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March 15, 2020

The Second Sunday in Lent

 
 
 
 
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March 19, 2020 we recognize  Joseph, married to Mary and  the earthly father of Jesus

Collect for the Feast of St Joseph
O God, who from the family of thy servant David didst raise up Joseph to be the guardian of thy incarnate Son and the spouse of his virgin mother:  Give us grace to imitate his uprightness of life and his obedience to thy commands:  through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen
 

 

During Lent

Stations of the Cross

 Friday 7:00 PM
St Mary's Catholic Church

Friday Night Fish Fry
Friday 5-7 PM
St Mary's Catholic Church

 
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PARISH NOTICES

 
March 22, 2020   Fr Brant Hazlett will be at Trinity to celebrate the Eucharist.

Easter Egg Hunt:  Please bring candy and/or filled eggs to the church for Easter.

Did you know?  We have a parish lending library.  It is on the wall behind the white board. Feel free to take something to read or leave something you think others might like.    

Lessons and Psalm:  Copies of Sunday's appointed readings  will be available at the back of the church.  

Parish Prayer List:  Please take a look so we can pray intentionally for each name on the list. Can someone be moved off our prayer list? Do you know someone we should add?

Copies of the prayer list are available on the table at the back of the church.


Altar Flowers and Coffee Hour:   Please take a moment to check out the flowers and coffee hour signup sheets. These are important ministries to our ongoing life together.


Please let Jo Williams or Tami Cralley know if there is any news to share.
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PARISH SCHEDULE

 

 


Sunday, March 15- The Third Sunday in Lent
9:30 AM - Sunday School
10:00 AM - Rosary
10:30 AM - Morning Prayer
11:30 AM - Coffee Hour


 Tuesday March 17 - Election Day
Parish Hall will be in use

Wednesday, March 18 
5:30 PM - Evening Prayer
Parish Hall




 



Worship Leader
Jim Adams

Intercessor
Tracy Adams

Lector
Will Adams


Altar Guild
Jo Williams

Greeter
Doug Williams

Coffee Hour

TBD








Kitty Harmon

Fr Harmon reported that Kitty is home and doing well.  They would appreciate continued prayers.


 
Election
The Parish Hall will be used on March 17th for the Illinois Primary

Trinity on the Move
March 22 after church at The Lantern Pub in Ashley
 



 

 





 
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SCRIPTURE LESSONS

Hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest

March 15, 2020 - Year A

HYMNS

Entrance:  522
Gospel Acclamation:  658
Communion:  686


The Collect

 

Almighty God, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves:  Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul:  through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen



Lesson:  Exodus 17:1-7

Water from the Rock

17 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Reph′idim; but there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people found fault with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you find fault with me? Why do you put the Lord to the proof?” But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?” So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the rod with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah[a] and Mer′ibah,[b] because of the faultfinding of the children of Israel, and because they put the Lord to the proof by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”




Psalm:  95:6-11
 

6       Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *
     and kneel before the Lord our Maker. 
7       For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand*
     Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice! 
8       Harden not your hearts,
as your forebears did in the wilderness, *
     at Meribah, and on that day at Massah,
     when they tempted me. 
9       They put me to the test, *
     though they had seen my works.
10     Forty years long I detested that generation and said, *
     “This people are wayward in their hearts;
     they do not know my ways.”
11     So I swore in my wrath, *
     “They shall not enter into my rest.”
 

Epistle: Romans 5:1-11

Results of Justification

5 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access[b] to this grace in which we stand, and we[c] rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we[d] rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.

While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man—though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die. But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

 

Gospel: John 4:5-42

So he came to a city of Samar′ia, called Sy′char, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

There came a woman of Samar′ia to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samar′ia?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?” 13 Jesus said to her, “Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said truly.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ); when he comes, he will show us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

27 Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, “What do you wish?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the city and were coming to him.

31 Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has any one brought him food?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. 36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

39 Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”


 
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