Jazz at the Church - Part Two!

Yup, we've a Jazz at the Church night scheduled for May.  It's on this Saturday,  May 16th, and you can read (and hear) all about it at this LINK.  

Our last Jazz Concert with Jim Martinez & Laura Didier was great, so if you missed that one, be sure to mark your calendar now, as Jazz at the Church - Part Two promises to be a musically memorable evening!

Who's the artist this time?  That mellifluous, multidimensional, ambidextrous, multilingual and just plain gifted pianist - our own Steve Sandner!  Steve will be playing a concert billed as "Sandner and the Blues," so don't miss it, and bring your friends!

And here's a neat thing, if you're thinking about eating out before the concert: the Marketplace Restaurant in the Village of Oak Creek will give you a 15% discount on everything on their menu on Saturday night.  Just mention the Jazz at the Church concert when ordering.  Their full menu selection is HERE.  So, have a good meal, get your discount, and we'll see you at the Church at 7:30 pm!

The flower baskets are back!

A while back we asked for subscriptions for the hanging flower baskets with a suggestion of giving them in thanksgiving for our families and specifically for our mothers, considering that Mother's Day is approaching.

Well, the baskets have arrived and are hanging now, so you'll have to wait until next year to "memorialize" your mother and/or family in this beautiful way.  

As our good mothers no doubt pointed out often, there's a life lesson in all this:  don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

This year's flower baskets are given in loving memory of and thanksgiving for 

• Barbara Jeanne Yoakum, a great mother and grandmother, friend to all who knew her, and a founding and faithful member of Saint Luke's Church, and the 
• Rev. Kenneth Vincent Schwartz II, founding member, loving husband, father grandfather and great-grandfather and Deacon Emeritus of the parish.
  

Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord.

And may light perpetual shine upon them.  Amen

May's Bishop's Forum

Our monthly Bishop's Forum returns on the first Sunday of May.  

The gathering takes place between the morning masses, from 9:15 am - 9:45 am, on the terrace of the Church.  The topic is the symbolism of the Church.  

Mark you calendars now, as we will be gathering for the forums on the first Sunday of each month.

Mothers Day is coming soon...

May will be a full month, to be sure - the resurrected Christ is proclaimed, flowers begin to blossom, and we honour our mothers on a special day - Mother's Day, Sunday, May 10. 

We'll also be replenishing the hanging flower baskets on the terrace and portico overhang, and we'll have that done by Mother's Day.  And the glory of those baskets is this -  they last all Summer long! 

If you'd like to secure one of the baskets in thanksgiving for or in memory of your mother, be sure to reserve one soon, as there's only six available.  Telephone the church or talk with Pat Campbell on Sunday, and we'll "mark down" your reservation!  

A fitting memorialization, to be sure!!! 

A "Mystery Worshipper"

On Good Friday we had a special visitor with us -  a writer for the UK website "Ship of Fools - a magazine of Christian Unrest."  

The website is really quite good, insightful and interesting. 

One of their columns is called the  "Mystery Worshipper," and contains articles on various churches of all denominations worldwide.  

The Mystery Worshippers are their volunteers who visit churches, leaving a calling card in the collection plate and posting a first-timers impression of services on Ship of Fools.  

You guessed it - our visitor was a Mystery Worshipper, and has posted his article on Ship of Fools.  It's a delightful account of his impressions, and they  are, for the most part, fabulous.  

His name?  Amanda B. Reckondwythe.  Read the name aloud and slowly, and enjoy his article, found here !  

And yes, he took the above picture during his visit - great photographer, too, eh!

Heresy & Goofiness

"Heresy & Goofiness" posts will be put up from time to time.  What's contained in the posts may be heretical,  peculiar, "out of the box" or just plain goofy. You decide!

 This is an advertisement for the Roman Catholic Church of Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island that ran during Holy Week.   Indeed.

Fabricating Jesus

There's always been folk who like to "rework" the story of Our Lord.  In fact, one such  "scholar" (from the Jesus Seminar) will be visiting a Sedona church in the near future. 

I was speaking to a priest friend the other day regarding the Jesus Seminar group and he mused, "...they are certainly an odd bunch.  I call them the fundamentalists of the Left.  Just as the fundamentalists on the right hang their hat and their faith on the fact that everything in the Bible is historically accurate, this bunch claims that nothing of the Bible is historically accurate except the few verses that support their way of thinking."

The following is a video of an evangelical author from Varsity Press speaking of his new book regarding such scholarly goofinesses, and the "whys" of such fabrications.  His insights are clear, and point to some very practical and temporally based reasons for their manipulations.