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Quinquagesima 2022 – Bulletin

QUINQUAGESIMA – February 27, 2022

GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY BE TO HIM FOREVER!

TODAY AT ST. MARY’S

LIVE AUDIO STREAMING during today’s service is available on the Order of Service page. Recorded audio will be added following worship.

GODLY PLAY Story for Feb. 27 is ‘The Parable of The Great Pearl’  Matthew 13:45- 46.  

PARISH LIFE NOTES

We are back! Masking is encouraged but is the choice of each individual, and all will be respected. Everyone is welcome and invited to participate in whatever way they feel most safe.

2021 TAX RECEIPTS have been mailed out. Please watch your mailbox for yours. If you would like to receive an electronic copy of your receipt, or if you have any questions, please send Blair an email.

GROWING A GENEROUS CHURCH 

For anyone who is still considering attending, there are still a few spots left! 

Register on the Diocesan website (see below), or contact AD Cheryl Growing a generous church: a year in the life of Peach Blossom Church tells the story of a fictional (but very real) church that has survived the pandemic but is still worried about its future. They call a new pastor to help them grow in grace and generosity. The book tells the story of what happens over the course of a year. Over the course of four sessions participants will discuss the book and grow as disciples and stewards through reading, conversing and praying together. 

What: a free one-hour book discussion via Zoom When: Mondays in March (March 7, 14, 21, and 28) at 7:30 pm SK time 

Who: led by Cheryl Toth, Stewardship Officer, and up to 20 participants 

How: register at https://www.quappelle.anglican.ca/stewardship or by e-mailing Cheryl at stewardship@sasktel.net 

How do I get the book? Copies of the book are available at the Synod Office; cost is $25 including taxes. To pick up or be mailed a copy call Cindy at 306-522-1609 (Tuesday to Friday) or email dio.quappelle@sasktel.net. 

To order the book online, go to https://www.commonword.ca; cost with shipping is about $30. An evening webinar with the author Lori Guenther Reesor is being planned for Thursday, April 28, 2022.

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Quinquagesima 2022 – Holy Communion

Reminder: We’re back to in-person worship this week. No video, but we’re broadcasting live audio again. Use the player below for the live audio Sunday morning, and watch for the audio recording after that.

QUINQUAGESIMA

February 27, 2022

TODAY AT ST. MARY’S

10:00 A.M. MORNING PRAYER (Prayer book pp. 6-15.)  
(Ps.148, 149,150; Sirach 48:1-11; 2 Corinthians 3:7-18)

10:30 A.M.  HOLY COMMUNION (Prayer Book pp. 67- 85) 

GODLY PLAY in the Children’s Worship Centre for children 3 – 6 years. Story for Feb. 27 is ‘The Parable of The Great Pearl’ Matthew 13:45- 46.  

Audio recording of full service including sermon

Organ Prelude: Gymnopedie Erik Satie (1866-1925)

THE HYMN: # 397  Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness

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Quinquagesima 2022 – Sermon

Exodus 34:29-35​​
Psalm 99
2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2
Luke 9:28-43a		February 27, 2022
St. Mary’s Regina
Transfiguration Sunday
Year C		Revd. Paula Foster

From our first reading this morning we hear these words: “when Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses (returning from the mountain), the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.” From the gospel of Luke we hear these words: “And while Jesus was praying, the appearance of his face changed and his clothes became dazzling white…and the disciples were afraid.”  Both men climb a mountain; Moses by himself and Jesus with three close companions. Both men encounter God.  Moses returns with physical evidence of his conversation…..the 10 Commandments carved in stone and a face that shone with a brightness that was hard to look at.  Jesus has witnesses, but they are terrified by what they saw and heard and kept silent about it all until a later time. 

Obviously, coming face to face….having an encounter with God changes us.  It results in a transfiguration that is difficult if not impossible to explain.  I suspect that it can be intimidating to look into eyes that have seen God’s glory….seen the world as God sees the world…..seen us as God sees us. Moses’ face shone because “the Lord had been speaking to him.” 

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Sexagesima 2022 – Bulletin

SEXAGESIMA

February 20, 2022

GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY BE TO HIM FOREVER!

TODAY AT ST. MARY’S

Here’s this week’s Order of Service, (with video link)

Public worship at St. Mary’s Anglican Church will return on Sunday February 27th.  

GODLY PLAY: Story for Feb. 20 is ‘The Parable of The Leaven’ Matthew 13:33.  Leader Sandra – Via Zoom.

PARISH LIFE NOTES

2021 TAX RECEIPTS have been mailed out. Please watch your mailbox for yours. If you would like to receive an electronic copy of your receipt, or if you have any questions, please send Blair an email.

