E-Canticle !May 5, 2014

REGULAR EVENTS

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

Outreach Ministry 3rd Sunday after worship Sunday School area

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

Worship Committee4th Mondays, 6 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

Summer Outreach Meetings

O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow where he leads; who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

The Lord is my Shepard, I have all I need, She makes me lie down in green meadows,

Beside the still waters, She will lead. Bobby McFerrin

The Fourth Sunday of Easter - 5/11

MORE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! The Food Pantry

Sign up on the bulletin board to volunteer We Need:

May 20th - 1 person at 4:45pm May 22nd, 3 people at 11:45 am !

also help receive and stock items from the Post Office Food Drive

this Saturday, May 10,1 pm - 6 pm come for any or all of this time!

Blue Jean Sunday

Mark your Calendars!!Sunday, June 22nd!

Clean-up together to make !the church building shine.

Sundays!June 15 and August 17!

(no meeting in May or July)

Women’s Appreciation Dinner Thursday, May 29th

Evening Prayer, 6 pm Dinner, 6:30 pm

DINNER NIGHT OUT !Thursday, May 15, 6 pm

RBG at the Radisson Hotel, Menomonee Falls call Shala Johnson to sign up - (414) 839-6029

all are welcome!

!St Francis Episcopal Church!

(262) 251-7420 wwww.stfrancisepiscopal.com !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!

(terms to be decided !at the next Vestry meeting)!Jan Leisner, Jud Williams,!

JD Polley, Mary JancikClass of 2017!

Sue Hafert, Barb Spain!!

THE ROAD TO EMMAUS shown in the painting

The Kitchen Maid, by Spanish painter Velázquez

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Painted in the 1620’s, this work of art is kept at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. !Here a servant, half African Moor and half Spanish Christian, a true outsider, is stunned at hearing the voice of Jesus, taking in this amazing post-resurrection appearance and becoming one of the first to recognize the risen Christ. Velázquez has used his imagination to fill in the biblical account - who cooked their meal? who served the men? !As happened time and again during his earthly ministry, those outside the inner circle of disciples and outside the acceptable membership of Jewish society encounter Jesus and recognize him to be someone very, very special - a man from God. And now, the maid who has served the meal at Emmaus, is witness to the resurrected Christ! !May we, too, be as perceptive as this maid, and like the disciples and the maid at Emmaus, know Jesus in the breaking of the bread…