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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
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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
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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
or fill out the card in the back of the church on Sundays.
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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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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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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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
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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 2009-2010
For those of you who follow the Daily Lectionary
Readings...
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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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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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