Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill (9 am) & Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon (11:15 am)
• 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. John Sundara
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill (8 am) & The Rev. John Sundara (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

*Teen Daughters of the King — 9 am in Room L21

Happening Today

Oktober on the Boulevard
Join us for our annual Oktober on the Boulevard! The community event everyone looks forward to each year! Food, Games, Pumpkin Decorating, Songs, Beer tasting, Cake walk, and more! Come on out for the Fall event of the year! Some of our favorite vendors will be out there selling baked goods, jams, barbecue sauce, salsa, etc. Get your FREE tickets!

The Collect of the Day

Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in the confession of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 

Luke 18:1-8

18:1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

Musical Offering in the Church

Today at the 9 am service, our worship begins at the Introit with an anthem of praise sung by our Preparatory Choir and SJD Choristers. Its composer, Natalie Sleeth, was an influential composer of hymns and choral music for the church. At 11:15 am, we hear Anton Bruckner’s motet “Locus Iste.” It is based on the Biblical story of Jacob’s ladder where Jacob proclaims “Surely, the Lord is in this place” and the story of the burning bush when Moses is told “put off thy shoes from off thy fee, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”

The text of the widely popular hymn “Be Thou My Vision” comes to us from the Irish monastic tradition c. 700. It is one of two examples in the hymnal of the Celtic lorica or breastplate, almost a sort of incantation to be recited for protection, arming oneself for physical or spiritual battle. The other lorica is St. Patrick’s Breastplate (hymn 370) which we sing for occasions such as ordinations and Trinity Sunday. The choir sings an elegant arrangement of this hymn at the Offertory by contemporary British composer Bob Chilcott.

English organist and composer Henry Loosemore (c. 1607–1670) served as organist of King’s College, Cambridge from 1627 until his death. During the Ministration, we hear his simple motet “O Lord, increase our faith.” The text comes to us from Luke 17:5 where the apostles ask Jesus to increase their faith.

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