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The Rev. Rogelio Panton Celebrant and Preacher Louise Meggett, Senior Warden, Ellen Moore, Junior Warden
Forrest Drennen, Director of Music E-mail StBarnabasEC@optonline.net
Sunday
11th May Anno Domini 2008
THE
DAY OF PENTECOST: Whitsunday (Year
a)
Mother’s
Day
It's the Day of Pentecost
(The 50th of the Great Fifty Days) (Mothers' Day), also known
as Whitsunday, in reference to the white robes worn by those baptized
at Easter. Pentecost is a Jewish Feast and the time of the Holy
Spirit descending on the disciples. Pentecost is a Greek word meaning
50 and comes from the feast of weeks of Leviticus or Day of the First
Fruits, as it was also called. Pentecost was also the anniversary of
the law. It was on that very day that Moses gathered Israel around
Mount Sinai and God came out in majesty and gave His law with His
thunder and lightning and they stood trembling and entered into the
covenant of works with him. Today, Christians celebrate Pentecost as
the birthday of the Christian Church. It comes ten days after
Ascension Day, which is when Christians remember that Jesus went back
to heaven after the resurrection.
In the U.S. Mothers' Day is a
holiday celebrated on second Sunday in May. It is a day when children
honor their mothers with cards, gifts, and flowers. First observed
in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1907, it is based on suggestions by
Julia Ward Howe best known as the writer of the Battle Hymn of the
Republic as a day dedicated to peace, and Anna Jarvis as “a
memorial mothers day commemorating her for the matchless service she
renders to humanity in every field of life.”
Hymnals
contain few hymns dedicated to mothers, most are written as hymns to
Mary mother of Christians as is the familiar Faith of our
Fathers written by Frederick W.
Faber as Jesus and Mary (London:
1849); refrain by James G. Walton, 1874. This hymn was sung at the
funeral of American president Franklin Roosevelt, held in the East
Room of the White House in Washington, DC. The original first verse
was as follows: Faith of our fathers, Mary's prayers Shall win our
country back to Thee; And
through the truth that comes from God, England shall then indeed be
free. The version we sing today had it's first two verses written by
A. B. Patten, the other verses were published in 1981 in Canada.
HYMNS
Faith of our Mothers*
Spirit of God, descend upon my heart LEV 119
God Gave Mothers to Protect Us*
Written by Delores Jenson (alt. by David Schütz).
Lutheran Church of Australia © 2004
Spirit of the Living God LEV 115
Sweet, Sweet Spirit LEV 120
Let
us pray for: All victims of terror, oppression and natural disaster esspecially the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, The famine stricken African countries, the troubled
lands of Africa and the people of Guyana. We also pray for The
Archbishop of York John Sentamu, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori,
Diocesan Bishop Mark Beckwith, and the Retired Bishop of Gambia Jean Elisee. We remember in prayer Bob Bark ,Hazel Carter, Marie Edwards, Carolyn Goodwin, Eula Jefferson,
Louise Meggett, Janice Nugent, Rudolph Perry, Tony Pina, Rev. Mildred J. Solomon, and Aquinda Toppins.
Finally, with crime in the streets and chaos and calamity happening worldwide, we cry: "Come Holy Spirit”.
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