A
reminder about the next two Sundays: Both Palm Sunday and Easter morning
will be livestreamed from the church and will include the Eucharist. The usual
Zoom link and Facebook links will provide access. At the end of each service
everyone is invited to come to the church parking lot to pick up individual
Communion kits. Palms and bulletins will also be included this Sunday.
Many
thanks
to everyone who is making these services come together so beautifully – the
Altar Guild and Gretchen, our musicians, all the readers, co-hosts and
acolytes, computer operators in the church, Lois for the slides she creates,
and Deb for putting the bulletins together and making copies. And I’m sure I’ve
left someone out!
If
you would like to make a donation for Easter flowers, please send in a
check and tell us for whom it is in memory or honor. Flowers may then be picked
up the week after Easter.
I hope to see you at many of our services in the coming week!
Holy Week Online Service Schedule
Monday - Wednesday Compline 8:30 pm
Wednesday Morning
Prayer 9:00 am
Maundy Thursday Liturgy
of the Day 7:00 pm
Good Friday Liturgy
of the Day 7:00 pm
Holy Saturday The Great Vigil 8:00 pm
Easter Day The Holy Eucharist 9:00 am
Caroline
The remaining Sundays at 10:00 AM
This Sunday-March 28th
at 10:00 a.m.
Palm Sunday
via Zoom (email RectorSAITV@gmail.com for Zoom information)or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/standrewsinthevalleytamworth/
AND...
JOIN US FOLLOWING THE SERVICE FOR
A VIRTUAL
on ZOOM
READINGS FOR SUNDAY
Palm Sunday
The Collect
Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.The First Lesson Isaiah 50:4-9A
Our reading tells of the servant who speaks for the Lord and suffers persecution, but still trusts in God's help and vindication. This is the third of the "servant songs" that come from a period late in Israel's exile. The servant might be thought to be the faithful of Israel, the prophet himself, or another historical or idealized figure. The people are weary and tired of the Lord's calling, but the servant steadfastly continues. Christians have long perceived in these words a foretelling of Jesus' mission.
Psalm 31:9-16
A psalm of trust by one who looks to the Lord for mercy and protection.
The Second Lesson Philippians 2:5-11
From one of the earliest Christian hymns we hear how Christ Jesus accepted the condition of a servant, was obedient even to the point of death, and was then given the name above every name. It is possible that this poem was adapted by Paul or another disciple from the hopes for a savior of a people who did not yet know Jesus. He has fulfilled humanity's dream of one who will share fully in the mortal condition before his exaltation. To him every knee shall bow and every tongue confess the great name of the Lord now known in person, Jesus.
The Gospel Mark 14:1-15:47
Our gospel is the story of Jesus' anointing in Bethany, his last supper with his disciples, what took place in the garden of Gethsemane, the trial before Pilate, and his final suffering and death.
The Collect
The First Lesson Isaiah 50:4-9A
Our reading tells of the servant who speaks for the Lord and suffers persecution, but still trusts in God's help and vindication. This is the third of the "servant songs" that come from a period late in Israel's exile. The servant might be thought to be the faithful of Israel, the prophet himself, or another historical or idealized figure. The people are weary and tired of the Lord's calling, but the servant steadfastly continues. Christians have long perceived in these words a foretelling of Jesus' mission.
Psalm 31:9-16
A psalm of trust by one who looks to the Lord for mercy and protection.
The Second Lesson Philippians 2:5-11
From one of the earliest Christian hymns we hear how Christ Jesus accepted the condition of a servant, was obedient even to the point of death, and was then given the name above every name. It is possible that this poem was adapted by Paul or another disciple from the hopes for a savior of a people who did not yet know Jesus. He has fulfilled humanity's dream of one who will share fully in the mortal condition before his exaltation. To him every knee shall bow and every tongue confess the great name of the Lord now known in person, Jesus.
The Gospel Mark 14:1-15:47
Our gospel is the story of Jesus' anointing in Bethany, his last supper with his disciples, what took place in the garden of Gethsemane, the trial before Pilate, and his final suffering and death.
HOLY WEEK
For our First Nation people and those in this country who are living in impoverished areas of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans and the inner city areas populated by some of our poorest citizens.
For all those who are on the front lines serving communities during these difficult times.
Updating the Prayer List
Please let Deb know when a person can be removed from the prayer list. Thank you.
The Poet Thinks about the Donkey
On the outskirts of Jerusalem
the donkey waited.
Not especially brave, or filled with understanding,
he stood and waited.
How horses, turned out into the meadow,
leap with
delight!
How doves, released from
their cages,
clatter away,
splashed with sunlight.
But the donkey, tied to a tree as usual, waited.
Then he let himself be led away.
Then he let the stranger mount.
Never had he seen such crowds!
And I wonder if he at all imagined what was to happen.
Still, he was what he had always been: small, dark, obedient.
I hope, finally, he felt brave.
I hope, finally, he loved the
man who rode so lightly upon him,
as he lifted one dusty hoof and
stepped, as he had to, forward.
Mary
Oliver
Thirst, p. 44
13 Trudy Thompson
16 Caroline Hines
20 Albert Bunker
21 Chris Boldt
30 Kaitlyn Marshall, Barbara Lord
31 Claudia Kennedy
