May 25th Worship Audio Available

We have re-entered 'Ordinary' season in the church year. The term 'ordinary' refers back to its origins in 'ordinal' - showing the 'order' or 'rank' of something. So, in Ordinary time after Pentecost, we are counting the Sundays before the end of the liturgical church year in November. (Learn more here and here.)

We include a link to a reflection on Ordinary Time from the archives of Anglicans Online.

To learn how we know which Proper to use on which Sunday after Pentecost, you may read more from the Book of Common Prayer on page 158 or online here.

Some notes on today's audio: We are experimenting with a different recording method. We want to provide reliable posting of the worship audio, so we are exploring duplicate methods of recording and ways that avoid use of the sound system to forego the drops and other issues it quirkily decides to inject in the recordings.

Please let us know if this week's method is acceptable. We will, of course, continue to scout out the causes of problems and possible solutions for our main sound system.

For those of you who wish to worship with us, you will find the audio in the usual spot on our Worship page or by using this link.


This week's celebrant and preacher: Rev. Kate Stebinger
This week's guest organist: Charlene Higbe

Hymns this week:
Opening: 390
Gloria: S278
Psalm: 62:6-14 (sung to tune of Hymn 121)
Gospel Processional: 408
Offertory: 678
Sanctus: S128
Fraction Anthem
Communion: 711, 701
Closing: 388

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!

Pentecost Worship Audio Available

Pentecost - the birthday of the Church. The altar guild had filled our nave with bright red geranium plants (which we took home after service).

For those of you who wish to worship with us, you will find the audio in the usual spot on our Worship page or by using this link.

Today's preacher and celebrant was Rev. Patricia Eustis.

Music:
Opening Hymn: 225
Gloria: S278
Psalm: 104:25-32 (setting: RS James)
Gospel Procession: 516
Offertory Hymn: 508
Sanctus: S128
Fraction Anthem
Communion Hymns: 513, 507
Closing Hymn: 224

Sunday After Ascension

Despite having two methods of recording set up and ready to go, we are not immune to error. Recording does not work if the equipment is left in standby mode! Our humblest apologies to our online congregants. And thanks be to God for a reminder of our human qualities! You can rest assured we won't make this particular mistake again!

Canon Cecil Scantlebury was our preacher and celebrant. His sermon was handwritten. We have asked if he could share it with us for posting. We will let you know if and when we receive it.

The skies opened and it poured off and on all morning. We are watching that leak in the roof - the wall has a definite bulge of watery origins up high above the choir...