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Mission Statement St. Augustine’s Church is a Christ-centered ministry where

every one is invited and welcome.

We are a loving Christian body that seeks to enhance spirituality and community.

Weekly Services and Programs

Sundays

10:30 AM

Eucharist

2:00 - 4:00 PM Pastoral Visitations

Wednesdays

12 Noon Healing Service with Holy Eucharist

9:00 PM Phone Line Prayer

A Par ish of the Episcopal Diocese of New York

ORDER OF SERVICE

MORNING PRAYER

Opening Music

Opening Acclamation

Confession of Sin

Invitatory and Psalter

Psalm 66: 7-18 BCP page 674

The Lessons

The First Reading Acts 17: 22-31

The Epistle 1 Peter 3:13-22

The Holy Gospel John 14:15-21

THE SERMON

“Which Commandment is John Talking About?”

by The Rev. Nathanael Saint-Pierre

The Apostle Creed BCP pg. 360

Prayers

The Lord’s Prayer

Collect of the day

Welcome & Announcements

Blessing

Dismissal

Postlude

“Which Commandments Is

John Talking About?”

BCP (Book of Common Prayer) LEVAS (Lift Every Voice & Sing) Hymnal 1982 OSOP (One Song of Praise) EOW1 (Enriching Our Worship 1)

The sixth Sunday of

Easter

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The Clergy’s

Corner

I really like when the lectionary suggests a text that does not necessarily offer much to go on, at least at first sight. But I also like it when this ap-parent limitation, or lack thereof, pushes me to dig deeper and find something John is trying to say but that is wrapped in the mystery for which he is known.

Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Those are words Jesus deliv-ered to his disciples to say farewell. Jesus was about to be betrayed, arrested, then condemned and crucified and He is trying to tell his close friends not to be hopeless. He is telling them that

the new Paraclete is coming and will reveal all things. That it needs to be darker before light is born. “If you love me you will keep my commandments”

What Commandments is Jesus talking about or referring to?

Unlike the Gospel according to Matthew – with a clear desire to have Jesus looking like the new Moses providing new commandments – no-where in the Gospel of John does Jesus command us to go the second mile, turn the other cheek, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. Famously, Jesus gives only a single commandment in John and it oc-curs in the 13th chapter: "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:34-35). He reiterates this in the 15th chapter: "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends (John 15:12-13). We see, then, the overwhelm-ing, repetitive, circular emphasis on love.

Love is a phenomenal sentiment and being in Jesus’ inner circle is to accept that the way of love is (according to John) the new command-ment that Jesus is leaving with us. We cannot come to believe with-out falling in love or let me phrase this differently, without the new Paraclete (the Holy Spirit) to plant in our hearts the desire to faith-

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“WHICH COMMANDMENT IS JOHN

TALKING ABAOUT? ”

by The Rev. Nathanael Saint-Pierre

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fully follow Jesus in the challenging and dangerous adventure of fall-ing in love with one another.

Falling in love is not winning; it is falling. It is to be knocked out by a force difficult to understand. It is to abandon our selves for the Spirit to use and be a gift for others. It is, in fact, to lose control. That is why divine love is so different from human love. Human love seems to seek for personal satisfaction, gratification, and gain. Human love seems to be reciprocal; we want to get as much as we give. We do not always want to give until we see or match what we will get. We, hu-mans, prefer to receive and sometimes, just when it is convenient, give, because we do not want to lose. We seek the benefits of love but are not always willing to incur the losses. Our love is transaction-al. Divine love does not care being one way. Divine love equips us to suffer for doing what is right and still feel blessed. “For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.”

It is not surprising that John was called “the Beloved disciple.” He ex-perienced Jesus' love firsthand. And because of that experience, John was able to reciprocate Jesus' love. He became so immersed in the Shepherd's love for his flock, that the mutual love between John and the master earned him that nickname. I must remind you that he was the one, and the only one, at the cross with Jesus’ mother. He was al-so the one Jesus could trust with his mother. He was willing to risk be-ing arrested at the cross instead of being safely in hiding.

