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Today at St Barnabas

8:00 am Morning Prayer - Trinity

8:30 am Low Mass BCP - Trinity

10:30 am Solemn High Mass BAS - Trinity

Light streaming through the sanctuary windows

This Sunday

10:30 am

Feast of the Most Holy Trinity
Colour: White
10:30 am Procession, Solemn High Mass and Holy Baptism BAS
Propers: p. 346
Isaiah 6:1-8
Psalm 29
Romans 8:12-17
John 3:1-17

Music of the Mass:

Missa Brevis - G.P. da Palestrina (c. 1526-1594) (Gloria and Creed - Missa de Angelis)
Offertory Motet: Hymn to the Trinity - P.I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Music at Communion: Immortal, invisible, God only wise (St. Basil)
Organ Music: Chorale Prelude on "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Her" (BWV 676) - J.S. Bach; Fugue in E-flat major ("St. Anne") (BWV 552) - J.S. Bach

Recent articles and announcements

Summer -- a time for relaxation and spiritual exploration

by Rev. Canon Stewart Murray, Incumbent at St Barnabas, Ottawa

Summer is fast approaching and after a long winter we are looking forward to enjoying the wonder and beauty of God’s creation in all its splendour that is Summer in Canada. For many, Summer is a time of holidays from school and work and of a slower pace of life. In our Church communities many of the regular programmes and activities are reduced or put on hold until September. I remember well the lazy days of Summer as a child when Summer seemed to be almost endless and the worries of homework and regular routines were put aside. This change of pace brings a gift of time and the opportunities to refresh our spiritual lives as well.

An opportunity that I enjoy while on holidays is going to different Churches...

Listen again: Evensong and Solemn Benediction, April 15, 2018

Here is a complete recording of the Evensong and Solemn Benediction held April 15:

Organ Music: Sarabande for the Morning of Easter – Herbert Howells;
Opening Sentence; Preces and Responses: Prayer Book, p. 20 - Sarum Plainsong;
Psalm 23 (Dominus regit me) - Tone VIII.1 (BCP p. 356)
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 4: 25-40
Office Hymn: 157 “He is risen, he is risen” (All Saints)
Magnificat: Evening Service - Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977)
Second Lesson: Revelation 20
Nunc Dimittis: Evening Service - Ēriks Ešenvalds
Creed, Versicles, and Responses: ...

The Wearing of the Green

by Rev. Canon Stewart Murray, Incumbent at St Barnabas, Ottawa

in May 2018 issue of ‘Crosstalk,' the newspaper of the Angican Diocese of Ottawa

The season after Pentecost or Trinity is called by some the long season of the green. They are referring, of course, to the colour of the church year that we will use until Advent. During the Easter season, we have had almost a riot of colours – white, gold, and red – but for the next six months, it will be the Wearing of the Green!

In the wisdom of our tradition, green is seen as the colour of growth and renewal. In our part of the world, following Easter, we enter the glorious time of spring after a long and sometimes dreary winter. I know I look forward to seeing the fresh green of the budding leaves on the trees and of...