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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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Easter Flower Donations
Just send a check (to the office by April 15th) made out to the Altar Guild with Easter Flowers written in the memo line. If you would like to include a memorial remembrance or thanksgiving, please fill out this form and return it with your check. (Or use the donation envelopes in the church provided by the Altar Guild for Easter Flower Donations.)
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Finance Committee Notes
The Finance Committee would like to thank the faithful givers in our parish for your continuing generosity. February was another good month, with donations slightly ahead of budget and also slightly ahead of last year at this time. Well done! Your generosity helps ensure that the beautiful and Spirit-filled worship services we offer can continue, and also assures many great opportunities for connecting and serving others. Please keep up the tremendous good work! It's so important, because we plan to start on the chapel bathroom remodel in mid-May and so will want to avoid having to access our investment account to pay any bills. Speaking of our investment account, the committee would also like to let you know that in the month of March the account continued its recovery from the market slump at the end of 2018. More good news. Thanks be to God for your generosity, your faithful commitment, and for the spirit of abundance that surrounds us on every side.
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Sunday Volunteers
Welcome Table: Miki Laws
Vestry Welcome: Wayne Grider
Lectors: Rick Collins, Charlie Lujan
Intercessors: Henry
Healing Prayer Ministers:
Acolytes: Henry, Will, Ruth
Vergers: Joanie Heard, Katherine Davis
Guardians: Michele Logan
Ushers: Steve Scheidker, Wood Rigsby, Eric Klassen
Eucharistic Visitors: Jerry Hauser, Anne Greigg, Mhari Peschel
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Dates to Remember:
April 14th- Palm Sunday service beginning with our traditional, ecumenical, donkey-led procession on Pine Street, which begins about 10 a.m. Children are invited to follow the donkey and wave their palms!
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, color butterflies, 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:
Palm Sunday, April 14, 11:30 am to 12:00pm
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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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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It’s All About Protecting God’s Creation
My View: Kathy Shields
As the leader of the social action ministry network on Climate Change, I found this petition being circulated by Interfaith Power and Light and if you, like me, are concerned about the deregulation of emissions I invite you to join me and sign the petition linked at the end of this piece.
As people of faith, we have promised in our Baptismal vows to strive for justice and respect the dignity of all people. Our Climate Change network believes this includes protecting the air we breathe.
As a result of new EPA- proposed weakening of Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, our air could see an increase of deadly Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. This could disproportionately impact the most vulnerable among us, people of color and the working poor who live and work near these plants.
INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT, our faith-based partner, explains in their petition that Mercury has devastating effects on children and babies. Even the unborn who are exposed to Mercury in the womb suffer long-term impacts on their memory, cognitive thinking, language and fine -motor skills. Adults who are exposed to this life-endangering pollutant can suffer damage to vital organs like lungs, kidneys, brain, and heart.
I invite you to join me in asking the EPA to protect human health and all of God’s creation.
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Donations of Wine, Cheese, Crackers, and snacks would be greatly appreciated. |
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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."
-Thank you to the Ushers for their dedicated ministry.
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Isaiah 50:4-9a
The Lord God has given me
the tongue of a teacher,
that I may know how to sustain
the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens--
wakens my ear
to listen as those who are taught.
The Lord God has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious,
I did not turn backward.
I gave my back to those who struck me,
and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;
I did not hide my face
from insult and spitting.
The Lord God helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame;
he who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who are my adversaries?
Let them confront me.
It is the Lord God who helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
Psalm 31:9-16
9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; *
my eye is consumed with sorrow,
and also my throat and my belly.
10 For my life is wasted with grief,
and my years with sighing; *
my strength fails me because of affliction,
and my bones are consumed.
11 I have become a reproach to all my enemies and even to my neighbors,
a dismay to those of my acquaintance; *
when they see me in the street they avoid me.
12 I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; *
I am as useless as a broken pot.
13 For I have heard the whispering of the crowd;
fear is all around; *
they put their heads together against me;
they plot to take my life.
14 But as for me, I have trusted in you, O Lord. *
I have said, "You are my God.
15 My times are in your hand; *
rescue me from the hand of my enemies,
and from those who persecute me.
16 Make your face to shine upon your servant, *
and in your loving-kindness save me."
Philippians 2:5-11
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death--
even death on a cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Luke 23:1-49
The assembly of the elders of the people rose as a body and brought Jesus before Pilate. They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to the emperor, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king." Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered, "You say so." Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an accusation against this man." But they were insistent and said, "He stirs up the people by teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where he began even to this place."
When Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean. And when he learned that he was under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him off to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time. When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some sign. He questioned him at some length, but Jesus gave him no answer. The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him. Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him; then he put an elegant robe on him, and sent him back to Pilate. That same day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other; before this they had been enemies.
Pilate then called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people, and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was perverting the people; and here I have examined him in your presence and have not found this man guilty of any of your charges against him. Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us. Indeed, he has done nothing to deserve death. I will therefore have him flogged and release him."
Then they all shouted out together, "Away with this fellow! Release Barabbas for us!" (This was a man who had been put in prison for an insurrection that had taken place in the city, and for murder.) Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again; but they kept shouting, "Crucify, crucify him!" A third time he said to them, "Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no ground for the sentence of death; I will therefore have him flogged and then release him." But they kept urgently demanding with loud shouts that he should be crucified; and their voices prevailed. So Pilate gave his verdict that their demand should be granted. He released the man they asked for, the one who had been put in prison for insurrection and murder, and he handed Jesus over as they wished.
As they led him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and they laid the cross on him, and made him carry it behind Jesus. A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him. But Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For the days are surely coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.' Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us'; and to the hills, 'Cover us.' For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"
Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." And they cast lots to divide his clothing. And the people stood by, watching; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!" The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews."
One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!" But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." He replied, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, while the sun's light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." Having said this, he breathed his last. When the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God and said, "Certainly this man was innocent." And when all the crowds who had gathered there for this spectacle saw what had taken place, they returned home, beating their breasts. But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.
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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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