O, how often do we proclaim we love Jesus but what do we do when we are tested? When we have to risk our lives to demonstrate that we love one another? See, Jesus is not even asking us to love him back. The new commandment is to love one another the way Jesus loved his disciples.

To be Christian is to open our hearts for the Holy Spirit to plant love for one another. Jesus did not give us a book of regulations with things forbidden or things allowed. Jesus did not give us the Book of Leviti-cus. He left one new Commandment - that we love one another the way he loved us.

The way Jesus loves us is not an investment, the kind of love that ex-pects something in return and disappears when betrayed. Jesus’ love is instead a love that advocates for us so that God can forgive us re-peatedly. The way Jesus expects us to love is for love to be never too much but never enough. Jesus is not asking us to speak about love. Je-sus is demanding that we demonstrate love. This is the place where it becomes challenging. To demonstrate love is to accept to welcome the stranger. It is to feed the hungry, it is to look at the poor, the crip-pled, and the needy without disgust and rejection. Jesus loved his dis-

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ciples and loves us despite our imperfections. If what we are in love with is perfection then it is not love. Jesus is demanding that we leave our comfort zone to love our enemies and those who persecute us.

Love is the way and the only way for us to survive this time of isolation and confinement. If Covid-19 must teach us a lesson it is that it makes us feel how much we need one another to survive. Even our isolation becomes a means for mutual survival. We don’t stay away from one another because we want to save ourselves and outlive the other. We do it so that one another can mutually be protected. Just realize in what a better place we would be if we were living in the way of love without waiting for a pandemic to force us to live with mutual love in our heart. Surely the world will be transformed if we embrace Jesus and walk together in the way of love as the new commandment. Amen!

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Morning Prayer: Rite Two

Power of Your Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga6Qtxzd6vk

The Officiant begins the service with one of the following sentences of Scripture Alleluia! Christ is risen. Jesus is risen indeed. Alleluia! On this day the Lord has acted; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24

Confession of Sin The Officiant says to the people Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor. Silence may be kept. Officiant and People together God of all mercy, we confess that we have sinned against you, opposing your will in our lives. We have denied your goodness in each other, in ourselves, and in the world you have created. We repent of the evil that enslaves us, the evil we have done, and the evil done on our behalf. Forgive, restore, and strengthen us through our Savior Jesus Christ, that we may abide in your love and serve only your will. Amen.

The Priest alone stands and says Almighty God have mercy on you, forgive you all your sins through the grace of Jesus Christ, strengthen you in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep you in eternal life. Amen. Amen.

The Invitatory and Psalter

Officiant Lord, open our lips. People And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Officiant and People

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia

Christ our Passover Pascha nostrum

1 Corinthians 5:7-8; Romans 6:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 Alleluia. Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us; * therefore let us keep the feast, Not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, * but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Alleluia. Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; * death no longer has dominion over him. The death that he died, he died to sin, once for all; * but the life he lives, he lives to God. So also consider yourselves dead to sin, * and alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Alleluia. Christ has been raised from the dead, * the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by a man came death, * by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, * so in Christ shall all be made alive. Alleluia.

From Easter Day until the Ascension

Alleluia. The Lord is risen indeed: Come let us adore him. Alleluia.

The Psalm Appointed Psalm 66:7 – 18 Jubilate Deo

7 Bless our God, you peoples; * make the voice of his praise to be heard;

8 Who holds our souls in life, * and will not allow our feet to slip.

9 For you, O God, have proved us; * you have tried us just as silver is tried.

10 You brought us into the snare; * you laid heavy burdens upon our backs.

11 You let enemies ride over our heads; we went through fire and water; * but you brought us out into a place of refreshment.

12 I will enter your house with burnt-offerings and will pay you my vows, * which I promised with my lips and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble.

