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Celebration of a New Ministry
On Sunday, February 12, 2012 both Anglicans and Lutherans alike took part in the Celebration of a New Ministry of The Very Reverend Paul N. Johnson as Incumbent of St. John’s Cathedral and the Dean of the Diocese of Rupert’s Land. Leaders of both communities, including Bishop Don Phillips, Bishop Elaine Sauer, ELCIC, and Archbishop and Metropolitan David Ashdown, were there for this special day in our churches’ history.
Love
Today, the day that we celebrate love, it is important for us to remember what Christian Love not only looks like, but to remember that love should drive all that we do.
1 Corinthians 13
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast,* but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogantor rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly,*but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
NPDWC Valentines Day Dinner and Cake Auction
No plans for Valentine’s Day?
Mary, from the North Point Douglas Womens’ Centre has invited the people of St. John’s to join them for their Perogy Dinner and Cake Auction Fundraiser on February 14, 2012.
Dates to Remember
Monday February 13
6:30pm | Ministry of Property Management Meeting
Wednesday February 15
7:00pm | Vestry Meeting
Thursday February 16
12 Noon | Friendship Circle
Friday February 17
9:00am | Sewing of Choir Gowns
10:00am | Bible Study
Sunday February 19
9:00am | Choir Rehearsal
Readings & Prayers: February 12, 2012
“A great prophet has arisen among us! God has visited his people!” Luke 7.16
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Readings & Prayers: February 5, 2012
“He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”
Matthew 8.17
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Celebration of New Ministry & installation of Dean
Celebration of New Ministry & installation of Dean The Very Rev. Paul N. Johnson, Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 4:00pm.
St. John’s Cathedral will welcome the Diocese, Lutheran Full Communion partners, and many guests, for this joyful Eucharistic service of thanksgiving and celebration. Please plan on being part of this event if you possibly can! Remember, it’s our ministry we’re celebrating. Thanks be to God.
Dates to Remember
Tuesday, February 7
Become aware
of God’s presence
and action
in your life.
6 pm to 8 pm
Tools for Responding to God:
Reaching Out
with Nancy Phillips, Facilitator
Do you have a longing to explore a deeper connection with God? Deepen your awareness of God at work within us and the ways in which God may be calling us to respond to the world around us.
Please join us for what promises to be a lively growing experience! Open to everyone!
Brown Bag Supper at 5:30 pm (optional)
Thursday, February 9
12 Noon | Friendship Circle
Friday, February 10
9:00am | Sewing of Choir Gown Scapulas
The sewing of choir gown scapulas takes place in the choir room on Fridays at 9. Please join us if you are able to help out. Many hands make light work!
10:00am | Bible Study
Sunday, February 12
4:00pm | Celebration of New Ministry
Celebration of New Ministry of the Very Rev. Paul N. Johnson as Incumbent of the Cathedral Parish of St. John and Dean of Rupert’s Land.
Next Sunday’s Readings
“Jesus went about Galilee, teaching, preaching, and healing every disease.” Matthew 4.23
Next Sunday’s Readings
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
February 5, 2012
Isaiah 40.21-31
Psalm 147.1-12,21c
1 Corinthians 9.16-23
Mark 1.29-39
Want to know more? Join us for our Bible Study to discuss these passages.
Form of Notice: Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting, February 26 at 12:30 pm
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the parishioners of the Parish of St. John’s Cathedral will be held in the John West Hall on the 26 day of February A.D. 2012 at 12:30 in the afternoon at which time and place all members signing the Declaration of Church Membership and who are of the full age of 16 years are entitled to attend and to vote.
DATED February 2, 2012
The Very Rev. Paul N. Johnson
Convenor
St. John's Anglican Cathedral 