St. Martin's Newsletter
   Weekly E-News May 6, 2016
Worship Schedule

Sunday  
   8:00am  Holy Eucharist
   8:45am  Bible Study 
   9:15am  Nursery
   9:30am  Holy Eucharist with choir
and sermon 
     10:45am   Christian Formation 
Tuesday-Friday
9am Morning Prayer in the Chapel
Wednesday
7am service with Holy Eucharist


The Weekly Epistle   
 
Easter-tide lasts for 50 days. This last Thursday, with the feast of the Ascension we entered the final stretch. From Ascension it's 10 days to Pentecost. Pentecost means the 50th day. The Ascension is the feast of the Lord that many of us find hard to relate to. This is an event only recorded by Luke, and he seems to take the ascension of Elijah as his template. The ascension of Elijah and of Jesus is primarily about passing on authority, from Elijah to Elisha, and from Jesus to the Holy Spirit.
 
Luke is often referred to as a physician. Yet, his true vocation was as the first historian of the Christian Church. Luke takes the central experience of the Resurrection, an experience pregnant with mystery, and he separates out into discrete events the elements of resurrection, ascension and the transformation of the disciples on the day of Pentecost. He separates them by locating them in space and time as three chronological events.   
 
Continue reading here 
 
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Tomorrow...

Ordination of Linda Mackie Griggs to the Sacred Order of Priests
Saturday, May 7, 2016 
10:00 am 
Reception will follow in the Great Hall 
Childcare will be provided.
Please come and share with us this wonderful event! 
 
This Sunday...Happy Mother's Day!!!
 
We welcome Ionie Rose Hershberger, daughter of
Anthony P. Hershberger and Ianthe C. Hershberger,  
who will be baptized during the 9:30am service. 


To all our wonderful May Breakfast volunteers who responded and gave us their time, effort, and enthusiasm to make our annual breakfast a great success.
May Breakfast grossed over $2,100!
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To our faithful and hard-working Memorial Garden crew
who once again assisted with our clean-up day: Rosalind and John Ditson, Al Howes, Ann and Bob Wood, Edye DeMarco, and Meg LoPresti.

We appreciate our volunteers!

Please click here for Participants list for Sunday, May 8th.  
 
READINGS THIS WEEK

 
Acts 16:16-34 (OT)
Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21 (NT)
John 17:20-26 (Gospel)
 Click here for this Sunday's readings.
     THIS SUNDAY
8am  Holy Eucharist
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8:45am Bible Study   
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9:15am  Nursery
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9:30am Holy Eucharist with choir and sermon 
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Adult Christian Formation in the Great Hall and Children's Formation in the KidZone both following the 9:30am service
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Gluten Free Hosts available at the altar rail
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Sunday Coffee Hour is hosted by the Lofgrens. 
MORNING PRAYER
    
Morning Prayer is said in the Chapel of the Church at 9am on Tuesday through Friday each week. All are welcome!
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Calling all high school graduating seniors!

We'd love to hear from you! Let us know what you will be doing next year, so we can brag about you.  We are proud of you! Please contact the office at 751-2141 with your graduation news or email
Susan Esposito at

Biblebox
(Weekly Bible Study) 
John 17:20-26
To dig a little behind the Gospel text for this Sunday, take a look at this week's  Working Preacher in preparation for discussion at our weekly Sunday Bible study at 8:30am in the Church Office this week.

Coming Up...   
Tuesday, May 10th 
Gander will meet in the Stearns Room at 7pm 
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Wednesday, May 11th
Finance Committee Meeting in the Stearns Room at 5:30pm
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Saturday, May 14th & 15th 
The RI Civic Chorale and Orchestra 
May 14th: 7:30pm at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter & Paul
May 15th: 3pm at St. Joseph's Church, Newport. 
Beth Shearer and Hal Conner sing in the Chorale, and have half-price tickets available
for both concerts.
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Sunday, May 15th 
'Lectio Divina' from 4-6pm in the Fireplace Room/3rd Floor
 Open to those in their 20's & 30's. For more information speak with Rev. Mark Sutherland.
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Saturday, June 11th 11am-3pm  
Prayer Shawl Ministry 
Last Prayer Shawl Ministry session until the Fall
Great Hall  Pot Luck
For more information contact Natasha Lofgren 
[Correction to step #4 below...please take note]

St. Martin's joins the Amazon Smile Program!
St. Martin's has registered with Amazon's charitable giving program which is called Amazon Smile. Under Amazon Smile, ½ of 1% of all your purchases go a to a charity of your choice. Parishioners can now designate St. Martin's to receive ½ of 1% of their Amazon purchases.  
Here is how to participate:
  1. Go to smile.amazon.com
  2. Enroll in program by giving your email address and your regular Amazon password
  3. The next page will welcome you to the program and show a default charity such as the Audubon Society. Next to the default charity name will be a small arrow asking if you want to change the charity. Click on the arrow.
  4. Type in St. Martins Parish (exactly) in the box and our name will come up. Click select.
  5. After this, when purchasing from Amazon you must go through smile.amazon.com for you purchases to qualify.
  6. Price, service and selection is exactly the same as on the 'normal' Amazon web site. Subscribers to Amazon Prime can use the Smile program.
If you have any questions please contact the office. (And thank you!!)