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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

Spiritus Gladius Newsletter
The Collegiate Church of St. Paul the Apostle

June 4, 2023

FIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST:

TRINITY SUNDAY



Mass Schedule
8AM Said Mass

Coffee Hour after each Mass
Childcare is Available on the Second Floor
for the 10am Mass Weekly

9:55 a.m. Morning Prayer
10:00 a.m. Solemn High Mass
12:15 p.m. Misa en Español
5:30 pm Evensong

Benediction (4th Sunday) 
THE PROPERS
Sunday Readings

Genesis 1:1-2:4a
2 Corinthians 13:11-13
Matthew 28:16-20
Psalm 8
or Canticle 13 (or Canticle 2)
LIVESTREAM

SUNDAY MASSES

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MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER
Mon-Fri 9am Morning Prayer, 5:30pm Evening Prayer
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DAILY MASS

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REFLECTIONS

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. - Revelation 1:8

And the one who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” – Revelation 21:5
 

It’s probably not often that Episcopal clergy introduce themselves by quoting The Revelation to John, but in this case I think it’s worth the risk. St. Paul’s is in a time of transition we haven’t seen in nearly 40 years. Transition means change, and change can be unsettling and uncomfortable even when it is also exciting and welcomed. We like things that are familiar and comfortable because they feel trustworthy; they make us feel safe. God has this habit, though, of not letting us stay settled and comfortable for too long. When the one seated on the throne in Revelation says “I am making all things new,” it isn’t the first time God as said that, not nearly. Through the prophet Isaiah, God said the same thing centuries earlier. Jesus was clear that he was giving us a New Commandment and opening to us a New Covenant through his life, death, and resurrection. As Christ’s Body in the world, we are always being called to walk new and different paths on our journey of faith. We have only to look at God’s call to Abram at their first meeting – “Get up and go from you country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you,” (Genesis 12:1). Notice that God doesn’t even tell Abram where he is going. He is just to start walking somewhere, and God will let him know when he’s where he’s supposed to be.

If you’re feeling your anxiety starting to grow, if your defenses are springing to the ready because you don’t like the sound of any of this, fear not (as the angels always tell us). It will all be okay. Take a look at the first reference to Revelation at the top of the page – we worship the God who is and who was and who is to come. Jesus may give us a new commandment; we may be called for a time to walk an unfamiliar road; we may not even know where we are going. We belong to a God, though, to whom nothing is unfamiliar, to whom even new things are already known. That God is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end – and everything in between. Our comfort, our stability, our protection all lie with God, who is and who was and who is to come. We don’t necessarily need to know where we are going or how we will get there, because God does know, and we know God. More importantly, God knows us – by name, in fact. Wherever we are going, God not only walks beside us, but is ahead of us to show us the way, and behind us to make sure that no one is lost.

For our part, in this time when things may seem uncomfortably new and uncertain, we really have only one question to ask – “What does faithfulness to Jesus look like in this moment?” Any other concern is, at best, secondary. To answer that question is to undertake the process of discernment – listening for the voice of God and distinguishing between that voice and all the others that call out for our attention. In the time that lies before us, our path is one of discernment - of careful listening for the One who was and who is and who is to come, the One who makes all things new, the One through whom all things are being brought to their perfection.

Fr. Kevin
**PARISH NEWS**
On Thursday, June 1 we will welcome The Rev. R. Kevin Kelly as our Interim Rector. The term “interim rector” is used for those clergy who come into a congregation for an agreed transition period and who are by virtue of that role not available to become the rector or vicar. The Interim is the “Rector in the Interim” with the rights and responsibilities normally accorded to the Rector with the exception of tenure. During his three years with us Father Kelly will assist wardens, vestry, parish leaders, and our entire parish community in evaluating our mission and ministry, identifying and addressing needed changes in parish administration or programs, and helping us to prepare in the search for and arrival of a new rector. His responsibilities will include the conduct of public worship, the continuation of pastoral ministries, support of programs, and contributions to the maintenance of normal parish life and well-being.  
 
**RECTORY CLEAN-UP DAYS: JUNE 3 & JUNE 4**
We need volunteers to help clean up the rectory house located at 222 E. 34th St. on Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4. We will be there beginning at 1 pm on Saturday and after 2 pm on Sunday. The clean-up will involve preparing the house for painting and other necessary repairs that need to be completed before Father Kelly and his family move in. Please contact Simona Perry, Senior Warden (cell:240-599-6655) if you need more information. 


