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Easter 3 May 3, 2009
8:00 A.M. - HOLY EUCHARIST p. 67
Introit Psalm: 66:1-6 p. 408
Collect for Purity p. 67
Collect & Epistle p. 193
Gradual Psalm: 66:7-8 p. 409
Gospel p. 193
9:15 A.M. – MORNING PRAYER
First Lesson: Exodus 32:1-14 (page 78 in pew Bible)
Psalm 121, 122
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15: 35-end (page 177 in pew Bible)
10:00 A.M. - HOLY EUCHARIST
Introit Psalm: sung)
Hymn: 392 (Darwall)
Children’s Talk
Collect for Purity p. 67
Collect & Epistle p. 193
Gradual Psalm: 66:7-8 p. 409
Gospel p. 193
Hymn: 459 (North Coates)
Homily
Offertory Hymn: 165 (Ave Virgo Virginum)
The Intercession: p. 75
Confession, Absolution p. 77
Thanksgiving, Consecration: p. 78
Hymns during Communion: 235 (St. Osmund)
236 (Dolomite Chant)
Lord’s Prayer
Gloria in Excelsis p. 86
Recessional Hymn: 167 (Hyfrydol-397)
Please join us for Tea & Coffee served in the hall.
5:00 P.M. EVENING PRAYER
First Lesson: Exodus 33: 7-end (page 79 in pew Bible)
Psalms 123, 124, 125
Second Lesson: John 21:15 - end (page 116 in pew Bible)
Layreaders
8:00 A.M. - Ian Hayre 9:15A.M – Shirley Kelly
10:00 A.M. – Debbie Ritchie
The Sanctuary Candle burns this week to the Glory of God
and in Loving Memory of William Kelsall, Garnet Dawson Stockall and
Bert Davies.
“Let us remember before God the faithful departed.”
Marguerite (Orchard) Delahunt
Parnell Stack,
Margaret Whiteley
Max Blakeney
Charles Hollet
Stella Porter
Two friendly reminders: please refrain from wearing scented products such as aftershave, deodorant, cologne, perfume, as well as odoriferous soaps and shampoos to Church. Also, please use the spaces beside the elevator for drop-off purposes only. Thank you very much.
A Hymn/Gospel Sing has been planned for today at 6:30 PM at St. James Anglican Church, Moncton (101 Fairview Drive). A special guest singing group. ‘New Creation’, from the Miramichi will be in attendance. A free will offering will be taken with proceeds to the ‘Elevator Project’ at St. James. All welcome!
St. Andrew’s Anglican Church will be having their 100th anniversary this fall. If anyone has pictures, memorabilia or stories that they are willing to share please call Leslie Johnson at 383-7588. Thank you!
The Rector’s Corner
Yesterday was the day the Church remembered St. Athanasius, a Doctor of the Church, and Bishop of Alexandria, North Africa, in the 4th century. At the back of the Prayer Book, on page 695 there is a Creed which bears his name. Here is a brief biographical note, followed by an excerpt from his great work, ‘On the Incarnation of the Word’.
Athanasius is one of the great heroes of the Christian tradition. As bishop of Alexandria from the year 328 until his death forty-five years later, he defended the faith of the Church against a heresy known as Arianism.
The Arians taught that God's only Son, the Word who became flesh as Jesus Christ, was not truly divine. Athanasius realized that this doctrine undercut the Christian assurance of salvation, because it meant that humans had no way of sharing in the very life and glory of God. But because the Word who became flesh was indeed true God, "one in Being with the Father," all may enter into his own eternal union with the Father and the Holy Spirit. That is why Athanasius was so harsh against the Arians - he was fighting for the reality and the fullness of our salvation.
