Come in your halloween costume Sunday the 30th!
Deborah Rucki Drake, our Archdeacon, started by asking if the children could wear costumes to church on the 30th... And then upped the ante by suggesting that adults might come in costume also. So dress up -- to your heart's content!
Samhain, the Gaelic precursor of Halloween, was a harvest festival at the end of the harvest, and the end of the "lighter" part of the year, as the northern hemisphere moved to the "darker" part of the year. In some traditions, people dressed up, and bonfires were part of the festival. Celtic Christians put the feast of All Saints at this time when the popular culture was already having a feast of the dead.
There's a pattern here, a pattern of welcoming and embracing what we meet. The Rev. Howard Anderson, one of the keynoters at our Clergy Conference, cited Anglican theologian Richard Hooker's statement that he would "make the Christian religion an inn where all are received joyfully". The premise of the church is thar God's love is for all, and that all are welcome: it's a come as you are party.
This week:
Tuesday, October 25th. 1PM. Needle crafters meet.
Clergy are at conference Tuesday through Thursday noon.
Sunday, October 30th. 10AM. Service, Children's Chapel, Nursery Care.
Healing prayer available at the end of the service. Coffee Hour follows.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
What's Up This Week (10/17-10/23)
Fall -- Beautiful Colors, and the Sighs of Sorrow over Losses of Jobs, Homes, Dreams
Elizabeth Kaeton, prophetic priest of this Diocese (the Episcopal Church in northern New Jersey), writes poignantly of her day spent on Wall Street and in the park with the Occupy Wall Street people. "Tell them that it's about greed," say those who have been devastated by the shifts in the economy, speaking of the increasing gulf between the 1% who are better off and the 99% who are not. If the job description for prophets is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, this is a time which calls us to challenge rosy assumptions about "trickle-down economic benefits" and justice. Where is our God? The Abba, the Father, of Jesus? Or the gods of worldly power and riches?
Here at St. Agnes' this week,
Elizabeth Kaeton, prophetic priest of this Diocese (the Episcopal Church in northern New Jersey), writes poignantly of her day spent on Wall Street and in the park with the Occupy Wall Street people. "Tell them that it's about greed," say those who have been devastated by the shifts in the economy, speaking of the increasing gulf between the 1% who are better off and the 99% who are not. If the job description for prophets is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, this is a time which calls us to challenge rosy assumptions about "trickle-down economic benefits" and justice. Where is our God? The Abba, the Father, of Jesus? Or the gods of worldly power and riches?
Here at St. Agnes' this week,
- Remember to download a recipe submission form for our cookbook, and to forward it to Nicole Dilkes
- Remember to bring canned meat and fish for the food pantry at St. Paul's, Paterson
- Remember to pray for those beginning confirmation preparation
- Monday: 6:30 Domestic Violence Prevention Vigil at Township Hall
- Tuesday: 1:00 Women's Spirituality Group
- Wednesday: 7:30 Taize Service and healing
- Thursday: 7:30 Stewardship workgroup meets
- Saturday: 9:00 AM Work Day starts with coffee and doughnuts
- Sunday: 10:00 Eucharist and Children's Chapel, coffee hour.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
What's Up This Week (10/10-10/16)
Little Falls Tricentennial:
What a two week period! St. Agnes' folks have hit the pavement running:
What a two week period! St. Agnes' folks have hit the pavement running:
- Out in force for the Tricentennial Parade, right behind the fabulous drum section of the Passaic Valley High School Band with our new St. Agnes' sweatshirts and banner, then very present at the town picnic
- Out in front of the church for a Pet Blessing on St. Francis' Day, with more new faces than members. Comment of the day: "I have to tell you that this is a Catholic dog..."
- Teens and Tweens out on the front sidewalk with Sue Ploch, chalking pictures of Creation
- Out for the unveiling and blessing of the new Little Falls 9/11 Memorial
Coming up this week:
Tuesday, 10/11, 1 PM Needlecrafters, in Library
7 PM Stewardship Committee, in Library
Wednesday, 10/12, 7:30 PM Diocesan Budget Discussion, in Hall
Sunday, 10/16, 10:00 AM Archdeacon Deborah preaches
Children's Chapel
Children's Chapel
Coming up soon:
Wednesday, 10/19, 6:30 - 8:30 PM Teen Express Yourself ARTS Program
7:30 PM Taize Service with Healing Prayer available
Saturday, 10/22 9 AM Clean-up Day
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