ST. COLUMBA
ANGLICAN-UNITED CHURCH
PO Box 1260, Port Hardy, BC V0N 2P0
Office Phone: 250-949-6247
E-mail: admin@stcolumbaporthardy.ca
Minister: Rev. Christine Muise
E-mail: cmuise@bc.anglican.ca
Wardens: Robert Fyles & Priscilla O’Neil
Treasurer: Judy Fyles
Music Ministry: Roldan Yuipco
Video: Ammie Yuipco
Community Partner: Cathie Wilson
www.stcolumbaporthardy.ca
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany Year B
February 4, 2024
Anglican Service of the Word
Mission Statement
As followers of Jesus Christ, our church is a community called to love, honour, worship, and serve God. We invite others to share our Christian journey as we grow in faith and engage in ministry in our town and mission in our world.
~ Leader: regular font
~ All: bold font
~ Sung words: bold italics
~ Asterix* stand as you are able
Welcome and Announcements
Land Acknowledgement and Acknowledgment of War
THE COMMUNITY GATHERS BEFORE GOD
In this time and place
We gather on the ancestral territories of Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and Coast Salish peoples.
From many places and peoples we come to this house in prayer.
In this time and place
We gather in the name of the living God.
We meet in the presence of Jesus Christ, risen and alive.
In this time and place
We gather with the community of faith around the globe and across the ages.
In this time and place heaven and earth are one.
In this time and place
We are not alone, but one in Christ.
Knit together in the unity of the Spirit.
In this time and place
Hallowed, expectant, one people in God.
In the name of the Holy and Blessed One, Creator, Redeemer, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Centering Stillness
Let us hold this moment open to the Spirit of God. (silence)
*Hymn: VU 221 Sing Praise to God Who Has Shaped
Sing praise to God, who has shaped and sustains all creation!
Sing praise, my soul, in profound and complete adoration!
Gladsome rejoice - organ and trumpet and voice -
joining God's great congregation.
Praise God, our guardian, who lovingly offers correction,
who, as on eagle's wings, saves us from sinful dejection.
Have you observed, how we are always preserved
by God's parental affection?
Sing praise to God, with sincere thanks for all your successes.
Merciful God ever loves to encourage and bless us.
Only conceive what godly strength can achieve:
strength that would touch and caress us.
Sing praise, my soul, the great name of your high God commending.
All that have life and breath join you, their notes sweetly blending.
God is your light! Soul, ever keep this in sight:
amen, amen never ending.
Words: English translation, Madeleine Forell Marshall
Collect
THE STORY OF FAITH IS PROCLAIMED
Hutłilala's! Listen deeply as scripture is read.
Hebrew Scripture Isaiah 40: 21-31
Psalm 147 VU 869 (Part One)
Refrain: Sing to God in great thanksgiving.
How good it is to sing praises to God,
how pleasant to laud the Most High.
You are building Jerusalem, O God, and gathering the scattered exiles to Israel.
You are healing the broken-hearted, and binding up their wounds.
You count the number of the stars, and call them all by their names.
Great are you, O God, and mighty your power; yes, and your wisdom is infinite.
You raise up the lowly,
and bring down the wicked to dust.
R: Sing to God in great thanksgiving.
Sing to God in thanksgiving; make music on the harp to our God,
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes the hills green with grass.
You give the cattle their food, and the young ravens when they cry.
You set no store by the power of a horse, nor by the strength of a warrior’s thighs.
But your delight is in those who revere you,
in those who rely on your mercy.
R: Sing to God in great thanksgiving.
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 9: 16-23
*Hymn: VU 79 Arise, Your Light has Come
Arise, your light is come!
The Spirit's call obey;
show forth the glory of your God,
which shines on you today.
Arise, your light is come!
Fling wide the prison door;
proclaim the captive’s liberty,
good tidings to the poor.
Arise, your light is come!
All you in sorrow born;
bind up the broken-hearted ones
and comfort those who mourn
Arise, your light is come!
The mountains burst in song!
Rise up like eagles on the wing;
God’s power will make us strong.
Words: Ruth Duck, Music: William H. Walker.
May God be with you!
And also with you!
The Holy Gospel of Jesus the Christ according to Mark.
Glory to you Christ our Saviour.
*Gospel: Mark 1: 29-39
The Gospel of Christ.
