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July 19, 2018
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This Week
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St. Martin's
9:15 a.m.
Guest Celebrant: The Rev.
Kyle St. Claire
Rite II Holy Eucharist with music
9:30 a.m.
Vestry Meeting
10:45 a.m.
Morning Prayer
12:15 p.m.
Bible Study at Christ Church Ithan
7:00 p.m.
AA Meeting
7:00 p.m.
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Greeting
A Summer Prayer
Father, Creator of all, thank You for summer!
Thank You for the warmth of the sun
and the increased daylight.
Thank You for the beauty I see all around me
and for the opportunity to be outside and enjoy Your creation.
Thank You for the increased time I have to be with my friends and family, and for the more casual pace of the summer season.
Draw me closer to You this summer.
Teach me how I can pray no matter where I am or what I am doing.
Warm my soul with the awareness of Your presence and light my path with Your Word and Counsel.
As I enjoy Your creation, create in me a pure heart and a hunger and a thirst for You.
Amen.
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Arts Camp: Summer Sunday VBS
There are 719 times the word "water" is mentioned in the bible. It must be very important to be referenced so often!
Jesus said, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of
water and Spirit." John 3:5.
How does water connect to Vacation Bible School? Join us this Sunday to be part of using watercolor paints and water to have fun as we are creative. The weather is forecast to be nice and water works well outside. It is suggested children wear play clothing. The Summer Sunday activities will begin at 9:15 a.m. and children will rejoin their families at the peace.
These Summer Sundays are for adults as well as children so plan to join the fun.
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This upcoming Wednesday, July 25th, will be the last July meeting for Bible Study at Christ Church Ithan (CCI). August meetings will be at St. Martin's. These are stand-alone sessions so there's no preparation or consecutive visits required. You're invited to drop in and be a part of these Gospel explorations anytime.
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The St. Martin's capital campaign committee continues to make calls and visits. The responses are heartening. Some parishioners are making very special gifts and others are contemplating what they can do to repair our beloved church and property. So far, completed projects funded by capital campaign donations include partial repaving of the parking lot and stone work on steps throughout the property. There are many more items on the to-do list so we will continue with our goal of contacting as many members as possible this summer and into the fall. Deepest thanks go to committee members who are working on this most important project. Pledges over a few years and outright gifts of cash or securities are very welcome.
McLeod Gwynette, Sandy Reinhardt, Matt Wynn,
Monty Harris, Gwinnie Scott.
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Upcoming Events
Guest Celebrant
THIS Sunday, 7/22 - The Rev. Kyle St. Claire
Next Sunday, 7/29 - The Rev. David Laquintano
Vestry Meeting
THIS Sunday, 7/22 following the 10:30 a.m. service
Unity in the Community
Sunday, 8/18, 12-4 p.m. on Highland Ave, Wayne
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Read and Ponder
this Week's Scriptures
The scripture readings for this Sunday are:
2 Samuel 11:1-15
Psalm 14
Ephesians 3:14-21
John 6:1-21
The Collect
O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
2 Samuel 11:1-15
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, "This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite." So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house. The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, "I am pregnant." So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the people fared, and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king. But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. When they told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "You have just come from a journey. Why did you not go down to your house?" Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing." Then David said to Uriah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day. On the next day, David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die."
The Response
Psalm 14
1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." All are corrupt and commit abominable acts; there is none who does any good.
2 The Lord looks down from heaven upon us all, to see if there is any who is wise, if there is one who seeks after God.
3 Every one has proved faithless; all alike have turned bad; there is none who does good; no, not one.
4 Have they no knowledge, all those evildoers who eat up my people like bread and do not call upon the Lord?
5 See how they tremble with fear, because God is in the company of the righteous.
6 Their aim is to confound the plans of the afflicted, but the Lord is their refuge.
7 Oh, that Israel's deliverance would come out of Zion! when the Lord restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad.
The Second Reading
Ephesians 3:14-21
I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
The Gospel
John 6:1-21
Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?" He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, "Six months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little." One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?" Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, "Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost." So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, "This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world." When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself. When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were terrified. But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid." Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.
Optional parts of the readings are set off in square brackets.
The Bible texts of the Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel lessons are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Church of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.
The Collects, Psalms and Canticles are from the Book of Common Prayer, 1979.
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