Bulletin: Epiphany III (blog edition) Jan. 27, 2019

Visitors – Welcome!

Peace and joy in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  Please advise us of your visit and ask for a “First Time Visitor Bulletin” which briefly explains the communion service.  Please join our church family in the Parish Hall after the service for fellowship, drinks, and food.

Third Sunday after the Epiphany                               January 27, 2019

H = 1040 Hymnal (Hymn number)             B = 1928 Book of Common Prayer (Page number)

Stand    Processional:  H # 319

Kneel    Collect for Purity:  B Page number 67

Introit: Choir

The Summary of the Law:  B 69

Ninefold Kyrie:                  H   702 / B  70

Collect for the Day  B 112

Sit           Psalm 43:  B  394

Epistle: ROMANS  XII:  16  B  112

Stand    Gradual:  H 495 (2)

Gospel ST.  JOHN II:  1:  B 113

Nicene Creed:  B 71

Sit           Notices

Stand    Sermon Hymn:  H 53

Sit           Sermon (Fr. George Harding)

Alms Collection & Offertory Sentence (Choir)

Stand    Alms Presentation, National Hymn:  H 139 &  141 (v4)

Kneel    Biddings & Intercessions (said by celebrant)

For the Whole State of Christ’s Church:  B 74

Invitation and General Confession:  B 75

Absolution & Comfortable Words:  B 76

Sursum Corda & Sanctus:  H 796 / B 76

Consecration:  B 80

Lord’s Prayer:  H 722 / B 82

Humble Access:  B 82

Agnus Dei:  H 706

Ecce Agnus PRIEST: “Behold the Lamb of God, behold him that takest away the sins of the world.  Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof;”

People—”But speak the word only and my soul shall be healed.”

Communion Hymns:  H 191

Kneel    Thanksgiving:  B 83

Gloria in excelsis:  B 84

Dresden Amen:  H 740

Stand    Recessional:  H 545 (1)

Nursery is available for children 5 years and under during the 10:30am service

Holy Communion:  If you have been confirmed by a Bishop in Apostolic Succession, you are invited to receive the Blessed Sacrament.  If not, but are a Baptized Christian, please come to the Altar Rail for a blessing (simply cross your arms over your chest when the Celebrant approaches.)  If you have questions, please speak to the clergy.

Church Services & Key Activities the week of January 27th:

Sun:       8 am         Said Eucharist                                  10:30 am   Sung Eucharist

Mon:     6 pm      Ladies Evening Prayer / Bible Study

Tue:       10 am    Morning Prayer                                6 pm      Evening Prayer / Eucharist

Wed:     10 am    Morning Prayer                                6 pm      Evening Prayer / Eucharist

7 pm      Fellowship / Confirmation / Bible Study

Thu:       10 am    Morning Prayer                                10:30 am    Bible Study

Noon      Eucharist / Fellowship   6 pm      What Ale’s You

Acknowledgements and Thanksgivings!

SANCTUARY CANDLE:  Burns this week to the glory of God.

ALTAR FLOWERS:  Are given to the Glory of God.

Please come next door to the Parish Hall, after the 10:30 service for fellowship and refreshments.

News and Notes:

JANUARY  CHANGE-FOR-CHANGE:   Hospice & Palliative Care

GIVING ENVELOPES:  2019 Giving Envelopes are in the Narthex.  If you want to begin using an envelope, choose one at the end that has “available”.

GIVING STATEMENTS:  2018 STATEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE NARTHEX.

PRESCHOOL FUND RAISER: Feb 5th 9:30 – 10 am  Mini Manicures in the Parish Hall

AIR CONDITIONER UPDATE:

Costs:          $29,210

Donations to Date:            13,705

NURSERY HELPERS NEEDED:  Please call Shonika if you can help even once a month:  Call or text:  704-517-2071

BIRTHDAYS:

Jan         28           Stuart Cawthon                Jan         28           Julia Keyser

Jan         28           Richard Markuske            Jan         29           Dennis Griffin

Jan         31           Lynn Evans                          Feb          1            Jerry Brenner

… Upcoming Events:

Jan         29           10 am                    Hamricks

31           6 pm                      What Ale’s You – Men’s Night Out

Feb        2              11:30 am              Lyle Vail Funeral

3              10:30 am              Confirmation

Noon                     Soup-r-Sunday

5              9:30 – 10 am       Preschool Mini Manicures

9              5 – 7 pm               Italian Night

10           12:30 PM             Vestry

16           10:30 am              St. Martha’s Guild

11:30 am              Men’s Ministry

23           9 – 11 am             Workday

Confirmation Sunday is also Soup-r-Bowl Sunday!  Time to sign-up for soups, sandwiches, salads, or fruit.  St. Martha’s will be providing a cake for the confirmands.

