Welcome to St.
Stephen’s Anglican Parish Blog
for Sunday, 13 March
2016
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WORSHIP THIS WEEK
Sunday, 13 March
2016
THE
FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
8:00 am St. Stephen’s,
Chester Holy Communion
9:15
am St. George’s, East River Holy Eucharist
11:00 am St. Stephen’s, Chester Parish Family
Worship
4:30
pm All Saints’, Canaan Holy Eucharist
Readings:
Isaiah 43: 16-21; Psalm 126, Philippians
3: 4b-15,
John
12: 1-8
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
SEDER SUPPER: at 4:30 –
6:30 pm on Sunday, 20 March in Tuck Hall.
If planning to
attend, please sign the list at the back of the
church
or call or email the
Parish Office.
A suggested donation of $10 (or what you can
afford)
would be helpful to
cover costs.
FOOD BANK: Anything you give will be gladly
received.
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‘Invited’ Lenten
Series
Tuesday, 15 March from 6:30-8:30
pm.
St.
Mark’s, Martin’s Point
Light
snack provided.
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THIS
WEEK IN THE PARISH
MUSICAL FRIENDS -
(Vintage Voices, Band, Tuneful Tots) on
Mon, 14 March, from 1:00 - 4:30 pm
BIBLE
TALK - on Wed, 16 Mar, from 10:30 - 12:00 pm
in the Tyler Grant Room. All
Welcome!
LENTEN LUNCHEONS:
at
12:00 pm on Wednesday 16 Mar – Surprise
Speaker.
The last lunch of the series – bring
a friend!
CHOIR
PRACTICE - on Thurs, 17 Mar, 7:30 pm in Tuck
Hall.
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WORSHIP NEXT WEEK
Sunday, 20 March
2016
PALM
(PASSION) SUNDAY
8:00 am St. Stephen’s,
Chester Holy Communion
9:15
am St. George’s, East River Holy Eucharist
11:00 am St. Stephen’s, Chester Parish Family Worship
***4:30 pm St. Stephen’s Chester Seder Supper ***
Readings:
Isaiah 43: 16-21; Psalm 126, Philippians
3: 4b-15,
John
12: 1-8
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Please contact the Parish Office if you plan to attend the supper
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Food for Thought
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace -- only
that it meets us
where we are but does not leave us where
it found us.
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott
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HOLY
WEEK SCHEDULE
Thursday, 24 March
(Maundy
Thursday)
INSTITUTION OF THE
EUCHARIST
WITH
HAND WASHING AND
STRIPPING OF THE
ALTAR
St. Stephen’s, Chester 7:00 pm Holy Eucharist
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Friday,
25 March
GOOD
FRIDAY
St. Stephen’s, Chester 11:00 am Holy Eucharist
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Saturday, 26 March
VIGIL
& THE LIGHTING OF THE NEW FIRE
All Saints’, Canaan
6:00 pm Holy Eucharist
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Last Lenten Learning – The
Nard
The “nard”
referred to in the Gospel for today was a thick fragrant oil made from a plant
of the Valerian family, Nardostachys jatamansi. The plant grows only at
high altitudes in the Himalayas of Nepal, China and India. That makes it now, as in Jesus’ time, quite
rare and expensive to obtain. In
addition, it is only the roots (rhizomes to be accurate) that are used to make
the perfume. These are crushed and
distilled into a very aromatic amber oil.
The oil is and was used as perfume, incense, as a sedative and as a
herbal medicine. Nard is also called
spikenard.
In ancient Greece, lavender from a
species grown in the Syrian city of Naarda was used to make a perfume they
called nard.
Anointing with nard is mentioned in
today’s gospel from John, and in different setting in the Gospel of Mark
(14:3-9) where a Mary (no surname or other identification) pours nard on Jesus’
head at a meal in the house of Simon the leper in Bethany. The disciples all rebuke her, and Jesus
defends her actions in the same way as in John’s
version.
Nard or spikenard
in also mention in Song of Songs 4:13-14 as a sensuous
perfume.
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