St. Peter's Port Royal Current News

Souperbowl Sunday Feb 5, 2012

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:35:39 +0000

We participated in the Souperbowl of Caring and collected $286.26 and over 50 cans of food. That's great with 38 people in church today and being St. Peter's first participation in the program. Thanks to Tucker and Kim Fisher for being our "collectors" and Clarence for his quick count. Funds will go to Glory Outreach in Caroline County.

Here are the foodstuffs in Fred's car ready to be taken to Glory Outreach.

Authority, Jan 29, 2012

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:14:58 +0000

We held 2 services - 12 attended 9am’s Holy Eucharist, Rite 1 and 35 at 11pm Morning Prayer on a beautiful sunny day with moderate temperatures considering it is January.

The main concept presented in the scriptures revolved around authority. In our life as a church in Va. when we think of authority, we first think about the influence of the Episcopal Church and how it plays out in the Diocese.

During the announcements Eunice and Catherine reflected on attending the Diocesan Council held this past week. Eunice was impressed with the exuberant celebration for the retirement of Suffragen Bishop Jones after 17 years in the Diocese and noted the size of the Diocese. In that context, Catherine reminded the Church to review the list of candidates that will be published Feb 3, 2012 for the Suffragen position and to give their thoughts to our lay delegate (Linda or Eunice) and Catherine who will have a vote at the Diocese election April 21 in Fredericksburg.

Heartbeat, Jan 22, 2012

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:28:24 +0000

Together we celebrated St. Peter's for the work over the last year and realized once again how we have much to be thankful for at St. Peter's! The Parish meeting was today and it was handled in the context of Catherine's sermon. All of the reports for the meeting can be found here.

First and foremost it's the people. Elizabeth Heimbach, as junior warden, marshalling the Vestry to complete the earthquake repairs quickly but also realizing an opportunity to make our HVAC better and more efficient at the same time. Her report detailed nine other smaller projects So too in Mark's gospel for today (1:14-21). Jesus took four ordinary men and and made them into extraordinary leaders. (Here are the readings for today).

It's your call, Jan 15, 2012

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:31:58 +0000

Last week we celebrated the baptism of Jesus. This week (and next) the God's call to us is explored in the context of Jesus calling his disciples as Jesus' identity unfolds in the gospels.

Today it was the Gospel of John with call of Philip and Nathanael. The call was different for each disciple (God called Philip, Philip led Nathanael toward Christ) and their name for Jesus was different. However they followed the call - "come and see" or "come and believe."

In the Old Testament it is the call of the 12 year old boy Samuel to become the last of the Hebrew judges. He became a priest and prophet as Israel was moving toward a monarchy.

The children did a play about Samuel. It's easy to miss or misinterpret God's call as Samuel did 3 times. Eli, his guardian priest, finally interpreted it for him though his family was condemned by God due to their sins. Here is how it went: