E-Canticle for September 21, 2015

REGULAR EVENTS

Men’s Group 2nd Mondays, 6:30 pm Undercroft

Outreach Ministry 3rd Sunday after worship Sunday School area downstairs

Vestry 3rd Mondays, 6:30 pm, Hearth Room

OUTSIDE GROUPS

Yoga Class Saturdays, 10-11 am Undercroft

Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting2nd Saturdays, 7 pm Undercroft

AA, Regular Meeting Tuesdays, 7 pm, Undercroft

St. Francis Episcopal Church Menomonee Falls

The Collect of the Day for The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 21

September 27, 2015

O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Click on this link to read the upcoming Sunday Bible passages:

The Lectionary Page - Track 2

canned water chestnuts, mandarin oranges, pears, peaches, sauerkraut, toothpaste, and specialty cereals.

Our next turn to help will be October 6th & 8th.

Sign up on the Bulletin Board - this is a very enjoyable experience.

Take your time to look at the magnificent new work of art installed in the floor to ceiling panels at the front of the church. Sit in the church and meditate on it and pray. And, please remember that it needs time to continue to cure and dry. So:

Look but don’t touch…

New Stained Glass

October 4th - Bishop’s Visitation Holy Baptism and Blessing

of our new narthex and window

FIVE baptisms… Blessing of the narthex and stained glass…A great celebration for St. Francis. Come! Celebrate!

New Carpeting

The current altar rail will be removed, making way for new carpeting and a new altar rail. Removing the railing now will save us a significant cost in future carpeting revisions. Until a new altar rail is installed, we will receive communion at standing stations. Be patient - this is only temporary.

St Francis Episcopal Church (262) 251-7420

wwww.stfrancisepiscopal.org

Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 194, Church Location:

N84 W16525 Menomonee Avenue MENOMONEE FALLS, WI 53052-0194

Rector: The Rev. Martha Berger Senior Warden: Craig Korn

Junior Warden: Ron Johnson

Vestry Members:

Class of 2015 + Class of 2016 Jan Leisner, Jud Williams,

JD Polley

Class of 2017 Sue Hafert, Barb Spain

Class of 2018 Chuck Sherry

Upcoming Events

September 27, after worship, Blue Jean Sunday This is our chance to polish up the building in advance of the bishop’s visit on Oct. 4. We will pay attention to details in the narthex and choir loft, and other spots our Junior Warden has identified. Please stay and lend a hand.

October 3, Saturday, 10 am, Blessing of the Animals. October 4, Sunday, 9:30 am, The Feast of St. Francis: Bishop’s Visitation, Holy Baptism, and Dedication of the New Window and Narthex.

What’s so Amazing about Grace? A ten-session discussion of grace,

with video by Philip Yancey, author of “The Jesus I Never Knew”

Begins on Wednesday, September 9, 6:30 pm

OR Monday, September 14, 11 am.

The  2016  Entertainment  Books    are  here.  There  are  hundreds  of  dollars  of  savings  at  restaurants,  shows,  sports  venues,  and  travel  at  your  finger@ps  at  the  same  low  price  of  $35.    This  is  $5  off  the  retail  price.    I  will  have  them  available  on  Sundays  at  church.    You  can  even  order  out  of  town  books  for  loved  ones  across  America.    Contact  Craig  Korn.

Fall Bible Study Continues 2 Times: Day or Evening

Be a Visitor to Diocesan Convention

Saturday, October 17If you would like to attend along with our deputies, let Mother Martha know to register you. This will be an exciting convention, with many resolutions flowing from the General Convention in Salt Lake City. There is a cost if you include meals:Breakfast: $10.00, Lunch $15.00 or Both $20.00

Make your check payable to the Diocese of Milwaukee

We must register you by September 24th

Entertainment Books

Door-to-Door

As part of Blue Jean Sunday, please help leaflet the blocks surrounding the church with copies of the invitation to our October 4th Celebration. If you can walk a block or two, once the narthex is spic ’n span, we’ll go out in twos or threes, door to door, to extend our welcome. This will not take long.

Neighbors consider themselves attached to local churches, whether they are members or not. They drive by everyday and notice changes.

For instance, the changing sign on the street corner catches attention, and gives a laugh or a chance to think.

We want to share the new narthex and window with those with whom we live.

Please take a half hour and…

pitch in.

A busload of parishioners (thank you Sue Hafert for organizing the transportation!) made their way to Nashotah House last Sunday. There they enjoyed worshiping with the Nashotah House Community at Evensong (sung Evening Prayer), with hymns and three recital pieces on our/their organ.

The Very Rev. Steven Peay thanked St. Francis profusely for the generous and free gift which will unhand the life of the seminary in many ways. The organ will be used for worship services, recitals, and teaching church musicians. Nashotah House has had professionals tune, wire, and tinker with the organ to perfect it.

The choir scholars voices were beautiful and the organ was enhanced by a group of brass musicians from the Brookfield Civic Band.

Afterward, everyone was treated to delicious pulled pork at the pot luck.

This event honored St. Francis for their gift while celebrating a new beginning for Nashotah House. Those who attended returned home with full hearts and the satisfaction that the Vestry made a good decision when they unanimously voted to donate the organ.

Thanks be to God!

Here is a link to a recording of one of the hymns sung at Evensong. Thank you, Mia…

~ O Praise Ye the Lord! ~

The St. Francis Organ is given New Life