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The VisitorSeptember 3, 2020
In this edition of the Visitor:
NEW Worship for this Sunday, September 6 - return to live streamingDear Friends - a message from Rev. BethPrayers of the PeopleNEW Holy Cross Day Worship - in the Oasis Garden and OnlineCalvary Story Sharing CirclesGlass Flower Vases needed!Flowers for servicesOn the lighter sideWorship Schedule
Chris Sikkema <[email protected]>
The Visitor for September 3, 20201 message
Linda Ortiz <[email protected]> Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 3:50 PMReply-To: Linda Ortiz <[email protected]>To: [email protected]
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WORSHIP FOR SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 -A return to Live streaming
This Sunday, September 6, our worship will be live streamed on Facebook Live at9:00am from the church. Brian Williams is on vacation, so we will gather virtually topray the Office of Morning Prayer with Beth Royalty. You will be able to enter yourown prayer requests on the comment section of our Calvary Facebook page. Therewill be no pre-recorded service on YouTube this week. Next week, September 13, isthe Feast of Holy Cross, our church’s feast day. We will have a pre-recorded serviceand also worship outside, weather permitting, at 9:00am and 11:00am.
Dear Friends:
We face another calendar holiday that just doesn’t feel like it normally does, exceptthat the weather will change, as always, on Labor Day. How many of you were likeme this week, oblivious to the long “holiday” weekend ahead? With so muchbusyness and worries over school starting, with the ongoing strange schedule ofsometimes working at home, sometimes in the office, and with no effective get-away vacation this summer, no State Fair, few of the normal summer rituals, we arestill in the middle of the reorganization of time, the redefinition of what time means,perhaps the redefinition of what work means as so many families this week had toreconfigure working spaces to accommodate children and their school needs. We livein both human time and God’s time - chronos and kairos. Our culture demands thatwe live by clocks and calendars; we create rituals and annual events to help mark ourhuman times. We count on the passage of lives - from birth to childhood, adulthoodand onwards until we pass fully and completely into God’s time after death. But evenin life, with calendars and clocks and appointments and daylight time gettingshorter, we dwell in God’s time, where clocks and busyness don’t really matter asmuch as the work God is doing in each of us. In God’s time, it is the voice and the callof the Holy Spirit that matters, and the knowledge that whatever is happening in our
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lives, we are wrapped closely in God’s love, and are always in God’s consideration.
In God’s time, grace and redemption are paramount, and in our human time, whenthe world feels utterly unsteady, when communities and our country feels broken byso many things, we count on God’s promise to us that God will never abandon us,but that God is actively working among us, in the broken places, in the shadows, inthe anger and urgency and fear, even in what feels like chaos, to create new life. Godalways creates new life from chaos, new life from death, new life from the darknessof the tomb. In God’s time, God’s light always shines, and the darkness will neverwin.
I pray that you will find your own time this weekend to know that you dwell in God’stime, and take time to breathe, to pray, to contemplate the wonders and the joys ofcreation, to pay attention to stories that give you joy, and to love the ones God hasgiven you to love. Take some time to invite hope into your mind and your heart andgather your strength and courage and faith to meet the days ahead. Remember thatyou are never alone, but you are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, friends,family, and the people of Calvary who gather weekly, in person or virtually, to pray. As St. Julian of Norwich so famously reminds us, “all shall be well, and all shall bewell, and all manner of thing shall be well.” In God’s time, all shall be well.
In love and gratitude,
Beth+
Prayers of the People
Anglican Cycle of Prayer: We pray for the Anglican Church of Southern Africaand the Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba. ECMN Cycle of Prayer: We pray for Michael the Presiding Bishop and Craig out
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Bishop. We pray pray for the Episcopal Homes of Minnesota, Episcopal GroupHomes, Guardian Angels and other agencies that minister to the elderly. We prayfor our local senior residential facilities and care centers. We pray for the163rd Convention of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota to be held September 25-26. We pray also for the faith community of La Mission El Santo Niño Jesus in St.Paul.
