SESQUICENTENNIAL BASH
Oktoberfest!
Sunday- Tuesday, October 7-9
This year’s Oktoberfest
celebration will be our final and greatest celebration of our 150th anniversary. MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Can
Anything Good Come Out of the Nineteenth Century?
Other special guests include CID
President Mark Miller, Monday’s preacher and former St. Paul’s Pastor Kenneth Wegener, who will
preach at the Sunday Vespers.
Members of St. Paul’s
special rate: $15.00, $25 per couple
(children free), includes all meals.
Register ahead, so we have a better idea who’s coming. REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE.
Support your congregation! Set aside Sunday and Monday, October 7th and 8th for Oktoberfest! And Tuesday too, if you can do it!
Volunteers sought! If you are able, we could really use your help. We are a small congregation, and this year’s
Oktoberfest promises to be a big one, with lots of folks attending. So please step forward and offer your help:
everyone pulling together makes the preparations a lot easier. We need volunteers, volunteers, volunteers!
- Decorations volunteers
- People to prepare food for the bratwurst banquet
- Servers for Sunday night
- Clean-up volunteers Sunday night
- Monday brunch preparers
Rally Day!
On
Sunday, September 9th, the Sunday after Labor Day, we’ll be starting
over all over again. First, a new Sunday
school term starts up. Also a new
catechetical cycle begins—for prospective new members, or for current members
who want to review—tentatively scheduled for Wednesdays at 5 pm., beginning on
September 12th. We will
welcome and induct Jewneel Walker as a new Altar Guild member that day, and we
will also be receiving a new family into membership: Richard and Jennifer Madsen, with their
children Isaiah, Liam, and Jocelyn.
Isaiah (with his parents) will be receiving his first communion.
September Ushers: Alan Kraklow, Steve Kraklow, Tom Wells, Bob Bock
September
Anniversaries
9/18/1976
Tom and Sue Ann Wells
9/24/1977
Dennis and Janice Schoen
September Birthdays
9/1 John Ricknell
9/10 Jan Schoen
9/15 Chuck Russell
9/17 Mary Beth Jones
9/18
DeAnne Anderson
9/19
Jaclyn Kraklow
9/19
Jamie Kraklow
9/24
Stephanie Davis
9/28
Allan Kraklow
Interested in a Trip to Italy?
I promised Dr. Scaer I’d help him advertise his upcoming
trip to Italy,
so here it is. - Pastor
HIGHLIGHTS OF ITALY
11 DAYS: FEBRUARY 25 – MARCH 7,
2013
Hosted by:
Dr. & Mrs. David Scaer
$3192 per person from CHICAGO
(Air/land price
is $2599 plus $593 government taxes/airline fuel surcharges)
Tour Price Includes:
Roundtrip Air from Chicago, $593Government taxes/airline fuel
surcharges,
First Class/Select Hotels, Most Meals, Comprehensive
Sightseeing and much more!!
Visit Venice, Pisa, Florence, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast,
Pompeii & Rome
For a brochure & more information contact Dr.
Scaer:
Tel: (570)
646-8530 (June thru August)
(260) 482-7232 (Rest of the Year)
Email: dpscaer@juno.com
SPACE IS LIMITED!
CALL TODAY!
Thank you all!
I am deeply grateful to everyone who came out and helped
celebrate the 30th anniversary of my ordination, at the special service
on July 1st and reception afterwards. It was a memorable event, and I’m humbled to have
received such an honor.
The beautiful Rembrandt of Jesus’ ascension now hangs
in our parlor above the piano, and is a continual source of inspiration for me.
You have all been too kind; thank you a thousand times.
-Pastor Eckardt
Altar Guild News
We welcome Jewneel
Walker as our newest member!
Jewneel is to be inducted on September 12th.
Our September Altar Guild meeting will include a
repeat of basic duties, for the benefit of Jewneel, as well as for all members
to review.
Altar guild members, remember to check the wicks of the candles: not too
long or bent over, and not too short!
Notes for September:
All Sundays are green. Wednesday
the 5th is also green, but Wednesday the 12th (Holy
Cross) is red, Wednesday the 19th (St. Matthew) is also red, and
Wednesday the 26th (Michaelmas) is white.
No mass Saturday, September 15th: pastor is gone that
weekend. Note also to be especially
careful that everything is set out correctly for the 16th, as we
will have a visiting pastor that day.
There are five Sundays in September.
The fourth week team is due to handle the fifth week this time.
Shut ins
Mary Hamilton at home; Mark Baker at home; Anna Baker at home; Mirilda
Greiert at Kewanee Care; Ruth Snider at Hillcrest Home in Geneseo; Emmy Wear at
Williamsfield Home in Williamsfield.
Pastor’s Travels
It appears
I’ll be rather busy this month. On
Wednesday morning, September 12th, I’m at meetings at our Synodical
headquarters in St. Louis
to discuss publishing matters for our Ordo booklet for Gottesdienst. I expect to
make it back in time for Wednesday night activities.
Then
I’m due to speak at a conference in Kansas,
called “Lectures in Lutheranism,” over the weekend of September 16th.
On
Sunday the 23rd I’ll be leaving in the afternoon for the annual St.
Michael conference the next day at Zion in Detroit, where I will
again be a speaker this year, in addition to seeing Vicar Peter Eckardt at work
there.
And
Oktoberfest looms, right after that!
-
Pastor
First Tuesday
First Tuesday Altar Guild and Elders meetings will
be held on September 4th.
Altar Guild at 6 p.m. will include a review of basic duties and
training. Vespers is at 6:45, and Elders
meet at 7:15.
