June 8, Pentecost
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 10:26AM Chitra Rao Ordination Saturday, June 7, 10:00 a.m.
By the Grace of God
The Right Reverend J. Jon Bruno
Bishop of Los Angeles
will ordain
Chitra Rao
To the Sacred Order of Deacons
In Christ’s One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of the Angels
Saturday, the seventh of June
Two thousand and fourteen
At ten o’clock in the morning
St. John’s Pro-Cathedral
514 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Your prayers and presence are requested
Those who wish to carpool to the Ordination should meet at Church of the Angels at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. Park on the Church driveway
Pentecost
Pentecost completes the 50 days of the Easter Season. We celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples confirming their faith in the resurrection and empowering them to bear witness to it to the ends of the earth.
The Holy Spirit gives gifts that enable disciples to tell the whole world about Jesus, such that all people can hear the Gospel in their own language. Pentecost reverses the curse of Babel where humans were separated from each other by individual languages known only to one’s own exclusive group. Pentecost celebrates the promise of unity and diversity at the same time, that God will be all in all without doing violence to any. A cursory glance at each day’s news reveals how desperate the world is for such a miracle.
Disciples are now the presence of the Risen Christ in the world. The Holy Spirit pours out gifts to enable us to be this and tell the world what we know.
1. Counsel: The gift of helpful words of advice to others.
2. Fear of the Lord: This does not mean being afraid it means, respect, awe, and wonder in the presence of God.
3. Knowledge: The gift of knowing more and more about God.
4. Understanding: The gift to realize how God is at work in everything.
5. Wisdom: The gift of knowing how to use your knowledge.
6 Fortitude: The gift of strength to love God with your whole self and to not be afraid of anything.
7. Piety: The gift of knowing how much greater than all things is God.
On Sunday we will do the Pentecost Presentation from Catechesis of the Good Shepherd in the Church as part of the Liturgy. After the Presentation has been given people will come up row by row and choose one of the Seven Gifts, as signified by the red candles lighting from that candle a votive candle of their own. And so we will behold in a most marvelous way the spread of the light of the Risen Christ, which will someday fill all things. In the time that remains, consider which of the Seven Gifts you would like to receive on this Pentecost.
Pentecost
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
CGS Level I & II
June 8, 2014
Pentecost
Sources: Acts 1:8, 2:1-4; Isaiah 11:1-3; Joel 3:1-2; John 15:26, 16:17
On the day of Pentecost, God the Father, through the fullness of Christ the Risen Lord, poured out onto the disciples the promised Holy Spirit who endows Christ’s followers with universal gifts to help us know and love God and each other and to bring about the fulfillment of God’s kingdom. In the atria, we introduce these gifts as “wisdom, understanding, counsel, strength, knowledge, and fear of the Lord,” and piety. Each child is invited to choose a gift, just as is done with the parish community in the main sanctuary.
In Level I the focus is on the enjoyment of the seven gifts. In Level II, we not only celebrate the mystery of Pentecost but we also realize the manifestation of the gifts in our work in the atrium. The Holy Spirit remains present with us even today. The children in Level II are asked to bring an item from the atrium to the prayer table, setting it before one of the seven gifts and discuss its connection with the gift.
This presentation helps to prepare future work with moral parables. In both levels, it invites fuller participation in the liturgy. Both Levels 1 & 2 will meet in the Level 3 Atrium
Emmaus Road Monday June 9,
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 11, 12 & 13 for Monday, June 9.
Hands of the Angels June 14,
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 June 14, 10:00 a.m. Parish Hall Living Room
Barbecue for Parents and Children: Sunday June 8, 4:00 p.m.
Fr. Bob and Tracy will host their “beginning of summer barbecue” for parents and children. This is a chance for parents and children to have fun fellowship with one another or one of life’s most amazing journeys. There are not only the school aged children that we see coming into Church at the Offertory, but now a large number of new parents with new young children. We hope that all of you can attend.
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 know someone who was married here and we might not have their contact information please send their home or email address tochurchoftheangels125th@gmail.com. Questions may be sent there as well or you may send them to Rebecca Woods atcoaweddings@gmail.com. Wedding dresses and pictures welcome."
Rebecca Woods has gone through the parish registers and Googled the names of people whose marriages took place here. She mailed invitations to those she could find. She didn’t mail invitations to those who were married here who are active members of the parish.
So just in case it wasn’t clear. Everyone who was married here is invited to participate. There are a lot of you here. It is for you too.
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