Jennifer Stoner and Alex Ruiz will be handling sales between the services on Sunday. They will be happy to set you up with an easy delicious meal!

Mark your calendars for our annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner!  Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of lent.  Episcopal tradition for this day is to eat pancakes!  To celebrate, All Saints' will provide an evening of fun, fellowship, and, of course, pancakes. Proceeds from the evening will go towards the youth and acolyte programs.  Youth will help set-up, serve, and clean-up.  

When: Tuesday, February 28 at 6:00 pm

Cost: $3 per child, $5 per adult, $15 per family

This retreat is for ANYONE interested in deepening his or her centering prayer practice. Centering prayer is a way of bringing to consciousness the unconscious "emotional wounds of a lifetime" (Thomas Keating) and enabling these stumbling blocks to become cornerstones for transforming our false selves. 

Two books by Cynthia Bourgeault are recommended to prepare for the retreat:

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening and The Heart of Centering Prayer. Suggest reading in the order listed. The focus of this retreat is to immerse oneself in the Silence and make ourselves available to the healing power of "the Divine Therapist". 

This retreat experience is a good way to strengthen a beginning practice and will also deepen an already existing practice. In the evenings, there will be a Wisdom Circle to reflect on what we are experiencing. There will be time to meet with retreat facilitator for guidance. This retreat will begin with supper on at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 9, and conclude after lunch on Sunday, March 12. The retreat will be in silence after the opening circle on Thursday night until lunch on Sunday. Please consider giving yourself the GIFT of this time with God among the daffodils at St. Scholastica Monastery....

    

Registration on website:     www.stscho.org

    

For questions contact Retreat Facilitator, Nick Cole at:   ngcole42@gmail.com  or 970-275-1170

March 10-12

Winterstar is the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas' annual Spring Retreat for youth in the 6th-12th grade. The weekend begins at Camp Mitchell on Friday, March 10, at 8:00 p.m. with registration and ends Sunday at 11:00 a.m. The weekend includes games, music, worship services, hiking, sports, hammocking and even more Camp goodness.

Transportation to and from are provided by All Saints'.  The cost for the weekend is $110.  Financial assistance is available for any that need it.  Online registration is available.  

Those planning to attend must register by Feb. 28.  For questions or more information please contact Meredith Schraeder, meredith.schraeder@gmail.com

February 19, 26 and March 5

The Great Courses:  The History of the Bible, The Making of the New Testament Canon

Join parishioner Ralph Kunz as he presents sessions 4-8 of this twelve part course.  Each class will begin with a video course and end with lively discussion!  No worries if you missed the first three sessions that were presented in November, you will be able step right in without feeling lost.  

The New Testament stands unchallenged, in the words of Professor Bart D. Ehrman, not only as the "'bestseller' of all time," but also as the most important "book-or collection of books-in the history of Western civilization."

Yet how many of us, Christian or otherwise, are as knowledgeable about the New Testament as we would like to be? Even many who consider themselves Christian find themselves asking some-perhaps even all-of the questions so often posed by those who are not.

What different kinds of books are in the New Testament? When, how, and why were they written? What do they teach? Who actually wrote them? How were they passed forward through history? And, perhaps most important of all, why and how did some books, and not others, come to be collected into what Christians came to consider the canon of scripture that would define their belief for all time?

In The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon, Professor Ehrman offers a fast-moving yet thorough introduction to these and other key issues in the development of Christianity.

Drawing on the award-winning teaching skills and style that have made him one of our most popular lecturers-respectful yet provocative, scholarly without sacrificing wit-Professor Ehrman has crafted a course designed to deepen the understanding of both Christians and non-Christians alike.

Chalice: Catherine

Lector: Marj