tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66989727150239164572024-03-13T08:46:55.942-07:00Good Shepherd's Pilgrim's ProgressCalendar Lent-Easter February 22, 2023-May 28, 2023Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-50401561870962641902023-06-08T20:07:00.000-07:002023-06-08T20:07:08.315-07:00<p> <b><i><span style="font-family: "apple chancery"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;">Pentecost is the birthday of the Church as the body of Christ </span></i></b></p><b><i><span style="font-family: "apple chancery"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;"> May 28, 2023</span></i></b><br /><b><i><span style="font-family: "apple chancery"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;"><br /></span></i></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Pentecost is the Christian C</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">hurch’s birthday.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">It is the third Great</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> Feast of the Church.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">The Holy Spirit at Pentecost is poured out on</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">all </b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">flesh. This Spirit is the breath of charity, the tongue of truth.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">It is the fire of compassion that heals human life.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">During the 26 weeks that mark the Sundays in the liturgical year after the Day of Pentecost, we will seek to understand ourselves as a people of God who are born of compassion that loves all creation with a limitless hospitality and with boundless mercy.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">We seek to hear and to follow God’s higher callings to love Him whole-heartedly, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">We hope to grow spiritually as a Pentecostal people, a holy community whose holiness is measured only by its compassionate hospitality for the world.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">For the Spirit already has set us on fire with the wonder that He sent His Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that it might be saved through Him.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">This same Spirit kindles our lives with healing powers that make us whole and at one with the world.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Joel 2:28-32<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The Lord said to his people:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"> I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">….</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.' " </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>2023 for Pentecost</u></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 4<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Trinity Sunday 1st Sunday after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 11<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">2nd Sunday After Pentecost</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 18<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 25<span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Combined Service</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">July 2<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><br /></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">July 9<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">July 16<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">July 23</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Father Herbert Preach and Celebrate (Combined Service)<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">July 30</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p></o:p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">August 6<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Father Herbert Preach and Celebrate (Mary Reyes Returns)</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">August 13<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leslie Abernethy Preach, Father Lee Celebrates</span></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 36.4pt;"><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; height: 36.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">August 20</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; height: 36.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emily Seitz Preach, Father Lee Celebrates </span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">August 27</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Combined Service, Father Lee Preach and Celebrates</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Sept 24 <o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Combined Service, Father Herbert Preach, Father Lee Celebrates</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Nov 5 <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Nov 26</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">All Saints Sunday/<b><i>Nov 26 Christ the King (last of Sunday in Ordinary Time-Pentecost) Father Herbert's Farewell to Good Shepherd</i></b></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Dec 3 <o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">1st Sunday in Advent<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"></o:p></div></div>Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-17168790771998652132023-03-05T23:06:00.000-08:002023-03-05T23:06:17.386-08:00Calendar Lent-Easter February 22, 2023-May 28, 2023<p> Feb 22<span> Ash Wednesday</span></p><p><span>Feb 26<span> Combined English/Mandarin Service</span></span></p><p><span><span><b>March 5<span> </span><span> Lent 2 Disposition of Ashes</span></b></span></span></p><p>March 12<span> Lent 3</span></p><p><span>March 19<span> Lent 4</span></span></p><p><span><span>March 26<span> Lent 5<span> </span><span> Church Annual Meeting</span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b>April<span> 2<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Palm Sunday</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><span><span>April<span> 6<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Maundy Thursday</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><span><span><span><span>April<span> 7<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Good Friday<span> </span><span> Noon Service</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>April<span> 8<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Easter Vigil<span> </span><span> Time TBA</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>April<span> 9<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Easter Service, pot luck lunch, Easter Egg Hunt</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><i>April<span> 16<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Easter 2</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><i>April<span> 23<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Easter 3</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><i><span><span>April<span> 30<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Easter 4</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><i><span><span><span><span>May<span> 7<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Easter 5</span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b>Diocesan Annual Meeting May 11-12 in Hualien</b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><i>May<span> 14<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Easter 6 Mother's Day and Confirmation with Bishop Lennon Chang</span></span></i></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b><i><span><span>May<span> 21<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Easter 7</span></span></span></span></i></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><b>May 28<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Day of Pentecost </span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></p>Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-34258154073818580962022-11-07T04:16:00.001-08:002022-11-07T04:16:29.813-08:00<p> <b style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: -webkit-center;"><i><span style="font-family: serif , serif; font-size: 24pt;">English Congregation’s Calendar 2022-2023</span></i></b></p><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-center;"><br /></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: -webkit-center;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">Advent – Christmas – Epiphany Year A</span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">November 27 Candle of Hope, A Prophet's Prayer of Hope</span></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">December 4 Candle of Peace, Shepherd's Behold a Great Light</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">December 11 Candle of Joy</span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">December 18 Candle of Love, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Shepherds’ Lessons and Carols</span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">December 24</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"> <b>Combined English-Chinese</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"> Christmas Eve Candle Light Service 7:30 PM</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">December 25 Christmas Day Service at 10:00 AM</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div><b><i><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span>A Combined English/Chinese Service<br /></span></i></b><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">January 1. </span></i></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">First Sunday after Christmas</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">January 8 </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -2in;"><b>First Sunday after Epiphany </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px; text-indent: -192px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman"; 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This Spirit is the breath of charity and the tongue of truth.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">It is the fire of compassion that heals human life.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> It gathers the children of earth into one family of God.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">During the 26 weeks that mark the Sundays in the liturgical year after the Day of Pentecost, we will make a pilgrimage toward an understanding of ourselves as a people of God. A people of God who are born of compassion and who loves and attends to all creation with a limitless hospitality and with boundless mercy.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">We seek to hear and to follow God’s higher callings to love Him whole-heartedly, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">We hope to grow spiritually as a Pentecostal, spiritual people, a holy community whose holiness is measured only by its love for the world.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> As the Father sent His Son into the world not to condemn the world, but that it may have life in His name, we too are so sent. We are called and sent into the world to be merciful caretakers of the earth and all that is therein. We are sent into the world as good shepherds and Kingdom of God tenants to work in His fields to bear fruits of faith, hope, and love among all God's peoples in the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">The Holy Spirit, himself, comes to us, searches for us, binds up our wounds, and strengthens us as the prophet Ezekiel proclaimed [Ezekiel 34:11].</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">This same Spirit ignites our lives with purifying fire that refines us to be acceptable and whole, and as one sacred people in the presences of God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. [ref: Malachi 3:2]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Joel 2:28-32<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The Lord said to his people:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"> I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">….</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.' " </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 11pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>2022 Calendar for Pentecost</u></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">June 12</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Trinity Sunday 1st Sunday after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 19<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">2nd Sunday After Pentecost</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 26<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">July 3</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">July 10</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><br /></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">July 17<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">July 24<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">July 31</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">August 7</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">August 1<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">August 14<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">10th Sunday after the Day of Pentecost and My 80th Birthday</div></td></tr><tr style="height: 36.4pt;"><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; height: 36.