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The week of Sept. 21-27, 2015
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Forum by participants in the
Jonathan Daniels pilgrimage
Following St. Paul's service devoted to racial reconciliation Sept. 20, participants discussed the August diocesan pilgrimage to Hayneville, Alabama. It was there that civil rights worker and Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels was martyred 50 years ago. At the forum participants, including two St. Paul's parishioners, Gillian Prater-Lee and Elisabeth Misner, described the experience and its impact on them.
Grace Episcopal Church in Millbrook organized the Dutchess County pilgrimage. From left Elisabeth Misner, Madeline Lacey, Kevin Bryant, Steven Bryant, Gillian Prater-Lee, Benjamin Lacey, Grace Millbrook youth leader Jonathan Shanks.
Buddy, can you spare a dime?...Or maybe an article?
As you may have heard, Father Tyler will be away for a while. In his absence I will be doing my best to keep the Messenger going each week. Now, why, you might
ask, am I telling you this? Well, this might a good time, as Lay leaders to take up the challenge and contribute to the Messenger, as well as keeping things going in the Church.
Besides, I only have so much to write about! Are you a committee chair? Do you have some news to share? Now is a great time to write something up and send it in. If it becomes a good habit, even better!
Remember we are a community, and as a community, we should be working together, as a community, sharing news, upcoming events, joyful occasions and basically anything that is connected to St. Paul's. The Messenger is your weekly newsletter, so don't be shy! Leave something in my mailbox, email me...or hey, you can even "snail mail"something...I am not worried about how things come to me, but I sure would like some company in the Messenger.
THANKS! --Warden Pete Bedrossian
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40th annual area CROP Walk Oct. 18
The 2015 Dutchess County CROP Walk (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) is slated for Oct. 18 in Poughkeepsie. This year's CROP Walk marks the 40th anniversary of the annual local fund raiser to feed people here and abroad.
If you have an interest in walking and arranging sponsors or simply sponsoring one of the walkers from St. Paul's, see Rose Marie Proctor.
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Good help is hard to find
Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29; Psalm 19:7-10; James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50
Both our Hebrew Bible reading and our Gospel reading present stark pictures of human frailty. Both Moses and Jesus have been working and working to convey to their followers the lessons they have been inspired to teach of how to follow the will of God. In the reading from the Book of Numbers, both Moses and God are frustrated that Moses's followers are complaining and are not fully committed to following God's edicts. In frustration Moses asks God, ""Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? ...I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once-if I have found favor in your sight-and do not let me see my misery."
After Moses instructs the 70 whom God authorized they don't perform so well. But when two members of the followers of Moses are seen ministering among the others, two authorized men complain that they must be stopped. Moses protests, "Would that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!"
Jesus has the same problem in the Gospel reading. His disciples complain that others were performing healing acts in Jesus' name and they thought Jesus should stop them. Jesius replied, "no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us."
The human tendency to seek authority or power and deny it to others is played out every day. Our social divisions reveal it. Our immigration crisis and the European migrant crisis reflect it. But we are all called to perform and to recognize good where good is done. By whomever.
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THIS WEEK'S CALENDAR
This is the week ahead from our bulletin calendar:
21 7 pm Evening Prayer; 7:30 vestry meeting
23 NO HEALING SERVICE (suspended until Oct. 21)
27 8 am Rite I; 8:45 Bible study; 9:30 Choir rehearsal; 10 am Rite II and Sunday School; 11:15 coffee hour, parish news report from wardens
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