This year we will celebrate Thanksgiving with a service at Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church on Six Forks Road on Tuesday, November 25th at 7 PM, and The Reverend Michael Frye from Grace Lutheran Church will be preaching. We will join Grace Lutheran Church, Trinity Baptist Church, St. Mark’s Methodist Church and Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church. Please come and join other members of these churches and their choirs as we thank God for all that He has given us.

At the requiem that wwe celebrate on All Souls’ Day, Monday, November 3rd at 12 noon, we will remember by name departed souls of our families, friends and loved ones at St. Timothy’s Altar. Please print the names of the loved ones you would like remembered at the Altar on the bulletin board outside the Parish Office. May they rest in peace.

Holy Cross Day is celebrated on September 14th because, on this day in 335, a basilica in honor of the Holy Cross and a shrine of the Emperor Constantine was dedicated after it completion. The complex of buildings, just outside of Jerusalem, was built on what was believed to be the site of Mount Calvary where Our Lord was crucified. We give glory and honor to the Holy Cross because it is on that Cross that He brought salvation to the world.

The Church from her very early days, even from New Testament times, has given honor, praise and devotion to the Mother of Our Lord. Down through the ages, prayers and adoration of Saint Mary have been a source of help and strength in the life of the Church and have resulted in deepened love and devotion to Jesus for millions of faithful Christians. Who better to invoke than the one who was closest to Jesus through His birth, life, death and Resurrection than Mary? She is quite rightly honored by the Church as one who will intercede for us before the throne of Christ. Devotion given Our Lady goes straight to Our Lord. We are fortunate to have one of the superiors of The Society of Mary, a devotional society in the Anglican Communion, as our preacher today, our own Father Martin.

Knowing prayer supports us can be a strong undergirding for our lives. If you would like to join the Prayer Group, you can contact Gini Cox or Annette Bandy. We are glad to announce that Cathy Elsea and Mike Spencer has joined our Prayer Group.

The first Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday. We are giving thanks for the Church’s teaching on the true nature of who God is and what He does. But in a deeper sense, we are doing more than simply thanking the Church for defining the true nature of God and how He exists as Three in One and One in Three. We are really giving Him the adoration and praise He deserves for creating, redeeming, and loving us now and forever.

Palm Sunday (March 16th): Said service of Holy Communion at 9 AM; sung service of Holy Communion with Solemn Procession at 11 AM

Wednesday in Holy Week (March 19th): Said service of Holy Communion

Maundy Thursday (March 20th): Sung service of Holy Communion at 7:30 PM with the Maundy Thursday liturgy including a procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose, Stripping of the Altar and All-Night Vigil before the Blessed Sacrament

Good Friday (March 21st): Meditations on the Stations of the Cross at 2:30 PM; Good Friday Liturgy at 7:30 PM with the singing of the Passion, the Solemn Collects and the Mass of the Pre-sanctified

Easter Eve (March 22nd): Great Vigil of Easter at 7:30 PM with the Lighting of the Pascal Candle, the singing of the Exsultet, the renewal of Baptismal Vows, Holy Baptism and the First Mass of Easter

Easter Day (March 23rd): Said service of Holy Communion at 9 AM; sung service of Holy Communion with Solemn Procession at 11 AM followed by an Easter Reception and Easter Egg Hunt

From Maundy Thursday evening through Good Friday morning we keep watch before the Blessed Sacrament at the Altar of Repose. This commemorates for us the disciples being asked to watch and pray with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before He was crucified. And Jesus said to Peter, “So you could not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mt. 26: 40-41). So that we can make certain there are at least two people keeping watch for each hour of the Vigil, please print your name on the poster in the narthex of the Church. This way we can be certain that there is always someone before the Blessed Sacrament, and we can ensure people’s safety.

Stations of the Cross and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament are offered each Sunday in Lent at 6:00 PM.

We will have three services on Ash Wednesday - 7:30 AM, 10:30 AM and 7:30 PM. The Ash Wednesday liturgy will be observed and will include the Imposition of Ashes and Holy Communion.

Our regular Healing Service with Communion that is held on the first Wednesday of the month will be celebrated on Wednesday, February 13th at 10:30 AM.