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">August 21</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; height: 36.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">August 28<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">12th Sunday after the Day of Pentecost</div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Nov 6<o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">All Saints Sunday 22nd Sunday After Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Nov 20 <o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Christ the King Last Sunday After Pentecost</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left: 1pt solid windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.25pt;" valign="top" width="85"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Nov 27 <o:p></o:p></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right: 1pt solid windowtext; border-style: none solid solid none; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 382.25pt;" valign="top" width="382"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">1st Sunday in Advent<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"></o:p></div></div>Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-45736591035883508482021-02-22T01:39:00.004-08:002022-04-21T21:24:33.768-07:00<p> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Calendar for Easter, Day of Pentecost 2022</span></b></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 24 2<sup>nd</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 1 3<sup>rd</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 8 4<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter [Combined Service]</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 15 5<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 22 6<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 29 7<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;">June 5 Day of Pentecost </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><br /><div></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; orphans: auto; text-size-adjust: auto; widows: auto;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">June 12 First Sunday after Pentecost Trinity Sunday</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div></div>Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-54449621969464681662020-11-28T01:34:00.001-08:002021-10-10T21:08:00.378-07:00<p><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Advent </span></span></p><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch Out! </span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You do not know the hour of the coming of the Son of Man.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Adventus</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">” means coming. We Episcopalians/Anglicans believe that Advent is not only the beginning of the liturgical year; we also believe that it is the Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end, “again”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ is eternally coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ is our hoped for great expectation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt;">“</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt;">In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. <b><sup> </sup></b>Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. <b><sup> </sup></b>In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. <b><sup> </sup></b>The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” [</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">John 1-6 (NIV)]<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Christ is the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Logos [Creating Cosmic Wisdom]</i>, “Word”, that is an eternal creating power permeating the universe’s energy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Advent is hoping without limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i>God coming” is actually an active noun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>In Genesis 3:8, we read, “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God had not been outside the garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Breath was only a peaceful presence in the shade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is always within life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Awareness of God’s presence is not a welcome realization! It seems that Adam and Eve’s response to “God with us” was to hide. I suppose that we share their dread, because we have been hiding from God since the beginning of our own awaking that <i>God is with us</i>. We sing, “O come, O come, Emmanuel”, yet, our hearts whisper, “<i>not yet, not now”</i>! Quick, cover up our shame!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretend we are not anxious.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We dread God’s judgment of our limitless cravings that bend us to total self centeredness. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Yet, like a child whose bravery insists that she is able to stand and to run own her own, quickly loses her courage when she discovers she has run too far, and run out of sight of Mom and Dad. She discovers that she has lost the arms of security and found the embrace of despairing loneliness. Lost!</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alone!</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">While on one hand we fear Immanuel, “<i>God with us</i>”, as a challenge to our willfulness, on the other hand we fear, “<i>God with us</i>”, as a loss of self and of freedom. <i>Immanuel </i>exposes our freedom as bondage to self as solitary confinement that separates us from any contentment in fellowship with others and with God, The OTHER. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We are filled with dreadful discontent that exposes our broken sacred image of God. He is coming. We wait. He arrives with healing in His wings! Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is born that we no more may die. Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gives us second birth. Our image is reclaimed and restored in His coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That is what Advent brings. Sound like good news? God’s coming brings to us hope, peace, joy, and love! Thanks be to God for the manger where his promises are wrapped in bonds of rags and an infant waves from a manger. The baby’s name shall be called Immanuel, “<i>with us is God!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Concluding ...Watching, Waiting</span></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As a child I remember the thrill of hiding from my mother’s watchful eyes. </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Freed from her sentry, my brothers and I would run to the creek to dive naked into its warm splendid wetness. We would splash and have water fights. I would swing from a rope and fly to free fall into the open arms of sky and water. </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oh, no! I hit a tree buried in the creek’s soft bottom. Bloodied, and full of fear, I sprang from the water running for home. Running for mother! My brother caught up with me and shook me. “Are you an idiot? You’re OK! It’s just a scratch! Mother will punish us all for your ugly, bloody face!</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I shouted in pain, and rage, and guilt, and disbelief, and hope. “I’m going home!” I ran as fast as I could. Naked, bleeding, I threw my bloody face into my mother’s lap! I looked up with hope into the eyes of Immanuel, “God with us”, judgment and salvation.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Get ready. Watch. Wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come out!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope Peace, Joy, and Love comes to each of us in our life’s gardens in the early dawn and in evening’s shadows, and even in the lonely nights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is always with us, we need only come out of hiding.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">O come, O come, Immanuel! Amen.</span></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><!--EndFragment-->Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-64751773082105769832020-06-01T07:21:00.000-07:002020-06-01T07:21:07.879-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><i><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"apple chancery\"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"}" style="font-family: "apple chancery"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;">Pentecost is the birthday of the Church as the body of Christ </span></i></b><br /><b><i><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"apple chancery\"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"}" style="font-family: "apple chancery"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;"> May 31, 2020</span></i></b><br /><b><i><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"apple chancery\"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;"}" style="font-family: "apple chancery"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;"><br /></span></i></b><br />
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Pentecost is the Christian C</span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">hurch’s birthday.</span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">It is the third </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">great Feast of the Church.</span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">The Holy Spirit at Pentecost is poured out on</span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><b data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">all </b><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">flesh. This Spirit is the breath of charity, the tongue of truth.</span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">It is the fire of compassion that heals human life.</span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> It is the language of Love.</span><br /><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><br /><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">During the 25 weeks that mark the Sundays in the liturgical year after the Day of Pentecost, we will seek to understand ourselves as a people of God who are born of compassion who love all creation with a limitless hospitality and with boundless mercy.</span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">We seek to hear and to follow God’s higher callings to love Him whole-heartedly, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.</span><br /><br /><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">We hope to grow spiritually as a Pentecostal people, a holy community whose holiness is measured only by its compassionate hospitality for all God's children and all of God's creation. </span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">For the Spirit already has set us on fire with the wonder that He sent His Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that it might be saved through Him.</span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">This same Spirit kindles our lives with healing powers that make us whole and at one with all of creation.</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">At Christmas we hear that "God is with us. Immanuel." At Easter we hear that Christ is risen...God with us still. At Pentecost we hear that the Holy Spirit, God is within us forever.</span></div>
