Todd Hammond’s funeral is at St.
Andrew’s at 2:00 pm on Saturday, November 13. I hope many of you will be able
to attend to support Bev and her family.
Our Stewardship Campaign comes to a
close on Sunday. Thank you to everyone who has turned
in your pledge card and fall leaf. As of today we’ve received 36 pledges, still
short of the 51 we received last year and the 61 we received for 2019. We are
also still short of our goal of $155,000. Please turn in your pledge card and
your fall leaf on Sunday at the latest. Thank you!
The annual Diocesan Convention will
be held via Zoom and YouTube on Friday, November 5 – Saturday, November 6. All
delegates and alternates should have already registered. Everyone else is
welcome to attend Convention as a guest via YouTube at Episcopal Church of
NH's YouTube channel.
Convention begins at 7:00 pm on Friday and at 9:00 am on Saturday.
The keynote speaker
on Friday evening is the Rev. Katie Renger, Episcopal Church Staff Officer for
Church Planting. For more information on Diocesan Convention, go to
nhepiscopal.org/convention. I hope you will join in!
The Bishop will be with us for his bi-annual
visitation this Sunday. Following the service he will
have a Q & A session for the parish, and then a meeting with the Vestry. I
hope you will be able to attend church, welcome the Bishop and worship with him!
As November 7 is the first Sunday of the month, we
will have one service at 9:00 am.
Finally, November 7 is also the day we end
Daylight Savings, so don’t forget to turn your clocks back.
Blessings, Caroline
The remaining Sundays at 8:00 and 10:00 AM
This Sunday-November 7
All Saints' Sunday
at 9:00 a.m.
The Collect
Almighty
God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the
mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your
blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those
ineffable joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you; through
Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one
God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
First Lesson Isaiah
25:6-9
In
this Hebrew scripture reading we hear a prophetic hymn envisioning the day of
the Lord’s salvation. The prophet uses a rich banquet as an image for the time
of festival. It takes place on the mountain of the Lord’s temple, Mount Zion,
where heaven and earth figuratively meet.
This great feast will be for all people, and even the power of death
will be overcome.
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 Revelation
21:1-6a
In
this apocalyptic vision of the world to come God will indwell all creation, bringing
transformation and renewal. Death and
the first things have passed away, supplanted by the eternal order symbolized
by the new Jerusalem, the church in culmination, coming down as from
heaven. It is Christ, the Alpha and the
Omega, who establishes this promise, and he will be as a spring of living and
perpetual water to all who drink from him.
The Gospel John 11:32-44
In
our gospel lesson Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. Arriving in Bethany after the death of his
friend Lazarus, Jesus encounters first Lazarus’s sister Martha and then his
sister Mary. Neither of the sisters
fully comprehend Jesus’ power over death.
Deeply affected, Jesus weeps. So
that they and others might believe more deeply in God, Jesus summons Lazarus to
come forth from his tomb.
Updating the Prayer List
Please let Deb know if you need someone added to the prayer list. Thank you.
Flickering Mind
Lord, not you,
it is I who am absent.
At first
belief was a joy I kept in secret,
stealing alone
into sacred places:
a quick glance, and away — and back,
circling.
I have long since uttered your name
but now
I elude your presence.
I stop
to think about you, and my mind
at once
like a minnow darts away,
darts into the shadows, into gleams that fret
unceasing over
the river's purling and passing.
Not for one second
will my self hold still, but wanders
anywhere,
everywhere it can turn. Not you,
it is I am absent.
You are the stream, the fish, the light,
the pulsing shadow,
you the unchanging presence, in whom all
moves and changes.
How can I focus my flickering, perceive
at the fountain's heart
the sapphire I know is there?
~ Denise Levertov
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