St. Peter’s by-the-Sea, Gulfport, MS

Keeping close while keeping our distance. A weekly guide for this journey. Our destination: Big Love BACK By the Sea.

March 15, 2021

the Good News

It has been exactly a year since we produced our very first on-line service in the wake of the pandemic shutdown.
This week, while still at reduced capacity, we are thrilled to announce our
Holy Week schedule of services and much more…

Saturday, March 27	8:30a.m.	Making Palm Crosses Meet in the Parish Hall to ready palms and make crosses
Palm Sunday, March 28	8am and 10:30am	Palm Sunday Services There will be no processional
Palm Sunday, March 28	5:00p.m.	Holy Week Lessons and Carols Performances include our Hand Bell Choir, J.T. Anglin and some of his students
Wednesday, March 31	5:30p.m.	Stations of the Cross Attendees will remain seated during readings
Paschal Triduum
Maundy Thursday, April 1	5:30p.m.	Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar no foot washing
Good Friday, April 2	Noon and 5:30pm	Good Friday Services No Holy Eucharist
, Saturday, April 3	7:22p.m (sunset)	The Great Easter Vigil There will be no gathering outside with “kindling of the Easter Fire” pit.
Easter Sunday
Sunday, April 4	7:00a.m	Rite I service
	9:00a.m.	Family Eucharist (Rite II with Children’s Church) followed by Easter Egg Hunt
	10:30a.m.	Rite II service

* We are offering 4 Easter Services *
We are asking parishioners choose one service to attend
so that everyone wanting to attend may do so without exceeding our 50% limit
* All services will be live streamed

* Volunteers Needed *
– to make palm crosses 3/27 @ 8:30am in the Parish Hall
– readers for Station of the Cross 3/31 @ 5:30pm
– readers, servers and ushers for all services
– help wiping down surfaces after each service

* Filled plastic Easter Eggs *
We need eggs (no chocolate please) and
volunteers to hide eggs during the 9am Easter Sunday

If you are able to help with any of these please contact the church office by phone: (228) 863-2611 please leave a message
or by email: stpetersbythesea@bellsouth.net or contact@stpetersbytheseagulfport.com

Check our website for links to streaming services,
pre-recorded Stations of the Cross and instructions on making Palm Crosses

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE April 13th from 11AM until 4PM in the parish hall.
Visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS to make your appointment
MEN’S GRILLIN’ GROUP RETURNS !!! April 27that 6PM in the Parish hall. All Men of the parish are invited, bring your entree’ to grill, beverage of choice and $15 dues. Reservations are REQUIRED please contact Mike at 228-326-6601 to make yours.

Could our ELNO or ELOTE be far behind ?
Stay tuned !

In addition to our in-person worship services increasing to 50% capacity, we are happy to announce the following:

Wednesday Bible Study is back at 10:30 am

Sunday School for Adults AND kids is back at 9:30 am (no donuts yet)

Children’s Church and Nursery Care is back at 10:30 am on Sundays

BCPs are back in the pews !

To read the latest protocols from the Diocese: https://dioms.org/dfc/newsdetail_2/3206677

SPRING FORWARD THIS WEEKEND !!!
That’s right. SPRING is near and you don’t want to be late for church, or is it early?

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE April 13th from 11AM until 4PM in the parish hall. Visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS to make your appointment

Upcoming Services

10:30am

Wednesday Bible Study

12:05pm

Wednesday
Litany of Healing*

6pm

Wednesday Lent Progam *

11am

Thursday Centering Prayer *

8am

Sunday Rite I *

9:30am

Sunday School
Adults & Kids

10:30am

Sunday Rite II *
Children’s Church & Nursery

Please:
– Wear your mask
– Wash your hands
– Maintain social distancing
– Please sign -in upon arrival

Would you like to be a reader ?
Interested in being an Usher?
Contact Susan at stpetersbythesea@bellsouth.net
be sure to include your contact info and time and date you can serve.

*Watch On Any Device

Can't make it to church ?

View our latest streaming offerings…

Rite I Service, Sunday March 7, 2021 8:00 am

Sunday Worship Service, March 7, 2021 10:30 am Rite II

Litany of Healing, Wednesday March 3, 2021 12:05 pm

Centering Prayer with Rev. Liz March 4, 11am

View any of our services, anytime

Wednesday Bible Study

a story about Mary Magdalene

The Woman Caught in Adultery

⁵³Then each of them went home, 8 ¹while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. ³The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, ⁴they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. ⁵Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” ⁶They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹She said, “No one, sir.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.”
John 7:53-8:11

This week’s Lent discussion moves back to Biloxi’s Church of the Redeemer
Join us Wednesday at 6pm, In-person, on Facebook and through Zoom meetings.

Lenten Program
“Will you strive for justice and peace among all people,
and respect the dignity of every human being?
I will, with God’s help.” [BCP Baptismal Covenant]

This week’s topic for Lenten discussion will cover Economic Dignity.
Check our Facebook page or our website for updates.

