March 25, 2021

 

FROM THE RECTOR

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


SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP

JOIN US FOR WORSHIP
The 1st Sunday of the month at 9:00 AM
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.

Click below to see the readings: 

HOLY WEEK


PRAYERS FOR EACH OTHER
One thing we can always do while we stay at home is to pray for each other! We would like to keep our prayer list up to date and publish it each week in the Thursday Memo. Please email Deb at office@standrewsinthevalley.org with any updates.


This Week We Pray for

Health and Wholeness for:  Dave Stryker, Diana Riley, John Maloy, Brittany & Connor Cromwell, Frank, Amy, Judy Grace, Jeannette Mead, Margaret, Mary Ireland, Jean DeThomas, Terri Hooper,  Martin, John McGowan, Sue Huckman, Steve Thompson, Joan Marshall, Marilyn Cloran, Kitty Lou Booty, Gabriele and Bob Wallace, Dave Appleton, Carolyn Boldt, Angela B., Tom, Carolyn Jarvis, Doug Crapser, Peg Patenaude, Joyce Humphrey, 

For those who are homebound: Joyce Gendron, Marge Hagerup, Elizabeth Pease, Brian & Sara Kelley, Elizabeth Wiesner,  Audrey Berry.

For those who have died: Kitty Lou Booty, John Whitcomb, Doug Crapser.

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.

DINNER BELL

No DINNER BELL until further notice.

Thank you for your volunteer
work in this special Outreach program!

COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY

The Food Pantry thanks you for your contributions throughout the year.

Food pantry continues to serve the communities needs
New Hours
Alternating Wednesdays
12-4 pm
Next Food Pantry: March 31
Any questions call 603-960-4067



PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

We cannot meet at this time, but KNIT ON!



If you have any questions, please call Lin Frank at 323-0402.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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

FROM Deb IN THE OFFICE

RESOURCE SHELF
Please feel free to come by and pick up
resource items from the shelf
outside the Parish Office door.
Forward Day by Day booklets
Episcopal News
Annual Reports
and other items added occasionally.

MARCH  BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

If you do not see your birthday or anniversary listed, please make sure Deb in the office has an information sheet on file for you.

Birthdays                       
10     Susan Ines
13     Trudy Thompson
16     Caroline Hines
20     Albert Bunker
21     Chris Boldt
30     Kaitlyn Marshall, Barbara Lord
31     Claudia Kennedy 

PHOTO GALLERY