1. St. Barnabas on the Danforth
The Church in the Marketplace
Embracing the Community
10:30 a.m.
Fifth Sunday in Lent
March 17, 2013
361 Danforth Ave., Toronto M4K 1P1
416-463-1344
www.stbarnabas-toronto.com
Let us faithfully witness to the Risen Jesus, giving generously of
our lives and substance for the relief of the poor and the
sharing of the Gospel, bringing encouragement to all.

2. (From the Collect for St. Barnabas)
Welcome to St. Barnabas (Chester) Anglican Church
The Church in the Marketplace
Embracing the Community
Our 10:30 AM Worship Service begins on page 230 of the green
Book of Alternative Services.
Organ Prelude Voluntary in F minor - Maurice Greene
The Gathering of God’s People
Opening Hymn 432 “Jesus calls us! O’er the tumult”
Service Music: Missa L’Hora Passa – Ludovico da
Viadana
The Penitential Rite
The sacrifice of God is a broken and contrite heart. O God, you
will not despise.
Dear friends in Christ, as we prepare to worship almighty God,
let us with penitent and obedient hearts confess our sins, that we
may obtain forgiveness by God’s infinite goodness and mercy.
Silence
All: Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned
against you in thought, word and deed, by what we have
done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved
you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbours
as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.
For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and
forgive us, that we may delight in your will, and walk in
your ways to the glory of your name. Amen.
Almighty God, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you
from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness,

3. and keep you in eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison
Collect of the Day: Most merciful God, by the death and
resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ, you created humanity
anew. May the power of his victorious cross transform those
who turn in faith to him who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Children’s Focus Teresa Johnson
The Proclamation of the Word
A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 43: 16-21
Read by Teresa Johnson
Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the
mighty waters, who brings out chariot and horse, army and
warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished,
quenched like a wick: Do not remember the former things, or
consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it
springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the
wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild animals will
honour me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the
wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen
people, the people whom I formed for myself so that they might
declare my praise.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
PSALM 126

4. When the LORD restored the for-tunes of Zi-on, *
then were we like those who dream.
Then was our mouth fill’d with laugh-ter, *
and our tongue with shouts of joy.
Then they said a-mong the na-tions, *
“The LORD has done great things for them.”
The LORD has done great things for us, *
and we are glad in-deed.
Restore our for-tunes, O LORD, *
like the watercourses of the Ne-gev.
Those who sow’d with tears *
will reap with songs of joy.
Those who go out weeping, carry-ing the seed, *
will come again with joy should-er-ing their sheaves.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son:
and to the Holy Spi-rit.
As it was in the beginning is now and e-ver shall be:
world without end A-men.
A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE
PHILIPPIANS 3: 4b-14 Read by Helen Taylor
If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have
more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of
Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews;
as to the law, a Pharisee, as to zeal, a persecutor of the church;
as to righteousness under the law, blameless. Yet whatever gains
I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.
More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the
surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake
I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as
rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not

5. having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but
one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness
from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power
of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming
like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection
from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or have
already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own,
because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Beloved, I do not
consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do:
forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies
ahead. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly
call of God in Christ Jesus.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Gospel Acclamation:
Choir: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal
glory.
All: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Praise to you, O Christ, King of
eternal glory.
Choir: Seek good and not evil that you may live,
and the Lord God of hosts may truly be
with you.
All: Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
Praise to you, O Christ, King of
eternal glory.
Gospeller: The Lord be with you.

