Good Shepherd, Sundance, May 2017 Newsletter
Church of the Good Shepherd 602 East Main ** PO Box 246 Sundance, WY 82729 May 2017 ** Volume 14 Issue 2 oooooooooooooooo SERVICE LEADERS
------------------------------BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES in MAY This listing in the newsletter is your opportunity to greet these celebrants on their special day.
1, Cliff Moore - 1, Josiah Redd – 8, Julie Christy - 8, Dalyce Sellers -10, Judy Hamm - 15, Irene & Allan Ward – 16, Brianna Long - 20, Kelsey Cliver Skogstad – 23, Teresa & Bruce Brown – 24, Marilyn Christensen - 24, Kim Heaster – 28, Janet & Mike Hutchinson 28, Dalyce - & Mike Sellers – 28, Ronda & Brad Fox – 28, Susan & Mike Brewer ================== ==== Words from Fr. Steve: There are two staples of a
healthy spiritual diet in our tradition: the Daily Office and the Eucharist. The Daily Office is our version of what Evangelicals might call their “quiet time”. As the name indicates, the Office is meant to be practiced every day. Our current prayer book provides services for Morning, Noon, Evening, and Bedtime. Its roots are in the monasteries, dating back to ancient times. Even today, in our monasteries, the monks rise every day to pray and read Scripture. They repeat this pattern around the clock, seven times a day. Basically, the job of a monk or nun is to be a full-time intercessor. Our churches often employ full-time pastors for leadership, administration, preaching, worship, youth, and children… but why do we not encounter pastors whose whole ministry is prayer? Strip away the mystique surrounding monastic life [continued on back]
A Blessed Easter Season
7 – HE – 9:30 – Rev C Moore, A Delgado, G Ryan, J Moore 14– MP – 9:30 am – G Ryan, S Brewer, K Daves, 21 – HE – 9:30 am – Rev. S Christy, S Brewer, D Sellers, C Moore 28 – HE – Rev. S Christy, A Delgado, G Ryan, S Brewer OooooooooooooooooooooO
DATES in MAY 7 – Holy Eucharist 14 – Morning Prayer 14 – Mother’s Day 21 – Holy Eucharist 28 – Holy Eucharist -----------Prayer for use by a sick Person: O God, the source of all health: So fill my heart with faith in your love, that with calm expectancy I may make room for your power to possess me, and gracefully accept your healing; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ---Page 461, BCP 000000000000000
From Guideposts: “Time is not measured by clocks, but by moments. An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it is going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming. Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. I believe that God embedded the miraculous in the ordinary and it is our task to discover it and celebrate it.” WwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwW The Church Prayer List====If you have a name that should be added – or removed – please let a Daughter of the King know. The women in particular are Annemarie Delgado or JoAnne Moore
_________________ “Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication.” Ps.130:1
Words from Fr. Steve, continued
and that is what you have: people who have given their whole lives to the work of prayer. When practiced faithfully, the Daily Office causes us to step back from the hectic rhythm of life to remember that we are ever in God’s presence. A famous monk called this “the practice of the presence of God”. The Offices contain prayers of Thanksgiving, Intercession, Confession, Adoration, and Self-offering. They contain copious readings of Scripture for study and reflection. They leave room for holy silence, which is so often lacking in our hectic world. In the service, we recite the Apostles’ Creed and the Lord’s Prayer as a way of calling us back to the center of Christian faith and spirituality. Above all, the center of the Daily Office is the praying of Psalms. These ancient prayers were the first hymnal of the Church. They express every imaginable emotion. As prayers from Scripture, they are especially interesting because they are simultaneously God’s Word to us and our words to God. Reading them as one’s own prayers engages us in a holy conversation. The other staple of our healthy spiritual diet is the Eucharist. In our churches, we celebrate this mystery every Sunday. We can no more imagine a church service without Communion than Protestants can imagine a service without reading from the Bible. It just wouldn’t be church! This is the high point of every service. For us, this is so much more than an occasional remembrance that Jesus died for us. It is where we experience the risen Lord. This is why I have come to love the worshipful liturgy of the Episcopal Church. This is home for me. Blessings, Fr. Steve oooooooooooooooooooooo The newsletter is usually made available on the Monday after the last Sunday of the month.
I’ve Learned ==
THAT money doesn’t buy class. THAT to ignore the facts doesn’t change the facts. THAT I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help that person in any other way THAT just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.. ++++++++++++++++ ***Please pray for the continuing needs of
Keith, Claudis, Alan, Randy, Lannie, Stan, Greg, Dick, Cathy, Elaine, Cori, Cliff, Jen, Lisa, Hein, Eva, Joanne, Riley, Teddy, Judy, Andrea, Hap, Marcia, James, Rose Zella, Donald, Nancy, Sarah and Baby, Chris, Suzy, Rick, Brian, Ken. Lorri Ane, Jim & Marilyn, Dale and Family and anyone who has a special need for healing grace.
