REMEMBER TO TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK 1 HOUR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT!
Today the Church remembers Richard Hooker, a theologian who lived in England in the late 1500s. He is famous for teaching that within the Anglican way of thinking, three things are import, Scripture, tradition and reason. This came to be known as “the three legged stool.”
James Keifer writes:
JOINT OUTREACH PROJECT BETWEEN HOLY SPIRIT AND ST. AUGUSTINE
On Saturday, 6 November, the Youth Group from Holy Spirit in Houston will team up with St. Augustine to make 300 "breakfast bags" for the volunteers at the Texas Episcopal Disaster Relief at William Temple, the food pantry at St. Vincent's House, and also for the parishioners at St. Augustine of Hippo to take and deliver to those in need. We will provide the goods for the bags and Holy Spirit will provide the manpower. The “breakfast bags: will contain a water bottle, a breakfast bar, a fruit bar (or something similar) and will be sealed with a sticker with St. Augustine’s address and service time.
REMEMBER TO SIGN UP FOR FELLOWSHIP
Jo and Jim have sent the sign-up sheet for our Sunday morning fellowship. Please be sure to sign up.
WE ARE OPENING UP OUR FACILITIES TO THE COMMUNITY
The Galveston Heritage Chorale will begin practicing in Sutton Hall
The Boys and Girls Club this Tuesday, 2 November 2010
CALENDAR REMINDERS
Friends & Family Game Night, this Friday, 5 November at 6:00 p.m. Bring your favorite game and most importantly, a friend. Everyone is also encouraged to bring a snack, a dessert oR a beverage to share.
Adult Christian Formation: Join us every Sunday in Bright-Davies Hall at 11:00 a.m. as we study the Gospel according to Mark.
All Saints Sunday, 7 November 2010.
Thanksgiving Lunch on Sunday, 21 November after the Eucharist. Please sign up to bring a dish.
Art Classes begin in November. Stay tuned for details.
Big Mista BBQ Fund Raiser for the Community Garden, Saturday, 11 December. Tickets go on sale soon. Tell everyone you know about it.
PLEASE REMEMBER EVERYONE ON OUR PRAYER LIST!
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
Today the Church remembers Richard Hooker, a theologian who lived in England in the late 1500s. He is famous for teaching that within the Anglican way of thinking, three things are import, Scripture, tradition and reason. This came to be known as “the three legged stool.”
James Keifer writes:
On any list of great English theologians, the name of Richard Hooker would appear at or near the top. His masterpiece is The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Its philosophical base is Aristotelian, with a strong emphasis on natural law eternally planted by God in creation. On this foundation, all positive laws of Church and State are developed from Scriptural revelation, ancient tradition, reason, and experience.Collect for the day: O God of truth and peace, who raised up your servant Richard Hooker in a day of bitter controversy to defend with sound reasoning and great charity the catholic and reformed religion: Grant that we may maintain that middle way, not as a compromise for the sake of peace, but as a comprehension for the sake of truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The occasion of his writing was the demand of English Puritans for a reformation of Church government. Calvin had established in Geneva a system whereby each congregation was ruled by a commission comprising two thirds laymen elected annually by the congregation and one third clergy serving for life. The English Puritans (by arguments more curious than convincing) held that no church not so governed could claim to be Christian.
Hooker replies to this assertion, but in the process he raises and considers fundamental questions about the authority and legitimacy of government (religious and secular), about the nature of law, and about various kinds of law, including the laws of physics as well as the laws of England. In the course of his book he sets forth the Anglican view of the Church, and the Anglican approach to the discovery of religious truth (the so-called via media, or middle road), and explains how this differs from the position of the Puritans, on the one hand, and the adherents of the Pope, on the other. He is very heavy reading, but well worth it.
JOINT OUTREACH PROJECT BETWEEN HOLY SPIRIT AND ST. AUGUSTINE
On Saturday, 6 November, the Youth Group from Holy Spirit in Houston will team up with St. Augustine to make 300 "breakfast bags" for the volunteers at the Texas Episcopal Disaster Relief at William Temple, the food pantry at St. Vincent's House, and also for the parishioners at St. Augustine of Hippo to take and deliver to those in need. We will provide the goods for the bags and Holy Spirit will provide the manpower. The “breakfast bags: will contain a water bottle, a breakfast bar, a fruit bar (or something similar) and will be sealed with a sticker with St. Augustine’s address and service time.
REMEMBER TO SIGN UP FOR FELLOWSHIP
Jo and Jim have sent the sign-up sheet for our Sunday morning fellowship. Please be sure to sign up.
WE ARE OPENING UP OUR FACILITIES TO THE COMMUNITY
The Galveston Heritage Chorale will begin practicing in Sutton Hall
The Boys and Girls Club this Tuesday, 2 November 2010
CALENDAR REMINDERS
Friends & Family Game Night, this Friday, 5 November at 6:00 p.m. Bring your favorite game and most importantly, a friend. Everyone is also encouraged to bring a snack, a dessert oR a beverage to share.
Adult Christian Formation: Join us every Sunday in Bright-Davies Hall at 11:00 a.m. as we study the Gospel according to Mark.
All Saints Sunday, 7 November 2010.
Thanksgiving Lunch on Sunday, 21 November after the Eucharist. Please sign up to bring a dish.
Art Classes begin in November. Stay tuned for details.
Big Mista BBQ Fund Raiser for the Community Garden, Saturday, 11 December. Tickets go on sale soon. Tell everyone you know about it.
PLEASE REMEMBER EVERYONE ON OUR PRAYER LIST!
Your servant in Christ,
Fr. Chester J. Makowski+
St. Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church
Galveston, Texas 77550
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