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1 Volume 42, Issue 7 April 5, 2017 the illumination news from MONDAY, April 10 TUESDAY, April 11 WEDNESDAY, April 12 THURSDAY, April 13 Maundy Thursday FRIDAY, April 14 Good Friday SATURDAY, April 15 Holy Saturday 6:30 p.m. Mass 6:30 p.m. Mass 6:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross & Mass w/ Taize 7:00 p.m. Solemn High Mass with Stripping of the Sanctuary, Cleansing of the Altar, & Foot washing 9:00 p.m. Prayer Vigil to Sunrise in the Nave 7:00 a.m. Mass (Veneration of the Cross) 12:15 p.m. Mass (Veneration of the Cross) (Nursery infants-pre-k) 7:00 p.m. Mass (Veneration of the Cross) 8:30 p.m. Via Crucis and Good Friday Liturgy in Spanish 8:00 a.m. Holy Saturday Prayer Service in Memorial Garden (weather permitting) EASTER DAY, APRIL 16 ALLELUIA! Inside this Issue Pg. 2 Palm Sunday Update Pg. 3 Prayer Vigil sign-up Pg. 3 Honduras/Lamb Golf Tournament Pg. 3 New Wednesday Women s Bible Study Pg Men s Retreat at Unicoi Pg. 5 Ladies Tea sponsored by DOK Pg. 5 Summer Schedule Pg. 6 Connections Café Pg. 7 Men s Club Car Show on April 29 Pg. 8 Graduation form 6:45 a.m. Easter Vigil in Memorial Garden 7:30 a.m. Festive Holy Eucharist 9:15 a.m. Festive Family Holy Eucharist (nursery inf-4 s/prek) Refreshments & Kids meet Easter Bunny following the 9:15 a.m. service. 11:15 a.m. Festive Holy Eucharist with Incense (nursery inf-4 s/prek) 1:15 p.m. Hispanic Easter Mass 1

2 S AINT DAVID S EPISCOPAL CHURCH The Illumination Twice Monthly Newsletter of St. David s Episcopal Church Rector The Rev. Kenneth Swanson kswanson@stdavidchurch.org Newsletter Editor Linda Thomas linda@stdavidchurch.org 1015 Old Roswell Rd. Roswell, GA (office) (fax) Church Office: M-Th 10:00am - 5:00pm Friday 9-11:30am Church office office@stdavidchurch.org Church Web Site: St. David s Preschool Peggy Fallon, Director Preschool Fax: preschool@stdavidchurch.org In the event of a Pastoral Emergency after hours, call the church office at , follow the voice prompt, hit the #6 on your keypad, leave a message, and the Priest on call will return your call. The next issue of the newsletter will be mailed on April 26. The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 21, CALENDAR a.m./ p.m. JFH=Jeffords Fellowship Hall, PH=Grace Parish Hall Saturday, April 8 8:30 Men s Bible Study-Grace PH 10:00 DOK Training Bethany 10:30 AA mtg.-jfh classroom 2:00 Vincent Funeral/Reception Sunday, April 9 Palm Sunday No Sunday School today 10:00 Families Serving Together JFH front half 6:00 Chapel Mass Monday, April 10 11:00 Roswell Bridge Club-JFH 1:00 Girl Scouts/Mimosa-JFH 1:15 Cottage School culinary Class JFH kitchen 6:30 Boy Scouts-House 6:30 Cub Scouts-JFH classrooms 6:30 Holy Eucharist Nave 7:00 Ballroom Dance JFH Tuesday, April 11 6:30 Bible Study at IHOP 11:00 59 & Holding Comm.-House 11:00 Clerics Renewal of Vows Diocesan Nave 11:00 Clerics Lunch-JFH 3:15 Dutch School classes 6:30 Holy Eucharist Nave Wednesday, April 12 11:00 Roswell Bridge Club-JFH 1:15 Cottage School culinary Class JFH kitchen 2:00 Path to Shine-JFH 7:30 Holy Eucharist w/ Stations of The Cross w/ Taize Nave Thursday, April 13 6:00 Al-Anon Hope classroom 6:00 Unidad JFH 7:00 High Mass & Stripping of the Altar & Foot Washing-Nave 9:00 Prayer Vigil to begin-nave Friday, April 14 7:00 Holy Eucharist-Nave 12:15 Holy Eucharist-Nave 7:00 Holy Eucharist Nave 8:30 Holy Eucharist in Spanish-Nave Saturday, April 15 8:00 Holy Saturday Prayer Service In the Memorial Garden Our church calendar is continuously updated on our website at Worship Schedule 7:45 a.m. H.E., Rite I 8:00 a.m. Breakfast in Jeffords Hall 9:00 a.m. H.E., Rite II 10:15 a.m. Sunday School 11:15 a.m. H.E., Rite II 1:15 p.m. Mass in Spanish 6:00 p.m. Chapel Mass Lectionary for April 16 Easter Day Acts 10:34-43, Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24, Colossians 3:1-4, John 20:1-18 Lectionary for April 23 Acts 2:14a, 22-32, Psalm 16 1 Peter 1:3-9, John 20:19-31 Lectionary for April 30 Acts 2:14a, 36-41, Psalm 116:1-3, Peter 1:17-23, Luke 24:13-35 Palm Sunday The Sunday of the Passion April 9 Services 7:45 9:00 11:15 a.m. No Sunday School today. At 9:00 and 11:15 a.m., we begin at the front of Jeffords Hall and process together into the Nave waving palms. At 7:45 a.m., we begin the procession at the front doors of the church and process into the hallway and into the Nave. 2 April 5, 2017

