March 30, Fourth Sunday in Lent
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 11:10AM Music With The Angels
Celebrating COA’s 125 Anniversary Year
Music with the Angels March 30, 3 p.m. - Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale: by the Metric Ensemble, led by George Ramirez. Stravinsky’s evocative music underlines this cautionary (and so appropriate for Lent) tale of temptation and greed. This un-staged production features actors in the roles of Narrator, the Devil and the Soldier.
Episcopal Relief and Development, Episcopal Federal Credit Union
During Lent we bring before us the work of both Episcopal Relief and Development, which is an outreach of the national Episcopal Church, and the Episcopal Federal Credit Union which is an outreach of the Diocese of Los Angeles. There are opportunities to participate in both of these either by making donations to ERD and/or signing up for an account at the Credit Union. There is material on both things on the table outside Church. ERD also has a booklet of meditations for Lent. Please pick these up on Sunday.
Lenten Meditation Class: Sundays in Lent 9:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall
We have now left ordinary time and are on our journey through the season of Lent. The journey is an invitation to reflect on what it means to be in community with one another and with God. In asking the deeper question: "what is God asking of me at this time in my life?," we are responding to the invitation to step out of our daily patterns to take time to listen to the “still small voice” (I Kings 19:11-13) On the Sundays between Ash Wednesday and Holy Thursday at 9am in the Parish Hall you are invited as a community to a time of intentional reflection on sacred texts (Lectio Divina). We will listen to the text. We will respond and react through conversation and creative expression. Finally, in response to that which we have received we will practice sitting in silent meditation.
O Lord, our Lord, you have created us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
The prayer of St. Augustine
Emmaus Road Monday Evenings 7:00 p.m. Parish Hall Living Room
Emmaus Road has finished the book Iscariot by Tosca Lee. Between now and Holy Week, Emmaus Road will read some short articles before deciding on the next book. For Monday March 31 we will read the article put out for Food For Thought for the past two weeks from the current issue of Theological Studies, Hell: The Mystery of Eternal Love and Eternal Obduracy Copies of the article will be on the table outside Church on Sunday.
Food For Thought
1. From the current issue of Theological Studies, Hell: The Mystery of Eternal Love and Eternal Obduracy Theological reflection on the concept of Hell has come a long way since Dante’s Divine Comedy. This article gives an overview of Christian reflection Hell from the early Church to what contemporary theology has to say.
Easter Preparations 2014
With the coming of the Fourth Sunday of Lent, it is time to turn our attention to our preparations for Holy Week and Easter.
Reflective Dinners in Holy Week 2014
Once again we will have our Reflective Dinners in Holy Week. We will hear some readings from the Christian Tradition as we eat a simple meal together. After that we hear one chapter from the Last Supper Discourses from the Gospel of St. John each evening, followed by one third of Jesus High Priestly Prayer from the 17th Chapter of St. John. We conclude with a simple Eucharist around the table and finish with desert and conversation. On these three nights we capture some of the sense the Last Supper. People are still welcome to sign up and attend the Holy Week Dinners.
Our Presenter this year will be Kelly Russell.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the Reflective Dinners in Holy Week.
Each evening has a team preparing the meal.
This Sunday we will have sign up sheets for each evening. Please sign up after Church.
Easter Breakfast 2014
This year’s Easter breakfast will be much like last year’s and we hope it will be an enjoyable event. The menu will be quiche, breakfast casseroles and other favorite breakfast foods, ham, fruit, hot cross buns/pastries, and some kid-friendly food. Drinks will include coffee, orange juice, milk, water, and some wine and champagne if people will bring it.
Kelly Russell, Jim Goltz, and Fr. Bob are coordinating the Easter Breakfast.
In order to make this work, we do need your help. Here is what we are looking for:
Quiche and other breakfast foods
We need 20 quiches. In place of quiches, people are welcome to prepare other breakfast type dishes that can be heated and served on Easter morning. So please sign up for your favorite. You are encouraged to bring these to the Parish Hall on Holy Saturday
Kitchen Help
We need someone to take responsibility for getting things in the ovens Easter morning, and . help with putting the food out for the breakfast.
Fruit Czar/Czarina
We need someone to oversee the preparation of the fruit. We’d like to have such things as grapes, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, pineapple, etc. We need people to cut up the fruit and prepare it on Saturday to be put out with the breakfast on Easter.
Saturday Set Up
We need people to help with the setting up of tables and chairs on Holy Saturday
Drinks
We’ll set up coffee and there will be juice and milk. People are invited to contribute wine and champagne.
Clean Up
Our custom is that everyone jumps in and helps clean up and put away tables and chairs.
A sign up sheet will be on the table outside Church during the Sunday’s in Lent. You can also e-mail the Church Office to sign up to help as well.
We look forward to a wonderful time.
Easter Flowers 2014
We will again be taking sign ups for donations to help with the cost of decorating the Church for Easter. There will be flower arrangements for the windows, Easter lilies around the Church, and flower arrangement for the entry way. Sign up on the sheet and write the offering or memorial so we can acknowledge it in the Easter Bulletins. Palm Sunday will be the last opportunity to sign up for Easter Flowers. Please put your Easter Flower Offering in the envelope by the Sign Up Sheet
Celebrating COA’s 125 Anniversary Year
COA 125th Anniversary Activity: Renewal of Wedding Vows and Reception
Saturday, June 21, 2014
One of the activities for our 125th Anniversary of Church of the Angels will be a service of renewal of wedding vows for anyone who has been married here. Following the service there will be a “wedding reception” on the Church Lawn.
We did this for the Centennial of COA in 1989 and at that service we had people who had been married at COA from each decade of the twentieth century from the 1920’s forward. In fact for one couple present, the date, day of the week, and the time of our wedding renewal service was the exact day, day of the week, and time of their wedding in 1928! So Rebecca Woods who is organizing this is collected information on couples who’ve been married here. We’re using the church registers and application forms to put a list of possible attendees together.
We need help with publicity for our 125th Anniversary June 21 Wedding Vow Renewal/Reception. We need someone to input the email addresses of recent couples, send save-the-dates and invitations by email to this group and also to help publicize the event by contacting local newspapers and other media. If you're interested in doing any or all of these things, please contact Rebecca Woods at coaweddings@gmail.com.