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25 July 2024
“Not only with our lips but in our lives”
Services This Sunday
July 28, 2024
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Alter Colors: Green
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9:00 AM - Communion Service at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Hartland, NB
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11:00 AM - Communion Prayer Service at Christ Church Anglican Church, Lower Woodstock, NB
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Find Sunday Bible readings at [link]
Services This Wednesday
July 31, 2024
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7:00 PM - Taizé Evening Prayer at St. Mark's Anglican Church, Jackson Falls, NB
On most days the rector offers a brief morning prayer time live at 8:30 AM (and viewable at any time later). See Parish of Richmond and Woodstock - YouTube
Among those we uphold in prayer: Alice, Allen, Betty, Cecil, Christine, Cole, Connie, Debbie, Doris, Frankie, George, Græme, Helen, Ivan, Joyce, Lawrence, Lynn, Melba, Michelle, Murray, Nadine, Nicole, Peggy, Phyllis, Ronald, Shawn, Sheldon, Shelley, Shirley, Steven, Tara
Please advise Pat Margison (506-328-8146) of name deletions as well as name additions.
Whom do you know in hospital? There’s a convenient way to get a cheery greeting to the hospitalized. The hospital delivers it. Parishioners receiving these notes have mentioned how important they are. Check out: [Link]
Kindly remember the
Food
Bank when you shop.
This coming week’s birthdays: Sandra Black
Anniversary: Ronald & Sandra Black
Have you checked the parish’s Facebook page lately? The Anglican Parish of Richmond, Diocese of Fredericton | Facebook
On Saturday (27 July) there will be an Open Doors afternoon at Holy Trinity, Hartland, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM. Trained guides, and (probably) over-the-top flowers.
Once again
this summer the eye-catching showplace of Woodstock’s Main
Street is a gorgeous garden on St Luke’s steps.
It’s been
repeated for many summers.
This
exuberant display is undertaken as an annual memorial to Holy
Trinity’s Murial Palin (1926-2011) by her daughter,
Mary Whiteway.
Today -- this
morning
(Thursday 25
July) -- the Do Drop Inn social gathering is in operation
at the Richmond Parish Centre, 10:00 AM
- Noon.
All invited
to look in. (Notice attached banner photo.)
Note that on
this coming Sunday (28 July), public worship in the parish will
be at Holy Trinity, 9:00 AM (note time).
Note also that this will be Holy
Trinity’s annual
Flower Sunday.
Attenders are invited to go out into the
fields, gardens, line fences and roadside ditches of our
neighbourhoods to find floral offerings to adorn the house of
worship.
Humble or grand, flowers or grasses:
All are invited.
Parade to follow.
Faith &
Felting meets at
the Rectory in the afternoons (2:00 PM
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4:00 PM) and
evenings (7:30 PM
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9:00 PM) of
Tuesdays 6 & 13 August.
Learn to needle and wet felt while talking
about faith matters.
Room for 8
-
10 people each session.
Cool basement.
Contact the rector.
Camp Medley
is opening a campaign to build a much-needed new swimming pool.
The current
one is decades past its projected life.
The camp is
looking for 100 Anglicans able to pledge $100 a month to
the project across the next two years.
Presumably
this would cover the cost of technical planning.
John
Galbraith, Medley’s director, is an impressive visionary.
See
the story and the pledge form in this week’s Diocesan e-News:
https://nb.anglican.ca/news/new-pool-maintenance-facility-in-the-works-for-camp-medley
New
Brunswick’s Christian Ashram meets at Brown’s Flat (lower
St John River) on 8
–
11 August.
This year’s
guest evangelist is Gordon Thompson, formerly rector of
Newcastle.
For
details, see
New Brunswick Christian Ashram (nbca.ca) and speak
with Cindy Derksen.
Last night
the halls of Zion (St. Mark’s version) were crowded to an extent reminiscent of pre-covid
days.
The rector assembled a moving and informative presentation on
the life of a modern sinner/saint, and the Martin Boys not only
led the singing but seemed fascinated by what they were
learning.
As were we all.
Next
Wednesday’s Evening Prayer will follow the taizé pattern.
Taizé evening prayer is a simple, meditative form of
worship, calling us to dwell deeply on Christ's presence around
and within us.
Lives of the
Saints
–
Richmond service schedule 100 years ago
This week’s
flashback comes from the Rev W. Bernard Waddington
(1893-1975), who served Richmond for a couple of years in the
1920s. Waddington’s printed schedule for 1923-24 [attached]
shows how allocating Sabbath labours among four scattered
communities was even more complicated a century ago than it is
today, and with far better reason. He had a telephone, but
undoubtedly he made his rounds by horse. Annual stipend was
supposed to be $1000.
Richmond Next Sunday
Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
Alter Colors: Green
- Communion at Holy Trinity (9:00 AM) and Christ Church (11:00 AM)
- Evening Prayer Service at St. Mark's (7:00 PM)
Parish Outreach:
Used
eye-glasses?
There is a depository at Progressive Credit Union, Richmond Street,
Woodstock.
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