13 I will offer you sacrifices of fat beasts with the smoke of rams; * I will give you oxen and goats.

14 Come and listen, all you who fear God, * and I will tell you what he has done for me.

15 I called out to him with my mouth, * and his praise was on my tongue.

16 If I had found evil in my heart, * the Lord would not have heard me;

17 But in truth God has heard me; * he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

18 Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer, * nor withheld his love from me.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.

The Lessons

The First Lesson

Acts 17:22-31

Idols of silver, technology, or other earthly things cannot compare to the almighty, living God. A Reading from The Acts of the Apostle

Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him-- though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people Thanks be to God

Jesus You Love Me Too Much… XXLove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7pnImcgaI

The Epistle 1 Peter 3:13-22 Suffering is the lot of humanity in a broken world, especially those who seek to disrupt the reign of evil. A Reading from The First Letter of Peter

Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you-- not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people Thanks be to God

If Anyone Loves Me, He Will Keep My Word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEC5fHMCRJ0

The Holy Gospel John 14:15-21

The Holy Spirit comes to comfort and embolden those who put their trust in Jesus.

The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to John. People Glory to you, Lord Christ.

Jesus said to his disciples, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.” The Gospel of the Lord People: Praise to you, Lord Christ

The Sermon Which Commandment is John Talking About? (John 14:15—21)

Opening: I really like when the lectionary suggests a text that does not necessarily offer much to go on, at least at first sight. But I also like it when this apparent limitation, or lack thereof, pushes me to dig deeper and find something John is trying to say but that is wrapped in the mystery for which he is known.

Situation: Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Those are words Jesus delivered to his disciples to say farewell. Jesus was about to be betrayed, arrested, then condemned and crucified and He is trying to tell his close friends not to be hopeless. He is telling them that the new Paraclete is coming and will reveal all things. That it needs to be darker before light is born. “If you love me you will keep my commandments”

Complication: What Commandments is Jesus talking about or referring to?

Resolution: Unlike the Gospel according to Matthew – with a clear desire to have Jesus looking like the new Moses providing new commandments – nowhere in the Gospel of John does Jesus command us to go the second mile, turn the other cheek, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. Famously, Jesus gives only a single commandment in John and it occurs in the 13th chapter: "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:34-35). He reiterates this in the 15th chapter: "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends (John 15:12-13). We see, then, the overwhelming, repetitive, circular emphasis on love.

Love is a phenomenal sentiment and being in Jesus’ inner circle is to accept that the way of love is (according to John) the new commandment that Jesus is leaving with us. We cannot come to believe without falling in love or let me phrase this differently, without the new Paraclete (the Holy Spirit) to plant in our hearts the desire to faithfully follow Jesus in the challenging and dangerous adventure of falling in love with one another.

Falling in love is not winning; it is falling. It is to be knocked out by a force difficult to understand. It is to abandon our selves for the Spirit to use and be a gift for others. It is, in fact, to lose control. That is why divine love is so different from human love. Human love seems to seek for personal satisfaction, gratification, and gain. Human love seems to be reciprocal; we want to get as much as we give. We do not always want to give until we see or match what we will get. We, humans, prefer to receive and sometimes, just when it is convenient, give, because we do not want to lose. We seek the benefits of love but are not always willing to incur the losses. Our love is transactional. Divine love does not care being one way. Divine love equips us to suffer for doing what is right and still feel blessed. “For it is better to suffer for doing good,

if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.”

It is not surprising that John was called “the Beloved disciple.” He experienced Jesus' love firsthand. And because of that experience, John was able to reciprocate Jesus' love. He became so immersed in the Shepherd's love for his flock, that the mutual love between John and the master earned him that nickname. I must remind you that he was the one, and the only one, at the cross with Jesus’ mother. He was also the one Jesus could trust with his mother. He was willing to risk being arrested at the cross instead of being safely in hiding.

