Christmas Eve, 2010
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness, on them light has shined.”
“This will be a sign for you: You will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.”
What is it about Christmas that makes it so special?
We know what it is about Christmas that can make it a hassle.
Rushing around to take care of those last minute details—forget the fact ...
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Christmas Eve in St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 520 E. Seminary St., Greencastle, begins with the celebration of the Holy Eucharist at 5:00 p.m. Friday, December 24.
This Christmas Eve service is planned especially for families with young children, but is appropriate for all ages. After the children take the lead in re-telling the Christmas story by identifying and talking about the Nativity figures that have been placed in the creche, members of the congregation will be given the opportunity to come ...
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The ornaments that the church school kids walked back in with last Sunday and hung on the Jesse tree (with some additions made to some of the higher branches shortly thereafter by our own Orcenith Smith) represent significant events in the life of God’s people as they are recorded in the Hebrew scriptures—signs of God’s presence, evidence of God’s power working in the world to bring about good: the story of ...
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Sun, Dec 5 Second Sunday of Advent (St. Andrew’s Day observed)
(No 8:00 am service)
9:00 am Adult Forum: “Living the Questions”- 8. Restoring Relationships
10:15 am Holy Eucharist with “Kids’ Walkout” & trimming
of the Jesse tree; no sermon; we will share our stories of how grace, gratitude, & generosity have shaped & blessed our lives
11:45 am Advent Wreath making after Coffee Hour
4 to 6 pm Narda & Page ...
Continue Reading → ShareWe have a new category on our website, “Advent Reflections”, thanks to Deb Beck, who hopes other members of St. Andrew’s will join her in offering their thoughts on the meaning of Advent and Christmas as well. This is the note that Deb wrote to the congregation on November 28th, the First Sunday of Advent this year;
To all at St. Andrews:
The Season of Advent has been celebrated every evening in our home for many years, so it is a very ...
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Every year about this time the branches of the Church that choose to observe the seasons of the Christian year find themselves more or less at loggerheads with what most people around them are doing: acting like Christmas is already here, when it isn’t; the season of Advent begins today, and it has almost four weeks to run before it’s over.
Not that Advent isn’t a good time to get ready for Christmas—a good time ...
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Regular Weekly Schedule:
Sundays 8:00 am Holy Eucharist
9:00 am Adult Forum: “Living the Questions” study series
10:15 am Holy Eucharist with “Kids’ Walkout”
11:30 am Coffee Hour
Wednesdays 12:15 pm Holy Eucharist (informal) in the chancel
Sun, Nov 7 Sunday after All Saints’ Day
(No 8:00 am Service)
9:00 am Adult Forum: “Living the Questions”-5
“Lives of Jesus”
10:15 am ...
Continue Reading → ShareXXV Pentecost – November 14, 2010 – Year C – Proper 28 (RCL)
“Some things never change.”
All of us have probably heard someone make a statement like that—or maybe even said it ourselves—at one time or another.
“Some things never change.”
At least it seems that some things never change.
“Never” is, of course, a relative term which signifies, most likely, “at least not in my lifetime” and is, therefore, a highly subjective term at best.
But think for a moment about all the things ...
Continue Reading → ShareXXIII Pentecost – October 31, 2010 – Year C, Proper 26
This week’s Gospel lesson from Luke has to do with the universal longing to have a closer relationship with God and the surprising lengths to which folks will sometimes go to bring that closer relationship about.
The narrator introduces Zacchaeus to us as the chief tax collector of Jericho, a man who had to climb a tree so he could “see who Jesus was”.
Whether it was a tree or ...
XXII Pentecost – October 24, 2010 – Year C, Proper 25 (RCL)
This past Thursday our Diocesan Convention in Terre Haute began as usual, with registration at two o’clock in the afternoon and the hearings on the resolutions to come before convention at three.
I knew that we had a lot of resolutions to look at, twenty-one of them, in fact—resolutions that had been passed by the 2009 General Convention and brought back to our diocese and every diocese of the ...