March 13, 2015
In This Issue
From the Reverend Justi Schunior
Maundy Thursday Sign Ups!
From the Music Director
Service Notes & Music
From the DSC
Sunday Service Schedule
About the Gospel
Quick Links
The Gospel According to St. Mark's
From the Reverend Justi Schunior

Friends,

This Sunday, after a combined morning service at 10am, we will have our annual parish meeting. I hope you can be there to thank our outgoing senior and junior wardens, Grady Hedgespeth and Michael Summey, as well as three vestry members, Jim Steed, Amy Kovac-Ashley, and Pam Lacey. These individuals have given their time and talents to our church during a time of great transition and stress; I am so grateful for their service. We will also be electing new wardens and three new vestry members. The next few years will also be a time of great transition and stress; we will need excellent leadership. Fortunately, we have great candidates. You can read about them here.
An added bonus this Sunday - the music! You can read Jeff's description of the service below. Traditionally, the fourth Sunday - Laetare Sunday - in Lent is when we can all take a break from our Lenten disciplines and indulge in lovely music. Perhaps most of us are not really undergoing severe hardship and austerity this Lent, however, this tradition is still a great excuse for some extra beauty in the service.

See you Sunday!

Peace,
Justi

 

Maundy Thursday Sign-ups!

Online Table Sign Up is Open for the April 2nd Maundy Thursday Agape Dinner & Tenebrae Service! This year we are copying the successful sign up process used for our Discernment dinners. Go to Sign-Up Genius at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ea5a929a5f94-maundy to sign up for a table. Select a table and write which room temperature dish you will bring. Additionally, you may sign up in the foyer after each service. All are welcome! If you are sitting next to a newcomer this morning, please invite them to join you in signing up for a table.

 

Each table, which seats 8 or 10 people, needs a volunteer Table Captain to coordinate table activities. Good news: No extra fees this year! All you have to do is sign up so we know how many to expect and come. Nursery is available.

 

Maundy Service is one of our community's signature events. It begins with a BYOB Happy Holy Fellowship Hour (6:00-7:00) in Baxter Hall. Concurrently, you may participate in a quiet Foot-Washing Service in the Nave (6:00-7:00). These events are followed by our Maundy Thursday Agape Potluck Dinner and Conversation (7:00-8:00) in the Nave; and Clean-up 10-10:30. After dinner, tables are stripped bare to begin our spiritually moving Tenebrae Service around 8:30, in which the lights and candles are gradually extinguished into total darkness as the readings lead up to Jesus' arrest and crucifixion.

 

Volunteers are welcomed and needed for each activity. Contact: Jessie Babcock/Alvin Moseberry for Happy Holy Fellowship Hour (Jessie.babcock@gmail.com); David Deutsch for Foot-Washing & Tenebrae Service (dsd@his.com); and Valeri Byrd for the Agape Dinner (valbyrd22@yahoo.com). Looking forward to seeing you there!


 

From the Director of Music

Dear St. Mark's,

The Chancel Choir has been hard at work preparing some beautiful music for this coming Sunday's morning service.  The group will sing Franz Joseph Haydn's Missa Brevis No. 7 in B-flat, which has the nickname "Little Organ Mass."  The charming and elegant music presents the traditional Latin mass text in a condensed form.  The music is so condensed, in fact, that in the Credo movement, each voice part simultaneously sings different words from the [lengthy] text in order to get through it more quickly.  We are very fortunate to have a trio of string players accompanying the choir.  I hope you will find the music uplifting as we take a bit of break during this mid-Lent Laetare Sunday.

Peace,
JEFF 

 

Prelude

Adagio from Violin Sonata III in E major, BWV 1016, J.S. Bach - Marlisa Woods, violin

 

Opening Hymn

686 Come, thou fount of every blessing, Tune: Nettleton

 

Kyrie from Missa Brevis No. 7 in B-flat, Joseph Haydn - Chancel Choir

 

Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22  Confitemini Domino             

 

Offertory Anthem

Credo from Missa Brevis No. 7, Joseph Haydn - Chancel Choir      

 

Presentation Hymn

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


Sanctus & Benedictus from Missa Brevis No. 7, Joseph Haydn
     - Chancel Choir; Marjorie Coombs Wellman, soloist      

                             

Music During Communion

Agnus Dei from Missa Brevis No. 7,  Joseph Haydn - Chancel Choir 
Hymn 302 Father, we thank thee who hast planted, Tune: Rendez à Dieu   

 

Closing Hymn

473 Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim, Tune: Crucifer

 

Postlude

Allegro from Violin Sonata III in E major, BWV 1016, J.S. Bach - Marlisa Woods, violin 
From the Discernment & Search Committee

 

Dear Friends,

 

We are pleased to announce that the 2015 St. Mark's Rector Survey is now open (http://stmarksdsc.wordpress.com/survey ) and ready for your input. We invite all members 13 years and older to respond to the survey.

   

The St. Mark's Discernment and Search Committee (DSC) is conducting this survey to gather information about who we are, what we currently believe, and what characteristics we think our next rector should possess in order to lead us into our vision of the future. This survey is completely anonymous. Your response is very important for our collective efforts to call the best qualified person to be our next rector.

   

We estimate that it will take you approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete the survey. Simply click on the link below to access the survey to get started:

   

 

 

The survey will close late on Sunday, March 29. Please respond before then.

   

For your convenience, we have posted a copy of the survey to the DSC website. If you think this will be helpful to you, you may download it as a reference to help you prepare to complete the survey on-line. We strongly recommend that you complete the survey on-line and use this copy of the survey to help you do so. You can download the file at http://stmarksdsc.wordpress.com/survey .

   

Your input is very important to us and is completely anonymous. If you have any questions or would prefer to complete a paper survey, please contact Jim Ashley (jda112358@yahoo.com ) or Nadine Hathaway (nadinehathaway@verizon.net ).

 

Sincerely,

 

St. Mark's Discernment and Search Committee

 

For more information about the St. Mark's Discernment and Search Committee, please visit our website at  http://.stmarksdsc.wordpress.com 

Schedule of Services 
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Fourth Sunday in Lent
 

10:00 am Holy Eucharist + Laying on of Hands

The Reverend R. Justice Schunior, Presider and Preacher

The Reverend Josh Thomas, Co-Presider

   

10:00 am Children's Chapel

Ms. Barbara Nelson, Leader

 

12:00 noon Annual Parish Meeting

 

5:00 pm Contemplative Eucharist

The Reverend R. Justice Schunior, Presider and Homilist

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