Inspiration

Passiontide and the
Sunday formerly known as Passion Sunday

What happened to Passion Sunday ?

Before the revisions of Vatican II, Passiontide was the period of Lent that commemorates the increasing revelation of Christ’s divinity (John 8:46-59) and His movement toward Jerusalem. While our current season of Lent is a time for preparation, reflection and more, Passion week seems to have been a building climax to Holy Week.
Passiontide was the two week period following the fifth Sunday of Lent, Passion Week being the first and Holy Week being the second week of Passiontide. Passion Sunday and Palm Sunday were, unlike today, separate celebrations.

Presently, we veil our crosses for the entire season of Lent. Perhaps that is to reflect a more austere atmosphere for this time of self-denial and simplicity.
That’s all well and good… Keep things plain until that time when we again can use “the A word”. But that wasn’t the practice of veiling’s original intent.

Traditionally, when Passiontide was observed, the veiling of the cross, paintings, statues and any other Holy objects occurred on Passion Sunday. The veiling was associated with Passion Sunday’s Gospel
(John 8:46-59), in which Jesus “hid himself” from the people.

We’re all familiar with the dramatic reading of the Passion Gospel on Palm Sunday in the 1979 BCP. Makes sense. It IS now, called Passion Sunday as well as Palm Sunday.
However, in previous editions of the BCP, the Gospel reading for the Fifth Sunday, formerly known as “Passion Sunday” came from John’s 8th chapter, ending with, “but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.” Today, this chapter from John’s Gospel appears nowhere in our Sunday lectionary.

But why ?

There are several theories.
From the thought that people didn’t come to church on Good Friday so they needed to hear the Passion Gospel on Palm Sunday to condensing the “home stretch” into Easter in to that one, Holy Week.

The former of these is a bit too cynical for me. In the latter we find “Lent was no longer about discipling others in the way of Jesus, but rather about trying to discipline ourselves for our sins, if only for these forty days”. The revision moved us from “a season of fasting and penitence with constant reminders of the suffering of Jesus along the way” to “a forty-day season of fasting and spiritual preparation intended to help congregations accompany candidates for baptism during a “home stretch” in practices, ritual and disciplines critical to living in the way of Jesus”.

While Passiontide blurred the line between Lent and Holy Week, a consolidation of Sundays puts a period on the end of Lent and clear beginning of Holy Week.

http://www.commontexts.org/
https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/

Church of England and Passiontide

Birthdays
15th – Katherine Thames
15th – Susan Prendergast
16th – JonMarc Van Zutphen
20th – Susan Dobson Rojas

March 21- 27th
Birthdays
21st – Hiram Edrington
22nd – Nathan Boddie
24th – Emile Ozerden Lee
25th – Gabriel Cabral
26th – Steven Taylor
27th- Catherine Frederic
27th – Jeffrey Lukas

email stpetersbythesea@bellsouth.net
to subscribe to our newsletter

Donations and Offerings for 2021 can be made on our website or by mailing your check to the church

NEEDED:
plastic grocery bags
Drop off at the church office

Support our local non-profits:

The Lessons Appointed for Use on The Fifth Sunday of Lent

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Hebrews 5:5-10

John 12:20-33

Psalm 51:1-13

or Psalm 119:9-16

The Collect
Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Did you know we have readings for each day in Lent ?
Find them here: lectionarypage.net/
And, the Lesser Feast Days and Fast for each day may be found here: Lesser Feast Days and Fasts

From the Episcopal church website: Way of Love Practices

Turn Learn Pray Worship Bless Go Rest

Explore the Way of Love: WORSHIP
Throughout the Scriptures, the people of God are called to worship.
As the Psalmist writes, “Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness;
come into his presence with singing. Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him, bless his name.” Just as God wants to enter into our lives and meet us where we are, so God desires for us to enter into God’s space together and be present there.
read more…

Explore the Way of Love: BLESS
The Christian tradition calls us not just to believe, but also to bless the world with the Good News
that we have learned. As the writer of Mark’s Gospel tells us, Jesus said, “Go into all the world and
proclaim the good news to the whole creation.” When we incorporate the practice of Blessing
others into our lives, we are putting our love into action by becoming the Good News for others.
As part of the Way of Love, Blessing gives us a way to follow the example of Jesus.
Just as Jesus was a leader and a teacher, he also was a son, a friend, a servant. Jesus understood
the need to know and be known by those in his community and beyond.
read more…

Explore the Way of Love – Bulletin Insert Series

View the entire Way of Love in Lent Curriculum here:
https://www.episcopalchurch.org/life-transformed-the-way-of-love-in-lent/

For the Kids !

This week’s lesson is taken from Genesis 18:16-19:29 and covers the account of Sodom and Gomorrah. While this is a difficult passage to teach younger children, it is important we don’t overlook the important truths that the passage teaches.

Main points:

God is patient but will judge sin.
We should pray for others.
We should flee from sin and temptation.
God is gracious to save.

