‘Weekly Post. Anno Domini 2023 October 14

Beloved of the Lord:

Today is Saturday, 14 October, in the year of our Lord 2023. The scheduled services are as-follows:

• Saturday (today): 5:00 PM, Mass, S. Callistus, Bishop & Martyr. Sunday, 10:00 AM, Mass, Trinity XIX, Comm. Our Lady of Walsingham. Pastor Appreciation Luncheon to follow.
  5:00 PM, After Party.
• Monday, 10:00 AM, Mass, S. Hedwig, Widow.
• Tuesday: 5:30 PM, Deacon's Liturgy, S. Etheldreda, Queen, Virgin, Widow, Abbess.
  6:30 PM, sung Evensong.
• Wednesday: 12:10 PM, Deacon's Liturgy, S. Luke, Evangelist & Martyr.
• Thursday: NO SERVICES.
• Friday: 9:00 AM, Mass, S. John Cantius, Confessor, with Gregorian Canon.
  Immediately following, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
• Saturday: 5:00 PM, Mass, S. Hilarion, Abbot.
• Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 PM, Mass, Trinity XX.

The day has finally arrived for the Pastor Appreciation Luncheon. Mike Hardin has put much effort into this, and has been helped by several of our members. There will be only ONE MASS TOMORROW, AT 10:00. Immediately following, we will enjoy the luncheon, which is a pot-luck ~ bring your favourite dish. Drinks and dessert will be provided.

Tomorrow evening, we will have an hors d'oeuvres - wine - dessert - cheese gathering to wind-up the celebration. This will commence at 5:00 PM. Some libations will be provided, but please bring whatever drinks or food you prefer to share.

Our recent Clericus for the Clergy of the OAC was a success, with approximately twenty-five Bishops and other Clergy in-attendance. Our Retreat Topic was the Seven Sacraments. There was a different presenter for each of them.

We will be holding our Second Annual Trunk or Treat for All Hallow's Eve, in a few short weeks. This will be dependent-upon the weather, of-course. We'd quite a few visitors, last year. We will be distributing S. Matthew's bookmarks along with the sweets, this year.

Advent will soon be upon us, with Epiphany, and all of the other rites and Seasons that attend the beginning of another Christian year. We all of us must consider the changes to our prayer-life that these will engender, and the new/different foci that will arise in our spiritual lives. He is coming. I remain

in His praise,

The Rev'd Fr. T. L. Crowder

Pastor, Saint Matthew's Parish