The Church of St. Bartholomew Diocese of Ottawa. The Anglican Church of Canada The Guards Chapel Tulip Time in Ottawa Church of St Bartholomew 125 MacKay Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1M 2B4 Parish Office: 613-745-7834 ext 410 email: stbarts@bellnet.ca website: www.stbartsottawa.ca Parish Administrator Ruth Honeyman Organist & Director of Music Timothy Piper Honorary Assistant The Reverend Laurette Glasgow Members of Corporation Rector s Warden Sheila Perry People s Warden Judy Wiesinger Deputy Warden Stephen Brereton Deputy Warden Richard Remillard Treasurer Bill Turner 12 Christ's Appearance on the Mountain Duccio di Buoninsegna c.1310, Maesta Altarpiece, Siena Jesus said, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. John 14:15 613-745-7834 ext 115 The Reverend Canon David Clunie Rector 613-745-7834 ext 117 Sixth Sunday of Easter 613-422-3009 Holy Communion 613-744-1711 613-422-6509 613-791-1191 613-746-5530 613-695-1790 8:15 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. May 21, 2017
2 Sixth Sunday of Easter May 21, 2017 8:15 a. m. Holy Communion The Book of Common Prayer, p. 67 red prayer book Greeting Priest The grace And with thy spirit. Collect for Purity p. 67 Collect of the Day Priest Merciful God, you have prepared for those who love you riches beyond imagination. Pour into our hearts such love toward you, that we, loving you above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. First Reading: Acts 17:22-31 p. 7 Second Reading: 1 Peter 3:13-22 p. 8 Psalm 66:7-18 p. 409 The Gospel: John 14:15-21 p. 9 Sermon: The Reverend Canon David Clunie The Creed p. 71 The Intercessions Confession and Absolution p. 76 The Offertory Generous financial support is our expression of gratitude which along with our time and talents enables us to provide worship at St. Bart s and support God s work in service in our community and beyond. Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel, for ever and ever. All that is in the heaven and the earth is thine. All things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee. Eucharistic Prayer p. 78 The Communion All baptized persons are welcome to receive communion. Please do not dip the bread into the wine. If you do not wish to drink from the cup please remain at the altar rail after receiving the bread and place your arms across your chest when the chalice comes to you. The Lay Administrator will pause in front of you to say the words of administration. This shows your respect for the sacrament and solidarity with your fellow Christians. Gluten free bread is available. The Lord s Prayer p. 85 Gloria p. 86 Blessing Announcements Dismissal. Thanks be to God. Sanctuary Flowers The flowers are given to the Glory of God in commemoration & loving memory of George Penrose Woollcombe who was born 150 years ago today, May 21, 1867. The Rev. G. P. Woollcombe was headmaster of Ashbury College for 42 years after founding the school in 1891. The flowers are given by his grandson Stephen Woollcombe. Sidesperson and Reader: Meriel Bradford Lay Administrator: Dan Cameron The Calendar Ascension Day This Thursday is the Feast of the Ascension, which has been celebrated 40 days after Easter since the late 4 th century. It is one of the five key points in Jesus s ministry, the others being His Baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. We rely on St Luke for the fullest account of the Ascension, which he gave us in the Acts (1: 6-12), and where its occurrence 40 days after Easter is mentioned. This is the account that is most familiar to us. Luke s narrative in his gospel is not as detailed (Lk 24: 50-52), and he does not there mention the Mount of Olives, which is now held to be the traditional location of the Ascension. St Matthew (28: 16-20), however, places Jesus s last appearance to the disciples in Galilee, some distance to the north, but also on a mountain. There are several other references to the Ascension in the New Testament, and they recount the event as fact. Just before He went up, Jesus promised the disciples He would never leave them (Mt 28: 20) but would fill them with the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:5). Just after He went, two angels appeared to affirm that He would return just as he had gone. While the Early Church expected the Second Coming any day, our tradition almost neglects it at the moment, except when we listen to Handel s Messiah (The trumpet shall sound,.). Jesus was not the first person to be taken up, for Enoch, Adam s great grandson, walked with God at the end of his life, and Elijah was also taken before he died. There is a small chapel and a mosque on the Mount of Olives, both to commemorate Jesus s Ascension. The mosque reminds us of the reverence Muslims hold for Jesus. The Ascension is a critical event in the history of the Church, because only afterwards could Jesus send the Holy Spirit to kindle a fire that has not gone out. Submitted by Chris Burn. 11
