FROM THE RECTORMARK YOUR CALENDARS!!
Mini Parish Meeting and Potluck Brunch on Pentecost Sunday, June 5
Please plan to attend church on Sunday, June 5 for a celebration of Pentecost and the birthday of the Christian Church, followed by a mini parish meeting to talk about how Covid has and is impacting our life together at St. Andrew’s. We will meet in the church so that those on Zoom can participate as well. After the meeting we’ll set up food in the parish hall and eat outside under the tent. Please plan to bring your favorite brunch dish to share.
If your dish needs to be baked, please
bake it at home until it’s almost done, so we will only need to reheat it.
I really hope you will make every effort to join us for this discussion!
Don’t forget to wear red for Pentecost!
Please let me know if you would be willing to read the lesson from Acts in a different language. Many thanks!
MASKS ARE NOW REQUIRED in church again, as the Covid numbers have been on the rise and we know several people who have been infected. I think we can expect to go back and forth between wearing masks and not as the numbers rise and fall in the foreseeable future.
As before, please, for the safety of others, plan to attend church on Zoom if you have recently traveled commercially and/or been present at large gatherings, or are not feeling well.
Next Sunday following the 10:00
service I’ll hold a workshop on creating a Rule of Life.
A Rule of Life is a tool for helping us live our lives according to our
Christian values and our personal core values. It provides us a structure for
intentionally living our lives in congruence with these values and can be most
helpful. Typical areas covered are spiritual health, mental health, physical
health, vocational health and financial health.
A good place to begin is identifying your core
values, and we will begin with some exercises to help with this on Sunday
morning.
Creating a Rule of Life may require two sessions,
so the second session, if needed, will be held after the 10:00 service on
Sunday, June 19. I realize this is Father’s Day, but I will be out of town on
June 26 and July 3, so this is the best time to hold it.
John McGowan’s memorial service is on
Saturday at 11:00. Please wear your name tags so
visitors will know you can assist them with directions to the restrooms, etc.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!
Mini Parish Meeting and Potluck Brunch on Pentecost Sunday, June 5
Please plan to attend church on Sunday, June 5 for a celebration of Pentecost and the birthday of the Christian Church, followed by a mini parish meeting to talk about how Covid has and is impacting our life together at St. Andrew’s. We will meet in the church so that those on Zoom can participate as well. After the meeting we’ll set up food in the parish hall and eat outside under the tent. Please plan to bring your favorite brunch dish to share.
If your dish needs to be baked, please bake it at home until it’s almost done, so we will only need to reheat it.
I really hope you will make every effort to join us for this discussion!
Don’t forget to wear red for Pentecost!
Please let me know if you would be willing to read the lesson from Acts in a different language. Many thanks!
MASKS ARE NOW REQUIRED in church again, as the Covid numbers have been on the rise and we know several people who have been infected. I think we can expect to go back and forth between wearing masks and not as the numbers rise and fall in the foreseeable future.
As before, please, for the safety of others, plan to attend church on Zoom if you have recently traveled commercially and/or been present at large gatherings, or are not feeling well.
Next Sunday following the 10:00
service I’ll hold a workshop on creating a Rule of Life.
A Rule of Life is a tool for helping us live our lives according to our
Christian values and our personal core values. It provides us a structure for
intentionally living our lives in congruence with these values and can be most
helpful. Typical areas covered are spiritual health, mental health, physical
health, vocational health and financial health.
A good place to begin is identifying your core
values, and we will begin with some exercises to help with this on Sunday
morning.
Creating a Rule of Life may require two sessions,
so the second session, if needed, will be held after the 10:00 service on
Sunday, June 19. I realize this is Father’s Day, but I will be out of town on
June 26 and July 3, so this is the best time to hold it.
John McGowan’s memorial service is on
Saturday at 11:00. Please wear your name tags so
visitors will know you can assist them with directions to the restrooms, etc.
Blessings, Caroline
Blessings, Caroline
Service will be held in person
The 9:00 service is also available via Zoom
(email RectorSAITV@gmail.com for Zoom information)
and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/standrewsinthevalleytamworth/
AND...
JOIN US FOLLOWING THE SERVICE FOR
JOIN US FOLLOWING THE SERVICE FOR
The CollectAlmighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
First Reading Acts 2:1-21
This lesson tells the story of the Holy Spirit filling the apostles and empowering them to share the message of the gospel with people of different languages. Clearly this was a most dramatic moment in the life of the early church, an experience described in terms of wind and fire. From this time forward the mighty works of God done in Jesus will be told to all the peoples of the earth, crossing barriers of language and culture.
The Second Reading Romans 8:14-17
In this lesson we hear that when we are moved by God's Spirit, we become God's children and heirs with Christ. The spirit makes this experience possible by prompting our lips to call upon God as Father with the same Aramaic word (Abba) that Jesus used. This new relationship means that we are no longer required to be led by baser instincts. Our heritage is life, while we must also learn to share Christ's sufferings.
The Gospel John 14:8-17 (25-27)
In our gospel Jesus tells his disciples that in him the Father has been revealed, and he promises the gift of another Counselor, the Spirit of truth, to be with them. The Lord is speaking with his followers on the night before his death. Soon he will be taken away from them, but all that they ask the Father will now grant in Jesus' name. As they continue to love Jesus and keep his commands, they will realize the indwelling Spirit who will take Jesus' place in their midst.
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Health and Wholeness for our:
Parish: : Audrey, Carolyn, Marty, Judy, Jim, Sue, Joan, Elizabeth, Grete, Becky, Steve, Gabriele and Bob
Family and Friends: : Megan, John, Angela, Gary, Grace, Tracy, Jan and George, Carolyn, Jack, Laurie, Alexa, Chris, Lyse, Margaret, Melody, Peg, Curt, Sage, Sharon, Mary
For those who have died:
Birthdays: 06/07 Becky, 06/11 Dale
Anniversaries:
Please let the Parish Office know if you would like to add or remove someone
on the prayer list. Thank you.
Food for Thought
The Spirit Likes to Dress Up, by Mary Oliver
The spirit
likes to dress up like this:
ten fingers,
ten toes,
shoulders, and all the rest
at night
in the black branches,
in the morning
in the blue branches
of the world.
It could float, of course,
but would rather
plumb rough matter.
Airy and shapeless thing,
it needs
the metaphor of the body,
lime and appetite,
the oceanic fluids;
it needs the body's world,
instinct
and imagination
and the dark hug of time,
sweetness
and tangibility,
to be understood,
to be more than pure light
that burns
where no one is --
so it enters us --
in the morning
shines from brute comfort
like a stitch of lightning;
and at night
lights up the deep and wondrous
drownings of the body
like a star.
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