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January 2021 Franciscan a monthly publication of St. Francis Episcopal Church The season of Epiphany is a time of profound witness to the life of Christ, where the narrative of Jesus’ ministry and mission is shared in the lectionary readings. Christ’s glory is revealed to his followers as the season of Epiphany reaches its climactic point on Transfiguration Sunday. Everything in our liturgy “participates in a proclamation and response to the revelatory Word, in whom we read God, and God continues the narrative in us.” God continues the narrative of the Word (Jesus) in us. We each have our encounter with the light of Christ, perhaps like the three wise men we are drawn to Christ by a mysterious signs and circumstances or maybe like the disciples we experience God in a mountaintop experience that we never want to leave. We each experience the revelation of God’s action in the world in our own way. After these moments of revelation, God’s story goes on and so does ours. God invites us to see how we can continue to join in the unfolding story of Jesus’ work. Jesus was speaking to the disciples before he was arrested and executed, and he shared this truth with them… “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” The season of Epiphany gives each of us an opportunity to testify to our own encounters with Christ and the glory of God. We get to testify that light came into the world and darkness could not overcome it. As we read the transfiguration story we join with Christ as he descends from the mountaintop and encounters a heartbroken father and his own frantic disciples unable to heal a demon-possessed son. We are plunged back into the reality that healing and liberation are needed in every day life, and we as disciples are still learning what it means to participate in this task. The good news is that we get to learn together how to testify, heal and liberate. This Epiphany we will pray blessings over each other’s houses and neighborhoods, feed the poor, study and reflect on the stories of Jesus, connecting Christ’s story to our life. We will read and listen to Dr. Martin Luther King’s sermons and wrestle with how we are called to be part of God’s healing and liberating work across distinctions of race and class. I encourage you to take the time to read through the Franciscan and consider how you might join in the life of the church this Epiphany, trusting that when we follow Jesus together, God will do great things through us. Serving with You, Rev. Jed Dearing “A Publication of St. Francis Episcopal Church—“Proclaiming the Good News in word and deed.”
JANUARY 2021
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Jazzercise
4:45 pm
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Jazzercise Zoom Morning Bible Study Barbershop Jazzercise
Morning Prayer,
4:45 pm Prayer 7:30 am 10:30 am Singers 7:00 pm 4:45 pm
Rite II 10:30 am
Jazzercise
Digital Coffee Hour 4:45 pm Jazzercise Alanon 7:30 pm
11:30 am 4:45 pm
Boy Scouts
6:00 pm & Zoom Small
7:00 pm Group 7:30 pm
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Holy Eucharist, Jazzercise Zoom Morning Bible Study Barbershop Jazzercise Food Drive
Rite II 10:30 am 4:45 pm Prayer 7:30 am 10:30 am Singers 7:00 pm 4:45 pm 10:30 am -
Jazzercise 12:30 pm
Digital Coffee Hour 4:45 pm Jazzercise Alanon 7:30 pm
11:30 am 4:45 pm
Boy Scouts
6:00 pm & Zoom Small
7:00 pm Group 7:30 pm
Vestry Meeting
7:00 pm
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Salon Series Jazzercise Zoom Morning Bible Study Barbershop Jazzercise
9:00 am 4:45 pm Prayer 7:30 am 10:30 am Singers 7:00 pm 4:45 pm
Morning Prayer, Jazzercise
4:45 pm Jazzercise Alanon 7:30 pm
Rite II 10:30 am 4:45 pm
Food Drive Boy Scouts
10:30 am - 12:30 pm 6:00 pm & Zoom Small
7:00 pm Group 7:30 pm
Digital Coffee Hour
11:30 am
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Holy Eucharist, Jazzercise Zoom Morning Barbershop Jazzercise
Bible Study
Rite II 10:30 am 4:45 pm Prayer 7:30 am Singers 7:00 pm 4:45 pm
10:30 am
Digital Coffee Hour Jazzercise
11:30 am 4:45 pm Jazzercise Alanon 7:30 pm
4:45 pm
Boy Scouts
31 6:00 pm & Zoom Small
7:00 pm Group 7:30 pm
Morning Prayer,
Rite II 10:30 am
Digital Coffee Hour
11:30 am
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January Birthdays
Llewyn Dearing on January 13
Chase Marshall on January 18
Pam Kock on January 21
Mary Martin on January 31
Heather Marshall on January 31
If your name does not appear on our birthday or
anniversary list, please contact the church office.
