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All Suppers at 5:30pm

in the Parish Hall

$5 per Person - $15 per Family


:: Wednesday March 10::

Supper

Starting @ 5:30pm

& Activities

The Mystery of Christ


Wednesday March 18 -

No Wednesday Night Supper

Spring Break


Music & Liturgy

Dear All Saints’ family,

Thank you for extending such a tremendous welcome!  I’m thrilled about this opportunity to serve such a dynamic and exciting parish.

There are lots of opportunities for you to participate in the musical and liturgical life of the parish.  Now is a great time to begin singing with the adult choir!  We meet Wednesday evenings from 7:00-8:30 and on Sunday mornings at 9:30.  All that is required is a reasonable singing voice, participation in rehearsals, and a willingness to work hard.  Music reading skills are very helpful, but not required.

We’re also excited about our growing children’s choirs.  Not only does a child’s participation in choir foster the life-long enjoyment of music, but it is also a formational experience that will allow them to participate more fully in the liturgical life of the parish.  Children’s choirs will begin rehearsing on Wednesday, January 27th at 6:00p.m.  Kindergarten through 3rd grade will meet in the Children’s Choir Room with Jeanne Lagrone, while 4th through 8th grade will meet in the Adult Choir Room with Mary Lou Parks.  Parents will receive more detailed information soon!

We will also soon expand our liturgical offerings to include the daily offices during Lent.  The practice of corporate daily prayer dates from the earliest pre-Christian communities and is a staple of our Anglican liturgical identity.  Morning Prayer will be said on Mondays and Thursdays at 7:15a.m. in the Chapel and Evening Prayer will be said on Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. in the Chapel.

Again, I appreciate your prayers, support, and participation as I begin my work at All Saints’.  I look forward to watching our parish grow as a community of Christ.

 

Peace, Jessica

 

 

 

The Cross and Crown

All Saints'  Bi-Monthly Newsletter

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It’s good for the environment
AND good for All Saints’!!

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On the All Saints' Library Shelf...

Our Library

In our beautiful parlor… just north of the Bell Tower!
Come to see for yourself !

  •  Scarred by Struggle,
    Transformed by Hope
    by Joan D. Chittister
    This book is about conditions that give rise to hope without cheating. It will help you get through, not around, the challenges that define you. Chittister is the executive director of Benetvision: a Resource & Research Center for Contemporary Spirituality, Erie, PA. Gift of Mary Jo Anderson.
    (Shelved 234.2 Chi)
     

  • Jesus: A Gospel
    By Henri Nouwen
    This book was edited with an introduction by Michael O’Laughlin, with illustrations by Rembrandt. Henri Nouwen had a unique ability to find a new, deeper meaning in the Gospel and open the hearts of his readers to its message about Jesus and about themselves. He had a way of making the gospel come alive for his students, creating a sense of spiritual community. Nouwen had marched with Martin Luther King, spent months in the silence of a Cistercian monastery, and done missionary work in South America. He spoke in simple terms, speaking to the heart and focused what he had to say on Jesus.
    (Shelved 232.9/Nou)
     

  • Picturing the Bible: the earliest Christian Art,                                                         By Jeffrey Spier, Mary Charles-Murray, Johannes G. Deckers, Steven Fine, Robin M. Jensen, and Herbert L. Kessler.
    The book is published by Yale University in association with the Kimbrell Art Museum. This beautifully illustrated book discusses images the early Christians used to express their faith, what Jewish and pagan sources they looked to for inspiration, and when they began to depict the life of Jesus. The essays are complimented by research from major museums in America, Europe and the Middle East. The book is VERY heavy (excellent paper) – Bring your muscles to tote! Gift of B. Sonny Mason, in honor of Father Paul.
    (Shelved 704.9 Spi)
     

  • The Faith Club: a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew – Three women search for Understanding                                                                                                             By Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner.                                           “The women voice opinions and thoughts that we all have or are exposed to, but would never consider safe to speak about…in so doing they demonstrate that it is precisely in speaking the unspeakable with an attitude of humility and listening in an undefended posture that a way forward can be found.” The Rt. Rev. Catherine S. Roskam, Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Gift of Kaye Cannon. (Shelved 201.5/Idl)


Our Children's Library

New in the Children's Library...

The following books are all gifts from Sawyer Tucker. She was generous to
share them with us and we hope you like them, too.


