What Christians Believe, Part 2.Presentation by a good friend of St. Michael the Archangel, Matthews NC., Bishop Ken Myers.

MUSIC NOTES Prelude                Wachet auf                                                                                           J. S. Bach Introit (choir)     Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, rejoice. let your moderation be made known untion all Men: the Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing: but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known…

Friday May 25th – Preschool Graduation:  11am Saturday May 26th – Youth group – off site trip – tentative departure time 11am – will be using church van. Saturday June 2nd – Newcomers dinner at church:  5pm til around 7pm.  Clergy, laity, and vestry will break bread with newcomers (and recent visitors to our church)…

Septuagesima: A funny sounding word that signals the ensuing approach of our Lenten discipline as we embark on the journey known as Pre-Lent, a mini-Lent before Lent, which is designed to ready us and gear us in the direction of the Lenten fast. As children, we might have thought ‘Septuagesima’ probably referred to a laboratory…

Please forgive me if I seem a little tired, but this has been one heck of a night, and I am afraid the day is going to be even more brutal.  Say again, what’s that?  What am I talking about?  Have you not heard? … the word is swirling around the city this morning, and…

Musical Notes For June 9  Whitsunday (Pentecost) Prelude:  Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, heiliger Geist    J. S. Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German Baroque composer and organist, wrote his setting of the chorale Komm, Gott Schöpfer with the tune in the soprano and afterwards in the bass. This 16th century tune is a simplified adaptation by Martin Luther…