ADOPT -A-
Special thanks to everyone who
BILLS
generously donated for the are available for
baking supplies that was given support of various
to Canterbury Court. ministries and events
Thank you for those who also here at St. Francis.
contributed Toys for the Please place your check
along with the adopt-a-
Christmas FLOC.
bill slip in the offering.
Everyone was very generous in
their giving and they both
were very blessed this
Christmas Season - Mary Harris
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Morning Prayer or Holy Eucharist is Live Streamed on our
Youtube channel at every Sunday at 10:30 am. Please continue to
worship with us from home anytime. You can find the link to St.
Francis’ Youtube channel on our website at www.saintfran.org.
You can find a copy of the bulletin under the tab Bulletins.
We will also be sending you a link to connect online via email
every week. If you would like to get that weekly email, please
give us your email address and you will be added to our email list.
Everyone who will be watching the worship service at home will
need to have a Prayer Book or print out the service.
The Altar Guild would like to thank everyone who helped with the Hanging
of the Greens. The nave and sanctuary looked beautiful for the Christmas
Season, and we could not have done this without everyone's help.
The Altar Guild is asking once again for folks to come to church on
Sunday, January 3 to help take down the Christmas decorations. Your help
is so much appreciated and it is great to know we can count on you.
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MLK Day Salon Series Special
Sunday, January 17 on Zoom:
9:00 am - 10:00 am
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82270882983
Gather together to read and listen to selections from Martin Luther
King's sermons and consider how they might challenge and inspire us
as a church today.
Season of Epiphany Zoom Small Group:
Bible study, liturgy & spiritual practices
for everyone
Wednesdays in Epiphany, January 6 – February 10
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83018999169
Stay socially distanced, but spiritually connected in Epiphany by
participating in this Zoom gathering that will include scripture reading
and reflection, corporate spiritual practices and nighttime prayers. Pick
up the Epiphany small group guide from the church office or contact the
office at (937) 748-2592 or parishsec@saintfran.org to have one mailed.
St. Francis will be having a digital Coffee
Hour every Sunday morning from 11:30
am - 12:30 pm on Zoom /
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87480779508.
This is a good opportunity for you to
strengthen old friendships and begin
some new ones.
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St. Francis will have its Annual Meeting on Sunday, February 7
following the 10:30 am Liturgy. During this meeting Delegates
will be chosen, new Vestry Members will be announced, and a
presentation of the budget and finances will be given. As well as a
list of brief reports from all Ministry Chair persons.
All Ministry Leaders should submit their reports from 2020 into
the office by February 4.
Praying the Daily Offices
Join together every Tuesday morning on Zoom to pray Rite II Morning
Prayer. On days that include a commemoration we will remember the
holy women and holy men who have gone before us in the faith.
All are welcome to join. The Zoom link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85912344872
Meeting ID: 859 1234 4872
Morning Prayer starts at 7:30 am and typically lasts thirty minutes. The
Zoom Link is recurring and can be used weekly. Bulletins will be
provided in the Zoom Chat Box but all services can be joined using a
Book of Common Prayer.
1/5 - Sarah, Theodora, and Syncletica of Egypt
1/12 - Aelred of Rievaulx
1/19 - Wulfstan of Worcester
1/26 - Titus and Timothy
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CHALKING THE DOOR
"Chalking the door" is a way to
celebrate and literally mark
the occasion of the Epiphany
with God's blessing of our
lives and home. Following an
old and global tradition, we’ll
u s e c h a l k t o w r i t e
“20+C+M+B+21” above, on, or
beside our front doors. The
marks initial the Latin words,
Christus Mansionem Benedictat,
"May Christ bless this house"
as we enter into 2021!
Sign up online or contact the office at (937) 748-2592
or parishsec@saintfran.org with your preferred time
slot to have Rev. Jed come and “chalk your house” and
pray a blessing over your household for the new year.
This all happens outside and masked, to be doable in
our COVID reality. Rev. Jed will contact you to confirm
a more approximate time of visit.
https://forms.gle/xYH57jXSziijzJ5P8
St. Francis' Food Donations Drive
On Saturday, January 16 and Sunday, January 17
from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm St. Francis will be
holding a food drive for the Springboro
Community Assistance Center who is desperately
in need of donations. Volunteers will be needed
to hold up signs in front of the building, take
food donations from people, etc. for 1-2 hours
each day. We will also need volunteers to help bring the food to the
Springboro Food Pantry on Monday, January 18. Please contact Mary
Harris at 937-672-7993 or the church office at 937-748-2592 or
parishsec@saintfran.org if you would like to help out with this
wonderful and worthy cause.
