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Finding the True Cross – Piero, 1452
The Week of Trinity XII at All Saints
September 9 St. Peter Claver, C.
12:15 p.m. - Low Mass
September 10, Feria
7 a.m. - Men's Group
12:15 p.m. - Low Mass
September 11, Ss. Protus & Hyacinth, Mm.
12:15 p.m. - Low Mass
5:45 p.m. - Agape Meal & Classes
September 12, Holy Name of Mary
12:15 p.m. - Low Mass
September 13, Feria
12:15 p.m. - Low Mass
September 14, Exaltation of the Holy Cross (see below)
12:15 p.m. - Low Mass
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Agape This Week
Agape takes place on Wednesday at 5:45 p.m. with dinner followed by classes for all ages from 6:30 until 7:15.
The adult class this week will be presented by the All Saints Missions Committee. The topic is foster care with David and Katy Shonka and Marnie Allen from Community Attention Foster Families.
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The happy and much-anticipated day and hour for Father Mark's ordination to the priesthood is fast approaching, Saturday, September 28, at 10:30 a.m. Please plan on joining us for this special time at All Saints.
If you are able to assist with the ordination reception, please sign up here and let us know.
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ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who hast purchased to thyself an universal Church by the precious blood of thy dear Son; Mercifully look upon the same, and at this time so guide and govern the minds of thy servants the Bishops and Pastors of thy flock, that they may lay hands suddenly on no man, but faithfully and wisely make choice of fit persons, to serve in the sacred Ministry of thy Church. And to those who shall be ordained to any holy function, give thy grace and heavenly benediction; that both by their life and doctrine they may show forth thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
(BCP page 38)
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Men's Advent Retreat
Men of All Saints, please save the date for a retreat in Staunton on December 6-8. Bishop Jones will be present to share with the group on Friday evening and Saturday morning. Additional details forthcoming.
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Welcome Silas & Nathaniel Fickley!
The twins were born on Friday, August 16. Natalie and the babies are doing well and returned home on August 19. Please help support and shower the family with love -- details below:
Take Them a Meal -- Prepare a dinner for Thomas, Natalie, Adam, John and James! It would be great to fill up the immediate weeks on the schedule first, and if you would like to contribute a second meal in coming months -- awesome! Sign up online here.
Prepare freezer meals -- From Sharon Hujik: "The Fickleys have a freezer and would welcome any freezer meals you could bring them. I thought that if each of us made her 3 freezer meals (the same recipe three times) then they would have a great stash of food to get them through the first year! What is a freezer meal? It's a meal that can be stored in a freezer and then popped into a crockpot or oven for a low prep dinner. If you are interested in joining me, please send an email to SHARON_HUJIK@yahoo.com. I would be glad to help you find a recipe if you don't know where to start. "
Baby Basket in the Undercroft -- All Saints tradition is to load a large laundry basket with baby items for the family. Natalie has requested: diapers (some newborn but mostly size 1 & 2), Aveeno products for mom & babies, diaper wipes, larabars, trail mix, and Amazon or Target gift cards! The basket will be in the Undercroft this Sunday (August 25) and remain there for a 2-3 weeks. Please bring your gifts and set them in or near the basket as you're able!
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Fr. Glenn's Sermon for Trinity XII
Excerpt: The need of our world, the need of our own lives and the lives of our friends and families — the need of the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sick, the most desperate of the desperate — is greater than the sum of all our good deeds and intentions, and politics. Evil is not just the nasty little things we do to one another. Evil, is organized, massive, weighty, subtle and cosmic. But Jesus has overcome the world.
Full text and audio available on our website.
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Exaltation of the Holy Cross
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. During the reign of Constantine, first Roman Emperor to profess the Christian faith, his mother Helena went to Israel and there undertook to find the places especially significant to Christians. She was helped in this by the fact that in their destructions around 135, the Romans had built pagan shrines over many of these sites. Having located, close together, what she believed to be the sites of the Crucifixion and of the Burial (at locations that modern archaeologists think are likely correct), she then had built over them the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which was dedicated on 14 September 335. It has become a day for recognizing the Cross, in a festal atmosphere that would be inappropriate on Good Friday, as a symbol of triumph, as a sign of Christ’s victory over death, and a reminder of His promise, “And when I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:32) Tertullian, in his De Corona (3:2), written around AD 211, says that Christians seldom do anything significant without making the sign of the cross. Certainly by his time the practice was well established. Justin Martyr in chapters 55 and 60 of his First Apology (Defense of the Christian Faith, addressed to the Emperor Antoninus Pius and therefore written between 148 and 155 Ad), refers to the cross as a standard Christian symbol, but not explicitly to tracing the sign of the cross as a devotional gesture. In the ruins of Pompeii (destroyed 79 Ad), there is a room with an altar-like structure against one wall, and over the altar the appearance of the plaster shows that a cross-shaped object had been nailed to the wall, and forcibly pulled loose, apparently shortly before the volcano buried the city. It is suggested that this house may have belonged to a Christian family, and that they took the cross and other objects of value to them when they fled the city. The Cross of Christ still stands as the measure of God’s great love for all of creation.
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