Weekly Newsletter

ANNOUNCEMENTS

from St. Raphael's

March 31, 2024

Join Us This Sunday, March 31, 2024

Easter Service --Holy Communion

10:00 am at

5601 Williams Drive

All are invited - All are welcome!

Holy Week Services

On Thursday, March 28 we will observe Maundy Thursday with a Eucharist and foot washing beginning at 7 PM. Our Good Friday service will be held at noon. All services are being held at our Williams Drive campus. Easter Sunday we will celebrate the Holy Eucharist at 10 AM.

Click Here for Father Michael's You Tube Channel where you will find all his sermons and the videos of services.

Click Here for a video of the Palm Sunday Service on You Tube.

Click here for a video of the Palm Sunday Service on Facebook.

Videos of the Palm Sunday Sermon

You Tube

Facebook

A Message From Father Rowe

Dear members and friends of St. Raphael’s,

Assist us mercifully with your help,

O Lord God of our salvation,

that we may enter with joy

upon the contemplation of those mighty acts,

whereby you have given us life and immortality;

through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN

So opened the Palm Liturgy last Sunday. Holy Week is designed to help us contemplate those mighty acts of our salvation.

The Lessons for each day of the week can be found here . I encourage you to pray each day’s collect and meditatively read each day’s lessons.

We worship together on Maundy Thursday at 7:00 pm and on Good Friday at noon.

All of which prepares us to celebrate Christ’s glorious resurrection and our new life in him on Sunday.

Easter Day is a time when many people who don’t usually go to church are open to considering it. Would you invite your family and friends to attend with you? It might be a time of real blessing for them.

May God richly bless you as you walk this Holy Week.

God bless you.

(The Rev.) Michael Rowe

mgr3334@gmail.com

Sermons and Messages Now Available on You Tube

Help Us Increase Our Facebook and You Tube Presence

Our online presence has been increasing recently thanks to our streaming videos and presence on Facebook and You Tube. You can help us out by visiting St. Raphael's Facebook Page and clicking Like/Follow. You can also help by subscribing to Father Michael's YouTube channel. By liking us on FB and subscribing to Father's You Tube channel you will be helping our online presence which has advantages. For example, we need to have a certain number of subscribers to live stream on You Tube. Presently, we need to stream to Facebook, save the file, and then upload to Father's You Tube page. If we could stream live directly to Facebook, we could deliver faster to viewers and increase our audience.

Join Us to Get Fit

The Essentrics Class continues to meet on Monday morning at 9:30 under the tent. The classes will continue until April 29th. Please come and join us to improve your heath.

Construction Continues to Move Ahead

The rebuilding of the parish hall and rectory is coming along. Crews have been working daily to get the electric wired, the air conditioning installed, and the plumbing connected. Once that is completed, we can begin getting the kitchen set up with the new appliances, etc.

Stewardship Letters Sent Out

If we had a physical address for you, we sent Rev. Rowe's stewardship letter to that address. A digital version was also send to your email address. As we plan the budget for 2024 ,it is very important that we know how much income we can expect. A pledge card will be included in the mailing along with an envelope to return the card to us.

Praying with St. Raphael's

Keep them in your prayers...

If you have someone to add to the weekly prayer list, email Kathy Leson at Kathleenleson@gmail.com

Gracious God, Through your grace guide us, the people of St. Raphael's, to joyfully carry out our mission of growing faith in your son, Jesus Christ. Fill us with your Holy Spirit that we may develop a living faith and strengthens our awareness of the needs of others. May we work in peace and harmony with each other in all we undertake, in the days and weeks ahead. And may we be a transforming light within our parish and in the community of Fort Myers Beach. We ask these things in the name of your Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. AMEN

March Events

March 28--Maundy Thursday Eucharist at 7 PM

March 29--Good Friday Service at Noon

March 31--Easter Sunday at 10:00

Service Participants

March 31--Reader: Kathleen Leson; Chalice: Kathleen Leson and Ellie Bunting

Maundy Thursday: Reader and Chalice: Ellie Bunting

Good Friday: Reader and Chalice: Elllie Bunting

St. Raphael's Episcopal Church

our mission

Healing, Hope & Hospitality

on Ft. Myers Beach

THANK YOU!

for your continuing financial contributions to St. Raphael's.

Your financial pledges and donations keep our ministries vital

and enable us to rebuild for the future.

You can send your donations to

St. Raphael's Church

5601 Williams Drive

Fort Myers Beach, FL 33931