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1011 NORTH SEVENTH STREET (ONTARIO AVENUE & SEVENTH STREET) SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN 53081 “What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross …” is the line of poetry (from Canto LXXXI) probably best remembered from the twentieth century American poet, Ezra Pound (d. 1972). Pound was a highly controversial figure, a fascist sympathizer accused of treason follow- ing his anti-American broadcasts made during WWII in behalf of Mussolini’s re- gime, and confined for alleged mental ill- ness. Leaving aside his very problematic political views, however, his worldview exalted modernity. At the same time he sought to identify and cling to whatever was of value from prior ages. In our own age, this fascination with—the idolatry of—what is new, and of technology has progressed to the point where as a species we are very much tempted to believe that we are in charge. We forget that “eating of the tree” humanity may have gained knowledge, but not wisdom. Pound wrote his Cantos while confined in a mental institution. As a Modernist, as a proponent of the need for much of what had gone before to pass, he nonetheless recognized the dangers of a torrid love affair with newness, with “progress”, with the exercise of power. Perhaps at some level Pound wanted “to have his cake and eat it, too”, to be able to say that he would be the judge of what should re- main and what should be thrown out as dross. In other words, Pound may have embodied the temptation to which we are all prey, to believe that whatever has come before can only be judged by our own standards, and that what shall come will only be determined by our plans and efforts. This temptation is, of course, to that old “home base” in sin: pride. But this temptation also highlights that when we reverse the equation, and recognize that we are not the judge of what is good and must remain, then we can begin to participate in God’s plan, and worry not over our own plans and frustrations. We are, in truth, creatures of habits. We become what we love. If our time and at- tention is consumed with entertainment, then we become creatures who must constantly be entertained (with the inevi- table result that we are often bored!) If our time and attention is given to small habits that involve an ongoing focus on social media, we become creatures who are formed by the details in the lives of others. Certainly our society is one in which consumption and entertainment are paramount. Now, consider the alternative. Consider what life can become when we recog- nize that what remains, what we “lovest well” is what God reveals His will to be. Consider what life becomes when we do, in fact, love the LORD our God with all of our heart, and all of our mind, and all of our strength, and all of our being, and when we do love our neighbor as our selves. Consider what life becomes when we respond to and live within the New Commandment given to us by Jesus, that we are to love each other as He has loved us. Life becomes far richer because life becomes holier. Life becomes far richer because we participate in and incarnate God’s plan not just for our salvation, but for the salvation of the world. In Lent we get to practice again how to become what we love. We get to prac- tice the small habits of daily prayer, of self-reflection in which we offer up to God all that is not godly, of meditating upon God’s holy Word, of gathering in His holy Name to offer prayer, worship, praise and thanksgiving. We are formed and become God’s beloved in how we in- carnate His love. This formation may in- MARCH A.D. 2017 A Word from the Rector : Greetings in the Name of our Lord, Jesus Christ! PHONE: 920-452-9659 | [email protected] | WWW.GRACESHEBOYGAN.COM GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH SHEBOYGAN WISCONSIN PHONE: 920-452-9659 EMAIL: [email protected] Easter Vigil Dinner The first Mass of the Resurrection is on Saturday, April 15th, at 7:00 p.m. The EASTER CELEBRATION then continues at Trattoria Stefano, 522 South 8th Street, at 9:30 p.m. The actual cost of the meal is a gift to the parish, so you not only get a delicious meal but you help the coffers of the church by purchasing a ticket for the dinner. Tickets can be purchased in the parish office or in the narthex after mass for $50 a person. Everyone is invited, but seats are limited. There are scholar- ships for anyone wishing to attend but are unable to donate.