6. All: And also with you.
Gospeller: The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
according to John 12: 1-8.
All: Glory be to thee, O Lord.
Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home
of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave
a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those
at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume
made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with
her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about
to betray him), said, “Why was this perfume not sold for three
hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?” (He said this
not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief;
he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into
it.) Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might
keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with
you, but you do not always have me.”
Gospeller: The Gospel of Christ:
All: Praise be to thee, O Christ.
Homily Fr Jonathan Eayrs
Affirmation of Faith (Please stand as able.)
The Nicene Creed p. 234
Prayers of the People led by Rhonda Boyce
(Please kneel, as able, for the Prayers of the People)
Sharing Christ’s Peace
The Celebration of the Eucharist
All who are baptized into Christ with water in the Name of the Holy
Trinity are welcome to receive Holy Communion. If you will not be

7. receiving, you are invited to come to the Communion rail for a
blessing. Please indicate this by crossing your arms over your chest
Offertory Hymn
I cannot tell why He, whom angels worship,
Should set His love upon the sons of men,
Or why, as Shepherd, He should seek the wand’rers,
To bring them back, they know not how or when.
But this I know, that He was born of Mary,
When Bethl’hem’s manger was His only home,
And that He lived at Nazareth and labored,
And so the Savior, Savior of the world, is come.
I cannot tell how silently He suffered,
As with His peace He graced this place of tears,
Or how His heart upon the Cross was broken,
The crown of pain to three and thirty years.
But this I know, He heals the broken-hearted,
And stays our sin, and calms our lurking fear,
And lifts the burden from the heavy laden,
For yet the Savior, Savior of the world, is here.
Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end – Maurice Greene (please
see text in Music Notes)
Prayer over the Gifts: Eternal God, your only Son suffered
death upon the cross to bring the world salvation. Accept
the praise and thanksgiving we offer you this day, in the
name of Jesus Christ the Lord. Amen.
Eucharistic Prayer A p. 241
The Lord’s Prayer p. 245
The Breaking of the Bread
Celebrant: We break this bread,

8. All: Communion in Christ’s body once broken
Celebrant: Let your Church be the wheat which bears its
fruit in dying
All: If we have died with him, we shall live with
him; if we hold firm, we shall reign with him.
Communion Hymns 65 “Here, Lord, we take the broken
bread”
The Lenten Prose
Prayer after Communion: Merciful God, you have called us
to your table and fed us with the bread of life. Draw us and
all people to your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
The Doxology p. 247
The Blessing
Announcements
Closing Hymn 505 “Be thou my vision”
Dismissal Deacon Grace Caldwell-Hill
Organ Postlude Chorale Prelude on “St. Columba”
- Charles Villiers Stanford
We welcome all who are new or visiting today. If we can serve
you or you wish to know more about the church, please fill out
a visitors envelope, available in pews or at back of church.
Today’s Liturgical Team:
Presider & Homilist: Fr. Jonathan Eayrs
Deacon: The Rev. Grace Caldwell-Hill
Organist: Neil Houlton
Communion Minister: Eleanor Morgan
Sidespeople: (Team 4 ) Captain – Art Lowe;
Gary Davenport, Harold Sanders, Janis Clennett,

9. Marina Russouw, Rueben Russouw, Dr. John Harris
Chancel Guild: Grace Caldwell-Hill, Lyn Inniss
Today we remember in our Prayers:
Anglican Cycle of Prayer, The Bishop, People & Clergy
of the Diocese of Quebec
Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, St Mark, Warsaw
Deanery Cycle of Prayer, St. Matthew’s
Parish Cycle of Prayer, Our Book Club Ministry
Outreach & Advocacy Cycle, St. Aidan’s, Toronto &
St. Andrew-by-the-Lake
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Music Notes:
In honour of St. Patrick all of this morning’s hymn texts or
tunes are of Irish origin.
One of the most prolific hymn writers of the 19th century was
Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander (1818-1895). Alexander’s
husband was William Alexander, bishop of Derry and Raphoe,
and later the Anglican primate for Ireland. Cecil and her sister
founded a school for the deaf, and she set up the Girls’ Friendly
Society in Londonderry. Cecil Alexander wrote about 400
hymns in her lifetime, including ‘Once in royal David’s city’,
‘All things bright and beautiful’, ‘There is a green hill far
away’ and ‘Jesus calls us o’er the tumult’.
Although written by an English-born Canadian professor
(Wycliffe College) and later an Australian bishop, Charles Venn
Pilcher (who, incidentally, also played bass clarinet in the
Toronto Symphony from 1909 to 1918), the text of “Here, Lord,
we take the broken bread” is set to a traditional Irish tune (St.
Columba) which was arranged by the Irish-born composer, Sir
Charles Stanford.

