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The Memorial Church of St.Luke, the Beloved Physician

150 Years of Ministry

1861-2011

1946 Welsh Road

Philadelphia, PA 19115

215.969.3645 (office)[email protected]

www.stlukesbustleton.webs.com

SERVICESSundays:10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist

with musicFollowed immediately byrefreshments and fellowship inthe parish hall.

Wednesdays:7:30 p.m. Healing Eucharist

ACTIVITIES:

Contemplative Prayer

W ednesdays 6:45 p.m.

in the church office

Lenten Adult Forum: Mar 5,

19, Apr 2 at 7pm.

Inside this issue:Birthdays............................... 4Calendar................................9Holiday House rates..............5News...................................3,4Phila Chorale.........................8Plant Sale...........................6,7Prayer requests.....................4Rectors Message...............1,2Reminders.............................2Those Who Serve..................3Welcome Visitors.................. 2

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The Winged OxThe W inged Ox is the Ancient Symbol of St. Luke, the Beloved P hysician

A Newsletter for the People of The MemorialChurch of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician April 2012 Issue 136

Holy Week and Easter

One of the things that always troubles me about this time in the

Churchs calendar (Lent, Holy Week and Easter) is that we seem

too anxious to get to Easter and so we miss the opportunities that

Lent and Holy Week provide to us for reflection and self-understanding.

When I say we I include myself in that equation. Since becoming apriest I find that I am often focusing on whats coming up and I spend too

little time focusing on whats happening right now. Not being present to

what is happening right now is never a good thing but particularly in thecontext of Lent and Holy Week when reflection can be so fruitful.

This year seems to have been particularly difficult for me in this

connection. There have been many things occurring and I have allowedmyself far too many distractions. Does that sound familiar to any of you?

Are you as susceptible to distractionsnecessary or unnecessaryas I

am? But, of course, that is the stuff of human life, isnt it?

I think we can take some comfort in the fact that during Holy Week Jesus

must have felt the same way. Knowing, as he did, that he is approaching

the end we can imagine that he might have wished for a little time forpeaceful reflection. But when we look to the gospels we know that there

was no time during his last week for peaceful reflection. In fact, Jesusfinal week seems to have been filled with activity and the anxiety that

accompanies having too much to do. So perhaps in our business we can

reflect that Jesus too was stretched far too thin even in the last hours of hislife. So thin that even the hour spent in the garden with his Father was

painful and distracted because his Father did not seem to listen and his

friends were too sleepy to care about what he was going through.

So it seems that we can use our very distractedness and busyness as a pointof contact with Jesus. Perhaps we can snatch a minute or two during the

days ahead to reflect upon how our lives are like Jesus life even in this

most mundane of details.

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WELCOME VISITORS!Are you a new reader?Come visit us! Were so g lad that you picked up this publication; we

hope you will find it interesting and wo rth your time and we ho pe

you will take the next step and worship with us sometime. If you

are worshiping with us, we welcome you! W hatever your religious

background, and however you have co me to be here, we welcome

you to St. Lukes. Please let us know who you are by signing our

guest book (by the doo r) or filling out a card found in the pews. You

can hand your card to an usher, or put it in the collection plate when

it comes later.

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There is another question that I would like us to reflect upon this week, too, if we have a chance. During

this Lenten season I have been asking myself the question What is there when I am not? That may

seem like a silly question and yet I think there is much to be learned from it. We know from the gospels

and Paul and the later Christian tradition that Jesus emptied himself and took the form of a slave. That

act of self-emptying (kenosis in Greek) is of the first importance for understanding who God is and whowe are. By emptying himself as he did, Jesus made room for God to be absolutely present in his life.

And he also made room for you and me to be present in his life. For this reason, it seems to me to beworth asking the question What is there when I am not? When I empty myself what is there? Orperhaps we should ask Who is there when I am not?

When you ask yourself this question, you might also consider what is keeping you from the act of

emptying. Those things that are keeping you from it are all not-God; not because they are inherently evil

but because you have attached your little self to those things and made them into your god. Jesusresponse to the question was complete surrender; not because that is what he wanted but because that is

what enabled him to make space for God and for us. What stands between you and complete surrender?

