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St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Wednesday May 4, 2016
Weekly Parish E-Newsletter
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Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 8, 2016
Sunday Morning Schedule
- 8:00 am Holy Eucharist Rite I
- 9:00 am Fellowship Time
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- 9:45 Choir Rehearsal
- 10:30 Holy Eucharist Rite II
- 11:45 Fellowship Time
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From Your Rector
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Dear Saints of St. Paul's,
The 50 days of Easter season is drawing towards its splendid transition into the season of Pentecost.
Tomorrow evening, Thursday May 5, we will celebrate the Feast of the Ascension with worship at 6:00 pm followed by a potluck supper. Bring some food to share. Clean-up will be a group effort.
Saturday the The Crowning of Mary event returns. If you have not reserved your place, please contact Sue Cook 360.301.2830. Invite your friends!
This Sunday, May 8, will be the last Sunday in Easter season. It is also Mother's Day and the feast day of my favorite saint Dame Julian of Norwich. It is also my son Cameron's birthday... a very special day for me indeed!
The following Sunday, May 15, we will celebrate Pentecost with a single worship service, outside in the Labyrinth Courtyard. There will be no 8:00 am service. The tradition at St. Paul's is that we take an all-congregation photograph after the Pentecost service. Following the photo we will share a barbecue lunch that is being organized by Tracy Garrett. Thank you Tracy! For more information about the barbecue lunch please click here.
Finally, there is a wonderful opportunity to join the team of Just Soup choppers who meet in the kitchen on Tuesday mornings for soup prep and conversation. Please contact Katie Fleming if you are interested in joining the rotation.
This season of explosive color and new life continues to unfold! I pray you an ever growing awareness the God's promise seeking fruition in and through and around us.
Below are some quotations of St. Julian of Norwich, who lived and wrote her book "Revelations of Divine Love" during a time of deathly plague. Her words are for all seasons:
And all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well...
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly
because of the knowledge of [God's] love.
Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born
and out of whom we shall never come.
I saw that [our Lord] is to us everything which is good and comforting for our help. He is our clothing, who wraps and enfolds us for love, embraces us and shelters us, surrounds us for his love, which is so tender that he may never desert us. And so in this sight I saw that he is everything which is good, as I understand.
And in this he showed me something small, no bigger than a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand....
In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it, the second is that God loves it, the third is that God preserves it. But what did I see in it? It is that God is the creator and protector and the lover. For until I am substantially united to him, I can never have perfect rest or true happiness, until, that is, I am so attached to him that there can be no created thing between my God and me.
Dianne+
The Rev. Dianne Andrews, Rector
206.817.6530 (cell)
360.344.3738 (home)
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Last Sunday's Sermon
Easter 6
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"Deepening Our Faith"
MEZZANINE CONTINUES
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May 8: Mennonite Faith & Spirituality: Marlene and Stanley Kropf
May 15: PENTECOST - No Mezzanine
May 22 & 29: These two Sundays will offer an opportunity to encounter the Celtic Christian spiritual tradition which will be experienced in June by 16 pilgrims on the 2016 Sat Paul's Celtic Pilgrimage to sites in Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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Women's Spiritual Growth Group
The Women's Spiritual Growth Group has begin a new book, Waiting for God by the philosopher and social activist, Simone Weil. Our first meeting for this book was February 29.
We meet Monday afternoons from 3:00-4:30. All women are invited!
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Diocesan & National Church News
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: SHANNON JERGENSON
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Upcoming Events
Safeguarding God's People training
Saturday June 4th
9 am -noon
St. Luke's, Sequim
This training is required for members of Vestry and for Eucharistic Visitors
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Feast of the Ascension
Thursday May 5
Holy Eucharist 6:00 pm Potluck to Follow NO COMPLINE
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This Saturday!
Join in a celebration of the Spirited Mothers in all traditions who inspire our lives. ![Mary Mary](https://static.ctctcdn.com/ui/images1/s.gif)
Saturday, May 7th 9am to Noon St. Paul's Parish Hall
We are joining to honor the Mother Spirit in our lives, wherever she may arise. Her names are as varied as the languages of her children: Amma, Gaius, Magdalen, Artemis, Shakti, Quan Yin, Mary , Hestia and all the Mothers you have come to love.
