THIS WEEK’S READINGS

Acts 2:1-21, Psalm 104:25-35, 37, Romans 8:14-17, John 14:8-17, 25-27

THIS WEEK’S WORSHIP SCHEDULE

Saturday
11 AM Mass of the Resurrection for Richard Landi

Sunday
10 AM The Holy Eucharist and Sunday School (bulletin)

Wednesday
9 AM The Holy Eucharist

SUNDAY SCHOOL . . . is held at 10 AM each Sunday for grade school age children (kindergarten to 5th grade). After their lesson and activity, the children will join the congregation for communion.

ABOUT THE DAY OF PENTECOST . . . Pentecost (in the Anglican tradition also called “Whitsunday”) is the second most important feast on the Christian calendar (only Easter ranks higher) and marks the last of “The Great Fifty Days” that comprise the celebratory Easter Season.  The Jewish faith has for millennia celebrated Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, which in ancient Greek was called “Pentecost”— fifty days after Passover (their liberation from bondage in Egypt)—which commemorates the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.  The Christian Pentecost falls fifty days after Easter, which is our Passover (“The Paschal Feast”, when the fallen world was liberated from bondage to sin and death) and celebrates the giving of the Holy Spirit to the disciples in the upper room (Acts 2:1), empowering them for ministry (as is recounted in the rest of the Book of Acts and the history of the Church since then).
 
The color for this day is red, for the Holy Spirit’s appearance as tongues of flame on the head of each of the disciples. The Paschal Candle returns to its place near the Baptismal Font and will be lit hereafter only for baptisms, symbolizing the new life we share in Christ, and at funerals, as a reminder of the Resurrection.

OUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR . . . . the sick and those in need, especially Ann Hopper, The Rev. James Warnke, priest,  Gary Stubbs, Nancy Mohr, Rae Palladino, Dave, Thomas Petrullo, Daniela Parisi, Michael Shumway, Chris Spilker, Gina DeMarsico, Suzanne Morris, Lauren Rosenthal, Charlotte Wilson, John Whitlock, and Gaylord Hitchcock, priest.

For those celebrating birthdays especially Cynthia Waneck (6/8), Patricia Landi (6/12), Liza Martin (6/14), and Jennifer Liddle (6/14) and those celebrating anniversaries.

For those receiving the sacrament of Baptism on June 22: Emma May Flynn and Charlotte Brendel Cox.

For those who have died especially Frank Reiser (6/8), Henry Bell (6/9), Hazel M. Law (6/9), Dorothy Ohlfest (6/9), Charles Hollister (6/10), Lillian K. Moore (6/10), Eliza F. Wood (6/10), Henry Hataier (6/11), Harold Louis Wright, Bishop (6/11), Joseph Cosetti (6/13), Gladys Randle ( 6/13), and June Gross (6/14).

PRAYER LIST REQUESTS . . . To add any names to the parish prayer list, please send an email to kmaccourt@gmail.com with the name of the person to be prayed for, your name and a brief description of the person’s health or other situation (note if long-term or chronic).  Names are listed for four weeks and then rotate off, but they can be added again as needed.  If you have questions, please speak with the wardens or Father Anthony.

Thank you to our volunteers for this Sunday

Warren Hirstius, crucifer
Evans Roache and Antonio Brugnoli, torches
Akin Okunlola, usher
Anne Palmer, Sunday School
Barbara Tait, reader
Leslie Gannelli and Theresa Okunlola, altar guild
Theresa Okunlola and Paula Ricca, coffee hour
Larry Sunden and Aelicia Yeates, counters