ST. PETER’S KEY

MONTHLY CALENDAR APRIL 3 – Lent Prayer, Study & Supper 6PM

4 - Prayer Group 7AM

6 - Youth Group 6:30 to 9PM

7 – 5th Sunday Lent

10 - Prayer & Praise Gathering 6:30PM

11 – Prayer Group 7AM

12 – Men’s & Women’s Luncheons

13 – Make Palm Crosses 10:00AM

13 - Youth Group 6:30 to 9PM

14 – Palm Sunday

15 – Morning Prayer 9:00AM

16 – Morning Prayer 9:00AM

17 – Morning Prayer 9:00AM

17 – Lent, Prayer, Study & Supper 6PM

18 - Prayer Group 7AM

18 – Maundy Thursday 6:00PM

19 – Good Friday 12Noon & 6:00pm

20 – Holy Saturday 9:00AM

20 – Easter Vigil 7:00PM

20 – Youth Group 6:30 to 9:00PM

21 – EASTER SUNDAY

25 - Prayer Group 7AM

27 – Youth Group 6:30 to 9PM

28 – 2ND Sunday in Easter

INTERNATIONAL DIOCESE/ ACNA

Saint Peter’s Anglican Church April 2019 Serving Our Lord in Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor and Greeley - Colorado

JOIN IN! IT’S PARTY TIME!

Easter Day – Wow! It is only the beginning! This

tremendous fifty-day feast gets starts on Easter Sunday. In

our Christian Church Year, this is actually a wonderful

fifty-days of joyful feasting; and Easter is, of course, the

high point of our Church Year! So, it makes wonderful

sense is that we would enjoy a party for such a long period

of time. Looking at the Gospel, isn’t the main point to

prepare us for eternity and for the celebration of this

wonderful feast?

We find preparation in our Lenten fast - not including

Sundays - that lasts forty days. Easter, in turn is fifty days.

Fasting soon goes away and now the “Great Feast of the

Lamb” will take its place for, as the Hebrews would say, “ages of ages”. And this can be interpreted as eternity!

So, let us now let this wonderful party begin!

SHROVE TUESDAY KITCHEN CREW MINUS JOHN, AND EAGER PANCAKE AFICIONADOS AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF THE PANCAKES!

NEW THINGS AT CHURCH: SANCTUARY BANNER, MAIN ISLE RUG AND AED! CLIVE ANSEL MOORE BORN 3/18/19

HOSPITALITY IS ALWAYS A CHRISTIAN ACT AND OUR SAINT PETER’S COMMUNITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN TO TREAT OUR

VISITORS WITH KINDNESS & RERESHMENT AND TO CELEBRATE SPECIAL DAYS. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR SUPPLYING SNACKS!

DOES EASTER HAVE A SPECIAL GREETING? SURELY IT MUST! AT CHRISTMAS WE ADDRESS PEOPLE WITH A HEARTY MERRY CHRISTMAS! AT

EASTER WE HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SIMPLY SAY HAPPY EASTER, BUT WHAT WE SHOULD REALLY USE IS

THE “PASCHAL GREETING”, OR SOME WOULD CALL IT THE “EASTER ACCLAMATION” OF, ALLELUIA

CHRIST IS RISEN INDEED! THIS SHOULD RETURNED WITH THE JOYFUL RESPONSE OF THE LORD IS RISEN

INDEED, ALLLELUIA!

Warm greetings in the great name of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. I trust

that you are keeping on keeping on, living in the wonder of the salvation that

our savior won for us on the cross. We are now in the season of Lent, preparing

ourselves for the celebration of the memorial of our redemption. We do this in

every Eucharistic celebration, but the day of Easter is the climax of all Christian

celebration of our salvation.

For this month of April, I wish to encourage every member to consider crafting

a rule of life for oneself, as we are learning in the Adult Sunday School class at

church. By the way, although it is called a “rule,” please don’t think of it as a list

of prohibitions of don’t do this, don’t do that. A rule of life is a signpost, a

framework for growth. It guides what one chooses to do as one seeks to stay in

close relationship with the Lord. Living under a rule of life inclines the heart

toward God and helps a person keep faith alive in the bustle and hassle of life.

The rule of life is a commitment to live life in a particular way. It is a way of walking the ancient paths following

rhythms and practices that move us closer to God.

