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The Messenger

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- St. Paul’s Church by-the-Lake

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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.

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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, & 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 . 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 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 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.

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At the 10:30am Sung Mass & at Coffee Hour we will celebrate the 102nd Why does the -celebrant kiss the Altar? Birthday of 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 end of Mass, and Holy Unction is administered on First Thursdays of societies. In places like Italy, Greece, Turkey and France it is not unusual to see men 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 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 . 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. Her womb, like that of the Old Testament ark, became the bearer God, the place of sacrifice and redemption. of the Eternal Word of God. So as the O.T. ark is now in Heaven (Rev. Finally, in most Anglo-Catholic Altars there is a stone under which is placed relics of 11:19), so the Holy Church teaches Our Lord’s Mother is bodily in the of the church. As early Christians in Rome buried their dead in the catacombs, Heaven (Rev. 12:1). Come celebrate this Feast of the Church year they celebrated the Eucharist on those tombs, remembering and praying for the souls of th Monday August 15 8am in the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary. the faithful departed buried there. To remember and honor them, a kiss (like at the Jesu mercy, Mary pray. Peace) was made to the top of the stone tomb used as their Altar. Thus still today the priest-celebrant honors the saints when he kisses the mensa. Also on Saturday August 11th the Walsingham Prayer Cell will pray the Rosary of the Mysteries of Light after the 9:00am Mass. All are invited to It is not unlike our greetings when we are visitors to a friend’s home. We would not join us in prayer. A breakfast meeting follows the Rosary. enter without shaking their hand, nor leave without the same or even a hug. It would be rude manners not to do so. So likewise God’s people greet Our Lord when they enter Check out our website for pictures from events in the parish. Some are fun to look His House with a bow or genuflection towards the Holy Altar. And priests who stand at at and others very touching moments in our community of faith history. that Altar continue the tradition of greeting Our Lord with a Holy Kiss.

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The Messenger St. Paul’s Church by-the-Lake St. Paul’s Church by-the-Lake – August 2018 7100 N. Ashland Blvd, Chicago, IL. 60626 - www.stpaulsbylake.org – 773-764-6514 www.stpaulsbylake.org Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday . 1 2 3 4 St. Joseph of Arimathea. St. Peter’s Chains Bl. Nicodemus, m. St. Jean Marie Vianney, pt. 8am Low Mass, ’28 Rt. 9:00am Low Mass, Rt. I, 10:30am Low Mass, Rt. I 6:15pm Low Mass & Holy Coffee & Altar Guild Unction, Rt. II 9:30am Confessions

Fast & Abstinence 5 Anticipation of the 6 7 8 9 10 11 Transfiguration of our Lord 8:00am Low Mass & Coffee Transfiguration Day Bl. J. M. Neale, pt. St. Dominic, pt. & f. Feria St. Lawrence, dn. OLW Mass 10:30am Solemn Mass & Coffee 8:00am Low Mass, Rt. I 9:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 8:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. St. Clare, abbess 10:30am – 12 Noon Nursery Care 10:30am Low Mass, Rt. I 9:00am Low Mass, Rt. I, 1pm Sudanese Dinka Mass 6:15pm Low Mass – Rt. II Rosary & Sprinkling.

ECW Coffee Hour 10am Walsingham Prayer Fast & Abstinence Cell Breakfast Meeting 12 Anticipation of the Feast 13 14 15 16 17 18 of the Assumption of BVM Bl. J. Taylor, bp. Bl. , pt & m. ASSUMPTION OF BVM St. Stephen of Hungary, Bl. Wm. DuBose, pt. St. Helena, q. 8:00am Low Mass, Rt. I 9:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. k+c. 8:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 9:00am Mass, Rosary, 8:00am Low Mass & Coffee 10:30am Solemn Mass & Coffee 10:30am Low Mass, Rt. I Coffee & Altar Guild 10:30am – 12 Noon Nursery Care 6:15pm Low Mass - Rt. II 9:30am Confessions 1pm Sudanese Dinka Prayers Fast & Abstinence

Food Pantry Sunday 19 PENTECOST XIII 20 21 22 23 24 25 Proper 15 in Ordinary Time St. Bernard, abt. Bl. of Smolensk, abt. Queenship of Mary St. ST. BARTHOLOMEW, ap. St. Louis, King of France 8:00am Low Mass, Rt.I 9:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 10:30am Low Mass, Rt. I 8:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 9:00am Low Mass, Rt. I, 8:00am Low Mass & Coffee 10:30am Solemn Baptismal Mass 6:15pm Low Mass - Rt. II Coffee & Altar Guild 10:30am – 12 Noon Nursery Care 9:30am Confessions

1pm Sudanese Dinka Prayers Fast & Abstinence

26 PENTECOST XIV: 27 28 29 30 31 Proper 16 in Ordinary Time Bl. T.Gallaudet & H.Syle. St. , bp. Beheading of St. John Bl. C. Grafton, bp. St. Aidan, bp. 8:00am Low Mass, Rt. I 9:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. the Baptist 6:15pm Low Mass, Rt. II 8:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 8:00am Low Mass & Coffee 10:30am Sung Mass & Coffee . 10:30am – 12 Noon Nursery Care 10:30am Low Mass, Rt. I 1pm Sudanese Dinka Prayers

Ushers: Lectors: Special Events: Regular Events: Legend:

th 8am Mass 10:30am Mass 10:30am Mass Saturday August 11 - Confessions- 9:30am ap - apostle c – confessor k - king 5th- J.Gramer J.Ngugi, A.Carty abs – abbess m - martyr d – deacon th Walsingham Prayer Cell Saturdays & Sundays 12th- J. Nar S.Nyirenda, J.Hazelden 5 - Jennifer Glick abt - mat – matron St - saint th Day- 9am Low Mass and Nursery Care- 10:30am to 19th- J.Seiffert S.Nyirenda, A.Carty 12 - Antonio Morales-Pita arbp - archbishop pt - priest q - queen th Rosary (Mysteries of Light). Noon every Sunday 26th - D.McGee M.Vieira, J.Ngugi 19 Rachel Nyirenda Bl - blessed evan - evangelist r - religious th 10am Breakfast & Meeting bp – bishop Feria - weekday n - nun 26 - John Chalmers Sudanese Dinka Prayers- 8am Mass- Sundays at 1pm ECW - Episcopal Church Women L.Ferguson, C.Kendall, & R.Lukis

The Messenger St. Paul’s Church by-the-Lake St. Paul’s Church by-the-Lake – September 2018 7100 N. Ashland Blvd, Chicago, IL. 60626 - www.stpaulsbylake.org – 773-764-6514 www.stpaulsbylake.org Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Ushers: Lectors: 1 8am Mass 10:30am Mass 10:30am Mass Church School Religious Education St. Giles, abt. rd 3 - J.Gramer J.Ngugi, A.Carty 3rd- Alvin Collins th 9:00am Low Mass, Rt. I, h Registration Sunday- September 9 after the10:30am Mass. 10 - J. Nar J.Hazelden, S.Nyirenda 10th- Jennifer Glick Coffee & Altar Guild th th 17 - J.Seiffert S.Nyirenda, A.Carty 17 - Antonio Morales-Pita A Picnic Lunch with registration for 2018-2019 Classes follows. 9:30am Confessions 24th- D.McGee J.Ngugi, M.Vieira 24th- Rachael Nyirenda 2 PENTECOST XV- 3 4 5 6 7 8 Proper 17 in Ordinary Time Labor Day Bl. P. Jones, bp. Bl. Boris & Gleb, m. Feria. St. Constance & her Nativity of the Blessed

