St. Martin's Newsletter
   Weekly E-News   June 26, 2015

Worship Schedule
Sunday
8am and 10am
Holy Eucharist
9:45am Nursery
Tuesday-Friday
9am Morning Prayer in the Chapel
Wednesday
7am service with Holy Eucharist 
+Sunday

Guest Organist
This Sunday we welcome back our guest organist Diana Norton-Jackson.
She will also be back with us on Sunday, August 16th.
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Memorial Vigil for Charleston, SC
Sunday, June 28th at 3pm
An Interfaith Memorial Vigil for Charleston will be held this Sunday, June 28 at 3pm at Grace Episcopal Church, 175 Mathewson Street in Providence. The service will include a memorial flower dedication. Participants may wish to bring a flower. Parking is available in the lot behind the church. 
  

                                                                   Rambling Rector

 
We are all still working through the aftermath of the Charleston shootings. We have no way of explaining why a young man should be compelled to commit this premeditated act of violence? We note his seemingly deep animus of racism, a scourge that still afflicts our nation. We rush to ascribe a label of mental illness as if this is an explanation. Dylaan Roof's actions are in my view not the result of a disturbed mind but of a disordered heart. 

 
In a culture where individuals who experience tragedy increasingly clamor for retribution, the responses of the family members of the slain call us up short. They remind us that emotionally, while forgiveness is a process to be worked towards, theologically and spiritually, forgiveness is our only way to recommit ourselves to living hope filled lives. Please read my fuller remarks in the context of last Sunday's sermon here.

 
This last week the 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church convened in Salt Lake City, Utah. For a guide as to the issues coming before the General Convention click here.

The 
governance of the Episcopal Church mirrors that of the United States because the founders who wrote the US Constitution were many of the same people who established the Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Church was founded following the Revolution from what had been the Church of England in the Thirteen Colonies. It's founding in 1789 marked it as the second independent Anglican Church outside the jurisdiction of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, aka the Church of England. Of course the first Anglican Church, independent of the C of E was the Episcopal Church of Scotland The Scottish Church was instrumental in the consecration of Samuel Seabury, the first American bishop, and thereby lent the name Episcopal and core elements of its own Book of Common Prayer to the fledgling American Church. 

 
You can observe the vibrancy of our Church in spiritual and theological conversation  with itself and with the World by using the link above to navigate your way around the Convention events, not least of which will be the election of the next Presiding Bishop. 

 
Summer's here and it's only one week left in the countdown to the beginning of the summer timetable at St Martins. Remember on July 5th we move from our normal schedule to 9am and 5.30pm services. The 9am will mirror the 10am without choir and the 5.30pm will be something new. Hope to see you there, especially many of our young families as well as a good spread across the age range. 

 
See you in Church, this Sunday.

Mark+

***Summer Service Hours***

Beginning July 5 and through Labor Day: 

Sunday services at 9am and 5:30pm
Continuing:
Holy Eucharist on Wednesdays at 7am
Change:
Morning Prayer at 9am on Wednesdays ONLY.
READINGS THIS WEEK


2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27 (OT)

  2 Corinthians 8:7-15 (NT)
Mark 5: 21-43 (Gospel)
Click here for this Sunday's readings.
     THIS SUNDAY

 

Join us for Coffee Hour in the Great Hall after both services
Gluten Free Hosts available at the altar rail
MORNING PRAYER
    
It is my practice to endeavor to say Morning Prayer in the Chapel of the Church at 9am.

In July and August, Morning Prayer will be offered on Wednesday mornings only
I look forward to seeing you there!   
               Mark+
+FYI...
Our Thrifty Goose Thrift Shop is closed for the summer. 

Donations may still be made between 9am-12noon M-F. 
Contact the office when you arrive to arrange for the sexton to help you carry in the items.
 
Save the Date!
July & August
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Community/Family Barbeques
Saturday, July 4th at 2pm
Wednesdays July 15, 29 and August 12 at 5:30pm 
Please contact Gail Peet here if you'd like to help out.
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Healing Prayers on July 5th after the 10am service 
 

To our June volunteer Joyce May for helping maintain our beautiful
St. Martin's Memorial Garden. 
 
Our July volunteers will be John and Rosalind Ditson and Meg LoPresti.

Time for your Summer closet clean-out!

                                  
 D
onations for Saint Martin's Thrifty Goose and The Cloak closet are always welcomed!  (And they are tax deductible).                                                                                                                 

               The CLOAK is looking for blue jeans for men/women/children.                                                         

The Thrifty Goose is in need of summer items: clothes for the family, all things for the beach, sun hats and umbrellas!                                                                                                                              

              Make your summer closet clean-out a win-win situation!!                         

For the Cloak please contact Mary Gray at [email protected]

For the Thrifty Goose please contact Karen Bracken at [email protected].

Ministries
June 28, 2015
Reading link (Track 1)
July 5, 2015
Reading Link (Track 2)
8am:  
Reader/EM: Denny Scott
Altar Guild: Al Howes
10am: 
Readers:
 Al Anderson (OT)
 Rosalind Ditson (NT)
 Pat Nolan (Prayers)
Altar Guild:
Louise Ely
Eucharistic Ministers:
Al Anderson
John Condon
Acolytes:
Elizabeth Blake
Diana Blake
Gabrielle Ellicott
Ushers:
Peter Dennehy
Peter Lofgren
Peter Gray
Eric Gustafson
Emily Hollenbeck
Verger:
Deborah Bshara
9am: 
Reader: Emily Gray
Altar Guild:
Arline Walker
Linda Brookhart
Eucharistic Ministers:
David Whitman, Meg LoPresti
Acolyte:
Erin Welshman
Ushers:
David Brookhart
Linda Brookhart
Bill Hollinshead
Parker Smith
Verger:
Deborah Bshara


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