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Sundays7:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I 9:00 a.m. Sung Eucharist Rite II Third Sundays: All-Generations Service (Sept. through May) 11:15 a.m. Sung Eucharist Rite II 4:00 p.m. "Come & See" Service 4:30 p.m. (third Sundays) Choral Evensong (preceded by organ recital at 4 p.m.) 5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II Tuesdays10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II and Healing 6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer (second Tuesday) Thursdays (Sept. through May) 11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I Worship services at St. Philip's
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For 6 months of the liturgical year we retrace the story of Jesus--from anticipating his arrival to celebrating his birth and ministry to making sense of his death, resurrection, and ascension. During the season after Pentecost, we ponder the question: If Jesus is the Christ, then who are we? We invite you to seek answers through the many spiritual, educational, musical, and ministry opportunities at St. Philip's.
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This Weekend
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Casa Maria Sandwich Making Friday
Casa Maria's next sandwich making is on Saturday, August 13, beginning at 7:30 a.m. in the East Gallery. We appreciate all helping hands! Also we are collecting new socks and underwear (men's or women's) and long-sleeved T-shirts (not dress shirts). Bring them on the 13th and then stay to help us serve our neighbors in need.  Sunday, August 14
Our new Rector, the Rev. Robert J. Hendrickson III, will preach at the 7:45, 9, and 11:15 a.m. services. He will also lead a forum discussion at 10:15 a.m. in the Murphey Gallery. Share a piece of cake with our departing Director of Music Woosug Kang, and get to know our new rector and give him a chance to get acquainted with you. As Fr. Robert said so aptly last Sunday, we pray to move mountains, and God gives us a shovel. This is the beginning of our moving in mission together. "Comfy Space" Service
We will have our monthly "Comfy Space" service -- a worship experience, including Eucharist, designed for those who may tend to wiggle during worship and those who worship with them -- on Sunday at 9:15 a.m. in the Children's Chapel. The Promised Land Parish People Puppet Church will present the Gospel featuring the Virgin Mary, a donkey, and a lamb. All are welcome. UA Summer Lecture Series Continues
The University of Arizona Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies joins with St. Philip's to present their annual summer lecture series, "European Catholicism in the Late Middle Ages," on three more Sundays in August, at 10:15 a.m. in the Music Center. Characterized by great turmoil, the Late Middle Ages was a period of religious diversity and vitality. The four lectures will probe the wide variety of beliefs and practices held by clergy and laity in Europe before the age of the Protestant Reformation. Upcoming topics are: Catholic Orders in Late Medieval Germany (August 14; presented by David Neufeld, doctoral student); Catholics and Lollards in Late Medieval England (August 21; presented by Annie Morphew, master's student); and Jan Hus and the Vigor of Late Medieval Catholicism in Bohemia (August 28; presented by Benjamin Miller, master's student). These lectures provide a unique opporunity for scholars training in the field to prepare a project and present their work to a large audience at St. Philip's, assisting these students in their graduate careers. You are invited to attend and help support these future scholars of Reformation history. After School Music Program
Information Table
Want to see if you are smarter than a third grader? Come be a part of the After School Music and Homework Program. There are tons of things volunteers can do that don't involve being expert in music (or even homework). We even have jobs that can be done occasionally when you are available or from home. It is great fun and these kids make us feel young again. Stop by the information table during Coffee Hour to talk to Barby Goldschmid and find out more. The Feast of St. Mary the Virgin (observed) Isaiah 61: 10-11 Psalm 34: 1-8 Galatians 4: 4-7 Luke 1: 46-55 |
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Next Week
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Tuesday's healing service (10 a.m. in the Chapel of the Nativity) will be a Ferial mass (a mass falling on a weekday on which no special feast or vigil is celebrated). The Thursday Rite I Eucharist (11 a.m. in the Chapel of the Nativity) will commemorate William Porcher Dubose, priest. Lectionary page link here.
 "Seasoned" Singles Luncheon Seasoned Singles ("seniors," widowed, divorced or never married) are invited to gather for lunch in the East Gallery on Sunday, August 21, after the 11:15 service. A committee will organize the lunch, simple as usual, and a small donation will be taken to cover the expense. RSVP to Joyce or call 529-7421 by Thursday, August 18.
Blessing of the Backpacks The 9 a.m. service on Sunday, August 21, will be our first All-Generations Service of the program year. Bring your backpack to be blessed!
Friends of Music Concert: Tucson Latin Jazz Nonet On Sunday, August 21, at 2 p.m. in the Church, Friends of Music presents the third of four concerts of their popular Summer Sizzler Series. Tucson Latin Jazz Nonet will perform Afro-Cuban-Caribbean flavored jazz, with music mostly by Bill Cunliffe, Oscar Hernandez, Eddie Palmieri, and Amilcar Guevara. The group does mainly Afro-Cuban music with a few Puerto Rican and Southeastern Mexican influenced numbers. It is all-instrumental, and improvised solos are a main staple. Personnel include Rick Peron, trumpet/flugelhorn; Mike Moynihan, saxes/flute; Rob Boone, trombone; Sal Lopez, trombone; Homero Cerón, vibes; Amilcar Guevara, piano; Joaquin Zamudio, electric bass; Dave Walton, congas; and Danny Brito, drum set. $20 suggested admission.
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New Feature: The Beauty of Holiness
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"Nowhere" can be a comfortable place. Just ask the designers of malls, shopping centers, and chain stores. To take the example of a chain store -- they are designed so that anyone who arrives can easily find their way around. Jeans are always in the same place as are hoodies and shoes. Each place is nearly identical to the others, and they all run together in a sort of geography of nowhere. We are blessed to worship in a place that feels like "somewhere." It is a place that is unique and blessed with beauty. God uses beauty to speak to us and to challenge us to see in a more transcendent way -- to see the heart of things. Over the next few months, I will spend some time each week praying with one of the pieces of art that it is easy to walk by or to ignore in this magnificent place and write a bit about what I am seeing here. It will be a spiritual tour of sorts and a way for us to re-engage the beauty that gives so many of us a sense of home here. I hope that you will share with me too what you are freshly seeing as we look with eager longing with the eyes of faith.  We don't know how long Mary stood, weeping at the foot of the Cross, as her beloved Son was taken from her. We don't know what she was feeling, thinking, praying, or doing. Perhaps she grieved stoically -- in quiet desolation. Perhaps she wailed and pulled at her clothes and grabbed the ankle of her Son hanging there -- looking and hoping for one last sign of life or one last look of love from those eyes. We don't know, yet this image of Mary with Jesus at his last has inspired art, like the statue we have here at St. Philip's or like the famous Pieta, across the centuries. This statue we are blessed to have (flanking the Altar rail along with the Beloved Disciple) makes me think of the many times mothers grieve in our society -- of the many ways crosses go up around us. Children are lost to violence and soldiers don't come home -- and so many more stories unfold as mothers stand stoically or weep uncontrollably. The power of the Cross comes home in each and every story of loss -- and a look into the eyes of Mary in this statue reminds us that we do not worship a remote sultan or a deity of cloud. We worship a Son, a brother, a friend, and a God who became man -- who became us that we might be drawn to be more like him. --The Rev. Robert J. Hendrickson III, Rector
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 Festive "Welcome" and Art Opening Reception Sunday On August 7, the Murphey Gallery was abuzz with conversation as parishioners gathered to greet the Hendrickson family (our new Rector Robert, his wife Karrie, and their sons) and view art created by St. Philip's children. Read more.
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