Create floral crowns and garlands, display any graphic images, icons, and statuary representing those women you have embraced as teacher, spiritual guide, or beloved protector. Join in shared song and procession in the inner garden labyrinth. Sophia Christine, Icon Writer and artist will be sharing her powerful work with us.
Bring flowers, icons, images, stories and music. We will supply the necessary materials needed for creating crowns and garlands.
To reserve a place or for more information contact Sue Cook - 360.301.2830
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PENTECOST![BBQ BBQ](https://static.ctctcdn.com/ui/images1/s.gif)
PARISH BBQ
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"Come one! Come all! Following our Pentecost service on Sunday, May 15thwe will have a BBQ lunch. Grilled hot dogs, buns and all of the condiments will be provided. Please bring a salad or side dish to share. Strawbery shortcake for dessert - of course! For more information, be in touch with Tracy or Pat Garrett at 360.344.2382."
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Parish Life and Announcements
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Tuesday Vegetable Choppers needed!![choppers choppers](https://static.ctctcdn.com/ui/images1/s.gif)
The summer traveling and visiting season is coming and that means Just Soup's Tuesday chopping ministry will be short-staffed.
Can you join our Chopper team any Tuesday morning from 10-12 as we prepare the vegetables for Wednesday's Just Soup? (There will be at least one other person to share the work (and conversation!).
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Staff Picks this week take up the theme from Dianne's Sunday sermon of Sabbath. In today's world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. We long for time with friends and family; we long for a moment to ourselves. Millennia ago, the tradition of Sabbath created an oasis of sacred time within a life of unceasing labor. Now, in a book that can heal our harried lives, Wayne Muller shows us how to create a special time of refuge for our souls. Enjoy Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal and Delight in Our Busy Lives. Other books on display include Sabbath: Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Life by Lynne Baab and Henri Nouwen's Sabbatical Journey.
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Habitat for Humanity
Interfaith Build
May 25-28
If you are interested in being part of a team of six,
contact Tess at 360.379.2827.
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Saturday May 14
11 am - 12:30 pm
Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
On Saturday May 14 from 11 - 12:30 p.m. representatives of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
www.alislam.org in Seattle (Lynnwood) will be here discuss the overall teachings of Islam and give a brief introduction to this particular community. They have titled their program Coffee, Cake and Islam. Those presenting are:
Imam Zafar Sarwar, Life Devotee and Missionary
Waqas Malik, Vice President
Rasheed Reno, Director
The motto of their community is: "Love for All, Hatred for None." Their purpose is educational and informational and they want to create an environment where "everyone can ask any question basic, advanced or controversial."
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A Documentary to Reduce the Impact of Harmful Ocean Noise
THE CALL TO AWARENESS
Ocean noise from 60,000 sea-going vessels, air gun explosions of drilling operations and blasts of navy sonar imperil whales and other marine life around the world. We know little about this kind of pollution that creates chronic interference of sea life dependent on acoustics for their very survival. For example, Orca whales, icons of the Northwest, use sound to find food, migrate, mate, raise their young and defend against threats. The award-winning film, Sonic Sea, brings the complex world of
human-engineered ocean sound to life in realistic, constructive ways that offer hope. Adverse ocean noise can be solved! Once we stop it, it is gone. The first step is to understand that it is here in the Salish Sea and elsewhere.
The documentary will be shown May 23 at QUUF. Two cast members will be present, Ken Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research and Michael Jasny of Natural Resources Defense Council. To view the trailer click here. | ![](http://files.ctctcdn.com/b95e934a301/0c885d3f-ba82-41d5-958f-6dead23e9842.png?a=1124540289373)
Screening Monday, May 23
7 pm
Quimper Unitarian
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Ongoing
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Every Thursday Evening - 8:30 pm Solemn Chanted Compline In St. Paul's Sanctuary 20 minutes of prayer to complete and bless your day
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Evensong Services in Port Townsend
The following churches are offering monthly contemplative services using music from the Taize Community in France, allowing for a once a week offering. All are welcome.
