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 2024

 

FROM THE RECTOR’S DESK

Imagine it is one year after the time when Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah long awaited, had died on a Roman Cross and had risen from the dead. You are in Jerusalem, part of the infant Church with the Apostles themselves present. And along with the Apostles are many other eyewitnesses to whom the risen Christ, in transformed human nature that is now immortal, completely free from even the possibility of death, had appeared and proved himself alive again “by many infallible proofs.” And what a year it has been.

Before you met them Peter, James, and John, and the other Apostles had experienced great trauma on the Friday in which Jesus died. Indeed, from the previous night until well into the day after the Sabbath, they were in fear, and believed that all of their hopes had failed completely. Before those days, the Lord Jesus had told them several times that he would suffer many things, be handed over to the gentiles, mocked and spat upon, be put to a cruel death by crucifixion, and would rise again on the third day. If they had heard his words on those occasions, it would have made the darkness of their Rabbi’s Passion and death sorrowful but not seemingly hopeless. But before the fact of seeing him risen from the dead, they could only hear and understand so much, and no more.

You are part of the Church in Jerusalem, and it has yet to branch out into the rest of Judea, and Samaria, and yet to begin spreading throughout the whole world. The Church is your community. Everyone in it looks after one another’s needs to the point where no one calls the things he owns his own property. It has become commonplace among your fellow believers to see the power of the Risen Lord demonstrated by signs and wonders, miracles of the Holy Spirit through not only the Apostles, but others in the Church as well, such as a deacon named Stephen.

It is Spring, and it is once again the time of the Passover. You are in Jerusalem, a Jewish disciple of Jesus. Passover is no longer only the freedom of your ancestors from slavery in Egypt. Passover is now the Feast of the Messiah having freed mankind from its slavery to sin and death.

Passover is now much more than it was before this fulfillment. That is the origin of our Feast, no matter what false history you may have heard. No wonder almost every language other than English uses a form of the word Passover for what we call Easter.  RH+

 

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.

 

Prayer for parish growth

Please include the following in your daily prayers

 

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 Aiken, South Carolina on April 25 and 26 (Thursday and Friday). Fr. Hart is part of the Commission on Ministry which meets on Wed. April 23. James Lazenby, Diane Hart, and Jackie Kylander will be at the Synod on Thursday and Friday as Parish delegates.

 

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.

 

 

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

Phone# 919-933-0956

 

 

Holy Week Schedule :

 

Wednesday before Easter: March 27 Holy Communion at 12: noon

 

Maundy Thursday March 28 Holy Communion 7:00 PM (with the Stripping of the Altar)

 

Good Friday March 29 Observances at 12:00 Noon and at 6:00 PM

 

Holy Saturday  March 30

Easter Mass at the Stratford Senior Care Facility at 3:00PM

Easter Eve Vigil at 5:00 PM

 

Easter   March 31

Sunday 8:30 Morning Prayer

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

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

Rev. Nicholas Harrelson, Curate

Mr. James Lazenby, Organist

Mr. Michael Murray, Senior Warden

Ms. Jackie Kylander, Junior Warden


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