**GUAM FLOODING ASSISTANCE**
Typhoon Mawar impacted the island of Guam last week with devastating flooding and winds. Please help families affected by the Category 4 typhoon who have lost everything with your monetary donation today. Send monetary donations marked "Guam relief" to The Collegiate Church of St. Paul the Apostle at 1802 Abercorn St. Savannah, Georgia 31401, donate via Zelle to 843-909-4569, or contact Joe Daniels at 912-660-7099. Thank you once again for stepping up to help people in need!


**GEORGIA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT**
Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) is an interfaith environmental non-profit who works with faith communities across the state to engage them in environmental education and advocacy. They are inviting members of our congregation to join their Coastal Interfaith Green Team. The Coastal Interfaith Green Team is an interfaith group that meets monthly on zoom to explore common commitments to care for the natural world through the lens of faith. They seek to educate faith communities on sustainability, employ practical solutions to combat climate change at the congregational and community level, and challenge unjust systems that perpetuate harm to our Sacred Earth and our neighbors. If you are interested in learning more, or joining this group, please contact GIPL’s Program Director, Hannah Shultz, at 
hannah@gipl.org.

**ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES**
ESL every Saturday at 5 pm in the Parish Hall! Anyone is welcome with an interest in learning a new language, teaching English, participating in conversation with those who speak a different language, and building Beloved Community with our non-English speaking parishioners and neighbors.   After June 17th the English as a second language classes will be on Summer break. Classes will resume after Labor Day.

**DIOCESAN YOUTH EVENTS**
Registration for summer camp at Honey Creek is now open!  Three sessions will be held in June.  One for high schoolers (grades 9-12), one for middle schoolers (grades 6-8), and one for children who have completed 3rd grade through 5th graders.  This is a fantastic way for youth to meet friends across the area and in nearby parishes but they are also welcome to bring friends.  Find out more and register here: 
http://honeycreek.org/camps/
For questions contact Rev. Canon Joshua Varner at JVarner@gaepiscopal.org

**SPANISH LANGUAGE NEWSLETTER**
Father Polanco has developed a Spanish language newsletter that he sends out weekly. In the spirit of learning and sharing from one another in our differences and in our common faith, worship, and community life at St. Paul's, everyone on the mailing list will begin receiving Father Polanco's weekly Spanish language newsletter. 

 
PRAYERS AND PETITIONS

Those Who Have Asked for Our Prayers and Petitions:
Charlie & Nancy, Shirley, Deanna, Lauren, Sam, Elizabeth, Linda, Donna, Debra, Diana, Lauren, Bill, Jim, Bobbie, Steve, Kay, Larry, Kevin, Kerrie, President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn, Faye, Ana, Tom, Margaret, Ben, Bonnie, Susan, Elsie, Mandy, Deena, Marion, Omelia, Patrick, Fr. Carter, Lu, Jerry

Expectant Mothers:
Gabrielle Burch, Rebecca McMains

Anniversaries
Dorie and Craig Hopkins, Judy and Darrell Naylor-Johnson

Birthdays

Alan Boulton (9)

Departed
Marion Paquin, Betty Hopkins, Lawrence Borden Lee, Thomas Archer Bryson lll
LAY MINISTER SCHEDULE

8:00am
Lector: Paul Hammond
Sub Deacon: Kyle Eckmann
Lay Eucharistic Visitor: Phyllis Branch
Flower Guild: 
Wendy Delano and Marianne Porter
Altar Guild: Lu Riley and Kay Tucker

10:00am
Lector: Omelia Donahoo
Sub Deacon: Katie Easterlin
Usher: Sarah Ward
Cantor: Ansley McKee

Trumpet: Scott McKee
 
ALTAR FLOWERS
To the Greater Glory of God and in Memory of Charles East,
Given by His Family

SUNDAY MUSIC
 
Entrance:
Sprinkling Rite: Asperges me
(Cleanse me from my sin)
H370 I bind unto myself today
Te Deum


 Gradual Hymn
H362 Holy, holy, holy


Offertory Anthem
God be in my head 
Music: Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) 

Text: Book of Hours, 1514, in English in the Sarum Primer of 1558

Offertory Hymn:
H597 O day of peace

Communion Anthem
Praise our God and King
Text: Henry Baker, after John Milton
Music: Anonymous Carol (15th century)


Processional Music:
 H3368 Holy Father great Creator


Mass Parts: Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus Dei: William Mathias

Music notes: Praise our God and King

Praise, O praise our God and King!
Hymns of adoration sing;
For His mercies still endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.

