The FOURTH SUNDAY of LENT
SUNDAY,
March 14, 2010
8:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist & Healing
9:15 a.m. Coffee
Time
9:30 a.m.
Adult Bible Study
10:30 a.m.
Nursery
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Congregational Singing
11:45 a.m. Coffee Time
12:00 Noon
Adult Study Presentations
COLLECT
& READINGS
Collect:
Spirit of Compassion,
in Christ, the human image of divine loving-kindness,
you have invited all to be reconciled to you
in a new creation.
You have entrusted your message of reconciliation to us.
Send us into the world
as ministers of your peace.
This we seek in Christ’s name. Amen.
Lessons:
First
Lesson: Joshua 5:9-12
Psalm/Response: Psalm 32
Second Reading
For the Gospel Reading
All the tax collectors and sinners were coming near
to listen to Jesus. And the Pharisees
and the scribes were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners
and eats with them."
So Jesus told them this parable:
"There was a man who had two sons. The younger of them said to his father,
'Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.' So he divided his property between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all
he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property
in dissolute living. When he had spent
everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to
be in need. So he went and hired himself
out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed
the pigs. He would gladly have filled
himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything. But when he came to himself he said, 'How
many of my father's hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am
dying of hunger! I will get up and go to
my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven
and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one
of your hired hands."' So he set
off and went to his father. But while he
was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran
and put his arms around him and kissed him.
Then the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and
before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' But the father said to his slaves, 'Quickly,
bring out a robe--the best one--and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and
sandals on his feet. And get the fatted
calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead
and is alive again; he was lost and is found!'
And they began to celebrate.
"Now his elder son was in the field; and when he
came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. He called one of the slaves and asked what
was going on. He replied, 'Your brother
has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has got him
back safe and sound.' Then he became
angry and refused to go in. His father
came out and began to plead with him.
But he answered his father, 'Listen!
For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have
never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so
that I might celebrate with my friends.
But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property
with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!' Then the father said to him, 'Son, you are
always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was
dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.'"
8:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Celebrant: The Reverend Philip W. Dougharty, Rector
Greeter: Rosalyn Anderson
Lector/Chalice Bearer: Ann Dutton
Healing Team: Celestine Dillard and Peggy Moffitt
Sermon: The
Reverend Philip W. Dougharty
Acolyte: N/A
Altar Guild: José Turnwall, Jan Bough, Frances Tyau, Rosalyn
Anderson, Laurie Smith, and Charlene Nitterauer
10:30 a.m.
Holy Eucharist
Healing, Organ Music, & Congregational Singing
Celebrant: The Reverend Philip W. Dougharty, Rector
David K. Mathewson, Organist/Choir Master
Sermon: The Reverend
Philip W. Dougharty
Lector I: Tom Lochner
Lector II: Rob Petersen
Intercessor: Jan Lochner
Chalice Bearers: Suzanne Evans and David Smith
Healing Team: James
Martin and Ann Graham
Acolytes
Crucifer: Stephen Reed
Torches: N/A
Ushers: Ed
Standora and Sean Lepo
Greeters: Susan Standora and Ann Graham
Altar Guild: Donna Doyle, Joan Mangano,
and Charlene Nitterauer
Eucharistic Visitations: N/A
March 15th Counters: John Gawley and Irv Reed
Nursery Care is available during the
10:30 a.m. service. It is provided by Amanda Sokolowski-Bond.
Immediately
after 8:30 and 10:30 Services: COFFEE TIME
Immediately
after 8:30 and after 10:30 Services the Coffee Time is downstairs in the
Adult Study Groups 12:00 noon to 12:45
p.m.
Solo Holy Women: Facilitated by Ann Dutton, Stacey Miner and
The Rev. Cecily Whiteford. Meets in the
lower level across from the Walter Lord Room.
A
New Christianity: Bishop John Shelby Spong is
a best selling author and major spokesperson for reframing Christianity for the
21st Century. Discuss the
challenging issues raised in Bishop Spong’s weekly internet question and answer
series. Facilitated by John Schimminger
and Carol Bothers. Meets in the Bishop
Scaife Dining Room upstairs off the parish hall.
Adult Bible
Study at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday in the Bishop Scaife Dining Room upstairs off
the parish hall.