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<b><span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-family: \"times new roman\"; font-size: 14pt;"}" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"> I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></b></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">June 7<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">Trinity Sunday 1st Sunday after Pentecost<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">June 14<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">2nd Sunday After Pentecost [SAP]</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">June 21<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">3rd SAP Beth Clarke Preach and Father Celebrate</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">June 28<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">4th SAPDr. Jonathan </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Preach and Father Lee Celebrate</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">July 5<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">5th SAP Father Herbert Barker. Preach and Celebrate</span><span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">July 12<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">6th SAP </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Father Herbert Preach and Celebrate</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">July 19<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">7th Sunday SAP Beth Clarke Preach, Father Lee Celebrate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">July 26</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">8th SAP Father Keith Lee Preach and Celebrate<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">August 2<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">9th SAP Father Barker </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Preach and Celebrate</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">August 9<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">10th SAP Father Barker Preach and Celebrate<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">August 16<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">11th SAP Beth Clarke Preach, Father Lee Celebrate<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">August 23</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">August 30</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">12th SAP Dr. John McCall Preach, Father Lee Celebrate</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">13th SAP Father Barker, Preach and Celebrate</span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">Sept 6-27 Oct 4-25<span data-original-tag="O:P"></span></span></div>
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<span data-original-attrs="{"style":"font-size: 16pt;"}" style="font-size: 16pt;">14-17 SAP </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Father Herbert Preach and Celebrate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">18-21 SAP Father Herbert Preach and Celebrate</span></div>
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Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-70271005519732276552020-02-27T21:10:00.003-08:002020-03-10T22:29:11.225-07:00Lent : 2020 The Church of the Good Shepherd, Shilin, Taipei, Taiwan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">When most of us think about Lent, “giving up” things come to mind. I was challenged by a colleague during lunch this week with, “What are you giving up for Lent? From how you are eating, it looks like you will be giving up fasting in Lent!”<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">My irreligious response was: “I’ll be feasting this lent in celebration of the Fest that awaits me at Easter!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">After thinking about that response, I realized that ironically, Lent is open to an understanding that it is a time for embracing deep gratitude for Christ’s mercies. And gratitude can surely lead us into thanksgiving feasts, rather than leading us to fasting and meditations that highlight our shortcomings, or failures, or our rebellion, or our being a fugitive from God’s love and grace, we could consider a return home during these 40 days as a journey of festive celebrations! No? Let us consider it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We all know that Lent is 40 days of preparation to ready us to share in the Passion of Christ----Holy Week, His Death and His Resurrection. Through disciplines of prayer, self-examination, self-denial, repentance, and almsgiving (mercy gifts) we prepare to turn from our self-centered life to one that is centered upon The Other (God) and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In short, this is a period to turn toward Home. Lent is a time for us to turn toward our true self. Lent is the moment when we are called to lift our head and eyes beyond our broken promises and broken dreams and to look toward forgiveness, and healing, and reunion with Love that transcends all understanding. It is not only Thomas Wolf that calls angles to look homeward. Jesus calls us to look homeward as angels, and brothers, and sisters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Think I’m going home! Think I’m going back to the place where I belong! No more thinking “about” going home; I’m going home! Now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is not in sadness that you and I face going home. I remember when I was “let out” from class each day; and I headed home after school that it was with a sense of excitement and joy. I remember that the closer that I got to home that I began to skip, and then at the last, I would begin to run to Mom’s kitchen where she was ready to embrace me, and where gingerbread and milk beckoned me to feast. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I repeat that going home became a time for growing gladness and joyful expectation of homecoming’s loving embrace. Going home gave no space or time for guilt or shame or self-incriminations. As I walked, skipped, ran, all these fell away along the trek to my mother’s open kitchen door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I do believe that during our Lenten’s meditations, and ruminations of the “place and condition” of our lives that rather than turning inward to navel gaze, because that is where we are obsessively trapped already; let us turn outward toward God the Father and reflect upon going toward His Way and ways! Let us reflect about God the Father running to meet us as He sees us from afar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A few years ago, I lead our elders’ English Bible class in a study of Henri J. M. Nouwen’s book, “The Return of the Prodigal Son”. As I have been meditating on Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son, I see that it is a wonderful framework or foundation upon which to consider a new posture for Lent. It is a posture of coming to our senses and realizing that life is better at home in His fields and gardens than hanging out around pig pens where we slop mostly in our self-made suffering. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Now in Lent is a movement to begin to walk, then skip, then run home to Our Heavenly Father. The skipping, the rejoicing, Yes, and gratefully, recklessly feasting in anticipation is in character with the expectations of the extravagant feast that our welcoming Father is readying for us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">With this posture of running home toward love and grace, is a liberating one from self-indulgence. I believe that Lent’s journey homeward is not framed in self-denial, but is indulging in affirmation of belonging to a loving Father who eagerly searches the horizon for a glimpse of us making our way home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our Heavenly Parent awaits our home coming. That stance can truly prepare us to walk with Jesus, His Son, toward Heaven’s resurrection’s gate to ever- lasting life in union with the Father, with the Son, and with the Holy Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">No longer ask yourself, or others, “What am I, or you, giving up for Lent?” Declare instead, I am dropping everything, letting go of everything, letting loose of everything! I’m heading home!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Repent! Turn around for home this Lent! Amen.</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Calendar for Lent, Easter, Day of Pentecost 2020</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">February 26 Ash Wednesday</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">March 1 First Sunday in Lent</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">March 24. Fourth Sunday in Lent </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 5. Palm Sunday. [Combined Service Eng/Chines]</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">April 10 No Good Friday Service (Due to Coronavirus Directives)</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">April 11 Easter Vigil at 8PM. [Combined Service]</span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;">April 12 Easter 0930 AM </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 19 2<sup>nd</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 26 3<sup>rd</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 3 4<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 10 5<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 24. 7th Sunday of Easter </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> [Combined Service]</span></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;">Mayk 31 Day of Pentecost </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">June 7 First Sunday after Pentecost Trinity Sunday</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">December 6 Candle of
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">December 13 Candle of Joy,
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Advent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You do not know the hour of the coming of the Son of Man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Adventus</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">” means coming. We Episcopalians/Anglicans
believe that Advent is not only the beginning of the liturgical year; we also
believe that it is the Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end “again”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ is eternally coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ is our hoped for great expectation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt;">“</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt;">In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. He was with God in the beginning. <b><sup> </sup></b>Through
him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been
made. <b><sup> </sup></b>In him was life, and that life was the
light of all mankind. <b><sup> </sup></b>The light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” [</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">John 1-6 (NIV)]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Christ
is the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Logos [Creating Cosmic Wisdom]</i>,
“Word”, that is an eternal creating power permeating the universe’s energy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Advent is hoping without limits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i>God coming” is actually an active
noun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>In Genesis 3:8, we read, “And
they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God
amongst the trees of the garden.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
had not been outside the garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
Breath was only a peaceful presence in the shade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is always within life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Awareness
of God’s presence is not a welcome realization! It seems that Adam
and Eve’s response to “God with us” was to hide. I suppose that we share
their dread, because we have been hiding from God since the beginning of our
own awaking that <i>God is with us</i>. We sing, “O come, O
come, Emmanuel”, yet, our hearts whisper, “<i>not yet, not now”</i>! Quick,
cover up our shame!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretend we are not
anxious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We
dread God’s judgment of our limitless cravings that bend us to total self centeredness. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Yet,
like a child whose bravery insists that she is able to stand and to run own her
own, quickly loses her courage when she discovers she has run too far, and run
out of sight of Mom and Dad. She discovers that she has lost the
arms of security and found the embrace of despairing
loneliness. Lost!</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">While
on one hand we fear Immanuel, “<i>God with us</i>”, as a challenge to our
willfulness, on the other hand we fear, “<i>God with us</i>”, as a loss of self
and of freedom. <i>Immanuel </i>exposes our freedom as bondage to self as
solitary confinement that separates us from any contentment in fellowship with
others and with God, The OTHER. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We
are filled with dreadful discontent that exposes our broken sacred image of
God. He is coming. We wait. He arrives with
healing in His wings! Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is born that we no more may die. Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gives us second birth. Our
image is reclaimed and restored in His coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">That
is what Advent brings. Sound like good news? God’s coming
brings to us hope, peace, joy, and love! Thanks be to God for the manger
where his promises are wrapped in bonds of rags and an infant waves from a
manger. The baby’s name shall be called Immanuel, “<i>with us is God! </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Concluding ...Watching, Waiting</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As
a child I remember the thrill of hiding from my mother’s watchful eyes. </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Freed
from her sentry, my brothers and I would run to the creek to dive naked into
