Here is the Zoom link for Marian’s funeral service Thursday, February 24 at 2:00 PM CST, if you will not be joining us in person at St. Mary’s.
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SEXAGESIMA
February 20, 2022
GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY BE TO HIM FOREVER!
TODAY AT ST. MARY’S
Here’s this week’s Order of Service, (with video link)
Public worship at St. Mary’s Anglican Church will return on Sunday February 27th.
GODLY PLAY: Story for Feb. 20 is ‘The Parable of The Leaven’ Matthew 13:33. Leader Sandra – Via Zoom.
PARISH LIFE NOTES
2021 TAX RECEIPTS have been mailed out. Please watch your mailbox for yours. If you would like to receive an electronic copy of your receipt, or if you have any questions, please send Blair an email.
Sexigesima 2022 – Morning Prayer
(Modified 2021-02-20: Added video link for live stream and recorded service.)
SEXAGESIMA
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February 20, 2022 10.30 o’clock
THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR MORNING PRAYER
Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Good morning, friends. Today is the seventh after the Epiphany and our order of service for Morning Prayer can be followed on the website or downloaded and printed from the weekly email. Let us take a moment to calm our hearts as we prepare to worship God.
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Classical economic theory tells us that, if left to their own devices, markets will balance themselves out — supply meeting demand — because the humans in those markets are rational beings who will behave in their own self-interest by making decisions based on reason. It amazes me that anyone who has actually met another human being could espouse such a theory in good conscience and with a straight face, but somehow or other this idea has managed to hang on more or less up until the present age.
In my opinion, classical economic theory is more useful as a model you can hold up against actual economies to see just how far off the mark you are about people acting rationally. Personally, I’m much more interested in behavioural economics, as developed in the 60s and 70s by Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Tversky and Kahneman developed a number of concepts that describe the ways in which people make irrational choices. The availability heuristic, for example, says that people tend to believe things they’ve heard stories about are more common than they really are. Like if you hear a story about a shark attack, it sticks in your mind, and you think shark attacks must happen all the time. But you’re not stacking up the story you heard against the thousands of people who go into the ocean every day and aren’t attacked by sharks. We are much more moved by a good story than by data.
Jesus in Luke chapter 6 is giving us his speech as the chief economist of the Kingdom of God. If rationality states that when someone punches you in the eye, the fair thing is for them to stand still while you return the favour, the economy Jesus is describing here is based on a principle of abundance, not balanced ledgers. “Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on the cheek, turn to them the other also.” I ask you, is this rational? Is this an example of supply balancing with demand?
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SEPTUAGESIMA – February 13, 2022
GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY BE TO HIM FOREVER!
TODAY AT ST. MARY’S
Here’s this week’s Order of service (with video link)
Public worship at St. Mary’s Anglican Church will return on Sunday February 27th.
GODLY PLAY: Story for Feb.13 is ‘The Parable of the Sower’ Matthew 4:1-11; Matthew 13:3-8. Via Zoom.
PARISH LIFE NOTES
THE CONGREGATIONAL AGM will be held by Zoom today right after the service.
St. Mary’s is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: St. Mary’s 2022 AGM
Time: Feb 13, 2022 11:45 AM Saskatchewan
Join Zoom Meeting
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WORSHIP NOTE Today we begin our symbolic countdown to Easter and the Journey to Jerusalem that is Lent. The three Sundays of pre-Lent preceding Ash Wednesday which falls in March 2 are entitled Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima. In this way the Church seeks to help us to prepare for the Great Fast, which in turn prepares us to enter into once again the mystery of our salvation that is our union with Jesus in His death and Resurrection. “If we have died with Him, we will also live with Him; if we endure we will also reign with Him.” (2 Timothy 2.11, 12a)
Septuagesima 2022 – Morning Prayer
SEPTUAGESIMA
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February 13, 2022
10.30 o’clock
THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR MORNING PRAYER
Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Good morning, friends. Today is the sixth after the Epiphany and our order of service for Morning Prayer can be followed on the website or downloaded and printed from the weekly email. Let us take a moment to calm our hearts as we prepare to worship God.
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Jeremiah 17:5-10 Psalm 11 Corinthians 15:12-20 Luke 6:17-26 | February 13,2022 St. Mary’s Regina Epiphany 6 Year C |
I have been to the Holy Land. Six years ago, the clergy of the Diocese of Saskatoon went together on a pilgrimage to see the land where Jesus lived and taught. I saw for myself how much of Jerusalem can be seen from the Mount of Olives and whether the Jordan is a rushing river or a flowing stream. I saw the physical land around Tiberias where tradition holds that Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount (according to Matthew) or the Sermon on the Plain (according to Luke). It is the same sermon recorded in three of the gospels and in my mind there is a difference between a mountain and a plain.
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THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY
February 6, 2022
GLORY BE TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY BE TO HIM FOREVER!
TODAY AT ST. MARY’S
Public worship in the Diocese of Qu’Appelle is suspended as of Monday, January 10, 2022, until further notice. But we can join in worship via this live video stream link Sunday morning at 10:30 (CST). This same player will play the recorded service afterward.
(The same video link appears on the Order of Service page along with the text.)
PARISH LIFE NOTES.
GODLY PLAY: Story for Feb.6 ‘Jesus in the Wilderness’ Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13. Via Zoom.
The congregational AGM will be held by zoom on Sunday, February 13, 2022. A zoom link will be provided soon. Please put this date on your calendar. It is important that we have enough people attending to reach a quorum. Please send in any reports by Wednesday February 9 to the church office so Yvonne can get us organized for the meeting.
Epiphany 5, 2022 – Morning Prayer
THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
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February 6, 2022
10.30 o’clock
THE ORDER OF SERVICE FOR MORNING PRAYER
Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Good morning, friends. Today is the fourth after the Epiphany and our order of service for Morning Prayer can be followed on the website or downloaded and printed from the weekly email. Let us take a moment to calm our hearts as we prepare to worship God.
Epiphany 5, 2022 – Sermon
Isaiah 6:1-13 Psalm 138 1 Cor. 15:1-11 Luke 15:1-11 | February 6, 2022 St. Mary’s Regina Epiphany V Year C |
There have been a few glitches in my life this week. I won’t list them, but I was unexpectedly called to preach this morning because of illness. So in full disclosure, I have borrowed a large portion of this morning’s message, written by Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor,in her book “Home by Another Way” pp 39-41.
Have you ever had a day when no matter what you tried, you could not get your work done? A day when all your plans and schemes and lists and organization skills were in place and still, at the end of the day, you had nothing to show for all your hard work? Do you remember the feelings you felt? Were you discouraged, frustrated, angry and tired? Were there other people depending on you and so they felt let down? Our failures often have a domino effect on other folks. That is what has happened to Simon and James and John and unnamed others…the village fishermen…when they pushed their boats onto Lake Gennesaret to go fishing.
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