The Fourth Sunday in Lent
March 6, 2016
___The Order for the Holy Eucharist___
Announcements
Processional Hymn
(Land of Rest) Hymn 585, 6 verses
The Collect for Purity
p. 67
The Decalogue
p. 68
Responses to the Decalogue
(Merbecke) Hymn 701
The Prayer for Protection and Preservation
p. 70
The Collect
p. 130
The Epistle
p. 130
Gradual Hymn
(St. Stephen) Hymn 249
The Holy Gospel
p. 131
The Nicene Creed
p. 71
Sermon Hymn
(Windsor) Hymn 284, v.1,4,5
THE HOMILY
Father Pothin
The Offertory Sentence
Offertory Hymn
(Rockingham) Hymn 337, v.1&2
Doxology
(Oand ld Hundredth) Hymn 139
Patriotic Hymn
(America – 4th verse) Hymn 141
Collect for the Armed Services
p. 41
Priest: Brethren, pray that my sacrifice and yours may be
acceptable to God the Father Almighty.
People: The Lord receive this sacrifice at thy hands, to the
praise and glory of His Name; both to our benefit
and that of all His holy Church. Amen.
Prayer for the Whole State of Christ’s Church
p. 74
The Invitation
p. 75
The General Confession
p. 75
The Absolution
p. 76
The Comfortable Words
p. 76
Sursum Corda and Proper Preface
p. 76
Sanctus and Benedictus qui venit
(Willan) Hymn 797
The Prayer of Consecration
p. 80
The Lord’s Prayer
p. 82
Agnus Dei
(Merbecke) Hymn 706
The Prayer of Humble Access
p. 82
All (3 times): Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under
my roof, but speak the word only and my soul shall be healed.
THE COMMUNION OF THE PEOPLE
Communion Hymn
The Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Blessing
The Holy Gospel (John 1)
Recessional Hymn
The Closing Prayer
(Luise) Hymn 190, v.1&2
p. 83
p. 84
p. 97
(St. Columba) Hymn 345, 6 verses
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Thank you for worshiping with us at St. Michael the Archangel
Anglican Catholic Church. Please join us after the service for
refreshment and fellowship.
Altar flowers are given by Gail Osburn to the glory of God and in
loving memory of Robert D. Osburn, Jr., and Edwin and Erline
Mullison.
Father Pothin will be out of town next Sunday, March 13. We
will have morning prayer and his homily will be read.
During Lent, midweek Mass and Bible study will continue at 11am
on Wednesdays, and Stations of the Cross at 6:30 pm Fridays.
Father Pothin will hear confessions on Sundays and Wednesdays in
Lent, except next Sunday.
The Vestry would like to remind everyone that because the Annual
Parish Meeting failed to meet the quorum of 15 members, the
official meeting has been rescheduled for Palm Sunday, March 20,
immediately following the service. Because we covered some of
the Parish news at our unofficial meeting last Sunday, it shouldn’t
take too long—we’ll be electing a new Vestry member and
delegates for the Synod, with some additional brief reports from the
Commissions. Please be sure to come so that we can conduct our
business.
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Father Pothin will be holding an Easter retreat on Saturday, March
19, from 10:30 to 3:30, in Lovettsville, Virginia. If you wish to
attend, let Judy Warner know today, at [email protected]. The
retreat is free; lunch is $20, or you may bring your own.
EASTER FLOWERS
Easter is fast approaching and we need to prepare for an
appropriate floral display on that glorious day. Offerings received
by check with the notation “Easter Flowers” can be placed in the
plate on Sundays. Cash can be given in the same way in a marked
envelope. If you wish your flower offering to be given as a
memorial, please print clearly the name(s) as you wish it/them to
appear in the Easter bulletin. Please remember that flowers need to
be ordered in advance so don’t wait until the last minute. If you
have questions, please see Deborah LaGarde or Brice Verdier.
St. Michael The Archangel
Anglican Church
Frederick, Maryland
A Parish of the Anglican Catholic Church
Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic States
Please send your announcements for the bulletin should be sent to
Judy Warner at [email protected] by Saturday morning each
week.
St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Catholic Church
Meeting at Braddock Lutheran Church,
6938 North Clifton Rd. Frederick, Maryland (240) 397-9782
ACC: www.anglicancatholic.org
Church: www.stmichaelacc.org
Sunday service at 11:30am; Wednesday service at 11:00am
To listen to our masses live, call 605-475-6709, code 9945004#.
Fr. Pothin Ngyele, Priest-in-Charge – (301) 514-3478
Fr. Arthur Woolley, Rector Emeritus
Organist: Roberta Windle
The Vestry
Kevin Air
(301) 371-7531
Doug Brown (410) 775-7763
Brice Verdier (301) 644-1995
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Cover art:
Coptic icon of the miracle of five loaves and two fishes.
The Fourth Sunday in Lent
March 6, 2016
Great is our Lord, and great is his power,
yea, and his wisdom is infinite. (Ps.147)
FATHER POTHIN’S REFLECTION
FOR THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT
Miracles happen
Miracles always involve the impossible - otherwise they wouldn't be
miracles! Impossible, however is a relative term. What may be an
insurmountable obstacle to one person may well be within the realm
of capability of another. But there are supernatural miracles - the
ones where it requires divine intervention to bring about the
solution. That is the kind we are dealing with in today's gospel.
Here, we have the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000. Feeding that
many people without adequate resources is quite a challenge.
The Lord Likes to Begin Where We Are and with what we have.
Often the Lord wants to show us that many of the problems we face
are too big for us to handle. At the same time, He wants us to offer
whatever resources we might have as a part of the solution. In the
economy of the kingdom, this is how it always seems to begin.
When Moses was facing the daunting task of leading the children of
Israel, God asked him a question. "What do you have in your
hand?" God took that rod as unique point of contact with the power
of God manifesting on the earth. As Scripture later declared, the
Rod of Moses had become the Rod of God.
One thing needs to be said about God's intervention, it cannot be
reduced to a mere formula. The miracle (the feeding of thousands)
was not worked from nothing, but from a first modest sharing of
what a simple lad had brought with him. Jesus does not ask us for
what we do not have. Rather, he makes us see that if each person
offers the little she has the miracle can always be repeated: God is
capable of multiplying our small acts of love and making us share in
his gift.
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Our Lord does not wish us to remain without doing anything if
the instruments which we have at our disposal are insufficient or
even scarce. Jesus asks us for faith, obedience, daring and
always to do whatever we can; not to omit using any human
means that is available to us and at the same time to count on
Him, conscious that our possibilities will always be very small.
Andrew gave Jesus all there was available, and Jesus miraculously fed
those five thousand people and still had something left over. It is
exactly the same with your lives.
Left alone to face the difficult challenges of life today, you feel
conscious of your inadequacy and afraid of what the future may hold
for you. But what I say to you is this: place your lives in the hands of
Jesus. He will accept you, and bless you, and he will make such use of
your lives as will be beyond your greatest expectations!
In other words: surrender yourselves, like so many loaves and fishes,
into the all-powerful, sustaining hands of God and you will find
yourselves transformed with "newness of life", with fullness of life
Don't wait until you have all the human means, don't wait till all
difficulties disappear. On the supernatural plane there is always fruit:
Our Lord sees that; He blesses our efforts and He multiplies them.
Fr Pothin
March 6, 2016