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1 0 11 N O R T H S E V E N T H S T R E E T ( O N TA R I O AV E N U E & S E V E N T H S T R E E T )S H E B O Y G A N , W I S C O N S I N 5 3 0 8 1

“What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross …” is the line of poetry (from Canto LXXXI) probably best remembered from the twentieth century American poet, Ezra Pound (d. 1972). Pound was a highly controversial figure, a fascist sympathizer accused of treason follow-ing his anti-American broadcasts made during WWII in behalf of Mussolini’s re-gime, and confined for alleged mental ill-ness. Leaving aside his very problematic political views, however, his worldview exalted modernity. At the same time he sought to identify and cling to whatever was of value from prior ages. In our own age, this fascination with—the idolatry of—what is new, and of technology has progressed to the point where as a species we are very much tempted to believe that we are in charge. We forget that “eating of the tree” humanity may have gained knowledge, but not wisdom.

Pound wrote his Cantos while confined in a mental institution. As a Modernist, as a proponent of the need for much of what had gone before to pass, he nonetheless recognized the dangers of a torrid love affair with newness, with “progress”, with the exercise of power. Perhaps at some level Pound wanted “to have his cake and eat it, too”, to be able to say that he would be the judge of what should re-main and what should be thrown out as dross. In other words, Pound may have embodied the temptation to which we are all prey, to believe that whatever has

come before can only be judged by our own standards, and that what shall come will only be determined by our plans and efforts. This temptation is, of course, to that old “home base” in sin: pride. But this temptation also highlights that when we reverse the equation, and recognize that we are not the judge of what is good and must remain, then we can begin to participate in God’s plan, and worry not over our own plans and frustrations.

We are, in truth, creatures of habits. We become what we love. If our time and at-tention is consumed with entertainment, then we become creatures who must constantly be entertained (with the inevi-table result that we are often bored!) If our time and attention is given to small habits that involve an ongoing focus on social media, we become creatures who are formed by the details in the lives of others. Certainly our society is one in which consumption and entertainment are paramount.

Now, consider the alternative. Consider what life can become when we recog-nize that what remains, what we “lovest well” is what God reveals His will to be. Consider what life becomes when we do, in fact, love the LORD our God with all of our heart, and all of our mind, and all of our strength, and all of our being, and when we do love our neighbor as our selves. Consider what life becomes when we respond to and live within the New Commandment given to us by Jesus, that

we are to love each other as He has loved us. Life becomes far richer because life becomes holier. Life becomes far richer because we participate in and incarnate God’s plan not just for our salvation, but for the salvation of the world.

In Lent we get to practice again how to become what we love. We get to prac-tice the small habits of daily prayer, of self-reflection in which we offer up to God all that is not godly, of meditating upon God’s holy Word, of gathering in His holy Name to offer prayer, worship, praise and thanksgiving. We are formed and become God’s beloved in how we in-carnate His love. This formation may in-

MARCH A.D. 2017

A Word from the Rector: Greetings in the Name of our Lord, Jesus Christ!

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GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH SHEBOYGAN WISCONSIN

PHONE: 920-452-9659 E M A I L : [email protected]

Easter Vigil Dinner The first Mass of the Resurrection is on Saturday, April 15th, at 7:00 p.m. The EASTER CELEBRATION then continues at Trattoria Stefano, 522 South 8th Street, at 9:30 p.m. The actual cost of the meal is a gift to the parish, so you not only get a delicious meal but you help the coffers of the church by purchasing a ticket for the dinner. Tickets can be purchased in the parish office or in the narthex after mass for $50 a person. Everyone is invited, but seats are limited. There are scholar-ships for anyone wishing to attend but are unable to donate.

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STEWARDSHIP IN 2017: Rector’s Discretionary Fund: A review of the Outreach Update found in this issue shows that an unusually large amount of money was disbursed over the past month. This was driven by some unusual cases, most of which arose in the lives of parishioners, not members of the out-side community. Regardless, what is clear is that such a level of expenditure is not sustainable. It is also clear, however, that to sustain the ability to respond flexibly to emergency cases, we will need to ex-amine how to fund this kind of service and outreach.

The funds which were disbursed over the past month came from a healthy balance in the clergy discretionary fund. This bal-ance resulted from the generosity of one parishioner who made gifts in addition to a pledge to the parish. By canon, the Rector’s Discretionary Fund is to receive the loose plate offering from one Sunday a month. For the past month this re-sulted in a donation of $40.00.

