June 18, 2nd Sunday after Pentecost
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 11:21AM Coffee Hour Sign Up: July & August
We are taking sign ups for coffee hour during the months of July and August. The Sign Up sheet is by the coffee outside Church on Sunday. You can also email the office to sign up for a Sunday.
Sign Ups Needed: 7:45 Service: July 23, August 6, 13, 20, 27
10:15 Service: July 23, August 6, 13, & 20
Summer Sunday School: Begins Sunday June 18
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd finished last Sunday. For Sundays during the summer, Gillian Cox Askew will lead a Sunday School class for children in Church during those Sundays. It will include Bible stories and craft activities.
Daily Scripture Readings: Season after Pentecost
Starting this Sunday we number the Sundays after Pentecost. This weekend is the Second Sunday after Pentecost. We also have a sequence for the Sunday and Daily Scripture readings called “Propers,” and those numbers depend on when Easter falls. This year The Second Sunday after Pentecost is called “Proper 6.” This tells us which table of readings to use for Sundays and weekdays.
In the Season after Pentecost the Old Testament for the Daily Scripture readings is the History of Israel. This year we begin on Proper 6 with the Late History. We begin with 1st Samuel and go through the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles concluding with the Maccabees. This covers the time from the Prophet Samuel, and King Saul, down to the Exile in Babylon, then the return followed by Israel’s conquest by the Greeks and their revolt under the Maccabees. This is where you get the familiar stories of David and Goliath, King Solomon and his wisdom, the wicked Kings of Israel, (Like Ahab who was named after the sea captain in Moby Dick!) the prophets Elijah and Elisha. So lots of good beach reading this summer from the Good Book! The table of Daily Scripture readings in included each week in the bulletin inserts in the small and large bulletins. So take it up this summer and enjoy it.
Emmaus Road: Monday, June 19, 7:00 p.m.
Emmaus Road continues the book, Simple Gifts: Living Lessons From a Shaker Villiage, by June Sprigg. The book is available from Amazon
Here’s a description :
In Simple Gifts, June Sprigg tells the story of one of America's last Shaker communities--Canterbury Shaker Village, in Canterbury, New Hampshire--during its twilight years, and of its seven remarkable "survivor" women, who were among the last representatives of our longest-lived and best-known communal utopian society. As a college student Sprigg spent a summer among them, and here she gracefully interweaves the narrative of their lives with the broader history of Shakers in America as she shows us how her experiences there affected her own life and opened the door to her creativity.
Gleaning information from old records and journals that she pored over that summer and later, Sprigg brings to life the generations of Canterbury Shakers from the eighteenth century to the present--their customs, their architecture, their spirituality. She also explores the social and cultural forces and the internal imperatives and tensions that caused membership to decrease, all of which, by 1972, brought the community to crisis.
Chronicling the daily life of the village as she found it, Sprigg uncovers the affirming energies of the Shakers--the prominence of mutual love and respect, the devoted tradition of mothering surrogate children, and, above all, the surviving women's spirited eccentricities. She reveals the Shakers as individuals--their personal histories, their wildly different beginnings, what they gave up to join the Shaker community, and, more important, what they gained.
Through her lively text and drawings and her intimate connection with the community, Sprigg brings us close to its people with a book that both enlightens and inspires.
Religious Potential of the Child: Thursday, June 21, 7:00 p.m.
Fr. Bob will lead a group in reading The Religious Potential of the Child, by Sofia Cavalletti. This is the foundational text for our spiritual formation program for our children called The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. This reading group is for people seeking to understand more deeply how the life of faith develops in children and how adults can facilitate, that is cooperate with God in what he is doing in the depths of their children. The group will meet in Fr. Bob’s office. This coming Thursday we’ll have an overview of the book and some demonstrations of the insights contained in it. Fr. Bob has books available. Get a hold of him if you need one.
The Financial Page
We are coming close to the end of the 2nd Quarter. During the week after Sunday, June 25, Giving Statements will be mailed out to give you a record of your giving to COA so far this year. If necessary, please bring your pledge up to date so the parish finances are sufficient to meet our expenses in the summer.
Looking Far Ahead: Annual Parish Retreat: October 13-15 2017
Once again we’ll have our Annual Parish Retreat the Second Weekend in October at Camp Thousand Pines in Crestline. This is one of the most fun events of our parish life. Participants have the option of staying at the camp. We have rooms for each family group. People may also stay in Crestline and come on site for the program. Camp Thousand Pines is also close enough (1 ¼ hour from COA) that people can come up for the day. The Annual Parish Retreat gives us a chance to spend quality time with each other and deepen our connections in a deeper way than our regular parish activities. Everyone always has a wonderful time at the Parish Retreat so we make the announcement now to give everyone the best possible opportunity to attend.
SO PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR SO YOU KNOW IT’S COMING AND SO IT DOESN’T SNEAK UP ON YOU.