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Led by the Holy Spirit,
St. John's mission is to inspire people to grow into the heart and mind of Christ by engaging together in worshiping, serving, and spiritual formation.
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VASES NEEDED
 The St. John’s Pastoral Care Team is asking for donations of vases for the delivery of altar flowers to our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. You can bring your vases to the office Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays from 9am-noon, and from 1pm to 4pm.
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11 a.m. Easter Sunday service is family focused and is followed by our annual Eggstravaganza coffee hour and egg hunt.
(The nursery IS NOT open on Easter Sunday.)
**Please have your children bring an Easter basket with them to collect eggs -- and if you can, please bring a bunch of flowers to help flower the cross**
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Dates to Remember:
April 21st -Easter Sunday. 11 a.m. service is family focused and is followed by our annual Eggstravaganza coffee hour and egg hunt.
(The nursery IS NOT open on Easter Sunday.)
**Please have your children bring an Easter basket with them to collect eggs -- and if you can, please bring a bunch of flowers to help flower the cross**
May 5th- Family Picnic at Boulder Park 11 am- 1 pm - Walk to the park after the 'Kirkin of the Tartan' service. Bring food, blankets, and a frisbee and let's hang out together!
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St. John's Easter Eggstravaganza!
We'll have our annual Eggstravaganza coffee hour and egg hunt on Easter Sunday, April 21st, following the 11 a.m. Family Service.
We'll flower the cross in the columbarium (feel free to bring some flowers to help!), share treats, and hunt for Easter eggs!
*Bring your Easter baskets
Click here for
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St. John’s Choristers!
(our Children’s Choir for kids age 5, through 6th grade)
Upcoming schedule:
The Choristers will sing in church on Easter Sunday at the 11:00 am Family service. (meet at 10:20am)
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May 12th Second Sunday service:
Celebrating Graduates and Acolytes
We will be congratulating our 2019 high school (or college!) graduates and recognizing the service of our amazing acolyte team!
If your family has a graduate this year, please send an electronic photo of him/her, along with a short paragraph answering the following questions:
1. Where do you go to school?
2. What activities did you participate in school?
3. What are your plans for after graduation?
4. How long have you been a member of St. John's?
5. What activities do you participate in at church?
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Catholic Connections Discussion Group
Please mark your calendars for our final session (for now) in this series on April 28 in the St. Francis room after the 9:30 service.
What is Catholic Connections? A lively discussion group for former or current members of the Roman Catholic Church who now find themselves at St. John's. We also welcome Episcopalians with strong Catholic connections or curiosity.
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May 5, 2019 @ 9:30am
Kirkin’ of the Tartan
A Celebration of Family
The Northern Colorado Calidonia Pipe Band
8 Pipers
4 Drummers
will perform at St. John’s during the 9:30 service celebrating the blessing the symbol of a family - the tartan.
Please join us at 9:30am May 5th - Somewhere in time we were all Celts - come and enjoy the celebration, and Please bring something Irish or Scottish such as shortbread cookies, scones, bagels etc!
Donations to help fund the $750 pipe band fee are most appreciated. Please send your donation to the attention of Heather Dudok and write “Kirkin”
in the memo line. Thank You!
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POETRY READING
WHAT: POETRY READING FEATURING POETS BARBARA ELLEN SORENSEN AND JOY ROULIER SAWYER
WHEN: MAY 8, 2019
WHERE: ST. JOHN’S PARISH HALL
TIME: 7-9PM
COME JOIN US FOR WINE AND CHEESE AND GOOD POETRY!!
Barbara Ellen Sorensen is a member of St. John’s, a contributing writer to the Tribal College Journal and a book reviewer for Mom Egg Review. Sorensen has had two previous books of poetry published: Songs from the Deep Middle Brain (Main Street Rag, 2010), Compositions of the Dead Playing Flutes (Able Muse Press, 2013), and Mary’s River (Kelsay Books, 2018). Her first book received a 2011 Colorado Book Award finalist nomination. Her poems have been featured on the Poetry Foundation, American Life in Poetry, and VerseDaily websites, and in many print journals. Sorensen has a BA in English from the University of Iowa, and a master’s degree in creative writing from Regis University in Denver.
  Joy Roulier Sawyer is the author of a poetry collection, Tongues of Men and Angels, as well as several nonfiction books. Her poetry, essays, and fiction appear in Books & Culture, Gallatin Review, LIGHT Quarterly, Lilliput Review, New York Quarterly , St. Petersburg Review, Theology Today, and many others. She holds an MA from New York University, where she received the Herbert Rubin Award for Outstanding Creative Writing, and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver.
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Front Range Region Confirmation Service,
Saturday, June 8th,10:00am
If you are interested in being Confirmed or Received in The Episcopal Church or would like to Reaffirm you confirmation vows, the annual Front Range Region conformation service is Saturday, 6/8, at 10:00 am at Saint James Episcopal Church, Wheatridge. All Candidates must attend preparation classes prior to being Confirmed or Received. Please contact Mother Amy (alythgoe@stjohnsboulder.org, or 303-442-5246) to be placed on our list or for more information. Amy+ will contact everyone to find a mutually agreeable time to meet, and will the Candidates at the service at Saint James. This service will be among our new bishop’s first confirmation services, so it will be an even more exciting time.