Please pray about how you can help in outreach for emergency cases. If you are called to help, please consider making a separate gift to the Rector’s Discretionary Fund.

The Guild of Martha and Mary: It is not unusual to encounter references to “food insecurity” in the news. Food insecurity may be simple hunger, but more commonly it relates to whether available food is nutritious and regularly available. Part of the problem arises from a lack of a life skill many take for granted: cooking. But if you have never been taught to cook, how to plan a menu on a budget, your experience of eating may be re-stricted to what you can microwave.

The Guild of Martha and Mary takes advantage of our wonderful parish kitchen, and gath-ers with neighbors in need identified by LoveINC, to explore cooking and meal planning together. The Guild gathers over a series of weeks, generally on Wednesday nights. A meal is prepared and shared. Community is built. Prayer is offered.

Consider how you can help/participate. You can help in the kitchen, or in hospitality. You can help in planning budget and menu planning lists. You can help by providing transporta-tion to members. Full details can be gained by contacting Paul Aparicio.

Ministry of the Month

STATISTICS

• Average Sunday Attendance for February was 93, down 15 from the 2016 figure. What’s up? When you do not gather for worship, you are missed. This is not about numbers, but about community.

• Holy Eucharist: 39 Daily Office: 57

• Visits to homes/hospitals, etc.: 18

• Visits to jail: 2

• Finances: Year-to-date income is materially higher than budget (on a flat line basis) due to many gifts being made at the beginning of the year. Expenses are slightly over budget; again, due to front-loading.

volve renunciation, even renunciation of things that we love and that are, in them-selves, small blessings. The theology of such renunciation involves saying “no” to (for example) a favorite food, in order that we might hunger more for God, and in order that we may give God thanks-giving for the blessings of life. But be-yond “no” the habits that will truly form us involve “yes”. We say yes to God best when we make all of our persons avail-able to Him. This often involves strip-ping away distractions, and Lent allows us a period of focus to identify what dis-tracts and what can be stripped away, that in the apostles words we may “[W]alk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God” (Eph. 5.2). When we love God, we cling to what remains, to Who is, and was, and will be. The rest is dross.

Yours in Christ Jesus,

The Rev. Dr. Karl C. Schaffenburg Rector

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Holy days are secondary to the sea-son in Lent. In most years, 1 March is St. David’s Day, but this year Ash Wednesday falls on this date, and the entire month of March will be included in Lent, with this important qualification: Sundays are not part of the season of Lent. Sundays are feasts of Our Lord, and spiritual disciplines such as fast-ing do not apply. In earlier times these disciplines were generally observed on Sundays in Lent, and the fourth Sunday was set aside as Laetare Sunday (the name derives from the incipit—a sort of opening line in the old Mass—for the feast), from the words “Laetare Jeru-salem” (“Oh by joyful, Jerusalem,” from Isaiah 66.10). Laetare Sunday has tra-ditionally been marked by expressions of joy not otherwise seen in Lent, e.g., flowers at the altar. This day is, for ex-ample, the only day during Lent when a wedding may be celebrated.

Holy days are secondary, but may be observed. Commemorations which fall in March begin with John and Charles Wesley (feast 3 March), Anglican priests responsible for the spiritual awakening in the 18th century Church that gave rise to Methodism. They were nick-named “Methodists” by their fellow students at Oxford, in token of their systematic ap-proach to devotions. Each actually died as an Anglican priest. The split between the Church of England and Methodism resulted from the issue of how to pro-vide for bishops in the American colo-nies. No bishop was ever named in an

American colony, and attempts to do so met significant resistance from indepen-dence-minded colonists who viewed bishops as agents of the English crown. This is perhaps another example of how politics can divide, and raises the ques-tion of what the Church would be like absent the split between Anglicanism and Methodism.

St. Patrick (d. ca. 461, feast is 17 March) is remembered for the evange-lization of Ireland. As great a saint as Patrick was, let’s not let him overshad-ow our Lord’s foster father, St. Joseph (19 March). Joseph’s feast is one of three (together with the February saint, St. Matthias the Apostle, and the Feast of the Annunciation, when observed on 25 March) in which liturgical colors change in Lent, i.e., the feast takes pre-cedence over the season. The Feast of the Annunciation, which commemo-rates the annunciation by the archan-gel Gabriel to Mary that she will bear the Messiah (Luke 1.26-38) was, in the West, New Year’s day until 1582.

March can be remembered as the month of three Gregories: Gregory of Nyssa (d. 394; feast 9 March) was one of the “Cappadocian Fathers,” early theologians instrumental in the devel-opment of doctrine about the Holy Trin-ity. Gregory the Great (d. 604; feast 12 March, superseded this year by a Sunday) was Bishop of Rome. He re-formed much of the liturgy in the west-ern church, with much church music

being afterwards referred to as Gre-gorian Chant. Gregory the Illuminator (d.332; feast 23 March) was missionary to Armenia, the first Christian kingdom.

Three saints with whom this parish has a special connection include James DeKoven (22 March), John Keble (29 March) and John Donne (31 March). Dekoven was prominent in the 19th century Ritualist (“Oxford”) Movement, of which Grace is a daughter. He was elected bishop of Wisconsin, but con-secration was denied him as “too Cath-olic” in a 19th century church milieu in which conflicts over ritual and liturgy were prominent. John Keble’s 1827 book, The Church Year, was an early signpost in what would become the Rit-ualist Movement. Keble was concerned about things like the calendar of saints!

A parish connection with John Donne is much more tenuous, but he is in-cluded because of the influence of his poetry on what would become Angli-canism. Donne (who served as dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London in the 17th century) became a priest because the king wanted this to happen. He was much more focused on being a poet, and has been described as a “meta-physical” poet, i.e., one using unusual metaphors and linguistic conceits. His spiritual poetry and his sermons and essays came to influence many writers and Church figures, setting a contem-plative tone in an Anglican sensibility on matters of love and death.

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THE KALENDAR by Fr. Karl

VOLUNTEER NEEDED TO ORGANIZE THE ANNUAL BAKE/PLANT/RUMMAGE SALE: This annual event takes place, in conjunction with St. Luke United Methodist Church Rummage Sale, on Friday, April 28th (noon – 3:00 p.m.) and Satur-day, April 29th (9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.) – the first weekend after Easter. As well as an organizer we will need volunteers to bake brownies (Jessica Ambelang will provide pans, ingredients and instructions), help gather and sort rummage and plants, and set-up and take down. Anyone interested in organizing or helping in this event, please call the office at 920-452-9659 or call/text Jessica Ambelang on 920-918-5667.

ADULT EDUCATION:We gather for Bible study on Tuesdays at 7 a.m. (Fountain Park Restaurant), and on Thursdays following the 9 a.m. celebration of Holy Eucharist. Bible study summaries for each week’s les-sons are found on the parish website.

Sunday morning Adult Education in March will continue our series on Sac-ramental Identity (facilitated by Leslie Kohler)..

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In Lent we encounter many hymns with emphases on the reality of sin, on the need for repentance, and on the fruits of forgiveness. One exam-ple relates back to the metaphysical poet, John Donne (see The Kalendar), being no. 140, Wilt thou forgive that sin, a poem of Donne’s set to music contemporary to his life, and a poem which gives a good example of the ac-cented rhythm of speech encountered in metaphysical poetry.

The number of hymns appointed just on a seasonal basis for Lent is small, and what is striking about them is their age. At least in the current hym-nal, the Lenten theme has not resulted in newer hymns. Three of the twelve seasonal hymns are from the 6th cen-tury. Perhaps this reflects the trials of that age? If so, how can we reflect in our own age on the universal need to turn to God?

A hymn sometimes encountered in Lent is no. 692, I heard the voice of Je-sus say. The words are set to a Thom-as Tallis (d. 1585) melody in common meter which can make these words sound a bit like poetry by Donne. This melody reflects the Elizabethan church emphasis on church singing being “understanded of the people,” with one syllable per note, and pres-ents the interesting question of how much 16th century liturgical practice influenced the development of English

poetry in the 17th century.

