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Portland Guitar Duo, in Concert

They will be performing music written for two guitars at St. Peter’s, Friday, April 19 at 7pm as part of our annual concert series. (Reception 6:15pm in the Parish House.)

The Portland Guitar Duo are James Manuele and Foti Lycouridis and have been playing together since 1999. Their repertoire is broad and covers the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century periods. They specialize in guitar music written for two guitars and in recent years have added other string instruments.

1. Notebook size poster. These are the ones we hand out to businesses or anyone who wants to post an advertisement.

Link to print the page

2. Label (card). We hand these out to people – place it in their hands. 4 on a sheet.

Link to print the card

Past Concerts at St. Peter’s:

Past Concerts at St. Peter’s:

The recent concert series began in 2013 as a way of inviting people into St Peter’s and to the town of Port Royal and to provide additional inreach for our own congregation. Our church with its excellent acoustics are attractive to both performers and audience. We have enjoyed vocal ensembles, guitarists and other string instruments. Past concerts have included:

Sunday Links – Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 10

Coming up!

Lenten Page

Quick link to Feb, 2024 Lent Calendar
Quick link to March, 2024 Lent Calendar

Recent Articles, Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 10

Sermon
Videos
Photos, Sunday service
Spring flowers at Church, March 10
Photos, Spring is here 1st week in March
Bulletin
God’s Garden, 10:00-11am
Lectionary, 11am service
Commentary Fourth Sunday in Lent
Visual Lectionary – Vanderbilt
Lent 4 – Mothering Sunday
10 Ways of Understanding the Cross
Thoughts on John 3:16 – God’s Offensive Love
Old Testament – Lifted Up
SALT blog for March 10

Lent began Feb. 14 (Ash Wednesday)
Lent at St. Peter’s
Lent Basics
3 key points about Ash Wed
Ash Wed. 2024, 7pm service

More spring photos at St. Peter’s

Holy Week Workshop, Palm Sunday, March 24, 2:30pm

Enjoy a time of fellowship and creativity as we turn our thoughts toward Holy Week. Resurrection Eggs, especially for the children, and a Calvary Hill Plant craft especially for adults are just two of the activities being offered! And there’s even an outreach opportunity for all ages making and bagging Easter Story Snack Mix which will be shared with our friends at the next food distribution.

Donations needed
egg cartons (12 egg size), terra cotta 2 1/2″ pots, and 6″ terra cotta drip trays (used is fine), and any leftover potting soil you might like to share. Place items on the back pew. Thank you!

Jan explains the workshop:

God’s Garden, March 10, 2024

1. God’s Garden March 10, Jesus review

2. God’s Garden March 10, Palm Sunday

Sermon, Rev. Tom Hughes, March 10

Sermon is transcribed from the video.

Good morning  everybody. I want to start out by underlining some  things. if you turn back to the Gospel reading that we just  had – “for God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but have eternal life.”

That’s really the bottom  line, that really is the fullness of the word of God to us because it lays out for us God’s purposes God’s love and God’s plan for eternity.

It’s all right there so if you really have that in your heart, if you really know that at that deepest place within you,  it’s like it’s like holding the Holy Grail in your hand. Now the idea of the Holy Grail is a fascinating one because it of course refers to the chalice from which Jesus drank and they shared at that first celebration at Passover that we now call our communion, our Eucharist, our Mass. It’s been the object of search for a long time.

In Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb, Jesus was buried after the crucifixion. Joseph caught a ship for the farthest point of the British Empire which was at that time Britannia,  and he took with him everything he could find that pertained to the life and the  death Jesus. One of those things was the chalice and that’s how it got to England. But where, of course, we don’t know, and I imagine we’ll never find it.

It doesn’t matter because the Chalice itself is really not the point anymore just like the temple on the hill on the holy mount in Jerusalem is not the point anymore. The point now of course is Jesus Christ who is the temple and who bears in him the life, the wine, the bread all of the things that matter in an eternal sense, he now bears and brings to  us. So there’s been a great transformation in the understanding  of those things.

Videos, March 10

01 Opening Hymn- “Come, thou fount of every blessing”

04 Gospel

05 Sermon

More videos…