The Church Mouse reopened for the Palm Beach Season on Monday, October 1
st, and with over 400 visitors on opening day, we profited $41,000 to support the many outreach programs at Bethesda-by-the-Sea. As we often say, we believe in serving those in need around the corner and around the world and we are reminded of Jesus’ words from Matthew’s Gospel, “Whatever you do for the least of these, you do for me.” Our outreach priorities are education, food, and shelter.
We are grateful to all for supporting us on the first day of the new season. Shoppers found a broad selection of merchandise, and a wonderful set of Louis Vuitton travel trunks were some of the first items to go. In addition, we sold a variety of artwork, ceramics, pottery, fine china, and several items of furniture.
The
Palm Beach Daily News featured a number of designer items for sale, but the floor still holds a wide variety of Chanel and Hermes scarves; Ferragamo, Manolo Blahnik, and Gucci handbags and shoes; and women’s clothing by Carolina Herrera, Galanos, Prada, Pucci, and many others. Our men’s department features full racks that include Saville Row suits, cashmere sweaters, a cascade of bow ties, and accessories to complete any wardrobe or serve as fantastic gifts. There are even two sets of nearly-new kite boards and gear at a fraction of their original cost. The Mouse has anything you could want!
We continue to replenish the shop every day, and we remain well stocked with items from ascots to zebra prints and everything in between.
Please visit The Church Mouse at 378 South County Road between Town Hall and Worth Avenue. Our hours of operation for the season are: Monday-Saturday, 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m. We are closed on Sundays.
And we continue to accept donations, so bring something in and take something home!
For more information regarding the Church Mouse and our outreach ministry please visit our website at
www.bbts.org
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Turia Roebuck-Hayden
Outreach and Development Coordinator
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2018
8:00, 9:00, & 11:00 a.m.
Preacher:
The Rev. Burl Salmon
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
8:15 a.m. Fellowship Breakfast, Parish Hall West
*9:00 a.m.
Blessing of the Animals - Morning Prayer followed by communion
10:00 a.m. Fellowship Finger Food, Parish Hall West
*#11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
3:30 p.m. R
ecital
4:00 p.m. Evensong
Fellowship Breakfast | 8:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. | Parish Hall West
We will have a full hot meal cooked on site, with a rotating menu, for $5 per person. After 10:00 a.m., a simpler fare, fellowship finger foods, will be provided until 1:00 p.m. with no cost to our parishioners.
This week's menu: scrambled eggs, grits, bacon, biscuits and sausage gravy.
PARKING: Persons attending Sunday services will be allowed to park on ALL of Barton Avenue and the south side of Pendleton Avenue without receiving a ticket until 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
* nursery care for infants through age 2 is available from 7:45 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Click here
to view the service leaflet for this Sunday.
Click here
to view this week's Bethesda Happenings.
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Sunday, October 7, 9:00 a.m.
In celebration of the Feast of St. Francis, we invite you to join us at 9:00 a.m. for a service with the Blessing of the Animals. For those who wish, Communion is offered at the end of the 9:00 a.m. service. We encourage you to bring your pets to the service for them to be blessed. Please gather in the Garth with your pets at 8:45 a.m.
Don't forget to bring a bag of pet food or toy to be donated to the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League.
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Sunday, October 7 | 3:30 p.m. | Church
Join us for our first Recital and Evensong of the season! Pianist Robin Arrigo will offer a recital at 3:30 p.m. An Evensong with The Bethesda Choir follows at 4:00 p.m. A free-will offering will be received, and a reception will follow in the Parish Hall.
All are welcome and encouraged to attend
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Father James' Sabbatical Blog
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You can follow Father James on his sabbatical journey.
Click Here
Subscribe to his Reflections posts for email updates.
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Saturday, October 13, 2018
PALM BEACH PAR 3
2345 S Ocean Blvd. Palm Beach
Time:
7:30 a.m. Check-In Begins
8:30 a.m. Shotgun Start
11:30 a.m. Lunch, Awards & Silent Auction
For more information contact:
Cristina Hungerford
(561) 628-9458
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Trivia Night
Friday, October 19 | 7:00 p.m. | Parish Hall
The Bethesda Youth Pilgrimage Group will be hosting a Trivia Night fundraiser. Get a team of eight people together or come on your own and we’ll pair you up with a team. It’s going to be a night of fun trivia, silent auctions, and more. All profits from the event will go to help the Bethesda Youth Pilgrimage Group with costs for their summer trip.