its warm splendid wetness. We would splash and have water
fights. I would swing from a rope and fly to free fall into the open
arms of sky and water. </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Oh,
no! I hit a tree buried in the creek’s soft
bottom. Bloodied, and full of fear, I sprang from the water running
for home. Running for mother! My brother caught up with
me and shook me. “Are you an idiot? You’re OK! It’s
just a scratch! Mother will punish us all for your ugly, bloody
face!</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I
shouted in pain, and rage, and guilt, and disbelief, and hope. “I’m
going home!” I ran as fast as I could. Naked, bleeding, I
threw my bloody face into my mother’s lap! I looked up with hope
into the eyes of Immanuel, “God with us”, judgment and salvation.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Get
ready. Watch. Wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Come out!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope Peace, Joy, and Love
comes to each of us in our life’s gardens in the early dawn and in evening’s
shadows, and even in the lonely nights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God is always with us, we need only come out of hiding.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">O
come, O come, Immanuel! Amen.</span></i></b></div>
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Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-11345626904918610542019-06-15T20:49:00.097-07:002023-06-08T20:04:44.827-07:00The Day of Pentecost and Sundays After Until Advent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><i><span style="font-family: "apple chancery"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;"> Pentecost is the birthday of the Church as the body of Christ </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Pentecost is the Christian C</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">hurch’s birthday.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">It is the third Great</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> Feast of the Church.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">The Holy Spirit at Pentecost is poured out on</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">all </b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">flesh. This Spirit is the breath of charity, the tongue of truth.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">It is the fire of compassion that heals human life.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">During the 26 weeks that mark the Sundays in the liturgical year after the Day of Pentecost, we will seek to understand ourselves as a people of God who are born of compassion that loves all creation with a limitless hospitality and with boundless mercy.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">We seek to hear and to follow God’s higher callings to love Him whole-heartedly, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">We hope to grow spiritually as a Pentecostal people, a holy community whose holiness is measured only by its compassionate hospitality for the world.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">For the Spirit already has set us on fire with the wonder that He sent His Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that it might be saved through Him.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">This same Spirit kindles our lives with healing powers that make us whole and at one with the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Joel 2:28-32<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The Lord said to his people:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"> I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">….</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.' " </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Trinity Sunday 1st Sunday after Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 11<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">2nd Sunday After Pentecost</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">June 25<span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">July 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">July 16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">August 6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">August 13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Combined Service, Father Lee Preach and Celebrates</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Dec 3 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><i>June 8, I will begin a series of 20 Pentecostal sermons in which I will explore with you ways we may seek to live as a people of God. All are invited gather with us as we feast in God’s goodness and mercies and pray for His impowering us jubilations our callings to love the world whole.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The Lord said to his people:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"> I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">….</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.' " </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The Collect:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 24pt;">O </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;">God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 24pt;">T</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;">he man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" He said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate." Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate." The LORD God said to the serpent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 19pt;">Mark 3:20-35<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 24pt;">T</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;">he crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, "He has gone out of his mind." And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons." And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;">"Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" -- for they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;">Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you." And he replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" And looking at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">We will seek to know and to understand that we have become a new gathering that is aflame with a passion for compassion that will be displayed daily, everywhere, to everyone as “shepherding love”. The Lord is our Good Shepherd who is ever present to guide and guard us as we journey this life on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">We will come to realize and to live out the meaning of our creed that is to love one another as God loves us. We become His people daily, as He is our God eternally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">We shall listen for God’s commissioning and sending to serve, and not to be served; to minister, and not to be ministered unto. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Gospel: John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"> Pentecost is the great Feast Day of the Church when we give thanks to God for the overwhelming gift of the Holy Spirit, <b>whose truth empowers us and whose loving advocacy sustains our life as the Body of Christ in the world.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Genesis 11:4 </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "@simsun"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Acts 2:1-21<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. <b>All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">….[They] were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?" But others sneered and said, "They are filled with new wine."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, "Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">`In the last days it will be, God declares, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Today is a marvelous day of jubilation. We come to celebrate the Day of Pentecost, which is the 3<sup>rd</sup>great Festival of the church. At Christmas we celebrated, “God with us!” At Easter we celebrated, “Jesus’ resurrection and His triumph over sin and death!” Today, on the Day of Pentecost, we celebrate, “reviving the spirit of God within us!” God lives again with us. This good news message is our cause for jubilation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">We are celebrating God’s love as poured out on all people on the Day of Pentecost making them one in a loving community. We are a new family; a new community in Christ. We rejoice in a ministry of reconciling compassion that calls us as witnesses to the ends of the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Today the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the Father and the Spirit of the Son whose spirit is love and truth who comes to be in us and abide with us. Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in us and we are one with them. <b>We are one in spirit. We have been called from our solitude to solidarity through the Spirit of Solicitude.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Today is a day of revival. It is a day for firing us up. I was not eager to be fired up. I remember as a boy in Georgia going to Revival Tent meetings each summer to hear firry sermons of hell and damnation, visions of Elmer Gandtry. I did not want to be on fire and emotional, out of control, people around me falling to the ground and others passing out and shouting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">I was in search of a church where people kept their sits and were quiet. No speaking in tongues or shouting and jumping up and down and falling down. I found that in the end these revivals scattered us, separated the saved, from the unsaved. Left some chosen and others damed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The Methodist also had revivals, but they were called camp meetings and the aim was for God to revive us. For God to regenerate us and pull us back into the fold of serving and loving one another. These camp meetings went on for about a week, but they were filled will camping songs, and spirituals, and lots of food for before each service we had a pot luck lunch or dinner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Not that we were sinners, but that we may have burn out…or had only smoldering ambers and we may have lost some wind in our duties and service. It was to revive us, stoke the ambers, rekindle the fire and breath some new life in to our dried up bones. So that we could love in new ways with renewed passion for compassion as neighors in an unneighorly world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Our world and its people look like it is ruled by the Spirit of Babel, rather than by God’s Holy Spirit of Compassion and Truth. In response to the self righteousness and self sufficiency of the citizens of Babel, God confounded their efforts to control heaven and earth and scattered them and separated them into peoples of many tongues who could not understand one another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Babel caused a scattering of God's people because the builders of the Tower of Babel wanted their own steps and doorway to Heaven. They wanted their own way to God. They wanted to control their access to God and God’s access to them. They said, “<b><i>Let us build for ourselves a city. Let us build for ourselves a stairway to heaven and a Gate to Heaven. “</i></b>Their tower and their heaven’s gate would give them control of their world and control of God’s activity in their world. The world broke apart and separated itself into cultures and clans, and religions. A fractured and divided world possessed and oppressed by the demons of exclusiveness that cultivated fear, and hate, and war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The world often seems without Love and seems without God’s care and without God’s control. War and hate seems to rule around the world. Nature’s fury makes us all children. Like the horrific earth quake, sunami, and tornados that killed thousands in New Zealand, Japan, and America this year. The Middle East, so called Spring of rebellion that unleashed oppression and death from tyrants and continues to divide and set neighbors against neighbor. To say that the world is in a state of rebellion and divisive cultural currents is an understatment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">At Pentecost the Spirit was poured out on all flesh. We once again inhaled the breath of God and our bodies of dust became animated spirits. We were animated by God's "ruach", God's breath that is love. Its breath brought us into life. Life that was in harmony. Life that was undevided against itself or other beings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">And then the Spirit of Babel over came faith in Compassion and in God’s Truth and Word and we desended into division again. We were outside the garden on our own again; but from our own choosing, not God’s punishment or banishment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">our spirit is the spirit of Babel that wants to make a name for itself, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Clay pots full of ourselves frantically trying not to break apart while we are busy smashing others….self image, national pride, and cultural elitism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">These specks of dust pretend that they are self made men and women and blow storms of war that brings death and ashes to all.....they trust not in the the Lord but in their own arm ...they trust in their own tanks and rockets an<b>d</b>bombs. The Spirit of the Tower of Babel rules this world!