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The Memorial Church of St.Luke, the Beloved Physician
150 Years of Ministry
1861-2011
1946 Welsh Road
Philadelphia, PA 19115
215.969.3645 (office)[email protected]
www.stlukesbustleton.webs.com
SERVICESSundays:10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
with musicFollowed immediately byrefreshments and fellowship inthe parish hall.
Wednesdays:7:30 p.m. Healing Eucharist
ACTIVITIES:
Contemplative Prayer
W ednesdays 6:45 p.m.
in the church office
Lenten Adult Forum: Mar 5,
19, Apr 2 at 7pm.
Inside this issue:Birthdays............................... 4Calendar................................9Holiday House rates..............5News...................................3,4Phila Chorale.........................8Plant Sale...........................6,7Prayer requests.....................4Rectors Message...............1,2Reminders.............................2Those Who Serve..................3Welcome Visitors.................. 2
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The Winged OxThe W inged Ox is the Ancient Symbol of St. Luke, the Beloved P hysician
A Newsletter for the People of The MemorialChurch of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician April 2012 Issue 136
Holy Week and Easter
One of the things that always troubles me about this time in the
Churchs calendar (Lent, Holy Week and Easter) is that we seem
too anxious to get to Easter and so we miss the opportunities that
Lent and Holy Week provide to us for reflection and self-understanding.
When I say we I include myself in that equation. Since becoming apriest I find that I am often focusing on whats coming up and I spend too
little time focusing on whats happening right now. Not being present to
what is happening right now is never a good thing but particularly in thecontext of Lent and Holy Week when reflection can be so fruitful.
This year seems to have been particularly difficult for me in this
connection. There have been many things occurring and I have allowedmyself far too many distractions. Does that sound familiar to any of you?
Are you as susceptible to distractionsnecessary or unnecessaryas I
am? But, of course, that is the stuff of human life, isnt it?
I think we can take some comfort in the fact that during Holy Week Jesus
must have felt the same way. Knowing, as he did, that he is approaching
the end we can imagine that he might have wished for a little time forpeaceful reflection. But when we look to the gospels we know that there
was no time during his last week for peaceful reflection. In fact, Jesusfinal week seems to have been filled with activity and the anxiety that
accompanies having too much to do. So perhaps in our business we can
reflect that Jesus too was stretched far too thin even in the last hours of hislife. So thin that even the hour spent in the garden with his Father was
painful and distracted because his Father did not seem to listen and his
friends were too sleepy to care about what he was going through.
So it seems that we can use our very distractedness and busyness as a pointof contact with Jesus. Perhaps we can snatch a minute or two during the
days ahead to reflect upon how our lives are like Jesus life even in this
most mundane of details.
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WELCOME VISITORS!Are you a new reader?Come visit us! Were so g lad that you picked up this publication; we
hope you will find it interesting and wo rth your time and we ho pe
you will take the next step and worship with us sometime. If you
are worshiping with us, we welcome you! W hatever your religious
background, and however you have co me to be here, we welcome
you to St. Lukes. Please let us know who you are by signing our
guest book (by the doo r) or filling out a card found in the pews. You
can hand your card to an usher, or put it in the collection plate when
it comes later.
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There is another question that I would like us to reflect upon this week, too, if we have a chance. During
this Lenten season I have been asking myself the question What is there when I am not? That may
seem like a silly question and yet I think there is much to be learned from it. We know from the gospels
and Paul and the later Christian tradition that Jesus emptied himself and took the form of a slave. That
act of self-emptying (kenosis in Greek) is of the first importance for understanding who God is and whowe are. By emptying himself as he did, Jesus made room for God to be absolutely present in his life.
And he also made room for you and me to be present in his life. For this reason, it seems to me to beworth asking the question What is there when I am not? When I empty myself what is there? Orperhaps we should ask Who is there when I am not?
When you ask yourself this question, you might also consider what is keeping you from the act of
emptying. Those things that are keeping you from it are all not-God; not because they are inherently evil
but because you have attached your little self to those things and made them into your god. Jesusresponse to the question was complete surrender; not because that is what he wanted but because that is
what enabled him to make space for God and for us. What stands between you and complete surrender?
