St. Barnabas Episcopal Church

Rev. Horton J. Scott, Celebrant

Frank Waiters Jr., Senior Warden,

Louise Meggett, Junior Warden

Sept. 11, Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 19):

PSALM 103:1-13
Ecclesiasticus 27:30-28:7; Romans 14:5-12; Matthew 18:21-35

The vengeful will face the Lord’s vengeance, for he keeps a strict account of their sins.

It’s the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, the fourth Anniversary of the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks on New York and Washington that shook the world. We reflect together on these events and their impact on the nation by the singing of two new hymns: Prince of Peace, Heal Our Nation!, by Jason Vaughn and When Sudden Terror Tears Apart, written by Carl P. Daw, Jr. The Reverend Dr. Carl P. Daw Jr., is an Episcopal priest and writer who was appointed as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1996. This ecumenical and international organization has its headquarters at Boston University School of Theology, where Dr. Daw serves as an Adjunct Professor of Hymnology in the Master of Sacred Music program. This weeks church calendar also brings the Feast of St. Cyprian {September 13} and Holy Cross Day {September 14}

Let us pray for: peace in our world, all those affected by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the famine stricken African countries of Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso, the troubled lands of Africa (especially Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire [former : Ivory Coast ] and Sudan) and the people of Guyana. We also pray for Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, Diocesan Bishop John Croneberger and his wife. We remember in prayer Francis Coleman, Carolyn Goodwin, Eula Jefferson, Louise Meggett, Janice Nugent, Rudolph Perry, Tony Pina, Victoria Sawyer, Amanda Scott, Rev. Mildred J. Solomon, and Aquinda Toppins. Finally, we pray for all congregations in our diocese and for the safety of our troops.