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St. Michael the Archangel! Thank you for worshiping with us at St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Catholic Church. St. Michael the Archangel There will be adoration before Mass (10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.) on every first and third A Parish of the Anglican Catholic Church Sunday of the month. You are strongly encouraged to attend this liturgical devotion. Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States There will be Morning Prayer (10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.) every second and fourth 5843 Manor Woods Road, Frederick, MD 21703 Sunday of the month. All are encouraged to attend this service. (240) 397-9782 Following the Mass today, Sunday, 22 September 2019, we will hold a brief (Old Historic St. Joseph Church building) congregational meeting to discuss our expectations, hopes and opinions concerning our upcoming move from St. Joseph’s location. Immediately following this meeting we will celebrate our monthly pot-luck luncheon. Please plan to join us at this important meeting so all can participate in this very important discussion and celebration. 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. During the month of September Jessica Hernandez, AJ Rosales, Sue Schwendiman Williamson, Melanie Frye, Marvin Hernandez, and John Giles are celebrating their birthdays. Please keep them in your prayers. 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 Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity The Sunday school will again be packing Christmas boxes for Samaritan’s Purse (Comm Ss. Maurice & Companions MM & St. Thomas of Villanova, BC) international ministry which ship in early November. Donations of money to help 22 September 2019 defray shipping costs or items for the children will be gratefully accepted. More details will be shared as they are available. For a more detailed list of appropriate “…And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and things, please speak to Mollie Stock or Deborah LaGarde. with a loud voice glorified God,….” (St. Luke 17:15) Please remember our food bank drive and bring canned goods, especially protein, for the box in the narthex. Sunday Mass at 10:30am Wednesday services Mass+ Bible study/Adoration (benediction) at 11:00am To listen to our Masses live & recorded, call The Vestry 712-451-0249, code 906220# Lynne Brisbane (301) 788-7035 Peter Coderre (540) 822-9303 Fr. Pothin Ngyele, Rector – (240) 707-7635 Mailing address: PO Box 315, Buckeystown, MD 21717 For emergencies call (301) 514-3478 Website: www.stmichaelacc.org Fr. Arthur Woolley, Rector Emeritus Cover art credit: Jesus cures ten lepers. Unknown illustrator of Jerome Nadal’s “Evangelicae Historiae Images,” 1593 The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity will you align yourself with the fear of the Lord versus the fear of men? How 22 September 2019 far will you risk to take Jesus at His Words like Peter? When it doesn’t make sense? When it seems stupid? How much will you sacrifice, give to love those around you? How far will you allow the Holy Ghost to be the master of your life? What are you willing to risk to identify with Jesus? FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION The question is: are you sold out to the worship of Jesus no matter what? HOW FAR WILL YOU GO TO WORSHIP YOUR KING? Will you say yes to him when your flesh wants you to say no? How far will you go to worship Jesus? What is your answer today? How far are you willing to go to worship God? How far will you travel physically to worship Jesus? Why? Why do you go to a particular church? In We need to realize that God wants us to learn about His genuine purpose for fact, why go to church at all? Most importantly, what would the our lives, and how to fulfill that purpose. He obviously wants us to study and living God have you do? understand His purpose in guiding world events. Remember Jesus' command, "Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy Most people simply go to church where their parents, friends or relatives to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of have gone. Yet millions today go for other, more personal, reasons. Does it Man" matter where you go to church? It absolutely does. In the past I've had several people tell me that as long as you believe in Jesus and you're trying to live a good moral life, it doesn't really matter where you go to church or Today’s Assigned Hymns what your specific beliefs on things are. This seems to be the go to answer when they don't agree with something taught in the Bible. This way of thinking is wrong. God didn't create us to do and believe whatever and Because we have not yet found an organist, we will be experimenting this worship in any way we choose. He tells us what we need to know in the morning with a hymn playing software program. Please sing along Bible about how to worship and what to believe. (loudly!) and let Deborah LaGarde know your impressions after the service. But think! Processional Hymn 347 (Hyfrodol) Why does God have a Church? What is its purpose? Why did the Communion Hymn 213 (St. Agnes) early Christians go to very "unpopular" places and even risk their lives to meet Recessional Hymn 489 (Sicilian Mariners) secretly in homes, in small rented halls or even in caves? We know that tens of thousands of Christians literally met in caves along the Appian Way in Rome and elsewhere, fearing Roman persecution. In those early centuries, many Christians were literally burned to death, or were publicly thrown to wild Today’s Assigned Readings animals and tortured to death! They must have had a very special reason to "go to church" and be willing to risk ignominy and possibly even death. We all need to think about that! The Collect BCP pg 209 The Old Testament KJV Bible / Bulletin Insert The three kings (Mt 2,1-12) came from the East, followed the star to (Genesis 45:1-15 & 25-28 or Micah 6:1-8 or I Chronicles 29:10-17) worship Jesus. They put time, energy, traveled long distance and gave all The Epistle BCP pgs 209 they had…Why? They did because something compelled them to do so. (Galatians 5:16-24) King David (Psalm 6,12-29), Peter(Mt 14,22-29), Philip(act 8,8) and The Holy Gospel BCP pgs 209-210 Steven(act 6,16) went all outside of their comfort routines to worship God. What would you do? (St. Luke 17:11-19) How far would you go to worship your King? How far will you travel to meet Him? What is the extent you will go to testify and praise God? How far WHY Series Old Testament readings recommended for Trinity XIV Who are we? We are Anglican Catholic Genesis 45:1-15 & 25-28 “Rise and Come forward.” Jesus spoke these words to a man He had 1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and singled out in a synagogue almost 2019 years ago. For us, these words also he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with express our mission and our faith. Our passion is for people. For many, life- him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. changing treasures in the Church have remained "buried”. The Scriptures, the sacraments, the lives of saints and the teachings of the magisterium and 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. Councils seem to have little relevance for their lives. Our mission strives to unfold and explore these treasures in a way that is faithful, dynamic and 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And understandable to ordinary peoples. By doing this, we hope to awaken their his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. (and our) faith, and help them develop a more vital relationship with God. We believe in God the Holy Trinity and the orthodox Christian Faith of the 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. Our Faith is rooted in the Bible, came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. summarized in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, taught by the Fathers and Doctors of the Undivided Church, defended and defined by the Seven 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me Ecumenical Councils, and demonstrated in the lives of the Saints. To live in hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. its fullness our faith in God, it is necessary to be a part of an actual, flesh and blood community of Christians. In that community, where we come to 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, know others and be known by others, we see ourselves as spiritual pilgrims in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
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