Lector: Jennifer Collins
Chalice Bearer: Andrea Pogue
Altar Cleanup: BJ Anderson
Lectionary link
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Port Royal, VA
We are a small Episcopal Church on the banks of the Rappahannock in Port Royal, Virginia. We acknowledge that we gather on the traditional land of the first people of Port Royal, the Nandtaughtacund, who are still here, and we honor with gratitude the land itself and the life of the Rappahannock Tribe. Our mission statement is to do God’s Will in all that we do.
Lector: Jennifer Collins
Chalice Bearer: Andrea Pogue
Altar Cleanup: BJ Anderson
Lectionary link
Pentecost 17, Sept. 24, 2023
Lectionary for Pentecost 17
Lectionary commentary
Visual Lectionary
Season of Creation Podcast on this Lectionary
God’s Garden 1st week review
Matthew remembered, Sept. 21
St. Michael and all the angels, Sept. 29
Sept., 2023 newsletter
Focus on the Season of Creation, Week 4
The Season of Creation, 2023
Keys to the Season of Creation, 2023
5 areas of the Environment in the Season of Creation
This week is food waste
IPCC – Lowering emissions
Project Drawdown
Climate Change – Reduce
Mission and Outreach
Donations for Maui
Andrea Pogue reported on St. Peter’s 2023 Jamaican mission trip Sept. 3, 2023 during church. This was our second mission trip after 2021 with the next trip planned for 2025. Thanks to Andrea and the entire mission team for a job well done serving 300 students with school supplies and prizes.
Jamaican mission setup, Aug. 24, 2023
Jamaican mission school distribution, Aug. 26, 2023
Village Harvest
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Begins Sun Sept 17, 10:30am -“God’s Garden” in the Parish House—A gathering of children ages 5-9 for Sunday School activities and fun, led by Elizabeth Heimbach
Lector: Cookie Davis
Chalice Bearer: Elizabeth Heimbach
Altar Cleanup: Linda Kramer
Lectionary link
Coming Up!
Pentecost 16, Sept. 17, 2023
Lectionary for Pentecost 16
Lectionary commentary
Reading Psalm 103 this week
Visual Lectionary
God’s Garden begins Sept 17
Focus on the Season of Creation, Week 3
The Season of Creation, 2023
Keys to the Season of Creation, 2023
5 areas of the Environment in the Season of Creation
This week is Energy
IPCC – Lowering emissions
Project Drawdown
Climate Change – Measure
Coming up!
Holy Cross Day, Sept. 14
Hildegard celebrated, Sept 17.
Matthew remembered, Sept. 21
Mission and Outreach
Donations for Maui
Andrea Pogue reported on St. Peter’s 2023 Jamaican mission trip Sept. 3, 2023 during church. This was our second mission trip after 2021 with the next trip planned for 2025. Thanks to Andrea and the entire mission team for a job well done serving 300 students with school supplies and prizes.
Jamaican mission setup, Aug. 24, 2023
Jamaican mission school distribution, Aug. 26, 2023
Village Harvest
The Season of Creation returns
Lector: Andrea Pogue
Chalice Bearer: Alice Hughes
Altar Cleanup: Andrea Pogue
Zoom Link Meeting ID: 854 8811 5724 Passcode: 539098
Coming Up – Sept. 17
About the Season of Creation – Since the 1980’s, the Eastern Orthodox Church has designated this time each year to delve more deeply into our relationships with God and with one another in the context of the magnificent creation in which we live. The Catholic Church and Church of England also recognize this season. Various churches across the United States also celebrate the Season of Creation.
The central focus of the month is on God – God as Creator. In his letter to the Romans, right up front, Paul makes this statement. “Ever since the creation of the world, God’s eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things that God has made.” We know a lot about God simply by paying attention to God’s creation. And Jesus, who came that we might have life, and might have it more abundantly, used his own attention to and love of the natural world in his teachings and parables, to help the people around him find the abundant life that can become ours through him. To be with Jesus through scripture and through the bread and wine is also to see and to know God the Creator of heaven and earth.
The goal in worship then is to deepen our understanding of God as Creator, to celebrate God’s role as Creator, and to examine and deepen and widen our own relationships with God, creation, and with one another. In particular we need to work to recover the original splendor of the earth.
An example – Look around your neighborhood where the human influence has been positive and negative on nature. Celebrate the former and do something about the latter.
“Jesus was intimately involved with the natural world. When he spoke of God and God’s Kingdom, he almost always pointed to the natural world: seeds, the harvest, the clouds, vines, weeds, sheep, fire, water, lilies, bread, wine. Walk out into God’s wonderful creation – and be touched by the very hand of God.”
–Br. Geoffrey Tristram, SSJE
Pentecost 15, Sept. 10, 2023
Bulletin
Lectionary for Pentecost 15
Lectionary commentary
Visual Lectionary
Holy Cross day
Focus on the Season of Creation, Week 2
The Season of Creation, 2023
Connecting to The Season of Creation, 2023
Keys to the Season of Creation, 2023
Season of Creation, Climate Change challenges
Climate Change – some improvements
Focus on 5 areas of the Environment in the Season of Creation
Mission and Outreach
Donations for Maui
Andrea Pogue reported on St. Peter’s 2023 Jamaican mission trip Sept. 3, 2023 during church. This was our second mission trip after 2021 with the next trip planned for 2025. Thanks to Andrea and the entire mission team for a job well done serving 300 students with school supplies and prizes.
Jamaican mission setup, Aug. 24, 2023
Jamaican mission school distribution, Aug. 26, 2023
Village Harvest
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This is the first Sunday of the Season of Creation. Spend 15 minutes picking up trash in your neighborhood to help restore the environment.
Achievement in Jamaica Sun Aug. 27, 2023
Creation
“Jesus was intimately involved with the natural world. When he spoke of God and God’s Kingdom, he almost always pointed to the natural world: seeds, the harvest, the clouds, vines, weeds, sheep, fire, water, lilies, bread, wine. Walk out into God’s wonderful creation – and be touched by the very hand of God.”
–Br. Geoffrey Tristram, SSJE
Service notes The Season of Creation uses the typical Pentecost service. There were at least 6 key changes from Week 1 This page covers most of them.
Pentecost 14, Sept. 3, 2023
Lectionary for Pentecost 14
Lectionary commentary
Visual Lectionary
Burning Coals – Epistle
Focus on the Season of Creation, Week 1
The Season of Creation, 2023
Connecting to The Season of Creation, 2023
Spiritual Reflections on Nature and Humankind
Keys to the Season of Creation, 2023
Season of Creation, Climate Change challenges
Climate Change – some improvements
Focus on 5 areas of the Environment in the Season of Creation
Season of Creation-the Earth
Season of Creation 2023 – the Earth and its Threats
Mission and Outreach
Donations for Maui
Andrea Pogue reported on St. Peter’s 2023 Jamaican mission trip Sept. 3, 2023 during church. This was our second mission trip after 2021 with the next trip planned for 2025. Thanks to Andrea and the entire mission team for a job well done serving 300 students with school supplies and prizes.
This week is all about identity, who are are as Christians and people of St. Peter’s. In the lectionary, Peter is called upon to give testimory about Jesus and who he is. This time he gets it right!
Good luck to the Jamaican Mission Team on Sun Aug. 20, 2023
“Reading Lectionary for Aug 13, Thirtenth Sunday after Pentecost
Reading Lectionary for Sept 3, Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Season of Creation I