What stands between you and God? I believe that an answer to this question and a struggle to removethe obstacle will enable us to fully experience the resurrection to new life.
May you have a blessed Holy Week and Easter season!Father Tim
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REMINDERS:The deadline for the
MAY Winged Oxwill
be APRIL 20.
Outreach
St. Luke's is supporting
two outreach programs,
each vital to thecommunity. They are
the Somerton Food
Bank and area shelters.
We need your continuedsupport to continue
these worthy projects.
The Food Bank isalways in need of cerealand cash donations to
buy meats and maintain
operating expenses.
The shelters lookforward to the Wawa
gift cards provided by
your donations!
Those Who Serve
Sunday, April 1
Chalice Bearer: J. Litzke
Readers: C. Martino, L. Carter
Ushers: J. Brambilla, T. Truesdale
Altar Guild: S &C Carmody
Coffee Hour: Espositos, M.Geiger, A.
ThorpeCounters: J Brambilla, R Wh aley
Maundy Thursday April 5
Chalice Bearer:J. Oxenford
Readers: C. Martino, L. Carter
Sunday, April 8
Chalice Bearer: J. Brambilla
Readers: J. Gardner, K. Gibson
Ushers: T. Truesdale, J. Litzke
Altar Guild: B&G. Hair, J. Woods
Coffee Hour: NO COFFEE H OUR
Counters: A. Thorpe
Sunday, April 15
Chalice Bearer: S. Carmody
Readers: M. G eiger, J. Iannotti
Ushers: T. Truesdale, J. Litzke
Altar Guild: L Carter, R Fischer
Coffee Hour: H Ro lland, N Hurley, S
Remick, R Whaley, Emma
Counters: B & D Shifflett
Sunday, April 22
Chalice Bearer: L. Carter
Readers: B. Kaufold, J. Bramb illaUshers: J. Litzke, T. Truesdale
Altar Guild: K Kenny, S Nesbitt
Coffee Hour: B. Kaufold, G. Shahene
Counters: J Brambilla, R Wh aley
Sunday, April 29
Chalice Bearer: J. Gardner
Readers: C. Martino, S. Carmody
Ushers: J. Brambilla, T. Truesdale
Altar Guild: J.Oxenford, C Cotugno
Coffee Hour: G Hair, K Kenny, S
Nesbitt, J & C Szczur
Counters: A. Thorpe
NEWS
Church School / Nursery
The Church school children will
be participating in the Palm
Sunday procession into church
on April 1st.
On Easter Sunday, April 8th,
they will hand out "Alleluia"
strips, which they have colored
and decorated, to people as they
enter church. This is to
celebrate the return of
"Alleluias" in the service, which
have been missing during Lent.
The annual Easter Egg Hunt
will be held following the
service. Thank you to all who
contributed eggs and candy for
the event. Due to these special
celebrations, there will be no
Church S chool classes either
Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday.
Classes will resume on Sunday,
April 15th.
The lessons for April will focus
on the meaning of E aster and its
symbols, through activity
books, art, and song.The
children will share how they
celebrated the season at church
and at home.
The theme of Easter is the
promise of new life, as in the
signs of spring and the
resurrection of Jesus.
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PRAYERS PLEASE
Members: Dorothy,
Elaine, Ruth B., Nancy
H., Edna, Alan, Mabel,
Ruth L., Louise, JoanW., William L, Robert B, Patricia L,
Nancy Martha, Llyn C., Katherine G.
Friends and Family: David, Joyce,
David, Avery, Katherine, Malcolm,
Amarante, Greg, David, Martha, Amy,
Hendricks family, Cinnamon, Amber,
Joline, Elisa, Larry, Carol, Anthony,
James, Myles family
Those Serving in the Armed Forces:
William B. William S, Chris G.,Kevin M., Andrew R., Chris K.,John R.,
Chris R., Eric B., Rob D ., Jerry F.,
Thomas H., Tom B.,Casey R., Jermaine,
Bradley, Michael, Maxx, Eric J., John T.,
George M., Steven M.