O, how often do we proclaim we love Jesus but what do we do when we are tested? When we have to risk our lives to demonstrate that we love one another? See, Jesus is not even asking us to love him back. The new commandment is to love one another the way Jesus loved his disciples.

Celebration: To be Christian is to open our hearts for the Holy Spirit to plant love for one another. Jesus did not give us a book of regulations with things forbidden or things allowed. Jesus did not give us the Book of Leviticus. He left one new Commandment - that we love one another the way he loved us.

The way Jesus loves us is not an investment, the kind of love that expects something in return and disappears when betrayed. Jesus’ love is instead a love that advocates for us so that God can forgive us repeatedly. The way Jesus expects us to love is for love to be never too much but never enough. Jesus is not asking us to speak about love. Jesus is demanding that we demonstrate love. This is the place where it becomes challenging. To demonstrate love is to accept to welcome the stranger. It is to feed the hungry, it is to look at the poor, the crippled, and the needy without disgust and rejection. Jesus loved his disciples and loves us despite our imperfections. If what we are in love with is perfection then it is not love. Jesus is demanding that we leave our comfort zone to love our enemies and those who persecute us.

Love is the way and the only way for us to survive this time of isolation and confinement. If Covid-19 must teach us a lesson it is that it makes us feel how much we need one another to survive. Even our isolation becomes a means for mutual survival. We don’t stay away from one another because we want to save ourselves and outlive the other. We do it so that one another can mutually be protected. Just realize in what a better place we would be if we were living in the way of love without waiting for a pandemic to force us to live with mutual love in our heart. Surely the world will be transformed if we embrace Jesus and walk together in the way of love as the new commandment. Amen!

I Need You, You Need Me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBwUkCYW2n0

The Apostles’ Creed

Officiant and People together I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day, he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Prayers

Officiant God be with you. People And also with you.

Officiant Let us pray. A V. Show us your mercy, O Lord; R. And grant us your salvation. V. Clothe your ministers with righteousness; R. Let your people sing with joy. V. Give peace, O Lord, in all the world; R. For only in you can we live in safety. V. Lord, keep this nation under your care; R. And guide us in the way of justice and truth. V. Let your way be known upon earth; R. Your saving health among all nations. V. Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; R. Nor the hope of the poor be taken away. V. Create in us clean hearts, O God; R. And sustain us with your Holy Spirit. Officiant and People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgiMCh_UcyQ

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

The Collect of the Day O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. A Collect for Guidance Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O God, you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth, and sent your blessed Son to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near: Grant that people everywhere may seek after you and find you; bring the nations into your fold; pour out your Spirit upon all flesh; and hasten the coming of your kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Before the close of the Office one of the following may be used

The General Thanksgiving

Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we your unworthy servants give you humble thanks for all your goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all whom you have made. We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for your immeasurable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies, that with truly thankful hearts we may show forth your praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to your service, and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory throughout all ages. Amen.

A Prayer of St. Chrysostom

Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered together in his Name you will be in the midst of them: Fulfill now, O Lord, our desires and petitions as may be best for us; granting us in this world knowledge of your truth, and in the age to come life everlasting. Amen.

Let us bless the Lord. Alleluia, alleluia. Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia.

Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20, 21

When Jesus Say Yes, Nobody Can Say No. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MZxf-lQD-o

Thank you for being an active and faithful member of our church community. By giving to St Augustine, you are

showing that our church has a meaningful place in your heart. We just wanted to write this to let you know that

you are in our heart, too.

Donating to the church regularly allows us to preach the gospel, make disciples, and support others in our

community who need help. Others like the local center for women victims of domestic abuse and the nearby homeless shelter. We are answering the cry of the needy, and it is all

thanks to contributors like you.

To Donate please go to:

http://staugnyc.org/st_a/Donate.html

We earnestly appreciate your ongoing support and want to let you know we are here for you. If there is ever anything that we can do for you and your family, do not hesitate to reach out. You are a valued member of our church family.

