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Year A RCL

November 12, 2017

The St. Augustine’s eCho

Mission Statement St. Augustine’s Church is a Christ-centered ministry where everyone is invit-ed and welcome. We are a loving Christian body that seeks to enhance spir-ituality and community. We confirm this by developing ministries that em-power the mind, body and soul. We are nurtured through service to others and one another.

Weekly Services and Programs

Sundays

8:00 AM Said Eucharist

10:30 AM Sung Eucharist

2:00 - 4:00 PM Pastoral Visitations

Wednesdays

12 Noon Healing Service with Holy Eucharist

6:30 PM Christian Education Class (Seasonal)

9:00 PM Phone Line Prayer

A Par ish of the Episcopal Diocese of New York

ORDER OF SERVICE

PRELUDE SONATA PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN D D. BUXTEHUDE

Opening Hymn #91 (LEVAS)

Opening Acclamation BCP p. 355

Gloria In Excelsis S 220 (1982)

Collect: Proper 27 BCP p. 236

THE WORD OF GOD

The First Reading Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-16

Response Wisdom of Solomon 6:17-20

The Epistle 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Sequence Hymn #620 (1982)

The Holy Gospel Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon: “Togetherness rather than Competitiveness”

The Rev. Nathanael Saint-Pierre

Nicene Creed BCP p. 358

Prayers of the people (On-screen)

Confession and Absolution BCP p. 360

THE PEACE BCP p. 360

THE OFFERTORY: Prayer George Walker

Offertory Hymn #51 (OSOP)

THE DOXOLOGY

THE HOLY COMMUNION

The Great Thanksgiving Eucharistic Prayer B BCP p. 367

Proper Preface BCP p. 377

Sanctus BCP p. 362

Memorial Acclamation

The Lord’s Prayer #264 (LEVAS)

The Fraction Anthem BCP p. 364

Agnus Dei

THE BREAKING OF THE BREAD

Administration of the Sacrament

Communion Hymn #154 (LEVAS)

Homeless/Soup Kitchen Offering

Welcome & Announcements

Post Communion Prayer

Recessional Hymn #194 (1982)

Dismissal BCP p. 366

POSTLUDE ALLEGRO Léon Boëllmann

“Togetherness rather than Competitiveness”

BCP (Book of Common Prayer) LEVAS (Lift Every Voice & Sing) Hymnal 1982 OSOP (One Song of Praise) EOW1 (Enriching Our Worship 1)

THE TWENTY– THIRD SUNDAY

AFTER PENTECOST

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THE TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST NOVEMBER 12 , 2017

Have you ever been invited to a wedding? Can you picture all the activities around this wedding? Who was getting married? The guests? The cake with two little figurines of white people even when the wedded are Blacks? The wedding hall all decorated with this huge lighting structure in the middle? The tables with a champagne ice bucket close to the centerpiece? Do you remember the food? Was it good? The loud mu-sic? Yes, the music that kept you from speaking to the person sitting next to you. Can you still picture the women and their heels, the men in their tuxedos? Were you not annoyed by all those video amateurs using their phones as if their taping of the celebration was more important than you watching the wedding unfold-ing live? Do you remember who was the wedding planner and all the troubles s/he had to go through in order to deliver such an event? I remember some of it and much more because there was a time all I need-ed was a car and a suit. I would stop my car on the corner of a street of my native Port-au-Prince on a Sat-urday evening, waiting for marriage corteges to pass. I would enter the most glamorous one, pretending I

was a guest (please don’t call me a wedding crasher, I am still Father Nat).

The Gospel presents us a parable that describes a wedding in which several bridesmaids are selected. Some meticulous, took every-thing they needed with them, including oil for their lamps. Others negligent, forgot to take enough. When time came for the marriage to start, they had to rush out in the streets to get some kerosene for their lamps and maybe some powder, makeup or lipstick. The groom arrived while they were gone; the ceremony started without them, and they were denied access to the banquet, being late. They were lost!

It is easy to get to the conclusion that the bridesmaids who did not evaluate their priorities and did not bring enough oil, should pay for their negligence. But I am afraid that’s what the oppressive systems of our world want us to believe. They want us to compete for salvation and distract us from realizing that we are a community for which togetherness should be the priority. What would have happened if instead of lighting all individual lamps while waiting for the groom, only one lamp was lit? What would have been the outcome if the bridesmaids had a collective wisdom that they were all engaged in the same storm and their common sur-vival depended on sharing the resources they had no matter who owned what? What if instead of making salvation personal we start making grace the collective gift that God intended?

We find the Matthean community in expectation of the return of Jesus and having to respond to the need for vigilance and endur-ance. But it is inherent to Matthew to separate: Jew from Greek, lambs from goats. The text describes a wedding then, with all the bling-bling and the bells and whistles for such an event. People were gathered in one place. The groom was to meet the bridesmaids there in order to process to the location of the actual wedding. Off course, due to the darkness on the road, they needed to carry lamps in order to lighten the way to the wedding location, at the same time beautifying the whole journey marching through the cele-bration. Bridesmaids were the torchbearers of the procession. We are today the light bearers of this world in need of direction. Because many businesses, such as negotiation for the dowry, delayed delivery of dresses and garments, etc., are not easy to con-duct and conclude, the bridegroom might be late. Because a father is not easy to negotiate with, it may take time for one to get his blessing before a marriage. The parable told us that, the bridegroom delayed, the bridesmaids were waiting with expectation that the soon to be husband would come but no one knew when it would happen.

