Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. John Sundara (9 am) & Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon (11:15 am)
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Sutton Lowe
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Trent Pettit
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon (8 am) & The Rev. Trent Pettit (5 pm)

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship in the HLC (11:15 am - with Announcements) 
  

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

Prayer: Conversations with God (Lay-Led) – Hall Life Center
Not Angels, but Anglicans: A History of Christianity in England – Room 203
Rethinking Evangelism: Sharing the Gospel Today – Room 210
Scripture Meditation Group – Nau Family Room
Family Matters – Scout Room
Introduction to (Episcopal) Christianity – Parlor

Children's Sunday School
2 months - age 2: First floor nursery Rm 104 (8:30 am — 12:30 pm)
2-year-olds | First floor: Rm 110 & 112
Age 3 - Kinder | Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Level 1 | Lower level: L07, L08
1st-3rd grade | Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Level 2 | Lower level: L17
OR Traditional Sunday school | Lower level: L16
4th - 5th grade | Traditional Sunday school | Lower level: L21 (girls), L20 (boys)

Youth Sunday School – Room 238
Youth Confirmation

Junior Daughters of the King – 9 am in Room L21

Happening Today

Pound of Love Drive for Generation One
We asked our community partner, Generation One, what their families need most this season. You can help by shopping from our Amazon list or bringing the items listed below to the bin at the reception desk by November 15. Sponsored by the St. John the Divine Daughters of the King.

Student Ministry Council Meeting
All youth are welcome to participate in our Student Ministry Council at 5:30 pm in the Youth Room. We will focus on shaping the youth group in a way that the students want, so that it is a place that they can come feel welcomed and comfortable. Hearing the students' feedback is the most important thing to us, so please come share your ideas and thoughts at the Student Ministry Council meetings! The meeting will take place right before Sunday Night Live.

Youth Game Night: Zorb Soccer
All youth are invited to Youth Game Night, featuring Zorb Soccer, from 6:30 to 8 pm. We will meet in the Hall Life Center for dinner, then head outside for game time. This is a fun way for our youth, grades 6-12, to get to know one another better and grow in their relationships with each other and Christ.

The Collect of the Day

O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves as he is pure; that, when he comes again with power and great glory, we may be made like him in his eternal and glorious kingdom; where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 

Luke 20:27-38

20:27 There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, 28 and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man[a] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second 31 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. 32 Afterward the woman also died. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”

34 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, 36 for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons[b] of the resurrection. 37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. 38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”

Musical Offering in the Church

Ralph Vaughan Williams has come to be regarded as one of the finest British composers of the 20th century. He composed a particularly wide-ranging catalogue of works, including choral works, symphonies, concerti, and opera. His searching and visionary imagination, combined with flexibility in writing for all levels of music-making, has meant that his music is as popular today as it ever has been. Our worship today begins with his short motet “O taste and see how gracious the Lord is” with the text from Psalm 34.

At the Offertory, we hear a composition by American composer Leo Nestor based upon the text of one of the Davidic songs of ascent, Psalm 131. The anthem, “Lord, My Heart Is Not Proud,” is scored for choir, organ, and obbligato cello. Dr. Nestor was faculty at The Catholic University of America in D.C. and Director of Music at Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for many years. We welcome cellist Shino Hayashi who regularly performs with ROCO.

At the Ministration, we hear the playful communion motet “Sing Joyfully” by English Renaissance composer William Byrd. He is considered among the most significant of the period, and he wrote much sacred music for Anglican services. After becoming Roman Catholic later in his life, he began to write Latin sacred music for use in that branch of the church.

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