THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS POLWATTE

Mission Statement: “A Caring, Forgiving, Supporting, Listening & Participatory parish based on Kingdom Values”

Michaelites News Buzz

OCTOBER 2016

FROM THE VICAR’S PEN

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ,

This month we will hold the Harvest Festival of St. Michaels & All Angels

Church, Polwatte, on Sunday the 23rd October 2016, after a combined service at 8.00 a.m. I am thankful to some of you who have already responded. The Harvest Festival is a very important and significant event in the life of the Church. The background to this event is that in the old testament time people did bring their produce and offered it to God’s work. As the years went by this event became part of the Christian calendar. The significance of this event must be understood in the light of our spirituality.

Whatever produce we have in our gardens and homes we offer this for the welfare of the body of Christ. The Vicar and Wardens decide in what manner the proceeds are used.

The manner in which we organise our stalls brings personalities together to work together and have a closer fellowship with one another.

When we think of the present time I find that many don’t have garden produce, since they are limited to a very small area to live or living in apartments.

Even if we do not have garden produce we do things together because this event is extremely important to bring

our Sinhala, English and Tamil brothers and sisters to work together for the common good of the Church and get them to become closer to each other than ever before.

Therefore I humbly request you all to work together as a team to make this event a great success.

Let me wish you, your families and homes every blessing.

Your friend and Priest,Father Chrisantha

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Please send news items and

inspirational thoughts to be included

in the News Buzz to the parish office

by the 15th of every month. Thank

you!

SAVE THE DATE

23 OCTOBER 2016

8 am Combined Eucharist

Followed by the Sale

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LET US PRAYERFULLY PREPARE FOR OUR SERVICES

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nysk ;=re isf;ys fldamh ;nd fkd.kak. hlaIhdg bv fkdfokak. fidrlï l, wh ;j;a fidrlï fkdflf¾jd. ta fjkqjg ÿ.Skag Wmldr

lsÍug yels jk fia Tjqyq fjfyi uykais ord wjxl jevla flfr;ajd. lsis ¥Is; jpkhla Tnf.a láka msg jkakg kEr wikakkag Y=N isoaO jkfia wjia:dfkdaÑ; ukyr jpk l;d lrkak. Y=oaOd;auhdKkajykafiag ÿla

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uqødj Wkajykafiah. ish`: ffjr fl%daO iy yeu úÈfha fodaI my lr

oukak. tlsfkld flfrys lreKdjo ohdkqlïmdjo we;sj isg foúhkajykafia ls%ia;=iajykafia ;=,ska Tng lud l,dla fuka Tn;a tlsfkldg lud lrkak.

Birthdays : Children

Dulakshi Nikethana Piyumika Rukshani

Kimaya Michelle Maria Selladorai

Emesha Balasubramanium Rhayaka Alles

Neresh Ranjithkumar Tharindu Kumara Siriwardena

Shamara Gomez Abisha Kishi

Reyan Sivaraja A Yawin

Notices :

Parentsw e need your support for the Harvest Festival which will be held on 23rd October 2016

Tlaf;dan¾ ui 23jk Èk meje;afjk Njfnda. ux.,Hhg foudmshkaf.a iyfhda.h n,dfmdfrd;a;= fjuq

Sunday School Superintendet

SUNDAY SCHOOL

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SUNDAY SCHOOL

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MOTHERS UNION - ARCHBISHOP JUSTIN WELBY Congratulations on your 140th anniversary, Mothers' Union!My wife Caroline and I know from travelling across the Anglican Communion that the Mothers’ Union exists in the vision of Mary Sumner to bring God’s rich provision and blessing to many families and individuals with hope, help and a future.You are present in so many places: homes, cities, hills and villages, where people are lonely, lost, empty or suffering. I praise God for the ways in which you provide support to families, build strength and transform lives in Jesus’ name.Your extraordinary organisation is a community deeply embedded across the world, which listens so effectively to the cries of the poor and the needy. Through you the world glimpses a vision of the light, glory and hope of Jesus Christ - of the beatitudes made real.As you look to Christ and His vision for your future, I pray:---Life-giving God, on its 140th anniversary, We give you thanks for the Mothers’ Union, For its dedication and faithful witness to Jesus Christ across the world. We praise you for its compassion, care and acts of justice for families and communities. Bless all its members in your mission to the world, Strengthen hearts, hands and voices in the years to come, As they continue to nurture, defend and deliver your children. Through their service bring great glory to Jesus and make known your kingdom. We ask this in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

QUIZ: SOWING AND REAPING

1.) When God gave instructions about the jubilee year, He told Israel that they were not to sow during that year and that they were not to reap from unpruned vines. How often was the jubilee year?

• Every 5 years.• Every 10 years.• Every 20 years.• Every 50 years.

2.) 2 Kings 19:29 says, And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof. What was it a sign of?

• God was going to lengthen the life of King Hezekiah.

• God was going to starve the unbelievers to death.

• God was going to put a hook in their jaw and a bridle in their mouth and turn them back on the way by which they came.

• God was going to do a mighty miracle and turn the desert into a garden like Eden.

3.) In his complaint to God, Job said, I have observed that they that plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap...

• God's unfailing mercy.• the wrath of God.• sparingly.• the same.

4.) The psalmist wrote, "Those who sow in tears, shall reap..."

• in tears.• in joy.• mercy.• destruction.