But the oppressive systems (that then were the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Herodians and are now religious and secular pow-ers of our modern lifestyle) are making this parable a race in which we need to be better prepared than others in order to win. Some religious systems are still at work to remove the natural propensity to save that God has, to make it a human self-accomplishment

“Togetherness rather than Competitiveness” By The Rev'd Nathanael Saint-Pierre

The Clergy’s

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exploit. A few political systems are still at work, emphasizing our differences instead of our communality. They define a foreigner (Black or Arabic) as a terrorist, and a local (White European) as someone with a mental illness. Not aware that the goal of oppressive systems is to promote individuality and divisiveness, some of us may not have the wisdom to discern that they can use the Bible. Sometimes, scripture can be used to inject the venom of confusion into the midst of God’s children and amplify darkness.

We are a community of black people, a community that was taught to deny who we are. Like bridesmaids in a wedding, we think we should compete and be the most beautiful and most ready (we forget the beauty of Lucifer caused him to become too envious). Often, we choose to leave the pack, thinking that there is no salvation possible if we stay in our community. We increasingly come to believe that preparation falsely means to model ourselves on the oppressors. We gather all the unnecessary material goods thinking that we have achieved our demarcation point. We educate ourselves so that we can boast about our individual accomplishments. Oh, I have heard my sisters and brothers proclaim with pride: “I am the first Black to have been a supervisor at NYSO (New York Sanitation Office).” Or “I am the first Black to be an editor of a magazine.” Or “I am the only Black admitted to that club.” We, the oppressed/enslaved, have been conditioned to act as lone wolves. From the field to the house of our slave masters, we were brainwashed and psychologically con-taminated… – yes, a twofold process: brainwashed of the innate attribute of all creation that human beings survive only when they stick together and, contaminated with the false belief that nothing good can come out of our black community – we work for our own salvation (a personal salvation). There is no difference between the Fon and the Igbo, the Bakongo and the Kongo, the Mbundu and the Chokwe, the Akamu and the Mandingo, the Blacks born in America and the ones born in the Caribe. WE are all ONE. When our individual suc-cess/salvation becomes more important than the collectivity’s, we are doomed to failure; that’s exactly the purpose of oppres-sive systems. We were brought here from different tribes to prevent any possible cohesion. As successful as we can be, we are just an oppressed, who, trying to look so much, and be so much like the master, has become an oppressor and not someone who has worked to fight against the system so that others, still oppressed, can live grace as extended to all.

The road to Heaven is a relay race track, not a 100 meter for individual performance… If speed in our genes and the fastest human be-ing ever is a Black, Jamaican Usain Bolt, the priority is the team at all times, EVEN IN OUR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE. It is about Interdependency and mutuality, NOT about competition and superiority of one over the rest of the pack. Yes, we have an individual re-sponsibility to run our own distance to the best of our ability; but the way we transmit the baton to the next runner, the next generation, the next of kin is the most important part of the race. The success of the team is the ultimate goal. I am not telling you that you should not assume responsibility in the plan of salvation of God. I am saying that keeping grace for yourself (keeping your oil for yourself and not sharing it) is NOT God’s plan. Jesus came for all to be redeemed. There is ENOUGH grace in God for all. There is no need for us to keep it for ourselves, make others feel unworthy, inappropriate, falsely pretending we are better than them because we have oil and they don’t. Too often we end up bleaching our skin to look more whitish. Too many times we go through plastic surgery because we’ve been bullied in school for the size of our nose. Too often we’ve been to the White doctor because we don’t believe the Black doctor can cure us. Too often we would not wear the shoes or clothing made by a Black designer, although Hilfiger declares not designing for Blacks. We need reprogramming, don’t we? We need to develop new wisdom and a new sense of identity. We need to endure that no matter what people say WE ARE CHILDREN OF God as is all humankind. Because: “The beginning of wisdom is the most desire for instruction and concern for instruction is love of her, and love of her is the keeping of her laws, and giving of her laws is assurance of immortality, and immortality brings one near to God; so, the desire of wisdom leads to a kingdom.” The wisdom to explore and to which we must recondi-tion our brains, is that we won’t be in because others are out. Pushing a sister or a brother off the track to make her/him fall or disqualify is really a nasty way to win. Heaven is large enough for all who believe to have immortality (eternal life). Eternal life is faith uninterrupted; eternal life is ongoing monitoring of what oppressive systems are doing to discourage us to change. Eternal life is vigilance to resist the brain washing (the system peeling off God’s goodness from us), to replace it by brain reconditioning (the system making sure that we lose our identity to become a tool in its hands). Eternal life is to stay together rather than compete. After all, in Christ there is no more Jew, no more Greek, no more master, no more slave; we are all one race: the human race.

Next time we are invited to a wedding, or next time like I used to, you crash a wedding, let us remember to go prepared, to wear our wed-ding robe which means that the grace we ask for ourselves we offer it to others. We should remember we are not alone on the guest list. Although vigilance is important, and endurance is faithfulness, we don’t need to pile up grace upon grace. The miracle through which we have life has been accomplished in Jesus Christ, at the cross, once and for all. Amen.

THE TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The Holy Eucharist: Rite Two: Eucharist Prayer B The Twenty- second Sunday after Pentecost:

Year A, RCL November 12, 2017

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HOLY EUCHARIST RITE II

PRELUDE: PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN D D. BUXTEHUDE

OPENING HYMN #91 (LEVAS)

GIVE ME JESUS (3V)

THE WORD OF GOD BCP p. 355 Celebrant Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

People AND BLESSED BE GOD’S KINGDOM, NOW AND FOR EVER. AMEN.

