Middletown transcript., 1919-03-01
ST. ANNE'S CHURCH NOTES
EPISCOPAL


EPISCOPAL
! Sunday, March I'd, 1919. Quinqua-
gesima Sunday.
Services: 1890, Sermon and Holy
Communion.
| 11.45, Sunday Sch"ol session.
7.3O, Evening prayer and address.
THE CALENDAR FOR MONTH OF MARCH
March I'd. Qdinquagesima Sunday.
March 5th. ASH sEDNESDAY.
March 9th. 1st Sunday in LENT.
March 18th, 14th and 10Th. Emb.r
days.
! March 10th. I'd Sunday in Lent.
March 23d Sd Sunday in Lent.
March 25th. Annunciation B. V. NJ.
| March 3Oth. 4th Sunday in Lent.
; This Sunday, Quinquagesima, IS the
last of the Pre-lenten Sundays. And
the church gives us these pre-lenten
days to make our preparation for keep
ing Lent, the idea being that we shall
get ready to do something positive and
! definite in Lent and not waste the days
! in doing as so many do, wait until Lent
comes and then fritter it away i'll trying
first one plan then another and in the
end really accomplishing nothing. We
ought to use this time in asking, Lord.
what witt thou have me to do % Re-
ligion fails for the most part Just for
lack of common sense. So many peo-
pie never try to plan it out and leave>it
! to impulse and sentiment and feeling.
| Our Lord taught US thpt we should love
God with all our heart and mind and
soul. Religion needs brains if it is ever
| to amount to anything. Try to imagine
; how much we should have ever done in
| the war If there had not been sober
thought given to it. campaigns planned
and the abest men, who coul he found.
put to work to prepare food and stores
! and munitions and whatever was need
ed. So then let Us take time now to
| make some plan for LENT. Determine
what you are going to do. Examine
your life and decide definitely what your
besetting sin is and resolutely set about
its conquest. 1t is better to make a
simple plan with one or two specific
things in mind than to try great many
: and do none of them thoroughly. Make
up your mind that you will steer
straight course toward some definite
end.
March 5th being Ash Wednesday, the
first day of the Lenten season, services
will be as follows: Morning Prayer.
Litany and Sermon at 80. Evening
Prayer and Address at 80
Also, during the Lenten season, SER
vices will be held on Friday afternoon
at three o'clock.
Ash Wednesday. Joel. 1l:15. elbow
the trumpet in Zion. sanctify fast.
call solemn assembly,
the solemn fast of Lent takes its
name from the season IN which 1t fails.
The meaning Of the Saxon word is
spring, at which time the church, by
fasting and prayer, makes her prepara-
tion for the festival of Easter. 1t ex-
tends over period of forty days, not
counting the Sundays which lie be-
tween; for Sunday, being the day on
which our Saviour arose, is feast day
throughout the year. 1t is as much a
duty for all to live d holy life at one
time as at another, yet everyone knows
how apt we are to indulge ourselves,
how reluctant 70 cross our wishes or
appetites, how easily we put out of our
minds and indefinitely p'stpone the
duties which are unwelcome to our nat
ural instincts and Self-iove. Therefore
it is very wise and happy provision of
the church thus to set aside stated sea-
sons for recollection and repentance.
and for special LESSONS in self-denial.
when sole mn cere monies and the ex
ample of others may, as it were COM
pei us to stop and ponder whether We
are going on as we should in our Chris
tian life, cherishing our baptismal
grace, remembering our confirmation
vows. and keeping ourselves "unspot-
ted iron the world" The church does
not lay down any precise rule for the
manner of our fasting during this sea-
son, leaving it to be governed by our
conscience and circumstances. There
. are many who cannot fast, in the strict
sense of the word. abstaining from all
food. and Of whom it IS not required;
but few who may not deny themselves
some indulgence of appetite. and
amusement, for His sake who spent
these long and lonely days in the wilder
ness. hungering and burdened with the
weight of our sins. May HE help US
all to follow the example of His patti
ence and humility, that "when Christ.
who is our life. shall appear, then shall
we also appear with Him in glory"
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