Week of March 27, 2022, With St. Martin's
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The Leaflet for this week's service can be found by going to
Prayer Requests
  • Deacon Robert Perrson, Sr., Dave's father is in the hospital with pneumonia.
  • Fr. Rob's mother, Evelyn.
  • Kathy Picazio asks for prayers for a special high school friend who has a son, daughter-in-law, and her daughter in Ukraine. Doug Newton, his wife, Zhenya, and her adult daughter.
  • Bonnie Whalen requested prayers for her 28 yr old grandson.
  • Linda Virtue
  • Chris Semanchik, who is very ill.
  • Jane Linn's, granddaughter-in-law, Rachael.
  • Keep Mike, Christine Kellam's dad in your prayers.
  • Mary Irwin is experiencing some health issues.
  • Philip and Nancy
Please send your prayer intentions to Philip at philip.muniz@gmail.com.
OUTREACH
Outreach will continue to collect Easter basket goodies until Sunday, April 3rd. We are in need of baskets, individually wrapped candies, grass, and small toys/books/gifts. We have an abundance of plastic eggs.
 
In addition to collecting items in the narthex, we will be doing a collection in the church parking lot on Sunday, March 27th from 11:30 to 1:30.
 
SHIP is still experiencing difficulties and the truck is not serving meals in the evenings. They hope to resume this in April but there will be a new schedule with new locations. As soon as they notify us that the truck is serving hot meals once again, we will let everyone know.
 
Your generosity is appreciated.
Lenten Book Study
All are welcome. This year we will be learning about and discussing six women from the Old Testament in five sessions. They include Jephthah’s daughter, the Shunammite woman, Esther, Judith, and Naomi and Ruth. Some will be familiar and some probably will not. All have a story to tell and things to teach us about their time and place, their beliefs and spirituality, and their relationship with God and their people.
We will be using the book “Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter”, by the Reverend Lindsay Hardin Freeman (ISBN 978-088028-391-5), It is available online, in both hardcopy and electronic format, from a variety of vendors, including Amazon. This is the same book we used for the 2018 Woman in the Bible program.
Meetings will take place each Monday during Lent beginning on March 7 and continuing on March 14, 21, 28, and April 4 at 7:00 pm. We will be meeting at the home of Juanita Hawkins
                       90 Vandeveer Drive
                       Basking Ridge, New Jersey 
Lent at St. Martin's
Mondays - 7 p.m. Bible Study - Women of the Bible at Juanita's house
Wednesdays - 6 p.m. Mass in the Lady Chapel
Thursdays - 10 a.m. - Noon Private Prayer and Adoration with the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament (come and go as you desire) in the Lady Chapel
Fridays - 7 p.m. Stations of the Cross in the church
INTRODUCING THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Every week in Lent we’ll be introducing two Stations in the Stations of the Cross. All together the Stations are a series of images of events from Jesus’ journey on the day of his crucifixion. Each station relates an event from that journey. Christians have been walking the Stations for centuries. It is meant to assist us as we make our own spiritual pilgrimage of contemplation of our Lord’s passion.
We hope you will join us on Good Friday at the Church to walk the Stations of the Cross as you contemplate the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
THE NINTH STATION: JESUS FALLS A THIRD TIME
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light. He has besieged me and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. Though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes. “Remember, O Lord, my affliction and bitterness, the wormwood and the gall!”

Let us pray. O God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer shame and loss for the sake of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
THE TENTH STATION: JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS GARMENTS
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

When they came to a place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull), they offered him wine to drink, mingled with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And they divided his garments among them by casting lots. This was to fulfill the scripture which says, “They divided my garments among them; they cast lots for my clothing.”

Let us pray. Lord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident of the glory that shall be revealed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church
1350 Washington Valley Road,
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
www.stmartinsnj.org
Call Us: 908-526-1350
Contact information for Fr. Rob
rectorstmartinsnj@gmail.com or fatherroblaws@yahoo.com