June 22, The Second Sunday After Pentecost
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 9:32AM Church of the Angels
125th Anniversary Activity:
Renewal of Wedding Vows
Saturday, June 21, 2:00 p.m.
On June 21 we will be celebrating one hundred and twenty five years of marriages at Church of the Angels by renewing the vows of every couple in attendance who was married here. The ceremony will begin at 2:00, reception to follow. If you were married at Church of the Angels please come and renew your vows. Feel free to wear your wedding dress! Guests and family members are welcome. Send questions and pictures to Rebecca Woods at coaweddings@gmail.com.
Church of the Angels
125th Anniversary Activity:
Music with the Angels
Jouyssance Concert: Sunday June 22, 4:00 p.m.
Tallis’ Lamentations of Jeremiah
Thomas Tallis’ monumental Lamentations of Jeremiah will serve as the central work in a concert devoted to the music of Tallis and his contemporaries. This program will explore themes of healing, reconciliation, and affirmation, with additional works by Lasso, Dunstable, Dufay, Sheppard, and Gesualdo
$20.00 General Admission
$15.00 students/seniors/SCEMS members
Please call 626-260-8249 or visit www. Jouyssance.org
Hands of the Angels: New Completed Project
The Hands of the Angels Knitting and Handicraft group has competed a major project for the enhancement of the Parish Hall. Hundreds of hours went into crafting a special angel rug that will hang as a tapestry in the Parish Hall. We’ll bless and dedicate this work of art and labor of love at the liturgies on Sunday. We’ll install it in the Parish hall in the coming week.
Summer Sunday School
On the Seventh Sunday of Easter Fr. Bob thanked the Catechists for their service to the children of our parish. He presented each of them with a copy of James Martin’s book Jesus, as a token of our appreciation.
The last Sunday for Catechesis of the Good Shepherd was Pentecost. There the children gathered in the Level 2 atrium and heard the same Pentecost presentation that we did in Church. But in addition to lighting candles, they went around the atrium and brought to the Prayer Table items in the atrium that spoke to them of the gifts they had received through the Catechesis this year.
In the summer we close the atriums to give the catechists a well earned rest and the opportunity to come to the Liturgy in the large sanctuary. In place of Catechesis we will offer a “Summer Sunday School” led by Marielle Askew. She is working on a set of lessons to introduce children to some important people in the history of Christianity. Each lesson is self contained which works well for the varied attendance that happens over the summer.
We are grateful for her help. Summer Sunday school begins at 10:15 and the children will be brought over in time to receive Communion.
Emmaus Road Monday June 23,
Emmaus Road continues the book, Jesus, by Fr. James Martin SJ. We’ve read two other books by Fr. Martin, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything, and My Life with the Saints. Fr. Martin is an engaging writer and we look forward to a good time with his book. Emmaus Road will read Chapters 15 & 16 for Monday, June 22.
Food For Thought
On the Food for Thought Table this Sunday two articles that flow nicely from the one last week called The Hard Work of Holiness. They are about why the work of holiness is so hard.
1. The first article is from the recent edition of The Economist and is entitled “Which is the Deadliest Sin?” Several people reflect on each of the Seven Deadly Sins and how they take shape in our lives now.
2. The second article is from this past Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal and is entitled, I’m Sorry You Were Offended.” It is a review of a new book, Sorry About That, and the article leads off with, “Public apologies might not be so nauseating if there weren’t so many of them. Their aim, you feel, isn’t to express genuine remorse or accept blame, but to make the offense go away as quickly as possible.”
Both articles point us into the problem that dare not speak its name because heaven forbid, we might not feel good about ourselves.