An Internet Worship Experience

At our spring diocesan convention, the workgroup one of our delegates participated in was brainstorming along the theme of How to Be An Inviting Community. Of course, communication within our parishes and with people not familiar with our liturgy and beliefs was one main topic of discussion. A number of people mentioned that web sites are a great tool for parishes to inform folks of schedules and information. And some visionaries challenged us to remember that our web sites can be More than a source of schedules and directions and contacts. They urged us to remember to include Food for the Heart and Soul.


In that context, we have posted The Great Litany as prayed at St. Barnabas at the beginning of our Eucharist on the first Sunday in Lent. The Great Litany is a set of responsive prayers chanted by a cantor and the congregation. It has been part of our Anglican liturgy (the 'work' of worship) since our first Book of Common Prayer was published in the 1500s. You can learn more of the history of the Litany here.


You can follow along in the Book of Common Prayer, online or in-hand, by turning to page 148.

The Latest in Sermons

We are experimenting with posting sermons as audio files. Lent III and Lent IV (March 11 & 18, 2007) have been made available as .mp3 files.


Audio files take up much more space than the printed text of sermons. We are not sure how many sermons we will be able to have available at one time, but we are committed to trying different methods until we find one that works well for our parish.


Our limiting factor is the amount of space we have on our web server. We are currently evaluating our needs and dreams to see how these compare with what we can afford and what we currently have available to us.


One dream we have is to make more of the elements of our worship and liturgy available to our online parishioners and visitors. Imagine being able to listen to a service and sharing in the prayers whenever the Spirit called you!


As a small start, we have uploaded the Lord's Prayer as said during our 11 o'clock Eucharist today. This prayer is one all Christians have in common - it is a comfort and source of strength to many.


Visit our worship page to find the Lord's Prayer.

Visit our sermon page for links to all our sermons.