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For more information about Trivia Night, contact Greg Knight at
(561) 655-4555 x114 or
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Enneagram Retreat
Saturday, October 20th | 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Parish Hall
This half-day workshop will be facilitated by Fr. Burl Salmon and Certified Enneagram teachers Paul Van der Grift, Paige Mead, and Sean Melton. The purpose of this retreat is to provide a time and space to turn down the noise of our habitual selves in order to listen to, and begin to trust, the deeper, more authentic intelligence resonating inside each of us. Through the use of Enneagram-based exercises, we will explore the challenges that each of us face, how we can support each other, and what part of the Body of Christ we are called to be. There will be time for solitude and reflection as well as time for discussion and communion.
Lunch will be provided.
A donation of $10 is requested.
Registration is required.
For more information or to register for this event please visit:
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The Way of Love...
Evangelism 101
Saturday, December 15, 2018
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.
Bethesda hosts The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's very own Canon for Evangelism
and Reconciliation.
Join us as we seek, name, and celebrate Jesus' loving presence in the stories of all people and learn how to articulate the power of faith in our own lives tell our own stories. Lunch will be provided. Donations are accepted.
To find out more and to register for this event,
click here
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Invitation for Altar Flowers
We invite you to make a contribution in memory of (deceased), in honor of (living), or in thanksgiving for (celebration) your loved ones. Your contribution provides for flowers, plants, and altar adornments necessary for worship services throughout the year. Suggested contribution is $100 per name to be printed in the service leaflet for a desired Sunday.
In order for names to be printed in the Sunday service leaflet, they must be received two weeks prior to the desired Sunday--
click here.
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- Wednesday, October 10 -
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6:00 to 6:30 p.m. (serving starts at 5:45 p.m.) Community Supper | Parish Hall
The cost is $10 for adults; $5 for children under 12; $25 family max (payable at the door).
This week's menu: BBQ chicken, BBQ ribs, mac and cheese, salad, garlic bread.
Kindly RSVP
here
or call Ayana at (561) 655-4554.
*In order to properly plan and prepare the supper, we need your reservations by noon on Monday.
FEATURED CLASSES
6:30 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. | Book Study | Guild Room
Over the course of five weeks, join this discussion of Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks’s best-selling novel
People of the Book that follows a rare, sacred manuscript through centuries of exile and war. If you are able, please read for tonight chapters "Saltwater, Hanna: London" and "A White Hair: Seville"; pp 215 - 316.
6:30 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. | Bethesda at Its Best! | Library
Come one, come all for a behind-the-scenes look at what makes Bethesda the special place that it is. Over a series of four weeks, join the clergy and vestry as we discuss the history, mission, and organization of this remarkable parish and how each of these beautiful threads comes together into a diverse and spirit-filled tapestry.
RECURRING CLASSES
6:30 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. | Little Way | Sunday School Hall
For all K - 5th grade kids with a curiosity for what we do at Bethesda and why. Crafts, cooking, learning games, and playful fellowship will help your little ones learn about Bethesda's traditions and have a little fun along the way.
6:30 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. | Bible Study | ECW Room
The Path: A Journey Through the Bible
… praised by biblical scholars,
The Path
is the story of the Bible, excerpted from the New Revised Standard Version so that it is clear and easy to read. Follow the path of God’s love all the way from the beginning to the end, from Adam’s creation to John’s revelation. This book stands alone as a fantastic resource for engaging and learning more about the Bible. To discover what “trails” through God’s grace you want to spend more time on and get to know as your own special way to the heart of God’s Love.
6:30 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. | Theology in Film - Bethesda Film Club | Choir Room
This intergenerational group will explore how the religious life is revealed through popular art. This week we look at
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). If you are able, please watch the movie on your own and come ready to discuss.
6:30 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. | Yoga | Parish Hall West
Physical therapist and yoga therapist, Emily Large, invites all adults for an evening of holistic worship through Christian yoga practice. Physical postures, relaxation, breath techniques, and mental focus create a holistic approach for worship as we will reflect on the themes associated with the liturgical calendar. A donation of $10 per class is requested (payable at the door).