ITALIAN NIGHT:   Will be here in 2 weeks.  The sign-up board is in the Parish Hall.  Please help!  Tickets are available for you to buy and sell.

SCHEDULE FOR NEXT WEEK:      Feb. 3, 2019

Nursery:              10:15 am              Help needed

Ushers:                8 am                      Bob & Betty Self

10:15 am              Dame Martin, Tommy Johnson

Altar Guild:         Debbie Cawthon

Our Coffee Hour Needs Your Help:

We have a wonderful coffee hour tradition here at St. Michaels.  Everyone one enjoys the good food and fellowship that occurs each week after the 10:30 service.   It is an important family time for our church.   But that coffee hour takes work. Each week several people are needed to set up before, serve and then clean up after the coffee hour.  Plus we need the wonderful food so many people provide.  However, lately the same people have been doing the set up, serving and clean up and they are tired and need our help.  Each of us needs to step up and provide a little part if we want to continue this family tradition we all enjoy.

It has been suggested that we set up five teams (each team made up of four or five people, both men and women)  to act as kitchen hosts.  Each team will host one Sunday a month.  Team 1 will set up and clean up the first Sunday of each month. Team 2 will do the same each second Sunday of the month.  Team three each third week and the fourth team each fourth Sunday.   We will also need a team for those months which have a fifth Sunday in the month.  Each team will need a team leader who will remind and organize the team.  If someone has signed up for a week but finds they need to be absent one week they will work through the team leader to find a substitute for that week.

Of course we still will need our good cooks to provide the excellent home cooked foods plus the church treasury will continue to provide the kitchen staples (paper goods, coffee, chips clean up supplies etc.).

Will you help?   Will you sign up for one week a month?  You could be part of a weekly hosting team (come early, set up the table then after church set out the food and clean up after everyone is served) or once a  month bring lots of foods for the table (homemade or specially bought)and deliver them to the kitchen before church.

If you are willing to help please sign up in the parish hall on our sign up board.  If we all pitch in we will be able to continue this wonderful tradition which does so much to make us a church family by providing a time of good food and fellowship for us all.   Please help.

Note from Fr. Michael:  Working as part of a team helps to strengthen His Church, as we enjoy one another while serving the Lord.  This is a wonderful ministry for MEN & WOMEN.  “And let ours (us) also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they (we) be not unfruitful.” (Tit 3:14)  May God continue to bless St Michael’s through the good works of His people, through Jesus Christ.  M+

MUSIC NOTES:

Prelude

Prelude and Fugue in F Major                                                         J. S. Bach

Introit

(Hebrews 1:6) Worship Him, all ye His angels; (Psalm 97:8) Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced; because of they judgments, O Lord. (Psalm 97:1) The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice: Let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.

Offertory

(Psalm 118:16-17) The right hand of the Lord is exalted: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

Communion Meditation on “Adoro te devote”                                  Larry Visser

Postlude

Pastorale                                                                             Christopher Uehlein

The prelude is from the “little eight” preludes and fugues that are attributed to the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).

The Gregorian chant “Adoro te devote” (Hymn 204) is a 13th century chant set to the Latin 13th century poem by St. Thomas Aquinas, a Roman Catholic theologian. Larry Visser (b.1962), organist/minister of music at LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, MI, places the tune on a pedal flute with oscillating chords on string stops.

The soft postlude in a lilting pastoral style is by Christopher Moritz Uehlein (b.1931), a Benedictine monk formerly at Blue Cloud Abbey, Marvin, South Dakota.

