Altar Guild Meeting: Saturday, October 25, 9:00 a.m.
The Altar Guild will meet in the Parish Hall Living Room to continue to fill out its schedule, welcome new members, and to plan the decorations for Christmas.
Hands of the Angels October 25, 10:00 a.m.
The Hands of the Angels Knitting & Handicrafts group meets on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays 10:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall Living Room. Everyone is welcome to join and if you’d like, learn how to knit. The next meeting will be Saturday October 25 10:00 a.m. Parish Hall Living Room
Food For Thought: Video Version
Sundays, 9:00 a.m. Science & Religion DVD
We pick up where we left off a couple of weeks ago, exploring in more depth the Galileo affair. What was involved and how it played out may surprise you.
Coffee Hour Sign Up
The Sign up Sheet for Coffee Hour for November and December will be on coffee table this Sunday. Please sign up to take a turn.
Information Updates:
Beginning Sunday we’ll put out the current Parish Directory and Email list so you can make corrections to it. Each will be in a separate file folder. You need to check both and make any necessary corrections in both files because they are in different parts of the computer.
Year of Grace Calendars
The Year of Grace Calendars for the Christian Year which begins on the First Sunday of Advent, November 30, will be available for purchase on Sunday. They come in three sizes: Laminated Poster, which is great for hanging on your refrigerator door, Laminated Notebook size which is 11 x 17, and Paper Notebook size. An envelope will be available for checks and cash.
Altar Flowers for 2015
The Sign Up Sheet for Altar Flowers for Sundays in 2015 will be on the table outside Church on Sunday. Sign up for the Sundays you would like to give Flowers. The cost is $55.00 per Sunday.
Music with the Angels Sunday, October 26, 4:00 p.m
The Early Music Ensemble Jouyssance will perform its fall concert at Church of the Angels this Sunday at 4:00 p.m. in the Church. We were blessed to have Jouyssance sing with our choir for the 125th Anniversary Evensong in September. They are a wonderful group of singers. Here’s a description of the program
Mostly Monteverdi
Heralded for his contribution to early Baroque aesthetic, Claudio Monteverdi also produced some of the most exquisite music that is steadfastly late Renaissance in style. Jouyssance will present some of his early madrigals, plus his sacred music written deliberately in the Palestrina-like “stile antico.”
Cost: $25.00 General admission
$20.00 seniors and members of SCEMS
$15.00 students.
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
CGS Level I Atrium
October 26, 2014
Preparing the Chalice
“By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.”
We continue our work with water and wine. At the last atrium session, we looked at preparing cruets of wine and water. This Sunday, we will see how the chalice is prepared for the Eucharist. Have you ever wondered why we use wine and water? Have you ever noticed how much of each liquid is poured from the cruets into the chalice? Once the water and wine are combined as one, can they easily be separated from one another? These are questions we will be pondering.
For adult interest, there are two websites I came across which I found interesting regarding the commingling of water and wine. The first one is a post given by Jeffrey Pinyan who gives a fairly decent history of the use of water with wine which dates back to the (Christian) Old Testament: [http://www.prayingthemass.com/2010/06/mixing-wine-with-water.html].
The second one is written by Fr. Edward McNamara [http://www.ewtn.com/library/liturgy/zlitur39.htm] who not only responds to the question of why water with the wine but he goes a little farther and also includes a reflection about the co-mingling of water with flour in making the bread, representing the body of Jesus for the Eucharist. Part of Fr. McNamara’s reflection is included below:
"Thus the cup of the Lord is not indeed water alone, nor wine alone, unless each be mingled with the other; just as, on the other hand, the body of the Lord cannot be flour alone or water alone, unless both should be united and joined together and compacted in the mass of one bread; in which very sacrament our people are shown to be made one, so that in like manner as many grains, collected, and ground, and mixed together into one mass, make one bread; so in Christ, who is the heavenly bread, we may know that there is one body, with which our number is joined and united" ("On the Sacrament of the Cup of the Lord," No 13).
Sofia Cavalletti tells a story about a seven-year-old who was intent upon continuing the activity of preparing the chalice over and over again. Over the course of the year, there was no “re-directing” his attention to other works in the atrium. The catechist noticed a higher sense of concentration apparent while he was engaged in his work and let him continue to do it. It seemed to be a challenge for him to explain the meaning of what he was doing and why. Until one day, he was ready to share his insight with his catechist. Sofia writes:
“Finally - it was almost the end of the year – he managed to say: “A few drops of water and a lot of wine, because we must lose ourselves in Jesus.” For the entire year the child, through the very simple details of that exercise, had been considering the mysterious union of Christ with mankind.”
“We must lose ourselves in Jesus.” Amen.