When appointed, the following hymn or some other song of praise is sung or said, all standing

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS BCP p. 356

Glory to God in the highest and peace to God’s people On earth. Lord God, Heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, We praise you for your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, Only son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, You take away the sin of the world; Have mercy On us you are seated at the right hand of the Father; receive our prayer. For you alone are The Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the most high, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, In the glory of God the Father.

The Celebrant says to the people

God be with you.

People And also with you. Celebrant Let us pray.

The Celebrant says the Collect.



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THE COLLECT BCP p. 236

O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of

the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having

this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with

power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious

kingdom; where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever

and ever. Amen.

THE FIRST READING

Wisdom 6:12–16

There is no shortcut to wisdom and understanding. Anyone can attain to it, but it does take persistence and hard work to glean it. Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known to those who desire her. One who rises early to seek her will have no difficulty, for she will be found sitting at the gate. To fix one’s thought on her is perfect understanding, and one who is vigilant on her account will soon be free from care, because she goes about seeking those worthy of her, and she graciously appears to them in their paths, and meets them in every thought. Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people People: Thanks be to God

THE RESPONSE

Wisdom of Solomon 6:17-20

17The beginning of wisdom is the most sincere desire for instruction,

and concern for instruction is love of her,



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18 and love of her is the keeping of her laws, and giving heed to her laws is assurance of immortality, 19 and immortality brings one near to God; 20 so the desire for wisdom leads to a kingdom.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: * As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

THE EPISTLE

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 The disciples’ ministry among the Thessalonians is defended by virtue of their humility and integrity amongst the gathered faithful. A reading from the First Letter of Paul, the Apostle to the Thessalonians: We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who

have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For

since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God

will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to you by the

word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the

Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. For the Lord himself,

with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's

trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then

we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with

them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s people

People: Thanks be to God.



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SEQUENCE HYMN #620 (Hymnal)

JERUSALEM, MY HAPPY HOME (5)

THE HOLY GOSPEL

Matthew 25:1-13 Continually determined to turn religious faith into an intellectual contest, the Pharisees again question Jesus. His answer silences all his opponents, who are both befuddled and afraid.

The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew. People: Glory to you, Lord Christ

Jesus said, “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten

bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five

of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their

lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with

their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became

drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is

the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those bridesmaids

got up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us

some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise replied,

‘No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to

the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy

it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him

into the wedding banquet; and the door was shut. Later the other

bridesmaids came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he

replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’ Keep awake therefore,

for you know neither the day nor the hour.”

The Gospel of the Lord

People: Praise to you, Lord Christ



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The Sermon: “Togetherness rather than Competitivity”

The Rev Nathanael Saint-Pierre

Opening: Have you ever been invited to a wedding? Can you picture all the

activities around this wedding? Who was getting married? The guests? The cake

with two little figurines of white people even when the wedded are Blacks? The

wedding hall all decorated with this huge lighting structure in the middle? The

tables with a champagne ice bucket close to the centerpiece? Do you remember

the food? Was it good? The loud music? Yes, the music that kept you from

speaking to the person sitting next to you. Can you still picture the women and

their heels, the men in their tuxedos? Were you not annoyed by all those video

amateurs using their phones as if their taping of the celebration was more

important than you watching the wedding unfolding live? Do you remember who

was the wedding planner and all the troubles s/he had to go through in order

to deliver such an event? I remember some of it and much more because there

was a time all I needed was a car and a suit. I would stop my car on the corner

of a street of my native Port-au-Prince on a Saturday evening, waiting for

marriage corteges to pass. I would enter the most glamorous one, pretending I

was a guest (please don’t call me a wedding crasher, I am still Father Nat).

Situation: The Gospel presents us a parable that describes a wedding in which

several bridesmaids are selected. Some meticulous, took everything they

needed with them, including oil for their lamps. Others negligent, forgot to

take enough. When time came for the marriage to start, they had to rush out

in the streets to get some kerosene for their lamps and maybe some powder,

makeup or lipstick. The groom arrived while they were gone; the ceremony

started without them, and they were denied access to the banquet, being late.

They were lost!

Complication: It is easy to get to the conclusion that the bridesmaids who did

not evaluate their priorities and did not bring enough oil, should pay for their

negligence. But I am afraid that’s what the oppressive systems of our world



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want us to believe. They want us to compete for salvation and distract us from realizing that we are a community for which togetherness should be the priority. What would have happened if instead of lighting all individual

lamps while waiting for the groom, only one lamp was lit? What would have

been the outcome if the bridesmaids had a collective wisdom that they were all engaged in the same storm and their common survival depended on sharing the resources they had no matter who owned what? What if instead

of making salvation personal we start making grace the collective gift that God

intended?

Resolution: We find the Matthean community in expectation of the return of

Jesus and having to respond to the need for vigilance and endurance. But it is

inherent to Matthew to separate: Jew from Greek, lambs from goats. The text

describes a wedding then, with all the bling-bling and the bells and whistles for

such an event. People were gathered in one place. The groom was to meet the

bridesmaids there in order to process to the location of the actual wedding. Off

course, due to the darkness on the road, they needed to carry lamps in order

to lighten the way to the wedding location, at the same time beautifying the

whole journey marching through the celebration. Bridesmaids were the

torchbearers of the procession. We are today the light bearers of this world in

need of direction.

