An Organist/Tinkerer with an Interesting Ride

This Sunday's Participants

 

Officiant: Mr. Tom Sansone, Order of St. Ambrose

Organist and Music Director: Mr. John Williams

Preacher: Ms. Kim Wicks Maiorano, Order of St. Ambrose

Lector: Mr. Bob Skolozdra, Order of St. Ambrose

Altar Guild: Ms. Kathie McKiernan

Video Ministry: Mr. Steve Johnson, Order of St. Ambrose

This Week's Petitions and Thanksgvings

 

Petitions and Thanksgivings:

Linda White, Michael and Gene Luther, Tricia Paugus, Glenn Dougan, Frank Roberts, Al Sciarretti, Frank Pfeiffer, Tom Troeger, Les Molnar, Curtis, Madeline Slicer, Mary & Ed Karoll, Elwyn Quirk, Ron Colandrea, Gerry Shaw, Maryjo, Ryan S., Stephanie Spanos, George, Lia Kennedy, Doris Beswick, Stefan and Connie Fedeyko, Cheryl Heart, Ian Johnson, Annabelle Shaw, Louise Sciarretti, Sandy, Al Mayer,

Fred Jenks, Pearl Brown

The Gospel and Sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost

Participants, Petitions, and Thanksgivings for This Week

Officiant: The Rev. Dr. Robert Peter Clements 

Organist: John Williams 

Lay Minister: Rosalie Molnar 

Lector: Pam Prinz 

Altar and Flower Guild: Rosalie Molnar 

Video Minister: Al Maiorano 

The altar flowers are given by Annyce and Al Mayer in loving memory of Sylvia Mayer 

Prayers for our Parish and Extended Congregation: 

Jane Johnson, Michael and Gene Luther, Joan Leslie, Tricia Paugus, Glenn Dougan, Frank Roberts, Al Sciarretti, Tom Troeger, Les Molnar, Curtis, , Madeline Slicer, Mary & Ed Karoll, Elwyn Quirk, Ron Colandrea, Gerry Shaw, Maryjo, Ryan S., Stephanie Spanos, George, Lia Kennedy, Doris Beswick, Stefan and Connie Fedeyko, Cheryl Heart, Ian Johnson, Annabelle Shaw, Louise Sciarretti, Sandy, Al Mayer, Fred Jenks, Pearl Brown 

Anniversary: Tom & Kathie McKiernan

Today's Lections and Sermon

Today's ECCT Convention Business

Today is our standard convention, with various reports presented, the election of new membership on diocesan committees, and voting on a variety of resolutions.  Details about all of the reports and resolutions may be found on this page.

Today's ECCT Convention Discussion

Just a reminder that there are more than just Blacks and Whites in The Episcopal Church

How can parishes educate themselves about the reality of systemic racism, white supremacy and anti-Black bias, and feel compelled to take action as followers of Jesus?

Today's ECCT Convention Discussion

Which of the pandemic changes we have already made will we KEEP and thereby encourage a continuing culture of discovery in parishes?

Today's ECCT Convention Discussion

The annual convention of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut begins today.  Each weekday will focus on a 2 and 1/2 hour discussion of a particular topic.  Today's is as follows:

What can ECCT and its members do to address the issue of wealth inequality, including: Developing a common language to assure that everyone is talking about the same thing; Understanding how it distorts the political decision making of our governments with examples; Understanding how wealth inequality intersects with other issues as racism, classism, etc; Understanding what is our role in politics as a church; Understanding how our Christian faith provides a standard for our participation in public life.

A Footnote

Our recent conversations in racial awareness often appear to note only two of the groups that make up the great salad bowl of American culture.  On this combined Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day, we demonstrate that not only are there more than two racial groups in the U.S., but we as a congregation participate in the broadening conversation by being the only parish in the diocese that currently employs a [card-carrying] Tribal-American [aka "Native American"].  To that we can only say, "Niá:wen ki’ wáhi".