10. Perhaps the most famous Irish hymn is “Be Thou My Vision”.
The words are attributed to Dallan Forgaill from the 8th Century
and versed by Eleanor H. Hull in 1912. The melody is ‘Slane’,
of Irish folk origin. It's named after Slane Hill where in 433 AD
St. Patrick lit a fire in honor of Easter and in defiance of High
King Logaire's decree that no-one should light fires before his
pagan holiday was celebrated. Logaire was so impressed by
Patrick’s devotion that, despite his defiance (or perhaps because
of it), he let him continue his missionary work.
“Lord, let me know mine end” is arguably the best anthem
written in 18th century England. The text is taken from Psalm
39 in which the psalmist recognises the brevity and uncertainty
of life, the sinfulness of man and the need to live a life pleasing
to God, as this is his only hope. This beautiful and sincere
anthem by Maurice Greene (1696-1755) contains expressive
and effective contrapuntal vocal parts over an organ
accompaniment, a rarity in its day. The duet for soprano and
alto in the middle of the anthem finds the two voices interlacing
and changing position as they consider the futility of man's
desires.
Lord, let me know mine end and the number of my days,
That I may be certified how long I have to live.
Behold, Thou hast made my days as it were a span long;
And mine age is as nothing in respect of Thee,
And verily, ev'ry man living is altogether vanity,
For man walketh in a vain shadow
And disquieteth himself in vain,
He heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them.
And now, Lord, what is my hope?
Truly my hope is even in Thee.
Hear my pray'r, O Lord
And with Thy ears consider my calling,
Hold not Thy peace at my tears!

11. O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength before I go
hence
And be no more seen.
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LIFE AND MINISTRY OF OUR COMMUNITY
Pick up your letter!
Please pick up your Holy Week letter from Fr Jonathan from the
back of the church today.
Sunday school
The children will go to the Study for Sunday school following
the Children’s Focus this morning.
Palm Sunday/Good Friday Practices
Today at 11:45 AM there will be a brief run through for readers
taking part in next Sunday’s Passion readings.
Lenten Study Concludes Today!
Please note that today will be the concluding session of our
Study of Hebrews. This will enable the rehearsal of the Good
Friday presentation to take place next Sunday. Thank you for
your understanding. Fr J
Taizé tonight
The Taizé candlelight service takes place at 7:00 this evening;
doors open at 6:30. Bring a friend and relax in this time of
meditation, chant and prayer.

12. Bible study this week
Monday night Bible study in the rector’s study continues on
March 18th at 7:00 PM. All are welcome.
Good Friday Rehearsal
Following next Sunday’s 10:30 service (March 24) there will be
a rehearsal for all those taking part in the Good Friday
presentation. Please speak with Fr Jonathan if you cannot make
this important practice. An alternate time can be arranged for
those requiring it.
30 March Holy Saturday Cleaning Bee at St B’s
From 10 AM onwards. An invitation to do some spring
cleaning, polishing, dusting at St. Barnabas. Refreshments will
be available.
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WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK?

13. Thursday, March 21st 12 noon Holy Eucharist
In the Chancel
Thursday, March 21st 8:00 PM Choir Practice
In the downstairs choir room
WORSHIP SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 21st 12 noon Holy Eucharist
In the Chancel
Sunday, March 24th Palm Sunday
9:00 AM Said Eucharist
10:30 AM Choral Eucharist
Readings this week: Isaiah 50: 4–9A; Psalm 31: 9–16
Philippians 2:5–11; Luke 23:1–49
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CLERGY Fr. Jonathan Eayrs
HONORARY ASSISTANT Fr. David Hoopes, OHC
DEACON The Rev. Grace Caldwell-Hill
LEADERSHIP TEAM Gary Davenport, Jane Smith
Lyn Inniss, Everod Miller,
Jan Booker
ORGANIST & CHOIRMASTER Neil Houlton
PARISH ADMINISTRATOR Mary Roycroft Ranni
ORGANIST EMERITUS Dr. Eugene Gates