| September 12, 2019 Emmanuel's E-News |
Greetings from
Emmanuel Episcopal Church!
This Sunday is the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost.
This is the longest season of the church year, lasting from Pentecost Day until Advent. The year following Epiphany and Pentecost is called Ordinary Time, and includes no major feasts. But it is a time for learning and reflection. The color of the season is green, symbolizing the life and growth of the church.
We look forward to seeing you in church!
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September 15 is the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
This is a period in which the liturgy Sunday after Sunday leads us into a serious consideration of the content of Holy Scripture in an orderly way. This time in the Church Year is a time to build on the growth and renewal of grace we experienced in the first half of the year, a time to prepare ourselves to celebrate more fully when we come around again to the seasons from Advent through Easter.
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La Grange Home and History Tour
We are excited to announce that Emmanuel is part of the 2019 Home and History Tour on Saturday, September 14th from 12:00 - 5:00.
Guests will visit five unique homes as well as two historic buildings that are not residences and learn about the history and interesting stories behind these properties. The tour offers a rare opportunity to enter some of the La Grange area's finest private homes and experience the architecture, design and collections that are treasured by families but rarely shared with the public.
Advance ticket prices are $30 for Historical Society members and $40 for non-members. Ticket prices increase by $5 on the day of the tour. Your printed receipt will be exchanged for your program guide at check-in locations, which are the at the Historical Society and Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Guests can then proceed through the tour in any order they choose.
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Parishioner Interment Sunday, September 15th
Many of you will remember that Hank Power sadly passed away in February this year. Eleanor will be joining us at the 10am service on Sunday, September 15
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We will be hosting a special coffee hour to welcome Eleanor back to her Emmanuel family. We know she will be happy to see many old friends.
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Blessing of the Animals
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- Vestry Meeting on Tuesday, September 24th
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Short Takes
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Vestry Minutes
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Emmanuel Weekly Schedule
Tuesday
7:15 am- Contemplation & Meditation
Thursday
7:15 am- Contemplation & Meditation
Sunday
8:00 am- Said Mass Rite II
10:00 am- Choral Mass Rite II
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Planning an Event? 
All event dates MUST be sent to the Parish Administrator so that they can be entered on the website calendar. This is the master calendar. If you are planning an event, click on the calendar graphic to find out if your event conflicts with other activities.
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Memorable Christians of the Past:
Feast of The Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Holy Cross Day)
14 September 335
During the reign of Constantine, first Roman Emperor to profess the Christian faith, his mother Helena went to Israel and there undertook to find the places especially significant to Christians. Having located, close together, what she believed to be the sites of the Crucifixion and of the Burial, she then had built over them the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which was dedicated on 14 September 335. It has become a day for recognizing the Cross (in a festal atmosphere that would be inappropriate on Good Friday) as a symbol of triumph, as a sign of Christ's victory over death, and a reminder of His promise, "And when I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto me." (John 12:32)
The Christian custom of tracing the sign of the cross on persons and things as a sign of blessing is very old. Some think that it goes back to the very origins of Christianity and earlier. In Ezekiel 9, we read that Ezekiel had a vision of the throne-room of God, in which an angel was sent to go through Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the faithful few who mourned for the sins of the city. Afterwards, other angels were sent through the city to destroy all those who had not the mark. We find similar visionary material in Revelation 7:2-4; 9:4; 14:1, where the mark on the forehead again protects the faithful few in the day of wrath, and it is said to be the name of the Lamb and of His Father.
What is the significance of the sign of the cross? Well, in the first place, we often place our initials or other personal mark on something to show that it belongs to us. The Cross is the personal mark of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and we mark it on ourselves as a sign that we belong to Him, just as in the book of Revelation, as noted above, the servants of God are sealed or marked on their foreheads as a sign that they are His.
Again, as one preacher has said, if you were telling someone how to make a cross, you might say, "Draw an I and then cross it out." As we make the sign, we first draw a vertical stroke, as if to say to God, "Lord, here am I." Then we cancel it with a horizontal stroke, as if to say, "Help me, Lord, to abandon my self-centeredness and self-will, and to make you the center of my life instead. Fix all my attention and all my desire on you, Lord, that I may forget my self, cancel my self, abandon myself completely to your love and service."
Source: justus.anglican.org
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 Sounds in the Sanctuary
- Grazyna Auguscik & Jarek Bester- Friday, September 27 @ 7:30pm
- The Phantom Carriage- Saturday, October 5 @ 7:30pm
- Black Tulip- Sunday, November 3 @ 3:00pm
- Pat Mallinger & Co- Thursday, January 23 @ 7:30pm
- Cathedral Choir of Notre Dame, Paris- Sunday, April 19 @ 3:00pm and 7:00pm
Click HERE for more information or to purchase tickets.
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Grazyna Auguscik
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The Phantom Carriage
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Amy Black Charity Concert @ City Winery
Nashville-based artist Amy Black returns to Chicago on Sunday, Oct. 6th, at 12:30PM to play a special blues and classic R&B brunch show for a powerful cause: Supporting Chicago-area survivors of human trafficking. A portion of the afternoon's ticket and merchandise sales will be donated to the non-profit Magdalene House Chicago to further their work with survivors of sex-trafficking.
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Convention Speaker Innovates to "Liberate" Religious Rituals
Casper ter Kuile to speak on November 22
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This Sunday is the Fourteenth Sunday after
Pentecost
Lessons appointed for
Proper 19:
The Old Testament:
The Response:
The Epistle:
The Gospel:
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