Services for this
coming Sunday, The Sixth Sunday of
Easter and Rogation Sunday, will be at 8 am and 10 am. We hope you will
join us for worship and fellowship. For
more about Rogation Day, see the “Food for Thought” at the bottom of this post.
Readings for this
coming Sunday: Acts 17:22-31, Psalm
66:7-18, 1 Peter 3:13-22, John 14:15-21.
If this is Rogation
Sunday, can Ascension Day be far behind? The Feast of the Ascension – one
of the seven principal feast days of the church year and right up there with
Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, and Pentecost – always falls on the Thursday following the Sixth Sunday of Easter.
We will be honoring it a day early, this coming Wednesday, May 28, with a
special 9 AM service of Holy Eucharist. Join us for this special service.
Saint Andrew’s has
been a hub of activity this past week! Clergy of the diocese gathered last
Thursday for a workshop on listening, reflective questioning, and
trust-building. Our space and our hospitality were much commented on and much
appreciated. Special thanks to David Manley for organizing the food, bakers
Joan Wright and Val May, and the serving team of Barbara Lord, George Rau, and
David.
And last Friday we had the joy of celebrating the
marriage of Jennifer Glaws and Marcos Kroupa and welcoming their family and
friends. The bride is the great niece of Peggy Cannon and the granddaughter of
Peggy’s sister, the late Jeannette Glaws.
Three cheers for George
and Brooks, and one strong truck!!!
The overgrown shrubs have at long last been removed! And the lawn is being reseeded. Thanks, Guys!
Troop 151 Boy
Scout News from Feb 1, 2014. Troop 151
took 3rd place in the cooking competition at the Abnaki District
Klondike—a one-day event. That night,
the troop was invited to camp with Troop 150 of Conway at the CCC camp. They also won, for the second time in 7
years, the Honor award for cooperation and organization among themselves.
Sammie Wakefield is
now in Peru on her mission trip with Eleanore’s
Project, fitting mobility-impaired children with wheel chairs. She is
keeping us posted through daily reports on the Parish Hall bulletin board and
you can follow her here: http://www.eleanoresproject.org/blog/blog/
Please keep those children, their parents, Sammie, Tamara, and their team in
your prayers.
Saint
Andrew’s has long supported the Bearcamp Valley School and Children’s Center.
On Sunday, June 8, 2014, from 4:30 to 7:30, they will be hosting a fundraising
event: the Taste of the Bearcamp Valley
Food Festival at the newly opened and widely acclaimed Hobbs Tavern &
Brewing Company. Individual tickets are $15, but rates are slightly lower if we
reserve a table. This will be the 21st year of this event. Enjoy a buffet of delicious appetizers, soups, breads, entrees and
desserts from the region's best restaurants, cafes, as well as offerings
from local community organizations. Cash bar. This event is open to the
public. Talk to or email Heidi or Deb in the office soon if you’re interested.
Come be Saint Andrew’s as a visible witness in the wider community … and have a
great meal and a great time! There are eight of us on the list so far, and
plenty of room for more.
The Community Food Pantry is encouraging a new approach to non-food donations. Help stock the
shelves with this necessary item that is not covered by Food Stamps.
Thanks. May 25th: shelf stable milk/or dry milk. June 1st:
Paper towels.
Food for thought … on Rogation Days…
Rogation Days (from
the Latin rogare, to ask) are the
days following the Sixth Sunday of Easter traditionally associated with
intercession for the harvest, and more recently with the faithful stewardship
of creation. In the old days it was a time for processions through the
cornfields, praying that the crops would be free from mildew – so you might
take that lead and go out to your garden in prayer. In the English Church an
injunction in 1559 ordered a perambulation of the parish during Rogationtide.
Is anyone up for a serious hike next week? Walking the bounds of the parish was
not just walking the church property,
it was walking the bounds of the entire geographical area – which for us would
be something like Albany and Madison to the Maine border, westerly through
Effingham and Ossipee and Moultonborough, up through the edge of Center Harbor
incorporating all of Sandwich and Tamworth!
That would be quite a walk!
The Collect for the
Stewardship of Creation
O merciful Creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature: Make us always thankful for your loving presence; and grant that we, remembering the account that we must one day give, may be faithful stewards of your good gifts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. [BCP p. 259]
O merciful Creator, your hand is open wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature: Make us always thankful for your loving presence; and grant that we, remembering the account that we must one day give, may be faithful stewards of your good gifts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. [BCP p. 259]
See you in church!
Blessings, Heidi+
