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April 16th 2013

 


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As we move more and more into an age where social and electronic media are our primary means of communication, we at Nativity are assessing just how it is that we make use of technology. As your priest, I am also aware that worship together is our primary means of communication, so I hold that out as well as the most important activity we do together. It has been my experience that while connecting "through the skies" on computer or smartphone creates an immediacy and interconnectedness which we are still trying to live into as modern beings, electronic media does not replace or replicate face-to-face encounter.

 

Today is a good example of this. We sent out prayers via Facebook and Constant Contact (our email system) yesterday and today in response to the tragedy at the Boston Marathon yesterday. And today, we will gather at 12:30 pm to pray for the victims, for victims of violence everywhere, and for ourselves. So we do both: face to face and "through the air".

 

We have decided to take our Nativity Notes on Line back to a publishing date of Tuesday, since my electronic partner in crime, Junior Warden Trish Shurtz, volunteers at Nativity on Tuesday, and everything seems to go more smoothly with this workflow. On behalf of Trish and myself, I invite you to submit articles of interest by 9 am on Tuesday for the weekly email.

 

As well, I would like to go back to calling the email "Nativity Notes Online". We tried "Tidings on Line",. hearkening back to our old Paper Tidings, but it just does not roll off the tongue like NNO.

 

Please join me in prayer for the people of Boston, and for people everywhere who wake up in fear and anxiety over their personal and corporate safety. Pray for the first responders, pray for the investigators, and for the victims, both deceased and injured. Psalm 46 Prayers for Boston

 

With love and prayers,

 

Stacey

 

More about Boston from our religious leaders

 

 

From Bishop Steven Charleston's Facebook Prayers

Why? Why the pointless cruelty, O God? Why the premeditated evil that comes to bring death, pain and sorrow to innocent lives and leaves us stunned to imagine a heart so cold it could conceive such an act? We cannot understand it, God, we cannot make sense of the senseless. And how should we respond even if we did understand? Tooth for tooth, eye for eye, would it end the madness or return the lost to live again? Come, Spirit of God, come stand with us in this darkness. Hold the fallen in your arms. Heal the injured. Comfort the broken-hearted. And if you cannot tell us why we do this to ourselves, show us how to love more deeply, that such pain will never be the final word, but rather mercy that needs no explanation.

 

 

From our Presiding Bishop , the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori

The Episcopal Church
Office of Public Affairs

Monday, April 15, 2013

 

[April 15, 2013] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori calls for prayer following the explosions in Boston, MA, and offers the following prayer:

Gracious God, you walk with us through the valley of the shadow of death.  We pray that the suffering and terrorized be surrounded by the incarnate presence of the crucified and risen one.  May every human being be reminded of the precious gift of life you entered to share with us.  May our hearts be pierced with compassion for those who suffer, and for those who have inflicted this violence, for your love is the only healing balm we know. May the dead be received into your enfolding arms, and may your friends show the grieving they are not alone as they walk this vale of tears.  All this we pray in the name of the one who walked the road to Calvary.

 


 

 

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News and Events                                                                        Nativity Calendar

 

Parish Announcements

 

Youth Group:  Outreach Night - Tuesday, April 16th - 5 - 6:30 pm

 

 

The Marin Episcopal Youth Group meets on Sundays from 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm except for Movie Night (usually the last Sunday of the month) when we meet from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.   Anyone in grades 6 - 12 are invited to attend. 

 

Bible ChallengeStacey will host any questions regarding the Bible Challenge at 9:15 am on Sundays in the Owl Room.  If you have not started this challenge and would like to participate, the readings are on the back table.  Also, send an email to Stacey so she can include you in the weekly email.

   

 

Coming Events:


Apr 16: Outreach Night for  Marin Episcopal Youth Group - 5 -6:30 pm

Apr 20:  Earth Day Spring Cleanup Day - 10 am - noon

Apr 21:  Marin Episcopal Youth Group - 5 pm

 

Volunteering and Outreach

Escrip

Please do be sure that your debit and credit cards are updated with Escrip.

I think we may be missing some contributions due to issue of new cards.

Margaret maggiej613@gmail.com 


 

 

Coffee Hour at 10:00 AM Sundays

 

   

We have many spaces to fill. Please see if you can help.  Potluck means no one has signed.

If you can bring cookies or whatever, please let Margaret know.

We don't need an over-load.

The sign-up sheet is now on the table in the church.  Please look for future dates when you may be able to help   

 

April 21: Susan Pick

April 28: Potluck

May 5:    Potluck

May 12: Diana Singer

May 19: ?

 

 

Our neighbor Carlos is providing the coffee at the moment so all that you need are goodies and half & half, and occasionally juice. (We often have that in the fridge.)


Please note:
The coffee pots need to be emptied and rinsed out so that they can be taken back to Carlos.

The new dishwasher is working. Please set it going before you leave.

 
Margaret      
maggiej613@gmail.com
In Our Prayers

 

Remember in Prayer

 

 

As we transition our publishing date for this newsletter, this edition will not have a repeat of last Sunday's prayer list.  Next Tuesday, we will publish the prayers from services on Sunday, April 20th.

 

 

 


World News This Week in Prayer

 

 As we transition our publishing date for this newsletter, this edition will not have a repeat of last week's World News in Prayer.  Next Tuesday, we will publish the prayers from Thursday, April 18th.

 

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World in Prayer is a ministry of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist

Lodi, California, USA, and is written by a team of writers representing different denominations throughout the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.

Write to us atworldinprayer@aol.com  

 

 

NNO Publishing Team
Episcopal Church of the Nativity
(415) 479-7023
Dee Dee Nelson, Circulation Manager       Jean Walker, Reporter     Trish Shurtz, Editor
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