Weekly Post Anno Domini 2022 August 27

Beloved of the Lord:

Today is Saturday, 27 August, in the year of our Lord 2022. The scheduled services are as-follows:

• Saturday (today): 5:00 PM, Mass, S. Joseph of Calasanza, Confessor.

• Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 AM, Mass, Trinity XI, Commemorate S. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor.
  

• MONDAY through SATURDAY, ALL SERVICES CANCELLED.
  

• Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00 AM, Mass, Trinity XII.

We are continuing to execute our list of projects, in and about the Parish, in-preparation for the Archbishop’s official visit to us on Sunday, 18 September. Thus, those tasks requiring the attention of a contractor will be completed during this-coming week. As-such, THE PARISH WILL BE CLOSED from Monday, 29 August, to Saturday, 3 September. No services will be conducted on those day. The regular schedule of Services will resume on Sunday, 4 September. No Sundays will be cancelled.

Our Thursday-evening Soup and Study session will, of-course, be cancelled, this-coming week. It will also be cancelled in the following week, on Thursday, 8 September. A Clericus, or meeting of the Clergy of the Church, has been scheduled for the end of that week, and Avery Collins and I will be at that meeting. Avery is studying for Holy Orders, and the Archbishop requires all students to attend these clerical meetings, to introduce them to our life-in-Christ.

Our Senior Warden, Jim Theuer, has resigned his position. The Vestry will decide their course on this matter at the next meeting; likely, they will elect someone to replace Jim, as there is more-than a year remaining in his term. Our prayers are with Jim and Eleise.

Planning ~ and work ~ continues apace for the General Convention of the OAC, which we will host here, at S. Matthew’s, from the Tenth through the Twelfth of November. Accommodations are arranged, and delegates have already begun reserving their rooms. We will need volunteers to help with Registration, and with the serving of lunch on Friday and Saturday.

ALL SERVERS, SINGERS, MUSICIANS, CANTORS AND CLERGY PAY HEED! On Friday, 11 November, S. Matthew’s will be solely responsible for the opening Mass of the Convention. This will be our show, so-to-speak, putting-forward our best talents, and efforts. This is an ALL HANDS ON-DECK call. Please set your schedules now, that you may be present at the Mass. In this, we will show the greater Church what is possible in the Liturgy of God’s one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church!

I will be absent from the Parish during this-coming week. The plan is to travel-about Virginia, seeing friends and sights along the way. If a pastoral emergency should arise, please contact Fr. Warren at 804-642-6597. If he cannot be reached, you may call me on my cell phone. I request your prayers for safety and mercy as I travel-about the Commonwealth. I remain in His praise,

The Rev’d Fr. T. L. Crowder

Pastor, Saint Matthew’s Parish