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Music & Liturgy
The following is the Chorister’s
Prayer that the adult choir prays together at the end of every rehearsal:
Bless, O Lord, us thy servants, Who minister in thy temple, Grant that what
we sing with our lips, We may believe in our hearts, And what we believe in
our hearts, We may show forth in our lives, Through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
Amen.
This prayer summarizes the "lex orandi, lex credendi" principle, which
predates even our creeds. "Lex orandi, lex credendi" loosely translates to
"What we pray, we will believe." In the Episcopal Church, we often hear
about the central role of our liturgy in Christian spiritual formation. That
is, the key to our growth as a community of Christ lies in our gathering
week after week, year after year, to hear the Story and be formed by it.
What we pray or sing together in worship - the hymn texts, collects, and
other words that we choose to amplify scripture - and the fact that we pray
them with each other, time and again, is what holds our community together.
In the new year, make regular
church attendance a priority. Whether you're lectoring, ushering, singing in
the choir, the main thing is that you're here, forming yourself and this
community of faith.
On a different note, I owe a huge
thanks to all of the All Saints' Choristers - the adult choir worked very
hard to prepare for Advent Lessons and Carols and all of our special
offerings in the Advent season. The Children's Choir had a major first in
2011 - we recorded a CD! This (very short but sweet) CD contains our
children singing some of the songs we learned the fall semester.
Please don't hesitate to contact me
about any of the musical offerings at All Saints'!
Peace, Jessica
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An Order for the Blessing and Dedication of an
Organ
together with
Dr. Stephen Schaeffer in recital
September 18, 2011
(Download the Bulletin) |
 185th
Annual Council
of the Diocese of Mississippi
February 3 – 5, 2012
Vicksburg Convention Center
Vicksburg, Mississippi
$95 per person
After November 1 - $105
After January 1 - $115
It’s time to register for Annual Council! The Bishop will give his annual
address to the Diocese on Friday night, with business sessions concluding on
Saturday. A Down Home dinner and dance will be held Saturday night and the
weekend will conclude on Sunday morning with a diocesan celebration of the
Holy Eucharist. Registration forms are available in the church office or
online at www.dioms.org
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On the All Saints'
Library Shelf...
In our beautiful parlor…
just north of the Bell Tower!
Come to see for yourself !
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Angel
Inspirations: Essential Wisdom, Insight, And Guidance
by David Ross
Angels hold a special place in our hearts as spiritual beings that
brings us comfort, inspiration, hope and assistance. The book celebrates
the beauty, poetry, and wisdom of angels in different traditions around
the world. It contains quotations from scriptures and other sources and
is beautifully illustrated.
Gift of Anne Radojcsics.
(Shelved 235.2/Ros in the adult Library)
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Your Love is Wicked
and Other Stories
by Jim Fraiser
Many of the
thirty-three stories are set in Jim’s native Mississippi Delta. His
writing is described as salty and witty and the dialog as engaging.
(Shelved Fic/Fra)
Gift of Anne Radojcsics.
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And One Was A Priest:
The Life and Times of Duncan M. Gray, Jr.
by Araminta Stone Johnston
From his student days at the seminary at the University of the South, to
his first church in Cleveland, Mississippi, and most famously to St.
Peter’s Parish in Oxford, where he confronted rioters in 1962, Gray
steadfastly and fearlessly continued to work for racial reconciliation,
inside and outside of the church, throughout his life. This is a
remarkable story of a remarkable man.
The author will be at Barnes and Noble Bookstore on Saturday, May 14
from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. for a reading, question and answer time and book
signing. Copies of the book are available for purchase at the store. The
book will be available in the All Saints’ Library after May 14.
Our Children's Library
New in the
Children's Library...
Reader’s Digest Children’s Book Of Poetry
The poems are selected by Beverley Mathias and
illustrated by Alan Snow. This is a collection by authors like Lois
Lenski, Aileen Fisher, Vachel Lindsay, Jack Prelutsky, and Shel
Silverstein. Children will like the illustrations.
(Shelved 811.008/Rea)
Don’t
Say That Word!
by Alan Katz and illustrated by David
Catrow
Mother wants to hear what you did in school
today but doesn’t want to hear ‘that word’. For all teachers and parents
who help children learn the right words to say.
(Shelved E/Kat)
Will
I Have A Friend?
by Miriam Cohan
A new student worries they will not know anyone in school.
(Shelved E/Coh)
Crack In The Track
an “I Can Read All By Myself”,
(Shelved E/jFic/Awd)
Cranky Day
a “Read To Me” book
by Rev. W. Awdry
(Shelved E/Awd)
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ECW
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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.
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The
Cross and Crown
All Saints'
Bi-Monthly Newsletter
Would you like to receive The
Cross and Crown, our bi-monthly newsletter by email only??
Emailing the newsletter to households will...
Cut down on the …
• Postage
• Paper and Toner used to produce
hard copies,
As well as…
• Reduce the wear and tear on our copier.
It will also help to…
• Reduce our printing costs in the office
It’s good for the environment
AND good for All Saints’!!
If you would like to receive The
Cross and Crown by email only please email us at
welcome@allsaintstupelo.org, fill out the
short form HERE on our website, or the
card in the back of the church on Sundays.
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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 "Have a Copy of Today's Sermon"
box on the Pew Card
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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!
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Daily Lectionary
and Eucharistic Readings for 2011-2012
For those of you who follow the Daily Lectionary
Readings...
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Beginning Advent I - Sunday, November 27, 2011
- Daily Lectionary is in “Year
2”.
- The Sunday Eucharist cycle is in “Year
B”.
Lectionary and Daily Office Reading Schedule
Available at:
http://www.satucket.com/lectionary
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email
Address Book
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YOUR address ...
is in All Saints' email
Address Book
Send
your email address to us at
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Theodore Roosevelt:
Nine Reasons for Going to Church
(From a pamphlet published
in 1909)
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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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