Morning Prayer, Pondering, and a reading (learning.)

Saturday began day with a workday (9am til 11pm): over 100 plants planted & mulch was spead, Parish Hall (Kitchen and all) cleaned, Flowers prepared for altar and ironing of linens was completed.  Then in the afternoon, our Youth group gathered at 1 PM to go out to parishioners home’s who need help with yard…

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Fun was had by all….a Christian Family enjoying Christian Fellowship.  The Holy Spirit working with Christ’s Church at St. Michael the Archangel in Matthews NC Thanks to all who worked so hard on putting this together, and special thanks to our Music Director – thanks John!

Musical Notes: Lent IV (March 31, 2019) Prelude                Choral Prelude on “St. Flavian”                  Seth Bingham Seth Bingham (1882-1972), organist-director at New York’s Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and Columbia University music professor, composed his French influenced piece on the tune for the Lenten hymn #59. Introit (Isaiah 66:10) Rejoice, ye with Jerusalem, and be glad…

IS IT NOTHING TO YOU A paraphrase of a meditation originally written by Archbishop Joost De Blank, and spoken before the people of St. Stephen’s Church, Westminster, in 1952, telling the story of the Crucifixion as if seen from the eyes of the Centurion in charge of the prisoner Jesus.. Every Good Friday Longinus retires…