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Address Address Correction Requested Chicago, 60626IL 7100 Ashland N. Blvd. St. Paul’s Church by The Messenger August - September2018 - St. Paul’s Church by-the-Lake 2502 - the The Anglican / Episcopal Church in Rogers Park since 1882 - Lake Welcome! There is a place for you… St. Paul’s by-the-Lake is a parish family established in Rogers Park in 1882 in the Diocese of Chicago, part of the Anglican Communion of which The Episcopal Church is the American Province. Our worship to the Glory of God is catholic and sacramentally centered in the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice of Jesus, commonly called The Mass. Our mission is evangelical: to bring all persons to the knowledge and love of God, respecting the dignity and freedom of every human being. Church School Registration Church School 6 Aug. School Bible Vacation Picnic Lunch at C at Picnic Lunch First Classes The Liturgy After the 10:30am Mass 10:30am the After Sunday: Sunday September September Sunday Low Mass & Coffee 8:00a - Sung Mass & Coffee 10:30a 10 Weekday Masses: th Monday (Rite I) 8:00a 6pm 6pm - Tuesday (’28 Rite) 9:00a Sun. Sept. 16 Sept. Sun. Wednesday (Rite I) 10:30a Thursday (Rite II) 6:15p offee Hour offee – Friday (’28 Rite) 8:00a 8pm Saturday (Rite I) 9:00a - 9 th st Confession –Saturday & Sunday at 9:30a Holy Unction - 1 Thurs. at 6:15p th The Messenger St. Paul’s Church by-the-Lake CHURCH SCHOOL – 11:30am ….Tip of the Biretta It is again time to plan your children’s Christian Education Program. To To our parish Altar Guild for hosting the Father’s Day BBQ Picnic on the church teach them the basics of the Holy Bible and Doctrine of the One, Holy, lawn. Yum and a good time! This was a fundraiser for vestment repairs by our Catholic and Apostolic Church, is the parents’ responsibility. This is the parish Altar Guild. greatest gift you can give your child in this life: to know Jesus as their Lord To Archie, John, & Jacob keeping our Parish Gardens weeded and clean. and Saviour, and follow Him all the days of their lives. Our Sunday School Registration begins with a Picnic on Sunday September To John Ngugi for helping the rector with the First Communion Classes. His role as a licensed Parish Catechist is a great help to our priests. 8 children received First 9th after the 10:30am Mass. A brochure will be available soon outlining the Holy Communion this year. whole Religious Education program for 2018-2019. If you can help teach or assist a teacher during one of the terms, please call or speak to me as To Altar Guild Members for much extra work in June this year. soon as possible. We have trained staff ready & happy to help, assist and To Gloria Carty for the beautiful flowers at our entrance & around the Rectory. work with you in this important aspect of our parish life. You may also invite friends and neighborhood children to attend. A child does not have to be an Anglican/Episcopalian to enroll in our Sunday Annual Caribbean Luncheon School program. We use the David C. Cook curriculum, Anglican Edition, Parish Fundraiser for our classes. We also have one of the most creative Christmas Pageants Sunday Sept. 30th in the Diocese during the Advent season. Our children also sing at the 12 Noon – after the 10:30am Mass 10:30am Mass on special feast days and occasionally serve as lectors. in Banner Hall For Tickets see any vestry member or Joe Warren. With society changing so fast it is essential to give your children that which Prices TBA. This is a major Parish Fundraiser for the Budget. Please invite the culture or public school system cannot give: the knowledge & morals of your friends and relatives. This event helps us keep the ‘lights on’. the Christian Faith. That morality comes from the basis of sound Christian To help with cooking, set-up or clean-up contact Gloria Carty. doctrine and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. Children without such grounding often have weak moral character leading to lives of distress and August Events- Assumptiontide Walsingham Day anxiety. We live in a pluralistic society where it is taught that “anything Saturday August 11h – Our Lady of Walsingham Assumption Prayer Cell Day goes,” but that is not the teaching of Christianity. 9:00am Mass of the Holy House, Rosary (Luminous Mysteries), Sprinkling So if you are a responsible parent or Godparent, get your child enrolled in and a Continental Breakfast Meeting to follow. All Welcome. our classes and bring them at 11:30am each and every Sunday. We have wonderful, dedicated teachers on our staff that have been trained in Assumptiontide “Keeping God’s People Safe,” to assure you of the highest level of safety The Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly known as The Assumption, will be for your precious child of God. anticipated with a Solemn Mass on Sunday August 12th at 10:30am. The beautiful Cloth of Silver Solemn Set will be used for this Feast. Faithfully, On Wednesday August 15th the 10:30am Low Mass will also be a celebration of Our Fr. Heschlē + Lady’s Assumption. And Saturday August 11th Mass of Our Lady of Walsingham at 9am.This feast commemorates the “taking of the Icon of her soul into heaven.” And Remember September is right around the corner with Church School Registration more commonly know as her Dormition in Eastern Orthodoxy. It is a Prayerbook Holy on Sunday Sept. 10th at the 10:30am Mass. A Picnic Lunch at Coffee Hour will celebrate Day. another beginning of our