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Faith @
Fifth and Juliana
By the time you are
reading this Lent will have begun. At Sunday services during Lent you
will notice we will be using either the Exhortation (1st
and 5th Sunday) or The Great Litany (2nd, 3rd
and 4th Sunday) at the opening. Both of these are found in
the Prayerbook and go back to the beginning of our Anglican tradition.
The Exhortation
(found on page 316) goes back to 1548, it reminds us that what we are
doing when we receive Communion is serious. Using the words of St.
Paul it tells us that we are approaching the throne of God, that we
are “made one with Christ.” It call on us to examine our lives and
our relationships with other people. Christians, rightly, concentrate
on the forgiveness of sins offered to us in our Lord Jesus Christ. Yet
Lent is a time to look at how we are living our lives and to
concentrate on repenting. There is a great danger that the Holy
Eucharist can become common place. It is not simply something that “we
do on Sunday,” it is the Sacrament of Christ’s Body and Blood
which He Himself instituted. What we do every Sunday is amazing, not
common place – we must always remember this.
The Great Litany
(starting on page 148) comes from medieval sources and was the first
prayer translated into English after the Reformation (that was to be
used in worship). In the middle ages it was said in procession, Henry
VIII required that it be said knelling, but Elizabeth I’s bishops
said it could be used either way. A litany is a list of prayers, this
particular litany calls on God to protect the people from social and
natural disaster. It was historically used during times of war,
plague, pestilence, famine and other periods of great upheaval. It is
especially appropriate for Lent as it calls to our minds the continual
need to pray for ourselves and others. On the Sundays we use the Great
Litany it will take the place of an opening hymn.
These two additions
to the liturgy are only for Lent, for in Lent we are called to
remember the call to repent, to be open to God’s working of healing
in our broken lives. We are called to go with Christ through Earthly
sufferings that we may be raised with Him in glory. In doing so we
live into our Anglican tradition and are made to think about the
things we do together every week.
In Christ,
Mike
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 Watercolor
Exhibit !!
Trinity artist-in -residence
Lee Fritch will have an exhibit of his watercolor paintings on the
second floor gallery of the Herman Fine Arts Building at Marietta
College. The opening is Sunday March 4 at 4 pm and the work will be
there until Friday March 23. Twenty one paintings will be on display
with accompanying "story cards" for each one. These works
were all done on-location during Lee and Pat's painting/hiking trips
to Colorado and Utah in 1999, and California and Oregon in 2000.
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St. Cecilia: The next St.
Cecilia event will be held Sunday, March 11th at 4:00 pm and of course
will be held at Trinity. Our performer will be Robert Sutherland Lord, a
renowned organist who has given organ concerts all over the world,
including concerts in England and four concerts at the Notre-Dame
Cathedral in Paris. Dr. Lord has been playing the organ in churches
since he was 12 yrs old. Please come join us for what promises to be a
wonderful musical experience at Trinity !!!
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REPORT FROM THE “SEARCHERS”…………
The Search Committee is alive and working diligently on the task of
finding a new rector for Trinity Church. At this time we are
assembling survey questions that will lead us in the right direction
toward our goal. At our March meeting we hope to get the questionnaire
ready to print and send to each of you. This is the part of the
journey where your input is extremely important. This is where your
feelings and hopes for our future are revealed to us. We can then
point our efforts in the direction the Holy Spirit and you are leading
us. As always, please feel free to ask any questions or direct any
comments to a member of the committee. We are here working for and
with you. You are our support group and we welcome your thoughts and
prayers.
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Counselor-In-Training: If
you or anyone you know are interested in becoming a
Counselor-in-Training at Peterkin this summer please contact Jon Ward,
diocesan Youth Minister, as soon as possible for an application.
Applicants must turn 16 before the summer camping season begins and must
attend Senior Camp at Peterkin.
Interested parties may contact Jon at jward@wvdiocese.org or by call
1-866-549-8346.
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 Easter
on the River: Ministry
on the River is beginning to think about Easter on the River.
Modeled after Christmas on the River, Easter on the River will
provide treat boxes for towboat crews who will be working on the
River during the Easter Holiday. Trinity will hold two “Candy
Sundays” when gifts of bags of candy can be brought to the
church to be sent in to the Ministry on the River offices to be
used in the Easter on the River program. The two “Candy Sundays”
will be March 11th and 18th. If you would prefer to donate $3
towards the purchase of a bag of candy that would be great |
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 From
the Education Desk…
Years
ago, people crossed their arms over their chests when they
prayed. In the early Middle Ages during Lent, when meat, and
even eggs and milk, were not allowed, it became a custom to make
little Lenten breads that resembled arms crossed in prayer.
