ALL ANGELS BY THE SEA
WEEKLY TIDINGS
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The message for this coming Sunday is a follow up to Easter Sunday's message. Last Sunday, Fr. Dave talked about the early Christian symbol of the fish. This week, the message is about how we got from the fish to the cross.
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Indoor seating is available on a first come first serve basis.
Masks are required indoors - please wear the mask over your mouth and nose.
Communion bread will be offered outdoors.
To live-stream - go to AllAngelsLBK.org, click on the "All Angels Enter Here" picture and you will be routed to our YouTube channel.
Zoom - go to https://zoom.us/j/5955701807 and watch and listen live. Be sure to stick around after the service for our coffee hour chat-with-your-neighbor time.
The 10 am service will begin with the lighting of the altar candles. If you are participating at home, you are invited to light a candle with us to create a sacred space of worship at home.
The bulletin can be found on the All Angels Website:
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Post-Easter Choir
During the month of April, the choir will meet prior to the Sunday morning 10:00 service. Newcomers are welcome.
The choir will need to wear masks and will be seated on the Terrace. If you have any questions, please contact Dale.
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Scripture Readings, April 11
Acts 4:32-35
Psalm 133
1 John 1:1-2:2
John 20:19-31
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Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer invites you to pray with them, every day,
at 8 am, wherever you are. When you enter into prayer at 8 am (Eastern), you will know that others are praying at the same time.
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Prayers for our People
We pray for those who are sick, those who suffer; we pray for all who protect us both here and abroad, and for those on our prayer list; especially, Downs IV, Holden, Brian and Lou. Grant healing and recovery for all who have gone through surgery. Give peace and strength for those going through cancer treatments, especially Ginny, Victoria, Andres, Alex, Colleen, Jack, Connie, John, Douglas and Tom. Visit and comfort all who are under the care of skilled nursing, especially Bob, Timothy, Don, Barbara and Mike. Be near to all who are in hospice care.
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Thank You of the Week
Many thanks to Daphne Walker, Diana Emerich, Beverly Henry,
Pam Toft, Heidi Thomas, Sandy Wood, Carolyne Starek, Katzy Nager,
Pam Elder, and Gail Clay for the beautiful flower displays on Easter Sunday. Thank you for making Easter full of new life and beauty.
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Organ Concerts
Join us every Thursday at 11:00 am for our Organ Concert in the Park.
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Art Gallery
Our "New to You" art sale continues online. To see what is available for sale, please visit our website: www.allangelslbk.org
Our artist for the month of April will be Jo Jo Fusco.
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Discussion Groups
The discussion group reading for next week is an article by Tamara Mann Tweel about Rabbi Abraham Heschel and his thoughts on aging. He testified, in the 1961 White House council on aging, "We owe the elderly reverence, as outlined in the 5th commandment; but, all they ask for is consideration and not to be discarded. What they deserve is preference but we do not even grant them equality."
He outlined that social security and medicare is not going to fix the way the elderly are viewed and that the US government should do two things: 1) abandon chronological age from all policies and 2) the government should urge private industries - insurance companies, advertising agencies and social service organizations - to abandon the conflation of leisure, retirement, and old age.
I'd like to discuss the Rabbi's assertions as well as look at what the Bible and the Church says about aging and, in Heschel's words, the "trivialization of existence."
Blessings to you this week,
- Dave
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Online Giving
If you would like to give to the offering plate electronically, you can find the online giving link on our All Angels website by clicking the link below:
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50-Day Celebration
I am a fan of the birthday week – the practice of celebrating a birthday for an entire week and not just on the birth-day. Some families have a birthday month. That might a bit much. When Elijah turned 11, we had a birthday week. Although his actual birthday was on a Tuesday, we started the celebration on Friday when he had the day off from school. We went out on the boat and rented a jet ski for an hour. We then had something special on Saturday, then Sunday, and then again on Monday. By the time his birthday rolled around, we all had done a lot of celebrating and I think he was ready for life to get back to normal.
The birthday week helps with the feeling of drop off after a big celebration. There is a natural let down after a big day; like July 5th, or the Tuesday after Labor Day, or January 2nd. As I have written to you, when I was growing up, my parents tried to extend the gift-giving/receive portion of Christmas for all 12 days. I like celebrating Christmas for the 12 days; but, the gift giving thing didn’t work out to well. So now we stick with joy, decorations, and yummy food.
If you’ve ever wondered why Christmas is celebrated for 12 days, it stems from the Council of Tours in the year 567. They declared that it took twelve days for the magi to travel from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.
If you think a 12-day celebration of Christmas is a lot, well hold on to your hat because Easter is celebrated for 50 days! 50!! You will see the church adorned in white, you will see celebratory flower decorations, and, it is during Easter that the confession in the liturgy is omitted. Why 50 days? First off, Easter must be longer than Lent. It just seems fair. Secondly, and certainly more importantly, the reason stems from the Jewish calendar. Easter is always celebrated around the time of the Passover. Fifty days (give or take a day) later is another festival called Shavuot. In the Christian tradition, the Day of Pentecost happened 50 days after Easter. If you remember the story, there were people of the Jewish faith gathered from all over - Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome; Cretans and Arabs. (Acts 2) Ever wondered why they were all there and the disciples/apostle too? It was Shavuot. The tradition is that on Passover, the Israelites were released from captivity and fled into the wilderness. 50 days later, Moses received the Torah on Mt. Sinai.
The important thing for me on this is two-fold: we don’t have to worry about post Easter Sunday letdown because we’re going to celebrate for a month and then some; Easter ends on Pentecost which is the traditional birthday of the Church. If you like the idea of a birthday-week, or birthday-month, the Church celebrates its birthday all the way until Advent arrives shortly after Thanksgiving. It looks to me like we have a lot of celebrating to do.
-Fr. Dave
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