Anglican Rosary: Saturday, August 22, 9:00 a.m
The Anglican Rosary devotional group meets Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. in the Church. Everyone is welcome.
Emmaus Road: Summer Movies.
Emmaus Road continues its summer movie schedule this Monday with the viewing of Fargo It is an amazing story of good and evil. The good is a simple decency that is not at all naïve up against evil from the most mundane to the most monstrous. It will provoke some deep reflection. Everyone is welcome.
Coffee Hour Sign Up for July and August
We need a volunteer for Sunday August 23 7:45 a.m.
And for Sunday August 30, 7:45 & 10:15 a.m.
The Coffee Hour Sign Up for September and October will be on table outside Church on Sunday.
Daily & Sunday Scripture Readings Available Online
A couple of weeks ago By Way of Reminder had an article about the resources available in the Sunday Large Print Bulletin for your own daily prayer and Scripture reading. This along with the insert for the small print bulletin are available on paper.
The same information can be accessed online from your computer, tablet or smart phone. The address is: bookofcommonprayer.net/lectionary.php There is also another site for mobile devices, m1bookofcommonprayer.net/lectionary.php Either one works on my IPad. When you get to the site you’ll find the readings for Sunday highlighted in red. Click on it and there they are. It can be a big help for LEMs. But anyone might like to look at them in advance of coming to Church on Sunday.
To be in sync with Church of the Angels you have to do the following settings:
1979 BCP. That is the Lectionary we use here, Not RCL
The site also allows you to choose the version of the Bible. The Bible version with use at COA is The Revised Standard Version. So, if you set it up this way, you’ll get what we read on Sundays.
The Daily Scripture Readings are available as well.
Click on Daily Office It will take to that section and you have several choices. It gives you the entire services of Morning and Evening Prayer both Rite 1 (Traditional) or Rite 2 (Contemporary) But if you like, you can also just get the readings for the day without the services. It will give you the Psalm, Old Testament, New Testament, and Gospel. You just read them and scroll down.
You can also choose the Bible version you like. There are several to choose from.
This makes keeping up with the Daily and Sunday Scripture readings very easy. You can go to the site when you have some down time and read them in a matter of a few minutes. If people follow the structure of the Sunday and Daily lectionary, you’ll go through the whole Bible in three years on Sunday, and two years daily. You’ll have more exposure to Scripture than you would get in many of more evangelical Christian communities.
Using your electronic device instead of paper to read the Scriptures may save some trees, or some sheep whose hides are used if you read the Scripture on Scrolls. Of course our electronic devices contain numerous toxic elements that end up in landfills in the Third World, and their assembled in sweatshops in foreign countries. I’m just sayin.
Parents and Children Barbecue Sunday August 30, 4:30 p.m.
We’ll do our second of two Annual Parent and Children Barbecues at the Rectory on Sunday August 30. We usually do two, one at the end of school and the other right before school begins again. Parents and children are invited to the Rectory for fun and food. Details will follow as we get closer.
Food For Thought
On the Food For Thought Table this weekend two articles that will dovetail nicely with the Gospel which is the last of the Bread of Life Discourses in the 6th Chapter of St. John. We hear how at the end several disciples drop out and no longer follow Jesus. Jesus asks Peter, “Do you also want to go away?” Peter responds, “To whom shall we go? You have the word’s of eternal life.”
Both articles provide us with an alternative to the life of faith. Do they really work?
1. From the current Scientific American, the monthly column by Michael Shermer called “Skeptic,” The Meaning of Life in a Formula. “Yet what if science shows that there is no meaning to our lives beyond the purposes we create, however lofty and noble? What if death is the end and there is no soul to continue after life?” …”We do live on—through our genes, our loves, our friends, and our contributions however modest to making the world a little better?”
2. From The New York Times, January 26, 2015, Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table. Oliver Sacks is a well known neurosurgeon who now in is 80s has inoperable terminal cancer. Over the last several months he’s written a number of articles about his facing his own death. This one he talks about taking hope from his interest in them material world, and on each birthday he considers an element in the Periodic Table that corresponds to his age.
Again, do these work for us?