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00:22Let us pray.
00:25Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who your faithless disciple Judas sold for a vile sum of
00:33money to the Jews who were persecuting you and conspiring against your life.
00:38Let us pray.
01:09Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who ate the Passover with your disciples at Jerusalem, according to
01:17the commandments of the law, giving them an example of humility and holy love by kneeling down on the ground
01:24and washing their feet, wiping them with a linen cloth.
01:29I pray that this, your example, may penetrate my soul, destroying thoroughly any haughtiness and pride within me.
01:38Give me, O Lord, the deepest humility that I may, without delay, perform the lowest ministry to all men.
01:46Give me perfect obedience that I may, with complete diligence, observe as your commandments whatever your appointed representatives may decide.
01:57Give me the most fervent charity that I may sincerely love all mankind.
02:05Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who out of your unspeakable love gave us the sacrament of
02:12the Eucharist, and in it given yourself to us with wondrous liberality,
02:18so that you might remain with us even bodily unto the end of the world.
02:25Grant me, I beg you, O Lord, an earnest longing and enkindle in my innermost soul an intense hunger for
02:34this adorable sacrament.
02:36Grant that when I go to the table of life I may receive you with chaste affection, complete humility, and
02:43perfect purity of heart.
02:45May my soul so thirst for you now, and so languish in your love, that I may one day be
02:52found suitable to enjoy the delights of your eternal kingdom, to the glory everlasting of your name.
03:00Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who, when you were about to leave the world,
03:06commanded and comforted with words of unspeakable sweetness your disciples,
03:12and most earnestly commended them in prayer to your Father,
03:18most plainly showing how tenderly you loved them and us, who were to believe through their word.
03:25Grant that my heart may evermore relish your word, and that I may find your words sweeter than honey to
03:33my taste.
03:36O, that the spirit of that burning exhortation may so glide into my heart,
03:40that I may be wholly transformed into your love.
03:45So direct all my ways, O Lord my God,
03:47that your holy will may be done in and by me for ever and ever.
03:55Praise and honour and glory be to you, O Christ,
03:58who went out with your disciples across the Kedron brook,
04:01and came into the garden, which you knew would be where you were betaken.
04:08May I entirely give up my will, and always follow and love yours.
04:14May I, for your honour and for the salvation of my brothers and sisters,
04:18boldly endure any adversity, and be willing even to lay down my life,
04:23if your divine providence should so ordain it.
04:28Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ,
04:31who, as your passion drew nigh,
04:34began to be sorrowful and sad,
04:36with a heavy heart,
04:38and so that by transferring the weakness of all your members to yourself,
04:42you might be able to console and strengthen them,
04:46when they were in their time of fear at the approach of death,
04:49by this your own weakness, which you had willingly taken upon you.
04:56Preserve me, I beg you,
04:58both from the immoderate sorrow and from foolish gladness.
05:03Grant that the grief which I have thus far endured
05:06may be for your glory and for the remission of my sins.
05:11Remove mercifully from me all distrust and unnecessary weakness,
05:16and confirm and establish my soul whole in you.
05:22Praise and honour and glory be to you, O Christ,
05:25who fell prostrate on the ground and prayed to your Holy Father,
05:29humbly offering your whole self to him,
05:32saying,
05:33Your will be done.
05:35Give me grace in every necessity and trouble
05:38to fly to you in prayer,
05:41and freely to resign and myself give myself up to your will.
05:47May I never unduly endeavour to escape from trouble,
05:51but receive all things from your hand with a quiet mind,
05:56and may I endure everything in meekness of spirit for your love.
06:02Amen.
06:05O Lord, open our lips,
06:08and our mouths shall sing your praise.
06:17O be joyful in the Lord,
06:21O be joyful in the Lord,
06:23O be blessed,
06:24serve the Lord with gladness,
06:27and come in voice,
06:30present,
06:31till the talk.
06:34Be sure that the Lord,
06:38he is God,
06:40it is he that can bring us and not be ourselves,
06:45we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
06:53O put your way into his peace,
06:57it has been,
06:59and into his God's great place,
07:04we thank God to him and speak to the Lord of his name.
07:12For the Lord is gracious,
07:17his mercy is everlasting,
07:22and his truth and joy from generation to generation.
07:35glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost,
07:46as it was in the beginning,
07:51is now and ever shall be,
07:56world without end,
08:00world without end,
08:04Amen.
08:16and the Lord,
08:17when the dawn's turn the yer,
08:19the can't see to you or try,
08:23when the good light comes from heaven and tree,
08:29when the Lord above is free,
10:21A reading from the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13.
10:29Now there were at Antioch in the church there, prophets and preachers, Barnabas and Simeon, who was named Niger, and
10:38Lucius of Cyrene, and Manan, a relation of Herod the king and Saul.
10:46While they were doing the Lord's work and going without food, the Holy Spirit said,
10:51Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by
10:57me.
10:59Then, after prayer and going without food, they put their hands on them and sent them away.
11:07So being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they went by ship
11:14to Cyprus.
11:16At Salamis, they were preaching the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and John was with them,
11:23helping them.
11:25When they had gone through all the island to Papos, they came across a certain wonder-worker and false prophet,
11:31a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus, who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man.
11:39This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God.
11:46Elimas, the wonder-worker, for that is the sense of his name, put himself against them, with the purpose of
11:53turning the ruler from the faith.
11:57Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit and looking hard at him, said,
12:03O you who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the evil one, hating all righteousness,
12:11will you forever be turning people from the straight ways of the Lord?
12:16Now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see
12:22the sun for a time.
12:24Straight away a dark mist came down upon him, and he went to bed looking for a guide.
12:31Then the ruler, when he saw what had been done, had faith, being full of wonder at the teaching of
12:38the Lord.
12:39This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
12:47From Antioch, Paul and Barnabas are called on their first great missionary journey, setting sail for Cyprus.
12:55Note how this was done.
12:58The leaders were fasting and praying, going about the Lord's business, when they were led by the Holy Spirit to
13:05send Paul and Barnabas away.
13:09Then they laid hands on the two of them and sent them off.
13:13This was a commission of the church in Antioch, inspired by the Holy Spirit.
13:19It was not the whim of any one individual, such as, wouldn't it be a great idea to go down
13:26to Cyprus?
13:29Once in Cyprus, Paul and Barnabas immediately hit opposition.
13:35Called to the governor's residence to preach the word.
13:38A charlatan gate crashes, hoping to make them look foolish, and thereby thwart God's will.
13:47However, Paul rebuked him, and he was struck blind, with the effect that the governor had faith.
13:56God cannot be thwarted.
13:58He will always prevail, and it is always fatal to try and stand in his way.
14:04Many people have tried, and all have failed.
14:07And this is a good case in point.
14:10If God called Paul and Barnabas to go on their missionary journey,
14:15you may be sure that he had prepared the path for them.
14:20It may not have been easy.
14:25But then, why should it be?
14:28If it were easy, we would not need faith.
14:30But the path was there for them.
14:33Once again, we are reminded that God will never call upon us to achieve the impossible.
14:38However, it may seem at the time.
14:42Because he will always give us the tools to do the job.
14:48Let us consider, for a moment, the heroism inherent in missionary work.
14:57The first element of heroism is the quality of ideality.
15:02The power, that is, of getting hold of the idea of any cause or occupation.
15:06Or of life in general.
15:09So that the cause, the occupation or life becomes a living thing to which a man may give himself with
15:15all his powers and energy.
15:18That quality of ideality is the essential thing in heroism.
15:24Along with this primary quality of heroism, there go two others closely related to it.
15:31They are magnanimity and bravery.
15:35These two qualities make the heroes.
15:38These are what glorify certain lives that stand through history as the lights and beacons of mankind.
15:48If Christianity is heroic work, then missionary work is heroic Christianity.
15:55This arises not from any mere circumstance of personal privation which attaches to the missionary life.
16:02But because the missionary life has most closely seized and most tenaciously holds and lives by.
16:12The essential life idea of Christianity.
16:20What is that idea?
16:23Solely that man is the child of God.