A final hymn to consider is 637, How firm a foundation, written late in the 18th century and set to a contem-poraneous melody. In the first hym-nal in which this hymn was published the words are attributed to “K.” The identity of the author is not known, but it has been suggested that to have been Richard keen, a Baptist preacher in London. In most hymnody, the hymn is better known in the setting found at no. 636, to an American folk mel-ody, but in The Episcopal Church it is more often sung to the 18th century melody, “Lyons”. The hymn instructs in how and why we can, in fact, turn to God. In contrast to those who con-sider God’s teaching to be folly (1 Cor. 2.14), those who have received the Holy Spirit in Baptism can be guided by Scripture. We may often struggle in this, but we do not dismiss the Bible just because it may be difficult to un-derstand or difficult to relate to our lives in a given circumstance. “K.” writes:

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,

Is laid for your faith in his excellent word! (v. 1)

In other words, because we are (in Baptism) “set aside” and marked as Christ’s own (and to be holy means to be set aside for God), we “saints”

can apprehend that there is a founda-tion for faith in our encounter with Scripture, with God’s word. The au-thor completes this thought:

What more can he say than to you he hath said,

To you that for refuge to Jesus have fled?

Because we have been incorporated into Christ in His Church, we can un-derstand that God speaks to us, that the Word is living. We don’t have to just “seek” truth, because we have found this truth, Jesus (Jn. 14.6), and we can, therefore (in the words of v. 2), “be not dismayed” knowing that God is our God, and that He keeps His promises to be with us. When we pass through “fiery trials” (v. 3), God promises, “my grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply”.

Lent may be a time of trial, but we are never tried alone. We journey togeth-er, and God journeys with us. We can sing, heartily, the words of this hymn:

The soul that to Jesus hath fled for repose,

[God] will not, [God] will not desert to its foes.

That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to shake,

[He’ll] never, no, never, no never forsake.

Oh for a Thousand Tongues

OUTREACH UPDATE: As of the 19 February Vestry report out-reach provided in the prior month was to a total $2,465.88. This includes:

• A $500.00 parish contribution to LoveINC.

• $684.85 was paid in housing relief (2 cases), and $478.00 for medical relief (2 cases).

• $160.00 in support of Samaritan’s Hand, and $500.00 for Freedom Cry (anti-trafficking).

• $143.03 was paid for commissary costs for a prisoner.

Your generosity in response to an appeal to help Freedom Cry bring a trauma remediation program for human

trafficking victims to Sheboygan has been overwhelming. Over $1,350.00 has been donated! This will be disbursed in the coming month.

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Parish Library Notes Mary Massey & Bobbie May

As St. Patrick’s Day is approaching I thought it would be fun to highlight those items in our library that deal with Celtic Christianity.

“Celtic traditions influenced how Christianity was practiced giving birth to a unique expression of the faith marked by optimism, mysticism, and a deep love for nature. The Celtic tradition has a reputation for optimism. Celtic Christianity is a remarkably positive expression of the Christ path. If we live in a universe pulsating with power and abundance, then ultimately our problems are solvable and surmount-able. There is nothing to fear. This is one with the message of Jesus, “Be not afraid.” Optimism is a choice. It’s a product of faith, for it requires a hopeful approach to life.”

Celtic Christian Spirituality by the Reverend Monk Dr. Gorazd, from Orthodox Tradition, Vol. XVIII, no. 4, (2001) pp. 12-29

Bury, J. B. The life of St. Patrick and his place in history. 235.2 B85

Professor Bury’s magisterial, immensly readable biography of St. Patrick was first published in England in 1905, and it set the stage for a renaissance in Patrician scholarship over the next century. This is the book against which all susequent studies of the saint must be judged. Bury paints a compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of St. Patrick and, importantly, places him in the context of his time: a time when the Roman Empire was splitting apart at the seams, when the Christian Church was extending its influence throughout Europe.

De Waal, Esther. The Celtic way of prayer : the recovery of the religious imagination. 299.1 DeWCe

Using Celtic song, poetry, stories, rituals, and customs from earliest times to the present, de Waal skillfully illustates how peregrinato, or ‘journey into prayer,’ is an integrating part of Celtic existence, and how it can serve as a model for a way of life for people today who are on a quest for meaningful relationships with God, others, and all of creation.