From the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi

All about Lent — the 40 days before Easter

Lenten Activities For Children

“O God, our heavenly Father, whose glory fills the whole creation, and whose presence we find wherever we go: preserve those who travel; surround them with your loving care; protect them from every danger; and bring them in safety to their journey’s end; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

Contact Us
email: stpetersbythesea@bellsouth.net phone: 228.863.2611 address: 1909 15th Street Gulfport, Ms 39501
See much more: stpetersbytheseagulfport.com

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St. Peter’s by-the-Sea, Gulfport, MS

the Good News

It has been exactly a year since we produced our very first on-line service in the wake of the pandemic shutdown. This week, while still at reduced capacity, we are thrilled to announce our Holy Week schedule of services and much more…

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE April 13th from 11AM until 4PM in the parish hall. Visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS to make your appointment

MEN’S GRILLIN’ GROUP RETURNS !!! April 27that 6PM in the Parish hall. All Men of the parish are invited, bring your entree’ to grill, beverage of choice and $15 dues. Reservations are REQUIRED please contact Mike at 228-326-6601 to make yours.

Could our ELNO or ELOTE be far behind ?Stay tuned !

In addition to our in-person worship services increasing to 50% capacity, we are happy to announce the following:

Wednesday Bible Study is back at 10:30 am

Sunday School for Adults AND kids is back at 9:30 am (no donuts yet)

Children’s Church and Nursery Care is back at 10:30 am on Sundays

BCPs are back in the pews !

To read the latest protocols from the Diocese: https://dioms.org/dfc/newsdetail_2/3206677

SPRING FORWARD THIS WEEKEND !!!That’s right. SPRING is near and you don’t want to be late for church, or is it early?

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE April 13th from 11AM until 4PM in the parish hall. Visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS to make your appointment

Upcoming Services

10:30am

12:05pm

6pm

11am

8am

9:30am

10:30am

Please: – Wear your mask – Wash your hands – Maintain social distancing – Please sign -in upon arrival

Would you like to be a reader ? Interested in being an Usher? Contact Susan at stpetersbythesea@bellsouth.net be sure to include your contact info and time and date you can serve.

*Watch On Any Device

Can't make it to church ?

Wednesday Bible Study

a story about Mary Magdalene

The Woman Caught in Adultery

This week’s Lent discussion moves back to Biloxi’s Church of the Redeemer Join us Wednesday at 6pm, In-person, on Facebook and through Zoom meetings.

Inspiration

What happened to Passion Sunday ?

Traditionally, when Passiontide was observed, the veiling of the cross, paintings, statues and any other Holy objects occurred on Passion Sunday. The veiling was associated with Passion Sunday’s Gospel(John 8:46-59), in which Jesus “hid himself” from the people.

There are several theories.From the thought that people didn’t come to church on Good Friday so they needed to hear the Passion Gospel on Palm Sunday to condensing the “home stretch” into Easter in to that one, Holy Week.

email stpetersbythesea@bellsouth.net to subscribe to our newsletter

Donations and Offerings for 2021 can be made on our website or by mailing your check to the church

NEEDED:plastic grocery bagsDrop off at the church office

The Lessons Appointed for Use on The Fifth Sunday of Lent

or Psalm 119:9-16

From the Episcopal church website: Way of Love Practices

Join us each Wednesday, in-person or on-line

Join us each Sunday, in-person or on-line

Kids and Teens join us each Sunday Afternoon for EYC

It has been exactly a year since we produced our very first on-line service in the wake of the pandemic shutdown.
This week, while still at reduced capacity, we are thrilled to announce our
Holy Week schedule of services and much more…

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE April 13th from 11AM until 4PM in the parish hall.
Visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS to make your appointment

Could our ELNO or ELOTE be far behind ?
Stay tuned !

SPRING FORWARD THIS WEEKEND !!!
That’s right. SPRING is near and you don’t want to be late for church, or is it early?

Please:
– Wear your mask
– Wash your hands
– Maintain social distancing
– Please sign -in upon arrival

Would you like to be a reader ?
Interested in being an Usher?
Contact Susan at stpetersbythesea@bellsouth.net
be sure to include your contact info and time and date you can serve.

This week’s Lent discussion moves back to Biloxi’s Church of the Redeemer
Join us Wednesday at 6pm, In-person, on Facebook and through Zoom meetings.

Traditionally, when Passiontide was observed, the veiling of the cross, paintings, statues and any other Holy objects occurred on Passion Sunday. The veiling was associated with Passion Sunday’s Gospel
(John 8:46-59), in which Jesus “hid himself” from the people.

There are several theories.
From the thought that people didn’t come to church on Good Friday so they needed to hear the Passion Gospel on Palm Sunday to condensing the “home stretch” into Easter in to that one, Holy Week.

email stpetersbythesea@bellsouth.net
to subscribe to our newsletter

NEEDED:
plastic grocery bags
Drop off at the church office