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Today's men and women of Bable forget that they are dust and to dust they shall return. The theme song of the this world, and the toward of Babel is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Frank Sinatra's ..."I did it my way!"….and I want to make your way …my way.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"> <b>III. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">“</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Jesus read this scripture at the synagogue in Nazareth, his home town, at the beginning of his ministry around the sea of Galilee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">This is the spirit of God that was poured out on all flesh at Pentecost. Not only the disciples, but this is the spirit of all Chirstians who minister and love in Christ’s name in the world. All flesh! The spirit of the Lord is upon me. The spirit of the Lord is upon us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Now we turn to creating how we will live as people who are motivated and antimated by the Holy Spirit of God’s shepherding love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Are we fired up, yet? Well that will be our task for the next 22 Sundays after Pentecost. It will be a long hot Summer and Fall. Yet, my hope is that I can stoke the ambers, coles of your hearts to nurture a fame of love that sets the world toward uniting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Get ready to be fired up. On board ship we slowly bring the ships boilers on line. In other words fire them up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">We can live again in love and neighborliness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">To give new purpose. To change chaos and confusion into understanding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">To turn us from rebellion to love and obedience through the power of the Holy Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-88812125277791782152019-03-07T20:41:00.003-08:002019-03-07T20:44:33.374-08:00A Meditation for Lent 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Matthew 4:1-11<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">fter Jesus was baptized, he was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, <b><i>"If you are the Son of God</i></b>, command these stones to become loaves of bread." But he answered, "It is written, <b>'One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"</b>Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you,' and 'on their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.'" Jesus said to him, "Again it is written, 'do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; and he said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me." Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, <b>'Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.'"</b> Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Theme:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Lent is 40 days of preparation to ready us to share in the Passion of Christ----Holy Week, His Death and His Resurrection. Through disciplines of prayer, self-examination, self-denial, repentance, and almsgiving (mercy gifts) we prepare to turn from our self-centered life to one that is centered upon The Other (God) and others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">[</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The word Lent is apparently derived from the Old English Lenten, which means "lengthen." It refers to the lengthening of the daylight hours that occurs in the northern hemisphere as spring approaches. It is in this period of transition from late winter to early spring that the season of Lent falls.]</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Introduction:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Today is the first Sunday in the season of Lent. We will walk with Jesus in our own 40 days of self-examination and testing that will reveal to us the state of our spiritual health. Are we following Christ wholeheartedly, or half-heartedly, or with no heart at all?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">For most of my religious life, Lent has not been my favorite season of the Christian year. Anything that directed my attention to “testing” was an alarm to flee in avoidance. Testing made me feel isolated, alone, and exposed my defects and failures. Who’s eager to look at such an inventory of failures and defects? That is just asking for guilt and shame. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Yet, we can enter this season of “testing” or self-examination courageously, because we go into it with Christ. Just as the Gospel lesson this morning reminded us that Jesus…”was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” We too are led by the spirit of Christ to be tested in the wilderness of our devilish cravings that expose our predilection for narcissism and idolatry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I recommend that we enter this season of testing clinging to Jesus’ invitation and promise: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">“</span><span style="color: #020f1b; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;"></span><span style="color: #020f1b; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (Matt. 11:29-30)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020f1b; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, let us begin our Lent with the assurance that we journey during these 40 days in the company of Jesus who will not lead us into temptation and will deliver us from evil; even the evil of our own hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #020f1b; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">I. The Testing<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">During these 40 days, now at the outset that this is not a period in which there is any kind of heavenly rewards and punishments implications. Lent is not a time for taking on the burdens of guilt. In fact, it is a time to unload guilt, sins, behaviors, and turn around and go in the direction of selflessness and service to God and mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Another, caveat, Lent is not to see God as testing our humanity by aliments, or any kind of afflictions, or natural catastrophes, or disasters, or any human evil inflictions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">As we lament all the human evil and natural calamity, allow me to assert that in no way is God the author of so much suffering for human kind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Our own self-inflicted self-centeredness is the only focus of our repentance, a turning around or turning from, a life consumed by our own cravings for self-satisfaction. This is the testing of Lent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">II. Jesus’ Test<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">We hear this morning in the scripture reading that after the 40 days of prayer and fasting that Jesus was hungry. Very hungry! Famished! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The Tempter challenged him, “If you are the Son of God, turn these stones into bread and eat. Jesus answered, “Man does not live my bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Although Jesus is craving food; but does not fall of the trick to prove that he uses his status as the son of man and of God for his own convince or to give himself any privileges uncommon to all of us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">In other words, Jesus knows that his life, and ours, is in the hands and care of God. God secures our happiness and supplies all our needs. We are not self-made men and women, boys and girls. We are God’s children. We belong to Him. And to Him alone do breathe and we live and have our being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">How about ourselves. Do we keep this focus? Do we keep this trust and faith in our Father? Do we really believe when we pray: Give us this day, our daily bread?” Or do we think that we will make for ourselves, cake, or donuts, or pastry?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">No, we live by the creative word, promises of our Heavenly Father. That is our daily test, not only during Lent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">III. Testing God and Overthrowing Him<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">The other two tests that Jesus faced in today’s Gospel lesson were to test and see if God would save him, if he threw himself off the temple. And finally, the Tempter, wanted to make a deal with Jesus that if he would bow and worship him, he would give Jesus all the powers of the kingdoms on earth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Again, the Tempter, challenged Jesus with, “If you are the son of God”, prove it. Take advantage of your privileged position. Or take my offer to give up the powers of Heaven, for the powers of earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">These are also our tests daily. Some of us think that as Christians that we have special privileges and immunities from adversity in this life. Jesus, warns us not to put that idea to the test. For God does not test us in such a way; nor, will he respond to our attempts at one-up-manship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">We are also tempted to grab for the satisfactions and pleasures and privileges that wealth and power in this world can give; not realizing that these quickly pass away. It is tempting to forfeit eternal bless for temporal treasures and pleasures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">How is our 40 days of testing unfolding during our Lenten journey in the wilderness of our lives? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Testing, temptations, turning around, such are the contemplations and meditations of Lent. For sure this is a gloomy business. Now, I see why I have not been eager to do” Lent” during most of my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Yet, the good news of this season is that the spirit of Christ leads us into it. We under take these testing’s in the fellowship of Jesus and our fellow spiritual Lenten pilgrims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, I can do Lent as long as I know that I hold hands with others, and the other. That is the wonder, the miracle of giving up self-centeredness. We find togetherness! And that is much better company than what I can offer myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">When I was very young. I slept with an older brother. I often cried for him to leave on the light, because I was afraid of ghosts. It was his fault that I was afraid. He always told me to hurry to bed before the ghosts grabbed me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Therefore, there was a need to leave the light on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Finally, my brother, Donald, would tell me hold his hand in the darkness, and then no ghost could catch hold of me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">So, with lights out, I held his hand. He was right! No ghosts every caught me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Lent and its testing goes much better when we walk in the wilderness together with Christ and with a fellow Christian disciple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>March 6 Ash Wednesday</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">March 24. Third Sunday in Lent </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 14 Palm Sunday. [Combined Service Eng/Chines]</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 18 </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Maundy Thursday Agape Feast and Foot Washing</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">April 19 Good Friday Noon Combined Service (12PM) </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">April 20 Easter Vigil at 8PM. [Combined Service]</span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;">April 21 Easter 0930 AM </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 28 2<sup>nd</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 5 3<sup>rd</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 12. 4<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 26 6<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter [Combined Service]</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;">June 9 Day of Pentecost </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">December 2 Candle of Hope, A Prophet's Prayer of Hope</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">December 9 Candle of Peace, Shepherd's Behold a Great Light</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">December 16 Candle of Joy, Shepherds’ Lessons and Carols</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">December 23 Candle of Love, Waiting for our Savior’s Love</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Christmas Eve Candle Light Service 8:00PM</span></b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">December 25 English Christmas Service at 9:30AM</span></b><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">[Dec 26 Father Barker Departs for Home Leave]</span></i><o:p></o:p></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">December 30 First Sunday after Christmas</span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Father Keith Lee, Rector, Celebrant</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Scott Ellinger, Preacher, Our Seminarian </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">January 6 Epiphany, Second Sunday after Christmas</span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">January 13 First Sunday after Epiphany</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">January 17 Second Sunday after Epiphany</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">January 20 </span><b style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Second Sunday after Epiphany</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">January 27 Combined English-Chinese Service</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> The Rev. Keith Lee, Rector Good Shepherd</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"> February 3 Fourth Sunday after Epiphany<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"> February 17 Sixth Sunday after Epiphany</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"> Father Herbert Barker</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> February 24 Seventh Sunday after Epiphany</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"> March 3 Last Sunday after Epiphany<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-37761976370998734812018-11-30T00:18:00.001-08:002018-11-30T00:20:24.986-08:00Advent’s Promises<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>“Adventus</i>” means coming. Christians believe that Advent is not only the beginning of the liturgical year; we also believe that it is the beginning and the end of our spiritual posture before God. Advent sets us on our way to <i>hope</i>in the promise that Jesus comes to save, and will come again to judge. To our joy, we discover that in faith Christ’s love is our judgment and our salvation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>God is coming to be with us humans </i>is a hope and a dread as old as our biblical history. In Genesis 3:8, we read, “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Awareness of God’s presence is not a welcome realization! It seems that Adam and Eve’s response to “God with us” was to hide. I suppose that we share their dread, because we have been hiding from God since the beginning of our own awaking that <i>God is with us</i>. We sing, “O come, O come, Emmanuel”, yet, our hearts whisper, “<i>not yet, not now”</i>! Quick, cover up our shame!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We fear God’s judgment of our limitless cravings that bend us to mere self-satisfactions. Yet, like a child whose bravery insists that she is able to stand and to run own her own, quickly loses her courage when she discovers she has run too far, and run out of sight of Mom and Dad. She discovers that she has lost the arms of security and found the embrace of despairing loneliness. Separation!<o:p></o:p></div>
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While on one hand we fear Immanuel, “<i>God with us</i>”, as condemnation of our willfulness, on the other hand we fear, “<i>God with us</i>”, as a loss of freedom. Immanuel exposes our freedom as bondage to self as solitary confinement that separates us from any contentment in fellowship with others and with God, The OTHER. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We are filled with dreadful discontent that exposes our broken sacred image of God. He is coming. We wait. He arrives with healing in His wings! He is born that we no more may die. He gives us second birth. Our image is reclaimed and restored in His coming.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That is what Advent brings! Sound like good news? God’s coming brings to us hope, peace, joy, and love! Thanks be to God for the manger where his promises are wrapped in bonds of rags and waves from within a manger. The baby’s name shall be called Immanuel, “<i>with us is God!”</i>During Advent, God comes from the future to be with us. Get ready! Watch out! God comes! Yes?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>A Conclusion<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>As a child I remember the thrill of hiding from my mother’s watchful eyes. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Freed from her sentry, my brothers and I would run to the creek to dive naked into its warm splendid wetness. We would splash and have water fights. I would swing from a rope and fly to free fall into the open arms of sky and water. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Oh, no! I hit a tree buried in the creek’s soft bottom. Bloodied, and full of fear, I sprang from the water running for home. Running for mother! My brother caught up with me and shook me. “Are you an idiot? You’re OK! It’s just a scratch! Mother will punish us all for your ugly, bloody face!<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>I shouted in pain, and rage, and guilt, and disbelief, and hope. “I’m going home!” I ran as fast as I could. Naked, bleeding, I threw my bloody body into my mother’s lap! I looked up into the eyes of Immanuel, “God with us”, judgment and salvation.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>Get ready. Watch. Wait.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>O come, O come, Immanuel! Amen!<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHAT
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pentecost
is the great festival that marks the birth of the Christian church by the power
of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost means "fiftieth day" and is
celebrated fifty days after Easter.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHAT_HAPPENED_ON_PENTECOST?"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="mso-bookmark: WHAT_HAPPENED_ON_PENTECOST?;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHAT HAPPENED ON PENTECOST?</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: WHAT_HAPPENED_ON_PENTECOST?;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: WHAT_HAPPENED_ON_PENTECOST?;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ten
days after Jesus ascended into heaven, the twelve apostles, Jesus' mother and
family, and many other of His disciples gathered together in Jerusalem for the
Jewish harvest festival that was celebrated on the fiftieth day of
Passover. While they were indoors praying, a sound like that of a rushing
wind filled the house and tongues of fire descended and rested over each of
their heads. This was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on human flesh
promised by God through the prophet Joel (Joel 2:28-29). The disciples
were suddenly empowered to proclaim the gospel of the risen Christ. They
went out into the streets of Jerusalem and began preaching to the crowds
gathered for the festival. Not only did the disciples preach with
boldness and vigor, but by a miracle of the Holy Spirit they spoke in the
native languages of the people present, many who had come from all corners of
the Roman Empire. This created a sensation. The apostle Peter
seized the moment and addressed the crowd, preaching to them about Jesus' death
and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins. The result was that about
three thousand converts were baptized that day. (You can read the
Biblical account of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-41).</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHAT_IS_THE_LITURGICAL_COLOR_FOR_PENTECO"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="mso-bookmark: WHAT_IS_THE_LITURGICAL_COLOR_FOR_PENTECO;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHAT IS THE LITURGICAL COLOR FOR PENTECOST?</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: WHAT_IS_THE_LITURGICAL_COLOR_FOR_PENTECO;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: WHAT_IS_THE_LITURGICAL_COLOR_FOR_PENTECO;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Red
is the liturgical color for this day. Red recalls the tongues of flame in
which the Holy Spirit descended on the first Pentecost. The color red
also reminds us of the blood of the martyrs. These are the believers of
every generation who by the power of the Holy Spirit hold firm to the true
faith even at the cost of their lives.</span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHY_IS_PENTECOST_SOMETIMES_CALLED_"WHITS"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHY
IS PENTECOST SOMETIMES CALLED "WHITSUNDAY"?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
tradition of some churches in ancient times was to baptize adult converts to
the faith on Pentecost. The newly baptized catechumens would wear white
robes on that day, so Pentecost was often called "Whitsunday" or
"White Sunday" after these white baptismal garments. Many
Christian calendars, liturgies, and hymnals (particularly those from the
Episcopal/Anglican tradition) still use this term.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHY_IS_THE_RITE_OF_CONFIRMATION_OFTEN_CE"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="mso-bookmark: WHY_IS_THE_RITE_OF_CONFIRMATION_OFTEN_CE;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHY IS THE RITE OF CONFIRMATION OFTEN
CELEBRATED ON PENTECOST?</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: WHY_IS_THE_RITE_OF_CONFIRMATION_OFTEN_CE;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: WHY_IS_THE_RITE_OF_CONFIRMATION_OFTEN_CE;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Confirmation
Sunday is the day when young people who have been instructed in basic Christian
doctrine confess their faith in the presence of the church. The key
to understanding confirmation is to recognize that the faith the confirmands
confess is not of their own making; it is the gift of God that He gives through
His means of grace. The Holy Spirit who empowered the disciples to
preach the risen Christ two thousand years ago is the same Spirit who empowers
the confirmands to make their confession. This is why many churches
celebrate the rite of confirmation on Pentecost.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SEASON AFTER PENTECOST?</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHAT_IS_THE_SEASON_AFTER_PENTECOST?"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="mso-bookmark: WHAT_IS_THE_SEASON_AFTER_PENTECOST?;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because
Pentecost is the day that God poured out His Holy Spirit on Christ's disciples,
the Season after Pentecost is centered on sanctification, the work of the Holy
Spirit in the day to day life of the Christian. This is reflected in the
liturgical color for this season: green, the color of life and
growth. Through the gift of faith that comes only from the Holy Spirit,
Christians are enabled to trust in Christ and proclaim Him in their daily lives
by service to their neighbors. The season after Pentecost is the longest
season of the church year -- it lasts from Trinity Sunday until the first
Sunday of Advent. This is the non-festival portion of the liturgical
calendar during which the church stresses its common life and lifts up
discipleship, vocation, evangelism, missions, stewardship, almsgiving, and
other works of mercy and charity as ways in which Christ empowers us by His
grace to share the Gospel with others. </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHY_DO_WE_CELEBRATE_PENTECOST?"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHY
DO WE CELEBRATE PENTECOST?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
are three "mega-festivals" commemorated in the Christian
calendar. The first two, Christmas and Easter, are well known to both
believers and non-believers. But it's possible that even liturgical
Christians may not be as familiar with the third, the festival of
Pentecost. God the Father's wonderful Christmas gift of His one and only
Son, and Christ's Easter triumph over the power of sin, death, and the devil
would be of no benefit to us if the Holy Spirit did not give us the gift of
saving faith. Through the Word and Sacraments, the Holy Spirit gives us
the power to believe and trust in Christ as our Savior. This precious
gift of faith in the saving work of our Lord Jesus Christ is the reason
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celebrate it with such joy and thanksgiving.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Therefore,
let us rejoice in the Holy Spirit that has been poured out on all people that