In and Around St Bart s Bells of St. Bart's There were originally three bells presented to St. Bartholomew's in 1880 by HRH The Princess Louise (1848-1939). At that time, the church had two belfries, one at either end of the church. Over time, these deteriorated and were taken down and replaced, first, with a timber porch and belfry and, in 1985, with the stone structure that we know today. We now ring only two bells since the third one cracked long ago as a result of a flaw in the casting process. Princess Louise was the fourth daughter, and sixth child, of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Being the wife of the fourth Governor General, the Marquess of Lorne, she lived at Rideau Hall from 1878 to 1883 and was a regular parishioner at St. Bart's. Submitted by Judy Wiesinger. Sixth Sunday of Easter May 21, 2017 10:30 a. m. Holy Communion The Book of Alternative Services green prayer book Organ Prelude: Two Old English Voluntaries John Keeble & William Hine Processional Hymn: 330 O Praise Ye the Lord Laudate Dominum Greeting Priest The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you. Collect of the Day Priest Merciful God, you have prepared for those who love you riches beyond imagination. Pour into our hearts such love toward you, that we, loving you above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. First Reading: Acts 17:22-31 p.7 Psalm 66:7-18 p. 8 Second Reading: 1 Peter 3:13-22 p.8 Gradual Hymn: 657 Loving Spirit Omni Die Dic Maria The Gospel: John 14:15-21 p. 9 Sermon: The Reverend Canon David Clunie The Nicene Creed p. 188 The Intercessions Confession and Absolution p. 191 The Peace Offertory Hymn: 372 Praise to the Holiest in the Height Gerontius The Offertory Generous financial support is our expression of gratitude which along with our time and talents enables us to provide worship at St. Bart s and support God s work in service in our community and beyond. Prayer over the Gifts God of glory, accept all we offer you this day, and bring us to that eternal city of love and light, where Christ is King. We ask this in his name. Amen. Eucharistic Prayer 3 p. 198 Preface of Easter Celebrant Blessed are you gracious God, creator of heaven and earth; we give you thanks and praise for the glorious resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; for he is the true paschal lamb who has taken away the sin of the world. By his death he destroyed death, and by his rising to life again he has won for us eternal life. Therefore, joining our voices with the whole company of heaven, we sing our joyful hymn of praise to proclaim the glory of your name. The Lord s Prayer p. 211 The Breaking of the Bread Priest: Lord, we died with you on the cross. Now we are raised to new life. We were buried in your tomb. Now we share in your resurrection. Live in us, that we may live in you. The Gifts of God for the People of God. Thanks be to God. The Communion All baptized persons are welcome to receive communion. Please do not dip the bread into the wine. If you do not wish to drink from the cup please remain at the altar rail after receiving the bread and place your arms across your chest when the chalice comes to you. The Lay Administrator will pause in front of you to say the words of administration. This shows your respect for the sacrament and solidarity with your fellow Christians. Gluten free bread is available. 10 12 3
Music during Communion Hymn: 494 Not for Tongues of Heaven s Angels Comfort Motet: Teach Me, O Lord Thomas Attwood Prayer after Communion Father, you restored us to life by raising your Son from death. May we who receive this sacrament always be strengthened to do your will, in the name of Jesus Christ the risen Lord. Amen. Glory to God, whose power working in us can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Glory to God from generation to generation, in the Church and in Christ Jesus, for ever and ever. Amen. Announcements Recessional Hymn: 397 Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness Nettleton Dismissal Thanks be to God. Organ Postlude: Jerusalem My Happy Home (Land of Rest) set. Sam Batt Owens Sidespersons: Carol Burrows and Martha Patterson Readers: Irene Walker and Martha Patterson Lay Administrators: Ray Perrin and Philip Anido We warmly welcome our guest organist Teresa van den Boogaard. Sanctuary Flowers The flowers are given to the Glory of God in commemoration & loving memory of George Penrose Woollcombe who was born 150 years ago today, May 21, 1867. The Rev. G. P. Woollcombe was headmaster of Ashbury College for 42 years after founding the school in 1891. The flowers are given by his grandson Stephen Woollcombe. Anglican Cycle of Prayer: Ngbo - Enugu, Nigeria The Right Reverend Christian Ebisike Diocese: St Alban s, Maberly; St Paul s, Lanark; St John s, Balderson; St Stephen s, Bathurst The Reverend Johnathan Askwith For the Director of Mission The Venerable Dr. Peter John Hobbs Diocesan Youth Conference (May 19-21) In our Companion Diocese of Jerusalem we pray for St Paul s and St Peter s Episcopal Church - The Mission for the Seafarers - Aqaba Canada: Remembering our Armed Forces and members of the Governor General s Foot Guards and those serving in diplomatic missions and NGOs, especially Jason. Parish: Family & Friends, Christina, Dorothy, Margaret, Rosemary, Ned, JoAnne, Jane, Eric, Fay, Robert Hampson. Those being ordained as Deacons: Rosemary Parker & Simone Hurkmans Christ Church Cathedral, Thursday, May 25th. Prayer List To add someone to the list, please contact the office with the name and a few words concerning the condition., i.e. upcoming surgery. Names will remain on the list for two weeks unless an update is received. Organ Postlude Our service officially ends with the dismissal after the last hymn - Go in peace to love & serve the Lord. Do feel free to leave or go to coffee hour. As some wish to remain to listen to the music, please be mindful of them and begin your conversations in the church at the end of the postlude. were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him. (1 Peter 3:13-22) The Gospel Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. Thanks be to God. The Holy Gospel is written in the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel according to Saint John beginning at the 15th verse. (BCP) Glory be to thee, O Lord. (BCP) The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. (BAS) Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ. (BAS) Jesus said, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them." (John 14:15-21) The Gospel of Christ. Praise be to thee, O Christ. (BCP) Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. (BAS) 4 9 9
Psalm 66:7-18 Bless our God, you peoples; make the voice of his praise to be heard; Who holds our souls in life, and will not allow our feet to slip. Refrain. For you, O God, have proved us; you have tried us just as silver is tried. You brought us into the snare; you laid heavy burdens upon our backs. You let enemies ride over our heads; we went through fire and water; but you brought us out into a place of refreshment. Refrain. I will enter your house with burnt offerings and will pay you my vows, which I promised with my lips and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble. I will offer you sacrifices of fat beasts with the smoke of rams; I will give you oxen and goats. Refrain. Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what he has done for me. I called out to him with my mouth, and his praise was on my tongue. Refrain. If I had found evil in my heart, the Lord would not have heard me; But in truth God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer, nor withheld his love from me. Refrain A Reading from the First Letter of Peter Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defence to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God's will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, 8 Coffee Hour Please join us for coffee in the parish hall following our 10:30 service with our hosts the Heatherington family. Visitors & newcomers are invited to take one of the blue mugs at coffee hour. These indicate that you are new to our parish. Monday, May 22 The Parish Office Will be Closed In the case of an emergency, please leave a message and your call will be returned as soon as possible. Bridge Club Mondays at 2:00 p.m. Please contact: David Younger 613-241-1961 for more info. Thursday Mornings Silent Meditation and Bible Study Meditation is held in the church at 8:00 & Bible Study in the hall at 10:00. Altar Flowers Each week two floral arrangements will be placed in the Sanctuary. To contribute to these flowers to celebrate an event or to remember a loved one, consult the flower chart in the parish hall to select a date & then contact Ruth Honeyman in the Parish Office, 613-745-7834, to confirm and provide details for the bulletin. If your date has been taken by another, tributes may be shared or an alternate date chosen. A $75.00 donation is suggested. Please mark cheques Altar Flowers as tax receipts will be provided. Needed - Gardening Tools Do you have gardening tools, gloves or supplies of any kind that you are willing to donate to be used in two food projects designed to assist low income families in Ottawa? 'Plant-a-row, Donate-a-row is a community garden where all produce is donated to the Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard. The 'New Roots Farm Project' connects new Canadian families with the tools and expertise to grow food in Canada. Fr. David s wife, the Rev. Linda Hill, will ensure that all donations are delivered to the Just Food Farm at 2389 Pepin Court near Innes Road in Blackburn Hamlet. A designated area in the hall will soon be set-up to receive your donations. May 27 IODE House & Garden Tour 9:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. The 57th Annual Tour will present four wonderful houses and two beautiful gardens. A few tickets at $35 are available at the parish office. Proceeds will benefit the Diane Morrison Hospice at the Ottawa Mission. Photo s taken for the Parish Directory are available for pick-up in the hall after services and at the office during the week St Bart s Supervised Nursery Open from 10:15 a.m. until 12:15 p.m. Parents are invited to take their infants - 3 yr. olds to the hall nursery before or during the 10:30 service. Sunday School for 4 to 13 year-olds is held during the 10:30 service. New arrivals are always welcome. 5
A Reading from the Book of Acts Upcoming Events Celebrating 150 Years May 27 Concert at St Bart s with The Stairwell Carollers 7:30 p.m. The Stairwell Carollers has earned the distinction of being ranked amongst the best of Ottawa choirs by local critics. Join us for a splendid programme of a capella choral music celebrating the Carollers upcoming 40th Anniversary and St Bart s 150th Anniversary! $20.00 Available at the office. Saturday, June 3 - St. Bart's is Part of Official Doors Open Ottawa The church will be open to welcome visitors from 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. Please volunteer on the sign-up sheet in the hall. We need lots of volunteers! Coordinator: Judy Wiesinger judyatstbarts@gmail.com 613-422-6509. Sunday, June 11 Parish BBQ The Sunday School and Parish Choir Break for the Summer Come one and all to the BBQ following the 10:30 service. Let s celebrate summer and the holidays! Our thanks to Michèle Corriveau & Jake Harding for organizing the BBQ. Sunday, June 11 Evensong 4:30 p.m. The Lark Ascending We will be offering sung Evensong by our choir. The centerpiece will be the evocative and moving work for violin by Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending. Daniel Kushner, from Toronto, will be the soloist with our own Tim Piper accompanying him on the organ. The violin invokes beautiful birdsong that soars through the skies and brings that ethereal beauty into our world. Please plan to attend. June 13 - Concert at St Bart s 7:30 p.m. Music of a Northern Land Celebrating Canada s 150th and Latvia s 100th Anniversary. Latvian artists Dzintra Erliha, pianist, Emma Bandeniece, cellist, and Canadian Latvian mezzo soprano, Vilma Indra Vitols present World Premieres for cello and piano, by Imants Ramiņš and Ludmila Knezkova-Hussey and works by Lūcija Garūta, Pēteris Vasks, Jāzeps Mediņš and Tālivaldis Ķeniņš. The concert will be followed by a reception supported by the Embassy of Latvia. Tickets $20.00. Available at the office. Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, "Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, 'To an unknown God.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him - though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For 'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.' Since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead." (Acts 17:22-31) Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. Thanks be to God. 6 7