Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – Bishop Andy Doyle
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Louise Samuelson
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Sutton Lowe
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Trent Pettit (8 am) & The Rev. Sutton Lowe (5 pm)
• Lenten Evensong | 5 pm in the Church – The Rev. Louise Samuelson
  

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

Lectionary Lectio Divina Group – Nau Family Room
Family Matters – L16 & L18

Children's Nursery

• Birth - age 2, Rm 104
• Age 3 - Kinder, Rms L8, L9
• Grades 1 - 3, Scout Rm
• Grades 4 & 5, L19 & L 20

Youth Sunday School – Room 238
Youth Confirmation – Youth Room

Happening Today

Youth Confirmation
Confirmation is a time milestone in a young person’s faith. In The Episcopal Church, we practice infant baptism and allow students to renew their baptismal vowels when they get older; this is done during Confirmation. At 9 am in the Church, Bishop C. Andrew Doyle, Bishop of Texas will lead this year's Confirmation ceremony.

Adult Confirmation
Confirmation is a sacramental rite in which the candidates "express a mature commitment to Christ, and receive strength from the Holy Spirit through prayer and the laying on of hands by a bishop." This Confirmation service for adults will be led by the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, Bishop of Texas at 11:15 am in the Church.

Lenten Evensong
The SJD Choristers and SJD Chorale trebles offer Lenten Evensong, or sung evening prayer, featuring works by composers Gabriel Fauré and Philip Moore at 5 pm in the Church. 

The Collect of the Day

Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

John 12:1-8

12:1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 3 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”

Musical Offering in the Church

This morning our musical offerings include two very different anthems by English composer and conductor Philip Stopford.

At the Offertory, we hear a fresh, contemporary setting of the familiar Charles Wesley hymn, “Jesu, Lover of My Soul.” Wesley (1707-1788) wrote hundreds of hymns and poems and was one of the most prolific English poets. His hymns bear witness to the power of God in Christ, today and in every age, and twenty-four of them are included in our present hymnal. Wesley’s hymn “Jesu, Lover of My Soul” speaks of the sufficiency of Christ and declares Christ to be the sole desire of the Christian. The accessible, lyrical style of Stopford’s musical setting of this hymn is memorable, allowing the text to speak with great meaning.

In response to Confirmation and the Sacrament of Baptism which we celebrate this morning, the Chorale sings the words “Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name; you are mine.” This anthem, sung during the Ministration with words by English Roman Catholic writer and teacher Gerard Markland, is based on four verses from Isaiah 43. This memorable a cappella anthem is also by Philip Stopford. It is written in an accessible, memorable style that elegantly expresses this profound but personal text.