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| The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple Basilica at Montserrat, Spain. See more below for details on today's feast. |
Services for this coming Sunday, February 5, The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, will be ONE service this Sunday at 9 AM. The liturgy will be followed by a potluck brunch and our Annual Meeting. This is the one day in the year when we gather as a parish to review the past year, welcome new members, contemplate what may lie ahead, thank out-going vestry members for their service, and elect new vestry members. It is the responsibility all members of the parish to attend and we are required to have a quorum in order to hold the meeting, so … Please come! (you can still watch the superbowl)
Readings for this Sunday: Isaiah 40:21-31; Psalm 147:1-12, 21c; 1 Corinthians 9:16-23; Mark 1:29-39.
The Women’s Lunch Bunch will meet on Wed. February 8th at noon, at the Mountain View Station Restaurant in Center Ossipee. If you have questions please contact Dale Appleton at 539-3761.
The Food pantry is in need of egg cartons. Please save and bring in your clean cartons.
ALL ARE WELCOME! To join a Service of Morning Prayer, every Wednesday at 9 AM, led by one of our three licensed worship leaders.
Today’s Feast, the Presentation of Our Lord, is sometimes known as “Candlemas,” sometimes as the “Purification of Mary,” and in the Eastern Church it’s called the “Meeting of Christ with Simeon.” The mere fact of the variety of names for this day attests to the wealth of spiritual meaning that Christians have discovered over the centuries for this event in the life of the infant Jesus.
Jewish law held that every firstborn son was to be dedicated to God in memory of the Israelites’ deliverance from Egypt, when the firstborn sons of the Egyptians died and those of Israel were spared, hence the term “presentation.” Jewish law also required that every new mother was to come to the temple forty days after childbirth for a ritual purification, hence February 2nd, forty days after Christmas. [See Luke 2: 22-35]
It happened that a righteous, elderly man by the name of Simeon was guided by the Holy Spirit to the temple at the time Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus arrived. On meeting them, the aged Simeon took the child in his arms and offered praise to God with the words we now know as the “Song of Simeon,” or Nunc dimittus – words of deep significance that may be familiar to you from the Service of Evening Prayer and from the Burial office.
Lord, you now have set your servant free to go in peace as you have promised, for these eyes of mine have seen the Savior whom you have prepared for all the world to see, a light to enlighten the nations and the glory of your people Israel.
Readings for this Sunday: Isaiah 40:21-31; Psalm 147:1-12, 21c; 1 Corinthians 9:16-23; Mark 1:29-39.
The Women’s Lunch Bunch will meet on Wed. February 8th at noon, at the Mountain View Station Restaurant in Center Ossipee. If you have questions please contact Dale Appleton at 539-3761.
The Food pantry is in need of egg cartons. Please save and bring in your clean cartons.
ALL ARE WELCOME! To join a Service of Morning Prayer, every Wednesday at 9 AM, led by one of our three licensed worship leaders.
Today’s Feast, the Presentation of Our Lord, is sometimes known as “Candlemas,” sometimes as the “Purification of Mary,” and in the Eastern Church it’s called the “Meeting of Christ with Simeon.” The mere fact of the variety of names for this day attests to the wealth of spiritual meaning that Christians have discovered over the centuries for this event in the life of the infant Jesus.
Jewish law held that every firstborn son was to be dedicated to God in memory of the Israelites’ deliverance from Egypt, when the firstborn sons of the Egyptians died and those of Israel were spared, hence the term “presentation.” Jewish law also required that every new mother was to come to the temple forty days after childbirth for a ritual purification, hence February 2nd, forty days after Christmas. [See Luke 2: 22-35]
It happened that a righteous, elderly man by the name of Simeon was guided by the Holy Spirit to the temple at the time Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus arrived. On meeting them, the aged Simeon took the child in his arms and offered praise to God with the words we now know as the “Song of Simeon,” or Nunc dimittus – words of deep significance that may be familiar to you from the Service of Evening Prayer and from the Burial office.
Lord, you now have set your servant free to go in peace as you have promised, for these eyes of mine have seen the Savior whom you have prepared for all the world to see, a light to enlighten the nations and the glory of your people Israel.
The act of Mary’s placing Jesus in the arms of Simeon is understood as the meeting of the Old and New Dispensations. The old sacrifices were done away and a new and perfect sacrifice had come into the temple.
See you Sunday at nine! Blessings, Heidi+
From the office at St. Andrew’s.
UPCOMING WEEK’S CALENDAR:
Fri 2/3:
10a-noon
Food Center
Sat 2/4:
8pm AA & Al-Anon(PH,PR)
Sun 2/5:
9 AM Holy
Eucharistfollowed by Annual Meeting Brunch
5 PM Dinner Bell (Cook Team: Friends)
Mon 2/6 Church
office closed
7 pm Boyscouts
Tue 2/7:
10a-noon
Food Center7 pm Boyscout Committee
8pm AA (PH)
Thu 2/9:
