Dear Friends in Christ,
Here are this week’s announcements. In particular, please look at the following – and remember that tonight at 8:15 is our Sacred Art of Chanting Workshop – for everyone, but especially for those who think they can’t sing, or are afraid to sing, or think that no one else wants to hear them sing! God has given each one of us a voice to pray and praise with!
HELPING HANDS
Twelve Baskets Food Pantry – This Sunday: Make Take-Out Meal Bags for Homeless during coffee hour. We need some volunteers to assemble meal bags as part of our Twelve Baskets Food Pantry Ministry. Each bag holds a day’s worth of food (about 4 lbs.) for homeless folks in Dover. Some of this food has been purchased with your food pantry monies, and some has been donated by whole Foods. Want to help? Come to the Parish Hall and look for Afsaneh Thursfield.
WORSHIP
This Sunday - All God’s Children Service for kids and families with Special Needs at 12 noon in the Church. This simple, casual service includes a Bible story, prayer, singing, movement, and optional Communion. No segment is longer than three minutes, and the service lasts less than half an hour. Please forward this announcement to someone you know who could benefit from it. You are most welcome!
Scout Sunday, March 6 – Calling all Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, and adult Scouters. All Saints’ will celebrate Scout Sunday at the 10 am service that day. Wear your uniform, and participate in the Scout exercises and prayers!
COMMUNITY HOSPITALITY
Concert: The Singing Heart - Sunday, Feb. 28, 7:30 –9:00 pm A night of song and spirit at All Saints’ Church with Irish singer/songwriter Carmel Boyle as she shares her spiritual tradition with original spiritual songs, stories, and rituals inspired by the Celtic tradition. Her mystic voice touches the heart and opens it to prayer and healing. Free-will offering. Bring a friend ~ Come and have your heart enlightened!
Retreat Day: The Open Heart - Wednesday, Mar. 2, 9:15 am – 2:30 pm, $50/ hot lunch at All Saints’ Parish House. Be enriched by Carmel Boyle’s unique presentation of the Celtic Christian Tradition that offers inspirational and creative ways of prayer. Broaden your spiritual life by connecting with this ancient tradition. To register call Pat Hughes: 908-608-3160.
Carmel Boyle comes to us through Sacred Thread Ministries and the Christian Community.
CHRISTIAN FORMATION
TONIGHT - Quiet Evening ~ February 18, The Sacred Art of Chanting Simple songs from a variety of spiritual traditions to get your mind, body, spirit, and voice in tune with God. Even if you think you can’t sing, this workshop is for you! Led by Meg McGrath, music practitioner and member of Harmonium Choral Society.
8:15 pm Spiritual Practice
8:30 pm Quiet Candlelight Prayer & Meditation
9:00 pm Compline, sung by the Choir
Bible Study meets on Wed. 2/24/2016, 10:15-11:30 am in the Rath House. We’ll discuss Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Martha of Bethany - pages 399-405 in Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter. We are always happy to have new people join the group. Questions? Speak to Mother Vicki.
Scripture Memory Project – during Lent you are invited to memorize a passage of the Bible that speaks to you. It should be 8-10 verses long, be something you haven’t already committed to memory, and be meaningful to you at this point in time. The goal of this project is for these words to become prayerfully embedded in your heart and mind.
Then on March 20 (Palm Sunday) please bring a printed copy of your passage and place it in the collection plate (anonymously). We’ll put all the passages into a booklet to distribute to the parish for inspiration and encouragement.
Ecumenical Learning & Sharing: February 24, Reflection and Discussion with the (Catholic) Christian Community, 6 pm, Long Hill Senior Center. The topic is “Tender Mercy.” Come for a supper of soup and bread, and stay for a presentation and discussion (at 7:15) by Mother Vicki who is the invited speaker for the evening.
Lenten Learning@The Movies: What is Going on in God’s World?
March 2, Film and Discussion, 7:30 pm, Parish Hall
Paper Clips is an 80-minute documentary about a school in a rural, blue-collar Tennessee community where an eighth class attempts to gauge the magnitude of World War II's Holocaust by collecting paper clips, each of which represents a human life lost in the Nazis' slaughter of Jews. The students ultimately succeeded in collecting over 25 million paperclips, and hear from survivors and family members across the globe.
March 9, Film and Discussion, 7:30 pm, Parish Hall
Traces of the Trade: a Story of the Deep North - The 80 minute film focuses on the descendants of the DeWolf family, a prominent slave trading family from Rhode Island from 1769 to 1820, and the legacy of the slave trade in the North of the United States. The film follows ten family members as they retrace the triangle trade of slaves, sugar, rum - starting in Bristol, Rhode Island, to Ghana, and to Cuba. The film was produced by a family member and nominated for an Emmy.
March 16, Film and Discussion, 7:30 pm, Parish Hall
The Story of Stuff, originally released in December 2007, is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the Stuff in your life forever.
STEWARDSHIP ~ VESTRY NOTES
At the February meeting, the Vestry decided to reduce some of our paper costs. From now on, all meeting materials will be sent electronically for Vestry to read on their mobile devices or to print out for themselves. We are also looking for ways for the office to print less. One example is that when the new parish directory comes out, it will be sent electronically as a PDF to all parishioners who have e-mail. For those who do not have e-mail, or who unable to open attachments, paper copies will be available.
LOOKING AHEAD IN LENT
Maundy Thursday Agapé Meal, March 24, 6 pm– Come for a pot-luck meal before our Maundy Thursday worship, as the disciples had a meal with Jesus. Agapé is the Greek word for God’s love – and the way we share it in community. Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex to let us know what part of the meal you can bring and how many people will be attending.
Holy Saturday Kids’ Service, Easter Egg Hunt and Ribbon Banner Making – March 26, 10 am. Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex. And we need donations of candy for the eggs, volunteers to provide refreshments, and older kids and adults to make the ribbon banners.
Please sign up on the sheet in the Narthex and let us know if your kids will participate and how you can help. Thanks.
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PARISH CALENDAR
2/24 Bible Study 10:15 am, Rath House
2/18 Holy Eucharist 7:00 am, Church
Small Saints & Junior Choirs 5:15 pm, Choir Room
Adult Choir 7:30 pm, Choir Room
For a full schedule of our buildings check the website calendar www.allsaintsmillington.org.
Parish Office Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs. from 9:30 am-4:00 pm,
Rector’s Sabbath day: Friday
Remember to “Like” us on Facebook: All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Millington, NJ
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For All The Saints
Eric Liddell, Missionary to China, d. 1945 – Feb. 22
Eric Henry Liddell achieved international renown as an Olympic gold medalist, as an avid rugby player, and as a person totally devoted to his faith in Jesus Christ.
Liddell was born in 1902 in China, the second son of missionary parents. At the age of six he was sent with his older brother to Eltham College, Blackheath, a boarding school for the children of missionaries. Liddell remained there until he enrolled in Edinburgh University. Liddell excelled in athletics throughout his educational career.
Liddell won a position on the British track and field team for the Paris Olympic games of 1924. Liddell won the gold in the 400 meter, setting a world record, and a bronze in the
200 meter. His best event as a university athlete was the 100 meter and he was highly favored to win gold in the Olympics. Liddell, however, chose not to run the 100 meter because the heat was to be held on Sunday. He chose not to break his personal commitment to keeping a weekly sabbath even if that meant not running in his best event in the Olympics. The award-winning film, Chariots of Fire, is the story of Eric Liddell and his participation
in Olympiad VIII.
After his graduation from Edinburgh, Liddell returned to North China, near his birthplace, and served as a missionary from 1925-1943. He was ordained in 1932 and in 1934 married Florence Mackenzie, the daughter of Canadian missionaries to China. Together they had three daughters.
Because of ongoing conflict between China and Japan in the 1930’s, Liddell and his family endured significant hardships. In 1941, after the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, the British government advised expatriates to leave the country. Florence Liddell took the children and fled to Canada. Eric Liddell and his brother Rob stayed on and continued their work. In 1943, Liddell was interned in the Japanese concentration camp at Weihsein. Having won the respect of his captors, Liddell is remembered by camp survivors for his ministry among them. He died in 1945 shortly before the camp’s liberation. ~ Holy Women, Holy Men
Question for Reflection: Eric Liddell applied the same devotion and energyto his athletic training as he did to his ministry and prayer life because (as he said), “When I run, I feel God’s pleasure.” When do you feel God’s pleasure? What are the times or circumstances when you know that God is pleased with you?
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Lent 2016: Day 10, February 19
In the 9th century a Latin hymn was written and set to a Gregorian chant melody: “Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.”Tthe English translation is below. It was set very famously by the French composer Maureice Duruflé. The link below to the You Tube video is by the ensemble Octarium, with contemporary photos illustrating the text.
The second link is to another setting of the opening lines by the Taizé Community in France, as a congregational chant.
Where charity and love are, God is there.
Love of Christ has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice in Him and be glad.
Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
And from a sincere heart let us love one.
Where charity and love are, God is there.
At the same time, therefore, are gathered into one:
Lest we be divided in mind, let us beware.
Let evil impulses stop, let controversy cease.
And in the midst of us be Christ our God.
Where charity and love are, God is there.
At the same time we see that with the saints also,
Thy face in glory, O Christ our God:
The joy that is immense and good, Unto the
World without end. Amen.
Ubi Caritas – Octarium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY4S-GGzd2I
Ubi Caritas – Taizé: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2o27qpvfUc&list=RDG2o27qpvfUc
Blessings,
Vicki+
Here are this week’s announcements. In particular, please look at the following – and remember that tonight at 8:15 is our Sacred Art of Chanting Workshop – for everyone, but especially for those who think they can’t sing, or are afraid to sing, or think that no one else wants to hear them sing! God has given each one of us a voice to pray and praise with!
- Chant Workshop, Quiet Evening and Compline – in Worship
- Scripture Memory Project – in Christian Formation
- Take-Out Meal Bags for Homeless – in Helping Hands
- Lenten Learning @ the Movies – in Christian Formation
- Concert: The Singing Heart, with Carmel Boyle – in Community Hospitality
HELPING HANDS
Twelve Baskets Food Pantry – This Sunday: Make Take-Out Meal Bags for Homeless during coffee hour. We need some volunteers to assemble meal bags as part of our Twelve Baskets Food Pantry Ministry. Each bag holds a day’s worth of food (about 4 lbs.) for homeless folks in Dover. Some of this food has been purchased with your food pantry monies, and some has been donated by whole Foods. Want to help? Come to the Parish Hall and look for Afsaneh Thursfield.
WORSHIP
This Sunday - All God’s Children Service for kids and families with Special Needs at 12 noon in the Church. This simple, casual service includes a Bible story, prayer, singing, movement, and optional Communion. No segment is longer than three minutes, and the service lasts less than half an hour. Please forward this announcement to someone you know who could benefit from it. You are most welcome!
Scout Sunday, March 6 – Calling all Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, and adult Scouters. All Saints’ will celebrate Scout Sunday at the 10 am service that day. Wear your uniform, and participate in the Scout exercises and prayers!
COMMUNITY HOSPITALITY
Concert: The Singing Heart - Sunday, Feb. 28, 7:30 –9:00 pm A night of song and spirit at All Saints’ Church with Irish singer/songwriter Carmel Boyle as she shares her spiritual tradition with original spiritual songs, stories, and rituals inspired by the Celtic tradition. Her mystic voice touches the heart and opens it to prayer and healing. Free-will offering. Bring a friend ~ Come and have your heart enlightened!
Retreat Day: The Open Heart - Wednesday, Mar. 2, 9:15 am – 2:30 pm, $50/ hot lunch at All Saints’ Parish House. Be enriched by Carmel Boyle’s unique presentation of the Celtic Christian Tradition that offers inspirational and creative ways of prayer. Broaden your spiritual life by connecting with this ancient tradition. To register call Pat Hughes: 908-608-3160.
Carmel Boyle comes to us through Sacred Thread Ministries and the Christian Community.
CHRISTIAN FORMATION
TONIGHT - Quiet Evening ~ February 18, The Sacred Art of Chanting Simple songs from a variety of spiritual traditions to get your mind, body, spirit, and voice in tune with God. Even if you think you can’t sing, this workshop is for you! Led by Meg McGrath, music practitioner and member of Harmonium Choral Society.
8:15 pm Spiritual Practice
8:30 pm Quiet Candlelight Prayer & Meditation
9:00 pm Compline, sung by the Choir
Bible Study meets on Wed. 2/24/2016, 10:15-11:30 am in the Rath House. We’ll discuss Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Martha of Bethany - pages 399-405 in Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter. We are always happy to have new people join the group. Questions? Speak to Mother Vicki.
Scripture Memory Project – during Lent you are invited to memorize a passage of the Bible that speaks to you. It should be 8-10 verses long, be something you haven’t already committed to memory, and be meaningful to you at this point in time. The goal of this project is for these words to become prayerfully embedded in your heart and mind.
Then on March 20 (Palm Sunday) please bring a printed copy of your passage and place it in the collection plate (anonymously). We’ll put all the passages into a booklet to distribute to the parish for inspiration and encouragement.
Ecumenical Learning & Sharing: February 24, Reflection and Discussion with the (Catholic) Christian Community, 6 pm, Long Hill Senior Center. The topic is “Tender Mercy.” Come for a supper of soup and bread, and stay for a presentation and discussion (at 7:15) by Mother Vicki who is the invited speaker for the evening.
Lenten Learning@The Movies: What is Going on in God’s World?
March 2, Film and Discussion, 7:30 pm, Parish Hall
Paper Clips is an 80-minute documentary about a school in a rural, blue-collar Tennessee community where an eighth class attempts to gauge the magnitude of World War II's Holocaust by collecting paper clips, each of which represents a human life lost in the Nazis' slaughter of Jews. The students ultimately succeeded in collecting over 25 million paperclips, and hear from survivors and family members across the globe.
March 9, Film and Discussion, 7:30 pm, Parish Hall
Traces of the Trade: a Story of the Deep North - The 80 minute film focuses on the descendants of the DeWolf family, a prominent slave trading family from Rhode Island from 1769 to 1820, and the legacy of the slave trade in the North of the United States. The film follows ten family members as they retrace the triangle trade of slaves, sugar, rum - starting in Bristol, Rhode Island, to Ghana, and to Cuba. The film was produced by a family member and nominated for an Emmy.
March 16, Film and Discussion, 7:30 pm, Parish Hall
The Story of Stuff, originally released in December 2007, is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the Stuff in your life forever.
STEWARDSHIP ~ VESTRY NOTES
At the February meeting, the Vestry decided to reduce some of our paper costs. From now on, all meeting materials will be sent electronically for Vestry to read on their mobile devices or to print out for themselves. We are also looking for ways for the office to print less. One example is that when the new parish directory comes out, it will be sent electronically as a PDF to all parishioners who have e-mail. For those who do not have e-mail, or who unable to open attachments, paper copies will be available.
LOOKING AHEAD IN LENT
Maundy Thursday Agapé Meal, March 24, 6 pm– Come for a pot-luck meal before our Maundy Thursday worship, as the disciples had a meal with Jesus. Agapé is the Greek word for God’s love – and the way we share it in community. Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex to let us know what part of the meal you can bring and how many people will be attending.