Spiritual fathers and mothers of old gave the church spiritual disciplines which, when practiced routinely,

slowly but surely incline an individual’s life in a certain direction. Those fathers and mothers divided the

disciplines into three categories:

1. Inward disciplines—prayer, meditation, fasting, and study. These are aimed at offering avenues of

personal examination and change.

2. Outward disciplines—simplicity, solitude, submission, and serving. These form our inner selves and mold

us to serve the world to make it a better place.

3. Corporate disciplines—confession, worship, guidance, celebration, remembrance, commitment,

reconciliation, presence, witnessing. These serve to bring us nearer to God and to one another.

How to get started:

• Pray and listen to God and become aware of who you are and the special expression of Christ that you

are and how you can live that out in your family, in your church, and in the world.

• Incorporate silence and tranquility into your life and avoid haste.

• Exercise caution towards use of technology. In the digital age one can spend disproportionate amounts

of time on the cell phone, TV, iPad, and other electronic gadgets. Approach these with intentionality to

put them to good use but not to become an addiction that robs you of time and attention to do more

important things.

• Fellowship—find other men and women who have the same resolve of heart you have to follow Christ,

people who refuse to swallow wholesale the proposals of the culture around you.

• Leave time, from time to time, for you to STOP, to GAZE and to WONDER. Do this regularly, whether

daily, or weekly, or monthly.

Examples of rules of life:

During his time as a seminary student, Pope John Paul XXIII had the following elements in his rule of life:

• When rising: spend 15 minutes of silent prayer and 15 minutes of spiritual reading.

• Before sleeping: a general examination of conscience followed by confession; then identifying issues

for the next morning’s prayers. • Arrange the hours of the day to make the rule possible, setting aside specific time for prayer, study,

recreation, and sleep (balance)

• Making a habit of turning the mind to God in prayer.

Martin Luther King Jr created a rule to steer the non-violent protests of the civil rights movement. Here’s a sample of the ideas he included:

• Meditate daily on the teachings and life of Jesus

• Remember always the non-violent movement in Birmingham seeks justice and reconciliation, not

victory.

• Walk and talk in the manner of love, for God is love.

• Pray daily to be used by God in order that all might be free.

• Observe with friend and foe the ordinary rule of courtesy.

• Seek to perform regular service for others and the world.

• Refrain from violence of fist, tongue, or heart.

• Sacrifice personal wishes that all might be free.

• Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health.

Now your turn to write your own rule

It is now time for you to write your own rule of life. Take time and think of the kind of person you are and

whom you want to become. Then think of the kind of things or practices you can incorporate in your life to walk

you towards the person you want to evolve into. Let me dare advise that whatever practices you choose, prayer

should be one of them. Pray daily. During prayer, you can even just sit before the Lord in thanksgiving for your

life. Pray for God’s kingdom to come in you, your family, your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, your

country, and in the world.

And remember your rule is a living document. You can change it and modify it, add to it or delete from it, any

time in any way. The idea is to give yourself handles to guide your life towards a certain direction of your choice,

so that you don’t live a free, unregulated, unguided, uncontrolled life.

Friends, let us return to the ancient paths of our faith that our spiritual ancestors walked in. These practices

helped them then to walk faithfully with God in times that were morally chaotic. The same practices will help

us remain faithful to God in our day in which secular culture is becoming increasingly hostile towards

Christianity. Happy month of April.

THE REVEREND EDWARD KIRONDE, RECTOR

. . . BONNIE AND JERRY, FOR THE NEW MAIN

AISLE RUG IN THE SANCTUARY!

. . . JENIFER, FOR THE GREAT WORK IN DESIGNING

THE HOLY WEEK POSTCARD!

LET THE CHURCH BORROW YOUR

EASTER LILLIES FOR THE 10:00AM

SERVICE ON EASTER SUNDAY,

APRIL 21ST! PLEASE BRING THEM

TO THE CHURCH ON SATURDAY

BETWEEN 9:00AM AND 12 NOON

AND TAKE THEM HOME AFTER

THE EASTER SERVICE!

DON’T FORGET YOUR

FLOWERS FOR

PLACEMENT

ON OUR

TRADITIONAL

EASTER

FLOWER

CROSS!

There are nearly as many churches in

Las Vegas, Nevada, as there are casinos.

It is not unusual to find a casino chip

placed in the Sunday offering plates. The

Churches send the chips to a nearby

Monastery where monks sort them, take

them back to the casinos and get cash in

return. The brothers who do this task are

referred to as chip monks.

An Egg Hunt will be held following

the service on Easter Sunday! All

children are welcome to join in the

fun! The Egg Hunt will be run by

members of our new Teen Youth

Group.

Join us on Saturday

morning, April 13th, at

10:00AM, to make Palm

Crosses for the next day’s Palm Sunday!

It is a tradition at St Peter’s Anglican Church to have a very special “Easter Sunday Flower Cross”. The cross

is a wire formed structure where fresh cut flowers are placed in the wire openings to create a multi-colored

cross for the Resurrection of Christ that is beauty beyond compare. Pictured above are several of the crosses

from previous Easters; and, as can be seen, no two crosses have ever been alike.

Easter morning parishioners usually begin arriving early for the service and they bring freshly cut flowers for

the cross. The wire frame cross is placed in the narthex of the church so parishioners can place their flowers

with care. At the beginning of the service the cross is then carried forward to the altar area where it remains

throughout the service.

Sunday morning, April 21st, don’t forget to bring your flowers!

The Holy Week schedule for 2019 is one of prayer, penance and spiritual dedication to our Lord. Beginning

with Palm Sunday, you will find the week’s schedule shown below:

Sunday – April 14 – PALM SUNDAY at 10:00AM

Monday – April 15 – Morning Prayer at 9:00AM

Tuesday – April 16 – Morning Prayer at 9:00AM

Wednesday – April 17 – Morning Prayer at 9:00AM

Wednesday – April 17 – Lenten Soup, Bread & Study at 6:00PM

Thursday – April 18 – Prayer Group at 7:00AM at

Thursday – April 18 – Maundy Thursday Washing of Feet, 6:00PM

Friday – April 19 – GOOD FRIDAY Services at Noon & 6:00PM

Saturday – April 20 – Holy Saturday Service at 9AM & Vigil at7PM

Sunday – April 21 – EASTER SUNDAY at 10:00AM

BEFORE THE STATIONS

O merciful Saviour, grant that while we follow Thy blessed footsteps along

this Way of Sorrow, our hearts may be so touched with true contrition

that Thou mayest turn our weeping into gladness by giving us remission of

all our sins. Amen.

It Is Faith Day at the Colorado Rockies and the date is Sunday, August

18th, with a 1:10PM game start as they take on Miami! This year there

will be a musical guest and she will be GRAMMY-nominated singer and

songwriter, Kari Jobe!

This is the 15th year that the Colorado Rockies have provided this great

day of fun with faith organizations from the Rocky Mountains joining in.

The last time St Peter’s Anglican Church participated in this exciting baseball event was in 2016. On that day the church had its name placed

on the Coors Field Scoreboard in big letters! Looks like it is time to get

our baseball gear ready again as the Rockies are offering group discount tickets when we have 20 or more

participants.

Ticket prices will range from $15.00 to $66.00 per seat, and the entire group will sit together. Of course, the

higher the price per seat the better the seat. Do you have any interest in participating? If yes, indicate your

interest on the Rockies poster at church and indicate how much maximum you are willing to pay for a seat. If

we have twenty of more parishioners interested in attending this game we will go ahead and make a church

reservation. There is no deadline, but as you can imagine, seating will fill-up!

THE KIRK’IN OF THE TARTAN (TARTAN SUNDAY) HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL SUNDAY, MAY 5TH!

If you are not able to serve on the assigned date, please find a replacement and let Mary

Ann Llewellyn know (970-674-1254) by Wednesday of the assigned week.

Date

Proper

April 7

5th Lent

April 14

Palm Sunday

April 21

EASTER

April 28

2nd Easter

Celebrant

Preacher

Rev. Edward

Kironde

Rev. Edward

Kironde

Rev. Edward

Kironde

Rev. Edward

Kironde

O.T.

Reader

Isaiah 43:16-21

Jerry Webb

Isaiah 52:13-

53:12

Pat Frysinger

Acts 10:34-43

Steve Keyser

Job 42:1-6

Terry Dunn

Psalm

Psalmist

Ps 126

Johnny Moore

Ps 22:1-21

Mary Anne Paul

Ps 118:14-24

Leslie Erickson

Ps 111

Seth Forwood

N.T.

Reader

Philippians

3:7-16

Kathy Porter

Phil 2:5-11

Gary Eifert

Col 3:1-4

Henry Erickson

Rev 1:1-11

Andrea Smith

Luke 20:9-19 Passion Booklets

Luke 24:13-35 John 20:19-31

LEMS Mark Maeda

Scott Erickson

Andrea Smith

Russ Thye

Scott Erickson

Doug Edmiston

Kathy Porter

Harry Taylor

Intercessor Pat Okland Paul Jacobson Johnny Moore Ann Jacobson

Sr. Acolyte

Crucifer

Theo Maeda

Nea Thye

Anthony James

Mikel

Zimmerman

Mercedes Maeda

Abby Erickson

Micah Smith

Anika Grey

Ushers Marcia &

Bruce Harris

Denny & Mary

Ann Llewellyn

Ron & Lynda

Stoops

Mikel & Monica

Zimmerman

Greeter Scott Erickson Jerry Webb Terry Dunn Denny Llewellyn

Altar Flowers

Palms Easter Lillies Easter Lillies

Prayer Team Paul & Ann

Jacobson

Paul & Ann

Jacobson

Snacks Planks Easter

THANK YOU, EVERYONE.

April 14th

April 18th

PLEASE PUT

THIS ON YOUR

CALENDAR FOR

SATURDAY,

MAY 11TH!

JOIN IN SATURDAY, MAY

11TH, FOR A MORNING OF

SERVICE. IF WE ALL

SHOW UP TO DO THE

WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE

DONE WITH SPRING

CLEAN-UP, IT WILL NOT

REALLY BE WORK!

St. Peter’s Anglican Church Calendar: APRIL 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Rector’s Day Off

2

3 Lent Soup &

Study

6:00PM

Mary Ann

Llewellyn &

Jack Kenyon

4 7AM Prayer &

Study Group

6:30PM

Kelly’s Prayer &

Praise

Lynda &

Ron Stoops

5

6 Youth

Group

6:30PM

7 5th Sunday

in Lent 9:00 AM

Sunday Schools

10:00 AM

Holy Eucharist

8 Rector’s Day Off

Stacey

Horlings &

Ben Bragaw

9

Mark

Maeda

10Lent Soup

& Study 6PM

Isaac

Lockwood

Kathleen &

Doug Edmiston

11 7AM Prayer &

Study Group

12

Men’s & Women’s

Luncheons

Mary Ann &

Sam Plank

13 Make Palm

Crosses

10AM

Youth

Group

6:30PM

14 Palm Sunday 9:00 AM

Sunday Schools

10:00 AM

Holy Eucharist

15 Rector’s Day Off

Morning

Prayer

9AM

16

Morning

Prayer 9AM

Brooke Forwood

17Morning

Prayer 9AM Lent Soup &

Study

6:00PM

Cathy

Hutchinson

18 7AM Prayer &

Study Group

Maundy

Thursday

6PM

19 GOOD FRIDAY

Noon & 6PM

20 Holy

Saturday

9AM

Easter Vigil

7PM

21 EASTER

SUNDAY 9:00 AM

Sunday Schools

10:00 AM

Holy Eucharist

22 Rector’s Day Off

23

ST GEORGE

24

25 7AM Prayer &

Study Group

26

27 Youth

Group

6:30PM

28 2nd Sunday

in Easter 9:00 AM

Sunday Schools

10:00 AM

Holy Eucharist

29

ST MARK

Rector’s Day Off

30

ST

CATHERINE

Wedding

Anniversary

Birthday

Saint Peter’s Anglican Church Head of the Church: Jesus Christ A Biblically-Based Anglican Community The Most Reverend Foley Beach, Archbishop

Sunday Services at 10:00AM Anglican Church in North America

Sunday Christian Education at 9:00AM The Right Reverend William Atwood, Bishop,

Sr. Warden, Dr. Terrence Dunn, Telephone: 461-0436 International Diocese

Jr. Warden, Mr. Dennis Llewellyn, Telephone: 674-1254 The Reverend Edward Kironde, Rector

The Reverend Larry Doyle, Deacon

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