PARISH PRAYER LIST:

✟The Anglican Church: Our St. Michael’s family, Deanery, Diocese, Anglican Province of America, Anglican Catholic Church, Anglican Church in America, Deus of the Holy Cross, our Bishops, Rector, Clergy & their families, and that many men are called to the sacred Ministry.

✟ Our Country, its Leaders, Fire and Police Departments & those in military service: Andrew, Adam, Edwin, Daniel, Mark, Conner, Caleb,                                                     Brian, Dustin, Brett, Kegan, Charles, Robert, James.

✟Pregnancy: Sally, Charla, Maddi

✟ Those Traveling: Ralph, Scott, Mike, Will, Tommy, Kristen, Nance, Jeff, Stephen, Lee.

✟Guidance & Protection: Destinn, Conner, Reagan, Evan, Donald, Christopher, Karl, Phyllis, Dame, Kristin, Sandy, Margaret, Linda, Claude, Tommy, Sam, Sean, Paul, Ben, Henry, Victoria, Travis. Lane, Kirk, Mary, Josiah, Stoch, Cowart, Roy. The Washburn, Burgess, Ackley, Correal, Schlier, Unterberger, Decker, Eldridge families.

✟ In Affliction: Jerry, June, Roger, Virginia Gayle, Trudy, Pat, Wayne, Harry, Edna, Pat, June, Rich+, Angelica, Jan, Michele, Hilda, Lisa, James, Danny, John, Doreen, Desmond, Yvonne, Richard, Dame, Vivian, Baria. Darlene. The Conner, Palmer, Becker, Taylor/White, Powell/Mason families.

✟The Lord’s Healing: Austin, Issac, Juliana, Brooke, Ana, Nicholas, Noah, Reagan, Jordan, Aurora, Blonnie, Amanda, Haywood, Sue, Debbie, Teddy, Mike, Troy, Walter, Jennifer, Leslie, Margaret, Noah, Kelly, Brenda, Wanda, Marie, Norah, Alex, Joe, Chris, Gary, Robert, Randall, Earl, Richard, Jim, Stephen, Fred, Lori, Leslie, Anne, Phyllis, Ryan, Juanita, Lynn Gayle, Elizabeth, Tony, Tina, Gretchen, Michael, John, Sandra, Lynn, Gloria, Mari, Shannon, Earl, Jack, Joe, Vikki, Gina, Janet, James, Daisy, Dana, Ralph, Lisa, Dame, Darlene, Robin, Michelle, David, Sandy, Stuart, Carlton,  Nancy, Zach, Casey, Nick, Lennox, Simeon, McKenzie, Pat, Jayden, Seth, Kevin+, George+, +Jack, Michael+, Dennis+.

The Vestry:

Sr. Warden:  Ed Stemborowski                   Jr. Warden:  Brett Ford

Carol Alsis                  ’21         Laurna Blackwood   ’20          Margie Schlier                 ’19

Frank Ihekaire            ’21         Randall Burgess        ’20          Brett Ford                        ’19

Sylvia Jack                   ’21         Pam Driscoll              ’20         Michelle Montgomery   ’19

Eastern Diocese of the Anglican Province of America:

The Most Rev. W. H. Grundorf, Diocesan

The Rt. Rev. Chad Jones, Suffragan Bishop

The Rt. Rev. Bill Perkins, Suffragan Bishop

The Rt. Rev. David Haines, Missionary Bishop

The Rev. O. Michael Cawthon, Rector

The Very Rev. Can George Harding, Ret.

Dss. Tina Jenkins, APA Sr. Deaconess

John Apple,  Organist & Choir Master

Shonika Bankole,  Preschool Director

Lou Hale, Sandra Scherer, & Susan Stepp:  Bible Women

Brett Ford, Phil & Susan Crosby, Alan Crosby:  Youth Leaders

Dame Martin & Joyce Allen:  Outreach Programs

Susan Stepp & Sandra Scherer:  Worship Preparation

St. Michael the Archangel

2211 Margaret Wallace Road, Matthews, NC 28105

Church office:  704-537-7777     Rectory:  704-531-9306

www.stmichaelsanglican.org                 stmichaelcharlotte@yahoo.com

Rector:  Fr. Michael’s Cell:  704-651-9070      frmichaelcawthon@gmail.com