Because many businesses, such as negotiation for the dowry, delayed delivery

of dresses and garments, etc., are not easy to conduct and conclude, the

bridegroom might be late. Because a father is not easy to negotiate with, it

may take time for one to get his blessing before a marriage. The parable told

us that, the bridegroom delayed, the bridesmaids were waiting with

expectation that the soon to be husband would come but no one knew when it

would happen.

But the oppressive systems (that then were the Pharisees, the Sadducees and

the Herodians and are now religious and secular powers of our modern lifestyle)

are making this parable a race in which we need to be better prepared than



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others in order to win. Some religious systems are still at work to remove the

natural propensity to save that God has, to make it a human self-

accomplishment exploit. A few political systems are still at work, emphasizing

our differences instead of our communality. They define a foreigner (Black or

Arabic) as a terrorist, and a local (White European) as someone with a mental

illness. Not aware that the goal of oppressive systems is to promote individuality

and divisiveness, some of us may not have the wisdom to discern that they can

use the Bible. Sometimes, scripture can be used to inject the venom of

confusion into the midst of God’s children and amplify darkness.

We are a community of black people, a community that was taught to deny who

we are. Like bridesmaids in a wedding, we think we should compete and be the

most beautiful and most ready (we forget the beauty of Lucifer caused him to

become too envious). Often, we choose to leave the pack, thinking that there

is no salvation possible if we stay in our community. We increasingly come to

believe that preparation falsely means to model ourselves on the oppressors.

We gather all the unnecessary material goods thinking that we have achieved

our demarcation point. We educate ourselves so that we can boast about our

individual accomplishments. Oh, I have heard my sisters and brothers proclaim

with pride: “I am the first Black to have been a supervisor at NYSO (New York

Sanitation Office).” Or “I am the first Black to be an editor of a magazine.” Or

“I am the only Black admitted to that club.” We, the oppressed/enslaved, have

been conditioned to act as lone wolves. From the field to the house of our slave

masters, we were brainwashed and psychologically contaminated… – yes, a

twofold process: brainwashed of the innate attribute of all creation that human

beings survive only when they stick together and, contaminated with the false

belief that nothing good can come out of our black community – we work for

our own salvation (a personal salvation). There is no difference between the

Fon and the Igbo, the Bakongo and the Kongo, the Mbundu and the Chokwe, the

Akamu and the Mandingo, the Blacks born in America and the ones born in the

Caribe. WE are all ONE. When our individual success/salvation becomes more important than the collectivity’s, we are doomed to failure; that’s exactly the purpose of oppressive systems. We were brought here from different



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tribes to prevent any possible cohesion. As successful as we can be, we are just

an oppressed, who, trying to look so much, and be so much like the master, has

become an oppressor and not someone who has worked to fight against the

system so that others, still oppressed, can live grace as extended to all.

Celebration: The road to Heaven is a relay race track, not a 100 meter for

individual performance… If speed in our genes and the fastest human being ever

is a Black, Jamaican Usain Bolt, the priority is the team at all times, EVEN IN

OUR INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE. It is about Interdependency and mutuality,

NOT about competition and superiority of one over the rest of the pack. Yes,

we have an individual responsibility to run our own distance to the best of our

ability; but the way we transmit the baton to the next runner, the next

generation, the next of kin is the most important part of the race. The success

of the team is the ultimate goal. I am not telling you that you should not assume

responsibility in the plan of salvation of God. I am saying that keeping grace for

yourself (keeping your oil for yourself and not sharing it) is NOT God’s plan.

Jesus came for all to be redeemed. There is ENOUGH grace in God for all. There

is no need for us to keep it for ourselves, make others feel unworthy,

inappropriate, falsely pretending we are better than them because we have oil

and they don’t. Too often we end up bleaching our skin to look more whitish.

Too many times we go through plastic surgery because we’ve been bullied in

school for the size of our nose. Too often we’ve been to the White doctor

because we don’t believe the Black doctor can cure us. Too often we would not

wear the shoes or clothing made by a Black designer, although Hilfiger declares

not designing for Blacks. We need reprogramming, don’t we? We need to

develop new wisdom and a new sense of identity. We need to endure that no

matter what people say WE ARE CHILDREN OF God as is all humankind. Because:

“The beginning of wisdom is the most desire for instruction and concern for

instruction is love of her, and love of her is the keeping of her laws, and giving

of her laws is assurance of immortality, and immortality brings one near to God;

so, the desire of wisdom leads to a kingdom.” The wisdom to explore and to

which we must recondition our brains, is that we won’t be in because others

are out. Pushing a sister or a brother off the track to make her/him fall or



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disqualify is really a nasty way to win. Heaven is large enough for all who believe

to have immortality (eternal life). Eternal life is faith uninterrupted; eternal

life is ongoing monitoring of what oppressive systems are doing to discourage

us to change. Eternal life is vigilance to resist the brain washing (the system

peeling off God’s goodness from us), to replace it by brain reconditioning (the

system making sure that we lose our identity to become a tool in its hands).

Eternal life is to stay together rather than compete. After all, in Christ there is

no more Jew, no more Greek, no more master, no more slave; we are all one

race: the human race.

Next time we are invited to a wedding, or next time like I used to, you crash a

wedding, let us remember to go prepared, to wear our wedding robe which

means that the grace we ask for ourselves we offer it to others. We should

remember we are not alone on the guest list. Although vigilance is important,

and endurance is faithfulness, we don’t need to pile up grace upon grace. The

miracle through which we have life has been accomplished in Jesus Christ, at

the cross, once and for all. Amen.



