March 12, 2017
UPCOMING AT MT. CALVARY March – April 2017 March 12 March 16 April 13 April 13 April 14 April 15 April 16 April 19
Vestry Meeting at 11:30 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Barley’s Group Meeting Maundy Thursday Potluck Dinner @ 6 PM (more details to come) Maundy Thursday services at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Good Friday services at noon and 7 p.m., Easter Eve service at 5 p.m. Easter Day services at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. VBS Team will meet each Wednesday evening from 6:30 -8:30 IMPORTANT CONTACT INFORMATION: The Rev. Cn. John McDowell, Supply Priest cell: (717) 440-1309 home: (717) 243-4417 email: [email protected] for pastorally urgent concerns Cindy Spigelmyer, Acting Parish Administrator parish office: (717) 737-9834 [email protected]
The Second Sunday in Lent - March 12, 2017 Organ Prelude – Aria from Organ Concerto #10
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THE WORD OF GOD Processional - (all) – Hymn #401 Call to Worship – The Greatest Love – Luke Waldner Introit – Holy God – Hymn S102 The Collect, Lesson, Psalm and Epistle – Leaflet insert Gradual Hymn – (all) – Hymn #635 Gospel – John 3:1-17 Sermon – Canon McDowell Nicene Creed – Prayer Book, p. 358 Prayers of the People IV – Prayer Book, p. 388 Confession – Prayer Book, page 360 THE HOLY COMMUNION Offertory – Bread, Wine and Other Gifts What Wondrous Love - arr. Larter Great Thanksgiving A – Prayer Book, page 361 Sanctus – Schubert Breaking of the Bread Agnus Dei – Schubert Ministration of Communion My Faith Looks Up to Thee - Mason Postcommunion Prayer – Prayer Book, p. 365 Recessional – (all) – Hymn #473
MCP COMMUNITY NEWS: Coffee Hour this morning is presented by the VBS Team. Come down to see where we are going this year. Also, you can find out how you can help by volunteering or donating. Together we will offer a great experience to our youngest parishioners and neighbors. See you downstairs! MT CALVARY BOOK CLUB: Meets in the parlor the 1st Sunday of each month following the 10am service. Watch the website for upcoming books. MT. CALVARY WOMEN’S STUDY & FELLOWSHIP GROUP – Meetings are usually 2nd & 4th Wed evenings at 7pm in the Parlor. Upcoming dates: Mar 22nd. The book title currently selected is “24 Hours That Changed the World”. It is about the day before the crucifixion. For more info, please contact Joan Neyhart at 774-2010. OUTREACH: Shelter Team events: Thank you to the following volunteers who provided overnight supervision at the Men’s Shelter in Harrisburg this past week: Dave Lehtimaki, Tom Hollingshead, Mike Hund, Kurt Carr, Ike Schlossberg, John Brady, George Park, Barry Wilt & Brian Fogarty. To sign up or for more info, see the bulletin board and/or email Brian Fogarty at [email protected]. Family Promise Update –Our next hosting event will be the week of May 21. Look for more information to come. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: If you are interested in helping with Sunday School, Nursery, or any of the Youth activities during this time of transition, please sign up on the bulletin board in the narthex or see Shannon Sweeney or Marybeth Lehtimaki.
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The Altar Arrangement is given to the glory of God in memory of Dolores Benavides and Albert Johnson by Aimee and Frisel Benavides. The weekly Healing Service is held on Thursdays at 10am.
Youth Group: Youth Group is this evening 3/12 5:30 to 7:00. Come join us and find out about all the cool stuff we are doing. As their call to worship for Easter the youth will be studying: 2nd Sunday: The Greatest Love, 3rd Light of the World, 4th Saying Goodbye, 5th In the Garden, 6th A Royal Reception (Palm), Good Friday Day of Darkness, Easter Up from the Grave He Arose.
ACOLYTES/CRUCIFERS: Thanks to all who have volunteered to acolyte or crucifer. We are so excited to have you on board! If you haven’t signed up, but are interested in joining this fun group, just let us know! Please contact Kurt or Heather Waldner at [email protected] if you have any questions. ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: Please remember to bring in canned goods and other non-perishable foods for the basket in the narthex. Also, monetary donations are welcome for the Ecumenical Food Pantry and that box is also in the narthex. Thank you! MAUNDY THURSDAY POTLUCK DINNER at 6:00 PM on April 13th, preceding the 7 pm service. FROM THE OFFICE: PLEDGE ENVELOPES – please contact the office if you need pledge envelopes or have not received them yet. SIGN-UP SHEETS FOR THE REV. DR. BARLEY’S small group meetings are on the Narthex table. One group was held at 11 am Thursday, March 9 (following the Healing Eucharist). The second will be held at 7 pm Thursday, March 16. Maximum number in a group is 25, so if you want to participate but all the spaces are filled, please add your name to an “overflow” list for either day-time or evening meetings, and we will try to arrange additional meetings.
