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The Cast of “Who murdered ‘Pepi’
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This Sunday, the 5th Sunday after Easter, we will have one service at 9 AM at which we will welcome Bridgette Frizzell through the sacrament of Holy Baptism. Coffee hour, hosted by the Liturgy Committee will follow the service. All who are interested will then gather for an All Parish Forum to discuss and reflect on the Bishop nominees in preparation for the Electing Convention on May 19th.
Readings for this Sunday: Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:24-30, 1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-8
After church last Sunday (April 29th), a caravan of young people and adults went on a field trip to the Hird’s farm in Sandwich to visit their sheep in honor of Good Shepherd Sunday.
(see more pictures below)
The Women’s Lunch Bunch will meet on Wednesday, May 9th, at 12 Noon at the Mountain View Station Restaurant in Center Ossipee. If you have questions, please call Dale at 539-3761.
We are starting our summer altar flowers program. If you wish to provide flowers from your garden please complete an envelope from the Altar Flower Chart in the Parish Hall and turn in to the office. We encourage flowers to be given in memory, in honor, or in thanksgiving. If you do not have garden flowers and would like flowers to be ordered ($20), please note that accordingly on the flower chart and include your contribution in the envelope. Thank you.
A BIG Thank you to the great cast, cooks, servers and all who helped put together the “Mystery Italian Dinner” Fundraiser. Over 80 attendees enjoyed a hugely successful and fun-filled evening of Mystery and delicious food.
Food for thought: A reflection on sheep shearing, following our Good Shepherd Sunday visit last Sunday at the Hird’s farm: In the passages in John’s Gospel (all from chapter 10) which we hear on the Fourth Sunday of Easter each year, Jesus uses several figures of speech related to the keeping and tending of sheep. He speaks of himself as the gate, for his sheep – the gate which keeps out the thieves and the wolves and through which the sheep must pass to reach the green pastures and clear waters that sustain them. He also speaks of himself as the Good Shepherd who knows them each by name and whose face and voice the sheep recognize – the one who cares for his sheep, even to the extent of tracking down lost sheep, facing the dangers of wolves, and ultimately being willing to lay down his life for us.
As we had the opportunity to watch the shearing process last Sunday, it occurred to me that shearing also is one of the necessary skills of a good shepherd. Sure, it is often assigned to a hired helper, but my guess is that, especially in Jesus’ day, anyone who tended sheep needed also to be able to shear them.
So I found myself wondering whether it might be fruitful to consider the metaphor, not just of Jesus as the good shepherd, but also as the shearer: Jesus – the good shearer of the sheep – is the one through whom we are separated from all that is extraneous (all our excess baggage) and before whom we are fully seen as our most true selves – vulnerable and shy at first, then free to frolic easily in the sunshine.
May we in the Easter season and beyond, trust the work of Jesus the good shepherd and shearer, releasing us from the accumulations that drag us down, and setting us free to live our lives with newfound delight and enthusiasm for being!
Many thanks to Ronan, Aislinn, Juli and Stephen for sharing their sheep farm with us!
We are starting our summer altar flowers program. If you wish to provide flowers from your garden please complete an envelope from the Altar Flower Chart in the Parish Hall and turn in to the office. We encourage flowers to be given in memory, in honor, or in thanksgiving. If you do not have garden flowers and would like flowers to be ordered ($20), please note that accordingly on the flower chart and include your contribution in the envelope. Thank you.
A BIG Thank you to the great cast, cooks, servers and all who helped put together the “Mystery Italian Dinner” Fundraiser. Over 80 attendees enjoyed a hugely successful and fun-filled evening of Mystery and delicious food.
Food for thought: A reflection on sheep shearing, following our Good Shepherd Sunday visit last Sunday at the Hird’s farm: In the passages in John’s Gospel (all from chapter 10) which we hear on the Fourth Sunday of Easter each year, Jesus uses several figures of speech related to the keeping and tending of sheep. He speaks of himself as the gate, for his sheep – the gate which keeps out the thieves and the wolves and through which the sheep must pass to reach the green pastures and clear waters that sustain them. He also speaks of himself as the Good Shepherd who knows them each by name and whose face and voice the sheep recognize – the one who cares for his sheep, even to the extent of tracking down lost sheep, facing the dangers of wolves, and ultimately being willing to lay down his life for us.
As we had the opportunity to watch the shearing process last Sunday, it occurred to me that shearing also is one of the necessary skills of a good shepherd. Sure, it is often assigned to a hired helper, but my guess is that, especially in Jesus’ day, anyone who tended sheep needed also to be able to shear them.
So I found myself wondering whether it might be fruitful to consider the metaphor, not just of Jesus as the good shepherd, but also as the shearer: Jesus – the good shearer of the sheep – is the one through whom we are separated from all that is extraneous (all our excess baggage) and before whom we are fully seen as our most true selves – vulnerable and shy at first, then free to frolic easily in the sunshine.
May we in the Easter season and beyond, trust the work of Jesus the good shepherd and shearer, releasing us from the accumulations that drag us down, and setting us free to live our lives with newfound delight and enthusiasm for being!
Many thanks to Ronan, Aislinn, Juli and Stephen for sharing their sheep farm with us!
(right) Some of the six children and
six adults who
took part in the field trip.
(left) Ronan, good
shepherd that he is, offers
assurance to one of his sheep while it’s being shorn
(right) By happy coincidence, it
turned out to be sheep-shearing day. The shearer is holding the clippers with
her left hand and the sheep’s back with her right. The sheep’s head is in the
left foreground. The partially-separated
mass of fleece is to the right- mirroring the image of the sheep.
Blessings, Heidi+
From
the office at St. Andrew’s
UPCOMING
WEEK’S CALENDAR:
Fri 5/4:
10a-noon Food CenterSat 5/5:
8pm AA & Al-Anon(PH,PR)
5 PM Dinner Bell (Cook Team: Frantz-Dale )
Mon
5/7 Church
office closed
7 pm Boy Scouts10am – noon Food Center
5pm Evening Prayer, 5:30 pm Liturgy Comm.
7pm Boyscout Committee Mtg
8pm AA (PH)
9 AM Service of Morning Prayer
Thu 5/10:
