Thursday, March 26, 2026

Meditating Daily on God's Holy Word

You can find the daily scripture and meditation questions on our website: www.allangelslbk.org

Holy Week and Easter Schedule

Maundy Thursday

4:00 pm

Good Friday

noon

Easter Sunday

8:00 am & 10:00 am

Easter Flower Dedications

If you would like to make an Easter offering to All Angels in thanksgiving for or in memory of a loved one, please fill out the card found below

and either place it in the collection plate, drop it off in the office, or email

it to Linn at LT@allangelslbk.org.

Deadline for Easter Flower dedications is Sunday, March 29.

APRIL CELEBRATIONS

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Sunday Service

Sunday Sermon

If you would like to read Rev. Dave's recent sermon,

please click the link below:

Sermon: What is the Purpose of Death

PRAYERS

We Pray for our People

Bring the healing of your touch to all those who suffer in body or spirit, especially Downs IV, Holden, Barbara, Caitlin, Victoria, Alice, Annette, Charles, Anne, Ellie, Patricia, Bob, Agie, Eric, Amy, Trude, Donna, Beverly, Carling, Carol, Rafaela and Ed. For those going through cancer treatments, and in remission, especially, Downs III, Lauren, Nancy, Shannon, Frank, Carmen, Zachary, Claudia, Will, Pete, Cara, Jennifer, Lauren, Melinda, Lindsay, Melissa, Kelly, Davidson, and Kelsey.

A BRIDGE BETWEEN ALEX AND DAVE

Podcast: A Bridge Between



Episode 170: Blessed is He Who Comes



Also available on Spotify:

Spotify: A Bridge Between

PARISH ACTIVITIES

Art Gallery

Christine Hales is our Gallery Artist through April. Come see her wonderful Icons exhibit Making Past Present: Icons as Windows into Eternity. 

Combined Discussion Group

Wednesday at 10:00am

Next week is Holy Week which means I have a mandatory diocesan clergy event at 11 a.m. on Tuesday. That means we will have a combined discussion group on Wednesday at 10 a.m. The topic: what is public theology (and why is it so important). The author discusses how public theology shaped much of the 20th century (Great Depression, WWII, Cold War, Civil Rights) but then vanished in the 21st. But now it is back, kind of. I'd like to know what you think.

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

To read the article, click the link below:

What is the Role of Public Theology

Choir News

Regular Choir Rehearsals are on Thursday mornings at 10 am.

New members are ALWAYS welcomed!

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

Egeria

This Sunday is our annual celebration of the procession of palms and the reading of the passion. For some, it is their favorite service of the year. Participating in Palm Sunday helps make the wonders and alleluias of Easter more profound and joyful. Yet, if not for one woman in the 4th century, this tradition may have been lost.

Let me introduce you to Egeria. She went on a three-year religious tour from 381 to 384 and wrote extensively about her travels – postcards, a long letter, and a diary. No one really knows what city (or region) she departed from or where she returned (some argue Spain, others argue France). However, we do know that she wrote to her friends. She calls them “sisters” but don’t jump to the conclusion that they were family members or a monastic community. In the late 4th century, church members were referred to as “brothers and sisters” just like what we do today. Egeria could have been a part of a monastic community; but it would have been an unusually well-funded order. This author takes the opinion that she was wealthy and was writing to her home church about all the amazing sites and religious customs she observed.

Incidentally, my friend, Pastor Ken Blythe (St. Armands Lutheran), recently returned from guiding a group of pilgrims (ordained ministers) to religious sites in the Holy Land. Like Egeria, he wrote to me, and others, but it was through email and Facebook posts. Wherever Egeria was from, and whoever she was writing to, it is clear that religious tourism was popular in the 4th century and remains popular in the 21st.

The surviving letters, postcards and diary accounts offer detailed descriptions of biblical sites, monastic communities and liturgical practices in the Holy Land. Egeria’s reporting on what happened in Holy Week in Jerusalem influenced the Church and how we participate on Sunday. Here is what she wrote:

As the eleventh hour draws near … all the children [gathered at the top of the Mount of Olives], including those who are not yet able to walk because they are too young and therefore are carried on their parents’ shoulders, all of them bear branches, some carrying palms, others, olive branches. And the bishop is led in the same manner as the Lord once was led. … Everyone accompanies the bishop the whole way on foot, and this includes distinguished ladies and men of consequence.

Egeria also provides an eyewitness account to the practice of venerating the cross on Good Friday. She was awed by being present for worship on the very spot where Jesus had been crucified. A throne on Golgotha was set up for the bishop. A gilded silver casket, containing the sacred wood of the cross, was brought in and opened. The faithful approached, one by one, to bow down before the wood, some kiss it, and then move on. Her account details where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre now stands (it wasn’t there when she wrote).

I am thankful for Egeria’s writing and that it has survived to this day. If she had not taken this trip, and written about it, who knows what Palm Sunday would look like (or if we would even do it). By way of reflection, I don’t imagine she had any clue that her postcards to her church friends would have such an impact. Likewise, you will not know what impact your accounts of travel will have on those you love. Accordingly, for those who say, “what’s the point”, I’d like you to consider Egeria and the impact she had. 

- Fr. Dave