Easter 4, April 21, Good Shepherd Sunday
Lector: Jennifer Collins
Chalice Bearer: Johnny Davis
Altar Clean up: Jan Saylor
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, and we respect and honor with gratitude the land itself, the legacy of the ancestors, and the life of the Rappahannock Tribe. Our mission statement is to do God’s Will in all that we do.
Easter 4, April 21, Good Shepherd Sunday
Earth Day, April 22
Earth Day, 2024
St. Peter’s and the Earth
Team Up to clean up event, April 20
Manage your plastics usage
Parish Creation Care committee on Earth Day
Colors of spring
A poem for Earth Day
Flashback to Holy Week and Easter
Best of Holy Week – Photos
Best of Holy Week – Words
Holy Week category
Ministries
St. Peter’s and the Earth
April newsletter
ECW Spring meeting, April 9
Team Up to clean up event, April 20
Breakfast program in Jamaica
What a joy to be here on this day together with these incredible lessons. Honestly there’s so much here you could preach all day but I promise I’ll keep it under an hour.
The right first thing I want to say is when Jesus says there are sheep not of the fold he’s talking about us because we’re not Jews and so the people outside of Judaism are the ones to whom he’s referring there and that of course would be all of us.
We’ve talked about the whole idea of symbols for a couple of weeks now and how important symbols are when you’re referring to things that you can’t explain clearly in a common language and that’s hard to understand and really hard to talk about. That’s why we have symbols. The cross is probably the greatest symbol in all of history. Last week we talk about the road of life and the road being the symbol for the way that that we move through this world.
There are two more beautiful symbols today that I’d like to unpack what Jesus revealed to us as the gate and as the Good Shepherd . The idea of the gate and the shepherd are symbols of Jesus how he explains himself to us, how he relates himself to us.
01 Opening Hymn – “Savior, like a shepherd lead us”
02 Hymn of Praise -“When morning gilds the skies”
03 Readings
The Duo meets with guitarists in the audience after the show
The Portland Guitar Duo are James Manuele and Foti Lycouridis and have been playing together since 1999. This was their second performance at St. Peter’s, the first being almost exactly 8 years years ago in April, 2016.
We had about 30 for the concert. A reception organized by the ECW was held before in the pavilion. After the show, the two guitarists, provided an opportunity for the guitarists in the audience to meet the Duo, ask questions, and play their guitars.
Romantic guitars were used for the concert, smaller than the current classical guitars. The period had standardized on 6 strings in contrast to the baroque guitar of the 18th century with 5 strings.
The Romantic guitars were used in transcriptions of pianos pieces from Chopin, Liszt, and Schubert as well as dipping back to the 18th century for Domenico Cimarosa. Foti does many of the transcriptions for the duo.
1. Photos
2. Video – Introduction and opening number
3. Video – Pan of the Audience
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