Thank you for worshiping with us at St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Catholic St. Michael the Archangel Church. A Parish of the Anglican Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States There will be adoration before (10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.) on every first and third 5843 Manor Woods Road, Frederick, MD 21703 Sunday of the month. You are strongly encouraged to attend this liturgical devotion. (240) 397-9782 There will be Morning Prayer (10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.) every second and fourth (Old Historic St. Joseph Church building) Sunday of the month. All are encouraged to attend this service.

During the month of October Jasmine Ngyele, Roberta (Bert) Windle, Rev Arthur Rosales, Sophia Olivia Ngyele and Sandra Morse are celebrating their birthdays. Rick and Melanie Frye are celebrating their wedding anniversary in October. Please keep them in your prayers. Father Pothin will give birthday and anniversary blessings during the Mass on Sunday, 06 October 2019.

Immediately following Mass today outside in front of the church, Father Pothin will Bless the Animals of our congregation. Pets are all welcome.

The baptism preparation classes for parents of the children will begin after September 21st. Parents/guardians need to contact Father Pothin directly for the scheduling details. Baptisms are scheduled for the end of October/beginning of November.

Our annual blanket drive for the Frederick Rescue Mission has begun (01 September) and continues through 31 October. Please give your donations of washable, single- bed blankets to Doris Frye.

The Sunday school will again be packing Christmas boxes for Samaritan’s Purse international ministry which ship 25 November 2019. Donations of money to help defray shipping costs or items for the children will be gratefully accepted. All The Sixteenth Sunday After Trinity donations are accepted until 20 November 2019. For a more detailed list of (Comm St. Francis of Assisi & St. Bruno) appropriate things, please speak to Mollie Stock or Deborah LaGarde. 06 October 2019 Please remember our food bank drive and bring canned goods, especially protein, for the box in the narthex. “… And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said,

Here am I. ...” (Exodus 3:4) The Vestry Lynne Brisbane (301) 788-7035 Sunday Mass at 10:30am Peter Coderre (540) 822-9303 Wednesday services Mass+ Bible study/Adoration (benediction) at 11:00am To listen to our Masses live & recorded, call Mailing address: PO Box 315, Buckeystown, MD 21717 712-451-0249, code 906220# Website: www.stmichaelacc.org  Cover art credit: Saint Michael; stained glass in the Pfarrkirche St. Martin in Linz am Rhein Fr. Pothin Ngyele, Rector – (240) 707-7635 (Germany) The legend says "Heil Michael du Gottes Streiter" (Heil Michael, you Warrior of For emergencies call (301) 514-3478 God). 20th c. Own work – author - Warburg CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Linz StMartin01.JPG Fr. Arthur Woolley, Rector Emeritus Created: 10 September 2008

The Sixteenth Sundary After Triniity (Comm St. Francis of Assisi & St. Bruno)

29 September 2019

Today’s Assigned Hymns FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION Because we have not yet found an organist, we will be experimenting this St Francis of Assisi: Uniting and Healing Wounds morning with a hymn playing software program. Please sing along (loudly!) and let Deborah LaGarde know your impressions after the Commenting on the often violent inhumanity of man to man, George service. Bernard Shaw in his play “Caesar and Cleopatra” sums things up this Processional Hymn 158 All 5 Verses (Puer Nobis) way: “And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, Hymn 205 () always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are Recessional Hymn 311 (Royal Oak) tired of blood, and create a race that can understand.”

Francis committed himself to the special ministry of “healing wounds, to uniting what was falling apart, and bringing home those who have Today’s Assigned Readings lost their way.” At the core of Francis’ spirituality was the belief, “My God loves me.” And so he reduced his prayer to “My God and my The BCP pg 212 all.” The Old Testament KJV Bible / Bulletin Insert (Exodus 3:1-15) Not even one’s own life is too precious to give for the sake of another The BCP pgs 212 who is in need. Self-giving and self-realization go together. Francis (Ephesians 3:13-21) inspires us and teaches us to see the need for detachment, self- The Holy BCP pgs 212-213 discipline and self-giving compassion toward all creatures, if we are to (St. Luke 7:11-17) honor the divine presence dwelling within created reality that “God may be all in all,” 1 Cor 15: 28.

What we do in worship is a reflection of who we are — an Old Testament reading recommended for Trinity XVI understanding that the first Christians expressed through their Exodus 3:1-15 liturgical posture. When the priest proclaims the readings versus 1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of populum, he embodies Christ as Prophet — something is lost when Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came he proclaims the readings away from them, even if his posture versus to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. apsidem as symbolic meaning. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire Yet unless the priest embodies the spiritual principle of turning versus out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush Deum per Iesum Christum (turning to God through Jesus Christ), by burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. assuming the same eastward posture as do the members of the congregation, then it becomes more difficult to see reflected in him 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the humility by which he embodies Christ as Priest, who, as Saint the bush is not burnt. Anselm pointed out, can serve as our mediator precisely and only because he is fully one of us. 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And And he no longer necessarily faced east in expectation of the return he said, Here am I. of Christ. Instead, he always faced the apse, which was taken to represent the east, regardless of whether the church was so 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy constructed that by celebrating versus apsidem he was facing literal, feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. geographical east. 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that WHY Series thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. Priest, face East

11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Do you know why your priest postures change during the mass? Do Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of you know why/when he faces East (the apse) and faces the people at Egypt? the celebration? Have you (been) asked that question? In this piece, I will address some aspects of that very important theological question. 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token During the mass the priest’s posture changes alternatively between unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the facing the people (“misa versus populum”) and facing the apse (“misa people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. versus apsidem”) which is the East, front of the Church. What we do in the liturgy is a consequence of who and what we are before God. 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers Since the human body shares in the dignity of the ‘image of God’, in hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? the Liturgy the sanctification of the man is signified by signs what shall I say unto them? perceptible to the senses, and is effected in a way which corresponds with each of these signs. That action is principally an exercise of the 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, priestly office of Jesus Christ before the Father in heaven, while in Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me the earthly liturgy we take part in a foretaste of that heavenly liturgy unto you. which is celebrated in the holy city of Jerusalem toward which we journey as pilgrims. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of There are two primary ways in which Christians in their worship in Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me the first centuries of the faith embodied this communal pilgrimage unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my unto all toward heaven: generations. * By facing one another for proclamation and dialogue; the priest in the first centuries’ era faced the people during the Liturgy of the Word so as to fulfill his role, which was to act “in the name of Christ” (), both when proclaiming the gospel to them and during those parts of the Mass when he prays in dialogue with them.

* By facing east for the Eucharistic prayer. Priests in the first centuries’ era almost universally faced east, the direction of rising sun, during the Eucharistic prayer, anticipating thereby the glory of Christ’s return to earth. In most churches, this also meant that they faced the apse, with the people. Acting again in persona Christi, priests embodied the fact that Christ the Priest became completely as one of us when he journeyed toward the cross and invited us to follow him.