Saturday, October 13, 2012

      10.00 AM – Memorial Eucharist in Celebration of the Life of Johana Evangeline McCarthy (Nave).  Reception to follow.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

      9.00 AM – Family Eucharist (Nave) – Paul Abernathy, Presider & Children’s Reflection; Justi Schunior, Co-Presider

            N.B., Due to second Sunday of the month Family Eucharist at 9.00 AM, Children’s Chapel will not be held.

      10.00 AM – Sermon Seminar (Nave) – Paul Abernathy and Cecilia Monahan, Senior Warden, Preachers

            Canvass "Kick-Off" Sermon: A Reflection on Matthew 6.21

                  Where your treasure is, there, too, your heart - Paul

                  Where your heart is, there, too, your treasure - Cecilia

      11.15 AM – Holy Eucharist (Nave) – Paul Abernathy, Presider; Justi Schunior, Co-Presider; Paul Abernathy and Cecilia Monahan, Preachers

      5.00 PM – Contemplative Eucharist – Justi Schunior, Presider & Preacher

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Service Notes and Music

Prelude   Be Thou My Vision, Slane, arr. Franklin D. Ashdown (b. 1942)

Opening Hymn   God, creator, source of healing, Tune: Abbot’s Leigh

Sequence Hymn   488 Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart, Tune: Slane

Offertory Anthem

   (9:00) Come, All Children, Sing to the Savior, Gilbert Martin - Boys & Girls Choir, Nadine Hathaway, Director

   (11:15) Steal Away, African American Spiritual, arr. Nicholas White - Chancel Choir                           

Presentation Hymn  288, v.3, Tune: Dix

Sanctus & Benedictus  Craig Phillips

Fraction Anthem   Christ Our Passover, Craig Phillips

Music During Communion

   (9:00) Hymn 602 Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, Ghanaian Folk Song

   (11:15) Meditabor in mandatis tuis, Orlando de Lassus (1530-1594) – Chancel Choir

   LEVAS 151 One bread, one body, John B. Foley, SJ

   LEVAS 221 This Little Light of Mine, African American Spiritual

Closing Hymn  655 O Jesus, I have promised, Tune: Nyland

Postlude  O Blessed Spring, Berglund, arr. Robert Buckley Farlee (b. 1950)

From Paul Roberts Abernathy, Rector

My Dear Community,

The Canvass is coming!  The Canvass is coming!

Earlier this week, packets were mailed to the households of all 2012 pledgers with relevant materials and my cover letter.  The same materials, with the cover letter of our Senior Warden, Cecilia Monahan, were mailed to homes of newcomers.  Cecilia and I also will speak to the nature of this request and commitment in our sermon this coming Sunday, which wil be a "book-ended" meditation on Matthew 6.21.  I will reflect on Jesus' word: Where your treaure is, there is your heart also.  Cecilia will reflect on the converse statement: Where your heart is, there is your treasure also.

I ask, please, that you, to paraphrase that olden Collect, "read, mark, and inwardly digest" the contents of the mailing as an aspect of your discernment and decision about making a pledge in support of the life and labor, mission and ministry of our St. Mark's community in the coming 2013 year.

Should you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please do not hesitate to call Cecilia or me - or both of us!

Love and Peace, always and in all ways,

Paul

From Rebecca Justice Schunior, Assistant Rector

Friends,

I have an embarrassing confession to make: I just this week paid my 2012 pledge to St. Mark’s. I had intended to make regular, monthly payments, but something just kept coming up. First, I thought I would postpone payments until after the wedding my husband and I paid for just in case some disaster came up. Then I kept forgetting my check book. Or, when I remembered my checkbook, I didn’t get the check into the offertory plate or into Susan Block’s hands –  just so you can fathom the depths of my laziness, her office is downstairs from mine.

This week, as I helped prepare the packets containing 2013 Canvass information, I realized that procrastination was no longer an option.  I paid my pledge using Qgiv, our new online payment method that anyone can use for any gift to the church. There was no more room for excuses when I paid my pledge in one payment – it was over and done with in a matter of seconds.  And while I was online, I set up my pledge payments for 2013. Just like I pay all my other bills, effortlessly and online, I will now have pledge payments taken automatically from my debit card each month (you can also use your credit card). In the past, I’ve thought that it was important to take the time to write a check, put it in the plate, and reflect on my giving to the church. But clearly that wasn’t working. So, I encourage you to check out Qgiv at our website http://www.stmarks.net (see Give Online in the upper right hand corner). You can pay it all at once, like I did for 2012, set up a payment plan for 2013, and make payments on your capital campaign pledge.

St. Mark’s is more than just the place where I work; it is also my spiritual community. Like you, I benefit from Paul’s thought provoking sermons as well as the community of thoughtful people who respond to them. The building that brings us all together holds a special place in my heart because it is where I find community and inspiration. Over pub lunches and in evening meetings I find my faith strengthened and challenged. And so I give back.

Paul and Cecilia will speak more this coming Sunday about this coming year’s Canvass and stewardship in general. In the meantime, check out our website and consider making and paying your pledge online – especially if you are a chronic procrastinator like me!

Peace,
Justi