At Calvary, we pray for:Mark & Karen
NancyRayDelNik
ElviraJanet
MichaelMargaret
Remembering our Baptismal Covenant to love our neighbors as ourselves, and torespect the dignity of every human being, we pray for all who are victims of racialviolence, those whose names we know: Ahmaud Arbery, Breanna Taylor, GeorgeFloyd, Jacob Blake, and those whose names we do not know, for God knows the
names of all who suffer, and asking God’s guidance in bringing us to be people ofcourage, compassion and peace with justice for all of God’s creation.
From Calvary’s Prayer Posse: Come Holy Spirit, guide and inspire CalvaryEpiscopal Church to be a beacon of truth and light; embracing compassion, courage,trust and healing.
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HOLY CROSS DAY WORSHIP AT CALVARYOn September 13, we will worship outside, weather permitting, at 9:00am and11:00am. Please make reservations for these services by clicking on the link below. Itis Holy Cross Day, our church Feast Day. We will have Holy Communion and specialmusic. All participants should bring their own chairs and be masked. We willworship in the Oasis Garden unless there is a chance of rain. There will be noSaturday service.
Click Here to reserve your spot!
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Calvary Conversations 2020:StorySharing about Race
'“The perceived racial utopia that I felt was likely never felt by students of color.”
In this five-minute video, Calvary member Dan Pasque describes an experiencefrom his time in college that he related at a recent StorySharing session on race.
Sign up for our next StorySharing circle on Sunday, September 27th at 10:00 amby emailing [email protected] or calling the church office at(507) 282-9429. Learn more about this initiative at bit.ly/calvarystorysharing.
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Flowers for the Altar
Click here to see the video
Click here for AFFT Anti-Racism Resource List
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Until the day that we can all be together for worship again, we are reviving one ofour special traditions - the giving of flowers for the altar. These flower will brightenup the sanctuary, allow folks to find a way to participate in the worship process, andpossibly bring a smile to parishioner living alone or feeling isolated. If you would liketo purchase flowers for an upcoming service, please contact Linda in the office [email protected] or by phone at 507-282-9429.
Share some joy with your Calvary family!
GLASS FLOWER VASES NEEDED AT CALVARY
Do you have a shelf-full of old glass vases that you have been wondering what to dowith? Calvary needs them, as long as they are medium to large, 10 inches ortaller, any shape. Now that we are back to having flower donations for our altar,we will be delivering the flowers after the service is recorded to the donors, thosewho are ill or grieving, or to someone of the donor’s designation and we need thosevases!
On the lighter side...
Feel free to share a story, an event, a picture - anything to remind us that good thingsare still happening. We all need some good news once in a while. If you do, you mayfind yourself featured in an upcoming edition of the Visitor!
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The deer are getting more brazen in Ellen Youngers yard!
Worship Schedule
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Mondays:5:15 pm - Healing Service with prayers (no Healing Services on Monday holidays);On our the Calvary Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/calvaryrochester/
Tuesdays:7:30 pm - Compline on the Calvary Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/
calvaryrochester/
Wednesdays:7:00 am - Morning Prayer - Zoom link on the Calvary Facebook
page: https://www.facebook.com/calvaryrochester/Please note: Bible Study will resume after Labor Day
Sundays:9:00 am - Morning Prayer with Music on Calvary's YouTube channel,
available starting at 7:00 am: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0c4enKfkHD0DPa-yh41Vw.
1st Sundays at 10:00am - Virtual Coffee Hour - Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87340515137?pwd=
TDZUVXduVGZNQlRaTW5ZdktOOVhuZz09on the Calvary Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/calvaryrochester/
2nd and 4th Sundays at 10:00 am - Story Sharing
111 Third Avenue SWRochester, MN 55902
507-282-9429
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