Weekly Announcements for May 4th

The flowers on the altar are to the Glory of God and in loving memory of Gabrielle Seyins – from her family.

Participants at 8am Service:
Lector: John Rice
Eucharistic Ministers: Jane Holway & Andy Bangs

Participants at 10:30am Service:
Acolytes: Olivia Walsh, Fanny Lown, Abby Lown & Eliza McLeod
Lector: Rhett Austell
Intercessor: Liz Wright
Eucharistic Ministers: Karen Parrott, Ken Moore & John Stromgren
Ushers: Al & Ginny Edwards, Ron Moore &
Bob Mennel
Choir Director: John Stromgren
Altar Guild: Ginny Edwards, Louise Dennett, Joan Kulikowski, Jane Hourihan & Lori Johnson

People in your Prayers:

Please include these people who are ill or in distress in your prayers as a way of bringing us closer to them:
Ken Petruzzi, Bart Dean, Lori Johnson, Ben, Mary Unruh, Ed Melikian,
George Pierce, Margaret Tebbetts, Joseph & Irene Michonski, Marjorie Heckscher, Ann Loranger, Beth Bennett, David Thompson, Joan, Alex, Rich Guy, Joan Scigliano, Karen McKinley, Kenneth Edwards & Kathy.

Military Service:
Jeremy Blattel, James Coventry, Dan DiCredico, Mark Frost, Peter Jefferson, Kevin Keltz, Tyler Kipp, EJ McCarthy, Bryan Orr, Justin Wheeler, Michael Unruh, Aaron Martin, Christopher Beland, Ryan H. Sylvester, Lt. Shawn T. Spainhour & Pierce Cote.

Those in Nursing Homes:
Nell Edwards, Reta Flynn, Gladys Raeside, Muriel Russell, and Phyllis Palmer. We pray for all care-givers to the elderly and infirm.

Announcements

Coffee Hour: Please join us in Thaxter Hall following the 10:30am service for coffee and snacks. To provide volunteer or donation support, please call Danielle Mojonnier at 603-867-8605.

Mother’s Day Flowers: PURCHASE SOME FLOWERS ON MOTHER’S DAY. Fresh-cut flowers and plants will be on sale Sunday, May 11. Monies raised will benefit outreach programs such as Footprints Food Pantry, Salvation Army & Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD).

Stewardship of the Earth:

Dr. John Carroll says:

On Sustainability:

Sustainable behavior is that which is socially responsible and economically viable, so designed and implemented that it can be continued indefinitely, without exhausting resources, without corrupting its environment, and without impoverishing its practitioners. An activity is sustainable if it can be continued indefinitely. Sustainability requires a change in our fundamental values; it requires us to be fundamentally countercultural and revolutionary. It is, in essence, as a monk of my acquaintance once told me, a "conversion experience". For not simply to alter how we do things but to change the value presupposition of why we do things is a conversion of the deepest kind.

On Spirituality:

The word "spirituality" refers to the condition of being of the spirit. The spirit is that which seeks transcendence, mystery, the other, that which seeks the BIG picture. It provides an essential faith in the future, a grounding for hope. It gives us the determination to persist and prevail. When we lose our cosmology, that is, our relation to the whole, to that BIG picture, we get small and we settle for shopping malls.

In conclusion:

I knew a priest who used to end Catholic Masses not with the more common expression, "Go in peace", but with the much more challenging expression, "Go forth and make a difference". It is up to each one of you to determine what that means for you. But while you’re reflecting on that, don’t fail to consider the very old, popular and meaningful saying, "Actions speak louder than words". Will you, then, go forth and make a difference?

(Posted May 2, 2008 by bmenk)