Dear Friends--
This Sunday is a children's choir Sunday and we'll be celebrating the feast of the Epiphany, so please don't miss it! It's the day when we hear Matthew's account of these wise men -- or astrologers, or kings, or whatever they were -- setting out from their safe, warm homes in the East to follow a star, not knowing where their journey would lead them.
On one level, it's like any great adventure story - from the Odyssey to the Lord of the Rings - where someone sets out on a quest that looks crazy from the outside. Their quest chooses them -- they saw the star and couldn't pretend to have missed it, even if they'd wanted to -- and they start to walk a road they cannot see the end of.
And they are changed by it. The gospel story ends with the note that, as a result of their encounter with God in Bethlehem, the wise men "left for their own country by a different way," and the original audience couldn't have missed that little word "Way," as in "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life" (the earliest Christians referred to their faith not as "Christianity" but as "the Way"). God was leading them on a new way, in a new way. May it be so for us, too.
We'll hear from Isaiah again this Sunday, too: "Arise, shine, for your light has come." As we say goodbye to the Christmas season, these readings echo our own hope to go back to our regular lives changed, following a little more faithfully the path God's light is revealing to us, step by step.
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Here's who's doing what on Sunday (please join us!):
Presider: Steve
Deacon: Charles
Preacher: Beau
Readers: Gloria
Sunday School: Children's Choir
And here's our schedule:
ONGOING
Sundays: Quiet Eucharist, Church, 8:00 am
Sundays: Choral Eucharist with Sunday School, Church, 9:30 am.
Sundays: A. A., Undercroft, 8 pm.
Mon-Fri: Morning Prayer, 8:30 am.
Mondays: Community Supper, 5 pm.
Mondays: Satnam Yoga, Chapel, 6-7:30 pm.
2nd Mondays (Jan 11): Vestry, Office, 6:30pm
Tuesdays: Priests, Office, 5pm
4th Tuesdays (Jan 22): Worship Committee & Preachers, Office, 5:30 pm
Tuesdays: TOPS, Undercroft, 7 pm.
Thurs: Wt. Watchers, Undercroft, 6:30 pm.
2nd Thurs (Jan 14): Biblical Storytelling, 5:30 pm.
January 2010
Sat, Jan 16, 7:30pm: Stone Church Arts presents Miché Fambro, guitar & vocals
David Fricke, Senior Editor of Rolling Stone, wrote: “Hailing from upstate New York, singer, guitarist and songwriter Miché Fambro specializes in a more quiet storm – a delicate blend of acoustic chamber folk, Brazilian tropicalismo and metaphysical introspection”.
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Welcome, welcome, Jesus our infant savior,
come down from heaven to give life to the world.
May we, who like the shepherds
have witnessed God's love in a manger,
return to our work with joy.
May we, for whom the heavens have opened
to proclaim God with us,
and who have fed on living bread
and drunk heaven's wine,
go out offering your peace,
day by day. Amen!
Peace,
Fr. Mark.
This Sunday is a children's choir Sunday and we'll be celebrating the feast of the Epiphany, so please don't miss it! It's the day when we hear Matthew's account of these wise men -- or astrologers, or kings, or whatever they were -- setting out from their safe, warm homes in the East to follow a star, not knowing where their journey would lead them.
On one level, it's like any great adventure story - from the Odyssey to the Lord of the Rings - where someone sets out on a quest that looks crazy from the outside. Their quest chooses them -- they saw the star and couldn't pretend to have missed it, even if they'd wanted to -- and they start to walk a road they cannot see the end of.
And they are changed by it. The gospel story ends with the note that, as a result of their encounter with God in Bethlehem, the wise men "left for their own country by a different way," and the original audience couldn't have missed that little word "Way," as in "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life" (the earliest Christians referred to their faith not as "Christianity" but as "the Way"). God was leading them on a new way, in a new way. May it be so for us, too.
We'll hear from Isaiah again this Sunday, too: "Arise, shine, for your light has come." As we say goodbye to the Christmas season, these readings echo our own hope to go back to our regular lives changed, following a little more faithfully the path God's light is revealing to us, step by step.
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Here's who's doing what on Sunday (please join us!):
Presider: Steve
Deacon: Charles
Preacher: Beau
Readers: Gloria
Sunday School: Children's Choir
And here's our schedule:
ONGOING
Sundays: Quiet Eucharist, Church, 8:00 am
Sundays: Choral Eucharist with Sunday School, Church, 9:30 am.
Sundays: A. A., Undercroft, 8 pm.
Mon-Fri: Morning Prayer, 8:30 am.
Mondays: Community Supper, 5 pm.
Mondays: Satnam Yoga, Chapel, 6-7:30 pm.
2nd Mondays (Jan 11): Vestry, Office, 6:30pm
Tuesdays: Priests, Office, 5pm
4th Tuesdays (Jan 22): Worship Committee & Preachers, Office, 5:30 pm
Tuesdays: TOPS, Undercroft, 7 pm.
Thurs: Wt. Watchers, Undercroft, 6:30 pm.
2nd Thurs (Jan 14): Biblical Storytelling, 5:30 pm.
January 2010
Sat, Jan 16, 7:30pm: Stone Church Arts presents Miché Fambro, guitar & vocals
David Fricke, Senior Editor of Rolling Stone, wrote: “Hailing from upstate New York, singer, guitarist and songwriter Miché Fambro specializes in a more quiet storm – a delicate blend of acoustic chamber folk, Brazilian tropicalismo and metaphysical introspection”.
+++
Welcome, welcome, Jesus our infant savior,
come down from heaven to give life to the world.
May we, who like the shepherds
have witnessed God's love in a manger,
return to our work with joy.
May we, for whom the heavens have opened
to proclaim God with us,
and who have fed on living bread
and drunk heaven's wine,
go out offering your peace,
day by day. Amen!
Peace,
Fr. Mark.
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