COLLECT AND READINGS FOR MARCH 12, 2017 THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT THE COLLECT: O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. OLD TESTAMENT READING - Genesis 12:1-4a The Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. PSALM 121 I lift up my eyes to the hills; * from where is my help to come? My help comes from the Lord, * the maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved * and he who watches over you will not fall asleep. Behold, he who keeps watch over Israel * shall neither slumber nor sleep; The Lord himself watches over you; * the Lord is your shade at your right hand, So that the sun shall not strike you by day, * nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; * it is he who shall keep you safe. The Lord shall watch over your going out and your coming in, * from this time forth for evermore. THE EPISTLE - Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 What then are we to say was gained by Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due. But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.
For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation. For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”) —in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. THE GOSPEL – John 3:1-17 There was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
INSTALLATION OF THE VESTRY PRIEST: Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus, we are all baptized by the one Spirit into one Body, and given gifts for a variety of ministries for the common good. Our purpose is to commission these persons in the Name of God and of this congregation to the special ministry to which they are called. The Priest says to the congregation: Are these persons you are to present prepared by a commitment to Christ as Lord, by regular attendance at worship, and by the knowledge of their duties, to exercise their ministry to the honor of God, and the well-being of God's Church? CONGREGATION: We believe they are. The Priest then says to the Vestry: You have been called to the ministry of the Vestry in this congregation. Will you, as long as you are engaged in this work, perform it with diligence? VESTRY: We will. PRIEST: Will you faithfully and reverently execute the duties of your ministry to the honor of God, and the benefit of the members of this congregation? VESTRY: We will. The congregation then says: We present to you these persons to be admitted to the ministry of the vestry of the parish of Mount Calvary. PRIEST: Let us pray. Eternal God, the foundation of all wisdom and the source of all courage; Enlighten with your grace the Wardens and Vestry of this congregation, and so rule their minds, and guide their counsels, that in all things they may seek your glory and promote the mission of your Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN. In the Name of God and of this congregation, I commission each of you as members of the Vestry of the parish of Mount Calvary. In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. CONGREGATION: AMEN!
Vestry Meeting at 11:30 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Barley’s Group Meeting Maundy Thursday Potluck Dinner @ 6 PM (more details to come) Maundy Thursday services at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Good Friday services at noon and 7 p.m., Easter Eve service at 5 p.m. Easter Day services at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. VBS Team will meet each Wednesday evening from 6:30 -8:30 IMPORTANT CONTACT INFORMATION: The Rev. Cn. John McDowell, Supply Priest cell: (717) 440-1309 home: (717) 243-4417 email: [email protected] for pastorally urgent concerns Cindy Spigelmyer, Acting Parish Administrator parish office: (717) 737-9834 [email protected]
The Second Sunday in Lent - March 12, 2017 Organ Prelude – Aria from Organ Concerto #10
– Handel
THE WORD OF GOD Processional - (all) – Hymn #401 Call to Worship – The Greatest Love – Luke Waldner Introit – Holy God – Hymn S102 The Collect, Lesson, Psalm and Epistle – Leaflet insert Gradual Hymn – (all) – Hymn #635 Gospel – John 3:1-17 Sermon – Canon McDowell Nicene Creed – Prayer Book, p. 358 Prayers of the People IV – Prayer Book, p. 388 Confession – Prayer Book, page 360 THE HOLY COMMUNION Offertory – Bread, Wine and Other Gifts What Wondrous Love - arr. Larter Great Thanksgiving A – Prayer Book, page 361 Sanctus – Schubert Breaking of the Bread Agnus Dei – Schubert Ministration of Communion My Faith Looks Up to Thee - Mason Postcommunion Prayer – Prayer Book, p. 365 Recessional – (all) – Hymn #473
MCP COMMUNITY NEWS: Coffee Hour this morning is presented by the VBS Team. Come down to see where we are going this year. Also, you can find out how you can help by volunteering or donating. Together we will offer a great experience to our youngest parishioners and neighbors. See you downstairs! MT CALVARY BOOK CLUB: Meets in the parlor the 1st Sunday of each month following the 10am service. Watch the website for upcoming books. MT. CALVARY WOMEN’S STUDY & FELLOWSHIP GROUP – Meetings are usually 2nd & 4th Wed evenings at 7pm in the Parlor. Upcoming dates: Mar 22nd. The book title currently selected is “24 Hours That Changed the World”. It is about the day before the crucifixion. For more info, please contact Joan Neyhart at 774-2010. OUTREACH: Shelter Team events: Thank you to the following volunteers who provided overnight supervision at the Men’s Shelter in Harrisburg this past week: Dave Lehtimaki, Tom Hollingshead, Mike Hund, Kurt Carr, Ike Schlossberg, John Brady, George Park, Barry Wilt & Brian Fogarty. To sign up or for more info, see the bulletin board and/or email Brian Fogarty at [email protected]. Family Promise Update –Our next hosting event will be the week of May 21. Look for more information to come. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: If you are interested in helping with Sunday School, Nursery, or any of the Youth activities during this time of transition, please sign up on the bulletin board in the narthex or see Shannon Sweeney or Marybeth Lehtimaki.
