Saturday, August 18, 2012

LITURGY OF THE WORD AND WEEKLY READINGS







Sunday, August 26, 2012: Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
First Lesson: 1 Kings (8:22-30)
Psalm 84, Page 707, BCP
Second Lesson: Paul's Epistle (Ephesians 6:10-20)
The Holy Gospel Of Our Lord Jesus Christ According To John (6:56-69)
Suggested Readings For The Week
Monday John 6:52-59; Tuesday John 6:60-71; Wednesday John 7:1-13; Thursday John 7:14-36; Friday John 7:37-52; Saturday John 8:12-20.

Sunday, August 19, 2012: Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
First Lesson: 1 Kings (2:10-12; 3:3-14)
Psalm 111, Page 754, BCP
Second Lesson: Paul's Epistle (Ephesians 5:15-20)
The Holy Gospel Of Our Lord Jesus Christ According To John (6:51-58)
Suggested Reading For The Week
Monday John 5:19-29; Tuesday John 5:30-47; Wednesday John 6:1-15; Thursday John 6:16-27; Friday John 1:43-51; Saturday John 6:41-51.
Sunday, August 12, 2012: Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
First Lesson: 2 Samuel(18:5-9, 15, 31-33
Psalm 130, Page 784, BCP
Second Lesson: Paul's Epistle (Ephesians 4:25-5; 1-2)
The Holy Gospel Of Our Lord Jesus Christ According To John (6:35, 41-51)
Suggested Readings For The Week
Monday John 3:1-21; Tuesday John 3:22-36; Wednesday John 2:1-12; Thursday John 4:24-42; Friday John 4:43-54; Saturday John 5:1-18.

Sunday, August 5, 2010:Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
The Rev. Horace Johnson was the guest preacher at the 10:30 a.m. service.

First Lesson: 2 Samuel (11:26-12:1-13a)
Psalm 51:1-13, Pages 656 and 657, BCP
Second Lesson: Paul's Epistle (Ephesians 4:1-16)
The Holy Gospel Of Our Lord Jesus Christ According To John (6:24-35)
Suggested Readings For The Week
Monday Matthew 27:24-31; Tuesday Matthew 27:32-44; Wednesday Matthew 27:45-54; Thursday Matthew 27:55-66; Friday Matthew 28:1-10; Saturday Matthew 28:11-20.
NEWS AND EVENTS







From The Desk Of The Rector
Great change is afoot in the Episcopal Church. The General Convention ended the week of July 8, 2012. It is the group of lay people, clergy and Bishops who meet every three years to pass laws and resolutions. There is a provisional liturgy for the blessing of same sex marriages; there is a call to sell our headquarters in New York but the Bishops would prefer not to sell but to look at moving; transgender individuals can now be ordained in the Episcopal Church, to name just a few. In our Diocese change is also afoot. I am appointed to a committee to look at parishes that have priest in charge and with others to investigate their vitality and viability.

Many churches are finding that if they did not have an endowment fund they would have to close their doors; some are anxious that their endowment funds are "drying" up because they are using them to keep their doors open. Some have endowments that cannot be used for operating expenses, which means they might have to close their doors. All of the money contributed to Gift Day goes to St. Monica's endowment. Our endowment allows us to secure the future.

Directions To St. Monica's
For driving directions to St. Monica's, 3575 Main Street, Hartford CLICK HERE

St. Monica's Sunday School Volunteers
Volunteers are needed for St. Monica's Sunday School. Please call or email Carol Anderson.

The Rev. Horace Johnson
The Rev. Horace Johnson was the guest preacher on Sunday, August 5, 2012. He was born in Jamaica and came to Connecticut in 1971 from Canada. He studied at the University of Connecticut, University of Hartford and the Berkeley Divinity School of Yale University. He is a member and Past President of the West Indian Social Club of hartford. The Rev. Johnson was ordained a priest in 2001 and served as Associate Rector at Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford. He was a member of St. Monica's from 1971-1996. He is retired and lives in Ormond Beach, Florida.

Sharing Articles
Have you recently read an articles that you would like to share? If so, please send it to the Rector via email no later than Wednesday afternoon.

Food Pantry
Please continue to donate to the Ruth Small Food Pantry. Suggested items are canned or instant potatoes, canned meats (tuna, salmon, chicken(, canned sweet potatoes, soup, peanut butter,jelly and individual fruit cups. Thank you for your continued support.

Rescheduling Meetings
Fr. Davidson needs our cooperation if we wish to reschedule a meeting on Monday or Wednesday between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Fr. Davidson schedules interviews and pastoral counseling either before or after Prayer Meetings on Monday. He may also schedule interviews and pastoral counseling on Wednesday. He schedules events when there is no Bible Study. As a courtesy, please call Fr. Davidson to verify if he has anything schedule.

Activity Calendar
Weekly: 1) Mondays-Prayer meeting at 6:30 p.m. 2)Wednesday-Bible Study at 6:30 p.m.

Special Days (Weekly): 1) Wednesdays and Fridays-Food Pantry opens 10:00 a.m. to noon.
2) Every other thursday-Pro's and Con's task Force at 6:30 p.m.

