19 Open for me the gates of the righteous;

    I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.

20 This is the gate of the Lord

    through which the righteous may enter.

21 I will give you thanks, for you answered me;

    you have become my salvation.

~Psalm 118: 19-21

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Holy Week

During this pandemic, it has been said that we should not return to normal, once the virus is under control, because “normal” wasn’t working. Whether in the church or in politics, we have said that the pandemic has lessons to teach us that we need to learn – things like racial inequity in access to health care and all kinds of services, an economy that disfavors essential workers, a kind of selfishness that has difficulty doing anything for the good of others. In the last 2 weeks, we have seen evidence of another aspect of “normal” that isn’t working – gun violence. I think this is again a symptom of a political system that is frozen in time. I have no idea what a political solution might look like, but clearly many would like to see something change, and yet change seems impossible.

We are entering Holy Week, the most sacred days on the Christian calendar. At our Lenten book study this past Tuesday, someone asked plaintively, “Why doesn’t God intervene?” I think many of us would like to ask that question about all kinds of difficulties, large and small, from a loved one’s illness, to a global pandemic.

The answer is that God has intervened in the person of Jesus Christ, the Word incarnate. We expect God’s intervention to be big and flashy and unmistakable – miraculous, a show of divine power. Instead, what we get is Holy Week. In the Biblical narrative, God tried a big, flashy, powerful intervention once to deal with human sinfulness – Noah’s flood. It didn’t work. Humans were just as sinful after the flood as before. Tragedies followed on after another, just as before. At that point, God promised never again to destroy humanity with a flood.

As Christians, we believe that rather than a display of force, God’s intervention in the human cosmos looks like the Incarnation. God chooses to enter the human scene personally, rather than alter it from the outside. And we all know how that ends. The forces of human evil nail Jesus to the cross. But God being God, that is not the last word. Jesus rises from the dead, and returns to the divine life of the Trinity. And now, we know that that life spills over into the human realm. We, too, can participate in the life of the Trinity through baptism and the worship life of the Church. We can offer ourselves for the life of the world, just as Jesus offered himself, knowing that we too will be taken into the dance of love that is the life of the Trinity.

Holy Week allows us to rehearse for that great dance of love, to learn the steps of self-gift, given and received. For us humans, it is broken down in time, so that we walk through it sequentially, whereas for God, it is all true all at once: offering and blessing, given and received.

Easter doesn’t make much sense without Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. If we don’t know the gift offered on the cross, we can’t appreciate the gift received on Easter. This pattern may very well frustrate us – we want to be able to change the world for the better, to establish a new normal, and do it right now. Instead, we learn that we have to walk through tragedy, but assured that Jesus walks with us, and that tragedy is not the last word. And, then we can learn to live as if the resurrection is real, that God’s final word is now, and by living that way hold up the hope of a new normal, and begin to live toward it. This is the hope of Holy Week.

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We invite everyone to help us in making our community stronger than ever through prayer. As you may know we have become acquainted with Zoom and Facebook Live to help bring us together to commune with each other. Please use these links to sign up to participate in our different prayer services and gatherings.

If there are questions on how to sign up for Sunday participation or daily prayers please contact either Cherie or Dave

Please ask all your friends and family to pass the word about the March 31st Blood Drive

All the links are here to make it easy on you and them. The Red Cross hash said they are in essential need for blood, let's help fulfill the need.

The Red Cross is testing blood donations for COVID-19 antibodies. As part of this effort, plasma from standard blood donations that test positive for COVID-19 antibodies may now help current coronavirus patients in need of convalescent plasma transfusions.

It is important to know the vaccine you received as they are collecting that data.

• Medical conditions and emergencies don’t stop for a pandemic. You can help by encouraging others to sign up to donate blood

Help can't wait! You can help ensure that patients have lifesaving blood products available for emergency & everyday medical care. The need for blood doesn't stop, even during a pandemic. Your donation is essential.

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We will need a few people to help set up on Tuesday, March 30th at 12:00 pm and about 5 people to work shifts during the day on Wednesday between 1:00 and 8:00. Call the office: 315-446-2112, email St. Davids or email Cherie

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In 1511, the German artist Albrecht Dürer fashioned a woodcut of Mary Magdalene’s encounter with the resurrected Jesus as depicted in John 20:15. She has come to the garden tomb looking for Christ’s body, instead she finds a very much alive Jesus and she thought he was the gardener.

On Good Friday there is another garden. Jesus, the second Adam, dies at Golgotha and John notes: in the place where he had been crucified there was a garden. (John 19:41) The garden is a place of death, and Jesus death is like the planting of a seed: Unless a seed is planted in the soil and dies it remains alone, but its death will produce many new seeds, a plentiful harvest of new lives (Jn 12:24).. .

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Please join us Tuesdays at 7pm. Our normal Bible Study continues this week by virtual meeting because of the limitations the Covid-19 virus has put on all of us.

A zoom link with be emailed to anyone who has expressed an interest..

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Church Office to request a Zoom invitation to our weekly Bible Study, which resumes next Tuesday at 7 pm.

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Altar Guild

April 2 ~ Good Friday w/ESE

·       …… Pre-packaged cookies are needed and can be dropped off at the church while Kristen is there

Please contact Linda Williams email: [email protected], 315-637-6952

The Parish Office will need the information no later than MONDAY MORNING

  MARCH 29, 2021.  

We're putting together a virtual coffee hour as part of our Sunday Services. Can you please send me either individual pictures of yourselves or you and your spouse if applicable, Click Here to send the pictures to my my email for St. David's projects.

 ⁴The Lord Godhas given me

 ⁵The Lord Godhas opened my ear,

 ⁶I gave my back to those who struck me,

 ⁷The Lord Godhelps me;

⁸he who vindicates me is near.

 ^9aIt is the Lord Godwho helps me;

⁵Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,

 ⁶who, though he was in the form of God,

 ⁷but emptied himself,

⁸he humbled himself

 ⁹Therefore God also highly exalted him

 ¹⁰so that at the name of Jesus

 ¹¹and every tongue should confess