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Here are St John’s Habitat Builders working on one of the three triplexes at 4625 Palo Parkway. Thank you to -
Steve Fox
Linda Black
Peggy Scheidker
Mike Mattingly
Steve Scheidker
Marti Dever
Molly Hardman
Kathy Fox
Kathy Ashworth
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St. John’s Whittier Pantry Needs
- TOOTHPASTE
- MEN'S & WOMEN'S DEODORANT
- DENTAL FLOSS
- TOILET PAPER
- Monetary donations are always welcome
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Social Action Ministry
MY VIEW:
Marti Dever
As a Christian, I am committed to my belief that all human beings are entitled to live with dignity, and that I am charged to show care and compassion to everyone. This is particularly important for those who are oppressed in any way. As the leader of the Immigration Network Sub-Group of the Social Action Ministry, I came across Richard Williams’ article below published in the Sojourner: Faith in Action for Social Justice, April 2019. I have included it here if you would like to read it. In the article, Williams chronicles the story of an asylum seeker who is currently housed in a private detention center. It’s not my intention here to judge asylum or not; I will leave that to the process and those charged with carrying it out. However, it is my intention to seek dignity and justice for all humans via advocacy and information sharing. The more we know, the better we can advocate for the dignity of all human beings.
Please click below to read the entire article.
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Donations of Wine, Cheese, Crackers, and snacks would be greatly appreciated. Please contact Kathy Ashworth, kathleen687@comcast.net, if you would like to make a donation.
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JOIN US FOR EVENSONG
Wednesdays at 6 pm
Contemplative Evensong meets every Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. from September through May. Participants are welcome to join the cantor in the beautiful, meditative chant. Includes short periods of silent prayer. Please contact the office at 303-442-5246 for more information. |
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Weekly Services
Saturday 5:00p.m. Holy Eucharist, chapel
Sunday 7:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist, chapel
9:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist, church
10:30 a.m. Children's Eucharist, chapel (when Sunday school meets)
Tuesday 8 a.m. Morning Prayer, chapel
Wednesday 8 a.m. Morning Prayer, chapel
10 a.m. Holy Eucharist, chapel
6 p.m. Evensong, chapel
Thursday 8 a.m. Morning Prayer, chapel
Noon Holy Eucharist and Service of Reconciliation, chapel
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Thank you!
Paul often affirmed members of the churches he shepherded by telling them he was thanking God for them. In Philippians 1:3-5 Paul writes, "I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now."
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Isaiah 65:17-25
I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating;
for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,
and its people as a delight.
I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
and delight in my people;
no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it,
or the cry of distress.
No more shall there be in it
an infant that lives but a few days,
or an old person who does not live out a lifetime;
for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,
and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.
They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
They shall not labor in vain,
or bear children for calamity;
for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord--
and their descendants as well.
Before they call I will answer,
while they are yet speaking I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
the lion shall eat straw like the ox;
but the serpent-- its food shall be dust!
They shall not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; *
his mercy endures for ever.
2 Let Israel now proclaim, *
"His mercy endures for ever."
14 The Lord is my strength and my song, *
and he has become my salvation.
15 There is a sound of exultation and victory *
in the tents of the righteous:
16 "The right hand of the Lord has triumphed! *
the right hand of the Lord is exalted!
the right hand of the Lord has triumphed!"
17 I shall not die, but live, *
and declare the works of the Lord.
18 The Lord has punished me sorely, *
but he did not hand me over to death.
19 Open for me the gates of righteousness; *
I will enter them;
I will offer thanks to the Lord.
20 "This is the gate of the Lord; *
he who is righteous may enter."
21 I will give thanks to you, for you answered me *
and have become my salvation.
22 The same stone which the builders rejected *
has become the chief cornerstone.
23 This is the Lord's doing, *
and it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 On this day the Lord has acted; *
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
John 20:1-18
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him." Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him." When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, `I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
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PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION
Please use this list today and throughout the week, praying with special intention for:
All who are suffering in the wake of violence or natural disasters, all who are serving in the military, all who are distressed in mind, body, or spirit, and members of our parish family including:
Short-term: The Caldwell Family (Lythgoe), Brenda Kroge, Mary Kevin Dodson, Gus Grote (Stumb), Greta Sloan, Ellen Lawson, Dr. William Burton, Eric Henderson (Schwartz) & Teague Owings (Hogue), Roma Ritenour, & Glen Sieroslawski (Miller).
Long-term: Sallye Howard, The Rev. Kimberly (Kym) Lucas, Jan Treadwell, Randy Brock (Moore), Bill Battreall & The Prellberg Family (Stewart), Deacon Lorine Williams, Janet Brennan, JoAnn Brown, Addie Heuston, Millie Heitman, Don Shields.
Please notify Stephanie in the church office
(303-442-5246 or sboulton@stjohnsboulder.org)
if there are people who should be added to
or removed from our prayer list.
THIS WEEK:
We pray for the repose of the souls of:
Verle Plumb, Jeanne L. Manning, Maisie Kathleen Pearson & Elaine Keary Moore on the anniversary of their deaths.
We honor Christ’s light within those celebrating birthdays: Bill Morgan, Laura Ferenc, Marcia Emmons, Alfred Flores, O’Laughlin, Debby Baukol, Kathy Fox, Noah Logan, Simon Logan, Alan Nelson, Wood Rigsby, Amy French, Sally Seggerman, Steve Tilson & Stacy Potten.
We give thanks to God for the life and ministry of our brothers and sisters in Christ:
Andrea & Enrique Dymess, Phil & Robin Ecklund, Gail Edwards, Patrick & MaryAnn Edwards, Nancy Egbert, Valerie & Don Eicher, Barbara Ellen Sorenen, Jean & Peter Elliot, Marcia & Mark Emmons, and Rebecca Espinosa.
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