Weekly Services

Sunday Morning Worship – 10am Indoor/Outdoor & Livestream Recording with piano accompaniment Sunday Evening 5pm Zoom Service – Contemplative Prayer 9:30am Morning Prayer – Zoom/Facebook Live: Mondays, Tuesday & Wednesdays 8pm Compline – Facebook Live Monday through Thursday Thursday Noon Day Prayer – Facebook Live Thursday Evening 5:30pm Eucharist - Courtyard Weekly Sermons – Posted Sunday afternoons

April 11, 2021 The Second Sunday of Easter 10am Morning Service

The Rev. Cindy Long Preaching & The Very Rev. Mary Claugus Presiding

The Service will be livestreamed 10am to Vimeo, Facebook & the website on Sunday April 11, 2021.

Spaces are still available for Sunday's service. Please contact the office by 12pm Friday for reservations. Any attendees that arrive on the day will be seated in the courtyard pending availability in the sanctuary.

5pm Contemplative Prayer Zoom Service st.michaelscarmichael.org/about/calendar

Consecrated Hosts are available at the office. Monday - Thursday from 9:30am - 1pm.

Sign up for in-person services here! Please be sure Sign Up Here to include names of all in your party and

indoor/outdoor preferences.

Easter Sunday The Very Rev. Mary Claugus Sermon - Sunday, April 4, 2021

Video Here: https://vimeo.com/532908141

Thank you for joining us! Holy Week & Easter

It was such a wonderful and joyous occasion to be able to celebrate Christ's rising with all of you whether in person and/or virtually! Thank you so much for joining us.

We also want to take this opportunity to thank all of our gracious volunteers who made our Holy Week and Easter Sunday Services possible.

Thank you to all who served during this most Holy Time!

Mary Ellen Ferguson Dancy Dobrenick Jay Bowdler Dave Dobrenick Janice Bowdler Kate Muris Harriette Carr Selma Fields Jack Carr Renee Pierce Jim Dodds Susan Johnson Tina Ferriott Michael Johnson Laura Quene Lennie Silva Lis Padula Suzanne Phinney Sally Jervis Ed Linn Jennifer Franz Jackie Linn Jim Cole Michael Walker Marilyn McEntyre David Daigh Kay Griffin Paula Frink Hugh Griffin Lisa Sargent Chuck Schaller Holly Yue Arleen Schaller Patty Green Allison Flower-Arledge Sue Corbin Peter Lucchini Virginia Henry Bill Wilson Pamela Lueders Pamm Land Josh Lueders

What St. Michael's is About

Thursday Courtyard Eucharists!

Please email the office if you are interested in attending one of our upcoming services. We will be holding these every Thursday evening at 5:30pm (weather permitting). Additional information for online and in-person services found here.

All upcoming services will be listed on the website's

calendar.

Centering Prayer tonight! All are welcome to come and pray!

Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81367545849?pwd=K0FWOUFVR3pCWkxQd1lYMy9v MmFIQT09

Meeting ID: 813 6754 5849 Passcode: 825194

Centering prayer meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month via Zoom. Newcomers are welcome to come at 6:45pm for a Centering Prayer Newcomer Orientation. Centering Prayer begins at 7pm. We will offer a 20 minute centering prayer sit, followed by a variety of contemplative practices. They may include: Lectio Divina, experiential spirituality and occasionally a guest speaker. All are welcome! For more information, please contact the office 916.488.3550 or Chuck Schaller 916.390.3465.

Zoom Blessings during Sunday Morning Service!

We would like to invite you to receive a blessing on zoom during our Sunday morning Livestream services! If you have a special anniversary or birthday you would like to join us for please let us know!

Contact the office by 12pm the Friday before the Sunday service you would like to receive the blessing and we will share our Sunday morning service zoom link with you.

St. Michael's Listens & Learns

EfM Invites You to Join Them!

Next month EfM will be discussing Stephen A Jurovics book "Hospitable Planet: Faith, Action and Climate Change" during their regular weekly sessions and they are inviting us to join! Active participants and observers welcome!

Discussion Dates Tuesday's, April 13 and April 20 Time 6:30pm - 7:30pm

“What can I do about the environment? What has God said about the environment?” Most books about climate change only address one of these questions. Those from a religious perspective do not address what individuals can do to help society transition from fossil fuels, other than changing personal behavior. Readers know instinctively that will not suffice, and so are left feeling the situation is hopeless. In contrast, books that primarily address environmental issues fail to reach people motivated more by faith than science, leaving out many who could constitute the tipping point for full American engagement on the issue.

Zoom Documentary & Discussion

Mission Blue

Sunday, April 25th Viewing at 3:00pm Discussion at 6:30pm

Zoom Link https://zoom.us/j/3180529074

Feature documentary about legendary oceanographer, marine biologist, environmentalist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle , and her campaign to create a global network of protected marine sanctuaries.

If you have a suggestion on a good topic and/or documentary for the group to watch, please email the office.

Living Compass Living Well Through Lent 2021

St. Michael’s Lenten Discussion Group To complete the program, we will meet on April 11th to discuss Holy Week and Easter. 12:30pm - 1:30pm.

Zoom Link https://zoom.us/j/3180529074

Living Compass Lenten booklets are still available at the St. Michael’s office. Please contact the office if you have any questions.

For more information please check out the website.

St. Michael's Book Club Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent

Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4821607579

We will meet on April 11th at 11am to reflect on the final phrases of the book.

Please sign up with the office if you are interested in participating in the discussion group!

St. Michael's Serves

Socks and Coats!

Thank you so much for your donations to our Lenten collections. We received 525 pairs of new socks and over 40 coats- a sampling of which were blessed by Bishop Megan at our Palm Sunday service. These will be given to Loaves and Fishes and our Carmichael HART partners to distribute through ongoing programs for people who are homeless. The days may be warming up but the nights are still cold and damp so these items are especially needed and appreciated. Once again St. Michael’s has come through for our neighbors in need!

River City Food Bank Volunteer Update

Jena Robinson, Operations Director, called to let us know that a new volunteer sign up system is being developed and will be up and running around May 1st, which is when they hope to be welcoming back volunteers. St. Michael’s will receive updates and instructions as we get closer to May. Jena said she loves the St. Michael’s volunteers and The Food Bank is looking forward to our return on Fridays, along with any newcomers who would like to volunteer. For questions or more information please call Deacon Cindy. 916 488 3550 ext 20.

St. Michael's Connects

COVID-19 Vaccination Sign up HELP!

Are you interested in getting vaccinated but confused about how and where to sign up? We have some tech-savvy parishioner(s) who have graciously volunteered to assist you in getting signed up if you are having trouble figuring out how to do this.

For Covid-19 Vaccine - to learn more or sign up; • California All https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccines/

Please call 916.488.3550 or email the office with questions.

St. Michael's GriefShare Support Group

This 13 session group is for people grieving the death of a loved one. Informative videos, support and conversation all help with navigating the journey through grief. This program is designed so participants may begin attending on any date during the cycle and then continue with the next cycle to experience all sessions.

Our current GriefShare Group is finishing on Monday April 12th but our next cycle will be starting Wednesday, May 12th through July 28th from 3:30pm - 5:00pm. Participants from our surrounding community and the congregation are all welcome.

For more information and/or to register please contact Deacon Cindy: [email protected] or 916.488.3550 #20.

St. Michael's Music

Choral Masterworks

by John Cozza

Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 by Bach

The Easter Oratorio (German: Oster-Oratorium), BWV 249, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, beginning with Kommt, eilet und laufet ("Come, hasten and run"). Bach composed it in Leipzig and first performed it on April 1, 1725. The first version of the work was completed as a cantata for Easter Sunday in Leipzig on 1 April 1725, then under the title Kommt, gehet und eilet. It was named "oratorio" and given the new title only in a version revised in 1735. In a later version in the 1740s the third movement was expanded from a duet to a four-part chorus. The work is based on a secular cantata, the so-called Shepherd Cantata Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a, which is now lost, although the libretto survives. Its author is Picander who is also likely the author of the oratorio's text. The work is opened by two instrumental movements that are probably taken from a concerto of the Köthen period. It seems possible that the third movement is based on the concerto's finale. Unlike the Christmas Oratorio, the Easter Oratorio has no narrator but has four characters assigned to the four voice parts: Simon Peter (tenor) and John the Apostle (bass), appearing in the first duet hurrying to Jesus' grave and finding it empty, meeting there Mary Magdalene (alto) and "the other Mary", Mary Jacobe (soprano). The choir was present only in the final movement until a later performance in the 1740s when the opening duet was set partly for four voices. The music is festively scored for three trumpets, timpani, two oboes, oboe d'amore, bassoon, two recorders, transverse flute, two violins, viola and continuo.

And here is a live performance from the 2013 Proms with our inspired Bach Cantata guides John Eliot Gardiner, the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir: Video Here: https://youtu.be/a5ICH1gK5fQ

The translation can be found here.The Wikipedia link is here.

On-going Announcements

Prayers for Pregnant Women & Their Babies

We have an ongoing relationship with the Episcopal Sisters at the Order of Julian of Norwich monastery who pray daily for pregnant women and their babies. If you have name(s) of loved one(s) who are expecting that you would like to have included in the sisters prayers, please email Fr. Rod at [email protected].

Help keep our records current!

Please be sure to contact the office if your address, phone number and/or email address has changed within the last year. We like to keep our info as current as possible but we do need your assistance to do this. If you don't know we also like to mail out Birthday cards to our parishioners so if you haven't passed that along we would love to have that info as well! Please contact the office with questions and updates.

Opportunity to serve in worship

We are continuing to schedule readers and responders for Sunday service, recorded live on Sunday mornings at 10am. You must be willing to wear a mask and maintain social distancing. Please contact Mary Ellen Ferguson if you are interested.

Giving Thanks with Flowers!

You can still remember your loved ones and celebrate important moments in your life with the gift of flowers to the church.

If you would like to give in this way, please let the office know and what you would like to give thanks for in the bulletin. You can send a check (or drop it off) to the office or pay on-line.

St. Michael's Spring Hours

Office Hours

Monday through Friday 9am - 1pm.

Sanctuary and Courtyard are open during office hours. Please let the office know you will be coming. Call 916.488.3550 or email.

Pastoral Hours

Rev. Mary will be available Tuesdays 12:30 - 2:30pm Please call Rev. Mary to schedule an appointment. Please dial 916.488.3550 Ext. 15 for Rev. Mary.

Deacon Cindy will be available Monday & Wednesday 1:00pm - 4:00pm Please call Deacon Cindy to schedule an appointment. Please dial 916.488.3550 Ext. 20 for Deacon Cindy.

11am Sundays Zoom Coffee Hour

Please come and join us for a zoom Coffee Hour. We will have a Zoom Meeting on Sundays from 11am to Noon - for you all to catch up with each other and feel connected. Coffee Hour Link - Meeting ID Number is 288749843.

Giving

Thank you all for generously supporting St. Michael's and our ministries. We are accepting pledge payments through the mail. We are also accepting online giving. You may have to set up an account to do so. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Bob McMichael. On-line Giving