Praise to you Jesus the Christ.
Sermon/ Reflection
Intercessions/ Prayers
Mission and Service stories/PWRDF
(Let us offer our prayers to the source of all love and all life,
At the bidding: God of Love;
Please respond: Hear our prayer.
The Peace
The Peace of Christ be always with you!
And also with you!
*Offertory Hymn: VU 266 Amazing Grace
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind, but now I see.
‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relieved;
how precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
I have already come;
‘tis grace that brought me safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me,
this word my hope secures;
God will my shield and portion be
as long as life endures.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
bright shining as the sun,
we’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
than when we’d first begun.
*Response: VU 540 Grant Us, God, the Grace
Grant us, God, the grace of giving,
with a spirit large and free,
that ourselves and all our living
we may offer faithfully.
Prayer over the gifts
*The Lord’s Prayer
Gathering our prayers and praises into one, let us pray as our Saviour taught us,
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and for ever. Amen.
The Doxology, Blessing and Dismissal
Glory to God,
whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Glory to God from generation to generation, in the Church and in Christ Jesus, for ever and ever. Amen.
Blessing
*Hymn: VU 426 Saviour, Again to Your Dear Name
Saviour, again to your dear name we raise
with one accord our parting hymn of praise;
we give you thanks before our worship cease,
then, in the silence hear your word of peace.
Grant us your peace upon our homeward way;
with you began, with you shall end the day;
guard now the lips from sin, the hearts from shame,
that in this house have called upon your name.
Grant us your peace throughout the coming night;
turn all our darkness to your perfect light;
then, through our sleep, our hope and strength renew,
for dark and light are both alike to you.
Sending
Carry out into the world the love of God in Christ.
Loved, forgiven and redeemed, we go forth!
Amen. Gilakas’la.
*Three-fold Amen
Announcements
- Please remember to bring in canned or dry goods for our community cupboard and blessing box.
- Focus: PWRDF Canada Emergency Response
- February 18, 2024 AGM after church
- February 13, 2024 Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner 5 – 7 PM
- February 14, 2024 Ash Wednesday service 4 PM
- Starting February 21 Celtic Prayer and Bible study 4-5 PM each Wednesday until the end of March; in-person and online
- February 27, 2024 Council Meeting 6:30 PM
- March 1, 2024 World Day of Prayer 2 PM
Liturgical resources:
Service from the West Coast Liturgy of Islands and Inlets (Diocese of British Columbia 2018)
Alternative Collects for Years A, B & C of the RCL and Seasonal Prayers over the Gifts and after Communion. Copyright © 2019
and The Book of Alternative Services (BAS). Copyright © 1985 Both by the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada. All rights reserved. Reproduced under license from ABC Publishing, Anglican Book Centre, a ministry of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, from Anglican Liturgical Library. Further copying is prohibited.
Music copyright:
Words for hymns reprinted, podcast or streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-720359 or CCLI License # 11033010. All rights reserved.
Voices United 221 Sing Praise to God, Who Has Shaped Words: Joachim Neander 1860, translation Madeleine Forell Marshall, 1993; Music: Stralsund Gesangbuch 1665. Words and music: Copyright, public domain. English translation copyright © 1993 Madeleine Forell Marshall. All rights reserved. Reprinted, streamed and/or podcast with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-720359 (#24594). All rights reserved.
Voices United 869 Psalm 147 Refrain 12th century plainsong. Words and music copyright: Public domain.
Voices United 79 Arise, Your Light is Come Words: Ruth Duck, 1974; Music: William H. Walker, 1872; Words copyright © 1992 GIA Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted, streamed and/or podcast with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-720359 words (#07293) descant (#VT273). All rights reserved.
Voices United 266 Amazing Grace Words: John Henry Newton, 1779; Music: from Virginia Harmony, 1831. Words and music copyright: Public domain (English)
Voices United 540 Grant Us, God, the Grace Words: anonymous; Music: attributed Christian F. Witt, P, Psalmodia Sacra, 1715; adaptation Henry John Gauntlett, 1861. Words and music copyright: Public domain.
Voices United 426 Saviour, Again to Your Dear Name Words: John Ellerton, 1866, alt.; Music: Edward John Hopkins, 1869. Words and music copyright, public domain.
