St. Francis Episcopal Church

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Nov 6th, 2021 @ St Francis Episcopal Church 

Great Falls, VA 22066

The concert, under the direction of Professor of Music and Music Director, Larry Vote, will include music performed by church organist and pianist, Sasha Beresovsky as well as the PING Ensemble of St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Baritone, James Rogers and soprano, Amie Shakespeare will be featured soloists in the Requiem which will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra playing the original 1893 version of the score.

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Blessing of the Animals: Sunday, October 3rd @ 5pm.

Blessing of the animals (house pets, barnyard animals, birds, reptiles, and stuffies.) This is a great opportunity to invite a friend, quadrupedal, bipedal, winged, or finned. Open to all.

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THE GOSPEL: John 6:56-69

Presider The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.

People Glory to you, Lord Christ.

Jesus said, “Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.” He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?” But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But among you there are some who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him. And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.”

Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him. So Jesus asked the twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.”

Presider The Gospel of the Lord.

People Praise to you, Lord Christ.

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St Francis Episcopal Church.  

Great Falls, VA. 

 A Sermon from Rev. David Lucey on 8-15 the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost.  

THE GOSPEL: John 6:51-58  

Presider The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. 

People Glory to you, Lord Christ.  

Jesus said, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”  

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”  

Presider The Gospel of the Lord. 

People Praise to you, Lord Christ.

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THE GOSPEL: Mark 4:35-41

Presider The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark.

People Glory to you, Lord Christ.

When evening had come, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

Presider The Gospel of the Lord.

People Praise to you, Lord Christ.

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A sermon from Timothy Rutherford, the Seminarian at St. Francis.

He offers his view on our superpowers and where they come from.

Gospel read by Rev. David Lucey

THE GOSPEL: Luke 24:36b-48

Presider        The Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.

People           Glory to you, Lord Christ.

Jesus himself stood among the disciples and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence.

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.

Presider        The Gospel of the Lord.

People           Praise to you, Lord Christ.

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Great Falls Area Ministries

Christ the King Lutheran Church
Dranesville Church of the Brethren
Great Falls United Methodist Church
Smith Chapel United Methodist Church
Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church
St. Francis Episcopal Church

Join us at Noon on Good Friday for this united service.

Every year on Good Friday, Christians take time to meditate on the depth of Jesus’ sacrifice for us in suffering a humiliating, bloody death by crucifixion. It’s a time to dwell on what Jesus suffered for us, in all its pain and intensity, without rushing straight ahead to the good news of Easter, resurrection, and new life.

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READING OF THE PASSION: Mark 14:1-15:47

The Passion According to Mark

HOMILY: The Reverend David J. Lucey

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Sermon from Rev. David Lucey and Gospel of Mark 8:31-38  February 28, 2021  The Gospel Lesson: 

Mark 8:31-38  

Reader A reading from the Gospel of Mark.  

Jesus began to teach his disciples that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”  He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” 

 Reader The Word of the Lord. 

People Thanks be to God  

HOMILIST: David J. Lucey

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