Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday

• Traditional Services
  8 am & 5 pm | Chapel
  The Rev. Louise Samuelson (8 am) & The Rev. Reagan Cocke (5 pm)
  9 am & 11:15 am | Church 
  The Rev. Louise Samuelson (9 am) & Dr. Kira Moolman Pettit (11:15 am)
  
• Awesome Worship (Families)
  9:15 am | Hall Life Center
  The Rev. Lars Skoglund
  
• Modern Worship
  11:15 am | Hall Life Center
  The Rev. Mike Endicott
  
• Worship at Ascension
  8 am & 10:30 am | 2525 Seagler Rd
  The Rev. Trent Pettit
  

Worship Online

Includes Order of Service & Announcements

• Traditional Service | Church | 9 am
• Modern Worship | Hall Life Center | 11:15 am

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

• A Church Given to the Spirit | Hall Life Center
• Scripture Meditation Group – Nau Family Room
• Family Matters – Scout Room

• Children's Sunday School 
  Nursery | 8:30 am — 12:30 pm
  2 months - age 2 | First floor nursery: Rm 104
  Sunday School  | 10:15 — 11:10 am
  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 | Traditional Sunday school | Lower level: L16
  4th - 5th grade | Traditional Sunday school | Lower level: L21 (girls), L20 (boys)

• Youth Sunday School | Room 234 & 238

Happening Today

Vestry Nomination Suggestions
Part of our yearly election process includes an open call for parishioners to suggest candidates for vestry membership. A nominating committee of eight vestry members and seven at-large members, selected by the vestry, reviews these suggestions in consultation with the rector before presenting a slate of 12 worthy candidates for the six open vestry positions for vestry approval and parish consideration. Nomination suggestions for our next class of vestry members runs from Monday, October 26 through Sunday, November 22, at 5 pm.

Casseroles for a Cause
Stock your freezer and support a wonderful mission! You can order Brookwood’s famous casseroles online from October 26 to November 18 and support Brookwood's mission of providing meaningful work and purpose for adults in need. Pre-ordered casseroles will be available for pickup in Sumners Hall after morning services on Sunday, November 22 and until 11:30 am. Order your casseroles.

When Parent/Child Roles Change: Conversations About Aging, Autonomy, and Proactivity
Aging brings changes that few families find easy to discuss. This two-hour workshop, at 12:30 pm in the Parlor, guides parents and their adult children through a step-by-step process to bring families together as a team and prepare them to navigate the challenges that come with aging. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP for this complimentary event.

Student Ministry Council Meeting
Have ideas on what the youth group's next midweek game meal or event should be? Come to student ministry council! We meet on Sundays at 5:30 pm in room 238 just before our monthly student game nights. Come by and share your thoughts with us!

Youth Game Night: Bingo
Come hang out and enjoy good food and Bingo at Youth Game Night! All students in grades 6-12 are invited to come and get to know one another at these monthly events. We meet on Sunday, November 8, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Youth Room 236.

The Collect of the Day

Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Matthew 22:1-14

22:1 And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, 2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, 3 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. 4 Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ 5 But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, 6 while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. 7 The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ 10 And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.

11 “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. 12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Musical Offering in the Church

Today’s musical offering explores two distinct expressions of faith through the music of Anglican composer Edward Bairstow and a traditional African American spiritual. Together, these works invite us to reflect on the mystery of Christ’s presence in the Eucharist and the call to remain watchful and steadfast in faith.

Edward Bairstow was a prominent musician of the Anglican Church during the first half of the twentieth century. After holding several positions at London churches, he became Master of Music at York Minster in 1913, a post he held until his death in 1946. As a composer, he wrote almost exclusively for the Church. At the Offertory, we hear his anthem Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. Although the tune Picardy is not the ancient Greek Orthodox chant originally sung during the presentation of the sacred elements in the Liturgy of St. James, Bairstow's arrangement of this familiar French folk melody evokes the atmosphere of the Orthodox tradition. Its solemnity and beauty effectively express the awe and mystery of Christ's presence in the bread and wine of the Eucharist.

During the Ministration, the choir sings Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning, a traditional African American spiritual arranged by contemporary American composer and conductor André Thomas. Rooted in the experience of enslaved African Americans, the spiritual draws upon the parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1–13), today's appointed Gospel reading, in which Jesus calls his followers to remain watchful and prepared for his coming. The image of keeping one's lamp burning becomes a powerful expression of faith, perseverance, and spiritual readiness.

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