MASS SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF CHRISTMAS I (December 30, 2012)
31, Monday – Feria
1, Tuesday – Feast of the Circumcision
2, Wednesday – Feria
3, Thursday – Feria (Pray for Bahrain)
4, Friday – Feria
+ All Saints’ Men’s Group will meet January 8, 7:00 a.m. in the undercroft.
+ Our Winter Agape & Christian Education will kick off next Wednesday, January 9 at 5:45 p.m. We have regular classes for the nursery and the children and youngsters, as well as adult education.
John Murphy will teach a class on the sacramental imagination from January 9 – February 6:
SACRAMENTAL IMAGINATION: THE LITERATURE OF EPIPHANY
For the season of Epiphany, the season of The Word made flesh, our Wednesday School class will read some stories and poems in which God’s justice and grace are manifest – shown forth and made incarnate in the images of objects and events in our “ordinary” lives, which are charged in extraordinary ways with the sacred sense of Our Savior Jesus Christ.
Our schedule of readings is as follows below:
For Wednesday, January 9:
The Prologue to The Gospel of John
Excerpts from “A Song to David” by Christopher Smart
Excerpts from “Jubilate Agno” by Christopher Smart
For Wednesday, January 16:
“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“As Kingfishers Catch Fire” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“That Nature is A Hereclitean Fire and Of The Comfort of The Resurrection” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
For Wednesday, January 23:
“The Hammer of God” by G. K. Chesterton
For Wednesday, January 30:
“Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor
For Wednesday, February 6:
“Parker’s Back” by Flannery O’Connor
We will have the literature for you to pick in the undercroft this coming Sunday, January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany.
+ New Monday Morning Bible Study in January – On January 7, at 10:30 a.m. in the undercroft, a new thirteen week study of the Old Testament prophet Daniel will begin. The class will use the Precept Ministry resource “God’s Blueprint for Bible Prophecy: Daniel.” This class is not “for women only” and all who are able are welcome and encouraged to attend. For further information about obtaining the text book or any other questions, please contact Priscilla King, kingplk@gmail.com, 540-456-6458.
+ All Saints parishioner may obtain a Mass card from the Church office. A Mass card is a greeting card given to someone to inform him or her that a deceased loved one or friend was remembered and prayed for at a weekly Mass. It is a specifically Christian way to express one’s love. Call Julie McDermott at the Church office (434-979-2842) and she will help you fill out the form. The celebrant will sign the card and we will mail it from the Church to the family of the loved one.
+ Daily Mass is celebrated at 12:15 p.m. You and your family members are all remembered by name at the Altar of God every week. Please take an All Saints parish prayer list home with you & remember your fellow parishioners in your prayers!