The Third Sunday of Easter
Services in the Nave:
8:00 am
Preaching: The Rev. Rebecca DeBow
10:30 am*
Preaching: The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan, Bishop of Alabama
*Adult Confirmation and Blessing of the Saint Luke's Bells
The Service of The Word:
10:30 am in Graham Hall
Preaching: The Rev. Cameron Nations
Service in the Nave:
5:00pm
Preaching: The Rev. Rebecca DeBow
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Important Construction Information for Sunday
Please be aware that some areas of the church will be out of commission during this second phase of construction.
We ask that you utilize the parking lot behind the church, leaving the senior parking lot and handicapped spaces outside the chapel entrance for our seniors and handicapped members.
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Breakfast & Sunday School this Sunday
Breakfast Begins at 8:30 in Graham Hall
Sunday School Classes Begin at 9:15
Jericho Road
- The Gospel of Mark: Using music, video, and images, join us as we begin an in-depth study of the shortest and yet most provocative Story of Jesus. Led by the Rev. Rich Webster (Meets in Graham Hall)
Building Healthy Families
- A series focusing on important spiritual family issues. (Led by John Scott and Livy Abele)- Marriage- In Andy Stanley’s series I-marriage, we focus on how the big “I” can hurt and impede our relationship with our spouse and Christ. (John Scott will facilitate discussion from a video). Contact
John Scott or
441-3935 (Meets in Room 212)
Daughters of the King
- All women of the church are invited to learn about becoming a Daughter of the King, led by
Rebecca DeBow
. Sunday mornings in the large conference room during the Sunday school hour, 9:15-10:15. Group meets for five weeks. This class has a
Wednesday option
as well, feel free to mix up times as it suits your schedule.
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This Sunday will feature The Saint Luke’s Choir with the Saint Luke’s
Brass and Drum
, an encore performance of music played for Easter Sunday (including Widor’s
Toccata
for Postlude, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ thrilling
Festival Te Deum
, originally composed for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937.
For
The Great Procession
, the Verger will lead over fifty participants including double crucifers with torches, thurifer, banners, singers, bells ringers, altar servers and clergy, and the attending Bishop’s Party.
The Blessing of Saint Luke’s recently-restored Bells Collection, with a new peal ringing through Psalm 4, in a new choral setting composed for the occasion by Kenneth Hamrick.
Bells in Church Usage
Bishop Paulinus of Nola introduced church bells into the Christian Church in AD 400, and since the Middle Ages are the most notable aural signifiers of sacred experience. Traditionally bells are used to call worshippers to the church, announce times of daily prayer, drive away demonic forces, and rung on special occasions as for a wedding, or a funeral. In Alabama farming fields, a sounding church bell signaled praying of The Lord’s Prayer. Saint Luke’s maintains a Ring of Tower Bells, from half to one ton and more, rung regularly both in single tolls and full peals at various hours of the day, also to announce births and deaths of church members. The church’s collection of now thirty-six custom-made hand bells was launched in 1979, were recently restored with the support of Episcopal Church Women (ECW). They are played both singly and in groupings for a range of liturgical-musical functions.
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Next Sunday, 4/22
- Join us for the Education Outreach Fair from 9:00-10:30, in the Harriet Maloof Entrance to the church. The agencies participating include Camp McDowell, Norwood Resource Center, PreSchool Partners, M-Power, Sawyerville and STAIR. Learn about these programs and how you can support them.
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- Annual Electronic Recycling to celebrate Earth Day. Protect recycling truck will be in the parking lot from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm to collect ALL electronic recycling except TVs. $10 fee to destroy hard drives and $10 fee for old curved monitors (flat screen monitors are free). Drive by and drop off. Questions contact Dianne Mize.
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Rendezvous at the Zoo benefiting PreSchool Partners
Rendezvous at the Zoo
is coming up on April 22nd at the Birmingham Zoo. Tickets are $20 for adults and $12 for children, 4 and under are free. Tickets include food from Full Moon, drinks, access to the children's and petting zoo, cotton candy, snow cones, faceprinting, cornhole, and more! There will also be live music and a cash bar. This is an event that the entire family will enjoy!
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What's Happening in April?
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