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THE NICENE CREED BCP p. 358

We believe in one God,

the Father, the Almighty,

maker of heaven and earth,

of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,

the only Son of God, eternally begotten

of the Father, God from God, Light from

Light, true God from true God, begotten,

not made, of one Being with the Father.

Through him all things were made.

For us and for our salvation

he came down from heaven,

was incarnate of the Holy Spirit

and the Virgin Mary, and became truly human.

For our sake, he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;

he suffered death and was buried.

On the third day, he rose again

in accordance with the Scriptures;

he ascended into heaven and is seated

at the right hand of the Father. He will

come again in glory to judge the living

and the dead, and his kingdom will have

no end.



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We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,

who proceeds from the Father and the Son. who with

the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.

who has spoken through the prophets.

We believe in one holy catholic

and apostolic Church. We acknowledge

one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

We look for the resurrection of the dead,

and the life of the world to come. Amen.

THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE: (Unknown Source)

The Leader and People pray responsively

Let us pray for peace in the Church and in the world.

With all our heart and all our mind, we pray to you, O Lord:

Make us instruments of your peace.

For the peace of the world; that a spirit of respect and forbearance may grow

among nations and peoples, we pray to you, O Lord:

Where there is hatred, let us sow love.

For our enemies and those who wish us harm, and for all whom we have

injured or offended, we pray to you, O Lord:

Where there is injury, let us sow pardon.

For all who fear God and believe in you, Lord Christ, that our divisions may

cease and all may be one as you and the Father are one, we pray to you, O

Lord:

Where there is discord, let us sow union.



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For those who do not yet believe, for those who have lost their faith, and

those in despair and darkness that they may receive the light of the faith, we

pray to you, O Lord:

Where there is doubt, let us sow faith.

For the poor, the persecuted, the sick, especially those who have asked of our

prayers, for all who suffer and those who are in danger; that they may be

relieved and protected, we pray to you, O Lord:

Where there is despair, let us sow hope.

For the mission and ministry of the Episcopal Church especially in the diocese

of New York for this church of St Augustine’s, and all who are gathered to pray,

that in faithful witness we may preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth, we

pray to you, O Lord:

Where there is darkness, let us sow light.

For all who have died in the hope of the resurrection, for all the departed and

those who are grieving, may they find comfort and be at peace, we pray to

you, O Lord:

Where there is sadness, let us sow joy.

Let us pray for our own needs and those of others (people may offer their

prayers, either silently or aloud).

Silence

The People may add their own petitions.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.



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THE PEACE BCP p. 360

All stand. The Celebrant says to the people

Celebrant The peace of God be always with you.

People And also with you.

The Ministers and People greet one another in the name of the Lord.



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The Holy Communion

The Celebrant begins the Offertory with the following sentence.

OFFERTORY SENTENCE

Walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice

to God. Ephesians 5:2

THE OFFERTORY PRAYER

OFFERTORY HYMN

HERE I AM, LORD (3) #51 (OSOP0

THE DOXOLOGY

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING: EUCHARISTIC PRAYER B

The people remain standing. The Celebrant, whether bishop or priest, faces them and sings or says

Celebrant God be with you.

People And also with you.

Celebrant Lift up your hearts.

People We lift them to the Lord. Celebrant Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

People It is right to give God thanks and praise.

Then, facing the Holy Table, the Celebrant proceeds

It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks

to you, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.

Here a Proper Preface is sung or said on all Sundays, and on other occasions as appointed.

PROPER PREFACE BCP p. 377

For you are the source of light and life; you made us in your image, and called

us to new life in Jesus Christ our Lord.



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Therefore, we praise you, joining our voices with Angels and Archangels and

with all the company of heaven, who for ever sing this hymn to proclaim the

glory of your Name:

SANCTUS ET BENEDICTUS BCP p. 362

Celebrant and People

Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of mercy and grace,

Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest. Hosanna in the highest. The people stand or kneel.

Then the Celebrant continues

We give thanks to you, O God, for the goodness and love which you have made

known to us in creation; in the calling of Israel to be your people; in your Word

spoken through the prophets; and above all in the Word made flesh, Jesus, your

Son. For in these last days you sent him to be incarnate from the Virgin Mary,

to be the Savior and Redeemer of the world. In him, you have delivered us from

evil, and made us worthy to stand before you. In him, you have brought us out

of error into truth, out of sin into righteousness, out of death into life.

At the following words concerning the bread, the Celebrant is to hold it or lay a hand upon it; and at the

words concerning the cup, to hold or place a hand upon the cup and any other vessel containing wine to be

consecrated.

[En la víspera de su muerte por nosotros, nuestro Señor Jesucristo tomó pan; y

dándote gracias, lo partió y lo dio a sus discípulos, y dijo: "Tomen y coman. Este

es mi Cuerpo, entregado por TODOS. Hagan esto como memorial mío".]



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On the night before he died for us, our Lord Jesus Christ took bread; and when

he had given thanks to you, he broke it, and gave it to his disciples, and said,

"Take, eat: This is my Body, which is given for ALL. Do this for the remembrance

of me.

"[Después de la cena tomó el cáliz; y dándote gracias, se lo entregó, y dijo:

"Beban todos de él. Esta es mi Sangre del nuevo Pacto, sangre derramada por

TODOS para el perdón de los pecados. Siempre que lo beban, háganlo como

memorial mío".]