3 P ARISH LIFE Prayer Vigil Sign-Up Thursday night April 13, 2017 It is our custom to keep a watchful vigil with Jesus throughout the night on Maundy Thursday, April 13. The vigil begins immediately following the Thursday night service and continues until early the next morning. Please sign up to come in during the night and keep vigil. The sign-up sheet is on a table in the main hallway. More than one person can sign up for a time slot, and we would like for more than one person to sign up for a time slot. Palm Cross Workshop Volunteers are needed! Adults, teens, and older children are invited to come to the Palm Cross workshop in the back half of Jeffords Hall on Saturday, April 8, 9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Under the direction of the Altar Guild, you will learn how to make the crosses to be distributed on Palm Sunday, April 9. No experience necessary! Attention Golfers: Save This Date! 5th Annual Links for LAMB Golf Tournament is open for registration! We would like to have St. David's represented this year at this fun tournament! This is hosted by St. Aidan's, St. David's, and the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, and will be held on May 9, 2017 at the beautiful Bradshaw Farms. All proceeds from this tournament will directly benefit the children of the LAMB Institute ( Cost is $150/ player and includes covers greens fees, cart fee, driving range, all contests, continental breakfast, hot buffet lunch, and drinks. Sign up online by visiting or the tournament coordinator at amy.erin.hill@gmail.com. Blessing of the Brains on May 7 at the 9 a.m. service! Come get blessed before exams start! Women s Bible Study Three Voices for the Season of Hope Back by popular request, Judi Gullatt will be teaching after Easter in the Women s Wednesday Bible Class. Please plan to attend the class from 11:00 12:00 noon in Grace Hall. Judi will lead us into Easter hope through the works of three master poets. Spring comes to the spiritual world as well as the physical. Move into the season of hope by exploring new beginnings as exemplified in the lives and works of writers Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Mary Oliver. April 19 All the Rules, Beautifully Broken April 26 Hopkins, the Hidden Poet May 3 Rilke, Mystic and Mystery May 10 Oliver, 20 th Century Romantic Dear Saint David s Parish, Thank you for your great kindnesses to our family throughout the illness, death and funeral of my husband, Ed. All of the cards, meals, flowers and prayers have given us strength and revealed the grace of God in all of you. I will never forget what you have done, nor your love to us. In Christ, Anne Elizabeth Swiedler+ 3

4 HOLY SATURDAY & PALM SUNDAY Holy Saturday Prayer Service 8:00 a.m., April 15 in the Memorial Garden (weather permitting) The Holy Saturday Prayer Service is a bridge between the grief and hopelessness of Good Friday, and the joy and celebration of Easter. It is a service of hope. There is no Eucharist and the service lasts maybe 20 min. Palm Sunday and Easter Morning Notes: No Sunday School on Palm Sunday or Easter Day. There will be a procession of palms led by a donkey, starting in the front of Jeffords Fellowship Hall at 9:00 a.m. & 11:15 a.m. The procession of palms for 7:45 a.m. will start at the front door of the church. On Easter Sunday, after the 9:15 a.m. service, you will gather for Easter egg hunt for 2 s 3rd grade, refreshments, and a visit with the Easter Bunny in the Crossing outside the lower Jeffords Hall classrooms. Yes! Sunday School on April 23! 2017 MEN S RETREAT IN APRIL The 2017 St David s Men s retreat is scheduled for April at Unicoi State Park in Helen, GA. Again, we will have optional golf, fishing, biking and hiking on Friday, 2/21 and a cookout that night so come for the activities or come just for the cookout and fellowship. Golf will be played at Butternut Creek, Blairsville, this year. The formal program will begin at 9:30 on Saturday, 4/22 with breakfast at 8:30 so you can drive in on Saturday morning if you like. The program ends on Sunday, 4/23, with a worship service and Eucharist finished by noon.. We will have a full hot breakfast each day thanks to Ron Bagwell. Saturday lunch sandwiches. Steaks Saturday night YUMMM!! Friday night will be burgers and brats as usual. Our retreat leader will be Fr. Todd Dill, past Assistant to the Rector at St David s. The theme will be: "Discipleship 2017" - Five Markings of a Modern Disciple. So, come and get a Spiritual Renewal!! Sign up early and invite your friends. Come for the Friday activities it's more fun. All meals and lodging are furnished through the fee - $145 for Sat/Sun and an additional $65 for food and lodging if you come for Friday night. Registration forms are available online and in the mailbox hallway. Sign up and join us for a weekend of Spiritual Renewal and Christian Fellowship. If questions, call Loren Conrad; April 5, 2017