16:26The true Christian idealist is the one whose conception of man as the redeemed child of God
16:31has taken all his life and moulded it into new shapes, planted it in new places,
16:37and so filled and inspired it that, like the spirit of God in Elijah,
16:42it has taken it up and carried it wherever it could never have chosen to go of its lower will.
16:51The missionary life is heroic.
16:54Not because of the pain it suffers, but because of the essential character that it bears.
17:02Pain is in the being, but not in the sainthood.
17:05And so they have marched out of the old,
17:08the missionaries of all the ages of the religion of the Incarnation and the Cross.
17:13Idealists, believers, magnanimous and brave, the heroes of our faith.
17:19They have become heroes because of their faith,
17:21because their souls supremely believed in,
17:24and their lives were supremely governed to and by Christ.
17:32The assumption of the name Paul instead of the name Saul
17:35stood in some relation to his missionary work
17:39and was intended in some sense as a memorial of his first victory
17:43in the preaching of the gospel.
17:47A new name expresses a new nature.
17:49The central heart of Christianity is the possession of a new life,
17:54communicated to us through faith in that Son of God
17:57who is the Lord of the Spirit.
18:00Wherever there is true faith, there is a new nature.
18:04A change which needs a new name must be a profound change.
18:08Has our Christianity revolutionized our nature in any such way?
18:16We may take this change of name as being expressive of a life's work.
18:21Paul is a Roman name.
18:24He strips himself of his Jewish connections and relationships.
18:28His fellow countrymen, who has lived amongst the Gentiles,
18:32were in the habit of doing the same thing,
18:35but they still carried both their names.
18:37Their Jewish name for use amongst their own people
18:40and their Gentile one for use amongst the Gentiles.
18:45Paul seems to have altogether disused his old name of Saul.
18:51It was almost equivalent to seceding from Judaism.
18:55We may, from the change in the Apostle's name,
18:58gather this lesson, never out of date,
19:01that the only way to help people is to go down to their level.
19:05If you want to bless men, you must identify yourself with them.
19:11The change of name is a memorial of victory.
19:15The name is that of his first convert.
19:19He takes it, as I suppose,
19:21because it seemed to him to be such a blessed thing
19:24that at this very moment,
19:25when he began to sow God,
19:29helped him to reap.
19:33Paul names himself from the first victory
19:36that God gave him to win,
19:38and so, as it were,
19:40carries ever at his breast
19:41a memorial of the wonder that through him
19:44it had been given to preach,
19:47and that not without success
19:48amongst the Gentiles
19:50the unsearchable riches of Christ.
19:56This change of name
19:57is an index of the spirit
20:00of a life's work.
20:02Paul means little,
20:04but Saul means desired.
20:07He has abandoned the name
20:08of the prophesied of favour and honour
20:10to adopt a name
20:12that bears upon its very front
20:14a profession of humility.
20:17His very name
20:18is the condensation
20:19into a word
20:20of his abiding conviction.
20:23I am less than the least
20:24of all the saints,
20:25he says.
20:27So for all hope,
20:29for all success in our work,
20:30for all growth
20:31in Christian grace and character,
20:34this position
20:35of lowly self-abasement.
20:39And above all,
20:40we must learn this,
20:42that unless
20:43we have the new life,
20:45the life of God
20:46in our hearts,
20:47we have no life at all.
20:54Let us pray.
20:56O God,
20:58who has at this time
20:59taught the hearts
21:00of your faithful people
21:01by sending to them
21:03the light of your Holy Spirit,
21:06grant us
21:07by the same Spirit
21:08to have a right judgment
21:10in all things,
21:12and evermore
21:13to rejoice
21:14in his holy comfort
21:15through the merits
21:17of Christ Jesus,
21:19our Saviour,
21:20who lives
21:21and reigns with you
21:23in the unity
21:24of the same Spirit,
21:26one God,
21:27world without end.
21:29Amen.
21:35May the Lord bless us
21:36and keep us
21:37from all evil,
21:38bringing us
21:40to everlasting life.
21:43Amen.
22:08Amen.