After supper, he took the cup of wine; and when he had given thanks, he gave

it to them, and said, "Drink this, all of you: This is my Blood of the new

Covenant, which is shed for all for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink

it, do this for the remembrance of me."

Therefore, according to his command, O Father, Celebrant and People

We remember his death, We proclaim his resurrection, We await his coming in glory;

The Celebrant continues

[Y te ofrecemos nuestro sacrificio de alabanza y acción de gracias, Señor de

todos; ofreciéndote, de tu creación, este pan y este vino.]

And we offer our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to you, O Lord of all;

presenting to you, from your creation, this bread and this wine.



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[Te suplicamos, Dios bondadoso, que envíes tu Espíritu Santo sobre estos dones,

para que sean el Sacramento del Cuerpo de Cristo y su Sangre del nuevo Pacto.

Únenos a tu Hijo en su sacrificio, a fin de que, por medio de él, seamos

aceptables, siendo santificados por el Espíritu Santo. En la plenitud de los

tiempos, sujeta todas las cosas a tu Cristo y llévanos a la patria celestial donde,

con [María, Juan, Agustino, y] todos tus santos, entremos en la herencia eterna

de tus hijos; por Jesucristo nuestro Señor, el primogénito de toda la creación,

la cabeza de la Iglesia, y el autor de nuestra salvación.]

We pray you, gracious God, to send your Holy Spirit upon these gifts that they

may be the Sacrament of the Body of Christ and his Blood of the new Covenant.

Unite us to your Son in his sacrifice, that we may be acceptable through him,

being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. In the fullness of time, put all things in

subjection under your Christ, and bring us to that heavenly country where, with

Mary, the God bearer, St John the Divine, St Augustine and all your saints, we

may enter the everlasting heritage of your sons and daughters; through Jesus

Christ our Lord, the firstborn of all creation, the head of the Church, and the

author of our salvation.

By him, and with him, and in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit all honor and

glory is yours, Almighty Father, now and for ever. AMEN.

And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to sing,



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THE LORD’S PRAYER

People and Celebrant

Our Father, which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy Name,

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

THE BREAKING OF THE BREAD

The Celebrant breaks the consecrated Bread. A period of silence is kept. Then may be said

FRACTION ANTHEM BCP P. 364

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore, let us keep the feast. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

AGNUS DEI #270 (LEVAS)

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world:

Have mercy on us


Have mercy on us


Grant us Peace



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Facing the people, the Celebrant says the following Invitation

The Gifts of God for the People of God; Take them in remembrance that Christ

died for you, and feed on him in your hearts by faith, with thanksgiving.

The ministers receive the Sacrament in both kinds, and then immediately deliver it to the people.

The Bread and the Cup are given to the communicants with these words

The Body of Christ, the bread of heaven. [Amen.]

The Blood of Christ, the cup of salvation. [Amen.]

When necessary, the Celebrant consecrates additional bread and wine, using

the form on page 408.

During the ministration of Communion, hymns, psalms, or anthems may be

sung.

COMMUNION HYMN: #154 (LEVAS)

TASTE AND SEE (3V) After Communion, the Celebrant says

Let us pray.

Celebrant and People

God of abundance, you have fed us with the bread of life and the cup of salvation. You have united us with Christ and one another, and you have made us one with all your people in heaven and on earth. Now send us forth in the power of your Spirit; that we may proclaim your redeeming love to the world and continue forever



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in the risen life of Christ our Savior. Amen.

RECESSIONAL HYMN: #194 (LEVAS)

LEAD ME, GUIDE ME (3V)

The Deacon, or the Celebrant, dismisses them with these words

Let us go forth in the name of Christ. Alleluia. Alleluia.

People Thanks be to God. Alleluia. Alleluia.

POSTLUDE: ALLEGRO Léon Boëllmann

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The Offertory Music for this Sunday Prayer, an Offertory

By George Walker

George Walker was the first African-American composer to win the Pulitzer

Prize for music (Lilacs 1996). His earned doctoral degree was from the East-

man School of music, in addition to six honorary doctoral degrees.

He has had commissions from the Philharmonic and Boston Symphony

among others.

Caroline Bensen

Music Director

Dear Parishioners,

When the house of God can reflect God’s glory, what a

great blessing for those who worship him!

Beloveds, it is an expression of our gratitude to offer flow-

ers for the altar every Sunday. As we are coming together

and can feel God’s blessings among us, we should think of beautifying our

worship space.

Donations of flowers are welcomed. Envelopes are available on the back for

financial donations if you want to contribute. If you care to bring flowers you

pick yourself, that’s even better!

Let us make this space sacred and beautiful!


