April 24, 2025

SUNDAY SERVICES

8:00 and 10:00 am

MAY CELEBRATIONS

Birthdays

4 Sandy Jose

10 Gay Bowles

11 Agie Knowles

14 David Beliles

14 Fan Oleson

22 Judy LeWin

28 Hank Kochan

31 Pam Toft

Anniversaries

20 Paul and Sandy Wood

21 Dave and Christi Marshall

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Easter Sunday Service

Confirmation Eucharist

PRAYERS

We Pray for our People

Shed the light of your healing love on all who are sick in body, mind, or spirit. Bring health and hope to all who suffer, especially: Downs IV, Holden, Barbara, Maria Christine, Caitlin, Dennis, Angie, Amy Jo, Carling, Michael, Ian, Joan, Diana, Anne, Alyssa, Joe, Denise and Zachary. 

We pray for those who receive the care of skilled nursing, especially Timothy, Barbara, and Kim. We pray for those going through cancer treatments and those in remission, especially, Margaret, Downs III, Victoria, Alex, Connie, Douglas, Frank, Gerta, Lauren, TJ, Cara, Valerie, Violet, Joan, Nancy, Julie, George, Denise, Mark and John. 

We pray for those in Hospice, especially Jeanne, Joyce and Regina.

A BRIDGE BETWEEN ALEX AND DAVE

Podcast: A Bridge Between



Episode 123: My Lord and My God



Also available on Spotify:

Spotify: A Bridge Between

PARISH ACTIVITIES

Gallery Artist

Please stop by and enjoy the work of this talented local artist. Checks should be written to All Angels by the Sea. 

Choir News

Chancel Choir rehearsals are on Thursdays at 10 am.

Handbell Choir rehearsals on Thursdays 11:15 am.

New members are always welcome! Please feel free to join us!

Men's and Women's Discussion Groups

This article is a beautiful combination of Passover and Easter. And, like the season of Spring, change is at the core of it. 

I'd like to know what you think.

For those in person, I'll have the coffee ready. For those on Zoom, here's the link: https://zoom.us/j/5955701807

To read the article, click the link below:

Easter and Passover Lesson: It's Never Too Late

Coffee Hour Hosts Needed

One of the most important things we do is gather after the service for coffee hour. If you are interested in hosting, the sign up sheet is on the Gallery table. If you would like help, sign up and we will find someone to show you how it is done. 

Online Giving

If you would like to give to the offering plate electronically, you can find the online giving link on our All Angels website by clicking the link below:

AllAngelsLBK.org

Centering Prayer

Centering Prayer invites you to pray with them, every day, at 8 am, wherever you are. When you enter into prayer at 8 am (Eastern), you will know that others are praying at the same time. 

REFLECTION

Holy Spirit Time

Amazing things happened from Good Friday to the empty tomb on Easter Sunday morning. The followers of Jesus were there as spectators.

But, on the second Sunday of Easter, the disciples became witnesses. 

  Then believers. 

      Then apostles. 

                  They shared the news with everyone.

                              Their lives were never the same. 

We are recipients of their witness. Nearly 2,000 years later, we are witnesses of the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of our church. And our lives were never the same.

This week, we had seven people confirmed and received into the Episcopal Church. It was not a chance encounter, or a random or spontaneous act, or a trendy thing to do. These people studied together, had dialogue and discussion, did homework, met with me many times and, to the great pleasure of this priest, became a loving and supportive group. We were spectators on Wednesday when they individually stood in front of Bishop Scharf, made a profession of faith in Christ Jesus as their Lord and Savior, and received the laying on of hands from the bishop.

The Holy Spirit was palatable at the confirmation service. One of the first signs (or marks) of the Holy Spirit is joy, then peace, then unity, and then a myriad of other actions that are uniquely felt by each individual. For me, my hands tingle when the Spirit is present. Sometimes I see light differently. More often than not, time stands still. When the Holy Spirit is present, the present time is the only time. Confirmands are reporting that time came to a stop when they came forward for the laying on of hands by the bishop.

After the event, one of our confirmands got into her car and saw the hands on the analog clock on her dashboard spinning around quickly. She pointed out the phenomenon to her husband. They watched it happen for about ten seconds; then it stopped. Maybe it was the Holy Spirit saying, “It’s about time you became an Episcopalian” or maybe it was just time catching up.

The Holy Spirit urged the apostles to venture out as witnesses of Jesus. The same Spirit urged the seven individuals to confirmation. We are witnesses of the public confirmation of following Jesus as Lord and Savior. What started nearly 2000 years ago is still going strong today. It is the same Lord and the same Spirit as of old. The Spirit is with us and is in us. It shows again that time is not relevant to the Holy Spirit.

I am a witness of that too. 

- Fr. Dave