Entries for April 7, 2019, the 5th Sunday in Lent

The audio cuts for St. Mark's Chapel's 10 am Eucharistic service on 04-07-19, the 5th Sunday in Lent.

Recorded tracks:

Greeting, Announcements (Rev. Brian Blayer)

1st Reading:  Isaiah 43:16-21 (Mark Healey)

2nd Reading:  Philippians 3:4b-14 (Mark Healey)

Gospel: John 12:1-8 (Rev. Brian Blayer)  

Sermon (Rev. Brian Blayer)

Announcements for 04-07-2019, the 5th Sunday in Lent.pdf
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Dear Friends:

Here is the news of the week:

• First Friday Organ Recital today, April 5, at  12 noon: 
  Charlie has planned a special “Lenten Edition” for the First Friday Organ Recital  The event will be a true Lenten Meditation, with music chosen to reflect the liturgical season.  Hymns and Chorales from three great musical traditions will comprise the program: Lutheran Chorales, American Hymns and Anglican Anthems. 
  You may light a candle to reflect on the season and bring a lunch and a friend as always.  I do not plan to speak throughout the meditation although I am always happy to answer questions about the music and organ after the performance.  I will also provide information on our upcoming recitalist, Clara Gerdes, who will visit St. Mark’s on May 1st for an exciting concert.
• WAIM workday this Saturday from 9am-12noon. 
  Meet at WAIM in Willimantic.  And WAIM also has a community garden supplying vegetables to Covenant Soup Kitchen that needs volunteers on Saturday morning. Check out WAIM's website for more information about volunteering at the Community Garden.
• Needed:  Readers for the Passion Gospel 
  At both services on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the reading of the Passion is part of the liturgy.  Several readers are needed for each service.  Please let the office know if you wish to read and a part will be assigned. 
• A Service of Healing and Reconciliation  Wednesday, April 17th    6-8PM
  "Behold I make all things new….". In Jesus Christ we all find a way to start again.  Sadly, even religion can hurt us from time to time and as people of faith we hope we can start again.  On April 17, all are invited to a liturgy of healing and reconciliation to invite the Good Shepherd to heal the hurts religion has caused in our lives. We will begin at 6PM with an opportunity to share our stories and allow others to be heard as well.  Then we continue with a Eucharist for Healing in the Chapel. Lent is a time to clear the way for a joyous Easter.  What better way than to offer our pain and disappointment to God and enter once again into the mysteries of our faith. We will begin at 6PM with an opportunity to share our stories and allow others to be heard as well.  Then we continue with a Eucharist for Healing in the Chapel. Lent is a time to clear the way for a joyous Easter.  What better way than to offer our pain and disappointment to God and enter once again into the mysteries of our faith. 

• Good Friday Offering:  
  A message from The Most Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church:  The Good Friday Offering is one way to help connect the love of Christ on the cross with our support of the ongoing ministry of love and compassion carried out by our Anglican sisters and brothers throughout the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East.  Thank you for your generosity.

• The next concert of the Brombaugh Restoration Concert Series is on Wednesday, May 1 at 7pm. 
  Clara Gerdes, a soon to be graduate of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia will perform works by Bruhns, Brahms, Prokovfiev, Bach, and Peeters. A wine and cheese reception will follow.  Suggested donation is $20 or $3 for students and helps support the organ maintenance fund at St. Mark's.
• A Thank You to those who knit: 
  This note was received from a recipient of a prayer shawl:  "It’s beautiful, so pretty and very warm.   I am so grateful to be held in prayer by the Prayer Ministry of your church and by the generous person who knit my shawl.  I’m about to start chemo therapy and will enjoy having the shawl to keep me warm and to think about all who have prayed for me.  I feel so grateful for having so many caring people thinking of me.  May God Bless all the people at St. Mark’s." 

Best wishes, Linda