Fitzgerald, William John. A contemporary Celtic prayer book. 242.8 F576c

Like the Celts of long ago, who took the many threads of their ordi-nary, daily lives and wove prayer into their rising, working, sleeping, dreaming, so this prayer book interlaces the commonness of our lives with the imminent presence of divinity.

McLean, G.R.D. Praying with the Celts. 242.8 McLPr

This lovely collection of Gaelic prayers, praises, and blessings cap-tures the deeply devotional spirit of Celtic Christianity. The approxi-mately one hundred works collected here are known to date back several centuries. Yet they can – often with little or no adaptation – be used perfectly well by Christians today.

Allchin, A.M., ed. Daily readings from prayers & praises in the Celtic tradition. 248.32 Al5p

This delightful book draws on one of our richest spiritual traditions, the Celtic heritage, and presents extracts from Irish, Welsh and Scottish sources in a form suitable for daily meditation. A sense of the sacredness of the earth and of all that grows on it, a sense that the victory of the cross illumines and transforms our life of every day, an awareness that heaven is not far from us, but that in our work and in our sleep we are accompanied by heavenly powers – these are some of the characteristics which appear in these pages.

Adam, David. The open gate : Celtic prayers for growing spiritually. 242 AdaOp

St. John the Divine says of heaven in the book of Revelation, ‘and the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut.’ (Revelation 21.25) The gates are open for wanderers, latecomers, penitents, and anyone who seeks to come that way. We give thanks that our Lord has ‘opened for us the gate of glory’, though we need to make the effort to go through. Here are prayers in the Celtic tradition to help us approach His gate in a variety of ways: thanksgiving, confession, adoration, intercession and personal dedication. Let us learn to recognize an open gate when one is presented to us.

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WEEKLY SERVICE SCHEDULEGrace Church is open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for prayer and meditation.

SUNDAY 8:00 a.m. Said Mass10:15 a.m. Solemn Mass

MONDAY 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer 12:10 p.m. Mass 5:10 p.m. Evening Prayer & Shrine Prayers with Rosary. Intercessions, healing prayer, and sprinkling of Holy Water are offered after the Shrine prayers

TUESDAY 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer 5:10 p.m. Evening Prayer & Shrine Prayers 5:30 p.m. Mass

WEDNESDAY 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer 5:10 p.m. Evening Prayer & Shrine Prayers 5:30 p.m. Mass

THURSDAY8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer 9:00 a.m. Mass †

FRIDAY 7:00 a.m. Morning Prayer 7:15 a.m. Mass 5:10 p.m. Evening Prayer & Shrine Prayers

SATURDAY No services/church closed.

CALENDAR EVENTS FOR MARCH 2017March 1 12:10pm Ash Wednesday – Mass with Imposition of Ashes 6:00 Solemn Mass with Imposition of AshesMarch 2 9:30am Bible StudyMarch 7 6:00pm CatechumenateMarch 8 6:00pm ChoirMarch 9 9:30am Bible StudyMarch 10 5:15pm Prelude of Lenten Music 5:30pm Stations of the Cross 6:00pm Lenten Dinner – Diocesan Lenten Series March 12 After both Boy Scout Pancake Breakfast Services 6:30 pm Parish Potluck 8:00pm ComplineMarch 14 6:00pm CatechumenateMarch 15 5:30pm Martha & Mary Cooking Guild 6:00pm ChoirMarch 16 9:30am Bible StudyMarch 17 5:15pm Prelude of Lenten Music 5:30pm Stations of the Cross 6:00pm Lenten Dinner –Diocesan Lenten Series March 21 6:00pm CatechumenateMarch 22 6:00pm ChoirMarch 23 9:30am Bible StudyMarch 24 5:15pm Prelude of Lenten Music 5:30pm Stations of the Cross 6:00pm Lenten Dinner –Diocesan Lenten Series March 26 11:45am Vestry MeetingMarch 28 6:00pm CatechumenateMarch 29 6:00pm ChoirMarch 30 9:30am Bible StudyMarch 31 5:15pm Prelude of Lenten Music 5:30pm Stations of the Cross 6:00pm Lenten Dinner –Diocesan Lenten Series