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St Augustine’s Community Thanksgiving Dinner

Wednesday, November 22, 2017 from 5:00 to 8:00pm in the Parish Hall

at 292 Henry Street

Please tell your neighbors For more information please call 212-673-5300


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Investors Meeting With Vestry:

Please indicate your preference

November 28, 29, 30th

at 6:00pm

Community Information Session on Retail Jobs Coming to Essex Crossing in 2018

Wednesday, November 15th 6:30-8pm Seward Park High School Auditorium

350 Grand Street

Delancey Street Associates and HireNYC will present an overview of the retail jobs coming to

Essex Crossing in 2018:

Target Trader Joe's Splitsville Lanes Regal Cinema NYU Langone

PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE DISTRIBUTED AT THIS EVENT

Please attend to understand to learn more about:

• The HireNYC application process

• A timeline for hiring

Programs and services offered by our community workforce partner,

Lower East Side Employment Network (LESEN)

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Come Join The Reverend Nathanael Saint-Pierre

and St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church on a

10 day Holy Land Pilgrimage

Departing January 22, 2018

PRICE $2,998.00

based on double occupancy

Included in the price:

• Roundtrip airfare from New York

• Accommodations in superior tourist class

hotels

• Breakfast and Dinner daily

• Sightseeing as per itinerary

• Touring by Private Air Conditioned Motor coach

• Services of a Professional Tour Escort

• Transfers to and from international airports

• Fuel charges, porterage, transfers and hotel

taxes

Not Included:

• Meals not mentioned (lunches)

• Tipping (about $100.00)

• Optional Travel Insurance (recommended)

• Single Supplement $500.00

Contact:

Rev. Nathanael Saint-Pierre

St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church

333 Madison Street • New York, NY 10002

(212) 673-5300 • [email protected]

$100 discount for deposits in

by April 22, 2017 or

$50 discount for deposits in

by July 22, 2017


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A N NO UN CE M E NT S

We are happy that you have come to

worship with us. If you have no church

home, we invite you to unite with us.

Please complete one of the Parish Cen-

sus Forms, located on the table in the

back of the church. You may give it to an

usher and we will be in touch with you

very soon. However, if you are just

passing through, we are honored by your

presence, and we wish you Godspeed as

you complete your journey.

Daily Lectionary Readings

Monday: AM Psalm 80; PM Psalm 77, [79]

Neh. 9:1-15 (16-25); Rev. 18:1-8; Matt 15:1-

20 Tuesday: AM Psalm 78:1-39; PM Psalm 78:40

-72 Neh. 9:26-38; Rev. 18:9-20; Matt 15:21-

28

Wednesday: AM Psalm 72; PM Psalm 119:97-

120 Neh. 7:73b-8:3,5-18; Rev. 18:21-24;

Matt.15:29-39

Thursday: AM Psalm [83]; PM Psalm 85,86 1

Macc. 1:1-28; Rev. 19: 1-10; Matt 16:1-12 Friday: AM Psalm 88; PM Psalm 91, 92

1 Macc. 1:41-63; Rev. 19:11-16; Matt. 16:13-

20 Saturday: AM Psalm 87, 90 PM Psalm 136 1

Macc. 2:1-28; Rev.20:1-6;

Matt. 16:21-28

Please Join Us for The Heal-

ing Service every Wednesday

at 12:00 noon, in the church.

We invite you to join St. A’s Prayer Line on

W e d n e s d a y s a t 9 : 0 0 P M ·

Dial (212) 673-5300 between 8:45—10:00

PM.

SCOPE- “Senior Citizen (Church) Outreach

Program and Eldership” is seeking volun-

teers. It would be great to have some

help to develop a ministry for the Seniors

to include health care/advice and other

activities. Please contact Mrs. Irene Al-

ladice or Fr. Nat if you wish to respond to

this call.

Coming Up Next

Need Prayer? Call the church office and

request that your name be added to our

prayer list. Let us know when you are

available so we may visit you or pray with

you over the phone.

If you are celebrating a special occasion;

birthday, anniversary, etc. please let us

know so we may offer congratulations to

you.

We are accepting Articles and Advertise-

ments to publish in the St Augustine's

eCho.

During our worship, please remember to

put your phone on vibe or silent. But we

invite you to use them if you want to

record the entire (or part of) the service,

take pictures, post video on Facebook,

Instagram, Pinterest or Twitter. Let your

friends know you are at St Augustine’s.

We are a Techno-Friendly Church.

Free Caregiver support services Care NYC

provides free: Respite Services (in-home

or adult care); Long-term care planning;

Assistance applying for Medicaid and

other benefits; Counseling with under-

standing professionals; Peer support

groups wellness activities, education and

caregiver skills; Cultural trips to take with

your loved one and MORE!

Call:718-906-0669 212. 349.2770x215

or email: [email protected]

Services available in English and Spanish

Pastoral Visitations: Please express your

desire to receive a visit or communion if

you cannot make it to church. We will do

our best to come visit you between 2-4

PM on Sundays.

Moving Forward: My hope and prayer is

that we can get together as one commu-

nity to be God’s people and presence on

the LES. I am asking for your prayers in

this important new chapter of our lives, I

want you to know that every day I also

pray for you all. Together in Christ

Father Nat.

Welcome

Bienvenido

Bienvenue

Nou kontan wè w

PHONE LINE PRAYER


Weekly

Collections

November October

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2017 2017

Pledges $1,388.00 $123.00

Open Plate $16.00 $22.00

Special

Services $20.00 $110.00

Regular

Support

Special

Offerings $10.00

Men’s Guild

St. Augustine’s

Project

Tenants $6,100.00

Rentals $2,250.00

Holy Land Trip $3,137.00

St. Augustine

Youth $649.30

Soup Kitchen $66.25 $27.00

SCOPE/Bingo

Building Fund $13.00 $22.00

ECW Father’s Day $10.00 $80.00

Parking Lot $150.00 Other External

Sources $5.00

Total 13,155.25 821.30

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Shut-Ins/Homebound: Velda Alleyne, Ellen Bradley, Annie Garcia, Norberta Mieles;

