This Coming Sunday's Bulletin:

The Fourth Sunday of Easter

15 May 2011

Please click on the highlighted hymn titles to hear the hymn tune.

10:15 a.m. - Holy Eucharist

The Gathering of the Community

Organ Prelude Larghetto, from Oboe Sonata in C (Jean-Baptiste Loeillet)
Hymn 323 : Ye Holy Angels Bright
Collect of the Day

The Ministry of the Word

Reading: Acts 2:42-47
Psalm 23
Reading: 1 Peter 2:19-25
Gradual Hymn 519: The Lord’s My Shepherd
The Gospel: John 10:1-10
Anthem: Loving Spirit (Mark Mitchell)
Sermon: Rob Heard

The Ministry of Prayer

Affirmation of Faith
Prayers of the People
The Peace

The Ministry of the Eucharist

Offertory Hymn 548 : Eye Has Not Seen
The Preparation of the Gifts
The Great Thanksgiving
Fraction Anthem: Eat This Bread:

Eat this bread, drink this cup, come to me and never be hungry.
Eat this bread, drink this cup, trust in me and you will not thirst.

During Communion: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (Virgil Thomson)
Prayers after Communion
Announcements
Polychronia
Blessing
Recessional Hymn 211: Good Christians All,Rejoice and Sing
Dismissal
Postlude: Postlude: Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing (Healey Willan)

Today's Psalm Refrain

MUSICAL NOTE

The anthem this morning is a new piece of music composed especially for our choir by Mark Mitchell, an accomplished composer who is a long-time friend of music at St John’s. The text is by a contemporary hymn writer, Shirley Erena Murray, and is a prayer for the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. To begin and end the piece, Mark added a quote from 1 Corinthians 13:

Caritas numquam excidit.
Nunc autem manet fides, spes, caritas, tria haec;
maior autem his est caritas.

Love never ends.
Now faith, hope and love abide, these three;
and the greatest of these is love.

The anthem was commissioned through a gift from Reed Smith, and is dedicated to the memory of his wife, Mary Smith.

Assisting this Sunday:

8:00 am
Server : John Veenstra
Reader: David Bewley

10:15 am
Crucifer: Wendy McCutcheon
Server: Connie Snelgrove
Acolyte: Sunita Darjee
Readers: Bill Broughton (First Reading), Dora Broughton (Second Reading)
Intercessor: Christina Guest
Cantor: Matthew Timmermans
Communion Assistants: Peter Anderson, Rosemary Anderson
Duty Warden: Alex Bissett
Sidespeople: Bill and Dora Broughton, Alain Lanoix, Jane Maxwell
Sunday School:
     Godly Play: Margaret Kasurak
     Godly Play Helpers: Luka Lawford
     Grade 1-3: Joe Jacques,
     Grade 4-6 : Audrey Starkes
Altar Guild: Margot Cameron, Brian Cameron
Tower Bell : Peter Johnston
Coffee: Daphne Strange

Next Sunday

The Fifth Sunday of Easter
22 May 2011

Next Sunday's Services:

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
9.00 a.m. Bible Study
10:15 a.m. Sung Eucharist with Church School
9:00 p.m. Compline

The readings for next Sunday are:

Acts 7:55-60, Psalm 31:1-5,15-16;, 1 Peter 2:2-10, and John 14:1-14

Sunday Commentaries