And your financial support is making a difference.

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NOT CANCELLED: Family

NOT CANCELLED: Music

NOT CANCELLED: Prayer

NOT CANCELLED: Laughing

NOT CANCELLED: Recovering from Insu� cient Sleep

NOT CANCELLED: Exploring the Bible

NOT CANCELLED: Ge�� g Outdoors

NOT CANCELLED: Singing

NOT CANCELLED: Exploring the Prayer Book (bcponline.org) NOT CANCELLED: Re-connec� ng with Someone a� er “too long”

NOT CANCELLED: Journaling

NOT CANCELLED: Reading

NOT CANCELLED: Helping Others

NOT CANCELLED: Exercise

NOT CANCELLED: Love

NOT CANCELLED: Hope

Let's give thanks for what we have and use this time to get less busy and more healthy

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We share in this time of grief, but also share in the love & memories of

Mrs. Ellen Daley.

May there be comfort in knowing that someone so special will never be forgotten.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Nimrod, Stephanie, Steven and the rest of the Daley

As we all face heightened uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, let us

pray for those afflicted, for those helping others and pray for God’s protection for

oneself and loved ones at all times.

Please take all necessary precautions and check on our elderly.

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Dear Friends;

Please Help Us beautify our garden space with colorful plants

and flowers.

Gardens reflect peace and tranquility and place a reminder of

the love of Jesus as people sit or walk by.

We want our garden to become an enduring sign of the

church’s faith.

If you would like to donate plants (no seeds) we prefer

annuals such as;

Hostas, Azeleas, Hydrangeas, Perennials, Morning glories,

Roses, Marigolds, Ferns, Peppermint etc.

Plants can be dropped off at the administrative office. Once

we have collected enough we will designate a day of planting

and beautification.

To volunteer or for more information please contact Maya at

the office.

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If you know of any children that would like to join our

Music Program/Children’s Choir, please have then contact

our Director of Music, Carolyn Bensen or Maya at

212-673-5300.

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A N NO UN CE M E NT S

We are happy that you have come to

worship with us. If you have no church

home, we invite you to unite with us.

Please complete one of the Parish Cen-

sus Forms, located on the table in the

back of the church. You may give it to an

usher and we will be in touch with you

very soon. However, if you are just

passing through, we are honored by your

presence, and we wish you Godspeed as

you complete your journey.

Daily Lectionary Readings

Monday: AM Psalm 41,52; PM Psalm 44

Gen. 37:1-11; 1 Cor. 1:1-19; Mark 1:1-13

Tuesday: AM Psalm 45; PM Psalm 47,48

Gen. 37:12-24; 1 Cor 1:20-31; Mark 1:14-28

Wednesday AM Psalm 119:49-72 PM Psalm

48, [53]; Gen. 37:25-36; 1 Cor 2:1-13; Mark

1:29-45

Thursday: AM Psalm 50; PM Psalm [59,60] or

19,46; Gen. 39:1-23; 1 Cor 2:14-3:15; Mark

2:1-12

Friday: AM Psalm 95 40,54; PM Psalm 51

Gen. 40:1-23; 1 Cor. 3:16-23; Mark 2:13-22

Saturday: AM Psalm 55; : PM Psalm

138,139:1-17 (18-23); Gen. 41:1-13; 1 Cor

4:1-7; Mark 2:23-3:6

Please Join Us for :

The Healing Service every

Wednesday at 12:00 noon, in

the church.

We invite you to join St. A’s Prayer Line on

W e d n e s d a y s a t 9 : 0 0 P M ·

Dial (212) 673-5300 between 8:45—10:00

PM.

SCOPE- “Senior Citizen (Church) Outreach

Program and Eldership” is seeking volun-

teers. It would be great to have some

help to develop a ministry for the Seniors

to include health care/advice and other

activities.

