Holy Week and Easter 2022

 

T H E    B E N E D I C T I O N

Newsletter of St. Benedict’s Anglican Catholic Church 

O  WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS

Our parish, which was founded in 1979, has maintained the Liturgy of the traditional Book of Common Prayer. Our preaching and teaching draw on the Holy Scriptures in light of the Tradition of the Church from the earliest days.

 

Passiontide and Easter 2022

 

FROM THE RECTOR’S DESK

The most dramatic and moving services of the year are about to take place at Saint Benedict’s and all over the world. There is a definite emotional contrast that we move into in those few days of Holy Week and Easter. Compared, of course, to what the original disciples experienced, our experience can be only mild. They really suffered the distress of knowing that Jesus, their Rabbi, had been flogged and crucified. With him died their hope. All was lost.

          The problem was magnified because they had been unable to hear him the several times he foretold his betrayal, suffering, and death. Had they heard it, and had it come to mind between the dark hours of Thursday night and the dark wee hours of Sunday morning, their pain might have been mixed with the joy of hope in anticipation of his resurrection. Part of why they had been unable to hear each of those foretellings by our Lord was probably because they expected a painless transition into some sort of worldly kingdom, with images of the Kingdom of God not properly distanced from their carnal understanding of political kingdoms, albeit mixed with the resurrection of the dead and other benefits of divine power as they imagined it.

          On one occasion Jesus had barely finished foretelling his suffering, death, and resurrection when two of his disciples, James and John, asked to be seated one on his right hand, and one on his left in his kingdom (Mark 10:32-45). The very night in which he was betrayed, no sooner had he spoken of his death than the twelve began to argue over who was the greatest among them (Luke 22:21-27). Indeed, it can be our own agendas, our own carnal and worldly ambitions, and other distractions that deafen us to what our Lord is saying.

          Even after Jesus had risen they still did not believe until he came into the room in which they were hiding due to fear. It is good for us to lay aside all false expectations, all worldly agendas, and carnal ambitions, so we can hear what Jesus Christ says to us in the sacred pages of the Gospels. The joy that is coming, on which we depend, is not of this world. It is Easter joy. The risen and glorified Christ will share with us his own acquired immortal form of human Life, completing our adoption as the children of his eternal Father.

 

Easter Offering

Enclosed is an envelope for the Easter Offering. Please consider, prayerfully, what you should give in special thanksgiving for Christ’s victory over death. Our stamp that says “Easter Offering” has been broken somehow, so all you will see is a little envelope with a place for your name.

 

Please include the following in your daily prayers

Prayer for parish growth

 

O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Whose will is that none should perish, and Who hast given us gifts by thy Holy Spirit to do thy will on earth, By the power of the same Holy Spirit make us always true and living witnesses for thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ; And so guide us and use us to bring people into thy holy church. Grow this parish in Chapel Hill that is named in honor of thy saint Benedict. Make us a light to the world around us. Draw people to our parish that they may partake of Christ and His salvation in our fellowship. And Father,  Direct us in all our doings, with thy most gracious favor, and further us with thy continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally, by thy mercy, obtain everlasting life; All of this we pray through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

Diocesan Synod

This year the synod will take place in Athens Georgia, on April 28, 29 (Thursday and Friday). Fr. Hart is on the Commission on Ministry which meets on Wed. the 27. Nicholas Harrelson will be there that day as well to meet with the Commission on Ministry in preparation for Ordination exams. James Lazenby and Jackie Kylander will be at the Synod on Thursday and Friday as Parish delegates along with Nicholas Harrelson, and of course Fr. Hart.

 

Holy Week

Please see the schedule of services below. I urge everyone to attend as many of these as you can. The services are, each of them, unique. They are part of the whole experience of going through Christ’s Passion and Death and entering into the Joy of His resurrection.

 

 

 

 

Holy Week Schedule :

 

Wednesday before Easter: (April 13) Holy Communion at 12: noon

 

Maundy Thursday (April 14) Holy Communion 7:00 PM (with the Stripping of the Altar)

 

Good Friday (April 15) Observances at 12:00 Noon and at 6:00 PM

 

Holy Saturday (April 16) Easter Eve Vigil at 5:00 PM

Easter (April 17) Sunday 8:30 Morning Prayer and Holy Communion & 10:00 Holy Communion

 

Regular Schedule:

 

Sundays

8:30 AM Morning Prayer & Holy Communion (Said).

10:00 AM Holy Communion.

 

Wednesdays

Holy Communion 12:00 noon

 

Saturdays

Pray that soon we can restart the 3:00 PM Holy Communion at the Stratford Senior Care Facility

 

St. Benedict’s Anglican Church is a parish of the Diocese of the South, Anglican Catholic Church,

Original Province

Most Rev. Dr. Mark D. Haverland,

Archbishop Ordinary

 

Rev. Robert Hart, Rector

Mr. James Lazenby, Organist

Mr. Michael Murray, Senior Warden

Ms. Jackie Kylander, Junior Warden

 

St. Benedict’s website: www.saintbenedicts.net.

Phone# 919-933-0956

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