we may live as one with God the Father, and with God the Son. The
Holy Spirit binds us to one another and to God’s everlasting
love. The Holy Spirit sustains us daily as God’s eternal Love and
Grace.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: #047F; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Lent is a 40-day period before Easter that commemorates the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. In the early church this was a time of preparation for those about to be baptized. Today it is more often regarded as a season of soul searching and repentance for all Christians when we prepare for the joy and celebration of Easter by giving ourselves an annual spiritual check up. It begins with Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. (The Thursday before Easter) If you are a good mathematician you probably realize that there are more than 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Holy Thursday. That is because early Christians never fasted on Sundays. They are are excluded from the days of Lent because they are always celebrations of Christ’s resurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The temptations of Christ parallel those of the children of Israel in the wilderness but how different are his responses. The children of Israel were dissatisfied with God’s provision of manna. They remembered the rich foods from their captivity in Egypt and greedily hungered for more so that their physical cravings could be satisfied. (Num 11:4-36) Christ saw his physical hunger as unimportant and trusted in God to provide for all his needs. At Massah the Israelites demanded miraculous signs that revealed God’s presence, totally ignoring God’s constant and miraculous care for them. (Ex 17:1-7). Jesus refused to test God by the use of miraculous signs. The Israelites fashioned a golden calf to worship but Christ turned his back on temptations of worldly wealth and power. Each time he is tempted by Satan, Christ deliberately turned away from the attractions of a self-centered and self-serving world in order to place God’s purposes and the outwardly focused values of God’s kingdom at the center of all he was and did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Lent is a time for “confrontation with the false self” (<i>Thomas Keating) </i>when we reflect on the responses and behaviors we exhibit that are least Christ like and seek God’s help in rededicating ourselves to God and God’s purposes. This is a time for self-denial and fasting when we give up some of the comforts of our lives in order to make ourselves more available to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Traditionally, penitential prayer, fasting, and alms giving mark spiritual disciplines during Lent. Some churches especially in the Orthodox tradition, still observe a rigid schedule of fasting on certain days during Lent, especially the giving up of meat, alcohol, sweets, and other types of food. Other traditions do not place as great an emphasis on fasting, but focus on charitable deeds, especially helping those in physical need with food and clothing, or simply the giving of money to charities. Most Christian churches that observe Lent at all focus on it as a time of prayer especially penance, repenting for failures and sin as a way to focus on the need for God’s grace. It is really a preparation to celebrate God’s marvelous redemption at Easter, and the resurrected life that we live, and hope for, as Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Interestingly the concept of spring-cleaning emerged from the practice of Lent. This was the time of year in Europe when one cleaned house – first physically and then spiritually. I love this idea of connecting our daily lives and routines to the seasons of the church calendar. However what we “sweep out” or give up at this season should be more than food. It could be soccer or TV or social commitments. We might discuss with our families ways to give up our busyness and focus on the truly important things of God. The time we free up can be used for special prayers and Bible readings, for spiritual retreats and for involvement in local or overseas mission that enables us to focus beyond ourselves and onto our responsibility to those who are hurting and in need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">During Lent it is as though we join Jesus in his walk toward Good Friday and the crucifixion. Our self-denial is a way to enter into the fellowship of Christ’s suffering so that we can identify more fully with those who are chronically hungry, oppressed, in pain or in need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i> "I was sinking deep in sin....Love floats!"</i></b><br />
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<b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>March 18 Fifth Sunday in Lent</i></b><br />
<b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>March 25 Palm Sunday</i></b><br />
<b><i> Combined Service</i></b><br />
<b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>March 29 Maundy Thursday Agape Fest 7:30pm </i></b><br />
<b><i> and foot washing service with Combined Congregations </i></b><br />
<b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>March 30 Good Friday </i></b><br />
<b><i> Service at Noon Combined Service</i></b><br />
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<b><i> Easter Brunch and Easter Egg Hunt 11 am-1 pm</i></b><br />
<b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>April 8 Second Sunday of Easter</i></b><br />
<b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>April 15 Third Sunday of Easter</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Handwriting - Dakota"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">May God’s gift of Love and Light be born again in the hearts and minds of each sojourner who rests awhile with the English congregation of the Church of the Good Shepherd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Handwriting - Dakota"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I journey home to Scottsdale, Arizona to share Christmas with my family, Elizabeth, Kenneth, and Coal (family dog)! I will arrive in time for Christmas dinner and sharing gifts around the Christmas tree; thank God for the International Date Line that has me arrive in the USA before I departed Taiwan. A Wonderment!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Handwriting - Dakota"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Thank you all for sharing in our Koinonia ministry at the Church of the Good Shepherd. Thank you too for your love and support of me as I partner with you in my 52<sup>nd</sup> year of ministry in 2018!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Handwriting - Dakota"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">May you all know the hope, peace, joy, and love of Christ our Savior now and always! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-29746908902480000522017-06-12T06:11:00.002-07:002017-06-12T06:11:56.066-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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after the Day of Pentecost June 11 through November 26, 2017</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">English Congregation Supply for Chaplain’s
Vacation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Preach <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Father Keith Lee Celebrate<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">July 16 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah Lakkis<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Preach <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Father Keith Lee<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Celebrate<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Lee Celebrate & Preach<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Father <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keith
Celebrate<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Keith Lee<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Preach and Celebrate<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Keith Lee<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Celebrate & Preach<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHAT_IS_PENTECOST?"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pentecost<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: WHAT_IS_PENTECOST?;"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHAT IS PENTECOST?</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: WHAT_IS_PENTECOST?;"></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pentecost is the great
festival that marks the birth of the Christian church by the power of the Holy
Spirit. Pentecost means "fiftieth day" and is celebrated fifty
days after Easter.</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ten days after Jesus ascended
into heaven, the twelve apostles, Jesus' mother and family, and many other of
His disciples gathered together in Jerusalem for the Jewish harvest festival
that was celebrated on the fiftieth day of Passover. While they were
indoors praying, a sound like that of a rushing wind filled the house and
tongues of fire descended and rested over each of their heads. This was
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on human flesh promised by God through the
prophet Joel (Joel 2:28-29). The disciples were suddenly empowered to
proclaim the gospel of the risen Christ. They went out into the streets
of Jerusalem and began preaching to the crowds gathered for the festival.
Not only did the disciples preach with boldness and vigor, but by a miracle of
the Holy Spirit they spoke in the native languages of the people present, many
who had come from all corners of the Roman Empire. This created a
sensation. The apostle Peter seized the moment and addressed the crowd,
preaching to them about Jesus' death and resurrection for the forgiveness of
sins. The result was that about three thousand converts were baptized
that day. (You can read the Biblical account of Pentecost in Acts
2:1-41).</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Red is the liturgical color
for this day. Red recalls the tongues of flame in which the Holy Spirit
descended on the first Pentecost. The color red also reminds us of the
blood of the martyrs. These are the believers of every generation who by
the power of the Holy Spirit hold firm to the true faith even at the cost of
their lives.</span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHY_IS_PENTECOST_SOMETIMES_CALLED_"WHITS"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A tradition of some churches
in ancient times was to baptize adult converts to the faith on Pentecost.
The newly baptized catechumens would wear white robes on that day, so Pentecost
was often called "Whitsunday" or "White Sunday" after these
white baptismal garments. Many Christian calendars, liturgies, and
hymnals (particularly those from the Episcopal/Anglican tradition) still use
this term.</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHY_IS_THE_RITE_OF_CONFIRMATION_OFTEN_CE"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHY IS THE RITE OF CONFIRMATION OFTEN CELEBRATED ON
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Confirmation Sunday is the
day when young people who have been instructed in basic Christian doctrine
confess their faith in the presence of the church. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
key to understanding confirmation is to recognize that the faith the
confirmands confess is not of their own making; it is the gift of God that He
gives through His means of grace. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
Holy Spirit who empowered the disciples to preach the risen Christ two thousand
years ago is the same Spirit who empowers the confirmands to make their
confession. This is why many churches celebrate the rite of confirmation
on Pentecost.</span></span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because Pentecost is the day
that God poured out His Holy Spirit on Christ's disciples, the Season after
Pentecost is centered on sanctification, the work of the Holy Spirit in the day
to day life of the Christian. This is reflected in the liturgical color
for this season: green, the color of life and growth. Through the
gift of faith that comes only from the Holy Spirit, Christians are enabled to
trust in Christ and proclaim Him in their daily lives by service to their
neighbors. The season after Pentecost is the longest season of the church
year -- it lasts from Trinity Sunday until the first Sunday of Advent.
This is the non-festival portion of the liturgical calendar during which the
church stresses its common life and lifts up discipleship, vocation,
evangelism, missions, stewardship, almsgiving, and other works of mercy and
charity as ways in which Christ empowers us by His grace to share the Gospel
with others. </span></b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="WHY_DO_WE_CELEBRATE_PENTECOST?"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
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first two, Christmas and Easter, are well known to both believers and non-believers.
