News and Announcements:
Sun Mar 25 Early Service – 7:45am
Celebration Service – 9:00am
Traditional Service – 11:00am
Mon Mar 26 Lenten Supper and Program 6:30 - 8:30
Wed Mar 28 Bible Study – 4.00pm
Mid week Eucharist – 5-6pm
Choir Practice – 6:30pm
Thur Mar 29 Choir practice:7:00pm
Sat Mar 31 Prayer Shawl Meeting – 10:00am
Sun Mar 1 Combined Service – Palm Sunday 10.00am
Easter Services
April 1st † Palm Sunday Combined Service ~ 10:00am
April 5th † Maundy Thursday ~ 7:00pm
April 6 † Good Friday – Noon & 7:00pm Services
April 7th † Saturday Vigil ~ 7:00pm
April 8th † Community Easter Sunrise Service -
Sunday 6:15am St Luke’s followed by
Breakfast at Benn’s United Methodist
Church
† Early Service 7:45am ~ Christ Church
† Celebration Service ~ 9:00am
† Traditional Service ~ 11:00am
Sunday, April 1 at 4:00 pm
Sundays at Four and the Smithfield Little Theatre present the Old Dominion University Percussion Ensemble, David Walker, Director.
An eclectic program of Guatemalan Marimba Band, Jazz, Rock, Avant Garde, and Classical Music will be performed by a stage full of percussion instruments.
A Pre-Concert will begin at 3:40 pm performed by “The Westside Elementary Fourth Grade Orff Ensemble” under the direction of Sherry Wozniak.
This is the last ticketed concert of the season: Adults $20 Students $5
Information: 757-375-914
Chanco
Chanco on the James, the Diocese of Southern Virginia’s camp and conference center, has fantastic summer programs for youth ages 8-18 and camp registration is in full swing! Visit us and see why Virginia Living magazine rated Chanco as one of the top three summer camps in Eastern Virginia (May 2012 “Best Of” edition). Visit Chanco for an open house on April 15th from 11 am – 5 pm or on April 29tht from 11 am – 5 pm and see for yourself what all the “buzz” is about. Fly over a ravine along one of the five zip lines, take a tour, and meet the camp director and staff! Visit www.chanco.org or call 1-888-7CHANCO for more information on the Open House or any of the Chanco camp sessions.
Community Easter Sunrise Service
At St Lukes April 8th (Easter Sunday). The Gates will open at 6:00am, Prelude starts 6:15am
The officiators of the service will be Gary Barker and O.H Burton from Bens United Methodist Church.
Breakfast will be served following the service at Bens Church
All are very welcome!!
EASTER LILIES
Easter Sunday is April 8th. This is a very special time of the year for the Church. It is also a time when we remember and recognize our loved ones with flowers to beautify the sanctuary. To purchase lilies, please complete this form by April 1st.
Name: _____________________________________________________________________
No. of Lilies: _____________________________________________________________________
In Memory of: ____________________________________________________________________
In Honor of: _____________________________________________________________________
Please make checks payable to Christ Church Altar Guild .The cost is $7.50 per lily. Place your check and order form in Judy Cutler’s Church mailbox.
Women's Cursillo weekend April 19-22
It is not too late to consider making your Cursillo on Women's Team #148 April 19-22 at Chanco-on-the-James. We have a great team and would like to provide a wonderful weekend of learning, singing, fun and team building. Of course, we expect the presence of the Holy Spirit. If you have already decided to join us, please be sure your application is completed and mailed. You may get further information at www.cursillodsv.org.
To all Cursillistas,
Please be aware there is a Women's Weekend from April 19-22 at Camp Chanco. Please strongly consider coming out to the closing at the Surry Recreation Center for the closing of Cursillo #148's weekend to welcome the newest members of the Cursillo movement. Remember how great YOUR closing was?
Reading March 25 9am
Reader: A reading from Jerimiah [31:31-34]
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
Reader: The prophet foresees a new covenant between God and the people whom he loves. This covenant will be marked by the Lord's Spirit in their hearts rather than on tablets of stone.
The time is coming when I will make a brand-new covenant with Israel and Judah. It won't be a repeat of the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant even though I did my part as their Master." God's Decree.
"This is the brand-new covenant that I will make with Israel when the time comes. I will put my law within them—write it on their hearts!—and be their God. And they will be my people. They will no longer go around setting up schools to teach each other about God. They'll know me firsthand, the dull and the bright, the smart and the slow. I'll wipe the slate clean for each of them. I'll forget they ever sinned!" God's Decree.
Reader: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.
People: Open our ears to hear your Word.
Readings Mach 25 7.45 & 11am
+The First Lesson: The prophet foresees a new covenant between God and the people whom he loves. This covenant will be marked by the Lord's Spirit in their hearts rather than on tablets of stone.
A Reading from Jeremiah [31:31-34]
The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt-- a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the LORD," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
Psalm 51:1-13 Page 656, BCP
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving-kindness;
in your great compassion blot out my offenses.
in your great compassion blot out my offenses.
Wash me through and through from my wickedness *
and cleanse me from my sin.
and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions, *
and my sin is ever before me.
and my sin is ever before me.
Against you only have I sinned *
and done what is evil in your sight.
and done what is evil in your sight.
And so you are justified when you speak *
and upright in your judgment.
and upright in your judgment.
Indeed, I have been wicked from my birth, *
a sinner from my mother's womb.
a sinner from my mother's womb.
For behold, you look for truth deep within me, *
and will make me understand wisdom secretly.
and will make me understand wisdom secretly.
Purge me from my sin, and I shall be pure; *
wash me, and I shall be clean indeed.
wash me, and I shall be clean indeed.
Make me hear of joy and gladness, *
that the body you have broken may rejoice.
that the body you have broken may rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins *
and blot out all my iniquities.
and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, *
and renew a right spirit within me.
and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence *
and take not your holy Spirit from me.
and take not your holy Spirit from me.
Give me the joy of your saving help again *
and sustain me with your bountiful Spirit.
and sustain me with your bountiful Spirit.
+The Second Lesson: Through obedience and suffering, Jesus opened the gates of the kingdom. He is named high priest forever.
Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him,
"You are my Son,
today I have begotten you"; as he says also in another place,
"You are a priest forever,
according to the order of Melchizedek."
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Reader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
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