HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2004-03-25, Page 19St. Michael's
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254 Drummond St. E., Blyth
Saturday Night Mass
at 7:00 pm
Father John Johnson, Pastor
357-2435
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Sunday Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Sunday Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
Celebrating 150 years of Christian Witness and Service!
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL •gr
MISSIONARY CHURCH
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,ffise Auburn - 526-1131
PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-4941
Sunday 9:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
7:30 p.m.
Monday 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Family Bible Hour
Morning Worship Service
Evening Worship Service
- Sports Night
- Crusaders - JK to Grade 6
- Youth
- Adult Bible Study
Brussels Mennonite
Fellowship
Worship Service 9:30 a.m.
Coffee Break 10:45 a.m.
Sunday School 11:00 a.m.
Ettewatte Weeeente
Pastor Brent Kipfer 887-6388
Jesus said, "I have set you
an example..."
- John 13:15
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sunday, March 28
Worship Service & Sunday School - 11:00 am
Lent V
Guest soloist - Barbara Dunn-Prosser
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Minister: Rev. Dr. Eugen Bannerman
Office: 523-4224
Blyth United Church is a welcoming community of faith.
We celebrate God's presence through worship and study, and through
responding to the needs and gifts of each other
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EBC Drama "The Gospel According to Jessica"
Thurs., Apr..8, 7:30 pm Huron Chapel
EMC, Auburn
10:30 a.m. - Contemporary Worship
Sunday School during Sermon
at Blyth Public School,
corner of King & Mill
Pastor: Ernest Dow - 523-4848
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Sunday: 9:45-10:30
11:00 - 12:00
Wednesday: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Friday: 7:30 pm •
- Communion
- Family Bible Hour and Sunday School
- Youth (ages 12.& up)
- Home Bible Studies
John 14:6 - Jesus said, am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE, no
one comes to the Father, but through Me."
Call Pastor Andrew at 887-6123
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
March 28
Ethel United Church
9:3D a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Everyone is welcome to come join us in our Lenten journey
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
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MARCH 28
HOLY EUCHARIST
FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
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Trinity, Blyth St. John's, Brussels
9:30 a.m. 11:15 a.m.
The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273
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Sunday, March 28
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Pastor John Kuperus
Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
April Fool's Lasagne
Dinner
Thursday, April 1, 2004
Blyth Community Centre (Arena)
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Continuous seating
Tickets:
Children under 6 .... Free Children (6-12) $5350
Adults $10.00 Family $30.00
Proceeds for the Blyth Community Church of God I
THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2004. PAGE 19.
From the Minister's Study
Time to reflect on Good News
By Rev. Joan Golden
Brussels United Church
In this Season of Lent, within our
Christian churches we have been
preparing to follow the journey of
Christ to the Cross. Lent is a time to
remember and reflect on Holy Week
and Good Friday.
In our various denominations.
there are diverse rituals, practices
and reflections to mark this time in
our Christian calendars. It is a time
to reflect on- the life and the
teachings of Christ, in this
community of Brussels we gather for
noontime meditations to prepare for
Good Friday, Easter Saturday and
the celebration of Easter. It is very
important to remember all three
days.
Without Good Friday, what would
the celebration of Easter mean? If
we were to skip from the.Hallelujahs
of Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on
Palm Sunday to the Easter Sunday
celebration of trumpets announcing
"Jesus Christ is Risen Today!"
without reflecting on Good Friday,
the message of Christ would not be
known.
On the other hand, if we only
reflected on Good Friday and missed
the celebration of Easter, we would
also miss the "Good News" of
Christ.
Easter Saturday is a traditional
time of vigil, a time to reflect and
pray. How can the messages of Good
Friday and Easter be known if we do
not take time to reflect and ponder
them in our hearts? '
The traditional Bible readings for
Lent begin with "Jesus, full of the
Holy Spirit, returned from the
Jordan and was led by the Spirit in
the wilderness." (Luke 4:1).
The image of wilderness that may
come to our minds may not appear
as very inviting. A rather desolate
place with extreme temperatures,
plant life, if . any, being perhaps
thorns - not a place to be com-
forted.
The Greek word of wilderness
used in this passage is eremos,
meaning uninhabited, a place
without human habitation. If we use
that translation it diverts the
emphasis from the terrain of the
landscape to the fact that wilderness
is more about a quiet and solitary
place to be.
Jesus regularly went to
uninhabited places during his
ministry. He invited his followers to
do the same.
One such invitation is found in
(Mark 6:30-31) He said to them,
"Come away to a deserted place all
by yourselves-and rest for a while".
For many were coming and going,
and they had no leisure even to
eat."
The Bible has many examples of
rest time being provided for. In the
beginning, the story of creation, God
gave a Sabbath, a time to rest for
creation.
In fact, until the Sabbath, creation
was unfinished. God was still
present in this time of rest and
trusted creation to function. Only
after the Sabbath was the circle of
creation made full and complete.
In the story of Jonah, God
provided a Sabbath time for him,
away from the world in the belly of
the whale.
Jesus chose to take time away in a
garden to pray before being arrested,
tried and crucified. Easter Saturday
was a time-that Jesus "rested" in the
grave. .
Christians celebrate Sabbath at the
beginning of the week to
commemorate the resurrection of
Christ.
We remember the women, who, on
the first day of week went to the
grave of Christ and were told that
Christ was not held by the grave.
Resurrection was the • "Good
News".
Easter Saturday provides for us a
time to reflea.
The love God had for the world in
"being with us" in Christ. The love
that Christ taught and modelled in
His life. The grace that God offers to
us in resurrection and the hope and
promise of eternal life.
May we ponder this love in our
hearts through all seasons.
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"The Church is not a
Building,
It is People Touching
People"
Sunday 9:15 a.m. - Prayer Meeting
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School
11:00 a.m. - Worship Service
Thursday, April 8
7:30 pm - Footwashing and Communion Service
Phone 523-4875 308 Blyth Rd. E. - Pastor Les Cook 523-4590