Saint George's Anglican Church

St. Mark the Evangelist                                            April 25, 2010

8:00 A.M. - HOLY EUCHARIST                             p. 67   

Introit Psalm: 45:1-4                                                     p. 386

Collect for Purity                                                          p. 67

Collects & Epistle                                                         pp. 272, 193

Gradual Psalm: 119, Pt.2                                              p. 485

Gospel                                                                         p. 273

9:15 A.M. – MORNING PRAYER

First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 51. 13 – end.

Psalm 119, Pts. 12 & 13

Second Lesson: Acts 15: 35 – end.

10:00 A.M. - HOLY EUCHARIST  

Introit Psalm (sung)

The Children’s Talk

The Litany                                                                  p. 30

The Collects                                                               pp. 272, 193

The Epistle                                                                  p. 273

The Gradual Psalm: 119, Pt. 2                                    p. 485

The Holy Gospel                                                         p. 273

The Nicene Creed                                                        p.71      

Hymn 766 (There is a Fountain)

The Homily

Offertory Hymn: 193 (Walton -- 128)

The Intercession:                                                           p. 75

Confession, Absolution                                     p. 77

Thanksgiving, Consecration:                                          p. 78

Hymns during Communion:       772 (The Heart’s Refuge)

             779 (What a Friend)   238 (St. Flavian)

Lord’s Prayer

Gloria in Excelsis                                                          p. 86

Recessional Hymn: 161 (Salzburg)

 Please join us for Coffee & Tea in the Hall.

5:00 P.M. EVENING PRAYER

First Lesson: Isaiah 62. 6 – end.

Psalm 119, Pts. 14 & 15

Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 4. 1-11

Layreaders

8:00 A.M. – Ted Bartlett              9:15 AM Nicholas Saulnier

                                10:00 A.M. – Norm Dupuis

The Sanctuary Candle burns this week to the Glory of God

and in Loving Memory of Leon Aiken and Baby Anabelle.

“Let us remember before God the faithful departed.”

 Sean Laskey, Eric Swinimer, Mary Ward

The Rev. Thomas Knox

This Week in the Parish

The Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer will be prayed in the Chapel at 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Monday – Friday, respectively. In addition:

Monday         7:00 PM  Vestry Meeting

Tuesday  10:00 AM Bible Study at the Rectory (56 Williams Street)

                        7:00 PM  Scouts at the Church Hall

Wednesday  10:00 AM The Holy Eucharist at Spencer Home

                        6:30 PM Cubs to Ford’s Apothecary

                        6:30 PM Confirmation Class (going to St. Philip’s)

 Thursday      10 AM Holy Eucharist

                         6:30 PM Beavers in the Church Hall

Wok with Faith will meet this afternoon at 4:30 for another delicious meal and some good food for the soul, too. C’mon girls!

Youth – help, please! Youth of all ages are asked to help us take our turn at ‘Proclamation’ at 7 PM on Wednesday, May 5^th at the Thomas Williams House (corner of Highfield and Park). Proclamation is a project of all the Churches in the Moncton area to read through the whole Bible in 10 days. Please leave a message at the Church Office if you can come (855-5209).

St. Andrew’s Anglican Church is planning a Turkey-Salad-Take-Out Dinner this Wednesday, April 28^th. The cost is $8.00 and delivery is available. To order, call Leslie Johnson 383-7588.

St. James Church, 101 Fairview Drive, Moncton will be having a Yard/Bake/Plant sale on Saturday, May 1^st from 8:30 am to 12 noon.  The sale will have many household items, books, jewellery, bake table and plants (both annuals and perennials).  For information call 389-2370 or the church office at 382-7725.  Everyone welcome.

The 1^st Annual Hike for Hospice has been scheduled for May 2^nd. Registration at 10 AM. Opening Ceremony at 11 AM; then, a walk along Bore Park and return to Amphitheatre area for Pizza, Subs and Closing at 12:30 PM. Reg’n fee is $10 per person. Form a team or walk as an individual – all funds to Hospice Greater M’ton.   

A Dinner in celebration and thanksgiving for the election of  Bishop Miller as Archbishop and Metropolitan will be held on May 7^th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Queen St., Fredericton. Tickets are $50 and the guest speaker will be Bishop Hockin. Please call the Parish Office of Shediac Cape for tickets: 532-6960.

Sunday Parking: Is Sunday parking permitted in the Aliant Parking Lot at the corner of Queen and Alma Streets? ABSOLUTELY! In fact, parking is permitted there ‘after regular business hours’ (i.e. after 5:00 PM on weekdays; and all through Saturdays and Sundays). Unauthorized cars during regular business hours will be towed. Be sure to lock your car doors, and put valuables in the trunk

The Parish Vestry will meet tomorrow evening at 7 PM in the Ladies’ Parlour.

