Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-02-02
ST. ANNE'S CHURCH NOTES

Services: 10. 30, Sermon al,d HOl
Communion.
11.45, Sunday School session.
MEETINGS
The Parish Guild will meet at tn
Eectory, on Thursday afternoon, a
two O'Clock.
! The regular monthly meeting of tn
parish branch of the Woman's Auxili
ary, will be- held on Friday afternoon
at the Rectory, at half past two.
THE CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY
Feb. I'd. Publication V. M.
| Feb. Sd. Sexagesima Sunday.
| Feb. 10th. Quinquagesima Sun ~.
|. Feb. 18th. ASH WEDNESDAY.
Feb. 18th. 1st Sunday in Lent.
Feb. Goth. Ember Day.
Feb. 22d. Ember Day.
Feb. 23d. Ember Day.
Feb. Oath. I'd Sunday in Lent (St.
Matthias.)
The Lenten Missionary Mite Boxes
are ready for distribution; many of the
children Of the Sunday School take them.
But there are number of the adults
who always ask for them, and we hope
they will do so this Vt ar. as heretofore.
The money collected in these boxes is
s-nt to the Board of Missions in New
York for the extension of Christ's hing,
dom here in the United States and in
the foreign field. And the amount
raised is credited on the apportionment
of the Parish for Missions.
THE LENTEN SERVICES
The Wednesday evening Lenten SER
vices will be held this year in The Parish
House, and will be evening prayer and
address, by the Rector We are hold
ing these services in the Parish House
in order to conserve our coal supply,
and thereby comply with the official
edict of the Coal Administrator Also
observe that we have not followed our
usual custom of having special Lenten
Preachers for the Wednesday evening
services. Also for economic reasons,
there will be no offerings taken at these
services.
The Offering for the work of the War
Commission of the Church among the
enlisted nen at home and at the front
amounted to over two hundred dollars,
exceeding the amount asked for by the
Bishop of the Diocese by fifty dollars.
PARISH ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS
The last General Convention adopted
Canon which has also been adopted
by our Diocesan Convention, requiring
all parochial accounts to be made up,
and all parochial reports to be made out
for the CALENDAR YEAR. We have
received notice from the Secretary of
the Convention requesting that these
reports be sent him as soon as possible.
Will the secretaries of the Auxiliaries
and Guilds please see that these reports
are Forthcoming and in the hands of
the Rector as early as possible?
February I'd. The Feast of the
Presentation of Christ. ''Tbey brought
him to Jerusalem, to present him to
the Lord" St. Luke 20. This is a
double festival. bringing to remem-
brance the presentdtlcn of the Holy
Child in the temple, according to the
law, and also the Offering made by His
mother, her publication being accom-.
plished. For forty days after the birth
Of a son. the mother, If rich, offered a
sacrifice, or if poor, like blessed Mary,
she brought two turtle doves or pigeons.
We are taught in this festival the puri-
fication Of body and soul and to prac-
tice that obedience which our Saviour
and the blessed Virgin taught by their
example.
The days of separation past,
Commanded by the wor1,
The Virgin Mary brings her child
To offer to the Lord.
More than mothers common joy
Her thoughtful heart eguiled,
For to her breast she knew she prest
More than common child.
The hope of all the ends of earth
Then on her bosom lay,
Whom saints had sought, while prophets
taught
The coming Of His day.
P. L. D.