8:00am Low Mass & Coffee 8:00am Low Mass, Rt. I 9:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 10:30am Low Mass, Rt. I companions, m. Virgin Mary 9:45am Choir Rehearsal, 8:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 9:00am Low Mass, Rt. I, 10:30am – 12 Noon Nursery Care 6:15pm Low Mass, Rt. II Coffee & Altar Guild 10:30am Solemn Mass & Coffee 9:30am Confessions 1pm Sudanese Dinka Prayers Labor Day Food Pantry Sunday Fast & Abstinence ECW Coffee Hour

9 PENTECOST XVI- 10 11 12 13 14 15 Proper 18 in Ordinary Time Bl. A .Crummell, pt. Feria. Bl. John Henry Hobart, bp. St. , bp. & m. HOLY CROSS DAY Seven Sorrows of BVM 8:00am Low Mass, Rt. I 9:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 10:30am Low Mass, Rt. I 8:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 9:00am Low Mass, Rt. I, 8:00am Low Mass & Coffee 9:45am Choir Rehearsal &Coffee 10:30am – 12 Noon Nursery Care 6:15pm Low Mass, Rt. II 10am Altar Guild 10:30am Solemn Mass & Picnic Lunch 9:30am Confessions 1pm Sudanese Dinka Mass

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16 PENTECOST XVII 17 18 19 20 21 22 Proper 19 in Ordinary Time St. Bl. E. Pusey, pt. St. Theodore of Tarsus, Bl. J. C. Patteson, bp. & c. SAINT MATTHEW, ap. & Our Lady of Walsingham St. Lambert, bp. & m. 9:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. arbp. evan. 9:00am Low Mass, Rt. I, 8:00am Low Mass & Coffee 9:45am Choir Rehearsal 8:00am Low Mass, Rt. I Ember Day Ember Day &Coffee 10:30am – 12 Noon Nursery Care 10:30pm Low Mass, Rt. I 6:15pm Low Mass, Rt. II 8:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 10am Altar Guild 10:30am Solemn Mass & Coffee 9:30am Confessions 11:30am Christian Education Classes 12:30pm Vestry Meeting Fast & Abstinence 1pm Sudanese Dinka Prayers

23 PENTECOST XVIII- 24 25 26 27 28 29 Proper 20 in Ordinary Time St. Sergius, abt. Bl. Lancelot Andrews, bp. 10:30am Low Mass, Rt. I St. Vincent de Paul, pt. St. Wenceslaus, m. SAINT & 8:00am Low Mass, Rt. I 9:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. 8:00am Low Mass, '28 Rt. ALL ANGELS :8:00am Low Mass & Coffee 9:45am Choir Rehearsal 6:15pm Low Mass, Rt. II 9:00am Low Mass, Rt. I, 10:30am – 12 Noon Nursery Care &Coffee 10:30am Solemn Mass & Coffee 9:30am Confessions 11:30am Christian Education Classes Fast & Abstinence 1pm Sudanese Dinka Prayers

30 PENTECOST XIX- Special Events: Regular Events: Legend

Proper 21 in Ordinary Time Sept. 9th- Church School ap - apostle c – confessor k - king Registration & Picnic after the Confessions- 9:30am abs – abbess m - martyr d – deacon :8:00am Low Mass & Coffee  Caribbean Luncheon- Sunday Saturdays & Sundays th 10:30am Mass abt - abbot mat – matron St - saint 9:45am Choir Rehearsal Sept. 30 , after 10:30am Mass. Annual Blessing of Pets & Nursery Care- every arbp - archbishop pt - priest q - queen 10:30am – 12 Noon Nursery Care Tickets from Vestry members. Animals Sunday Oct. 7that Sunday 10:30am to12noon Bl - blessed evan - evangelist r - religious 10:30am Solemn Mass & Coffee 4:00pm. All Welcome! Dinka Prayers- every bp – bishop Feria - weekday n- nun 11:30am Christian Education Classes th Caribbean Lunch- Sept. 30 Sunday at 1pm (Sudanese) ECW - Ep. Church Women 1pm Sudanese Dinka Prayers 12 Noon- Caribbean Luncheon