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Important

Dates

Worship

hours:

Sunday School

9:00 AM

 Worship:

10:15 AM

Confirmation Classes 

After Worship each Sunday

Fat Tuesday

Feb. 21

Pancake Supper 

6:00 pm

Ash Wednesday

Feb. 22

Soup/Salad:

6:00 pm

Service:

7:00 pm

  VICAR JEREMIAH T. HEYDT 

          9:00 AM                                  10:15 AM

                              Sunday School          Summer Traditional Service

Celebrating our First Century of Service to Our Lord!

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NOTICES

New Pages: Women of the Bible

and

Men of the Bible

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“FAT” Tuesday & Ash Wednesday

Our 2012 Lenten journey begins Tuesday, February 21^st with a “fattening” pancake supper at 6:00 p.m. followed by a Brief Order of Confession in the Sanctuary at 7:00 p.m.

We will then adjourn to the parking lot to burn our palm branches from last Easter. The ashes will then be used for the following night with the “Imposition of Ashes” during our Ash Wednesday Worship.

THE SEASON OF LENT

   Lent is a season of soul-searching and repentance. It is a season for reflection and taking stock. Lent originated in the very earliest days of the Church as a preparatory time for Easter, when the faithful rededicated themselves and when converts were instructed in the faith and prepared for baptism. By observing the forty days of Lent, the individual Christian imitates Jesus’ withdrawal into the wilderness for forty days. All churches that have a continuous history extending before AD 1500 observe Lent. The ancient church that wrote, collected, canonized, and propagated the New Testament also observed Lent, believing it to be a commandment from the apostles.

The menu during Lent

     During the six weeks between Carnival and Easter (the forty days of the withdrawal of Jesus into the wilderness, minus the Sundays) there was an extra prohibition. Not only meat, but also milk, butter, cheese and eggs were banned from the table. In February and March, at the end of winter, supplies ran low, and what was left of fruit and vegetables was old, wrinkled and moldy (except of course for some cabbages like winter leeks and in Italy, broccoli).
     The staple diet consisted of bread, porridge or gruel made of grain (rye, spelt, wheat), peas or beans (pea soup!), salted or dried vegetables, fish (fresh and preserved), onions, leeks, (old) apples, nuts, and for the wealthy dried dates, figs, raisins and currants, and almonds. Almonds were very important, because these were the basis for almond milk, almond butter, and even almond cheese. All of these were used as replacement for forbidden dairy products (let it be clear that around the Mediterranean Lent was less drastic, because in those regions the basic cooking ingredient was olive oil, not butter or animal fat). Imagine how interested the medieval cook would have been in something like vegetable margarine!
     If you want to partake of Lent the medieval way, you'll have to limit yourself to one meal a day between Ash Wednesday and Maundy Thursday, and abstain from all meat and dairy produce. Allowed foodstuff: fish, vegetables, legumes, grains, wine and beer, sugar and honey, fruit, dried fruits and nuts. The medieval way means that of vegetables and fruit you are only allowed those varieties that are local and in season!

MID WEEK LENTEN SERIES 2012

You Shall Love the Lord Your God

In Mark 12, a scribe comes to Jesus and asks, “Which commandment is the first of all?” Jesus answers, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength’”. Jesus responds to the scribe’s question with words from the Shema, the passage from Deuteronomy 6 that is recited daily by many of the Jewish faith. These words form a covenant between God and God’s people and show us a way to respond to this God who so extravagantly loves us through the cross.

The first week of this series sets the stage with the Shema from Deuteronomy and the encounter between Jesus and the scribe in Mark 12. The following weeks center on how we can love the Lord our God with all our hearts, our souls, our minds, and our strength.

The readings for the Sundays in Lent then also contain covenants: through Noah, Abraham, the Ten Commandments, Moses, and the new covenant in Christ.

Week 1: Hear, O Israel; Reading,                                                     Mark 12: 28-34

Week 2: You Shall Love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart;     John 12:37-43

Week 3: You Shall Love the Lord Your God with All Your Soul;       Psalm 42 

Week 4: You Shall Love the Lord Your God with All Your Mind;      1 Kings 3: 3-15

Week 5: You Shall Love the Lord Your God with All Your Strength;  Isaiah 12: 1-6

ADULT BIBLE STUDY  

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Our Sunday morning 9:00 am Adult Bible Study

continues through the Book of Acts.

The Book of Acts sometimes referred to as “the fifth gospel” is the sequel in time and history to the proceeding four gospels. Beginning with the Ascension of Christ and the historical foundation of the church and ending with the imprisonment of Paul, about 60 AD, the Acts, witnesses to the gospel having been planted in all the great capitals of the known world. Luke, the historian, covers the first thirty years of church history, and tells us in his book of witness that the things Jesus “began to do and teach” in the gospels is here, through the Holy Spirit, continued in the Acts and is the basis for the epistles.

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