3/01 Colleen Darling 3/04 Nancy Gosse 3/10 Mary Grace Boland 3/10 John Davis 3/11 Fynley Bouck 3/11 Wendy Lynas 3/13 Mary Evans

3/14 Caleb Klinzing3/15 Paul Aparicio, Jr. 3/15 Don Beeck 3/15 Xao Yang Lee 3/16 David Bronson 3/16 Maya McMillan3/19 David Lubbers

3/19 Scott Mullen 3/19 Martha Shad 3/20 Mary Kohler 3/25 Jessica Ambelang 3/26 James Gardner 3/29 Chase Beeck 3/30 Andrea Childs

BIRTHDAYS

MINISTRY SCHEDULE8:00 AM SERVER LECTOR USHER GREETER3/5 B. Wood B. Wood S&C Fischer r L&C Schneider ns3/12 J. Davis J. Davis K&T Revis E. Schaffenburg 3/29 B. Wood B. Wood L&C Schneider J. Gardner3/26 J. Davis J. Davis W.Sather & J.Gardner L&C Schneider

10:15 AM LECTOR USHER GREETER3/5 Bob MacEwen E. Clabots & S. Gedemer S. & K. Larson 3/12 Jostin McMillan J. Stagner & E. Clabots J. Stagner3/19 Katy Larson S&M Gallimore Z&D Whitford 3/26 Bernie Markevitch J. Whitford & B. Evans J. Stagner

2017MARCH

P H O N E : 9 2 0 - 4 5 2 - 9 6 5 9 | O F F I C E @ G R A C E S H E B O Y G A N . C O M | W W W. G R A C E S H E B O Y G A N . C O M

A N N I V E R S A R I E S3/11 Jeff & Wendy Lynas

* Evening Prayer is followed each day by intercessory prayers in the chapel of Our Lady of Walsingham. On Mondays, intercessory prayer is offered in a corporate Rosary.

† Mass is followed immediately by bible study

Feast days will be celebrated as announced in the monthly calendar.

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GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

1011 North Seventh Street(Ontario Avenue & Seventh Street)Sheboygan, Wisconsin 5 3081Phone: 920-452-9659 Email: [email protected]

PARISH STAFFThe Rt. Rev. Matthew A. Gunter, Bishop of Fond du Lac; The Rev. Dr. Schaffenburg, Rector; The Rev. Michael Burg, Deacon; The Ven. Michele Whitford, Priest Associate, Deacon; Dr. R. Benjamin Dobey, Organist Choirmaster; Ellen Aparicio, Parish Administrator; Nick Whitford, Director of Youth and Family; Mr. William May, Sexton

THE VESTRYThe RectorSenior Warden: Paul AparicioJunior Warden: Randie Barrows Treasurer: Brian Heck New Vestry: John Davis, Steve Gallimore, Scott Gedemer, Jane Hanson, Leslie Kohler, Jennifer Pawlus, Traci Revis, Dale Massey, Bryan Stenz.

10TH ANNUAL APPRECIATION PANCAKE BREAKFASTSUNDAY, MARCH 12th AT GRACE ESPICOPAL CHURCH.

SERVING ALL CONGREGATION MEMBERS, SCOUTS, SCOUTS FAMILIES AND FRIENDS. THE EVENT IS FREE (DONATIONS ACCEPTED) AS A THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR THE TROOP.

IN ADDITION REAL MAPLE SYRUP WILL BE OFFERED FOR SALE FROM THE DREWERY FARM OF PLYMOUTH WI WITH PROCEEDS GOING TO THE TROOP.

SERVING TIMES ARE: 9:00 TO 10:00 AM

FOR EARLY SERVICE AND BIBLE STUDY PARTICIPANTS

10:45 TO 1:00 FOR LATE SERVICE PARTICIPANTS, SCOUTS, SCOUT FAMILIES

AND FRIENDS OF SCOUTING