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Sexigesima 2022 – Morning Prayer

(Modified 2021-02-20: Added video link for live stream and recorded service.)

SEXAGESIMA

February 20, 2022 10.30 o’clock

Live stream at 10:30 AM CST and recording thereafter.

THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR MORNING PRAYER

Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  

Good morning, friends. Today is the seventh after the Epiphany and our order of service for Morning Prayer can be followed on the website or downloaded and printed from the weekly email. Let us take a moment to calm our hearts as we prepare to worship God.

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Sexagesima 2022 – Sermon

Classical economic theory tells us that, if left to their own devices, markets will balance themselves out — supply meeting demand — because the humans in those markets are rational beings who will behave in their own self-interest by making decisions based on reason.   It amazes me that anyone who has actually met another human being could espouse such a theory in good conscience and with a straight face, but somehow or other this idea has managed to hang on more or less up until the present age.

In my opinion, classical economic theory is more useful as a model you can hold up against actual economies to see just how far off the mark you are about people acting rationally.  Personally, I’m much more interested in behavioural economics, as developed in the 60s and 70s by Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.  Tversky and Kahneman developed a number of concepts that describe the ways in which people make irrational choices.  The availability heuristic, for example, says that people tend to believe things they’ve heard stories about are more common than they really are.  Like if you hear a story about a shark attack, it sticks in your mind, and you think shark attacks must happen all the time.  But you’re not stacking up the story you heard against the thousands of people who go into the ocean every day and aren’t attacked by sharks.  We are much more moved by a good story than by data.

Jesus in Luke chapter 6 is giving us his speech as the chief economist of the Kingdom of God.  If rationality states that when someone punches you in the eye, the fair thing is for them to stand still while you return the favour, the economy Jesus is describing here is based on a principle of abundance, not balanced ledgers.  “Love your enemies.  Do good to those who hate you.  Bless those who curse you.  Pray for those who mistreat you.  If someone slaps you on the cheek, turn to them the other also.”  I ask you, is this rational?  Is this an example of supply balancing with demand?

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Septuagesima 2022 – Bulletin

SEPTUAGESIMA – February 13, 2022

GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY BE TO HIM FOREVER!

TODAY AT ST. MARY’S

Here’s this week’s Order of service (with video link)

Public worship at St. Mary’s Anglican Church will return on Sunday February 27th.  

GODLY PLAY: Story for Feb.13 is ‘The Parable of the Sower’ Matthew 4:1-11; Matthew 13:3-8.  Via Zoom.

PARISH LIFE NOTES

THE CONGREGATIONAL  AGM will be held by Zoom today right after the service.

St. Mary’s is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: St. Mary’s 2022 AGM
Time: Feb 13, 2022 11:45 AM Saskatchewan

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81593474829?pwd=WWxDYzNJQW1qd2kxMFNraE9mekV2dz09

Meeting ID: 815 9347 4829
Passcode: 333809

WORSHIP NOTE Today we begin our symbolic countdown to Easter and the Journey to Jerusalem that is Lent. The three Sundays of pre-Lent preceding Ash Wednesday which falls in March 2 are entitled Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima. In this way the Church seeks to help us to prepare for the Great Fast, which in turn prepares us to enter into once again the mystery of our salvation that is our union with Jesus in His death and Resurrection. “If we have died with Him, we will also live with Him; if we endure we will also reign with Him.” (2 Timothy 2.11, 12a)

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Septuagesima 2022 – Morning Prayer

SEPTUAGESIMA

February 13, 2022

10.30 o’clock

THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR MORNING PRAYER

Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  

Good morning, friends. Today is the sixth after the Epiphany and our order of service for Morning Prayer can be followed on the website or downloaded and printed from the weekly email. Let us take a moment to calm our hearts as we prepare to worship God.

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Septuagesima 2022 – Sermon

Jeremiah 17:5-10
Psalm 11
Corinthians 15:12-20
Luke 6:17-26		February 13,2022
St. Mary’s Regina
Epiphany 6
Year C

            I have been to the Holy Land.  Six years ago, the clergy of the Diocese of Saskatoon went together on a pilgrimage to see the land where Jesus lived and taught.  I saw for myself how much of Jerusalem can be seen from the Mount of Olives and whether the Jordan is a rushing river or a flowing stream.  I saw the physical land around Tiberias where tradition holds that Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount (according to Matthew) or the Sermon on the Plain (according to Luke).  It is the same sermon recorded in three of the gospels and in my mind there is a difference between a mountain and a plain.

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