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Fra Angelico, "Jesus Apearing to the Magdalene"
(1440-41), Convent of San Marco, Florence
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FOR WORSHIP
This Sunday, EASTER Sunday, there will be ONE
service only at 10 a.m.
There is a service of Morning Prayer on Wednesday
mornings at 9 a.m.
READINGS
FOR SUNDAY
Acts 10:34-43
Psalm 118 1-2, 14-24
Colossians 3:1-4
John 20:1-18
LAST
SUNDAY
See below for the wonderful picture gallery of
Palm Sunday
Courtesy
of Photographer Lisa Thompson
FROM THE INTERIM RECTOR
BRING YOUR
BELLS!
Remember
to bring your bells to Easter Vigil, Saturday at 8pm.
Easter
Morning Coffee Hour
There
will be a potluck brunch for Coffee Hour after the 10am Service. You are
encouraged to bring your favorite item to add to the table.
Easter
Supper
If
you are looking for somewhere to go for Easter Supper, Carol Tubman will be
cooking for dinner bell on Sunday evening and you are invited to join at 5pm.
Faithfully,
Caroline
GOOD FRIDAY OFFERING
Each year the Presiding Bishop asks us to support the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem through the Good Friday Offering, and we will participate once again this year. For more information about this cause, see the Presiding Bishop’s letter HERE, and look for more information in the Sunday bulletin.
A NOTE FROM ELAINE SOUTH
Received April 3, 2017
To the dear people of St. Andrew’s
Thank you for your kind words and hugs and all the
behind-the-scene work for Brooks’ farewell. We love you all!
Sincerely,
Elaine South
DINNER BELL
Volunteer Cook Teams are needed
for April 23rd and all Sundays for month of MAY. Please consider
enlisting some friends to team up and help with this important outreach
ministry. Please contact Carol Tubman or email the office with your
availability.
SEARCH COMMITTEE
The Parish
Survey is ready and your imput is important to the success of this survey. All responses together will help create an accurate parish profile for our
search process. There will be
opportunities to discuss the survey topics during our small group meetings.
Please complete the survey by May 1, 2017.
Prayer for St.
Andrew’s during this phase of the search process.
Loving God, giver of all good
gifts, grant to the Search Committee, and to the parish, wisdom and faith. Be with us as we develop and
create the Parish Profile. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen.
Search
Committee: George Rau, Lisa Thompson,
Cathie Lewis, Tom Huckman, Betsy Hess and Pat Adams.
COMMUNITY
FOOD CENTER
GREETINGS!
Starting April 1st, the Hannaford Cause Bag program at the
Hannaford store located at 891 NH 16, Ossipee, NH will be focused on the sale
of the FIGHT HUNGER BAGS in support of THE COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER food pantry!!
Every day counts~ we hope you find the resources at http://newhannaford.bags4mycause.com/
helpful in your continued outreach.
And, don’t forget to share with everyone that the Fight Hunger bags
with the message “This bag helped feed someone in need” can be found on the
reusable bag rack at various registers.
The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.
The monthly item for APRIL is laundry detergent.
FOOD FOR
THOUGHT
“…for Jesus yesterday was not
the time, but now is the time. His hour at last has come and he is ready for
whatever comes next. And what comes next unleashes a whole host of events that
reverberates to this very day. What comes next shaped history, changed lives
and ultimately brought us all to this very place. For what came next had to do
not only with Jesus, but with you and me as well.
What came next was water and
towel, bread and wine, kiss and cross, tomb and terror, light and life. What
came next was seeing, and sending and saying. Now is the time for Jesus
and in a few short days we will hear him say “it is finished.” And for
Jesus, his work will be done. But for us it will be just beginning.
So pay attention. Pay attention
to what happens in the next few days. Pay attention to what goes on around you
and within you. Pay attention to the water on your feet and the roughness of
the towel in your hand. Pay attention to the softness of the bread and the
sting of the wine in your throat. Pay attention to the brusqueness of the kiss
and the splinters of the cross. Pay attention to the coldness of the tomb and
the terror that clutches your heart. Pay attention to the brightness of the
dawning light and the life that bursts forth.
Something has happened and now,
now is the time Jesus tells us for him to be lifted up from the earth that he
might draw all people to himself.
But
soon, soon it will be our time to see, and be sent and to say so that all the
world may believe.”
- Br. James Koestler
Society of St. John the Evangelist
Cambridge, MA
FROM Deb
in THE OFFICE
Quarterly Giving Statements
While I had the best of intentions, due to an
unplanned 4 days away, I am unable to get the statements out this week. I will
endeavor to send them out before the end of the month of April.
APRIL
BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
Birthdays
2 Ellen
Keith
3 Christine
Mills
8 Ann
Albrecht
14 Audrey
Berry
15 Elizabeth
Pease
24 Dave
Adams
26 Todd
Horn
28 Peggy
Cannon, June Young
Anniversaries
8 Christine
& Robert Mills
16 Peter
& Trudy Thompson
19 Marty
& Marilyn Cloran
David & Patricia Adams
Palm Sunday Photo Gallery
The Procession
Coloring Alleluias
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