St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church, Regina, Saskatchewan
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
June 16, 2024
Organ Prelude: In Quietness and Confidence – (In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. Isaiah 30:15) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
StMarysRegina is on MixlrTHE HYMN: # 526 God Is Our Refuge and Our Rock
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June 9, 2024
THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE;
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!
LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.
What is the essential message which the Church proclaims in and through her liturgical worship? The essense of the message is contained in today’s Epistle lesson where St. John writes, “ And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.” ( 1 John 3.23). The belief, the recognition concerning Jesus Christ as the revelation of the love of God is the starting point of the Christian life. That we should catch a glimpse of that revelation and be refreshed and elevated by it, is the first point of our liturgical celebrations, wherein we are invited to “eat the bread” of the kingdom of God. But as we hear in today’s Gospel lesson, many of those invited to the dinner banquet, couldn’t be bothered or were otherwise occupied, as a consequence of which the owner of the house instructed his servants to invite poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame to come and “taste of his dinner.” In this season of Trinity we are invited to “taste and see how good the Lord is,” to be nourished in our faith, and to find ourselves transformed into lovers of God and our brother. This love doesn’t just happen, and is not simply a matter of feeling. It is a commandment, which is fulfilled in the laying down our lives for each other in the Church. In this way God lives in us and we in Him.
THE LESSON: 1 John 3:13-24
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SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
June 9, 2024
Organ Prelude: Interlude Alexander Boely (1785-1858)
THE HYMN: # 334 Holy God, We Praise Your Name
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June 2, 2024
THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE;
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!
LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.
With the First Sunday after Trinity, we are launched on the second half/ semester of the church calendar! In our Epistle reading for today, St. John gives us a review of what we have seen and discovered in our worship and preaching in our first “semester” from Advent through Christmas, Epiphany, Lent and Easter: “In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.” So what’s in store for us in the second semester? John writes, “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.” In our Gospel lesson todayJesus tells the parable of Dives ( the rich man) and Lazarus which comes to us a cautionary of tale of someone who did not receive and embody the love of God…with catastrophic results.
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June 2, 2024
Organ Prelude: Blessed are Ye, Faithful Souls Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
StMarysRegina is on MixlrTHE HYMN: # 445 God the Creator
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May 26, 2024
THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE;
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!
LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.
Today we come to Trinity Sunday in the church calendar, which provides us with the answer to the all important question, “ In light of all that the Church has shown us concerning the Advent, the Birth, the Baptism, the preaching, the teaching, and miracles , the suffering, death and resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, and the sending of the Holy Spirit…Who is God?” God is the Father, who is always with His Son and always with His Holy Spirit. God is communion of love of the persons of the Trinity.
TRINITY SUNDAY
May 26, 2024
StMarysRegina is on MixlrOrgan Prelude: Invocation Alan Ridout (1934-1996)
THE HYMN: # 1 Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty
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May 19, 2024
THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE;
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!
LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.
Today we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, and the presence, power, and work of the Holy Spirit in our lives in the special anointing for personal renewal that will take place at the beginning of today’s service. The Holy Spirit is the gift of God to those who align themselves with Jesus through obedience to His commandments. It is the Holy Spirit through whom we receive the spirit of sonship whereby we know ourselves deeply loved by God as our Father, even as we participate in the sufferings of His Son, Jesus Christ. It is the Holy Spirit who also gives us peace in the midst of our troubles
THE PENTECOST READING: Acts of the Apostles: Acts 2. 1-21
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MAY 19, 2024
StMarysRegina is on MixlrOrgan Prelude: Come, Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire Tune:Kempton Abbey ca. 1000 arr. Healey Willan (1880-1968)
HYMN: # Come, Holy Spirit, Come! Tune: Diademata
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May 12, 2024
THE FATHER IS MY HOPE; THE SON IS MY REFUGE;
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY PROTECTION.
ALL HOLY TRINITY, GLORY TO THEE!
LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.
In our church calendar today is the Sunday after the Ascension. Having celebrated the “elevation” of Jesus Christ to the place of supreme power and authority in the Universe ( “at the right hand of the Father” ), in our Gospel lesson today we take to heart Jesus’ promise to send the Holy Spirit, the fulfillment of which we will celebrate next Sunday at the Feast of Pentecost. It is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to bear witness to our hearts the truth of who Jesus is, and what He has said and done, in conformity with the witness of the apostles. Jesus also warns his disciples of the hostility, persecution, and martyrdom that will come their way. In the face of such opposition, how are we to live? The Epistle reading sets the agenda for us for a life of authentic Christian witness.
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