Special Says (Monthly): First Thursday-Stewardship committee at 6:30 p.m. 2) Second Thursday-Vestry Meeting 6:30 p.m. 3) Third Tuesday- Women of Valier 4) Third and fourth Saturday opens at 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. 5) First Saturday-Episcopal Church women (ECW) at 12:00 noon.

Birthdays And Anniversaries in August
Happy Birthday to: Gloria Ricketts 2nd; Dorothy McLachlan and Veronica Airey-Wilson 4th; Louise Kenney and Deborah Oliphant 6th; Charles Groce 7th; Agnes Macbeth 8th; Sandra Mahoney and James Phillips 10th; Sarah Legister and Peter Marsele 12th; Clement Forrester and Becki Hall 14; Bianca haughton 16th; Casey Morris 17th; Hyacinth Tate 18th; Jean Ulette 21st; Christopher Walter 22nd;Taylor Bradshaw and Channen Paddyfote 26th; Irene Nurse-Cohen 29th; Princess Wiggins 30th.

Happy Anniversary to: Susan and Eddie Davis 5th; Joe and Jackie Noel 25th.
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Condolences
We extend to the Forrest Family Our sincere Christian sympathy as the mourn the death of their son. May he rest in peace.

We extend our sincere Christian sympathy to Inez White on the death of her daughter-in-lawJoan Hinds. May she rest in peace.

We extend our sincere Christian sympathy to Sheena Petrolito as she mourn the death of her uncle. May he rest in peace.

In Memory for August
In Memory of: Lorenzo Morgan and Mabel McQueen 1st; Geneva Killens 3rd; Raymond DeMortie 4th; Charles Garvey 5th; Belle Matthew 6th; Cynthia Barrett 7th; Joseph Calloway and Leona McM 10th; Cecil Davis and Steven Whaley 12th; Altmont Watt, Abraham White, Oliver Atherley and Ned Hickmon 15th; Ada Jacklyn and mary Krausz 17th; Sondra Spencer, Mary Fuller-Brown and James Whaley 18th;Arlene Roane 19th; Sally Noble 20th; Lawrence Thornton 20th; Andre Duncan 21st; Vincent Carnegie and Nathaniel Vincent 22nd; Edward Johnson 24th; Dorothy King 25th; Cora Munroe and Anez Martis 26th; Josephine Bell 29th; Horace Davidson 30th; Jean Thomas 31st.


ITEMS OF INTEREST











The Lectionary
"In the Episcopal Church, as in many other liturgical churches, readings from the Scriptures are taken from a lectionary-a list that divides the Bible into selected passages to be read over a specific period of time (in most cases, three years). We have two lectionaries in our Prayer Book: a Daily Office Lectionary that provides selections for Morning and Evening Prayer and a Lectionary for Sundays. The Sunday lectionary also includes readings (called Propers) for holy days, saints' days, various occasions (such as a church convention), and specific topics (such as social justice or education). The overall purpose of both lectionaries is to give Episcopalians a broad exposure to a large portion of the Bible over the course of two or three years, rather than limiting these readings to just the passages that are most appealing to us, or that simply reinforce perhaps inadequate understandings of our faith we nonetheless find comforting."

Source: Vicki K. Black and Peter W. Wenner, Welcome to the Bible (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing 2007) p.84.

Clergy
The Rev. Charles Davidson

Vestry Members
Carol Anderson, Cyrus Aimey (Junior Warden), Veronica Airey-Wilson, Joyce Asiedu, Walter Benjamin (Senior Warden), Nora Brown, , Marie Brown-Harvey (Secretary), Patricia David, Evelyn Green, David Hickmon, Shannon Holder, Bates Lyons, Joe Noel, Peter Marsele, Terrie Thomas.

Music
Rochelle Holder - Youth Choir
Nathaniel Baker - Music Director/Organist

Rector Emeritus
Canon Cyril Burke

Email
monicahartford@gmail.com


THE BOOK CORNER












Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
By Deborah Moggach

There have been other novels set in old age homes - Muriel Spark's Memento Mori, Alan Isler'sThe Hamlet on Fifth Avenue - and there is a certain formula about them. But Deborah Moggach's is the most kindly of these novels and, unusually, envisages the possibility that the elderly might actually get a new lease of life under such circumstances. Not possible, it is suggested, in cash-strapped Britain; but why not outsource the care for the elderly to Bangalore in India, where a little money goes a long way, where the climate if better, and where, above all, a former British hotel converted into a somewhat run-down retirement home (called Dunroamin) can create a little island of Old England in the midst of a throbbing Indian city. One has to suspend one's disbelief that elderly folk would really be happy in such a setting, but, it is suggested, there is something about the atmosphere of India which makes possible some kind of renewal of the spirit which gives new insights and meaning to what had been lonely lives in England. For much of the book these stories of each of these elderly folk seems episodic and disconnected, and there seems to be no particular plot; but in due course a plot emerge in which coincidences - somewhat forced in my view - connect many of these lives together in unexpected ways. It is a kindly book, both about the elderly and about India and Indians, and that makes an attractive book.
Review by Ralph Blumenau