News and Announcements:
Sun Feb 12 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
*Chili Lunch – 1:00pm*
Tues Feb 14 Valentines Day
Wed Feb 15 Bible Study 4:00pm
Mid Week Eucharist 5:00-6:00pm
Celebration Band 6:30-7:15pm
Thur Feb 16 Brownie Troop meeting – 6-7:30pm
Choir practice 7:00pm
Fri Feb 17 Classics Luncheon, Gatling Point – noon
17- 18 Vestry Retreat
Sat Feb 18 Prayer Shawl meeting 10:00am
Sun Feb 19 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
"The flowers on the altar are given to the glory of God and in thanksgiving for the ministries of our rector, Gary."
Sundays at Four
Presents
Violinist Brendon Elliott in Recital
17 year old violinist performs a solo recital, Sunday, Feb. 26 at 4:00 pm hosted by Trinity United Methodist Church. This award winning performer first played in a Sundays at Four, “Terrific Teen Talent” program at age 13. After many solo performances with Virginia orchestras, concert master of several youth orchestras, a finalist in the National Sphinx Competition and numerous other awards, he returns to Smithfield to give a full recital – a major achievement for such a young musician.
Information call: 757-375-9140, or 675-5777. A free-will offering will be taken to support this concert.
Mardi Gras!
Celebrate the last Sunday of Epiphany
Join the Christ Church family
for a festival of mardi (fat) proportions!
- Sunday February
- 6:30 to 8:30
- Please bring pot luck or finger food to share and a little cash for donations for drinks.
- Wine, soda and a king cake will be provided.
- Entertaining music from ‘Broadway’
- Performers needed for Broadway acts. Please contact Heidi ASAP
· Finding Faith
· In the Wilderness
- Seekers Lenten Program
- With Marcus Borg*
- Christ Episcopal Church
- Join us this Lent for simple meals, fellowship, and an exploration of our personal faith and how we live it together.
- Monday nights
- February 27 – March 26, 2012
- 6:30 pm simple soup and salad supper
- 7 pm program
- 8;30 heading home
- * Marcus Borg is a Christian and theologian who straddles the Lutheran and Episcopal/Anglican traditions. His best known book is Meeting Jesus again for the first time
Reading February 12 9am
Reader: A reading from 1 Corinthians [9:24-27]
Paul compares Christian discipline to an athlete in training. We must constantly work at self-control as we strive for our heavenly prize.
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
You've all been to the stadium and seen the athletes race. Everyone runs; one wins. Run to win. All good athletes train hard. They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes and fades. You're after one that's gold eternally. I don't know about you, but I'm running hard for the finish line. I'm giving it everything I've got. No sloppy living for me! I'm staying alert and in top condition. I'm not going to get caught napping, telling everyone else all about it and then missing out myself.
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
Readings February 12 7.45 & 11am
+The First Lesson: The prophet Elisha tells Naaman, a commander of the Syrian army, what he must do to be healed of his leprosy. At first Naaman is distrustful, but he believes in the God of Israel when he is cured.
A Reading from 2 Kings [5:1-14]
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy. Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman's wife. She said to her mistress, "If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy." So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said. And the king of Aram said, "Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel."
He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments. He brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, "When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy." When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a
man of his leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me."
But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel." So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance of Elisha's house. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean." But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, "I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy! Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?" He turned and went away in a rage. But his servants approached and said to him, "Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, `Wash, and be clean'?" So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean
Reader: The Word of the Lord People: Thanks be to God
Psalm 30 Page 621, BCP
I will exalt you, O LORD,
because you have lifted me up *
and have not let my enemies triumph over me.
because you have lifted me up *
and have not let my enemies triumph over me.
O LORD my God, I cried out to you, *
and you restored me to health.
and you restored me to health.
You brought me up, O LORD, from the dead; *
you restored my life as I was going down to the grave.
you restored my life as I was going down to the grave.
Sing to the LORD, you servants of his; *
give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness.
give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness.
For his wrath endures but the twinkling of an eye, *
his favor for a lifetime.
his favor for a lifetime.
Weeping may spend the night, *
but joy comes in the morning.
but joy comes in the morning.
While I felt secure, I said,
"I shall never be disturbed. *
You, LORD, with your favor, made me as strong as the mountains."
"I shall never be disturbed. *
You, LORD, with your favor, made me as strong as the mountains."
Then you hid your face, *
and I was filled with fear.
and I was filled with fear.
I cried to you, O LORD; *
I pleaded with the Lord, saying,
I pleaded with the Lord, saying,
"What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the Pit? *
will the dust praise you or declare your faithfulness?
will the dust praise you or declare your faithfulness?
Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me; *
O LORD, be my helper."
O LORD, be my helper."
You have turned my wailing into dancing; *
you have put off my sack-cloth and clothed me with joy.
you have put off my sack-cloth and clothed me with joy.
Therefore my heart sings to you without ceasing; *
O LORD my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
O LORD my God, I will give you thanks for ever.
+The Second Lesson: Paul compares Christian discipline to an athlete in training. We must constantly work at self-control as we strive for our heavenly prize.
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it. Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air; but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
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