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Projects
1. "Operation Clean Sweep", Saturday, June 1, 2013 Bowling Green
Spring Cleaning! Clean out those closets, basements and attics and find new homes for those items you no longer need. The ECW will have several tables at the Bowling Green Clean Sweep on Saturday, June 1 and will sell these donated items to raise money for missions all over the world. The event is from 8am to 1pm.
Here is a link to last year’s event.
2. "Affirming our Faith" continues this Sunday, June 2 at 10am
“Affirming our Faith” covers information about what it means to be a Christian, specifically in the Episcopal Church. Those who are preparing for the Bishop’s visit will be attending, and everyone else is also welcome. Last week we covered the key books we use – the Bible, Prayer Book and Hymnal. Here are the notes. This week is the Eucharist.
Come share some food, fun and learning for these Sundays. Bring your questions.
3. UTO Spring Ingathering, began May 26th
"Our Change Changes Lives"
Bring your UTO boxes and/or checks to support the work of the UTO.
More information about the UTO can be found here.
4. Writing to Alex Long in Afghanistan
Alex Long would appreciate mail from you. You can write Alex a letter at this address:
Sgt Long, Alexander
1st MSOB A CO
UNIT 42550
FPO AP 96427-2550
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6. Prayer requests – Add a name to the prayer list here.
Christ centered, Biblically based, spirit filled and a place of simple hospitality, we have shared our communal life with our church,our community, and those in need. Your presence enriches us.
June 2- 10:00am- "Affirming our Faith" – Christian Ed
June 2- 11:00am- Holy Eucharist, Rite II
June 2- 12:00pm – Coffee Hour, Parish House
Things to bring this Sunday:
1. Elementary school books, grades 3-5, an ECW project. Elizabeth donated The Secret Garden . Here are some appropriate Newbery Medal winners.
2. Food for donation to Caroline Social Services.
Trinity Sunday , May 26, 2013 (full size gallery)
Anything but Ordinary! – Ordinary Time, June 2
Beginning Sunday, June 2, we enter the Church year known as Ordinary Time. After Easter, Jesus’s ascension into heaven, and the coming of the Holy Spirit to us at Pentecost, we accept responsibility for being and becoming Christ’s body in the world. We are called by Jesus to live in community, our lives together guided not only by the example of Jesus, but by the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Basically, Ordinary Time encompasses that part of the Christian year that does not fall within the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, or Easter. Ordinary Time is anything but ordinary. According to The General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, the days of Ordinary Time, especially the Sundays, "are devoted to the mystery of Christ in all its aspects." We continue our trek through the both the Gospels of Luke and John- through parables challenges, healings – some great stories and teachings.
Vestments are usually green , the color of hope and growth, and the Church counts the thirty-three or thirty-four Sundays of Ordinary Time, inviting her children to meditate upon the whole mystery of Christ – his life, miracles and teachings – in the light of his Resurrection.
You may see Sundays referred to as "Propers". The Propers are readings for Ordinary Time following Epiphany and Pentecost, numbered to help establish a seven day range of dates on which they can occur. Propers numbering in the Revised Common Lectionary begins with the Sixth Sunday in Epiphany, excludes Sundays in Lent through Pentecost and Trinity Sunday, and resumes the Second Sunday after Pentecost (the first Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday), usually with Proper 4.
A Baseball connection to this week’s Gospel
The Gospel reading this week this week is from Luke 7. What does it demonstrate about Ordinary Time ? (Read the scripture above).
"In Luke’s story the centurion tells Jesus it is the slave’s worthiness that should be honored by the healing. Not the centurion’s. That is the thing the centurion knows will be wrong if Jesus comes to his house to honor what the Jewish elders have liked in the centurion. The slave has no authority at all. None. Yet the healing, the centurion says, needs to be because the slave’s life has value, not because his owner’s life has value." We may say that the contemporary version of the centurion is Branch Rickey. Nancy Rockwell’s article “42” is a worthy application of this idea.
“Rickey is the team executive for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He is a man under authority, and he orders men around and they obey him. He is also a man who, for twenty years, has carried around inside him a memory of the intense pain that ripped apart a black man who played on an early team he coached, when a hotel where the team was staying for an away game refused him a room because of his color. Rickey got the hotel to back down, but the hurt he saw in that man stayed with him as a lasting heartache, until he finally came to see that he had not begun to address the evil from which that incident had sprung, and that he could choose to use his authority to integrate baseball.”
ECW Trip to Ginter Gardens, June 6
Join the ECW at 10:30am at St Peter’s for a trip to the beautiful Lewis Ginter Gardnens in Richmond
The gardens spread over 40 acres and is developed into more than a dozen themed areas – dozen themed gardens include a Children’s Garden, Rose Garden, Healing Garden, Sunken Garden, Asian Valley and Victorian Garden.
Ginter was a Richmond philanthropist who bought the land in 1884. In response to the new craze for bicycling he founded the Lakeside Wheel Club in 1894. This was the original structure which is now Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s historic Bloemendaal House.
Here are a couple of links:
1. Main site
2. FAQ about the gardens
3. History and About Lewis Ginter
4. What’s in bloom?
5. Day Planner
Tracking Organ Maintenance, May 22
Our organ is a 1850 George Stevens tracker organ, the only one like it in Virginia. We are fortunate to have Mark Thompson as our "organ mechanic." He was here on May 22 to rebuild the pedal board trackers. Many of the trackers were original with the 1850 organ.
Trackers are connected to the pedals. When a pedal goes down, a tracker goes down . That action pulls another tracker connected pipe to force the pipe to open to receive air and produce the sound.
John Sours and Mark Thompson of Thompson Pipe Organ Company prepared new tracker action pieces.
FredCamp Mission Opportunity, June 30 -July 6
What is FredCamp ?
"We exist to bring together youth and adult volunteers for one week each year; together, we live and work together in a Christian community, performing critical home repairs and remodeling for low-income individual and families in Fredericksburg and the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline and King George. We also make time for fellowship, fun, and great food!"
St. Peter’s does not have a mission trip this summer but FredCamp is a wonderful way to participate in mission – and they are fixing up homes in Caroline County. Here are ways to participate :
1. GO-FERS…MANY NEEDED!!
2. LUNCH & DINNER ANGELS
3. SATURDAY WRAP-UP TEAM
4. DONATIONS
Read on for details of these opportunities…
And There’s more…An Automatic Donation from RubyTuesday to FredCamp- June 8,9
Ruby Tuesdays location at the Mine Road location just south of Fredericksburg on Sat. June 8 or Sun. June 9, 2013 will make an automatic donation of 20% of your purchase to FredCamp. You will need a copy of the flyer here to present to the server. This location is 30 minutes from St. Peter’s. Catherine and Ben will be going after church on the 9th. Please join them for a time of fellowship and support of FredCamp.
Use these directions from St. Peter’s