CLOSING PRAYER
7:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. | Compline | Church
An ancient, brief, and contemplative liturgy of the Christian tradition, compline offers an opportunity to give God thanks for the day behind us and pray for rest and safety in the night ahead. A fitting end to the day, compline offers a peaceful and meditative sacred time in the middle of our often frenetic weeks, as well as a beautiful conclusion to our Wednesday evenings together.
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We pray for...
Angela, Anita, Ann, Anna, Barbara, Brecken, Brenda, Brittany, Carson, Charles, Chris, David, Donna, Dorothy, Edna, Ellen, Emily, Ethan, Evan, Holly, Jack, John, Joy, Karen, Kelley, Leah, Lillyana, Linda, Lynn, Marcia, Mary, Mary Ann, Matthew, Melanie, Melissa, Michael, Michele, Nancy, Nikki, Pat, Peggy, Rahn Family, Regine, Ricky, Robbie, Robert, Rosie, Sally, Sebastian, Shannon, Sharon, Shawn, Stephen, Sylvia, Taryn, Thomas, Tom, Vincent, Ward,
and those serving our country
...Alex, Benjamin, Christian, Clara, Eric, Harold, Herbert, John, Lorne, Luster, Michael, Sean, and Tommy.
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This Sunday's Readings in Context
Parishioner Tom O'Brien, a Canon and Examining Chaplain for Scripture of this diocese, writes brief background descriptions of the Sunday readings. We thank Tom for sharing his learning and love of Scripture with us in this way.
The reading discusses the creation of the helper for the "adam" in the Second Creation Story, and the introduction to the Letter to the Hebrews.
Genesis 2:18-24
Genesis is the first book of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy). The Torah also called the Pentateuch (five books) in Greek. Genesis covers the period from Creation to the deaths of Jacob and his 11th son, Joseph, in about 1,650 BCE, if the accounts are historical.
The Book of Genesis (like the Torah as a whole) is an amalgam of religious traditions, some of which are dated by scholars to about 950 BCE and some of which were developed as late as 450 BCE. Since the late 19th Century, Biblical scholars have recognized four major “strands” or sources in the Torah, and these sources are identified (among other ways) by their different theological emphases, names for God, names for the holy mountain, and portrayals of God’s characteristics.
In Genesis, there are two Creation Stories. In the First Story (Gen. 1:1 to 2.4a), God created humankind (men and women) in God’s image on the sixth day and told them to be fruitful and multiply (1:27-28). God rested on the seventh day.
Today’s reading is part of the Second Account of Creation that begins in Gen. 2:4b. This Second Account is attributed to the “Jahwistic” Source and is generally dated to about 950 BCE. This Source presents God’s name as YHWH (translated with all capital letters as LORD or LORD God) and gives God many anthropomorphic qualities such as speaking with humans.
In this Second Creation Story, YHWH formed an earthling/human (in Hebrew,
adam) from the fertile earth/humus (in Hebrew,
adamah). In today’s reading, YHWH gave the human a “partner” (in Hebrew,
ezer).
Ezer is not a word often used in the Bible, and it is usually used to refer to God as the “partner” of Israel. Accordingly, the partner/
ezer (the female) of the
adam should not be understood as subordinate to the male. In today’s reading (somewhat amusingly), God created animals as the first attempt to find a helper/partner for the human, but then created a woman from the
adam’s rib/substance to be the
ezer of the man.
Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12
Although the Letter to the Hebrews is sometimes attributed to Paul, most scholars agree that it was written some time after Paul’s death in 62 CE, but before 100 CE. The letter was addressed to Jesus Followers who had suffered persecution and introduced a number of important theological themes. The first four chapters explore the word of God spoken through the Son.
In today’s reading, the author affirmed that the Son is the “exact imprint of God’s very being” (v.3) and participated in creation (just as Wisdom participated in creation as stated in Proverbs 8). He described the Son as superior to the angels, and re-interpreted Psalm 8:4-6 as referring to Jesus. The author stated that Jesus was made lower than the angels (as a human being) only “for a little while” (2:9).
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