February 5, 2017 | The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
Crucifixion by Rogier van der Weyden
A Note about Bill Bloxham
I have received numerous emails and phone calls the past couple of days from parishioners, former parishioners, and the local media regarding Bill Bloxham. Bill grew up at St Timothy's and his parents were charter members. In a act of unfathomable cruelty, Bill, who is homeless, was attacked by three high school students. You can read more about this by clicking here. 

I want to share Russ May's post from the City with Dwellings Facebook page. 

Friends:
"Bill" Bloxham, as you may have heard, was recently injured by a group of teens who attacked him while he was sleeping outdoors. I want to let you know that Bill is in pretty poor shape, but his kindness still comes through clearly: despite the difficulty of breathing and almost inability to speak, he managed to offer a "thank you" to each of you for caring so much about him.

Bill has a long road ahead of him, and we will keep you updated about ways to encourage and help him in whatever will come next. Until he can more easily communicate his wishes, I won't share any more details - but we are working alongside of him. Please keep him in prayer. And keep in prayer the teens, whose lives have been conditioned so that their sense of self necessitated an act like this.

The strength of CwD is the community that we become alongside those who we serve. I am sure this news of Bill has created for many of you a sense of sadness that comes whenever someone you know is hurting. I know we have felt these same things when others guests who stayed at our shelters have be found hurting. Letting our hearts break for those we open our doors and lives to is what makes us who we are. I am reminded of a prayer that hangs on my wall at the door for me to see every day and night I go out: "Lord, break my heart, but not my spirit."

Thank you for being a community that allows your heart to break for those we serve. That's all I could offer Bill today, but it seemed to be heartening.

I don't have any additional information but if I did, I don't have Bill's permission to share. His privacy is a very important thing to keep in mind.
 
I want to commend Katie Braynt, Russ May, and Lea Thullbery for their untiring work with City with Dwellings. 

We shall continue to pray for Bill and all of those who have a different address every night.
Sunday's Music | Christin Barnhardt

Sunday  evening, St Timothy's choir is joining forces with Augsburg Lutheran Church choirs to sing  5pm Vespers at Augsburg . Please join us before the Super Bowl as we sing some beautiful evening prayers, and please bring a can or two of soup for Augsburg's "Souper Bowl" to donate to a local food bank. The choir will sing Sumsion's Canticles in A and Stanford's anthem "O for a closer walk with thee," and a chamber choir will sing  Thomas Tallis' "O nata lux."

Sunday  morning's communion anthem is  Thomas Tallis' motet "If ye love me."  Several of our choir members sang this last summer at the "Thomas Tallis Ale House" in Canterbury, England, when our choristers were in residence at the cathedral. 

Tallis served in England's Chapel Royal for 40 years, and composed under four monarchs with differing religious practices. Though most of his music is written in Latin, he was one of the first composers to set English words to music for the Church of England Rites. During King Edward VI's reign (1547-1553), it was mandated that the services be sung in English, and that the choral music be short and succinct "to each syllable a plain and distinct note." "If Ye Love Me" is a classic example of these English anthems: mostly homophonic (vocal parts move simultaneously), but with brief moments of imitation (vocal parts imitate each other in close succession). Like many early Anglican anthems, its form is ABB, the second section repeated twice.

Sunday's  communion hymn, "Lord, make us servants of your peace," is James' Quinn's (1919-2010) paraphrase of the familiar prayer attributed to St Francis, which begins:

Lord, make us servants of your peace: where there is hate, may we sow love;
where there is hurt, may we forgive; where there is strife, may we make one.

Prelude: Improvisation, Raymond Hawkins
Hymns:
Praise to the living God!, No. 372
O day of God, draw nigh, No. 601
Lord, make us servants of your peace, No. 593
For the bread which you have broken, No. 341
Praise to the Lord, No. 390

Anthems:
Lead me, Lord, S.S. Wesley
If ye love me, Thomas Tallis

Postlude: Improvisation, Raymond Hawkins, organ

See you  Sunday ,
Christin
Children and Outreach | Katie Bryant
Katie
Isolating.

Homelessness is isolating.  Mental illness is isolating.  Fear is isolating.  
There is a lot of talk about walls lately. Our guests at the shelter each have their own personal walls, hurdles, if you will, to overcome.  I'd argue that each of us has our own personal walls--built from experience, anxiety, hear-say, fears, and more.  If you want to witness walls coming down--come to the shelter, hang out with our guests.  Walls begin to crumble when we can set aside our preconceived notions.  Walls are breached when we stretch ourselves to reach over to the "other" side.  Walls fall down when we realize that we have more in common than not.  Walls come tumbling down--and relationships are made, trust is built, hope is found.  

City with Dwellings believes the opposite of homelessness is community. Each and every night we have created a space to build community for our guests--and for ourselves.  This community involves us too. Our personal walls must come down to be equally invested in this community. The funny thing is, that once you're at our Overflow Shelter--community doesn't feel like work.  We gather around the tables to eat together, we share stories, we listen to each other, we laugh, walls fall down, community is built.   Imagine what it's like to suddenly feel like someone cares about your future?  Imagine what it feels like to have someone concerned about your safety?  Imagine what it's like to know you have a place to go each night and people glad to see you?   This community can be the opposite of isolating--and you'll fit right in. I'm reminded of Maya Angelou's words from her poem "Human Family",  

"I note the obvious differences
between each sort and type,
but we are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike."

Come and be our guests at the shelter---our homeless guests will welcome you with open arms.  

SHELTER NEEDS:  Women's Underwear, Clorox/Lysol Wipes, Pajama Pants (sizes M-XXXL)

Children's Formation

This Sunday and every  Sunday , PreK children (ages 3 and potty-trained to age 5) gather downstairs during the  9am  mass for a time of songs, stories, wonder, and play.  Parents can drop children off as early as  8:45am  in room C-4.  Children join their families in mass at the passing of the Peace.

This Sunday  is Parish Breakfast between the  9am and 11am  mass.  Join our church family and enjoy a hot breakfast in Drake Hall. There will also be a Bake Sale to support refugee families with all kinds of homemade treats and dishes.  Bring cash to buy delicious food for a great cause!

Club 543 meets after the  11am  mass in Drake Hall  this Sunday .  Our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders will be helping with an outreach project for our Overflow Shelter this month. Kids can be picked up at  1:15pm  in Drake Hall.  Bring 3 boxes of pasta for New Communion!

PASTA!!!
We continue to collect pasta for the New Communion Mobile Food Pantry each month.  We are known by New Communion as the "Pasta Church"!  Our goal is to donate 100 boxes of pasta each month.  Next time you are at the grocery, remember to pick up some pasta for New Communion.  If you're interested in helping with a distribution with New Communion, contact  [email protected]  to arrange a time to go. 


The Our Lady of Walsingham Lamp 
is given to the Glory of God
and in memory of Jim Cardwell by Richard and Nancy Teska.
 

 

The St. Timothy Shrine Lamp
is given to the glory of God and in honor of their 8 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild by Wrenna and Andy Barney.
&
In memory of Josephine Teska by Richard and Nancy Teska.
 

 
The altar flowers
are given to the Glory of Almighty God and
in thanksgiving for our 67th wedding anniversary
by Carl & Marie Stewart and
in memory of Matthew Doyle Redmon
by Harold & Faye Redmon.
 

 


 

 

The Sanctuary Lamp 
is given to the glory of God
with prayers for unity and peace in our parish, country, and the world by the Skarzynski Family.