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Worship Schedule
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8am and 10am Holy Eucharist 9:45am Nursery
Wednesday
7am service with Holy Eucharist
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'Participants in Worship'
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Click here for 'Participants in Worship' names on our website.
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FYI
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Have you noticed the hymnal numbers are back on the boards again? Our thanks to Jay MacCubbin for his efforts!
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UTO boxes: please bring yours in by Sunday,
April 27th.
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Holy Week Schedule
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Sunday, April 13
Palm Sunday services
8am & 10am
Monday, April 14
Holy Eucharist
12 noon in the Chapel
Tuesday, April 15
Holy Eucharist
12 noon in the Chapel
Wednesday, April 16
Tenebrae
7:30pm service
Thursday, April 17
Maundy Thursday
7:30pm service
Friday, April 18
Good Friday Services:
12 noon Service
7:30pm Choral Service
Saturday, April 19
Easter Vigil Service with Baptism
7:30pm service
Sunday, April 20
Easter Services 8am & 10am
with music
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Lenten Reflections
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Watch for your daily electronic delivery of the Lenten reflections.
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In Our Community
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Dinner and a Movie Night at St. Paul's Episcopal Church 50 Park Place Pawtucket, RI
Palm Sunday
April 13, 2014
Dinner at 6pm
Movie at 7:15pmPlease click here for more information on this great event and for ticket prices.
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Volunteer!
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Saturday, April 12th
at 9am
Help us get St. Martin's altar ready for Easter.
Join Father Bill for a silver-polishing 'party'. Many hands make light work.
Coffee and doughnuts provided!
Let Father Bill or the office know if you can help.
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To volunteer for our other ministries please contact:
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Christian Formation
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Exciting opportunities are coming in 2014!
Please see the list of upcoming events. Come to Youth Group and find out about: Pilgrimage, Diocesan Events and a National Urban Mission with E.Y.E.
We need some parents to volunteer to provide lunch weekly. And we also need volunteer Youth Leaders to help support this growing and important ministry.
Prayerfully consider joining us.
UPCOMING
April 4-6
Spring Conference
April 18
Good Friday
Hunger Walk
April 26-27
30 Hour Famine
May 2-4
Happening
May 9-10
Nightwatch
May 18
ECC Open House
July 13-16
EYE Episcopal Youth Event
July 16-23
Pilgrimage to
Iona, Scotland
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LINKS
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All the latest news and information on the:
'Thrifty Goose'
Epiphany Soup Kitchen
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From the Interim Rector
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My entrance into the Episcopal Church was cemented by Holy Week. I had discovered the Episcopal Church when I moved to Boston in the summer of 1975. By the time I had experienced the extraordinary liturgies of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil, I knew it was the place for me. Such is the impact of those liturgies that while I had much to learn (and still do) about the theology and spiritual underpinnings of it all, the worship itself spoke in powerful ways.
All this is by way of inviting and encouraging - and, if I could get away with it, commanding - you to share in Holy Week. There will be opportunities for worship every day: Eucharist at noon on Monday and Tuesday and then 7 am on Wednesday, Tenebrae at 7:30 pm on Wednesday evening... I especially encourage you to experience the Triduum, that fancy Church term for the three days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Great Vigil of Easter on into Easter morning. If we are willing, we will be led to the very heart of our faith. Water will wash feet, and then flow from Jesus' side, and then baptize and bring new life. Hearts, beginning with God's, will be given in the gift of the Eucharist, broken on the cross, and then the power of death will be broken at the empty tomb.
Leaping from Palm Sunday to Easter Day misses so much in between. I look forward to walking Holy Week with you.
Bill+
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Sunday
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Ezekiel 37:1-14
Romans 8:6-11
John 11:1-45
Click here for this Sunday's readings
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Thrifty Goose open from 9am to 12noon
Healing Prayers in the Chapel at 11:00am
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SIGN-UP SHEETS:
Wanted: Actors! For our Passion Gospels. Palm Sunday at 8am and 10am and Good Friday at 7:30pm.
Please sign up for a part or two.
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Can you not stay awake with me for one hour? Watch and Pray. Sign up for the Gethsemane Prayer Vigil: Maundy Thursday into Good Friday
Sign-up sheets for both are at the back of the church.
Easter flower forms are available at the back of the church. Please help us enrich our Easter service with beautiful flowers in honor or memory of loved ones!
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Cupcake Request
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Once again we will be serving cupcakes after the 10:00 am Easter service on April 20th.
If you can bring one to two dozen cupcakes please reply to Natasha's email: nal811@icloud.com. We are also suggesting that no peanuts be used out of respect for those with nut allergies.
The Hospitality Committee:
Sue Condon
Shirley Kizirian
Natasha Lofgren
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Mark Your Calendars!
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April 9
Lenten 'Soup and Study' at 6pm
(last in the series)
We will meet for one more Wednesday in Lent from
6:00pm - 8:00pm in the Great Hall.
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April 12
Starting at 10am
The Memorial Garden Committee is having their Annual Clean-up. Interested in helping?
Call Rosalind Ditson at 508-336-5116.
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April 18
Good Friday Hunger Walk at 9am (registration at 8:30am)
**Please click here for more detailed information.
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Finance Corner
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On behalf of the Vestry I want to thank the 145 persons or families who have made pledges totaling $307,766 toward the cost of operating our parish this year. However, we need $32,234 more in order to reach our goal of $340,000 out of a budget totaling $551,510.
St. Martin's is blessed with beautiful functional facilities that would cost over $8 million to replicate. In addition we have over $2 million of endowment to generate income to help pay today's expenses. Those of us who are members today benefit tremendously from the generosity and faithfulness of our predecessors. Let's join them in showing how much we care about the ministry of St. Martin's to our parish family and the world.
Dennis E. Stark, Treasurer
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Mural Project
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The Youth Group is working with artist Heather Annis to create three murals for the Youth Space at St. Martin's.
The murals will be Capstone projects for the spring formation program focused on Hunger: Come Hungry, Be Fed, Feed Others.
Work on the murals will continue on April 6th and May 25th. Sessions will be from 12:30 - 2:00pm and will follow our normal Youth Group time.
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Collection Baskets
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We have four (4) collection baskets at
the back of the church designated for:
Homeless Shelters
and Meal Sites
Small or travel-sized toiletries including chapstick, razors, shaving cream, toothbrushes, toothpaste, new socks and underwear
Food Pantries
Non-perishable food for Camp street Ministries and
Providence In-Town (PICA)
**March collection goes to PICA
Bin of the Month
(March)
Harrington Hall Men's Shelter
Tees and/or underwear, especially larger sizes (XXL+)
Backpack Express
Weekend food for the Providence School System's neediest students including: beans, tuna, peanut butter, pasta, mac & cheese, cereal, milk boxes, canned vegetables or fruit
For more information on all these wonderful ministries
please click here.
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Visit our
Thrifty Goose on Facebook!
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Our Thrifty Goose now has a page on Facebook!
Find them here on Facebook
and 'like the page'!!
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