Holy Saturday Kids’ Service, Easter Egg Hunt and Ribbon Banner Making – March 26, 10 am. Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex. And we need donations of candy for the eggs, volunteers to provide refreshments, and older kids and adults to make the ribbon banners.
Please sign up on the sheet in the Narthex and let us know if your kids will participate and how you can help. Thanks.
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PARISH CALENDAR
2/24 Bible Study 10:15 am, Rath House
2/18 Holy Eucharist 7:00 am, Church
Small Saints & Junior Choirs 5:15 pm, Choir Room
Adult Choir 7:30 pm, Choir Room
For a full schedule of our buildings check the website calendar www.allsaintsmillington.org.
Parish Office Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs. from 9:30 am-4:00 pm,
Rector’s Sabbath day: Friday
Remember to “Like” us on Facebook: All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Millington, NJ
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For All The Saints
Eric Liddell, Missionary to China, d. 1945 – Feb. 22
Eric Henry Liddell achieved international renown as an Olympic gold medalist, as an avid rugby player, and as a person totally devoted to his faith in Jesus Christ.
Liddell was born in 1902 in China, the second son of missionary parents. At the age of six he was sent with his older brother to Eltham College, Blackheath, a boarding school for the children of missionaries. Liddell remained there until he enrolled in Edinburgh University. Liddell excelled in athletics throughout his educational career.
Liddell won a position on the British track and field team for the Paris Olympic games of 1924. Liddell won the gold in the 400 meter, setting a world record, and a bronze in the
200 meter. His best event as a university athlete was the 100 meter and he was highly favored to win gold in the Olympics. Liddell, however, chose not to run the 100 meter because the heat was to be held on Sunday. He chose not to break his personal commitment to keeping a weekly sabbath even if that meant not running in his best event in the Olympics. The award-winning film, Chariots of Fire, is the story of Eric Liddell and his participation
in Olympiad VIII.
After his graduation from Edinburgh, Liddell returned to North China, near his birthplace, and served as a missionary from 1925-1943. He was ordained in 1932 and in 1934 married Florence Mackenzie, the daughter of Canadian missionaries to China. Together they had three daughters.
Because of ongoing conflict between China and Japan in the 1930’s, Liddell and his family endured significant hardships. In 1941, after the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, the British government advised expatriates to leave the country. Florence Liddell took the children and fled to Canada. Eric Liddell and his brother Rob stayed on and continued their work. In 1943, Liddell was interned in the Japanese concentration camp at Weihsein. Having won the respect of his captors, Liddell is remembered by camp survivors for his ministry among them. He died in 1945 shortly before the camp’s liberation. ~ Holy Women, Holy Men
Question for Reflection: Eric Liddell applied the same devotion and energyto his athletic training as he did to his ministry and prayer life because (as he said), “When I run, I feel God’s pleasure.” When do you feel God’s pleasure? What are the times or circumstances when you know that God is pleased with you?
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Lent 2016: Day 10, February 19
In the 9th century a Latin hymn was written and set to a Gregorian chant melody: “Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.”Tthe English translation is below. It was set very famously by the French composer Maureice Duruflé. The link below to the You Tube video is by the ensemble Octarium, with contemporary photos illustrating the text.
The second link is to another setting of the opening lines by the Taizé Community in France, as a congregational chant.
Where charity and love are, God is there.
Love of Christ has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice in Him and be glad.
Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
And from a sincere heart let us love one.
Where charity and love are, God is there.
At the same time, therefore, are gathered into one:
Lest we be divided in mind, let us beware.
Let evil impulses stop, let controversy cease.
And in the midst of us be Christ our God.
Where charity and love are, God is there.
At the same time we see that with the saints also,
Thy face in glory, O Christ our God:
The joy that is immense and good, Unto the
World without end. Amen.
Ubi Caritas – Octarium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY4S-GGzd2I
Ubi Caritas – Taizé: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2o27qpvfUc&list=RDG2o27qpvfUc
Blessings,
Vicki+
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