APRIL
3-Cheri Carmody
7-Lisa-Jo Woods-Kriss
11-Joan Mitchell
14-Betty Kaufold
16-Tom Truesdale
20-Joan Geiger
21-Caroline Cotugno
Andrew Gibson26-Charles Geiger
27-Michael Esposito III
28-Glenn Bernhardt
NEWS
Palm Sunday: April 1 at 10:30am
Stations of the Cross 6:45pm, Healing Eucharist
7:30pm: Wed April 4
Maundy Thursday: April 5 at 7:00pm
Good Friday: April 6 at 2pm
Easter Sunday H oly Eucharist April 8 at 10:30am
The Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to the
Franklin Institute!
In 1947, a shepherd stumbled upon a hidden cave along
the shore of the Dead Sea. Concealed inside were
ancient scrolls that had not been seen for 2,000 years.After extensive excavation, a total of 972 remarkably
preserved scrolls were found, including the earliest
Biblical texts ever discovered. Now known as the Dead
Sea Scrolls, they have been called the most significant
archaeological find of the last century. This exhibit will
be at the Franklin Institute from May 12 to October 14,
2012. See Stacey if you are interested in going to see
this impressive display!
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APRIL 2012Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat
1- Palm Sunday
10:30a:HolyEucharist
11:45: Coffee Hr. In
Hall
2-AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P
7pm-Adult
Forum in
church Office
3-1pm-UAWmeeting in Hall
AA Meetings in
Hall 1P & 7P &
4-AAMeetings in
Hall 1P & 7P
&8 P 6:45P
Stations of the
Cross in hall
7:30P -
HolyEucharist
with Healing
in Church
5- AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P
&8P
7p- Maundy
Thursday
service in
Church
6-AA M eetingin Hall 1P
2p- Good
Friday
Service in
Church
7-10a Yoga11:30a-Al-Anon
Mtg in Hall
8-Easter
Sunday10:30a:HolyEucharist
11:30a-Easter Egg
Hunt
9-AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P
7:00p-Vestry
Meeting in Office
10-AA Meetings in
Hall 1P & 7P
&8 P
11-AAMeetings in
Hall 1P & 7P
&8 P 6:45P
Contemplative
prayer in
Ofiice 7:30P -
HolyEucharist
with Healing
in Church
12 -AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P
&8P
13 AA Meetingin Hall 1P
14 10a- Yoga inHall
11:30a-Al-Anon
Mtg in Hall
15-2nd Sunday
of Easter
10:30a:HolyEucharist
10:20:Church School
11:45: Coffee Hr. In
Hall
16-AA Meetings
in Hall1P & 7P
17 AAMeetings in
Hall 1P & 7P
&8 P
18 AAMeetings in
Hall 1P & 7P
&8 P
6:45P-
Contemplative
prayer 7:30P -
HolyEucharist
with Healing
in Church
19 -AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P
&8P
20 -AAMeetings in
Hall 1P
21-10a-Yoga inHall
11:30a-Al-Anon
Mtg in Hall
22- 3rd Sunday
of Easter10:30a:HolyEucharist
10:20:Church School
11:45: Coffee Hr. In
Hall
23-AA Meetings
in Hall1P & 7P
24 AAMeetings in
Hall 1P & 7P
&8 P
25 AAMeetings in
Hall 1P & 7P&8P6:45-
Contemplative
prayer
7:30P -Holy
Eucharist with
Healing in
Church
26-AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P
&8P
27 -A AMeetings in
Hall 1P
28-10a-Yoga inHall
11:30a-Al-AnonMtg in Hall
29-4th Sunday
of Easter10:30a: Holy
Eucharist
10:20:Church School
11:45: Coffee Hr. In
Hall
30-AA Meetingsin Hall1P & 7P
27 AAMeetings in
Hall 1P & 7P
&8 P
28 AAMeetings in
Hall 1P & 7P
&8 P
6:45
Contemplative
prayer 7:30P -HolyEucharist
with Healing
in Church
29-AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P
&8P 9
30 -A AMeetings in
Hall 1P
31-10a-Yoga inHall
11:30a-Al-Anon
Mtg in Hall
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The Memorial Church of St. Luke the Beloved Physician1946 Welsh Road
Philadelphia, PA 19115
215-969-3645
www.stlukesbustleton.webs.com
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