Weekly E-News

April 11, 2014

Worship Schedule
Sunday 8am and 10am Holy Eucharist 9:45am Nursery Wednesday 7am service with Holy Eucharist

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FYI

The contributions statements were mailed this week. If you have any questions, please call Missy Bennett at the office.

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UTO boxes: please bring yours in by Sunday,
April 27th.

Holy Week Schedule

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

Lenten Reflections

Watch for your daily electronic delivery of the Lenten reflections.

In Our Community
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 7:15pm Please click here for more information on this great event and for ticket prices.

Volunteer!

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:

CLOAK
(Mary Gray)

THRIFT SHOP (Karen Bracken)

Epiphany Meal Site

(John Lawlor)

Christian Formation

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 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

LINKS
All the latest news and information on the: 'Thrifty Goose' Epiphany Soup Kitchen and CLOAK can be found here.

Visit our Thrifty Goose on Facebook!
Our Thrifty Goose now has a page on Facebook! Find them here on Facebook and 'like the page'!!

From the Interim Rector

Last week I encouraged us all to observe the Triduum, the three sacred days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and the Great Vigil of Easter. While these are the core days of our Holy Week observance, there are other opportunities to worship throughout the week.

Celebrations of the Eucharist on Monday and Tuesday at Noon, and then the regular Wednesday 7 am Eucharist (known this coming week as "Spy Wednesday" - come and find out why) will set the stage for all that is to come at the end of the week. On Wednesday evening we will gather at 7:30 pm in the chapel for the ancient service of Tenebrae, a service of Psalms and readings and gradually diminishing light. Friday at Noon brings Stations of the Cross, a perhaps surprisingly moving opportunity to walk meditatively with Jesus on the way to Calvary.

I hope you will find in the many offerings from St. Martin's this coming week those opportunities to be strengthened and moved and drawn on to the joys of Easter.

Bill+

Sunday

The Liturgy of the Palms

Matthew 21:1-11

The Liturgy of the Word

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Philippians 2:5-11

Matthew 26:36-27:54

Click here for this Sunday's readings

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Easter Flower Forms are due Sunday! They 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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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 in the back of the church.

Passion According to Matthew Cast

8am:

Evangelist: Alec McLure

Judas/Pilate: David Brookhart

Jesus: Missy Bennett

High Priest/Centurion: John Staniunas

10am:

Evangelist: Barbara Blossom

Jesus: Edmund Leather

Judas: Helen Bodell

High Priest: Sam Coale

Servant Girl 1: Beth Toolan

Peter: David Whitman

Servant Girl 2: Edye DeMarco

Pilate: Walter Cotter

Centurion: Peter Dennehy

Message from the Vestry

The Vestry is pleased to announce that they have unanimously elected the next
Rector
of St. Martin's!

The Letter of Agreement is now being finalized. Out of courtesy to the candidate's congregation and so as to remain focused on our Lord's Resurrection, the announcement will be made on the Monday after Easter.

At this time, we would like to thank our Discernment Team for their months of service: Mary Gray (Chair), Kate Chute, John Condon, Mary DiSandro, Bill Hollinshead, Jane Langmuir, Fla Lewis, and David Whitman.

We would also like to thank our Vestry for their time and effort this past week that was necessary to elect the candidate and approve his Letter of Agreement. We are proud of their leadership: Al Anderson, Lynne Burke, Tom Calhoun, John Condon, John Lawlor, Edmund Leather, Fred Mason, Jennifer Potter, Jill Scott, Joseleyne Slade, and Dennis Stark.

Elizabeth Welshman Sean Mulholland

Senior Warden Junior Warden

Mark Your Calendars!

April 18

9am: Good Friday Walk (registration begins at 8:30am) walk for a great cause!!

Once again, St. Martin's will be one of the starting places for the Annual Good Friday Walk for Hunger and Homelessness which raises funds and public awareness of a very serious need. Please consider being a walker or being a sponsor. Sponsorship forms are available at the
back of the church. Please contact Chris Izzo at 828-0207 for information.

Cupcake Request
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. Happy Easter! The Hospitality Committee: Sue Condon Shirley Kizirian Natasha Lofgren

Cloak News

This is the weekend of the Wheeler Sale which means it's time for the Cloak to stock up on clothes. We have a group of volunteers -John and Karen Bracken, Louise Ely, and the Gray family-who will pick up trash bags full of clothes and bring them back to St. Martin's.

The men's shelter at Harrington Hall has asked for our help in organizing their Clothes Donation Closet. We will be visiting Harrington Hall soon to work with two Brown Students and the staff on this. If you are interested in participating in this ministry, contact: mary@whydata.com or jbracken@textron.com

Collection Baskets

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)

**April collection goes to PICA

Bin of the Month

(April)

Men's and Women's Jeans

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.

Mural Project

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 May 25th. Sessions will be from 12:30 - 2:00pm and will follow our normal Youth Group time.