But it's possible that even liturgical Christians may not be as familiar with
the third, the festival of Pentecost. God the Father's wonderful
Christmas gift of His one and only Son, and Christ's Easter triumph over the
power of sin, death, and the devil would be of no benefit to us if the Holy
Spirit did not give us the gift of saving faith. Through the Word and
Sacraments, the Holy Spirit gives us the power to believe and trust in Christ
as our Savior. This precious gift of faith in the saving work of our Lord
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with God the Father, and with God the Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Holy Spirit binds us to one another and to God’s
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Father Herb B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09016572702975698766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6698972715023916457.post-88170814865208190372016-10-30T20:28:00.006-07:002023-03-03T19:21:07.558-08:00Lent Holy Week and Easter 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "apple chancery"; font-size: 20pt;">Lent Year A</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: apple chancery;"><span style="font-size: 26.6667px;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Lent is a 40-day period before Easter that commemorates the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. In the early church this was a time of preparation for those about to be baptized. Today it is more often regarded as a season of soul searching and repentance for all Christians when we prepare for the joy and celebration of Easter by giving ourselves an annual spiritual check up. It begins with Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. (The Thursday before Easter) If you are a good mathematician you probably realize that there are more than 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Holy Thursday. That is because early Christians never fasted on Sundays. They are are excluded from the days of Lent because they are always celebrations of Christ’s resurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The temptations of Christ parallel those of the children of Israel in the wilderness but how different are his responses. The children of Israel were dissatisfied with God’s provision of manna. They remembered the rich foods from their captivity in Egypt and greedily hungered for more so that their physical cravings could be satisfied. (Num 11:4-36) Christ saw his physical hunger as unimportant and trusted in God to provide for all his needs. At Massah the Israelites demanded miraculous signs that revealed God’s presence, totally ignoring God’s constant and miraculous care for them. (Ex 17:1-7). Jesus refused to test God by the use of miraculous signs. The Israelites fashioned a golden calf to worship but Christ turned his back on temptations of worldly wealth and power. Each time he is tempted by Satan, Christ deliberately turned away from the attractions of a self-centered and self-serving world in order to place God’s purposes and the outwardly focused values of God’s kingdom at the center of all he was and did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Lent is a time for “confrontation with the false self” (<i>Thomas Keating) </i>when we reflect on the responses and behaviors we exhibit that are least Christ like and seek God’s help in rededicating ourselves to God and God’s purposes. This is a time for self-denial and fasting when we give up some of the comforts of our lives in order to make ourselves more available to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Traditionally, penitential prayer, fasting, and alms giving mark spiritual disciplines during Lent. Some churches especially in the Orthodox tradition, still observe a rigid schedule of fasting on certain days during Lent, especially the giving up of meat, alcohol, sweets, and other types of food. Other traditions do not place as great an emphasis on fasting, but focus on charitable deeds, especially helping those in physical need with food and clothing, or simply the giving of money to charities. Most Christian churches that observe Lent at all focus on it as a time of prayer especially penance, repenting for failures and sin as a way to focus on the need for God’s grace. It is really a preparation to celebrate God’s marvelous redemption at Easter, and the resurrected life that we live, and hope for, as Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Interestingly the concept of spring-cleaning emerged from the practice of Lent. This was the time of year in Europe when one cleaned house – first physically and then spiritually. I love this idea of connecting our daily lives and routines to the seasons of the church calendar. However what we “sweep out” or give up at this season should be more than food. It could be soccer or TV or social commitments. We might discuss with our families ways to give up our busyness and focus on the truly important things of God. The time we free up can be used for special prayers and Bible readings, for spiritual retreats and for involvement in local or overseas mission that enables us to focus beyond ourselves and onto our responsibility to those who are hurting and in need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">During Lent it is as though we join Jesus in his walk toward Good Friday and the crucifixion. Our self-denial is a way to enter into the fellowship of Christ’s suffering so that we can identify more fully with those who are chronically hungry, oppressed, in pain or in need. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, noted during a sermon given to the Taiwan Diocesan convention that during Lent we use the religious disciplines of “Prayer, service, scripture study, and sacraments” to effect a “turn around” [repentance] during this season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I invite all of us at the Church of the Good Shepherd’s English congregation to explore and imagine new ways/disciplines that may transform our solitary walk into one that brings us to a consciousness of journeying with Christ, ever present on our way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 5. Palm Sunday. [Combined Service Eng/Chines]</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">April 11 Easter Vigil at 8PM. [Combined Service]</span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt;">April 12 Easter 0930 AM </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 19 2<sup>nd</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">April 26 3<sup>rd</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 3 4<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 10 5<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May 17 6<sup>th</sup> Sunday of Easter </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">June 7 First Sunday after Pentecost Trinity Sunday</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Advent – Christmas – Epiphany Year C</span></div>
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November 29 Advent Candle of Hope, A Prophet's Prayer of Hope</div>
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December 6 Advent Candle of Peace, Shepherds Behold a Great Light</div>
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December 13 Advent Candle of Joy, Shepherds’ Lessons and Carols</div>
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December 20 Advent Candle of Love, Waiting for our Savior’s Love</div>
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">December 24 Combined English & Chinese </span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: red;"> Christmas Eve </span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: red;">Candle Light Service 8PM</span></b></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">December 25 English Christmas Service at 9:30AM</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red;">December 27 First Sunday after Christmas</span></div>
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<b> [Dec 28 Father Barker departs for Home Leave]</b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><b>Do you hear what I hear? See, what I see?</b></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “The
people who walked in darkness, have seen a great light..." </span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="aqj"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Monday, December 28, 2015</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">, I will fly home to
my family in Scottsdale, Arizona to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Yet, before I go, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the 1<sup>st</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">Sunday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in Christmas,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">27 December</span>, I
will be proclaiming again, news of great joy that is for all people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">This year I am conscious, humbled, and in awe that for
more than 50 years, I have proclaimed the good news that God’s light shines in
our darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Each of these years, I am ever hopeful that God’s love and
light will even now be felt and known to people who still walk in cruel, cold
darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Like shepherds sitting on a dark, lonely, cold, hillside,
on that first Christmas Eve, we too are afraid and are exposed to the cold
realities of life without shelter from its threats and fears.. Many of us
are without cover from cold, cruel loses of love ones. Some of us are without cover for our aging
bodies; still more of us are without cover from youthful blemishes that mirror
our vulnerabilities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the end, so many of us find no light this Christmas
season to warm us from cold despair of break ups and breakdowns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Yet, we all, young and old alike continue to hope for
light that drives the darkness away. We come longing to see and hear the
wonderful, dazzling message that God is born into our world; that we are indeed
not alone, that God is with <b><i>us. <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Hark! The herald angels sing …Light and life to all he
brings</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">The angel cries, “Hark! Listen UP!” “Be not afraid,
I bring you good news of great joy that shall be for all the people.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Listen, the angel sings,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Light and life to all he brings, risen
with healing in his wings. Mild he lays his glory by, born that we no
more may die, born to raise us from the earth, born to give us second birth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and life to all he brings…the light shines on all of us. The light’s glow
ignites in us a flame as well. We too shine in the darkness. We
come to the manger to embrace Jesus, our Immanuel. Who can resist wanting
to “hold” the newborn babe? We are encouraged to give our hearts to the
Christ child. Be not afraid! See the light? It shines in His face. It shines in the darkness again, and again,
and again!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Good News of Great Joy that is for all the people</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="aqj"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Tomorrow</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">, I will eat, “tangyuan” with my
Taiwanese friends, to mark with sweetness the Winter Solstice, the longest
night of the year. Sweetness and togetherness in the deep darkness of
winter is really what we celebrate this week at the manger and beyond it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Angel Gabriel calls the shepherds and us to come to
the manger, and to Christmas Day worship, and on the first<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">Sunday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of Christmas celebrations, to see anew
in the face of the Christ child whose innocence and sweetness calls us to
taste, to see how we are esteemed by Heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Apple Chancery"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Lord is come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Apple Chancery"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Let earth receive her King,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Apple Chancery"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Let every heart prepare him room,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Apple Chancery"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For now, heaven and nature sings
together!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">As many of our church fathers taught us,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
“God becomes a human child that we may become God’s divine children.” God
becomes one of us, so that we are enabled to become one like Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">Love is born at Christmas time. Love’s light drives
out all darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">May each of you be reborn in Love during this Christmas
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times; font-size: 10.5pt;">May you shine brightly in the darkness all the days of
your life! Love and Peace be with you all, always. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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21, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">January 3 Second Sunday after Christmas</span></i></div>
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January 10 First Sunday after Epiphany</div>
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January 17 Second Sunday after Epiphany</div>
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January 24 Third Sunday after Epiphany</div>
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Combined English-Chinese Service</div>
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January 31 Fourth Sunday after Epiphany</div>
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February 7 Last Sunday after Epiphany </div>
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<b>February 14 First Sunday in Lent</b></div>
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