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.