Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Trinity Sunday at St Barnabas

My, my, we were busy on Sunday! Our apologies for the delay in posting audio this week. Our team members were all involved in Evensong for Trinity Sunday, so we lost our audio conversion time for the morning service on Sunday afternoon. We have been trying to find time to convert the audio of Evensong to mp3 for your listening ever since.

You may listen to Evensong here.

Evensong is only one among many possible ways of worship. Our aim is to offer beauty in song to God, the giver of all beauty and goodness. Based on the services held daily in the medieval Church, Evensong, as found in the Book of Common Prayer, has been sung regularly since the sixteenth century.

You will hear the choir's entrance on the Psalm pick up steam- they had expected to hear the start of the Evening Hymn, but quickly recovered and sang Psalm 150 with gusto. As soon as we finished the psalm, we went back and sang the Phos hilaron with the congregation.

The Order of Service:
We sing an opening hymn (#28)
followed by the Invitatory and Psalter
Psalm 150
Phos hilaron (Evening Hymn #37)
then come the Lessons and Magnificant/Nunc dimittis
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
The Magnificat
Romans 16:12-15
The Nunc dimittis
The Apostle's Creed
Then come prayers of various types...
The Prayers
The Suffrages
The Collects
The Offertory Anthem
The Occasional Collects
The General Thanksgiving
The Blessing
Closing Hymn (#24)

The morning service recording has issues, unfortunately. We are trying to salvage the sermon for you. There were two sections with audio drops and distortion. We have asked Rev. Kate to remind us of what those sections contained. Once we hear back from her, we will post the sermon with her notes!