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Thanks
to all who stepped up to take care of things in my absence, especially Patti,
George and Sammie who helped with funeral plans for this weekend, to Cathie and
all who are helping with the reception for June Young’s burial, to George and
Dave for taking care of the lawn, to those who have cleaned up the gardens and
to all who have cleaned up inside! Everything is looking great!
June Young’s burial is at 11:00 am and Brian Kelley’s memorial service is at 2:00 pm this Saturday, July 10. I’m grateful to Heidi Franz-Dale for officiating at Brian’s service, as I need to leave the church at about 2:30 – 2:45 to officiate at Chuck DeGroot and Emily Winkler’s wedding that afternoon! Heidi and Dale will be at church on Sunday morning, so I hope many of you will be able to come and welcome them back to St. Andrew’s!
I had a wonderful, relaxing vacation, especially my week on the beach! We had great weather, great waves and the water temperature was in the inviting upper 70’s and low 80’s (inviting to me, at any rate – the ocean water up here is too cold for me!). It was lovely to spend time with my sister and niece, and we all enjoyed great seafood, walks on the beach, playing in the waves and reading under a beach umbrella. I slept well and long, and feel refreshed and relaxed. The beach is good for my soul!
Blessings, Caroline
The remaining Sundays at 10:00 AM
This Sunday-July 11th
7th Sunday after Pentecost
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Collect of the Day
O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
First Lesson 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19
In our Hebrew scripture reading King David sets out to bring the art of the covenant into the city that David has captured with extravagant liturgy and is set in a tent that he has prepared. David leads the procession in exuberant dance. One of his wives, Saul’s daughter Michal, perhaps representing the old order which David is replacing, despises him. With the arrival of the ark, Jerusalem becomes botthe cultic and religious center of David’s kingdom.
Psalm 24
As pilgrims go up to God’s holy place for worship, they cleanse themselves and praise the just Lord, who has created all things.
The Second Lesson Ephesians 1:3-14
In this reading Paul praises God for the glorious inheritance that has been ordained for those who are now the children of God. Redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ, our freedom from sin is made possible. Now we share in the mystery of God’s plan to form a universal community in association with Christ. In all this we have the Holy Spirit as a kind of pledge or down payment for the fullness of the heritage to come.
The Gospel Mark 6:14-29
Our gospel story is of the death of John the Baptist by order of King Herod. John the Baptist’s preaching sharply criticized Herod for his marriage to Herodias, who had been the wife of Herod’s brother Philip. Herod was intrigued and also fearful of John, but at a banquet at which Herodias’s daughter performed, the king rashly promised the girl whatever request she might make. At her mother’s prompting, the girl asks for the head of John the Baptist. John’s fearlessness, Herodias’s brutality, and Herod’s expediency thus intersect and lead to John’s martyrdom.
For all those who working with COVID patients, vaccinations and vaccines.
Updating the Prayer List
Please let Deb know when a person can be removed from the prayer list. Thank you.
Tides
Every
day the sea
blue
gray green lavender
pulls
away leaving the harbor's
dark-cobbled
undercoat
slick
and rutted and worm-riddled, the gulls
walk
there among old whalebones, the white
spines of fish blink from the strandy stew
as
the hours tick over; and then
far
out the faint, sheer
line turns, rustling over the slack,
the
outer bars, over the green-furled flats, over
the
clam beds, slippery logs,
barnacle-studded
stones, dragging
the
shining sheets forward, deepening,
pushing, wreathing together
wave
and seaweed, their piled curvatures
spilling
over themselves, lapping
blue gray green lavender, never
resting,
not ever but fashioning shore,
continent,
everything.
And
here you may find me
on
almost any morning
walking
along the shore so
light-footed so casual.
~ Mary Oliver
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