But the Arians had the support of several Roman emperors, and many other bishops saw nothing wrong in trying to reach a compromise which the Arians could accept. Athanasius stood firm - at times he even seemed to stand alone, and “Athanasius against the world" became a by-word of the age. He endured five periods of exile, yet his popularity among the citizens of Alexandria was so great that the Emperor once had to recall him in order to avoid insurrection in the city. The Church itself finally vindicated his stalwart witness, and it is due to him, more than to any other teacher, that we still have the Nicene Creed.
The Word of God, incorporeal, incorruptible, and immaterial, entered the world. Yet it was not as if he had been remote from it up to that time. For there is no part of the world that was ever without his presence; together with his Father, he continually filled all things and places.
Out of loving-kindness for us the Word came to us, and we see this in the way the 'Word revealed himself openly to us. Taking pity on humanity's weakness, and moved by our corruption, he could not stand aside and see death have the mastery over us; he did not want creation to perish and his Father's work in fashioning the human creature to be in vain. He therefore took to himself a body, no different from our own, for he did not wish simply to be in a body or only to be seen. If he had wanted simply to be seen, he could indeed have taken another, and nobler, body. Instead, he took our body in its reality.
Within the Virgin [Mary] he built himself a temple, that is, a body; he made it his own instrument in which to dwell and to reveal himself. In this way he received from human nature a body like our own; and, since all were subject to the corruption of death, he delivered this body over to death for all, and with supreme love offered it to the Father. He did so in order to destroy the law of corruption passed against all the human race, since all died in him. This law, which had spent its force on the body of the Lord, could no longer have any power against those who share human nature with him. Moreover, this was the way in which the Word was to restore the human race to immortality, after it had fallen into corruption, and summon it back from death to life. As fire consumes chaff, he utterly destroyed the power that death had against our race by means of the body which he had taken and by the grace of the resurrection.
This is the reason why the Word assumed a body that could die, so that this body, sharing in the Word who is above all, might satisfy death's requirement in place of all. Because of the Word dwelling in that body, it would remain incorruptible, and all would be freed for ever from corruption by the grace of the resurrection.
In death the Word made a spotless sacrifice and oblation of the body he had taken. By dying for others, he immediately banished death for all humankind.
In this way the Word of God, who is above all, dedicated and offered his temple, the instrument that was his body, for us all, as he said, and so paid by his own death the debt that was owed. The immortal Son of God, united with all human beings by likeness of nature, thus fulfilled all justice in restoring humankind to immortality by the promise of the resurrection. The corruption of death no longer holds any power over humans, thanks to the Word who has come to dwell among
them through his one body.
Vestry is Monday, May 11th.
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:
Tuesday 10:00 AM Bible Study at the Rectory
(56 Williams Street)
2:45 PM Music Club at Edith Cavell School
7:00 PM Scouts
Wednesday 10:00 A.M. Camden Terrace Eucharist
6:30 PM Cubs
7:00 PM Anglican Easter Series Part 2 (Chapel)
“A Holy People” St. George’s. Moncton
Thursday 10 AM Holy Eucharist
6:30 PM Beavers
7:30 Reading Club
Saturday 8:30 A.M. Peeling for Community Meal
Community Meal – May 10th 2009
Cooks – Rick & Debbie Ritchie
Volunteers are needed for Servers on Sunday. If you are willing and able to help please call the Church office (855-5209) as soon as possible. Thank you!
Peelers - Elizabeth Hopper, Margaret & Colin McLeod, Harrison Tait
Servers – 6 scout leaders and members. More people are needed.
Clean Up Crew – The Providence Christian Church, Jefferson Hayre
Thank you to everyone who assists with this worthwhile project.
Please prey for Haley Barbara MacDonald and her parents and Godparents as they prepare for her Baptism next Sunday.
St. Martin 's-in-the-Woods Anglican Church is running a faith-based Summer Day Camp for kids ages 5 to 11 in the Shediac area. Looking for post-secondary students who love kids, crafts, games, road trips and the beach. Flexible hours. Salary to be discussed. Contact via phone:506-532-6960 (Office open 8am - 12 pm Mon-Fri) or email:
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