I am too absolutely small for school by Lauren Child
Lola tells her brother Charlie she is too small, too busy and doesn’t need to learn letters to read.


Bad kitty by Nick Bruel
An alphabet book of food for the kitty that made her unhappy. Another alphabet section shows all the bad things she did.

 

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ECW

All women of the church
are invited to Your ECW meetings!
Watch Here and the Newsletter

For Meeting Times

A nursery is provided for the little ones.

 


Streaming/Podcasting (CD) Ministry

Sunday's Sermons are Available as Streaming Audio

and ALSO...

MP3 Podcasts Can Be Downloaded to Your Portable Devices


CD Recordings of the Sermons From Each Sunday. 

are also available on request by either calling the Church Office

or

Check the "audio cassette" box on the Pew Card


 

Epiphany Scripts

 

Did you miss any lines in the Epiphany Plays because you were laughing so hard at the great writing that you didn't catch them? Now you can read the scripts from this year's AND last year's performance!

 

2007 Epiphany


2008 Epiphany


Gabe And The Wise Guys
A New Play

And To Think That It Happened On Jefferson Street
An Epiphany play

 

 

Daily Lectionary and Eucharistic Readings ~ for 2009-2010

For those of you who follow the Daily Lectionary Readings...

   - Beginning Advent I - Sunday, November 29, 2009

   - Daily Lectionary is in “Year 2”.

   - The Sunday Eucharist cycle is in “Year C”.


Lectionary and Daily Office Reading Schedule

Available at:  http://www.satucket.com/lectionary

 

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See Cheryl Sprole's Church Photos

Church Photos by Cheryl Sprole

See the Slideshow...

 
To More Photos

Church Luminary Photos by Rufus Van Horn

See More Photos...

Click Link For Warden and Vestry Biography Information

email Address Book

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is in All Saints' email Address Book

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Welcome@AllSaintsTupelo.org

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Theodore Roosevelt:

Nine Reasons for Going to Church
(From a pamphlet published in 1909)

 

1.) A churchless community, where people have abandoned, scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid down-grade.


2.) Church work and church attendance mean the cultivation of the habit of feeling some responsibility for others.


3.) There are enough holidays for most of us. Therefore, on Sundays, go to church.


4.) Yes, I know all the excuses. I know that one can worship the Creator in a grove of trees, or by a running brook, or in one’s own home, just as well as in a church. But I also know as a matter of cold fact that the average person does not thus worship.


5.) One may not hear a good sermon at church. One will hear a sermon by a good man who, with his good wife, is engaged all week in making hard lives a little easier.


6.) One will listen to and take part in reading some beautiful passages from the Bible. If a person is not familiar with the Bible he has suffered a loss.


7.) One will take part in singing some good hymns.


8.) One will meet and nod or speak to good, quiet neighbors. He will come away feeling a little more charitable toward all the world, even toward those excessively foolish young persons who regard church-going as a soft performance.


9.) I advocate a person’s joining in church work for the sake of showing his faith by his works.

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A Job or a Ministry?
(From 'Catholic Week')

 

How we respond makes a big difference.

Some people have a job in the church; others involve themselves in ministry.

If you are doing a service just because no one else will, it's a job...

if you are doing it to serve the Lord, it's a ministry.

If you quit because somebody criticized you, it was a job...

if you keep on serving, it's a ministry.

If you do it only so long as it does not interfere with your other activities, it's a job...

if you are committed to staying with it even when it means letting go of other things, it's a ministry.

If you quit because no one praised or thanked you, it was a job...

if you stay with it even though nobody recognizes your efforts, it's a ministry.

It's hard to get excited about a job...

it's almost impossible not to be excited about a ministry.

If your concern is success, it's a job...

if your concern is faithfulness, it's a ministry.

An average church is filled with people doing jobs...

a great and growing church is filled with people involved in ministry.

Where do we fit in? What about us?
If God calls you to a ministry, don't treat it like a job.
If you have a job, give it up and find a ministry.
God does not want us feeling stuck with a job,
But excited and faithful to Him in a ministry.

Our full-time occupation is to follow God and to minister to His sheep.

Everyone ministers.

Our job just pays the bills.

Read Mother LaRae's Blog


A Note From Mother LaRae at the Conclusion of her Ministry Here

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