Please contact Mrs. Irene Alladice or Fr.

Nat if you wish to respond to this call.

Coming Up Next

Need Prayer?

Call the church office and request that

your name be added to our prayer list.

Let us know when you are available so

we may visit you or pray with you over the

phone.

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birthday, anniversary, etc. please let us

know so we may offer congratulations to

you.

We are accepting Articles and Advertise-

ments to publish in the St Augustine's

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During our worship, please remember to

put your phone on vibe or silent. But we

invite you to use them if you want to

record the entire (or part of) the service,

take pictures, post video on Facebook,

Instagram, Pinterest or Twitter. Let your

friends know you are at St Augustine’s.

We are a Techno-Friendly Church.

Free Caregiver support services Care NYC

provides free: Respite Services (in-home

or adult care); Long-term care planning;

Assistance applying for Medicaid and

other benefits; Counseling with under-

standing professionals; Peer support

groups wellness activities, education and

caregiver skills; Cultural trips to take with

your loved one and MORE!

Call:718-906-0669 212. 349.2770x215

or email: carenyc@scsny.org

Services available in English and

Spanish

Pastoral Visitations: Please express your

desire to receive a visit or communion if

you cannot make it to church. We will do

our best to come visit you between 2-4

PM on Sundays.

Moving Forward: My hope and prayer is

that we can get together as one commu-

nity to be God’s people and presence on

the LES. I am asking for your prayers in

this important new chapter of our lives, I

want you to know that every day I also

pray for you all. Together in Christ.

Father Nat.

Welcome

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PHONE LINE PRAYER

THE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER MAY 17 , 2020

Weekly

Collections

April April

2020 2020

Pledges

Open Plate

Special

Sevices/Ash

Wednesday

Regular

Support

Special

Offerings

Men’s Guild

Designated

Giving/

Tenants

Rentals

Other Rental

Queen Esther

Soup Kitchen

Holy Land Trip

Building Fund

ECW Donation

Parking Lot Other External

Sources

Total

12

Shut-Ins/Homebound: Velda Alleyne, Ellen Bradley, Annie Garcia, Norberta Mieles, Ethel

Moore

Prayers: Lester Allen, Carline Aupont, Sandra Brown, Juan Cosme, Minnie Curry and fam-ily, Stanford Daly, Diane Ellis, Robert & Vernestine Exum, Sanford Exum and Family, Iris Faulkner, Evelyn Fleming, Faith and Grace Garfield, Mildred Hancock, Bernice Henry, Joyce Johnson, Kenny Johnson, LaVerne Johnson, The Krauser Family, James Leung, Hattie Mitchell and Family, Daryl Moore, Marissa Nicolo, James Rainge, Lawrence Rainge, James Robinson-Parran, Beverly Rosario, Oland Saltes, Sandra Slater, Yvonne Ward, Gladys Saint-Pierre, Noelia Gonzalez, The Rev. Rosalind Brathwaite, Laura Harvin & Fami-ly, Jayvon Cotton, Sarah Banks, Alix Cangé, Ethel Moore, Carl Johnson, Rev. Errol Harvey,

The Rev. Dr. Lynn A. Collins, Ruth Caraballo, Angie Abreu.

Armed forces: David Mason, Jr.

We ask God’s blessings for those celebrating their birthdays in May:

Especially; 5th Edgar Hopper; Raymond Saltes, William Walker; 6th Ryan

Brown; 7th Susan Brown, Amber Semper, Annie Walker; 9th Lance Bradley, Carey Harris; Wanda Pineiro; 10th Helen Bradley; 12th James Newlin; 15th

Latwin Garcia; 16th Millie Curry; 17th Belinda Brown; 18th Shawnese Wil-liams; 19th Ernest Cox, Jr.; 20th Florence Taylor; 22nd Kevin Green; 24th Michael Garcia Jr., Danielle Hallal; 26th Earl Taylor; 27th Sarah Ingram

