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This Week's Collect
The Sunday of the Passion:
Palm Sunday
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| Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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 | This Week's Lections
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Exodus 12:1-14
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
Psalm 116:1, 10-17
Link to Good Friday Readings
Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Hebrews 10:16-25
John 18:1-19:42
Psalm 22
Link to Easter Vigil/Sunrise Service Readings At The Liturgy of the WordGenesis 1:1-2:4a [The Story of Creation] Genesis 22:1-18[Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac] Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 [Israel's deliverance at the Red Sea] Isaiah 55:1-11 [Salvation offered freely to all] Ezekiel 36:24-28 [A new heart and a new spirit] At The EucharistRomans 6:3-11 Psalm 114 Matthew 28:1-10
Acts 10:34-43
Colossians 3:1-4
Matthew 28:1-10
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
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Holy Eucharist
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Godly Play
Holy Eucharist
10:30 a.m.
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K thru 4th grade - Alleluia Chapel Program
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Meeting for Study and Prayer in the Library
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"Hosannah! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Crucify him!"
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Dearly Beloved in Christ,
The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday moves us from joyous shouts of "hosannah!" to angry cries of "crucify" within a very short space of time. We are happy to join in with the "hosannahs" but much more reticent about joining our voices with those shouting "crucify."
In many of the liturgical churches the Passion reading is presented in dramatic form with members of the congregation reading the different parts, and all present asked to participate as "crowd." I remember the first time I was present in an Episcopal church for this dramatic reading. When it came to the place in the narrative where the congregation was to shout out "crucify him" I could not form the words. I told the rector afterwards that I found it impossible to do so. His response was as follows: "If you cannot acknowledge that you played a part in the crucifixion then you do not believe that you need a savior, and should not be praising him with 'hosannahs' which means 'save us.'"
At the cross we look at our dear, sweet Lord and we want it to be somebody else's fault. We want it to be an impersonal global sin that crucified him. But it is because of our personal sins that he set his face for Jerusalem. It is because of our individual sins that he went to the cross. We don't want it to be because of each personal sin that we have ever committed. Each personal sin that we will commit. But it is.
My sin of unforgiveness rips at his flesh with the scourger's whip - as does yours. My sin of anger draws his holy, sinless blood as the crown of thorns is pushed onto his brow - as does yours. My sin of resentment makes him fall under the weight of the cross - as does yours. My sin of disobedience to his word rubs raw his back with the wood of the cross - as does yours. My sin of pride pierces his precious hands as the nails tear through flesh and cartilage - as does yours.
Our voices might not have shouted crucify! But our actions have.
And for all my collusion, and yours, in his agonizing death - he looks down from the cross with unfathomable love in his eyes and looks at each one of us directly and says: "Father, forgive them."
My song is love unknown, my savior's love to me
love to the loveless shown that they might lovely be.
O who am I that for my sake my Lord should take frail flesh and die
He came from his blest throne, salvation to bestow,
but men made strange, and none the longed for Christ would know.
But O my friend, my friend indeed, who at my need his life did spend
Sometimes they strew his way, and his strong praises sing,
resounding all the day hosannas to their King.
Then "crucify" is all their breath, and for his death they thirst and cry.
Why, what hath my Lord done? What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run, he gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries! Yet they at these themselves displease, and 'gainst him rise
They rise, and needs will have my dear Lord made away;
a murderer they save, a Prince of Life they slay.
Yet steadfast he to suffering goes, that he his foes from thence might free
In life no house, no home my Lord on earth might have;
in death no friendly tomb but what a stranger gave.
What may I say? Heaven was his home; but mine the tomb wherein he lay.
Here might I stay and sing, no story so divine;
never was love, dear King, never was grief like thine.
This is my friend, in whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend
Words by Samuel Crossman (1624-1683)
In His Peace, Grace, and Love, Rev'd Sarah+
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Garden of Gethsemane Altar of Repose
PLANTS NEEDED!
Judy Delsanter and Cindy Borr will once again meditatively create the Garden of Gethsemane on the outside altar which will be our Altar of Repose for the All Night Watch. Judy and Cindy will begin creating the garden on Wednesday morning, April 20. If you have plants that you could lend for this please drop them off before 10:00 am that morning.
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MAUNDY THURSDAY
April 21 at 7:00 pm
In the Chapel
Gather with Jesus and the disciples in the Upper Room as our liturgy takes us through Jesus' institution of Holy Communion and his enacted parable of what divine love looks like.
The Holy Communion that is reserved for Good Friday is placed on the outside Altar of Repose. In the Chapel the chancel area is stripped, quietly, reverently, one item at a time and we end with Jesus' invitation in the Garden of Gethsemane:
"My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me ... could you not watch with me one hour?"
