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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
February 28th is
Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent. Jerry Johnston and his crew are
whipping up a bunch of light and fluffy pancakes and so good link sausage to go
with them.
They’ll start serving at 5:00
p.m. and keep them coming until 7:00 p.m.
We will be accepting
donations at the door.
Eating your fill is only one
of ways to enjoy the Pancake Supper. The members of the crew always have a
great time. Come and set up, cook, serve, clean or take on any of the other
jobs that evening and see what fun it can be. Call the office or sign up this
Sunday!
Bring Us Your Cans
The Journey to Adulthood group is collecting
returnable cans and bottles to raise money for their various activities. Please
bring your donation of recyclable cans and bottles to the yellow trash can by
the
But –
Please remove and save the pop top openers from
your aluminum cans and bring them to the church as well. We don’t exactly
understand how, but they can be used to help pay for medical treatment for leukemia victims.
Trinity’s Wish List
(If you would like to
donate the money to purchase an item to the church and let us go to the store,
we save the expense of the sales tax.)
Bean Bag chairs for the youth room
A 16’ folding ladder, available at hardware
stores for under $300.00
The
lights in the church and fellowship hall are way up high.
Computer desk for church office
The Calendar of Events
for Feb. 20-26
Click
here to go to our calendar at the website
ARE WE MISSING YOUR BIRTHDAY OR ANNIVERSARY?
PLEASE EMAIL THE CHURCH
WITH THE CORRECT INFO.
Monday
2/20 The Feast of Absalom Jones
Priest,
1818
Office
Closed for President’s Day
7:00 p.m. small group study at the Bridges
Tuesday 2/21
BIRTHDAYS: Gini Hupp
Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday
2/22
Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist and Healing
Thursday
2/23 The Feast of Polycarp
Bishop
and Martyr of
BIRTHDAYS: Ted Bankicki,
Edith Nicholson
Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
10:00
a.m. “Forward Day by Day” study group at the Church
Friday
2/24 The Feast of
Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday
2/25
BIRTHDAYS: Barry Borst
Sunday 2/26 The Last Sunday after the
Epiphany
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I
9:00 a.m. Choir Practice
10:30 a.m. Sunday School
Holy Eucharist Rite II
3:00 p.m. J2A to
6:00 p.m. Small Group @ Neumann’s
Adult
Education Opportunities
Sunday
Evening 6:00 p.m. Study Group 2501 Bond St 269- 684-1320
Monday Evening 7:00 p.m. Study Group meeting at Gary & Sue Bridges’ home 821 West Park Dr. 269-683-0909
Thursday Morning 10:00 a.m. Forward Day by Day study group meets at the church
Sunday’s
Lessons From “The Rite Lite by Michael
Merriman”
The
Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany—Year B
Today’s Gospel
gives us another manifestation of Jesus role as Son of God, and a way we
manifest him today. The important message in the story is more than the healing
of the paralyzed man; it is the announcement that Jesus exercises the divine authority
to forgive sins. Only God can forgive sins, and Jesus’demonstration
of his ability to forgive is an announcement that, in him, God is dwelling
among us.
In the first reading, God states
that it is not our actions which bring about forgiveness; it is God alone who
forgives, regardless of how much we try to offer ourselves and what we have to
God. It is not our sacrifices that earn God’s forgiveness, but God’s own care
for us.
A second theme of today’s Gospel is
also reflected in the reading from 2 Corinthians. Note in the Gospel reading
that there is no mention of the sick man’s faith. It was the faith of his
friends, willing even to dig through the roof and lower the paralyzed man into
Jesus’ presence. Likewise, Paul holds up our role as affirming God’s action by
our own agreement, our “Yes,” our “Amen.” Even so, it is only through God that
we can say “Yes.” It is through God that we exercise the community’s faith and
thereby manifest God’s love and forgiveness to the world.
We gather to celebrate the dying and
rising of Jesus not primarily as a collection of individuals, each of whom has
his or her own faith. We gather primarily as the
community of faith, and our actions of thanksgiving and proclamation and prayer
are shown to be God’s acting in and through us as God brings healing and
forgiveness and
new life
The Feast of Polycarp
Bishop
and Martyr of
Polycarp was one of
the leaders of the Church who carried on the radition
of the apostles through the troubled period of Gnostic heresies n the second
century. According to Irenaeus, who had known him in
his arly youth, Polycarp
was a pupil of John, “the disciple of the Lord,” nd
had been appointed a bishop by “apostles in
We possess a
letter from Polycarp to the Church in
An authentic
account of the martyrdom of Polycarp on February 23
is lso preserved. It probably occurred in the year
156. The account tells of Polycarp’s courageous
witness in the amphitheater at
Polycarp was burned at
the stake. Before his ordeal, he is reported to have looked up to heaven, and
to have prayed: “Lord God Almighty, Father of your beloved and blessed child
Jesus Christ, through whom we have received knowledge of you, God of angels and
hosts and all creation, and of the whole race of the upright who live in your
presence, I bless you that you have thought me worthy of this day and hour, to
be numbered among the martyrs and share in the cup of Christ, for resurrection
to eternal life, for soul and body in the incorruptibility of the Holy Spirit.
Among them may I be accepted before you today, as a rich and acceptable
sacrifice just as you, the faithful and true God, have prepared and foreshown
and brought about. For this reason and for all things I praise you, I bless
you, I glorify you, through the eternal heavenly high priest Jesus Christ, your
beloved child, through whom be glory to you, with him and the Holy Spirit, now
and for the ages to come. Amen.”
The Feast of St. Mathias the
Apostle
In the nine days of waiting between
Jesus’ Ascension and the Day of Pentecost, the disciples remained together in
prayer. During this time, Peter reminded them that the defection and death of
Judas had left the fellowship of the Twelve with a vacancy. The Acts of the
Apostles records Peter’s proposal that “one of the men who have accompanied during
all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the
baptism of John until the day when he was taken from us — one of these men must
become with us a witness to his resurrection” (Acts 1:21-22). Two men were nominated, Joseph called Barsabbas
who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. After prayer, the disciples cast lots,
and the lot fell to Matthias, who was then enrolled with the eleven. Nothing
further is told of Matthias after his selection.
According to tradition he was an
exemplary Apostle, but we know nothing more. Matthias seems an appropriate
example to Christians of one whose faithful companionship with Jesus qualifies
him to be a suitable witness to the resurrection, and whose service is
unheralded and unsung.
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