The new rug in the Church was given to the glory of God and in loving memory of Sam & Rachel Levy and Joe & Eileen Seaman by Phil & Joyce Levy. We are most grateful for the generosity of the Levy family.
Events today at Good Shepherd
8:30 AM Morning Prayer
HOLY WEEK – Sign Up Sheets are in the Breezeway for Triduum pre-service meals! Sign up this Sunday.
March 29, Palm/Passion Sunday
5:00 PM Stations of the Cross (Saturday, March 28)
7:40 AM Morning Prayer
8:00 AM Palms & Said Holy Eucharist
10:00 AM Palms, Procession & Sung Holy Eucharist
April 2, Maundy Thursday
6:30 PM Agape Dinner: Mediterranean Potluck
7:30 PM Celebration of the Lord’s Supper
April 3, Good Friday
12:00 PM Said Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
6:30 PM Soup & Bread Potluck Dinner
7:30 PM Sung Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
April 4, Saturday, Easter Eve
4:00 PM Setup and Cooking for Pizzafest
6:30 PM Pizzafest
7:30 PM The Great Vigil of Easter
April 5, Easter Sunday
7:40 AM Morning Prayer
8:00 AM Said Holy Eucharist
10:00 AM Sung Holy Eucharist
11:00 AM Easter Egg Hunt & Festive Coffee Hour
Collect of the Day
O Lord, you relieve our necessity out of the abundance of your great riches: Grant that we may accept with joy the salvation you bestow, and manifest it to all the world by the quality of our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Office Readings
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-13
These are the words of the letter that theprophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders amongthe exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people,whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exileswhom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Buildhouses and live in them; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for yoursons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bearsons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. Butseek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile,and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you willfind your welfare. For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let the prophets and the diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream, for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name;I did not send them, says the LORD. For thus says the LORD: Only when Babylon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For surely I know the plansI have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and notfor harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you callupon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart,
Romans 11:13-24
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuchthen as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I glorify my ministry in order to make my own people jealous, and thus save someof them. For if their rejection is the reconciliation of theworld, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead! If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; and if the root is holy, then the branches also are holy. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, do not boast over the branches. If you doboast, remember that it is not you that support the root, butthe root that supports you. You will say, “Branches werebroken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true.They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you standonly through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe. For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he willnot spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God:severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness towardyou, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you alsowill be cut off. And even those of Israel, if they do not persistin unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graftthem in again. For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.
John 11:1-27
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them.” After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.” Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”
Coming Events at Good Shepherd
Tuesdays through Fridays in Lent
8:30 AM Morning Prayer (unless otherwise announced)
April 25, Saturday – Saint Mark’s Day
5:00 PM Said Holy Eucharist
May 1, Friday – Saint Philip’s Day
6:00 PM Said Holy Eucharist – The Reverend Andrew C. Mead, Rector Emeritus of Saint Thomas Church, New York City, will be celebrant and preacher.
May 3, Sunday
The Reverend Andrew C. Mead, Rector Emeritus of Saint Thomas Church, New York City, will be preacher at the 8AM and 10AM services today.
May 8, Friday
7:00 PM Wine Tasting
May 14, Thursday, Ascension Day
6:00 PM Sung Eucharist
7:00 PM Steak & Wine Dinner
May 17, Sunday,
Sunday School Concert.
May 24, Sunday, Pentecost Father Matt’s last Sunday as Rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd.
May 29, Friday,
Relay for Life
May 31, Trinity Sunday,
Relay for Life
June 13, Saturday
TAG SALE
June 14, Sunday
Sunday School Graduation