October 6, 2019 – Pentecost 17
The Week Ahead…
Oct. 9 – 10:00am – Ecumenical Bible Study
Oct. 9 – 5:00pm-6:30pm – Village Dinner
Oct. 11 – 7:00am – ECM at Horne’s
Oct. 13 – 11:00am – Holy Eucharist, Rite II
Sunday, Oct. 13 Readings and Servers
PhilHarmonia is a 28-voice community choir that sings classical and contemporary choral music from Philadelphia. Founded in 2013, and now in its sixth season, PhilHarmonia continues to delight audiences with its commitment to musical excellence, and its diverse range of choral programs.
They will be here Sat. Nov. 2, 2019, 7pm to share their music. There will be a reception preceding the concert.
PhilHarmonia is pleased to open its 7th Season with “Music, She Wrote” – a concert celebrating works by women composers through the ages. From Italian Renaissance madrigalist, Madalena Casulana, the first woman in western music history to have her works published to composers today such as Estonian composer Evelin Seppar, Australian-American composer Melissa Dunphy, and American composer Mari Esabel Valverde, PhilHarmonia will perform an eclectic tribute to music by women. We also mark the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann, herself a remarkable composer and extraordinary musician, with her only extant choral set, Drei Gemischte Chöre, Op. 19.
Composers include: Madalena Casulana, Rafaella Aleotti, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann, Amy Cheney Beach, Evelin Seppar, Katerina Gimon, Melissa Dunphy, Mari Esabel Valverde.
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Early Fall
Fall is a wonderful time to pause and look at nature all around you. You have to take the time and not think of the minutes. The time before church is my time to let nature envelop me, especially with all the rain creating effects on fallen leaves, on the graves and on the river. Take a look at what I saw…
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Lectionary, Oct. 13 2019 – Pentecost 18, Year C
"Jesus Heals the Ten Lepers" (17th century, unknown)
The lectionary readings are here or individually:
First Reading – 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c
Psalm – Psalm 111
Epistle – 2 Timothy 2:8-15
Gospel – Luke 17:11-19
Today’s readings remind us of the wholeness we experience when we allow God to heal and forgive In 2 Kings, Naaman’s healing leads him to acknowledge the one true God. Paul reflects on the centrality of Jesus Christ, who is himself the good news, bringing salvation. In today’s gospel, 10 lepers receive healing; one healed leper receives salvation.
Sometimes in the faith journey we feel like failures. We want to give up. We have done our part to share the Good News, nothing we do seems to bring people in, and still others even question our motives for what we are doing (think Elisha and Naaman). However, when we are faithful to God, we will see God’s faithfulness in us. Sometimes we are like the lone Samaritan who recognizes what God has done. Sometimes we are like Naaman, pulling and fighting all the way. And sometimes we are like Jesus, wondering what happened to all the others, but knowing that one is enough. The seeds are planted. Live in faithfulness, and you will experience God’s faithfulness in you.
The healing in today’s gospel occurs “on the way.” This sounds a contemporary note. As Jane Redmont writes in Generous Lives: "Commuting time seems to have become the privileged place of prayer in North America."
Modern commuters have made the same discovery as first-century lepers. Simply because we’re on our way to something else does not mean that Jesus can’t intersect us. We meet Jesus on the L.A. freeway, the Washington D.C. Metro and the barbed wire along the Rio Grande.
We meet God in the spaces between certainties. As one retreat director said, "95% of your life may be just fine, and you don’t mind revealing it to anyone. It’s the other 5% we’re concerned with." In the shadowy, unstable, insecure areas, we need healing. There we are most likely to feel the touch of Jesus’ hand.
And how do we respond? As usual, the answer comes in story form. Just as the despised Samaritan would show Jews how to be good neighbors (Luke 10:30-37), so a "foreigner" demonstrates how to receive a gift. Healing is offered to all 10 lepers, just as rain and sunshine fall on all people. But the ability to recognize the blessing and express gratitude for it seems to be more unique. "You sanctify whatever you are grateful for," writes Anthony DeMello.
The disease part of the Old Testament readings and Gospel has been reinterpreted Indeed, in modern translations, the word “leprosy is” not used, but is represented by the term “scaly infection”. This condition is actually several, referring not only to skin disease, but also to fungal infestations of fabric and of walls. Such skin conditions may represent psoriasis, mycotic infections, eczema, or pityriasis rosea. All were tied to the ritual impurity codes of the Hebrew Scriptures. In the Gospel reading today, Jesus encounters ten lepers, and their condition may be more connected to the ancient understanding of tzaraath than to our modern understanding of leprosy. It is interesting that the “leper” (a Samaritan) who returns thanks exhibits a double problem of ritual purity – his skin and his race.
Read more about the Lectionary….
From the 10 Lepers , Luke 17:11-19
Reflections by The Rt. Rev. David C. Jones
"In this wonderful story from the life of Jesus, we see the connection between gratitude and faith. The Samaritan was so grateful that he prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and profoundly thanked him. It is that expression of gratitude, yes, profound gratitude that is at the heart of our stewardship of time, talent and treasure. We give in response to the One who has given us life and the hope of Salvation. It is an attitude of being “all in”, one expressed by the Samaritan, which informs my participation in church life and personal giving.
"I am “all in” when I am fully present in worship, when I am committed to parish outreach or with my personal giving.
"I am “all in” when I am responding from a heart of gratitude – wanting to give and continue to give of myself, my time, talent and treasure."
Block Print by Mike Newman
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Saints of the Week, – Oct. 6 – Oct. 13
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William Tyndale & Miles Coverdale, Translators of the Bible, 1536, 1568 Henrietta Stockdale, Monastic & Nurse, 1911 |
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Birgitta of Sweden, Mystic and Prophetic Witness, 1373 Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Pastor, 1787 |
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William Dwight Porter Bliss, Priest, 1926, and Richard Theodore Ely, Economist, 1943 Thais of Alexandria, Monastic, 5th c. |
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Vida Dutton Scudder, Educator and Witness for Peace, 1954 Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Medical Missionary, 1940 William Carey, Missionary, 1834 |
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Philip, Deacon and Evangelist |
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Elizabeth Fry, Social Reformer, 1845 |
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