Sending out +
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The Altar Arrangement is given to the glory of God in memory of Dolores Benavides and Albert Johnson by Aimee and Frisel Benavides. The weekly Healing Service is held on Thursdays at 10am.
Youth Group: Youth Group is this evening 3/12 5:30 to 7:00. Come join us and find out about all the cool stuff we are doing. As their call to worship for Easter the youth will be studying: 2nd Sunday: The Greatest Love, 3rd Light of the World, 4th Saying Goodbye, 5th In the Garden, 6th A Royal Reception (Palm), Good Friday Day of Darkness, Easter Up from the Grave He Arose.
ACOLYTES/CRUCIFERS: Thanks to all who have volunteered to acolyte or crucifer. We are so excited to have you on board! If you haven’t signed up, but are interested in joining this fun group, just let us know! Please contact Kurt or Heather Waldner at [email protected] if you have any questions. ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: Please remember to bring in canned goods and other non-perishable foods for the basket in the narthex. Also, monetary donations are welcome for the Ecumenical Food Pantry and that box is also in the narthex. Thank you! MAUNDY THURSDAY POTLUCK DINNER at 6:00 PM on April 13th, preceding the 7 pm service. FROM THE OFFICE: PLEDGE ENVELOPES – please contact the office if you need pledge envelopes or have not received them yet. SIGN-UP SHEETS FOR THE REV. DR. BARLEY’S small group meetings are on the Narthex table. One group was held at 11 am Thursday, March 9 (following the Healing Eucharist). The second will be held at 7 pm Thursday, March 16. Maximum number in a group is 25, so if you want to participate but all the spaces are filled, please add your name to an “overflow” list for either day-time or evening meetings, and we will try to arrange additional meetings.
COLLECT AND READINGS FOR MARCH 12, 2017 THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT THE COLLECT: O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. OLD TESTAMENT READING - Genesis 12:1-4a The Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. PSALM 121 I lift up my eyes to the hills; * from where is my help to come? My help comes from the Lord, * the maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved * and he who watches over you will not fall asleep. Behold, he who keeps watch over Israel * shall neither slumber nor sleep; The Lord himself watches over you; * the Lord is your shade at your right hand, So that the sun shall not strike you by day, * nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; * it is he who shall keep you safe. The Lord shall watch over your going out and your coming in, * from this time forth for evermore. THE EPISTLE - Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 What then are we to say was gained by Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due. But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.
For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation. For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”) —in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. THE GOSPEL – John 3:1-17 There was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things? Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
INSTALLATION OF THE VESTRY PRIEST: Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus, we are all baptized by the one Spirit into one Body, and given gifts for a variety of ministries for the common good. Our purpose is to commission these persons in the Name of God and of this congregation to the special ministry to which they are called. The Priest says to the congregation: Are these persons you are to present prepared by a commitment to Christ as Lord, by regular attendance at worship, and by the knowledge of their duties, to exercise their ministry to the honor of God, and the well-being of God's Church? CONGREGATION: We believe they are. The Priest then says to the Vestry: You have been called to the ministry of the Vestry in this congregation. Will you, as long as you are engaged in this work, perform it with diligence? VESTRY: We will. PRIEST: Will you faithfully and reverently execute the duties of your ministry to the honor of God, and the benefit of the members of this congregation? VESTRY: We will. The congregation then says: We present to you these persons to be admitted to the ministry of the vestry of the parish of Mount Calvary. PRIEST: Let us pray. Eternal God, the foundation of all wisdom and the source of all courage; Enlighten with your grace the Wardens and Vestry of this congregation, and so rule their minds, and guide their counsels, that in all things they may seek your glory and promote the mission of your Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN. In the Name of God and of this congregation, I commission each of you as members of the Vestry of the parish of Mount Calvary. In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. CONGREGATION: AMEN!