Ms. Georgie
Annual Parish Retreat:
We had a wonderful time on the parish retreat. We had 24 adults and 9 children. Fr. Bob gave a presentation on the The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, as a means of thinking about what God might be inviting us to become and do.
In the afternoon, several children along with Victoria Wilson and Kathy Foley took a ride on the zip line that Camp Thousand Pines has. Others took a walk around Lake Gregory and wandered through Crestline. Saturday night was a campfire with marshmallows and s’mores. Those who came up for Saturday alone left after the campfire to come back.
Sunday morning everyone gathered for Eucharist and then packed up and departed. The weather was great, the food was good, the company was wonderful. We’ve set the retreat for the same weekend next year. We hope more will come and enjoy this activity.
Emmaus Road Monday, October 13, 7:00 p.m.
Emmaus Road goes from one end of the spectrum, having concluded Fr. James Martin’s book Jesus, to the other, or maybe we should say, “dark side.” We will be reading Tosca Lee’s novel, Demon: a Memoir. It is a portrayal of Lucifer. And through this novel we will encounter much of the thinking on the nature of evil in the Christian Tradition. Emmaus Road read Ms. Lee’s novel, Iscariot, earlier in the year. This fictionalized portrayal of Judas captured all of the current biblical scholarship about him, in a very engaging way. Just in case you think we’ve gone off the deep end, we did read some years ago The Screwtape Letters. So we’ve met this guy before. The book is available from Amazon. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion. Below is description of it from Amazon.
Recently divorced and mired in a meaningless existence, Clay drifts from his drab apartment to his equally lusterless job as an editor for a small Boston press--until the night Lucian finds him and everything changes with the simple words, "I'm going to tell you my story, and you're going to write it down and publish it."What begins as a mystery soon spirals into chaotic obsession as Clay struggles to piece together Lucian's dark tale of love, ambition, and grace--only to discover that the demon's story has become his own. And then only one thing matters: learning how the story ends.
The Feast of All Saints:
Sunday, November 2
Stories of the Saints, Prayers for deceased loved ones.
We will celebrate the Feast of All Saints on Sunday, November 2. Once again we will have two “Saint Stories.,
Our Ministry Study Year person, Louise Macatee will give the story of St. John Bosco. St. John was a priest and the founder of the religious order known as the Salesians. He is remembered for his work as an educator.
Robert Bates will reprise his Saint Story about the Four Chaplains who a troop ship in World War 2 stayed with the ship after it was torpedoed and worked to rescue the soldiers. The chaplains went down with the ship, giving their lives for the troops.
We will also recite the names of those who have been buried from our parish since last All Saints Day, and as is our tradition, we will recite the names of our loved ones who have gone before us, all within the context of the Eucharistic Prayer. In the reciting of the names embedded in the Eucharistic Prayer, we not only remember those we love who’ve gone before us, but affirm our hope in their living in our Lord’s Risen life which the Eucharist makes present to us. All Saints is a profound event, of the most moving liturgies of the Church Year.
There will be a sign up sheet for you to list those you’d like to be included in the prayers for All Saints, on the table outside the next several Sundays.
You can also email names in to the Church Office. Please specify whether you want them read at the 7:45 or 10:15 a.m. service.
Annual Giving for 2015
Two Sundays ago, Bill Woods, who is a member of the Church’s Finance Committee spoke to both services about Annual Giving. Where last year his emphasis was on the need to close the deficit in our operating budget, this year, our parish having made substantial progress toward that goal, Bill began by saying, “Thank you.”
He then went on to lead us through a consideration of all the wonderful things that make up Church of the Angels, our facilities, our activities, the spiritual richness it provides, and most important, the people of the parish.
Bill ended with inviting everyone to join with us and participate in supporting the parish, enjoying what it offers, and “leaning in,” as it were, to make it even better. Annual Giving is where we get most of the resources to do all this.
Being a giver is one of the things that makes up the Christian life. Christians give in four different, yet related ways. We call this The Four Fields of Christian Giving.
Annual Giving: Financial Support for the life and work of the local parish.
Mission Giving: Financial Support for the spread of the Gospel and the relief for human need For us this usually means sponsored by the Outreach Committee, funded by 10% of income from movie locations
Capital Giving Occasional Financial Support for building new or upkeep of Church infrastructure. This is funded by income realized from the Church being used as a movie location, and endowment income from gifts left by the Campbell Johnston family and other benefactors. Which leads to…
Legacy Giving: Making a provision for the Church out of your estate so that your support continues beyond your lifetime so that future generations may enjoy what we’ve all come to value.
The Annual Giving Letter and Pledge Cards have been mailed out. We ask your participation and to please return them to us as soon as possible.