Notices for Week of 4 June 2023
Notices: Holy Trinity, 4 June 2023
Good day dear friends,
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity. God as Trinitarian Flow is the blueprint and pattern for all relationships and thus all of creation, which we now know from atoms, to circulatory systems, to ecosystems, and galaxies is exactly the case. We are connected to God and to all of creation in the Trinitarian and eternal flow. Thanks be to God.
Love
Father Gerald+
Holy Communion every Sunday at 11am.
On Sunday, June 11 we will be concluding Godly Play for the summer and will be having a BBQ lunch after liturgy. Hot dogs, hamburgers, salads and cake will be provided for everyone. We are hoping that a couple of people can bring along table top BBQs. Please let Lynn know if you can help out with that (683-1270).
I want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who participated in the “Buy a Key, Share in the Music Campaign”. Through your specific donations we were able to cover the cost of 33 /68 keys which is roughly 48% of the cost. The remainder being covered by the parish. We are officially closing the campaign. If you would still like to contribute to this project , you are free to do so. If using EMT or cheque, remember to note keyboard. Again many thanks for supporting music ministry in your parish.
Valerie
Please remember to bring items for the Helping Hand Basket.
Suggested items for the Helping Hand
Peanut Butter, Jams, Tin Pasta or dry Pasta, Pasta sauce, Tin tomatoes, Can stew, Beans
Meatballs & gravy, Sugar, Tin milk, Cheese spread, Can vegetables, Juice, Flakes of Ham, Chicken, or Turkey, Soup’s.
Thank you for your continued support.
God Bless
Deacon Janet.
Our parish pantry is in need of some donations for our hospitality ministry:
Flour, soft margarine, margarine in 3lb box, jam,
baking powder, baking soda, vinegar 4L.Coffee,
regular tetley tea, green tea, decaf tea.
Praying in Nature– Once a week, while the weather is warmer, we will be intentional about praying outside. Please join Rev’d Christine in the Parish of Bay Roberts Coley’s Point as we deepen our awareness of God in the naturally created world around us on Wednesdays in June, 10:30-11:30am at the following locations:
June 7- Community Gardens, Bay Roberts
June 14-French’s Park, Coley’s Point
June 21- Goosepond, Shearstown
Dresses appropriately for the weather. The event will be canceled if it is raining.
Scent Free Environment: Many people now suffer from allergies. Please, when gathering in our House for the Church, refrain from wearing colognes and perfumes.
Please consider the Primate World Relief and Development Fund for donations to relief efforts around the world. https://giving.anglican.ca/worldofgifts
Father Richard Rohr is a contemporary leader in the deepening faith and spiritual practice movement throughout the Christian church. If you would like a little more help and encouragement in deepening your own faith and spiritual practice, in addition to what is available in our parish, go to www.cac.org, and at the top of that page, subscribe to Father Richard’s daily e-mails. I highly recommend it.
The Sign of the Cross
The future of mature Christianity will be practice based more than merely belief based, which give us nothing to argue about until we try it for ourselves.
Going back to the first two centuries of both Eastern and Western Christianity, there emerged a simple form of body prayer, sometimes called “Blessing Oneself” or “Signing Oneself,” where in you traced the image of the cross with your hands over the upper part of your body. It was always accompanied by the Trinitarian formula: “In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
It is very telling that one is allowed to bless oneself, which seems to offer the individual a certain self-confidence and spiritual authority. This self signing also seems to be a renaming and even a reclaiming of the self in a different identity. In most ancient cultures and in common literary usage, when any action is preceded by the phrase “in the name of,” it changes your identity into another persona, with a different authority.
It is also often seen as both a shielding and an honouring of the body itself. We begin with the forehead, honouring our thoughts and minds as the source of the beginning point of all our decisions to act: “In the name of the Father” is certainly offering our thoughts and our mind over to God as the Ultimate Source.
Then we move directly downward, crossing over our heart, toward the solar plexus, or stomach, which is certainly blessing our own enfleshment and incarnation as the body of Christ: “And of the Son,” we say.
And then, now trusting and enjoying the flow, we cross our body from shoulder to shoulder, again crossing the heart, and say, “And of the Holy Spirit.”
The whole key and sacramental power lies in your ability to do this consciously, choicefully, lovingly, and prayerfully. This is a way for the body itself to know holy things, to honour itself as the temple and container of the Mystery, and to live with a newly conscious and self declared dignity. (from Richard Rohr’s “The Divine Dance: The Trinity and your Transformation).
A new six week Revive course has begun, “Called for Ministry.” Please keep this important discipling ministry in your prayer.
“Revive” is a program that helps equip lay leaders to be spiritual leaders. The participants will learn about themselves and discern their life’s calling; explore their faith journey and enter into a relationship with God; enjoy a sense of community and deepened relationships with peers; gain confidence with prayer, scripture, and spiritual leadership; and discern gifts for their calling to serve God’s world. Please pray for those participating in this program this spring.
When making an eTransfer to the parish at finance@anglicanresurrection.com, please put in the memo note what the donation is for.
If you are sick with any flu like symptoms, please stay home.
“Come and see” (John 1:39). Remember to pray about and encourage your family and friends to share in our community of faith.
The duty to keep Sunday holy, especially by sharing in the Eucharist and by relaxing in a spirit of Christian joy and fraternity, is easily understood. Sunday is a day which is at the very heart of the Christian life. Do not be afraid to give your time to Christ! Time given to Christ is never time lost, but is rather time gained, so that our relationships and indeed our whole life may become more profoundly human.