1st Sunday, 5pm. - St. Paul's Episcopal
1020 Jefferson St., Port Townsend
(360)385-0770
This coming Sunday:
2nd Sunday, 5pm. - Trinity United Methodist
609 Taylor St., Port Townsend
(360)385-0484
3rd Wednesday, 7pm. - Grace Lutheran
1120 Walker St., Port Townsend
(360)385-1595
Last Thursday of the month, 6:30pm.
First Presbyterian, 1111 Franklin St.
Port Townsend, (360)385-2525
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Spiritual Direction at St. Paul's
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First Sunday of the month: last names A-G
Second Sunday of the month: last names H-Mc
Third Sunday of the month: last names Me-R
Fourth Sunday of the month: last names S-Z
Fifth Sundays: shared by various church groups
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When there's a fifth Sunday, different committees/groups will be invited to sign up on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall. ![coffee](http://files.ctctcdn.com/b95e934a301/581dd0ef-e740-4166-a0f5-bbce9f53af58.png?a=1124540289373)
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Each group will be responsible for setting up, making coffee and cleaning up. If you don't know how to do this, ask an old-timer!
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This applies to the 8 o'clock AND 10:30 coffee hours.
It is highly recommended that there is some organizational conversation within each alpha group in advance of the day itself to better manage the logistics of who is setting and cleaning up.
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Weekly Prayer List
This is a new section in our weekly newsletter. The names of individuals and families will not be printed in this widely distributed publication. You can find them in your Sunday worship bulletin.
IN THE DIOCESAN CYCLE OF PRAYER, WE PRAY FOR: All Saints, Tacoma; Christ Church, Tacoma; Holy Family of Jesus, Tacoma
IN OUR COMPANION PARISHES, WE PRAY FOR: St. Paul's Montrouis, Haiti
AT ST. PAUL'S, WE PRAY FOR: Faith Formation
WE PRAY FOR all who work to find a way of peace in the Middle East and in all areas of conflict throughout the world. We pray for the ministry of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship. We pray for all who are suffering from natural disasters and climate change. We pray for an end to hatred and division.
WE PRAY FOR the dead, the grief-stricken, and all who are living in fear. We pray for all victims of terror and violence. We pray for refugees desperate for food, shelter, warmth and a home. We pray for all the homeless and the hungry, and for all who live in fear and despair. We pray for God's compassion to grow and thrive in the hearts of the world's leaders and in the hearts of people everywhere.
ALTAR FLOWERS are given to the glory of God and in memory of our mother and grandmother, Mrs. Quentin Field Feitner II whose piano was rolled out on Army flatbed trucks throughout Europe where she played for our troops during WWII, by Victoria, Elizabeth & Seamus.
WE PRAY FOR PEACE
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K = Kitchen
PH = Parish Hall
PR = Pollard Room
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Thursday
May 5
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Ascension
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7:00 - 8:30 am
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Men's Bible Study (Hwy Roadhouse)
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8:30 - 10:30 am
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Work Crew
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9:00 am - noon
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Lay Weeders
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3:00 - 7:00 pm
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Bet Shira
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6:00 pm
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Ascension Service & Potluck
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8:30 pm
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NO Compline
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Friday
May 6
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Saturday
May 7
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9:00 am - noon
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The Crowning of Mary
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Sunday
May 8
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| 8:00 am |
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Holy Eucharist Rite I
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Fellowship
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9:30 - 10:15 am
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9:45 am
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Choir Rehearsal
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10:30 am
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Holy Eucharist Rite II
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11:45 am
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Fellowship
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5:00 pm
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Evensong
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| Women's AA Group (PH) |
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Monday
May 9
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2:00 pm
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Bookkeeper
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3:00 - 4:30 pm
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Women's Spiritual Growth Gp (PR)
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| Overeaters Anonymous (PR) |
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Tuesday
May 10
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10:00 am
10:00 am
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Just Soup Prep (K)
Faith Formation (PR)
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| Poetic Justice (PH) |
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Wednesday
May 11
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Healing & HE
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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Prayer Shawl Knitters (PR)
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11:30 am - 2:00 pm
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Just Soup (K/PH)
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K = Kitchen
PH = Parish Hall
PR = Pollard Room
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Thursday
May 12
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7:00 - 8:30 am
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Men's Bible Study (Hwy Roadhouse)
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3:00 - 7:00 pm
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Bet Shira
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6:30 pm
