Welcome to St. Stephen’s Anglican Parish Blog for
Sunday, 3 April, 2016
HOLY HUMOUR SUNDAY
There’s a lot of fun planned for this Sunday – we hope
you will join us.
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WORSHIP THIS WEEK
Sunday, 3 April 2016
HOLY
HUMOUR SUNDAY
The
Second Sunday of Easter
8:00 am St. Stephen’s, Chester Holy Communion
11:00 am St. Stephen’s, Chester Parish Family Worship
Readings:
Acts 5:27-32; Psalm 150; Revelations
1:4-8;
John 20:
19-31
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
PARISH COUNCIL
MEMBERS: Due to vacations and illness, we did not
have a quorum
for the 21 March council meeting. There
are several items that require decisions
that cannot wait unit the 18 April
meeting. Council will therefore have a brief
council meeting in the Parish Centre
following the 11:00 am service on 3 April
2016.
REGIONAL
COUNCIL: is hosting a workshop focusing on
Finances, Parish Governance
and
Vital Church on Sat, 9 April 2016 at 9:30-3:00
pm
in
St. John’s Church Hall, Lunenburg. All
council members and other interested
parishioners are encouraged to participate. Lunch provided for $10
each.
SOUTH SHORE ULTREYA:
7:00 pm on Tues, 5 Apr at Holy Trinity
Church, Bridgewater.
If interested in
car pooling, call 902-275-3143
.
FOOD BANK: Fruit juices are always
needed.
SHOREHAM
VILLAGE – register for Volunteer Orientation by
25 April for
27
April class. Call 902-275-5631 ext 233 for more
information.
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THIS
WEEK IN THE PARISH
MUSICAL FRIENDS -
(Vintage Voices, Band, Tuneful Tots) on
Mon, 4 April, from 1:00 - 4:30 pm – (Drumming
Circle)
BIBLE
TALK - on Wed, 6 April, from 10:30 - 12:00 pm
in the Tyler Grant Room. All
Welcome!
CHOIR
PRACTICE - on Thurs, 7 April, 7:30 pm in Tuck
Hall.
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WORSHIP NEXT
WEEK
Sunday, 10 April
2016
The Third Sunday of
Easter
8:00 am St. Stephen’s, Chester Holy Communion
9:15 am St. George’s, East
River Holy Eucharist (BCP)
11:00 am St. Stephen’s,
Chester Morning Prayer
Readings:
Acts 9: 1-6, (7-20); Psalm 30; Revelation
5:11-14;
John
21: 1-19
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“The assumption that a sense of humor and a
Christian faith are incompatible is totally mistaken.
In point of fact, the writers of the great
classics of humor – Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift –
have all been deeply religious. Even comedians,
like Bob Hope, tend to
be believers rather than skeptics or cynics…
Laughter is, indeed, God’s therapy.
Let us then be thankful that, when the Gates of
Heaven swing open,
mixed with the celestial music there is the
unmistakable sound of celestial laugher.”
Malcolm Muggeridge
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“Angels
can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Never
forget that the devil fell by force of gravity.
He
who has the faith has the fun.” -
G.K.
Chesterton
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Origin of Holy Humour Sunday
The tradition is that Holy Humour Sunday
originated in the Eastern Orthodox custom of telling
jokes on Easter Monday to celebrate the
great joke that God had played on the devil:
Jesus
died
on the cross, but was not dead.
He lives! In
time the practice spread to Europe.
The earliest known reference is in a hymn
refrain by Peter Abelard (1079-1142):
Grant
us, Lord, so to suffer with you
That we may become sharers in
your glory,
To spend these three days in grief
That you may allow us the laugh of Easter Grace
.
The custom was common, especially in Germany in the 15th
century, and was
continued through the Protestant Reformation. Pope
Clement X banned the
celebration
in the 17th century in Roman Catholic churches. The custom has
become
increasingly celebrated by many denominations on “low” Sunday,
the
Sunday after Easter.
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