Time and Talent Sunday, August 28th
August 10, 2011
Do you know all the ministries that All Saints offers and the many opportunities you have to volunteer?
Join us on August 28th following the 11:15 AM service for a potluck lunch and a chance to learn more about all of the parish’s ministries. Representatives will be available to answer questions and discuss their ministries as well as highlight volunteer opportunities.
Whether you want to find a new volunteer opportunity, to become familiar with everything All Saints offers, or simply to enjoy some good food and fellowship, Time and Talents Sunday is the place to be!
Bring your favorite dish and be prepared to see how much All Saints does.
Hear about Our New Building Plans
August 8, 2011
Ken Donoughe, architect, of Raba-Kistner, will brief the All Saints congregation on his concept drawings for a new, larger, Anglican styled church on our current property. The briefing will take place on August 21, in Ballard Hall, after the 9 AM and 11:15 AM services and will last about 30 minutes, including questions. Ken is a very experienced architect, a good Christian and has produced a fine overall Improved All Saints concept for us.
Liturgy Lesson for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity: Sanctus Bells
August 7, 2011
Sanctus bells are chimes rung during the Sanctus [Holy, Holy, Holy] and have been part of worship in the Holy Eucharist for over 800 years. At All Saints, we ring them just before the consecration, signaling we’re about to enter the holiest portions of the service—tasking us to devotion to the Lord’s Presence as the priest elevates the consecrated host and chalice. It’s also a joyful noise to the Lord, obedient to Scripture, and heralds the supernatural at the Holy Table, when we call the Holy Spirit down into the elements at the Epiclesis, transforming them from mere wine and bread to containing the Real Presence of the Lord! Bells are mentioned in the Old Testament—notably in Exodus 28:33-35, describing Aaron’s vestments to enter the Holy of Holies: “On its skirts you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, around its skirts, with bells of gold between them, a golden bell and a pomegranate, round about on the skirts of the robe.” They were likely used for two reasons. First, worshipping with a joyful noise to God, (Psalm 98:4) and, secondly, apotropaic—warding off unclean spirits—to protect Aaron as he entered God’s Presence. They also signified adoration to God during early times, according to Zechariah 14:20. Ancient cymbals in Psalm 150:5-6 resembled modern bells and led to using bells in the Church as early as the fifth century, when Saint Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, rang them to call monks to worship. Sounding bells during Communion derives from the tintinnabula (tiny bells) in ancient Judaic worship and were brought indoors by English churches, who originated our custom here. They are, then, both joyful and reverent, tasking us to devotion and attention to an act of our supernatural God—granting us His Presence in the Communion, so we can have His life in us by partaking. Consequently, we are very orthodox (rightly glorifying) when we join the psalmist in saying, “Praise Him with sounding cymbals; praise Him with loud clashing cymbals! Let everything that breathes praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!”
Prayer
August 5, 2011
“The event certainly has been decided—in a sense it was decided ‘before all worlds’. But one of the things taken into account in deciding it, and therefore one of the things that really cause it to happen, may be this very prayer that we are now offering. Thus, shocking as it may sound, I conclude that we can at noon become part causes of an event occurring at ten a.m.” ~ C.S. Lewis, Miracles
“There is no question whether an event has happened because of your prayer. When the event you prayed for occurs your prayer has always contributed to it. When the opposite event occurs your prayer has been ignored; it has been considered and refused, for your ultimate good and the good of the whole universe.” ~ C.S. Lewis, Miracles