5.) The writer of Ecclesiastes wrote, "He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth _____ shall not reap."

• the storm• the rain• the clouds• the sun

6.) The prophet Hosea wrote, "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap _____, break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you."

• in mercy• in faithfulness• in righteousness• an inheritance

7.) In Micah chapter 6, God was speaking to Israel. What did He tell them would happen to them because of their sins.

• They would be made sick.• They would be hungry, and

would not be able to store up any food.

• They would sow but not reap, of both olives and grapes.

• All of the above.

8.) How often did God command that the Israelites should let the land rest?

• Every second year.• Every seventh year.• Every tenth year.• Every fiftieth year.

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REFLECTIONS

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St.Michael`s Festival Evensong was held on 28th September 2016 at 6 pm.There was only 28 people in the congregation some of whom were outsiders.What happened to the rest of our congregation? It is true that we all have family commitments.But we were given adequate notice and that this comes once a year and we could all have made an effort.Have we become Sunday Christians only? The church was virtually empty and I feel sorry for Dr.Lalith and the choir which had taken a lot of trouble to present a good programme of music. Next time we need to have a traditional evensong where the whole congregation could fully participate. May God Bless St.Michael`s and all its people. IP.

PRAYER

NEWS FROM THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION

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Pope Francis and Archbishop Justin pray for unity - Posted on: Oct 6, 2016 2:24 PM

[ACNS, by Gavin Drake] Pope Francis has this morning (Thursday) held a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Anglican Primates and bishops at the Vatican. The Pope told them that ecumenism was “never an impoverishment, but a richness” and he said that during the past 50-years of closer relationship between Anglicans and Catholics, “the certainty has deepened that what the Spirit has sown in the other yields a common harvest.”

And he urged them: “Let us never grow tired of asking the Lord together and insistently for the gift of unity.”

Addressing the Anglican leaders as “dear brothers and sisters in Christ”, he described the gathering as “a beautiful sign of fraternity”.

And he described the historic meeting 50 years ago between Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey – the first public meeting between a Pope and an Archbishop of Canterbury since the Reformation – as producing “many fruits.”

“We need think only of the opening of the Anglican Centre in Rome, the appointment of the Archbishop’s permanent representative to the Holy See, and the start of our theological dialogue, [Arcic],” he said. “In sharing together these fruits, we remember that they come from a tree which has its roots in that meeting of fifty years ago.”

He said: “There is a time for everything, and now is the time in which the Lord challenges us, in a particular way, to go out from ourselves and our own environs, in order to bring his merciful love to a world thirsting for peace.

“Let us help one another to keep at the centre the demands of the Gospel and to spend ourselves concretely in this mission.”

In response, Archbishop Justin Welby thanked Pope Francis for his leadership and example to the world and the Anglican Communion, and said that his letters and encyclicals “have spoken far beyond Rome and her church, in a manner which is universal.”

After listing a range of serious issues facing the world, including war, migration, climate change and religiously motivated violence, Archbishop Welby said: “Facing all these perils, and a million more, is the body of Christ, the church, against which, as was promised to St Peter, the gates of hell shall not prevail.

“We have much cause for concern, but none for fear, for we are embraced by Christ, our Good Shepherd. In fact, we are filled with joy and hope, through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit who is given to us.

“Yet in our disunity we grieve the Spirit of God, and we damage every aspect of our lives in Christ. Our witness is damaged, for we are not seen as one, and thus the world is less able to see that Jesus comes from the Father. Our fellowship is impaired, for we cannot share in the Eucharist. Our delight in Christ is overshadowed by our grief at divisions within his family.”

And he said: “Your Holiness, I ask that, as we have seen in these two days, despite those things that divide, we may be publicly determined to press forward where we may, together with all other Christians, especially those of the Orthodox world and the east.

“Jesus has gone before us. He calls us to be courageous. Let us walk closer together so the world sees new life and energy in the Church’s worship, mission and witness. Above all so the world sees Christ shining ever more brightly.”

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at once to sustain life for a week to come.  We must draw upon God’s boundless stores for grace from day to day, as we need it.

Dwight L. MoodySent by Chrishanthie

Quiet Time

“Where can I find joy, Lord?Does joy have an address?Is it heaven?Can I go there?”

“Only if you come with Me, child. For I am joy’s address. Let’s walk. You’ll find Me all along the way.”

Through the world’s mountingproblems,pain and perversityGod speaks again to His people,‘No matter what happensKeep the faith.

Keep watching and waiting.Keep your eyes on Me.

Keep telling My truth. Keep living My love.

Keep remembering thatbefore the foundation of the WorldI already spoke the Final Word. His name is Jesus.’He is coming againwith shouts of victory!

Sent by Dhakshini

If you see the creation ... You see

the beauty and power of God

and 

If you see the mirror... You see the best creation of God

We all are tourists and God is our travel agent who has already fixed

all our Routes, Reservations and

Destinations based on our personal choices.

So Trust Him and Enjoy the "Trip" called

LIFE.

For I know the plans I have for

you,” declares the Lord, “plans to

prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a

future. Jer. 29:11

Sent by Nicola

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The Church of St. Michael & All Angels138, St. Michaels Road, Polwatte, Colombo 3

Tel: +94 11 2343471 email: polwattemichael@gmail.com Parish Secretary: Ms. Malathi Fernando;

Maintenance Manager and Security: Mr. Hemal SilvaSocial Worker: Erandika Chathurani