Banks 28th Tamika King; 29th Robin Williams; 31st Annie Garcia

If you would like to add your name to the monthly birthday list, please email us at

info@staugnyc.org

We pray for those who have died: Doadie Brown, Ronald Brown, Isa Coker, Robert and

Mittie Frances Combs, Percy Daglow Sr., Wanda Daley, Frances Diaz, Harry & Dorothy

Fiyalko, Luis Garcia, Etta Green, Dorothy Henderson, Inez Kikuchi, Cheryl Krauser, Ver-

nell Langley, Diane McDowell, Geraldine Newkirk, Evelyn Newlin, Jacynth Orridge, Hector

Peňa, Alice Saltes Richards, Dorothy Rodriguez, Nancy Scott, Alma Suarez, Eleanor Suriel,

Sylvia Fergusson-Sylvah and Romulus Sylvah, Harriett Marshall-Taylor, Isaac & Gwendo-

lyn Pinder-Taylor, Donald Williams, Esther Juanita Dawson, Lucille Williams, Minnie Wil-

liams, Rev. Deacon Nydia Flores, Florence Taylor, John Joseph, Marlene Ward-Torain, Ed-

ward Phillips (Father Tally), Edward “Tyler” Tyler, Sandra Garcia-Combs, Maybelle Daley,

Tyrone Wong, Romenia Jirmson, Marion C. Blackett-Legall, Raquel Rodriguez- Algarin, Le-

ola West, Lula Moore, Rev. Deacon Edgar Hopper, Rodger Taylor, Ivan Krauser, Ruth Nao-

mi Strother, Ellen Daley, Sylvan Stoner, Hellen Bradley.

We pray for Justice and Peace in all lands: Especially: Venezuela, Afghanistan, Africa, The Caribbean, China, Darfur, France, Haiti, the Holy Land, India, Iraq, Japan, Kenya,

Lebanon, Niger, Sierra Leone, The Sudan, This Nation and the United Nations.

The S t . Augustine ’ s eCho is a newsletter to keep our members and the larger community informed about what is happen ing a t S t Augustine ’s and beyond. We welcome s tory contr ibu tors to submit a r t ic les , poetry , advert is ing, and any informat ion one may want to share . Please submit your contr ibu tion by e -ma i l to info@staugnyc. o rg no late r than on Wednesdays fo r the Sunday ed it ion .

The Staff:

The Rev. Nathanael Saint-Pierre,

MIS, MCPD, Rector

(917) 232-9583

rector@staugnyc.org

Ms. O’mayra Rivera (Maya)

Administrative/ Event Coordinator

(info@staugnyc.org)

Ms. Carolyn Bensen;

Director of Music

Mr. Sylvan Stoner; Bookkeeper

(accounting@staugnyc.org)

Mr. Oland Saltes, Verger

Mr. Luis Montano Sexton

Mr. Sean Boyce

Buildings & Grounds

The St. Augustine’s Project

www.staugsproject.org

Barbara King

Minnie Curry

Sandra Walker

The Vestry:

Mr. Christopher Morris, Warden

Ms. Annette Dudley, Warden

2021

Ms. Olivia Chak, Clerk

Ms. Idella Richards

Ms. Barbara H. King

2022

Ms. Valerie Scott

Ms. Dinah Williams

Ms. Bobby Wright

In an effort to reach a broad audience, St. Augustine’s Church occasionally records, through video and photography, its services for publication on the Internet. Your attendance

at a service or event constitutes your consent to be included in any filming, photographing, audio recording or broadcast and for any other use in whole or in part, including

publicity and promotion.

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Office Hours

9:00-12:00/1:00-4:00

Church: 286-290 Henry Street

Office: 333 Madison Street

New York, New York 10002 T: (212) 673-5300 -- F: (212) 673-5201

Email: info@staugnyc.org

Website:

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