------------------------------BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES in MAY This listing in the newsletter is your opportunity to greet these celebrants on their special day.
1, Cliff Moore - 1, Josiah Redd – 8, Julie Christy - 8, Dalyce Sellers -10, Judy Hamm - 15, Irene & Allan Ward – 16, Brianna Long - 20, Kelsey Cliver Skogstad – 23, Teresa & Bruce Brown – 24, Marilyn Christensen - 24, Kim Heaster – 28, Janet & Mike Hutchinson 28, Dalyce - & Mike Sellers – 28, Ronda & Brad Fox – 28, Susan & Mike Brewer ================== ==== Words from Fr. Steve: There are two staples of a
healthy spiritual diet in our tradition: the Daily Office and the Eucharist. The Daily Office is our version of what Evangelicals might call their “quiet time”. As the name indicates, the Office is meant to be practiced every day. Our current prayer book provides services for Morning, Noon, Evening, and Bedtime. Its roots are in the monasteries, dating back to ancient times. Even today, in our monasteries, the monks rise every day to pray and read Scripture. They repeat this pattern around the clock, seven times a day. Basically, the job of a monk or nun is to be a full-time intercessor. Our churches often employ full-time pastors for leadership, administration, preaching, worship, youth, and children… but why do we not encounter pastors whose whole ministry is prayer? Strip away the mystique surrounding monastic life [continued on back]
A Blessed Easter Season
7 – HE – 9:30 – Rev C Moore, A Delgado, G Ryan, J Moore 14– MP – 9:30 am – G Ryan, S Brewer, K Daves, 21 – HE – 9:30 am – Rev. S Christy, S Brewer, D Sellers, C Moore 28 – HE – Rev. S Christy, A Delgado, G Ryan, S Brewer OooooooooooooooooooooO
DATES in MAY 7 – Holy Eucharist 14 – Morning Prayer 14 – Mother’s Day 21 – Holy Eucharist 28 – Holy Eucharist -----------Prayer for use by a sick Person: O God, the source of all health: So fill my heart with faith in your love, that with calm expectancy I may make room for your power to possess me, and gracefully accept your healing; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ---Page 461, BCP 000000000000000
From Guideposts: “Time is not measured by clocks, but by moments. An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it is going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming. Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. I believe that God embedded the miraculous in the ordinary and it is our task to discover it and celebrate it.” WwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwW The Church Prayer List====If you have a name that should be added – or removed – please let a Daughter of the King know. The women in particular are Annemarie Delgado or JoAnne Moore
_________________ “Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication.” Ps.130:1
Words from Fr. Steve, continued
and that is what you have: people who have given their whole lives to the work of prayer. When practiced faithfully, the Daily Office causes us to step back from the hectic rhythm of life to remember that we are ever in God’s presence. A famous monk called this “the practice of the presence of God”. The Offices contain prayers of Thanksgiving, Intercession, Confession, Adoration, and Self-offering. They contain copious readings of Scripture for study and reflection. They leave room for holy silence, which is so often lacking in our hectic world. In the service, we recite the Apostles’ Creed and the Lord’s Prayer as a way of calling us back to the center of Christian faith and spirituality. Above all, the center of the Daily Office is the praying of Psalms. These ancient prayers were the first hymnal of the Church. They express every imaginable emotion. As prayers from Scripture, they are especially interesting because they are simultaneously God’s Word to us and our words to God. Reading them as one’s own prayers engages us in a holy conversation. The other staple of our healthy spiritual diet is the Eucharist. In our churches, we celebrate this mystery every Sunday. We can no more imagine a church service without Communion than Protestants can imagine a service without reading from the Bible. It just wouldn’t be church! This is the high point of every service. For us, this is so much more than an occasional remembrance that Jesus died for us. It is where we experience the risen Lord. This is why I have come to love the worshipful liturgy of the Episcopal Church. This is home for me. Blessings, Fr. Steve oooooooooooooooooooooo The newsletter is usually made available on the Monday after the last Sunday of the month.
I’ve Learned ==
THAT money doesn’t buy class. THAT to ignore the facts doesn’t change the facts. THAT I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help that person in any other way THAT just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.. ++++++++++++++++ ***Please pray for the continuing needs of
Keith, Claudis, Alan, Randy, Lannie, Stan, Greg, Dick, Cathy, Elaine, Cori, Cliff, Jen, Lisa, Hein, Eva, Joanne, Riley, Teddy, Judy, Andrea, Hap, Marcia, James, Rose Zella, Donald, Nancy, Sarah and Baby, Chris, Suzy, Rick, Brian, Ken. Lorri Ane, Jim & Marilyn, Dale and Family and anyone who has a special need for healing grace.
