Quote of the Day
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
UPCOMING: Holy Week, Easter, Giving Workshop
This Sunday is Easter
This Sunday, April 21, is Easter, Year C. The lector is Dan and the altar guild is B.T. See the vestment and altar colors, and readings, by clicking HERE and selecting the date.
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Recently, church member Darlene rolled out the first of her monthly birthday and anniversary parties that she will be throwing for anyone who has a birthday or anniversary in a given month. The next party is May 19. So, don’t be shy about revealing when your birthday or anniversary is. Reach Darlene at ldyfrmr45@gmail.com. Thanks Darlene!
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The next Vestry meeting is April 28.
Good Friday, Holy Saturday
Good Friday is April 19, with two services — noon and 6:30 p.m. The noon service is Stations of the Cross. You can view photos of the Stations carvings with the names of the youth who carved them in 1980 by clicking HERE. The evening service is The Liturgy of Good Friday.
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Holy Saturday is April 20, with the Great Vigil of Easter service at 7:30 p.m.
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Easter Day is April 21, with the Festival of Holy Eucharist at 11 a.m. For the calendar and readings, click HERE. Special guest music is planned by Chris Mashburn, Julie Lucky and Will Lucky. They will be performing with a trombone and two trumpets alongside Betsy Steiner, our organist.
Diocesan Planned Giving Workshop
One of the most important ways in which our Diocese can help individual congregations is to help them find financial security.
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The Diocesan Development Committee is offering a Planned Giving Workshop starting at 9.30 on May 11th at Holy Trinity Church, Georgetown. Financial planning experts from the Episcopal Church Foundation will lead the workshop. The diocese hopes that every congregation will send at least one representative to this event.
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As was announced at convention, the diocese has partnered with the ECF to help manage a portion of its endowment. In order to encourage participation the bishop is offering $350 to each congregation who opens an account with the ECF.
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One of the most important vehicles for growing an endowment is a managed program of Planned Giving. This workshop will provide each congregation with the tools to develop their own Planned Giving Campaign.
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To register go to: http://bit.ly/2GNb41p.
In the News: Medical $, ‘Lutherpalian,’ Candidate Buttigieg
Episcopalians Remember, Reflect, Pray for Notre Dame Cathedral after Massive Fire
While the world watched in stunned disbelief as Notre Dame Cathedral went up in flames April 15, many people, including Episcopalians, took to social media to post photos of their visits to the iconic church and offer prayers for the people of Paris. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry joined with the Very Rev. Lucinda Laird, dean of the American Cathedral in Paris, and Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe Bishop in Charge Mark D.W. Edington, to offer “our sincere condolences and our readiness to offer any hospitality that would be of help to the community and congregation of Notre Dame in this most holy season of the faith we share.” Read the full story by clicking HERE.
Four Lutheran and Episcopalian Churches in Maryland Go “Lutherpalian”
Recent Episcopal-Lutheran merges in Maryland are just part of the outgrowth of the two Churches’ full communion back in 2001. Nationwide there are about 65 Episcopal-Lutheran partnerships of various kinds. Communion at the most recent merger Arbutus, Md., looks a bit different from Communion at most Episcopal congregations: Worshippers choose between wine and grape juice, with the option of drinking out of small individual cups instead of the common cup. Read the full story by clicking HERE.
Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg: Episcopal, Veteran, Married, Gay
Pete Buttigieg [pronounced “but-uh-judge”], who announced his presidential candidacy on April 14, is married, a Navy veteran, openly gay and “openly Christian,” which may be an approach that challenges the notion that faith is a card only to be played by the right. His campaign has announced it has cleared the 65,000-donor threshold necessary to earn a spot in the Democratic debates in June. Buttigieg has said: “...we have this totally warped idea of what Christianity should be like when it comes into the public sphere, and it’s mostly about exclusion, which is the last thing that I imbibe when I take in scripture in church.” Read the The Wall Street Journal story by clicking HERE. Read the New York Magazine opinion piece by clicking HERE.”
What does “Episcopal” mean?
The Episcopal Church is “Protestant, yet Catholic.” Episcopal means “of bishops.” The Episcopal Church traces its bishops (its ministers and clergy) and its origins back to the Apostles (the early followers of Jesus) via holy orders, which are a direct line of succession back to the time of Jesus.
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