5 LADIES TEA ON MAY 6 St. David s Grace Chapter, Daughters of the King cordially invites All women of St. David s Episcopal Church and Your Mothers, Daughters, Grandmothers, and Granddaughters, and Guests are welcome. To join us for a Ladies Tea Saturday, May 6, p.m. to 4 p.m., Jeffords Fellowship Hall Please sign up in the mailbox hallway. SUMMER SCHEDULE TO BEGIN MAY 21 Summer Worship Schedule :45 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Chapel Mass Mass in Spanish at 12:15 p.m. Breakfast 8:30 10:00 a.m. No Sunday School until mid-august 5

6 NEW WEDNESDAY NIGHT PROGRAM March 22-April 19: "The Wild Goose" Celtic Christians talked about the Holy Spirit as a loud, passionate, untamed, sometimes frightening, and certainly uncontrollable wild goose. The Holy Spirit they had encountered was always on the move, always doing unexpected things. The Holy Spirit was much more like a wild goose than a dove. A dove was simply too tame and too tranquil an image. Dr. April Love-Fordham will be teaching the classes in the front half of Jeffords Hall at 6:30 pm on the Wild Goose, sending you home each week with a spiritual discipline to try at home. SAVE THE DATE! St. David's Family Camp 2017 August 25-27, 2017 Kanuga Episcopal Conference Center Hendersonville, North Carolina (3 hrs drive from St. David's) Prices and online self booking will be made available early this spring. Everyone is welcome to come. Last year we had a wonderful blend from St. David's including families with children, 59+ without children, and single parents. Please contact Rev. Michelle Ortiz or Jennifer Rust at jrustlahood@gmail.com if you have questions. CONNECTIONS CAFE Topics for each class are listed below: Week One 4/23/17 Introductions Tour of the Parish Please join us for Connections Café Jeffords Fellowship Hall, back half Classes held on April 23rd, 30th and May 7 th 10:15am to 11:00am This class is intended for visitors and newcomers or anyone interested in knowing more about St. David s. Week Two 4/30/17 Church and Liturgical Overview Pastoral and Caring Ministries Stewardship Week Three 5/7/17 Ministry Opportunities Communication 6 April 5, 2017

7 MEN S CLUB CAR SHOW, APRIL

8 NEW BOOK STUDY The second session of our Saint David s book study on Living into God s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America, edited by Catherine Meeks, will begin on April 23 and continue for three weeks (4/30, 5/7, 5/14) in Grace Parish Hall. If you are interested in understanding or exploring how to move toward God s Beloved Community in which all are equal, this is the book and the class for you! Each week someone will briefly review a selected chapter of the book and we will discuss it in small groups. You do not have to have read the chapter to attend the class, but the book is so engaging you will want to buy it and read it in its entirety! BAPTISMS ON MARCH 26 Harper Ann Beliveau (1 yr.), daughter of Jonathan and Kimberly Beliveau. Paxton Anne Horseman (3 mos.), daughter of Emily Moroz and Jonathon Horsemen. George Roper and Seamus Getty Leonard (7 mos. old), twin sons of Ryan & Lila Leonard and grandsons of Ron Bagwell. 8 April 5, 2017

9 1015 Old Roswell Rd., Roswell, GA Mailed April 5, 2017 Return Service Requested Postmaster: Important dated Church Material; please do not hold. CALLING ALL GRADUATES! Calling all Graduates On Sunday, May 14 during the 9:00 and 11:15 services, we would like to honor all graduating parishioners from high school, college, and graduate school. If you are a graduate, or you have a graduate in your household, please let the church office know. We want to honor their accomplishment! Please return the form below to the church office ( ) by Monday, May 8. The form may also be downloaded from the church website at on the home page. You may also your information to linda@stdavidchurch.org. Graduate s name: Graduating from: Future plans: April 5,