WEEKLY RECTOR’S MESSAGE – May 10th – Fr. Thomas

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A job description was posted with the following requirements:

  1. This is a permanent job.
  2. The successful applicant must be prepared to work hard.
  3. The workplace is often a challenging and chaotic environment.
  4. Applicants must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends
  5. Extensive chauffeuring duties also required, but your travel expenses will not usually be reimbursed.
  6. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly.
  7. Must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be willing to carry multiple packages and pieces of equipment at the same time.
  8. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars, and coordinate production of multiple homework projects.
  9. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.
  10. Must be able to assembly and carry out safety testing of hundreds of toys and battery operated devices.
  11. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product.
  12. Limited Promotion Prospects: Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills,
  13. Wages and Bonuses: None; job satisfaction is what you hopefully receive.
  14. Benefits: no paid holidays and no bonuses are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for free hugs for life if you play your cards right.
  15. Tenure: Forever.

Happy Mother’s Day.

Loving God, we thank you for the love of the mothers you have given us, whose love is so precious that it can never be measured, whose patience seems to have no end. May we see your loving hand behind them and guiding them. We pray for those mothers who fear they will run out of love or time, or patience. We ask you to bless them with your own special love. Invoking the intercession of Our Lord’s own mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, we ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord. Amen.

NOTICES for this week:

By Order of the Bishop – “The Episcopal Church has suspended all in-person services, gatherings, and meetings until the end of May.”

  • View – Sunday mass– a videos posted are be found on the church’s website, Facebook via our YouTube channel. Do not forget to subscribe free so that we will in the future be able to retain our site.
  • Camp Wingmann – St. David’s Men’s Organization continues to financially support those of our youth who are interested in attending summer Christian camp in Avon Park at Camp Wingmann. Please notify Mike Riddle (email tdmr007@gmail.com) of your intent to participate either in the virtual summer camp during June or the onsite camp experience in July.
  • Urgent Message– Please continue to pray for an end to the COVID-19 virus and its victims and thank you for your continued financial support (check, automated bank transfers or electronic donations via https://www.myeoffering.com  to the life and witness our congregation in this community. For safety and security issue, please do not leave any checks in the communication mailbox attached to the parish building at the front door. For your daily devotional readying the May/June/July copies of Forward Day by Day are available there as well.
  • In case of a pastoral emergency, you can leave a message on our voice mail, and we will respond as quickly as possible.
  • Please Pray – For the sick: Caswell, Richard, Barbara, Carole, Patti, Sandy, Kim, Joe, Steve, Bob, Linda, Francine, Timone, Donna, Ashlyn, Robin. For birthday celebrations: Helena Bresnahan, Joey McFarland, Michel Guillaume, Megan Muir, Jackie Algood, George Pinnock, Chris LaBorde. For those celebrating a wedding anniversary: John & Jackie Algood. For our expectant mothers: Dani and Andrea.

Most loving Father, whose will it is for us to give thanks for all things, to fear nothing but the loss of you, and to cast all our care on you who care for us: Preserve us from faithless fears and worldly anxieties, that no clouds of this mortal life may hide from us the light of that love which is immortal, and which you have manifested to us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. (The Collect for the Eighth Sunday after the Epiphany)