What stands between you and God? I believe that an answer to this question and a struggle to removethe obstacle will enable us to fully experience the resurrection to new life.

May you have a blessed Holy Week and Easter season!Father Tim


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REMINDERS:The deadline for the

MAY Winged Oxwill

be APRIL 20.

Outreach

St. Luke's is supporting

two outreach programs,

each vital to thecommunity. They are

the Somerton Food

Bank and area shelters.

We need your continuedsupport to continue

these worthy projects.

The Food Bank isalways in need of cerealand cash donations to

buy meats and maintain

operating expenses.

The shelters lookforward to the Wawa

gift cards provided by

your donations!

Those Who Serve

Sunday, April 1

Chalice Bearer: J. Litzke

Readers: C. Martino, L. Carter

Ushers: J. Brambilla, T. Truesdale

Altar Guild: S &C Carmody

Coffee Hour: Espositos, M.Geiger, A.

ThorpeCounters: J Brambilla, R Wh aley

Maundy Thursday April 5

Chalice Bearer:J. Oxenford

Readers: C. Martino, L. Carter

Sunday, April 8

Chalice Bearer: J. Brambilla

Readers: J. Gardner, K. Gibson

Ushers: T. Truesdale, J. Litzke

Altar Guild: B&G. Hair, J. Woods

Coffee Hour: NO COFFEE H OUR

Counters: A. Thorpe

Sunday, April 15

Chalice Bearer: S. Carmody

Readers: M. G eiger, J. Iannotti

Ushers: T. Truesdale, J. Litzke

Altar Guild: L Carter, R Fischer

Coffee Hour: H Ro lland, N Hurley, S

Remick, R Whaley, Emma

Counters: B & D Shifflett

Sunday, April 22

Chalice Bearer: L. Carter

Readers: B. Kaufold, J. Bramb illaUshers: J. Litzke, T. Truesdale

Altar Guild: K Kenny, S Nesbitt

Coffee Hour: B. Kaufold, G. Shahene

Counters: J Brambilla, R Wh aley

Sunday, April 29

Chalice Bearer: J. Gardner

Readers: C. Martino, S. Carmody

Ushers: J. Brambilla, T. Truesdale

Altar Guild: J.Oxenford, C Cotugno

Coffee Hour: G Hair, K Kenny, S

Nesbitt, J & C Szczur

Counters: A. Thorpe

NEWS

Church School / Nursery

The Church school children will

be participating in the Palm

Sunday procession into church

on April 1st.

On Easter Sunday, April 8th,

they will hand out "Alleluia"

strips, which they have colored

and decorated, to people as they

enter church. This is to

celebrate the return of

"Alleluias" in the service, which

have been missing during Lent.

The annual Easter Egg Hunt

will be held following the

service. Thank you to all who

contributed eggs and candy for

the event. Due to these special

celebrations, there will be no

Church S chool classes either

Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday.

Classes will resume on Sunday,

April 15th.

The lessons for April will focus

on the meaning of E aster and its

symbols, through activity

books, art, and song.The

children will share how they

celebrated the season at church

and at home.

The theme of Easter is the

promise of new life, as in the

signs of spring and the

resurrection of Jesus.


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PRAYERS PLEASE

Members: Dorothy,

Elaine, Ruth B., Nancy

H., Edna, Alan, Mabel,

Ruth L., Louise, JoanW., William L, Robert B, Patricia L,

Nancy Martha, Llyn C., Katherine G.

Friends and Family: David, Joyce,

David, Avery, Katherine, Malcolm,

Amarante, Greg, David, Martha, Amy,

Hendricks family, Cinnamon, Amber,

Joline, Elisa, Larry, Carol, Anthony,

James, Myles family

Those Serving in the Armed Forces:

William B. William S, Chris G.,Kevin M., Andrew R., Chris K.,John R.,

Chris R., Eric B., Rob D ., Jerry F.,

Thomas H., Tom B.,Casey R., Jermaine,

Bradley, Michael, Maxx, Eric J., John T.,

George M., Steven M.

