March 2016 St. Mark's News

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March 2016

St. Mark’s News Volume 20/Issue 3

From the Rector During this month of March we will make our way from the wilderness of Lent to Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, to the Last Supper, to his arrest and Passion, to his crucifixion, and then on the last Sunday of the month to his glorious resurrection. We are invited to walk the Way of the Cross, before we stand with the women at that empty tomb on the day of Resurrection. As we anticipate that day of Resurrection I want to share John Updike’s poem, Seven Stanzas at Easter: Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle the Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, each soft Spring recurrent; it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled eyes of the eleven apostles; it was as His flesh: ours. The same hinged thumbs and toes, the same valved heart that—pierced—died, withered, paused, and then regathered out of enduring Might new strength to enclose. Let us not mock God with metaphor, analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of earlier ages: let us walk through the door.

In this Issue From the Rector ........................ 1 Vestry Highlights ....................... 2 Holy Week & Easter Schedule .. 4 Outreach.................................... 5 Parish Life ................................. 5 Mission Trip to Costa Rica......... 7 Christian Formation ................... 8 Caffeine Ministry ...................... 11 Parishioner Highlights ............. 10 Celebrations ............................ 11 ROTA ...................................... 12

The stone is rolled back, not papier-mâché, not a stone in a story, but the vast rock of materiality that in the slow grinding of time will eclipse for each of us the wide light of day.

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