There are still several open half hour time slots. To sign up call the church office: 407 644 5350 or you can sign up on our website here.
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GOOD FRIDAY
April 22
Mass of the Pre-sanctified
Noon in the Church
(this is a change of location)
Gather at the foot of the cross in this ancient liturgy as we look on with the women who stayed while our Lord hung on the cross: a symbol of excruciating torture, that became the symbol of our salvation. Those who wish to do so after the noon service can stay to meditate on the Seven Last Words of Christ. At 3:00 pm, the Ninth Hour, when our Lord breathed his last the Good Shepherd bell will be rung 33 times.
Stations of the Cross
6:30 pm in the Church
Those who are unable to attend the noon service are invited to join us as we walk the Via Dolorosa - the Way of the Cross. We will stop at each of the fourteen stations, prayers will be offered, the ancient petition to our Holy God, the Trisagion, will be sung as will the Stabat Mater:
"At the cross her vigil keeping, stood the mournful mother weeping, where he hung, the dying Lord: there she waited in her anguish, seeing Christ in torment languish, in her heart the piercing sword."
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EASTER VIGIL/SUNRISE SERVICE
April 24 - 6:30 am
As did the early Church we approach this time with great anticipation. We will gather in the pre-dawn darkness by the outside altar as the new fire is lit and from it the Paschal Candle signifying the Light of Christ. We form a procession behind the Paschal Candle into the still dark interior of the Chapel lit only by individual candles lit from the one Light of Christ and there we remember in word and song the great acts of God to save his people. The sun rises and we move into the fullness of His glorious light with the Easter acclamation and the ringing of bells
PLEASE BRING BELLS TO RING!
Alleluias ring out for the first time in over forty days as our voices join the entire heavenly host in great exultation at the amazing love and great power of God.
CHORAL EASTER EUCHARIST
April 24 - 10:30 am
The children will have unburied the Alleluias and they will ring out once again in Christ's church to celebrate Christ's victory over death.
After the service there is an Easter Egg Hunt for the children in the back quadrangle and a wonderful Easter lunch for all in the Parish Hall.
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 MAITLAND ARTS FESTIVAL A huge thank you to Susan van Bernum, and Jim and Dianna Bivins for all their hard work in preparing, coordinating and organizing our outreach/evangelism ministry of free parking and handing out free bottles of water on Saturday. A huge thank you also to all of our Good Shepherd family who came out to help. We had a great time of fellowship, and although this event around Lake Lilly seems to draw much fewer people than the fall event we were able to interact with quite a few people in the community, and that is what it is all about! |
Please pray for:
Our homebound members:
Ival, Olga, Marion, and Chet
Healing of body, mind, soul, and spirit
for our parishioners and visitors: Cindy, Dede, Joan, Robin, Sally, Dianna, David, Jim, Irene, Lillian, Keisha, Michael, Jan-Marie, Doug, Donna, Pammie, Ethel, Cade, Bob, Roy, Suzee, Jack, Sam, Jane, Mary Ellen, Mike, Stan, Jeanie, and Elizabeth and
for friends and family members: Cynthia, Betty and Frank and Family, Katey, Jimmie, Annette, Samuel, Natalie, Pat, Pete, Robert, Angie, Tom, Beverly, Mickey, Roz, Lynda, Richard, Ryan, Paul, Karen, Marsha, Nelson, Derek, Margaret Ann, Lew, Ira, Belinda, Michelle, Monica, Luther, Celia, Kevin, Maria.
Military Personnel:
Christopher and Brigitt Kincaid, Justin Moye, Danny Graham, Hugh Darville, Ronnie Robison, Chuck Gitschlag, Rory Patrick Coleman, Dennis Glasgow, Duncan Hanton, Thomas Vila, William Underhill, and Taylor Lee.
Our college students and seminarian:
Michael and Ryan Guerdan, Andrea and Lindsey Nicolle, Allen Booker, Robert and Eric Borr, Matthew and Sarah Pierce, Chelsea Adams, Robin Campbell, and David Bumsted.
Those celebrating their birthdays: Cade and Camden Anderson, Jan-Marie Waters, Kaytlyn Moye
Rest in Peace: Betty McDonnell, Jan-Marie's aunt Those preparing for Confirmation/Reception: Joe, Dianna, Roy, Jim, and Bev
Safe Travel: Gavin and Becky Lee, Gloria Grant, Wayne and Jan-Marie WatersA Prayer for discernment in the call of the next bishop: Be with us and guide us, Holy Spirit, as we seek your will for the future of our diocese. Help us to discern the needs and hopes of your people in Central Florida, so that our search for a Bishop may proceed with clear vision and joyful obedience. In the Name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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