APRIL

3-Cheri Carmody

7-Lisa-Jo Woods-Kriss

11-Joan Mitchell

14-Betty Kaufold

16-Tom Truesdale

20-Joan Geiger

21-Caroline Cotugno

Andrew Gibson26-Charles Geiger

27-Michael Esposito III

28-Glenn Bernhardt

NEWS

Palm Sunday: April 1 at 10:30am

Stations of the Cross 6:45pm, Healing Eucharist

7:30pm: Wed April 4

Maundy Thursday: April 5 at 7:00pm

Good Friday: April 6 at 2pm

Easter Sunday H oly Eucharist April 8 at 10:30am

The Dead Sea Scrolls are coming to the

Franklin Institute!

In 1947, a shepherd stumbled upon a hidden cave along

the shore of the Dead Sea. Concealed inside were

ancient scrolls that had not been seen for 2,000 years.After extensive excavation, a total of 972 remarkably

preserved scrolls were found, including the earliest

Biblical texts ever discovered. Now known as the Dead

Sea Scrolls, they have been called the most significant

archaeological find of the last century. This exhibit will

be at the Franklin Institute from May 12 to October 14,

2012. See Stacey if you are interested in going to see

this impressive display!

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APRIL 2012Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat

1- Palm Sunday

10:30a:HolyEucharist

11:45: Coffee Hr. In

Hall

2-AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P

7pm-Adult

Forum in

church Office

3-1pm-UAWmeeting in Hall

AA Meetings in

Hall 1P & 7P &

4-AAMeetings in

Hall 1P & 7P

&8 P 6:45P

Stations of the

Cross in hall

7:30P -

HolyEucharist

with Healing

in Church

5- AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P

&8P

7p- Maundy

Thursday

service in

Church

6-AA M eetingin Hall 1P

2p- Good

Friday

Service in

Church

7-10a Yoga11:30a-Al-Anon

Mtg in Hall

8-Easter

Sunday10:30a:HolyEucharist

11:30a-Easter Egg

Hunt


7:00p-Vestry

Meeting in Office

10-AA Meetings in

Hall 1P & 7P

&8 P

11-AAMeetings in

Hall 1P & 7P

&8 P 6:45P

Contemplative

prayer in

Ofiice 7:30P -

HolyEucharist

with Healing

in Church

12 -AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P

&8P

13 AA Meetingin Hall 1P

14 10a- Yoga inHall

11:30a-Al-Anon

Mtg in Hall

15-2nd Sunday

of Easter

10:30a:HolyEucharist

10:20:Church School


Hall

16-AA Meetings

in Hall1P & 7P

17 AAMeetings in

Hall 1P & 7P

&8 P

18 AAMeetings in

Hall 1P & 7P

&8 P

6:45P-

Contemplative

prayer 7:30P -

HolyEucharist

with Healing

in Church

19 -AA Meetingsin Hall 1P & 7P

&8P

20 -AAMeetings in

Hall 1P

21-10a-Yoga inHall

11:30a-Al-Anon

Mtg in Hall

22- 3rd Sunday

of Easter10:30a:HolyEucharist

10:20:Church School


Hall

23-AA Meetings

in Hall1P & 7P

24 AAMeetings in

Hall 1P & 7P

&8 P

25 AAMeetings in

Hall 1P & 7P&8P6:45-

Contemplative

prayer

7:30P -Holy

Eucharist with

Healing in

Church


&8P

27 -A AMeetings in

Hall 1P

28-10a-Yoga inHall

11:30a-Al-AnonMtg in Hall

29-4th Sunday

of Easter10:30a: Holy

Eucharist

10:20:Church School


Hall

30-AA Meetingsin Hall1P & 7P

27 AAMeetings in

Hall 1P & 7P

&8 P

28 AAMeetings in

Hall 1P & 7P

&8 P

6:45

Contemplative

prayer 7:30P -HolyEucharist

with Healing

in Church


&8P 9

30 -A AMeetings in

Hall 1P

31-10a-Yoga inHall

11:30a-Al-Anon

Mtg in Hall


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The Memorial Church of St. Luke the Beloved Physician1946 Welsh Road

Philadelphia, PA 19115

215-969-3645

[email protected]

www.stlukesbustleton.webs.com

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