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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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Church Campus Security
With the never-ending stream of tragic and violent events in the world around us, I want to let you know that at St John's we are always looking at ways to maintain the security of our physical campus and assure our emergency response procedures are up-to-date.
Our call is to be good stewards of the lives and buildings entrusted to us, while continuing to welcome and serve anyone who comes here looking for help or spiritual sanctuary. In the weeks and months to come I'll offer you periodic updates on what we're doing. If you have questions or concerns, you are welcome to contact me or Father Ted. Peter Gilman is the vestry representative working with us, along with Tom Brewster.
Those who volunteer at Soup Kitchen will note that we're engaging an officer from Colorado Security Services to join us at this ministry. With the increasing number of families and children who serve at Soup Kitchen it makes sense to add a security officer whose role is to be a welcoming, yet watchful presence.
I am also hoping to launch a modest capital campaign later this spring, for several purposes, one of which would be an updated exterior door locking system. I'll offer more on that as it takes shape.
--Pastor Susan+
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St. John's announces a new giving opportunity! When you shop on Amazon you can now direct a charitable donation to St. Johns. It's easy and costs you nothing! Simply log on to smile.amazon.com (not Amazon) when making a purchase. The direct link is https://smile.amazon.com/ch/84-0515197.
There is a drop down menu for choosing your charity. Using the drop down menu, click on St. John's Episcopal Church, Boulder, CO. If you currently are donating to another charity it is easy to switch to St. John's.
This is a great way to support your church, and to augment your pledge. Thank you for everything you give and every way in which you support St John's--you help our parish do great things in Christ's name!
If you have questions please contact vestry member Kathe Lujan at kathelujan@comcast.net.
Here's some more info from the AmazonSmile website:
What is AmazonSmile?
AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon that lets customers enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices, and convenient shopping features as on Amazon.com. The difference is that when customers shop on AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the charitable organizations selected by customers.
How does AmazonSmile work?
When first visiting AmazonSmile, customers are prompted to select a charitable organization from almost one million eligible organizations. In order to browse or shop at AmazonSmile, customers must first select a charitable organization. For eligible purchases at AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to the customer's selected charitable organization.
Is there any cost to charitable organizations or to customers?
No. There is no cost to charitable organizations or to AmazonSmile customers. The shopping experience is identical to Amazon.com with the added benefit that the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate to the charitable organizations selected by customers.
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Easter Flower Donations
Just send a check (to the office by March 25th) 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 clearly write out the information you would like 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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This month St. John's received
$463.75
from folks in our grocery card ministry—
And all they did was buy groceries and gasoline!
You can help—it's easy.
Or contact Janice Moore, Jim Podolak,
or Caryl Stalick for more information
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Coffee Hour
We envision St. John's as a community
where everyone undertakes
"welcome" and "hospitality"
as an intentional holy practice.
Coffee Hour this week is brought to you by:
Dorothy Bass & Jenny Burnsed
And please sign up to help make Coffee Hour Fellowship happen. Contact Jessica Burnett: (jburnett@stjohnsboulder.org)
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Choral Compline this Sunday!
With special guest Matthew Dane, viola.
Join us for a peaceful and poignant Lenten Choral Compline, with the exquisite, soulful sound of the viola. Music includes works by John Ferguson, responses by Richard Ayleward, and hymns by J. S. Bach.
Compline is a 1500-year-old tradition that developed in the early monastic communities. It is the final office of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours. “It feels like floating in a bathtub full of warm water and grace.” Come and experience the peace and mystery of this ancient liturgy: Sunday, March 11, 9:00pm in the sanctuary.
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If you are interested in baptism for yourself or your child(ren),
Please contact: Caroline Melby 303-442-5246, ext. 107
or cmelby@stjohnsboulder.org
For important information about baptisms at St. John's
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Lenten Services Schedule
Lenten Weekday Holy Eucharist: Begins Thursday, Feb. 15th and continues through Wed. March 28th. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at noon; Wednesdays at 10:00a.m.
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Our Lenten series this year ponders the theodicy question, "How could a good God permit evil?" Jesus himself wondered this when he asked from the cross, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" The Rector's Pen will offer weekly distillations of the book "God of Our Silent Tears" by The Right Reverend Dan Edwards, Bishop of the Diocese of Nevada, along with discussion questions. Join us on Sundays in Lent as we work through this challenging material in small groups. On March 18th, Bishop Edwards will join us as our guest speaker.
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Pastoral Care Team needs volunteers to supply and deliver meals to St. John's parish members in need of TLC while recovering from health issues which would limit their meal supply. Please contact Cathy Skala @ catherine.skala@yahoo.com if you are interested in volunteering.