great adventure in Christian Faith. You may receive the Messenger via the Internet by going to our parish website Our parish E-mail is: [email protected] www.stpaulsbylake.org and downloading the present edition. The Messenger St. Paul’s Church by-the-Lake Because you should know! th Sunday July 29 At the 10:30am Sung Mass & at Coffee Hour we will celebrate the 102nd Why does the priest-celebrant kiss the Altar? Birthday of Joseph Warren. A festive coffee hour follows Mass. So come and party with Joe! When the priest arrives at the Altar he bows or genuflects before it depending on the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament in the Tabernacle. Then having placed the sacred vessels (Chalice & Paten veiled) on the Altar, he bows and kisses the top (mensa) of the Solemnity of the Assumption- Altar close to its center. This action happens for several important reasons. Sunday August 12th Primarily the Altar is seen in Christian churches not only as the Lord’s Table, but is in We will keep the Solemnity of Our Lady’s Assumption fact seen by Catholic Christians as the presence of Christ Himself in the midst of His with faithful people. Thus the Altar is always in Anglo-Catholic parishes “front and center,” 8am Low Mass & Homily the epicenter of action. All the actions of the priest-celebrant, bowing, genuflecting and 10:30am Solemn High Mass kissing the Altar, honor that presence and exalted place of Christ in our midst. Secondarily, it is appropriate for the clergy to kiss the Altar because they have been ordained to Christ’s Priesthood and wed to His Church both to represent Christ when Daily Mass celebrating Mass and administer the Word & Sacrament to Jesus’ people who are Don’t forget- all summer Daily Mass is celebrated on Mondays & Fridays present at the Holy Sacrifice. The priest stands in the shoes of the fisherman Himself, at 8a, Tuesdays & Saturdays at 9a, Thursdays at 6:15p & Wednesdays at and honors who he represent with a Holy Kiss. Originally the Peace was given in the 10:30a. Rite I is on Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays. ‘28Rite on form of a kiss from one Christian to another. Scripture refers to the Holy Kiss 5 times Tuesdays & Fridays. Rite II on Thursdays. Friday Mass also includes the (Rom. 16:16, I Cor. 16:20, II Cor. 13:12, I Thess. 5:26). Today Western society is not at Last Gospel. And Masses of Our Lady include the Angelus recited at the ease with such a tradition. Yet is it still present in Mediterranean & some European societies. In places like Italy, Greece, Turkey and France it is not unusual to see men end of Mass, and Holy Unction is administered on First Thursdays of each month at 6:15pm Mass. greet each other with a kiss. It is not sexual; it is a greeting of deep affectionate friendship. Jesus told his disciples “I no longer call you servants….I have called you friends.” (John 15:15) Parish Notes of Interest- The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Third, the priest kisses the Altar for it has engraved in its mensa 5 crosses that represent (Sunday August 12th- 8am & 10:30am) the 5 wounds of Our Lord. It is like it is His burial stone where the body lay after Good is the Prayerbook Holy Day of Saint Mary the Virgin. It celebrates the Friday, yet empty as of Easter Day. day that she died and God took to himself the “icon of her soul,” i.e. her Fourth, it is the sacred place that the Sacrament of Holy Communion will be validly body. Other figures of the Old Testament were assumed into Heaven, confected for the forgiveness of sins and the joy of eternal life. This is where “the like Enoch and Elijah. Mary’s Assumption is special for she is the “Ark creatures of bread and wine” become for us “His most blessed body and blood.” That of the New Covenant” being the Mother of our God & Saviour Jesus doctrine of the real presence makes this the most sacred of spaces within the House of Christ.
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  • Bulletin 8.15.21

    Bulletin 8.15.21

    From the Fathers and others: I have been amazed that some are utterly in doubt as to whether or not the Holy Virgin is St. John Orthodox Church able to be called the Mother of God. For if our Lord Jesus Christ is God, how should the A Parish of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Holy Virgin who bore him not be the Mother of God?" -St. Cyril of Alexandria "Come, let us wonder at the virgin most pure, wondrous in herself, unique in creation, she gave birth, yet knew no man; her pure soul with wonder was filled, daily her mind gave praise in joy at the twofold wonder: her virginity preserved, her child most dear. Blessed is He who shone forth from her!" -St. Ephraim the Syrian "And since the holy Virgin hath borne after the Flesh God united personally to the Flesh, therefore we do say that she is also Mother of God, not as though the Nature of the Word had the beginning of Its existence from flesh, for It was in the beginning and the Word was God, and the Word was with God [John 1:1], and is Himself the Maker of the ages, Co- eternal with the Father and Creator of all things." -St. Cyril of Alexandria "I cannot describe to you how much our Panagia likes chastity and purity. Since she is the only pure Virgin, she wants and loves everyone to be like that. As soon as we cry out to her she rushes to our help. You don't even finish saying, 'All-holy Theotokos, help me' and at once, like lightning, she shines through the nous and fills the heart with illumination.