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A Christmas Pageant to Remember LOGOS The Newsletter for St. John’s Episcopal Church, Arlington “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it” John 1:5 January 2018 A Christmas Pageant to Remember It was a Christmas Pageant to remember on Sunday, December 17, as the children (and a few adults) of St. John’s presented the Christmas story. Thank you to all who helped make it so special: Galen Henderson (director), Rodger Ludwig (pianist), Dave Dunlap and Diane Henderson (backstage assistants), and cast members Jack Birmingham, Michael Birmingham, Brian Cavey, Michael Cavey, Tina Cavey, Lucy Drake, Maddie Harbin, Elinor Sonnet, Frances Sonnet, Nora Wien, and Vladi Wien. The cast and crew vividly brought the familiar story to life. A special thank you to Galen as well for her beautiful performance of a Christmas song she wrote and composed. It truly was a great day. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Arlington • The Rev. Ann Barker, Rector 415 South Lexington Street • Arlington, VA 22204 • Phone: 703-671-6834 • Fax: 703-671-8023 http://stjohnsarlingtonva.org • Email: [email protected] • [email protected] From the Rector: Resolve to Rejoice I generally do not make New Year’s everyone because it reminds me of how we are resolutions. Though the beginning of a year tied together with the people with whom we does seem a good time to make promises about develop relationships in our lives. I went to losing weight, quitting smoking, exercising visit my brother and his family at Thanksgiving more, and other self-improvement projects, it and will go to my sister’s for Christmas. is easy to get overwhelmed and abandon the Everyone will be there except one nephew, who goal in short order. However, there are goes to Europe for Christmas because his wife exceptions to almost everything, and I believe is British. Even my brand new grandnephew there is one resolution we can make that will will be there. I will also get to see Evan and be good for us and good for the world. We can Kristy (they will drive to my sister’s, but not resolve to rejoice. We can resolve to have a up here). My family would be there for me in positive, thankful attitude about things in our a heartbeat if I ever needed it. Relationships lives, which can lead to happiness much deeper sustain us and hold us up. They are the chief than what we experience when we lose way we experience God’s love. Some of us may 20 pounds. not have good family situations, but hopefully First of all, in this Christmas and Epiphany we have friends who fill that role for us. season, resolve to rejoice in Jesus. Rejoice that Rejoice in today. Today is what we have. God loves us enough to come among us to Yesterday is past and we have no idea what reconcile us to God. Rejoice that Jesus came may happen tomorrow, so the joys and among us, not to change God’s mind about us pleasures of today are what we must and how bad we were but to change our minds concentrate on. While we may plan for about God. Rejoice in Jesus’s example of tomorrow, it does us no good to worry about abundance. He fed the hungry, he healed the what might happen. Most of the things we sick, he met people’s needs to show us that catastrophize about never come true, and the God is for us. God is there to give us what we anxiety we experience only makes it harder for need to sustain an abundant life. us to enjoy God’s gifts of today. Every Resolve to rejoice in hope. I know it may morning I thank God for the giftedness of the be hard to cultivate that attitude in the political day and pray that I may recognize, receive, and atmosphere of today, but remember the Magi rejoice in all the good things God wants to during Epiphany and how they followed the give me. star, hoping to see a great leader, someone Rejoice in passion. What really gives you who would transform the world. Don’t you life? For me, one of the things is singing. I think they were surprised to find a baby? But feel most authentically myself when I sing. they gave Jesus gifts and were full of joy for Your passion may be something else— the wonder of God’s action in the world. What gardening, hiking, playing golf, caring for your is your star? What can you look at that reflects children or grandchildren, volunteering, God’s action in your life and will give you an photography, or any number of things. attitude of hope rather than despair? Whatever it is, it is something God has given Rejoice in relationship. I am getting you to help fulfill you, to help you be joyful Christmas cards from people I met in school, and thankful. Exercise your passions. Your at summer camp, at my first parish, and in excitement is a gift to the world. my neighborhood. I am so glad to hear from Page 2 LOGOS January 2018 Rejoice in play. It has been a surprise to that I can. What do you think about this one? me, who tends to want to be busy all the time, Last but not least, rejoice in St. John’s. that play is productive. It is important to us This is a loving community that sustains and because it helps us develop a balanced life, to nourishes us. It is a giving community that use our creative energies, to power down from sustains and nourishes others. Our faith is stressful lives. If you don’t know how to play, strengthened here, and we can know the joy of ask a child and they’ll show you. giving of ourselves. It is a good place to grow Rejoice in your challenges? That is and learn about Jesus, who loves us more than something “they” say, but I haven’t bought into life itself. it yet. You will always learn a lesson from your So let’s try to catch ourselves rejoicing and challenges, “they” continue. And if you don’t smile. The more we recognize ourselves being learn the lessons, the challenges will come happy and thankful, the more we will want to around again. I’m not sure I can go along with put more of that in our lives. And the more we that. How do you learn something from a will be part of transforming the world into the tragedy, a lost job, a nasty boss? And why place God wants it to be. would God choose to teach you this way? I do rejoice that in my challenges, God is with me Ann † and will help me pull all the good out of them St. John’s Annual Meeting St. John’s will hold its annual meeting on Sunday, January 21, following the 10 a.m. service. The congregation will elect vestry members and the 2018 budget will be presented. This is also an opportunity to hear about all that has been happening in the church over the past year and to thank the many volunteers so vital to St. John’s ministry and activities. Mark your calendar now and plan to attend this important gathering! St. John’s Staff and Leadership Staff Parish Leaders Rector: The Rev. Ann B. Barker Bill Thomson, Treasurer Minister of Music: Lynn Robinson John Restall, Pledge Clerk Organist: Judith Marcinko Dave Dunlap, Chair, Finance Committee Parish Administrator: Virginia Pearson Eileen Tallent, Chair, Altar Guild Nursery Attendant: Kaitlyn Osteguin Sexton: Julio Sorto Vestry Lisa Pope, Senior Warden Diane Henderson Bryan Harbin, Junior Warden Del Hunt Jeff Aitken John Restall St. John’s Episcopal Church • Arlington, VA Page 3 Words on Hymns: Brightest and Best Our processional hymn on the first Sunday of The first stanza of Brightest and Best Epiphany, January 7, is a hymn to the Christ employs images of light. The second uses child, Brightest and Best of the Stars of the Romantic images of a cold and lowly station in Morning. The original title was Brightest and opposition to the angels adoring him. The third Best of the Sons of the Morning. It was written stanza asks what we can give him, and the by Bishop Reginald Heber (1783–1826), one of fourth realizes material gifts are not important. the finest Romantic hymn writers. Heber was The final stanza serves to bookend the hymn born into a family of wealth and position. He by repeating the first stanza. was bright and a diligent student of the Bible Most of Heber's 57 hymns, written while even at a young age, as was evidenced by his he was at Hodnet, are still in use today. There Latin studies at age seven, when he translated are five Heber contributions to our hymnal, a classical Latin text into English. Heber including Holy, Holy, Holy and Bread of the entered Oxford at age 17 and soon won two World in Mercy Broken. prizes for poetry. Among the many tunes that have been set He took orders in the Anglican Church in to this hymn (biographer William E. Studwell 1807 and became a rector in his father’s estimates there are more than 20), the church in the village of Hodnet near "Morning Star" setting by James P. Harding Shrewsbury. During his 16 years at this (1859–1911) is among the best known. Harding parish, he took on the task of improving hymn was for 35 years the organist at St.
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