‘Weekly Post. Anno Domini 2024 June 29

Beloved of the Lord:

Today is 29 June, in the year of our Lord 2024. The scheduled services are as-follows

• Saturday (today): 5:00 PM, Sung Mass, SS. Peter and Paul, Martyrs; 22nd anniversary of Fr. Crowder's Priestly Ordination.
• Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 AM, Mass, Trinity V. Monthly Parish Brunch after the 10:00 Mass.
• Monday: 10:00 AM, Mass, Feast of the Precious Blood.
• Tuesday: 5:30 PM, Mass, Visitation of the BVM.
  6:30 PM, Holy Rosary, Sung Evensong.
• Wednesday: 12:10 PM, Mass, Of the Octave of SS. Peter & Paul.
• Thursday: 10:00 AM, INDEPENDENCE DAY ~ Hilton Village Parade commences; Mass to follow.
  NO OTHER SERVICES TODAY, including Soup & Study.
• Friday: 9:00 AM, Mass, S. Vladimir of Russia, King & Confessor, with Gregorian Canon.
  Immediately following, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
• Saturday: 5:00 PM, Mass, Octave Day of SS. Peter & Paul.
• Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 PM, Mass, Trinity VI.

Tomorrow, immediately following the 10:00 Mass, we will will depart the Parish for our monthly Parish Brunch. This month, we'll be dining at the Crab Shack, located at the foot of the James River Bridge, not far from the Parish. Please join us, even if you attend the 8:30 service, in the breaking of the fast.

Independence Day this year falls on Thursday, of this week. We will meet at the the Parish, and depart at 9:45 AM for the staging area, which is just past Warwick Blvd., heading West on Main St. The parade commences at 10:00. This will be our first parade in many years without Pepper, but hopefully Toby will join us, to take up the banner.

This past week, all of you received an e-mail, which had appended to it the registration-form and other documents necessary for the CAC Synod. It will be held in Amherst, Virginia, over the 25th - 27th of July. If you were unable to open or print the attachments, there are hard-copies for your use at the Parish.

Again, I'm urging EVERYONE who has the time to attend the Synod. There is very little actual business to be conducted, but there will be several educational sessions, in-particular one on Church Music, which will end in a concert! As-such, there will be plenty of time for fellowship with all of our brothers and sisters attending from the various regions of the CAC.

The greater Church is entering-into a time of strong change, which will, I believe, continue for some while. Western Orthodoxy has, at long-last, begun seriously to say enough is enough to the corrupting strains that were introduced by the Episcopal Church, and others. Realignments are in-progress; realignments that will, I pray, result ~ in the not too distant future ~ in organic union as a singular Church. This should be our goal, and must be our prayer ~ to order Holy Church Undivided, as it once was, and our Lord intended it to be. I remain

in His praise,

The Ven. T. L. Crowder, Vicar General

Pastor, Saint Matthew's Parish