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Curious about St. John's online directory?? Want to check to make sure your contact information is correct?? Please stop by the office on Sunday morning (3/11, 3/18) after the 7:30am and 9:30am services if you have questions.
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Opportunities for Involvement
⇒BEAR WITNESS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
On Wednesday March 14th at 10am, join students and adults across the nation for a 17-minute school walkout to “protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods.” To find a participating school close to you, visit:
⇒GO TO DENVER AND TAKE PART IN A NATION-WIDE WITNESS
On Saturday March 24th from 2-5pm, join students and adults nationwide in a “March for Our Lives” (If you want to read more, visit: https://www.marchforourlives.com/). So far, over 50 marches are being organized around the country. One of those is in Denver. I am inviting parishioners who wish to march as a group to meet at St John’s and we will be leaving the church at 11am sharp. We’ll make our way to the Boulder bus station (and buy a ticket on one of their Flatiron Flyer buses, which depart every 15 minutes) and travel to Denver’s Union Station and then head to the capitol in Denver. Other Episcopal churches in the diocese are planning to participate, and once in Denver we’ll try to meet up and march with other Colorado Episcopalians.
We’ll have plain Tyvek tie-on race bibs and permanent markers available so you can create a message of your choice to wear at the march instead of lugging a sign. We ask for a $1.00 donation for each bib you take.
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WHITTIER PANTRY NEEDS
Dental Floss
Toothpaste
Paper Towels
Thank you for all of your support!!!
-Deacon Jan Dewlen
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JOIN US FOR EVENSONG
Wednesdays at 6pm
Contemplative Evensong meets every Wednesday evening at 6p.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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Saturday Night Bluegrass Worship Service Our Saturday evening worship service begins each week at 5:00pm in the Chapel. Please join us for a contemplative Eucharistic service featuring Americana music with a bluegrass trio. Following the service, enjoy a brief concert and sing-along. This service lasts approximately 40 minutes. All are welcome!
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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
10:50 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
Friday 4:15 p.m. Common Cathedral, rotunda
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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 Mark Guzzi and the Saturday evening worship coordinators for their leadership and service.
- Thank you to Angelina, Mardoche, David, and Lucas from the Youth Group for their help filling all the eggs for our Easter "Egg-stravaganza".
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Sunday Helpers:
Vestry Welcome:
Lectors: Peter Gilman, Will
Intercessor: Will
Ushers: Tom & Melinda Wirsing, Ted Williams
Acolytes: Arianna, Abigail, Jane, Sebastian
Vergers: Tom Brewster, Katherine Davis
Healing Prayer:
Eucharistic Visitors:
Numbers 21:4-9
From Mount Hor the Israelites set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.” So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22
1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, *
and his mercy endures for ever.
2 Let all those whom the Lord has redeemed proclaim *
that he redeemed them from the hand of the foe.
3 He gathered them out of the lands; *
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
17 Some were fools and took to rebellious ways; *
they were afflicted because of their sins.
18 They abhorred all manner of food *
and drew near to death's door.
19 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, *
and he delivered them from their distress.
20 He sent forth his word and healed them *
and saved them from the grave.
21 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercy *
and the wonders he does for his children.
22 Let them offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving *
and tell of his acts with shouts of joy.
Ephesians 2:1-10
You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else. But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-- by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God-- not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
John 3:14-21
Jesus said, “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”
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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:
Gil Compo, Joe Ryan (Burnsed), Joan Haddock, Tom Nasky, Linda Morgan, Diana Riepenhoff and Family (Lee), Kathy Ashworth, The Furst Family, Janet Brennan, JoAnn Brown, Addie Heuston, Millie Heitman, Mark Odeen, Don Shields
Please notify Heather in the church office
(303-442-5246 or hdudok@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 soul of:
James Banks Hudson, Geraldine Busse, Alfred George Aden, and Jeff Caplitz on the anniversaries of their deaths. We pray also for the repose of the soul of Richard “Dick” Watson and for the repose of the soul of Donna Jean (Dickman) Wagner, mother of parishioner Kathy Pieplow.
We honor Christ’s light within those celebrating birthdays:
Bill Goodwin, Benjamin Thompson, Ada Ghanadan, Jackson McCabe, Grace Sims, Bryce Tracy, Fran Dutro, Peyton Jenkins, Emily Johnson, David Plume, Ben Doyle, Michael Chunn, Martha Williams, Jill Zender.
We give thanks to God for the life and ministry of our brothers and sisters in Christ:
Brian & Megan Maguire, Karl & Julie Maier, Sandra Maier, Kelly & Phillip Majure, Samuel & Hannelore Mamula, David & Kathy Manting, Carol March, Jill & Neyah Margolis, Carolyn Marino, Patricia Marlatt
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