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Choir Rehearsal
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8:30 pm
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Compline
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Friday
May 13
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6:30 - 9:30 pm
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Bet Shira (PH)
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Saturday
May 14
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6:30 - 8:00 pm
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2nd Saturday Potluck
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Sunday
May 15
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Holy Eucharist Rite I
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Fellowship
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9:30 - 10:15 am
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9:45 am
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Choir Rehearsal
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10:30 am
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Holy Eucharist Rite II
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11:45 am
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Fellowship
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5:00 pm
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Evensong
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| Women's AA Group (PH) |
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Monday
May 16
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3:00 - 4:30 pm
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Women's Spiritual Growth Gp (PR)
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| Overeaters Anonymous (PR) |
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Tuesday
May 17
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10:00 am
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Just Soup Prep (K)
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| Poetic Justice (PH) |
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Wednesday
May 18
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Healing & HE
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11:30 am - 2:00 pm
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Just Soup (K/PH)
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K = Kitchen
PH = Parish Hall
PR = Pollard Room
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Sunday Servers SUNDAY May 8, 2016 Easter 6
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| Presider |
| The Rev. Dianne Andrews | Preacher |
| The Rev. Dianne Andrews | Eucharistic Minister |
| Tracy Garrett | Lector |
| Russ Minter | Usher |
| David Self | Eucharistic Visitors |
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| Last Names: H-Mc |
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| 10:30 am |
| Presider |
| The Rev. Dianne Andrews | Preacher |
| The Rev. Dianne Andrews | Acolyte |
| Sue Cook | Eucharistic Minister |
| Linda Nolan | Lectors |
| Joanne Rittmueller Marlene Kropf | Organist |
| Jenny Pipia | Eucharistic Visitors |
| Katie Fleming Gail Wilson | Usher |
| Jeff Stock | Greeter |
| Pat Hale | Bread Baker |
| Katie Fleming | Church School & Childcare |
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Joan Jonland
Peggy St. Clair
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Last Names: H-Mc
| Altar Guild |
| Team2
| Flowers |
| Victoria, Elizabeth & Seamus |
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Sunday's Lessons
May 8, 2016
Easter 7
Year C
Holy Eucharist
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Collect
O God, of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your reign in heaven: Do not leave us comfortless, but send us your Holy Spirit to strengthen us, and exalt us to that place where our Savior Christ has gone before; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
First Lesson
Acts 16:16-34
With Paul and Silas, we came to Philippi in Macedonia, a Roman colony, and, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation." She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out that very hour.
But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities. When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, "These men are disturbing our city; they are Jews and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe." The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened. When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted in a loud voice, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here." The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them outside and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. He brought them up into the house and set food before them; and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.
Psalm
Psalm 97
1 The Lord is King; let the earth rejoice; * let the multitude of the isles be glad.
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him, * righteousness and justice are the foundations of his throne.
3 A fire goes before him * and burns up his enemies on every side.
4 His lightnings light up the world; * the earth sees it and is afraid.
5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, * at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare his righteousness, * and all the peoples see his glory.
7 Confounded be all who worship carved images and delight in false gods! * Bow down before him, all you gods.
8 Zion hears and is glad, and the cities of Judah rejoice, * because of your judgments, O Lord.
9 For you are the Lord, most high over all the earth; * you are exalted far above all gods.
10 The Lord loves those who hate evil; * he preserves the lives of his saints and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
11 Light has sprung up for the righteous, * and joyful gladness for those who are truehearted.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, * and give thanks to his holy Name.
Second Lesson
Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21
At the end of the visions I, John, heard these words:
"See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone's work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. "It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."
The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let everyone who hears say, "Come." And let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.
The one who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.
Gospel
John 17:20-26
Jesus prayed for his disciples, and then he said. "I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
"Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church 1020 Jefferson St.
Port Townsend, WA 98368
(360) 385-0770
We are an open and inclusive community and welcome people of all ages and of every denomination and faith.
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