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From the Worship Pillar

 

This week at St. Mark's we will experience the Taize style of worship during our Sunday services. The Taize style of worship was pioneered in the 1940s by a Swiss monk, Br. Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche, who founded the Taize monastic community in the Burgundy region of France.  This style of worship emphasizes silence, repetition, and sung prayer to create a contemplative atmosphere.  It asks us to slow down, stay quiet, and listen to the voice of God that comes during silence, to pay attention to breath as we sing repeated refrains.  Bringing in this style of worship is one of the many ways we are continuing our tradition of creative, challenging liturgy at St. Mark's.  You may enjoy it, or you may not.  The hope is that each of us will enter into the experience and be open to what it might reveal.  Also, since we are trying to create a space for silence and contemplation, we will *not* have oral announcements during the morning services.  You are encouraged to provide feedback to our Worship Co-Chairs, Jessie Babcock and Alvin Moseberry, either in person or at stmarkslpt@gmail.com. For more information on the Taize community, please visit www.taize.fr. 

 
From the Reverend Justi Schunior

Friends,

Please join us this Sunday for a town hall on St. Mark's finances. As you can imagine, 2014 was an unusual time for our community. For most of the year our office space was in trailers and much of our building was under construction. There was simply no way to plan with much certainty what living in our new space would cost us or what revenue we might gain from renting it to outside groups. In addition, staff and clergy salaries are also in flux. We said goodbye to our Director of Youth and Family Ministry and hope to call a new one soon. Our longtime rector retired and an interim should be with us in the spring. All of this made for a murky picture of our finances and we began 2015.

However, the picture is clearing up and we want to share with you what we know. We will hold the town hall after each of the three services (note that sermon seminar will be unusually short so that no one has to choose between the sermon discussion and the town hall). Our Senior Warden, Grady Hedgespeth; our Treasurer, Penny Hansen; the Chair of the 2014 Canvass, Mike Townsend; and I will all be present to share information and answer your questions. We will meet in Baxter Hall. I look forward to seeing you then!

Peace,
Justi

 

From the Parish Life Pillar

SAVE THE DATE! April 2 is Maundy Thursday, when we share our annual Agape Feast and Tenebrae service. We've got a new, streamlined sign-up process online. Assistance and laptops will be available after upcoming Sunday services. Check next week's bulletin announcements for more details.
From the Director of Music

Dear St. Mark's, 

We were very fortunate to receive a donation of a lovely grand piano this week!  The instrument was purchased in 2005 by a woman one block away from the church.  After she and her husband passed away, their children were left with no place to put the piano.  A friend of St. Mark's thought that we might be able to use it and contacted Paul Abernathy back in December. 

The instrument is a 6'1" Kohler & Campbell grand piano.  We've placed it in the Music Studio so it may be used for teaching piano and voice lessons. 

What's really quite amusing is that the piano came installed with a player piano system, so it's actually capable of playing itself!    Ask me and I'll show you sometime.
 

Peace,

JEFF 

 

Prelude

Vocalise from Two Short Pieces, Edmund J. Siennicki (b. 1920) - Chris Herman, cello                          

 

Music for Meditation
Nothing Can Trouble, Jacques Berthier

  

Kyrie   after Alexander Archangelsky, arr. by Richard Proulx

 

Psalm 22:22-30  Deus, Deus meus 


Response to Confession

Change My Heart, O God, Words & Music by Eddie Espinosa

   

Offertory Anthem

Lead Me, Lord, Samuel Sebastian Wesley - Chancel Choir                                   

 

Presentation Hymn   313, v. 4, Tune: Jesu, meine Zuversicht

  

Sanctus   Russian Orthodox Tone 1, arr. Richard Proulx

 

Fraction Anthem   Agnus Dei after Alexander Archangelsky, arr. by Richard Proulx


Music During Communion

(9:00) Lord Jesus, You Are Ever Mine, Gilbert M. Martin - Boys & Girls Choir; Nadine Hathaway, director

Jesus, So Lowly, Harold Friedell - Chancel Choir

Meditation, Frank Bridge (1879-1941) - Chris Herman, cello

Hymn 654 Day by day, Tune: Sumner

  

Closing Hymn

147 Now let us all with one accord, Tune: Bourbon

 

Postlude

Take Up Your Cross, the Savior Said, Bourbon, setting by Edwin T. Childs (b. 1945)

Schedule of Services 
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Second Sunday in Lent
 

9:00 am Holy Eucharist + Laying on of Hands

The Reverend R. Justi Schunior, Presider

   

9:00 am Children's Chapel

Ms. Barbara Nelson, Leader

 

10:00 am Sermon Seminar

Senior Warden Grady Hedgespeth, Preacher

 

11:15 am Holy Eucharist + Laying on of Hands

The Reverend R. Justi Schunior, Presider

Senior Warden Grady Hedgespeth, Preacher

 

5:00 pm Contemplative Eucharist

The Reverend R. Justi Schunior, Presider

Senior Warden Grady Hedgespeth, Preacher

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