Two times for services this Sunday – Holy Eucharist Rite 1 at 9am, Morning Prayer at 11am.
This Sunday at St. Peter’s, Port Royal
June 30- 9:00am-Holy Eucharist, Rite I
June 30- 11:00pm-Morning Prayer, Rite II
Warrington Tripp to speak June 30 at 9am, 11am
Warrington Tripp is a member of the Gideons International in King George and will be speaking to both services on June 30. You can read more about the Gideons on their website.
Warrington grew up in southwest Michigan and moved with his family to King George in 1989 when he began work at NSWCDD. He is a member of Grace Presbyterian Church and has been a Gideon since 2009 and believes in the power of God’s Word to save souls through the power of the Holy Spirit. Warrington volunteers at Peumansend Creek Regional Jail and the Rappahannock Regional Jail for Bible studies and distribution of scriptures.
Adult Ed Survey
The Vestry is hoping that everyone will take a few minutes and complete this brief survey to help with planning for Adult Christian Education next year.
You can complete the survey online or wait to receive a printed copy on June 30. You can also print one off here. We would like to have these completed by June 30. Thanks!
FredCamp lunch signup, June 30-July 6
St. Peter’s will be providing lunch to the youth volunteers working on rehabilitating homes the week of June 30- July 6. It will involve preparing food for 10 people at a worksite, probably in King George. Not only do you get to meet the crew, but you get a chance to see what they are doing!
If you can donate snacks, desserts, fruit, and help assemble sandwiches or choose a day to take pizza or other fast food to the workers, please let Catherine know (540) 809-7489 or by email.
Look what’s up at the Diocese of Va. blog!
See the Diocese of Va. Diodocs blog and their flickr gallery.
DioDocs is a blog for the clergy and lay leaders of the Diocese of Va.
Above is what their Flickr gallery looked like on Thurs., June 27 showing St. Peter’s graveyard. As you know these pictures could change, so the image of was captured from the site. They had requested graveyard pictures for their printed Summer 2013 magazine and here are some we sent. Hope we make the cut!
Ordinary Time on June 30 – Jesus on the road
This passage begins at 9:51 as Jesus "sets his face to go to Jerusalem" and concludes nearly ten chapters later (19:27) with Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem. This is a turning point in Jesus’ ministry. Luke’s journey narrative is indeed fitting for the Pentecost Season with its focus in Christian discipleship. Luke’s teachings reveal themselves “on the road” which sets his Gospel off from the others.
The text relates two different scenes on this journey: in the village of the Samaritans (9:51-56) and on the road between villages (9:57-62). The first event is found only in Luke. Matthew (8:18-22) has a version of the second event, but with only the first two "would-be" followers. The third is unique to Luke.
1 On the first leg of the journey to Jerusalem, Jesus and his disciples travel through a Samaritan village and evoke the long-standing antipathy between Samaritans and Judeans over the Temple (9:52-53), both a fulfillment of Simeon’s prophecy and a foreshadow of opposition ahead.
They are passing through Samaria on their way south to Jerusalem. Being Galilean, they do not have family to stay with in Samaria, so they need to rely on the hospitality of strangers. Passing through is taken as an insult. But the refusal of the Samaritans to offer hospitality is in turn understood as an insult by Jesus’ followers. Jesus won’t stay with them. He will not become their personal "miracle man." Jesus has another purpose. He will not simply do whatever they want him to do
A Weekful of Saints!
Collect for this week – "Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
June 25th – Nativity of John the Baptist
The Birth of John the Baptist, or Nativity of the Forerunner) is a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of John the Baptist, a prophet who foretold the coming of the Messiah in the person of Jesus and who baptized Jesus. The day of a Saint’s death is usually celebrated as his or her feast day, but Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist, while not being exceptions to this rule also have feast days that celebrate their earthly birth. The reason is that St. John (Luke 1:15), like the Blessed Virgin, was purified from original sin before his very birth (in Catholic doctrine), though not in the instant of conception as in the latter case.
June 28 – Irenaeus
Irenaeus (125?-202) was an early Church father, having been taught by Polycarp, who had been taught by John the Evangelist.
During the persecution of Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor from 161-180 the clergy of that city, many of whom were suffering imprisonment for the faith, sent him in 177 to Rome with a letter to Pope Eleuterus concerning heresy. While Irenaeus was in Rome, a massacre took place in Lyons. Returning to Gaul, Irenaeus succeeded the martyr Saint Pothinus and became the second Bishop of Lyon, the main trading port for Western Gaul (France). During the religious peace which followed the persecution of Marcus Aurelius, the new bishop divided his activities between the duties of a pastor and of a missionary.
We remember him for two things – his work against Gnosticism and the recognition of the four gospels. He apparently did well there, becoming an influential leader against the rising heterodoxy Gnosticism. He first used the word to describe heresies . The Gnostics saw the world as material, and leaves much room for improvement and they denied that God had made it. They saw Jesus more as a spirit than a real flesh human . Before Irenaeus, Christians differed as to which gospel they preferred. Irenaeus is the earliest witness to recognize the four authentic gospels, the same we have today. Irenaeus is also our earliest attestation that the Gospel of John was written by John the apostle and that the Gospel of Luke was written by Luke, the companion of Paul.
June 29 – Feast of Peter and Paul
The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul commemorates the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles St. Peter and Paul of Tarsus, observed on June 29. The celebration is of ancient origin, the date selected being either the anniversary of their martyrdom in 67AD or of the translation of their relics. They had been imprisoned in the famous Mamertine Prison of Rome and both had foreseen their approaching death. Saint Peter was crucified; Saint Paul, a Roman citizen, was slain by the sword. Together they represent two different Christian traditions.
Why do we remember them ? Peter is pictured on the left with the keys – the keys to the kingdom. In Matthew 16, Christ says " And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven." They keys since then have been symbols of Papal power. Peter represents that part of the Church which gives it stability: its traditions handed down in an unbroken way from the very beginnings, the structures which help to preserve and conserve those traditions, the structure which also gives consistency and unity to the Church, spread as it is through so many races, cultures, traditions, and geographical diversity
Paul is pictured with the Bible. He, on the other hand, represents the prophetic and missionary role in the Church. It is that part of the Church which constantly works on the edge, pushing the boundaries of the Church further out, not only in a geographical sense but also pushing the concerns of the Church into neglected areas of social concern and creatively developing new ways of communicating the Christian message. This is the Church which is constantly renewed, a Church which needs to be constantly renewed
Coming up- July 4 in Port Royal
St. Peter’s will be involved in several ways:
1. Place of rest during the day. We will show our slideshow on the beauty of St. Peter’s constantly during the day.
2. ECW and others will be providing lunch
3. After lunch , St. Peter’s will provide a hymn sing with organ concert. Thom Guthrie will do the honors.
Come to a 1898 Wedding!
June is a wedding month so embedded in a folder of Jim Patton’s St. Peter’s files called "membership" was this 1898 wedding which occurred during Rev. Ware’s time and has some wonderful descriptions:
