Living Waters March 2021 PANCAKE SUPPERS More Pictures on Pages 7-9 Environmental Mothering Outreach Palm Sunday Stewardship Sunday Page 16 Craft Page 12 Page 14 Page 27 SERVICE TIMES St. Paul’s information Sunday Services at 9:30 online go to Sermons on our website 1st & 3rd Week of each month (Wednesday or Thurs- day): 9:30 a.m. via Facebook and You tube 7 Sunmills Green S.E Email: Calgary, Alberta T2X 3P6 [email protected] Phone (403)256-1428 Website: Fax (403)256-1554 www.stspaulscalgary.ca Incumbent Parish Ministries Pastoral Ministries Hospital Visiting– Clergy The Rev’d Fergus Tyson & Pastoral Care Team Worship Ministries Assistants Home Visiting– Clergy Altar Guild - Robbie Coller The Rev’d Cyril Haynes & Pastoral Care Team Sacramental Assistants – Ed Mullaney The Rev’d Dr. Norman Knowles Caring Contact - Fergus 10:00 am Music Group – Paul Bourgeois The Rev’d Dr. Bob Mummery Casserole Ministry – Linda Hubert Prayers of the People – Dinah Breu (Contact Office) Readers 10 am – Robbie Coller Prayer Group – Dinah Breu Parish Council 2021 Readers 8:30 am – Laura Anne Fink Prayer Chain – Dinah Breu Administration: Paul Bourgeois Servers – Karla Manuel Card Ministry – Gail Munro Caring Contact: Fergus Sidespeople – Suzanne Wray Pastoral Care Team – Nicola Peden Christian Education: Tosan Chigbo Prayer Team – Dinah Breu Grief Support Group Communications: Paul Bourgeois Envelope Secretary – Debra Brisbin Community Connection: – Laura Anne Fink Counters— Roxie Hall Muyi Ekomwenrenren Outreach Ministries Hospitality: Steve Colle Fellowship Ministries Outreach Committee Maintenance: Gerald de Vries Greeters – Roxie Hall – Loret MacDonald Incumbent’s Warden: Ingrid Bolton Coffee Time– Hospitality Father Lacombe Sunday Eucharist— New Members: Julie Wilson Ladies Potluck Luncheon Kathleen Robinson Pastoral Care: Nicola Peden — Gloria Ford & Laura Anne Fink Father Lacombe Fridays – People’s Warden: Cam Cline Men’s Breakfast Kerry Peters Outreach: John L’Ecuyer – Kerry Peters AgeCare Seton — Fergus Stewardship: Laura Anne Fink Fellowship & Foods Group NeST — Jennifer Solem Sunday School: Shannon Colle – Doreen Peters Food Bank, CAWST, Alpha House etc. – Worship: Fergus Tyson Secret Friends – Julie Wilson shared through Outreach Committee Youth: Vacant Toddlers to Tweens PWRDF — Doreen Peters Ex Officio: The Rev’d Cyril Haynes — Abby Ekomwenrenren Quilt/Shawl Prayer Ministry Youth Group – Keith Daye – Laura Anne Fink Maintenance – Gerald de Vries Living Waters Synod Delegates Cam Cline – Laura Anne Fink Christian Education Gloria Ford Nursery – Pamela Fleming Alternates: Parish Council Youth – Keith Daye Adult Education MCES Directors Clergy & Lay Kerry Peters , Iona Shaw Stewardship – Laura Anne Fink Library – Doreen & Kerry Peters Treasurer Anglican Fellowship of Prayer Treasurer: Ingrid Bolton – Dinah Breu Sunday School Coordinator – Shannon Colle 2 INCUMBENT’S MESSAGE Receiving Jesus’ Heart Transplant The Rev’d Fergus Tyson Now among those who went up to worship at world represented by these “Greeks.” the festival were some Greeks. They came to Jesus continues: “‘I, when I am lifted up from Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and the earth, will draw all people to myself’” (verse said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip 32). All people are included – including Greeks. All went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip are drawn to Jesus, with his love melting our icy went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hearts. For what people need are new hearts, not hour has come for the Son of Man to be glori- mere makeovers, not mere instruction. As N.T. fied. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat Wright says: “Not just to ‘see him’ as the Greeks falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a sin- desired, but to ‘come to’ him, in the sense of be- gle grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those ing drawn by the powerful love of God, drawn into who love their life lose it, and those who hate fellowship and new life.” their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I People need what was promised in Jeremiah 31:33 am, there will my servant be also. Whoever -34: serves me, the Father will honour. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I “Now my soul is troubled. And what should I will put my law within them, and I will write it on say—‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is their hearts; and I will be their God, and they for this reason that I have come to this hour. Fa- shall be my people. No longer shall they teach ther, glorify your Name.” Then a voice came one another, or say to each other, “Know the from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least it again.” The crowd standing there heard it and of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will said that it was thunder. Others said, “An angel forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no has spoken to him.” Jesus answered, “This voice more. has come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this They need what was spoken of in Ezekiel 36:26-27: world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will up from the earth, will draw all people to my- put within you; and I will remove from your body self.” (John 12:20-32) the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you. The Gospel of John relates the above inci- dent, which occurs just before the events of Jesus’ Wil Pounds comments: “In contrast to ‘thou shalt Passion we’ll have set before us in Holy Week. The not,’ and ‘thou shalt’ are the words, ‘I will put,’ ‘I Greeks’ request of Philip, “Sir, we wish to see Je- will write,’ ‘I will forgive.’” The difference is marked sus,” presents the disciples with a dilemma. Is Jesus succinctly by Barbara Brown Taylor: “I know how to Lord of all? Is he just for them, or for Gentiles as be obedient but I do not know how to be in love.” well? They come to Jesus with the “problem.” Jesus came to enable us to be in love with God – Jesus responds by first affirming that he is Lord to inaugurate a new covenant, to liberate his peo- of all: “Jesus answered them, ‘The hour has come ple. for the Son of Man to be glorified’” (verse 23). Un- doubtedly when they heard Jesus say this, the dis- Through his death on the Cross, Jesus offers us life. ciples thought: “This is it! He’s going to oust the Ro- His words in John 12:32 remind us of the words of mans and rule the world!” But no – Jesus will be John 3:16: “God so loved the world that he gave glorified in a different way: “‘Very truly, I tell you,’” his one and only Son, so that whoever puts their Jesus says, “‘unless a grain of wheat falls into the trust in him should not perish but have everlasting earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it life.” This is a free gift. We need only to accept it. dies, it bears much fruit.’” We need only look to him, raised up on the Cross N.T. Wright, commenting on this passage, like the bronze serpent in the wilderness, and live – writes: to receive him as the antidote to the poison cours- Jesus’ death will be like sowing a seed into the ing through our veins that is death. ground. It will look like a tragedy. In fact, it will In a Lenten Study a few years ago, we looked at Jesus’ be a triumph: the triumph of God’s self-giving words in Gethsemane about “the cup” he was about to love, the love that looks death itself in the face drink in his suffering. One person commented that a way to and defeats it by meeting it voluntarily, on be- think about this is that Jesus drank the poison that was in half not just of Israel but of the whole world, the our cup, and another commented that we now can drink 3 instead the wine he offer us, his blood poured out for us, the last drop of gas is gone from our tank. All we want to which gives life. do is curl up in front of a fire with a good book, and our One of the things I miss in my COVID-19 existence is favourite dessert. And then, the phone rings and there’s a the presence of children running around in St. Paul’s build- situation requiring something more from us, moving us ing. Until March 2020, Our Sunday School children filled beyond our own resources, calling us to choose to love our building with life on Sundays, and children partici- where we have no strength to love – and so we experience pating in a Free Learning School filled it with life mid-week. the death of coming to the end of ourselves. But then, we Before this School used our building, for many years this experience resurrection power. In my Feb. 28 sermon, I role was filled by the children of the Post-partum Depres- also quoted St. Teresa of Calcutta famous words: “If I love sion Group “Family Matters.” I remember well talking with until it hurts, I find no more hurt, only more love.” The the coordinator of this Group just after her son had just seed of our self-sufficiency falls to the ground, and Jesus’ received a life-saving kidney transplant.