satisfied, and we will sing glad songs of praise to Him. COMMUNION HYMNS: 625, 597, 616 HYMN: 625 - We come as guests invited 1
We come as guests invited when Jesus bids us dine, his friends on earth united to share the bread and wine; the bread of life is broken, the wine is freely poured for us, in solemn token of Christ our dying Lord.
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We eat and drink, receiving from Christ the grace we need, and in our hearts believing on him by faith we feed; with wonder and thanksgiving for love that knows no end, we find in Jesus living our ever-present friend.
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One bread is ours for sharing, one single fruitful vine, our fellowship declaring renewed in bread and wine; renewed, sustained and given by token, sign and word, the pledge and seal of heaven, the love of Christ our Lord.
HYMN: 597 - I come with joy, a child of God 1
I come with joy, a child of God, forgiven, loved and free, the life of Jesus to recall, in love laid down for me.
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I come with Christians far and near to find, as all are fed, the new community of love in Christ's communion bread.
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As Christ breaks bread, and bids us share, each proud division ends. The love that made us, makes us one, and strangers now are friends.
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The Spirit of the risen Christ, unseen, but ever near, is in such friendship better known, alive among us here.
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Together met, together bound by all that God has done, we'll go with joy, to give the world the love that makes us one.
HYMN: 616 - O thou, who at the Eucharist didst pray 1
O thou, who at thy eucharist didst pray that all thy church might be for ever one, grant us at every eucharist to say with longing heart and soul, "Thy will be done." O may we all one bread, one body be, through this blest sacrament of unity.
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For all thy church, O Lord, we intercede; make thou our sad divisions soon to cease; draw us the nearer each to each, we plead, by drawing all to thee, O Prince of peace; thus may we all one bread, one body be, through this blest sacrament of unity.
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We pray thee too for wanderers from thy fold; O bring them back, good Shepherd of the sheep, back to the faith which saints believed of old, back to the church which still that faith doth keep; soon may we all one bread, one body be, through this blest sacrament of unity.
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So, Lord, at length when sacraments shall cease, may we be one with all thy church above, one with thy saints in one unbroken peace, one with thy saints in one unbounded love: more blessèd still, in peace and love to be one with the Trinity in Unity.
HYMNS FOR BLESSING: 835, 539 HYMN: 835 - God is the refuge of his saints 1
God is the refuge of his saints, when storms of sharp distress invade; ere we can offer our complaints, behold him present with his aid!
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Let mountains from their seats be hurled down to the deep, and buried there, convulsions shake the solid world, our faith shall never yield to fear.
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Loud may the troubled ocean roar; in sacred peace our souls abide; while every nation, every shore, trembles, and dreads the swelling tide.
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There is a stream, whose gentle flow makes glad the city of our God, life, love, and joy still gliding through, and watering our divine abode:
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That sacred stream, thine holy word, that all our raging fear controls; sweet peace thy promises afford, and give new strength to fainting souls.
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Sion enjoys her Monarch's love, secure against a threatening hour; nor can her firm foundation move, built on his truth, and armed with power.
HYMN: 539 - Take my life and let it be 1
Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee; take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise.
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Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of thy love. Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for thee.
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Take my voice, and let me sing always, only, for my King; take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee.
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Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold. Take my intellect, and use every power as thou shalt choose.
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Take my will, and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine. Take my heart: it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne.
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Take my love; my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure-store. Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for thee.
THE DISMISSAL POST COMMUNION PRAYER
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ALL: 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 world in peace, and grant us strength and courage to love and serve you, and all persons in you, with gladness and singleness of heart, through your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. BLESSING: PRESIDENT: The blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be among you and remain with you always. ALL:
Amen.
PRESIDENT: Kindly be seated for the Notices NOTICES & HIGHLIGHTS
RECESSIONAL HYMN: 517 - Forth in thy name, O Lord I go 1
Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go, my daily labour to pursue; thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.
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The task thy wisdom hath assigned, O let me cheerfully fulfill; In all my works thy presence find, and prove thy good and perfect will.
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Thee may I set at my right hand, whose eyes my inmost substance see, and labour on at thy command, and offer all my works to thee.
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Give me to bear thy easy yoke, and every moment watch and pray, and still to things eternal look, and hasten to thy glorious day.
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For thee delightfully employ whate'er thy bounteous grace hath given; and run my course with even joy, and closely walk with thee to heaven.
CLOSING PRAYERS DEACON: Go in peace and serve the Lord. ALL: In the name of Christ. Amen.
ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICES
Greetings and Welcome We greet you warmly today to our Eucharistic worship. We now invite or visitors to share your name and church community with us. Thank you for worshipping with us today. Events In Our Parish (See the below calendar of events) • Luncheon St. Lucy Parish Church is hosting a luncheon under the theme, “Together in Unity: A Taste of Paradise” on Sunday, September 27, 2026, at 12:30 p.m. at the Daryll Jordan Secondary School. See the flyer below for more information. • Cake Sale The Mothers’ Union will be having a cake sale on Saturday, August 29, 2026, at Jordans Supermarket in Speightstown. Events in our Diocese See the attached flyers.
Events of our Lives Birthdays Congratulations to all those persons celebrating birthdays this week. 1. Lana Yearwood-Evelyn 2. Sylvia Greaves
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August 25th August 28th
As their days increase, God’s richest blessing on them.
Anniversaries Congratulations to all persons celebrating anniversaries this week. Bereavement We extend condolences to Mr. Floyd Branker (son) and other relatives of Dinese Lashley, one of our shut-in members. Dinese, who celebrated her 98th birthday last month, died on Friday morning at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after a brief illness. May her soul rest in peace and rise in glory. Sick & Shut-Ins/Prayer Request Stella Atwell Carmen Bowen Douglas Brome Waple Griffith Audrey Headley Roy Hinds Theomonda Husbands Marva Jordan
Joyce Grant Erma Griffith Gilbert Griffith Elsie Maxwell John Maxwell Horace Nicholls Eupharene Walkes Joan Yearwood
Doriel King Marlene King Marva Brome Enid Broome Michael Broomes Thesby Evans Anthony Grant Thelma Jordan
Please remember the sick or injured in our parish and the wider community.
St. Lucy Parish Church - Calendar of Events
St. Lucy Parish Church – Luncheon
Christian Formation Commission – Youth Reflection Day
St. David’s Church – Festival of Dedication
St. Mary Anglican Church – Patronal Festival
Church of the Holy Cross – Feast of Title
Anglican Diocese of Barbados – Caribbean Wellness Day