The 30^th Atlantic Theological Conference is coming to Moncton from May 30th to June 2^nd, and will be held at St. George’s and at St. Philp’s. This year, the conference will discuss ‘Anglican Identity and the Challenge of Diversity’ through various papers and responses. This conference draws together people from all over the world and all walks of life to talk about issues of enduring theological importance. God willing, the Preacher at the Tuesday evening Eucharist will be Bishop Stephen Andrews (a son-in-law of Archdeacon and Mrs. Tom Crowther). Brochures for the conference are in the porch – please help yourself.

Attention Men! A few of us have been talking about getting together for breakfast. Are you interested? Please speak to Allen Urquart or the Rector.

Dates for your calendar:

May 13^th (Ascension Day) 7 PM Evensong and Greater Chapter Meeting for Wardens, Synod Delegates and their Alternates at St. Martin’s in the Woods, Shediac Cape.

Saturday, May 29^th 12 PM: Solemn High Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Philip’s Church, on the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of the ordination of the Ven. Reg Stockall to the priesthood. A reception will follow. All welcome. Best wishes only.

 Sunday, June 20^th Parish Picnic at Shediac Cape @ 12:30 PM

 Monday, June 21^st  7 PM Bishop here for Confirmation.   

The Diocese of Ho in Ghana, West Africa is our ‘Companion Diocese’. Located in the agricultural, central region of Ghana, it is mainly inhabited by poor farming families. Only six years old, it covers an area of 20,570 square kilometres. The motto of the Diocese is all about having faith: ‘In God we trust’.  Our deanery has been asked to pray for the parish of St. Michael and All Angels in Worawora, and for the Rector, the Rev. Canon Chales A.Tetteh.

The Rector’s Corner

Let’s pretend that you and I were asked to be part of an international think-tank charged with the job of finding a way to stop air travel in Europe. Let’s say that for some reason, this was necessary for a common good. Are you with me? Anyway, sitting around the large, oak board room table, we are amazed to be in the same company as Prime Ministers and Presidents, the Commanding Officers of the NATO Forces, as well as the leading thinkers in the fields of Engineering, Aeronautics, Mathematics and Environmental Science.

Following our initial briefing, questions begin to fly regarding the time frame of execution and, of course, the project’s budget. We both feel our mouths drop open when the Director of the World Monetary Fund insists that all costs will have to stay within a trillion dollars – not a penny more – including all compensation packages

A spirited debate ensues between the engineers and the environmentalists as to the best way forward. There is talk of a special net of invisible rubber fibers that would let the sun’s light in, but keep aircraft on the ground. Another angle focuses on clipping the wings of thousands of aircraft by means of a unique, self-absorbing, water-soluble, chemical agent. But all of these would require years to design and test; and who could vouch for their standards of safety and dependability? And, what insurance company in their right mind would endorse their use?

And then it happened. Independent from all of the leading thinkers and planners, it happened. A volcano in Iceland – little, old, unpretentious Iceland. Eyjafjallajokull let loose and began to spew bubbling lava and magma chunks the size of cars onto the surrounding landscape – and ash and smoke four to six miles in the air. And guess what? Instantly, all air travel over Europe stopped. In fact, 102,000 flights were scrapped worldwide.

Amazing, really – amazing to us who think that human beings are in charge. So often we wonder how something will get done. We think about it and think about it, and, when we cannot conceive of the solution, we give up. For example, consider what St. Paul says in today’s Epistle: “…till we all come, in the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ…”. How is this possible? How will the Church, divided and splintered as she is, be unified? How in the world will all the prejudices of her members be corrected and healed? Well, just remember Eyjafjallajokull. Don’t forget that what seems impossible to us is certainly possible with God.

There is a hymn, seldom sung, in the Evangelistic Missions section of the Hymn Book (#751), sung to the tune of ‘Danny Boy – its third verse goes like this:

I cannot tell how He will win the nations,

How He will claim His earthly heritage,

How satisfy the needs and aspirations

Of East and West, of sinner and of sage.

 But this I know, all flesh shall see His glory,

And He shall reap the harvest He has sown,

And some glad day His sun shall shine in splendour

When He the Saviour, Saviour of the world, is known.

How? St. Matthew says that the Second Coming of Lord Jesus shall be as the lightning which comes out of the East and shines even unto the West (24.27); in other words, quick as a flash and visible to all. And, so, the Lord God Almighty has impressed that reality upon us all through His Icelandic volcano in the past week and a half. 

Announcement from the Rector

As announced last week, the Rector will be away for a month of basic training in Borden, Ont., from April 28 to May 27. During his absence, the normal round of Sunday and weekday Services, Bible Study and Hospital Visits will be continued with the help of Fr. David Mercer (Sunday AM and Hospital); Archdeacon Stockall (weekday Holy Communion); Fr. Onyewuchi (Hospital); and Layreader Norm Dupuis (Sunday PM and Weekday Morning and Evening Prayer). Debbie Ritchie in the Church Office and the Wardens will also be ready to respond to any pastoral emergencies.

I am deeply grateful for their assistance, and ask for your prayers.