These breads reminded the people to seek God in an extra special
way during this holy time. We know these little breads today as
pretzels ! Here is a recipe to make your own "homemade
pretzels" as a family activity during Lent :
Ingredients: 1
1/2 cups warm water, 1 cake of yeast or 1 package active dry
yeast, 1 tsp. salt, TBS sugar, 4 cups flour, one egg and some
coarse salt.
Directions:
Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the salt and sugar. Blend in
the flour. Knead the dough until it is smooth. Cut into small
pieces. Roll the small pieces into ropes and twist into shape.
Place the twisted dough on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Brush
the pretzels with a beaten egg. Sprinkle lightly with course
salt. Allow to stand in a warm place for 30-44 minutes. Bake at
425 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes, until brown.
You might like to talk about Lent with
the children as you make these. Then, together, create a family
prayer that you can say before enjoying this treat !!
Julie |
Our Parish Prayers
Please hold these people, events and circumstances in your daily
prayers. Also, we encourage you to always say a prayer for those unknown
persons who have no one to pray for them. By-the-way, please remember
to renew prayer requests monthly.
Gene Smith, Julia Davis, Sarah Jane Yates, Don Northrup, Walter Kafka,
Justine Eby, Sherry Evans, Woody and Gloria Thacker, David and Jane Couch,
Edward Aymar, Bob Reindle, Betty Fitcher Raby, Bob Lawrence-Berrey, ,
Emily Roper, Joanne Wiggins, William Scott, Deborah Radar, Danny Adams,
Jennie Miracle, Linda Ingraham. |
Ministers for March 4,
2001
| Chalice
Bearers: |
C.
Bee, C. Waterman, J. Smith, E. Lawson |
| Lectors: |
C.
Bee, K. Kafka, R. Belasco, J. Full |
| Ushers: |
Craig
Curry, Paula and Roger Sellers |
| Acolytes: |
Nick
Smith, Alex Dauphin, Blake Johnson, Anne Renner |
| Coffee
Hour: |
Dr.
and Mrs. Ralsten |
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Propers for Lent I
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Deuteronomy 26:1-11, Psalm 91, Romans
10:5--13, Luke 4:1-13 |
Altar Guild
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No schedule available at present,
if you have any questions
please contact S. Fitcher |
Outreach Items of the Month
- Toothbrushes
- Toothpaste
- Deodorant
- Hearty Canned Soap
Please place in basket at the
back of the church
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Search Committee:
Bill
Bailey (co-chair)
Barb Allman (co-chair)
Susie Fitcher
Paul Miller
Eric Lawson
James Wright
Mary Anne Kersting (consultant)
Jim Full
Carol Snyder
Julie Rathbone
Bob Brantner
Jeff Smith
Craig Curry |
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Bible
Study: Bible study
classes with Father Hadaway continue on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. in
the Adult Education Room. Leigh Hadaway will be Bring your Bible and a
notepad if you wish. Everyone welcome.
Vigil
Sign-up:
Please note the sign-up sheets for the Vigil to follow services on
Maundy Thursday are on the Bulletin Board. Please join us !!
Christian Family Radio
TUNE IN TODAY! |
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Forum
Please note that the Adult Education Class will now be starting the
book of Acts. This will be a good place to start coming if you haven’t
joined us yet !!
Vestry meeting:
The next Meeting of the Vestry will be held on March 19th at 7 p.m.
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 On Wednesday,
February 28, we enter one of the most important seasons of the church year—the
“40 days” of Lent. The word “Lent” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word
lencten, or spring, the time of year when the days begin to lengthen. Lent
itself is always the same period of time, but its starting date is tied to the
movable feast of Easter and can be as early as February 4 or as late as March
10.
Starting on Ash Wednesday, the Lenten season includes forty weekdays and five
Sundays before Holy Week and the culminating triumph of the Resurrection at
Easter. Lent has two major focuses: the first is on baptism, which in the early
Church occurred only at Easter. The Sunday readings provide a short course on
the meaning of baptism. The second Lenten theme—one with which most of us are
now more familiar—is that of fasting and renunciation recalls Jesus’ forty
days in the wilderness, and through them the discipline of self-denial
reflecting the sacrifice of our will to the purpose of God.
Tuesday, February 27, was the final day before the Lenten fast, variously
recalled in the celebration of Carnival (“farewell to meat”) which concluded
on “Fat Tuesday” or Mardi Gras, and in Shrove Tuesday’s pancakes
(consuming the eggs, milk and fat not allowed during the fasting of Lent). “Shrove”
Tuesday refers to the ancient practice of being “shriven” (confessing and
receiving absolution) in order to begin and keep a holy Lent.
The liturgical colors of Lent are purple, for penitence and royalty, or rough
unbleached linen, based on the sackcloth of Old Testament mourning and
reflecting the somber mood of the season.
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