Prayers: Lester Allen, Carline Aupont, Sandra Brown, Juan Cosme, Minnie Curry and family, Ellen Daley, Maybelle & Sanford Daly, Diane Ellis, Robert & Vernestine Exum, Sanford Exum and Family, Iris Faulkner, Evelyn Fleming, Faith and Grace Garfield, Mil-dred Hancock, Bernice Henry, Rev. Deacon Edgar Hopper, Joyce Johnson, Kenny John-son, LaVerne Johnson, John Joseph, The Krauser Family, James Leung, Hattie Mitchell

and Family, Daryl Moore, Lula Moore, Marissa Nicolo, James Rainge, Lawrence Rainge, James Robinson-Parran, Beverly Rosario, Oland Saltes, Sandra Slater, Sylvan Stoner, Rodger Taylor, Edward Tyler, Yvonne Ward, Marlene Ward-Torain and family, Tyrone

Wong, Gladys Saint-Pierre, Noelia Gonzalez.

Armed forces: David Mason, Jr.

We ask God’s blessings for those celebrating their birthdays in November, especially:

1st Selina Harris, Makeda Dawson-Davis; 2nd Dominique Harris; 3rd JoAnn Davis, David

Nelson, LaVerne Johnson; 4th Beverly Pena; 5th Sheila Knight; 6th Kadija Brown, Shawnte

Ellison; 7th Gene Seymour, Joseph McDaniel; 8th Carmalita Archibald, Stephen Harris,

Walter Hanks; 9th Eleanor Daly, LaQuan Woody, Nia Dawson; 10th Derek O’Neal, Ayesha

Richardson, Allure Evans; 11th Kathleen Taylor, John Sena, Bookard Kashia, Neurloni

Hall, Nyajah Pierce; 12th James Hornsby, James Winfield Jr., Rosemary O’Shansky, Fran-

cisco Brown, Jeniece Jones; 13th Ajamu Abraham, Charlene Cox, Joseph Thompkins; 14th

Brittney Holloman, Atiyah Lloyd; 15th Tiarra Williams; 18th Hector Archibald, Steven

Miles, Isaac Johnson, Ashala Kelly, Aaron Davis; 19th Carol Daglow; 20th Nickia Smith;

21st Durell Smith, Pamela Dawson, Josette Cikley; 22nd Marisa O’Neal; 23rd Chantel Feli-

cian, Lisa Winfield, Ludan Garricks, Jeffrey Winfield Jr., Margarita Guzman, Yoruba Guz-

man; 25th Edward Riley, Adalio Troutman, Nazir Darden; 26th Susan Daly, Rasheima Sil-

via, Edward Riley; 27th Cleary Freeman, Christopher Guardiola; 28th Catherine Baez; 29th

Sabrina Campbell, Monika O’Neal; 30th Ethel Moore, Andrew Taylor, Natasha Herring

We pray for those who have died: Doadie Brown, Ronald Brown, Isa Coker, Robert and

Mittie Frances Combs, Percy Daglow Sr., Wanda Daley, Frances Diaz, Harry & Dorothy

Fiyalko, Luis Garcia, Etta Green, Dorothy Henderson, Inez Kikuchi, Cheryl Krauser, Ver-

nell Langley, Diane McDowell, Geraldine Newkirk, Evelyn Newlin, Jacynth Orridge, Hector

Peňa, Alice Saltes Richards, Dorothy Rodriguez, Nancy Scott, Alma Suarez, Eleanor Suri-

el, Sylvia Fergusson-Sylvah and Romulus Sylvah, Harriett Marshall-Taylor, Isaac &

Gwendolyn Pinder-Taylor, Donald Williams, Esther Juanita Dawson, Lucille Williams,

Minnie Williams, Rev. Deacon Nydia Flores, Florence Taylor.

We pray for Justice and Peace in all lands: Especially: Afghanistan, Africa, The Caribbe-an, China, Darfur, France, Haiti, the Holy Land, India, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Ni-

ger, Sierra Leone, The Sudan, This Nation and the United Nations.

The S t . Augustine ’ s eCho is a newsletter to keep our members and the larger community informed about what is happen ing a t S t Augustine ’s and beyond. We welcome s tory contr ibu tors to submit a r t ic les , poetry , advert is ing, and any informat ion one may want to share . Please submit your contr ibu tion by e -ma i l to info@staugnyc. o rg no late r than on Wednesdays fo r the Sunday ed it ion .

The Staff

The Rev. Nathanael Saint-Pierre,

MIS, MCPD, Rector (917) 232-

9583

[email protected]

Ms. Omayra Rivera

Administrative Assistant (Temp.)

([email protected])

Ms. Carolyn Bensen,

Director of Music

Mr. Sylvan Stoner, Bookkeeper

([email protected])

Ms. Barbara H. King,

Event Coordinator

Mr. Oland Saltes, Verger

Mr. David Mason, Sexton

The St. Augustine’s Project

www. staugsproject.org

Barbara King

Minnie Curry

Sandra Walker

The Vestry

Ms. Irene Alladice, Warden

Ms. Susan Brown, Warden

2018

Mr. William (Kim) Curry

Ms. Annette Dudley

Ms. Barbara H. King, Clerk

Mr. Oland Saltes

2019

Ms. Valerie Scott

Ms. Dinah Williams

Ms. Bobby Wright

In an effort to reach a broad audience, St. Augustine’s Church occasionally records, through video and photography, its services for publication on the Internet. Your attendance

at a service or event constitutes your consent to be included in any filming, photographing, audio recording or broadcast and for any other use in whole or in part, including

publicity and promotion.

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