Praise Him that He made the sun
Day by day his course to run;
For His mercies still endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.

And the silver moon by night,
Shining with her gentle light;
For His mercies still endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.

Glory to our bounteous King!
Glory let creation sing!
Glory to the Father, Son,
And blest Spirit, Three in One.

Offertory Anthem: God be in my head

God be in my head and in my understanding.
God be in my eyes and in my looking.
God be in my mouth and in my speaking.
God be in my heart, and in my thinking.
God be at my end, and at my departing.

CALENDAR
June 4- June 10, 2023

Sunday
TRINITY
Masses/Misas at 8 am, 10 am (Solemn), 12:15 pm (Español)
Coffee Hour after each Mass
Evensong at 5:30 pm
Benediction after Evensong 4th Sundays


Monday
Boniface, Archbishop
Morning Prayer  9:00 am
AA   12:00 pm
Mass  12:15 pm
Evening Prayer  5:30 pm
AA  5:30 pm
 
Tuesday 
Feria
Morning Prayer 9:00 am
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
AA 5:30 pm
Mass (Healing) 6:00 pm

Wednesday
Feria
English/Spanish Mass, Followed by Breakfast 7am
Morning Prayer 9:00 am
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
AA        5:30 pm

Thursday

Melania the Elder
Morning Prayer 9:00 am
Mass (Healing) Followed by Bible Study 10:00 am
AA       12:00 pm
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm
AA       6:00 pm
Misa en Español at 6:15 pm

Friday
Columba of Iona
Lauds  6:45am
English/Spanish Mass 7:00 am
Morning Prayer 9:00 am
Evening Prayer 5:30 pm

Saturday
AA  12:00pm

ESL   5:00pm
GIFTS AND PLEDGES

Year-To-Date
Inflows Through
February 2023

 $69,501.52
Outflows Through
February 2023

$78,524.50
($9,022.98)
  
Offering 05-28-2023
By Mail and Mass Offertory
Unrestricted:
$1,247.75
Restricted
$0
Realm
$ 1,571.00

The Trinity is an icon created by Russian painter Andrei Rublev in the 15th century. It is his most famous work and the most famous of all Russian icons, and it is regarded as one of the highest achievements of Russian art. 

The Trinity depicts the three angels who visited Abraham at the Oak of Mamre (Gen 18:1-8), however the painting is full of symbolism and is interpreted as an icon of the Holy Trinity. At the time of Rublev, the Holy Trinity was the embodiment of spiritual unity, peace, harmony, mutual love and humility

STAFF

The Episcopate
The Right Reverend Frank S. Logue
Bishop of Georgia
The Most Revd. Michael B. Curry D.D.
Primate, Episcopal Church, USA
The Most Revd. & Rt Hon Justin Welby D.D.
Archbishop of Canterbury

Honorary Assistant Clergy
Canon J. Robert Carter. PhD
Fr. John M. Palmer III, CStJ
The Revd. John G Anderson
Lutheran Pastor in Residence

St. Paul's Staff
The Revd. R. Kevin Kelly, 
Interim Rector 

The Revd. Lauren Flowers Byrd
Parochial Vicar
The Revd. Leonel Polanco
Latino Missioner
The Revd. Victor Moreno, Assistant
 Latino Missioner
McDowell Fogle III
Organist/Choirmaster &  Administrator
Scott McKee (Trumpet)
Ansley McKee and Brenna Dudley (Cantors)
Joe Daniels,
Sexton

The Vestry
Simona Perry, Senior Warden, ‘26,
Mark Frissell, Junior Warden, ‘24,
Lorna Smith, Clerk, ‘25,
Kyle Eckmann '26, Adriana Ramirez ‘26,
Roger Gregory '25, Kris Lee, '24, Alan Boulton, ‘25, Ana Karen de Gama '26,
Laura Walker, ‘24, Josh Jenkins, '24
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