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READING BETWEEN THE LINES
With Gladness Men Of Old H1982 #119
The Church has traditionally celebrated the coming of the wise
men (Melchoir, Gaspar, and Balthazar) two weeks after
Christmas. But on Epiphany Sunday in 1860, William Chatter-
ton Dix (1837-1898) was too ill to go to church. At home in
bed, he read the story of the wise men and tried to apply the
lessons to his own heart. The result was a new hymn that
celebrated while it instructed, one that applied not only to the
author/composer (he also wrote the music, the tune called Dix),
but to future generations of Christians as well. The pattern of
the story is familiar: as the wise men did - following, adoring, giving - so should we.
Dix was a brilliant linguist and poet, but he made his living as the manager of a maritime
insurance company in Glasgow, Scotland. He knew the trials and rigors of travel and the
joy of bringing gifts from afar. Yet rather than focusing on the costliness of the magi's
gifts, Dix emphasized the magi's finding of what they sought and their worship of the
Christ child.
"When they saw the star, they were filled with joy! They entered the house and saw the
child with his mother, Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him. Then they
opened their treasure chests and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh."
Matthew 2:10-11
Music Live@Lunch is Christ Church Cathedral’s
weekly concert series.
January 5 | Christina Hazen (mezzo-soprano) with guest musicians
January 12 | TBD
January 19 | University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
organ students
January 26 | Rebecca Culnan (violin), Dan Culnan (piano)
At 12:10 p.m. each Tuesday, September through May, we offer free Music Live at Lunch.
The concerts feature a variety of music, ranging from classical to jazz and music of other
cultures. Currently, all performances are scheduled for the nave with a limited in-person
audience. All patrons are asked to honor posted instructions for distancing and personal
mask use. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, plans for lunch service are on hold. However, as
always, patrons are invited to bring their own lunch.
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“It’s our connection to God and each other that gives meaning to our lives.”
Joy to the world! The Lord is come: let earth receive her King; let every heart prepare him room, and heaven
and nature sing.
Perhaps like me, you’ve sung this hymn for years – in church, at home with your family, gathered with friends
and neighbors. Perhaps you’ve sung it to yourself – in your car, on a walk, or quietly in the dark of night. Joy
to the world!
While we may not feel joyful this year – as the pandemic of disease continues to bring sickness and death,
when fear and mistrust – a darkness – threatens to overcome the light – we, as followers of Jesus Christ must
bear joy to this aching world. We must shine light into the darkness. Joy to the world!
Like much in our lives, proclaiming joy is difficult work – also good and essential work – especially now.
Though we mourn that which is lost in our lives, our families, and our communities – Joy to the world!
While we strive to pull up the twisted and thorny vines of hatred and bigotry and anger – Joy to the world!
Through streaming tears and gritted teeth – Joy to the world! – because God is breaking into our lives and into
this world anew.
While this is a strange year, the ministry He gives us remains the same. We will prepare him room in our
hearts by taking on the ministry Jesus demands of us: feed those who are hungry; welcome the stranger; clothe
those who are naked; heal those who are sick; visit the prisoner. Love God. Love your neighbor. Sing joy into
this old world. Prepare him room.
St. Luke writes of the first Christmas, “[Mary] gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of
cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” There, in the simplest bed, in
the cool of the night, in a trough, in bands of cloth, lies the One for whom no room was made. And yet
strangely, there lies the One whom not even the universe can contain.
Joy to the world! The Lord is come. In your hearts, in your homes, in your lives, prepare him room.
God love you; God bless you; and may God hold us all in those almighty hands of love.
The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal Church
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Saint Francis Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church in Springboro
225 N. Main Street, Springboro, OH 45066
(937)
937) 748-
748-2592 www.saintfran.org
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Sun^[ys [t 10:30 [m - Sun^[y S]hool
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is _mpty, h_lp m_ fill it with goo^ things. E[]h n_w ^[y fill_^
with joy [n^ h[ppin_ss it \rings. @m_n.”
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Clergy Resident - The Rev. Jed Dearing
Senior Warden - Stephan Graham
Junior Warden - Joe Spangler
Vestry Clerk - Jeff Baldrige
Financial Secretary - Sue Starner
Parish Secretary - Alisha Minamyer
Choir Director - Donna Sprowles
Organist - Diana Graham
Sunday School Director - Jenny Catalan
Vestry Members - Stephan Graham,
Mary Harris, Will Frush,
Jeff Baldrige, Barb Roy, Jenny Catalan,
Jack Emerson, Chuck Oduah,
Virginia Culp, Joe Spangler
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