Lections and Sermon for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost

Participants, Prayers, Petitions, and Thanksgivings for this Sunday

 The altar flowers are given by Jennifer Fletcher iin loving memory of her mother, Lois Horvath

Prayer List:

Michael and Gene Luther, Joan, Tricia Paugus, Glenn Dougan, Frank Roberts, Al Sciarretti, Tom Troeger, Les Molnar, Curtis, Joan Steele, Madeline Slicer, Mary & Ed Karoll, Elwyn Quirk, Ron Colandrea, Gerry Shaw, Maryjo, Ryan S., Stephanie Spanos, George, Lia Kennedy, Doris Beswick, Stefan and Connie Fedeyko, Cheryl Heart, Ian Johnson, Annabelle Shaw, Louise Sciarretti, Sandy, Al Mayer, Fred Jenks, Pearl Brown

Birthdays:

Stella Norton

Remembrance:

The Rev. Clinton Dugger; The Rev. Kent "Buck" Belmore, priests of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

Officiant: The Rev. Dr. Robert Peter Clements

Organist: John Williams

Lawn Minister: Deb Melycher

Lector: Jessica Skolozdra

Altar Guild: Jenni Matheson

Video Minister: Kathie McKiernan

Upcoming Online Events from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music

 Three events over the next week, beginning today, that may be of interest.

#renameYale

Lections and Sermon for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost

[Happy] Coffee Hour Help

 

If anyone would like to help with the coffee cart on Sunday, please lend a hand at the conclusion of our service.  The cart will be stocked and ready, the coffee will have already been made, it just needs to be poured into the large carafes and wheeled to the appreciative congregation.

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The Lections for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

 Exodus 32:1-14

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord.” They rose early the next day, and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.

The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely; they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’” The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation.”

But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

Psalm 23

Dominus regit me

1 The Lord is my shepherd; *
I shall not be in want.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures *
and leads me beside still waters.

3 He revives my soul *
and guides me along right pathways for his Name's sake.

4 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I shall fear no evil; *
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

5 You spread a table before me in the presence of those who trouble me; *
you have anointed my head with oil,
and my cup is running over.

6 Surely your goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, *
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Matthew 22:1-14

Once more Jesus spoke to the people in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’ But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’ Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.

“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”

News About the Coming Change in Ordained Ministry at Christ Church at the 2:43 Mark

This Week at Christ Church

 On our parish prayer list:

Michael and Gene Luther, Joan, Tricia Paugus, Glenn Dougan, Frank Roberts, Al Sciarretti, Tom Troeger, Les Molnar, Curtis, Joan Steele, Madeline Slicer, Mary & Ed Karoll, Elwyn Quirk, Ron Colandrea, Gerry Shaw, Maryjo, Ryan S., Stephanie Spanos, George, Lia Kennedy, Doris Beswick, Stefan and Connie Fedeyko, Cheryl Heart, Ian Johnson, Annabelle Shaw, Louise Sciarretti, Sandy, Al Mayer, Fred Jenks, Pearl Brown

Birthdays:

Madeline Slicer

Anniversary:

Eric Emanuelson and Margaret Moreau

And, of course, the ministers:

Officiant: The Rev. Dr. Robert Peter Clements

Organist: John Williams

Lawn Minister: Ruth Beardsley

Lector: Les Molnar

Altar Guild: Pat Limauro

Video Minister: Jessica Skolozdra

The Lections for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

Then God spoke all these words:

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your work.

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and trembled and stood at a distance, and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will die.” Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come only to test you and to put the fear of him upon you so that you do not sin.”

Matthew 21:33-46

Jesus said, “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.” So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.”

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:

‘The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone;

this was the Lord’s doing,

and it is amazing in our eyes’?

Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom. The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.

Saint Remigius of Reims

Today's feast is that of Saint Remigius of Reims, who significantly  advanced Christian education and witness in the 5th century.

O God, who by the teaching of your faithful servant and bishop Remigius [and the loving influence and example of your handmaid Clotilda] turned the nation of the Franks from vain idolatry to the worship of you, the true and living God, in the fullness of the catholic faith; Grant that we who glory in the name of Christian may show forth our faith in worthy deeds; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.