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Education & Formation We provide opportunities for education and spiritual formation for all parishioners - adults, youth and children. These include Sunday activities before and after worship, events throughout the week, and special seasonal programs. Members of the ministry serve as Sunday school teachers; we plan and facilitate activities in the areas of education and spiritual formation; and we are responsibile for seasonal programs throughout the church year, as well as for preparing persons for confirmation as adult members of the church. Meetings are the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. in the Guild Room. If you are interested in helping out with this work or joining this committee, please email Wayne Floyd at waynefloyd1@verizon.net.
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A users' guide for Episcopalians
One of the three orders of ordained ministers in the church, bishops are charged with the apostolic work of leading, supervising, and uniting the church. Bishops stand in the apostolic succession, maintaining continuity in the present with the ministry of the Apostles. Diocesan bishops hold jurisdiction in their dioceses, with particular responsibility for the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the church.
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A users' guide for Episcopalians
The Archbishop of Canterbury is "Primate of All England" and head of the Church of England. The churches of the Anglican Communion may be defined as the churches in communion with the See of Canterbury (which includes the Episcopal Church of the United States). The Archbishop of Canterbury convenes the bishops when they gather, especially at the Lambeth Conferences, and sits with them as "greatest among equals." Canterbury holds a position of honor and preeminence in the Anglican Communion but holds no official authority over the churches of the communion or its individual members.
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A users' guide for Episcopalians
In the Episcopal Church (and other Christian churches), just as Christmas is not one day but a whole season, so the feast of Easter is not just one Sunday but lasts for 50 days, from Easter Eve to Pentecost Sunday. The season is one for rejoicing, to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection. You will hear the celebratory word “Alleluia” often at services during this season.
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On Easter we celebrate the feast of Christ’s resurrection, his rising to new life after his death on the cross. Easter is considered the principal festival of the church year. It is symbolically important that Easter occurs in the springtime; just as nature is coming to new life, so is Christ and Christ’s church. The reason that the date of Easter changes from year to year is that in the western Christian churches Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the full moon; Easter always falls between March 22 and April 25.
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Today is a day of contrasts, both joy and sorrow. On Palm Sunday, the final Sunday before Easter, we commemorate both Jesus’ triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem, where he is greeted by the crowds as the Messiah, and his Passion, when he is crucified by the authorities and jeered by the same crowds who had earlier welcomed him. Our service today reflects both joy (the gift of palms, the object that the crowds waved at Jesus) and sorrow (the reading of the Passion Gospel).
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Souper Bowl Sunday
Feb 5 – Football & Food . . . and Madonna! HELP TACKLE HUNGER Join us on Sun, Feb. 5, after our weekly Taizé Service (~6PM), for the heavenliest Super Bowl party around. Of course there’s football on the big screen in the Guild Room. Also, in coordination with Souper Bowl of Caring, we are [...]
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How can I keep from singing?
I live a fortunate, indeed by most of the world’s standards a privileged, life. Yet few days are just “eazy peazy” – many are a challenge for me like lots of people, even if for different reasons. Today has been on of my most challenging in a while; don’t ask me why … I told [...]
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Caging the Tiger
Violence comes in many forms. Bombs. Guns. Fists. As well as words, gestures, posturing. Bullying-behavior rarely resorts to the former; but bullies are masters-of-manipulation with the latter. We live in the middle of what Ryan Halligan, a staff writer for the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, has described as “An Epidemic of Bullying,” verging on a [...]
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