Latest Oktoberfest News
Early indicators are that this year’s Oktoberfest will be a big one: registrations
are up! So, to repeat (see page 1), we’ll
be needing all the volunteers we can find! Please help!
The Lighter Side
A friend of mine found an old Sunday School paper she had filled out long
ago, a fill-in-the-blank assignment. Evidently she hadn’t been paying attention
that day, or perhaps it was just that she had been paying very close attention at home.
Here’s what it said:
“No one comes unto the Father except through Mom.”
The New Testament in His Blood
This series contains brief
liturgical explanations which appear in Pastor Eckardt’s book The New Testament in His
Blood (Gottesdienst, 2010).
Collect
When the faithful have finally “entered” into the Mass
through the Introit, Kyrie, and Gloria, there is immediately following the
chief prayer of the day called the “Collect,” a term which comes from the
Latin collectio. In the Greek services is called synaxis.
Originally a reference to the assembly itself, that is, the people gathered for
worship, this prayer is now properly considered a prayer of the collected
faithful. Now that they have gathered at the altar, they pray.
The content of the prayer is thematic, that is, it bears
some thematic connection to the readings that follow. The collects come from
days of old; nobody knows their authors. They are the property of the whole
Church.
The celebrant holds his hands apart
and prays the collect aloud while the people pray silently with him. That is,
they not only listen, but
they make the prayer their own, and in so doing they join
with all the faithful. Not only does the collect serve to join the faithful
visibly present in the room, but to join them to the faithful of all times and places.
Such a universal understanding of this prayer is what is in view by the name collect.
Since the collect is always a prayer of high antiquity, therefore besides
being a thematically unifying prayer, it also binds the faithful of all times
in a common purpose and desire,
expressed in the collect’s petition.
The reason the collect is best said
by the celebrant alone while all the people pray it silently is that the single
voice of the celebrant for all their prayers highlights this unity well. The
celebrant himself becomes a symbol of the Church’s unity.
Some find it helpful to prepare for
worship by considering the Propers for the day. One may wish to read in advance
the collect appointed, or possibly to read along while praying it silently as
it is prayed aloud, even to the point of moving the lips in silence as the
words are heard. This can serve to accentuate the point of unity, and of the
collecting of
the faithful in one.
The flow and dignity of worship
would not be served well, however, either here or elsewhere, if the celebrant
were to turn and give instructions as to the correct page number or place in
the service. Well trained members of a Christian congregation will know what to
do and when; others can learn by
imitation. The ceremony of worship is kept dignified and its
importance highlighted if extraneous matters
are omitted.
Readings
The public reading of Scripture at Mass dates from the time
of the apostles, and is something they themselves inherited from the synagogue.
It is found in every rite in Christendom. In the synagogue, there were two
readings, one from Moses and one from the prophets; this was replaced in the
Church by the Gospels and the Epistles. In some places an Old Testament reading
remained, but the historic Old
Testament pericopes (appointed readings) are not known.
Since the origin of today’s so-called historical pericopes is so ancient, it is
not known, though here and there we can see traces of a thematic idea.
A recent innovation seen in some churches is the giving of
an introduction of the theme of a reading before the reading itself is given.
While well-intentioned, this is unfortunate for two reasons.
First, it breaks the flow of the liturgy; it is clumsy. High
ceremonies of all kinds are not encumbered with pauses or asides for
information about what is happening or what one should be aware of. Should not the
Holy Mass be accorded at least as much honor as other kinds of ceremonies?
Second, and more importantly, it serves to say, if only subliminally, that the
Word of God needs to be helped along if it is to be truly effective. The pastor
who wants to teach his people about the reading is invited to do so where the
liturgy provides him this opportunity: during the sermon. For the same reason,
it is unnecessary for the pastor to seek to make eye contact with the people
during the reading. It should be clear for all to see that
he is reading; that the words he speaks are the words he sees on the page. The sermon
is the place for personalizing the message.
Historically there have been chants
which are heard between the readings. They serve to provide a
musical connection between the readings, in effect to slow
the pace a bit to provide the opportunity for
reflection on the reading heard. The Gradual, or Alleluia,
or Tract, served this role historically, and also to cover movement, especially
when an acolyte moved the Gospel Book to its place for its reading by
the deacon. The movement to the place for the Gospel reading
was historically toward the north, that is, as a vector toward the lands the Gospel
had not yet reached.
The Gradual is one of the oldest
parts of the Mass.
It was at one time sung from a higher place which was sometimes called a
Gradine. Sometimes a special pulpit was erected for the chanting of the
Gradual. The Alleluia in the Roman rite was traditionally
sung twice, the second time with a long melisma, or series of notes. Medieval authors
would call this the iubilus or ubilatio or Cantilena, an inarticulate
expression of joy, “by which the mind is carried up to the unspeakable joy of
the Saints” as Rupert of Deutz declared (Fortescue, 269).
In the West, the Alleluia is
omitted during pre-lent and Lent, and the Tract is said instead. This is one of
the ways the Lenten season prepares people for Easter. When the alleluias are
again heard after
many weeks of omission, they add to the joy of the Easter
season.
The Gospel is always last of all
readings, in the place of honor. These are the very words of Christ. This is
why the people stand for the Gospel; it is as though standing when Christ
enters the room.
Yet this rubric (standing for the Gospel), only applies at Mass. It is not
necessary or desirable to follow these ceremonial details at lesser offices
(Matins, Vespers, etc.); since in this way the Mass receives a
higher ceremonial standing.
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Church
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S. Elm Street
Kewanee,
IL 61443
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