November 25, 2003

"A husband is what is left of the lover after the
nerve has been extracted."
- Helen Rowland (1876-1950)

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NO EUCHARIST WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26. Most of the
community will be away on vacation, so, the regular
Wednesday Eucharist will not be celebrated tomorrow.
We’ll pick it back up next week. Join us.

KITCHEN HELP NEEDED. We need 2 cooks and 2 clean up
folks for Sunday meals during December. The dates are
Dec 7, 14, and 21. Even though Finals are approaching,
we really need your services in the kitchen. Please
email me to sign up or to ask questions: Will Hanner:
hanner@ou.edu Thank you for all of your hard work
thus far.

BINGO NEXT WEDNESDAY!!! WHISPERING PINES. Meet at St.
Anselm’s at 1:30pm or at the nursing home at about
1:45…(more)

ST. ANSELM TO CAROL WITH WHISPERING PINES RESIDENTS.
Mark this date: Sunday, December 7 at 2pm members of
this community will travel to Whispering Pines to join
in the holiday spirit, sing carols and present gifts
to the patients in the North Ward (our bingo friends).
Last year, over twenty people from this community
participated. It is a fun and meaningful thing – to
share the joy of the season with our friends at
Whispering Pines. Meet at the nursing home a little
before 2pm or meet at St. Anselm’s at 1:30 to carpool.
The caroling will take about an hour.

ADVENT APPROACHES, CHURCH YEAR COMES TO A CLOSE. This
Sunday is the first Sunday in Advent. Read on for a
little background on the season…(more)

WOMEN AND THE CHURCH – ANTHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP is the
current module in our Monday night Christian
Leadership Series. Susan Laird moderates this six week
series on the important contributions of women to the
faith that we have received…(more)

ADVENT QUIET DAY WITH THE WOMEN OF ST. PAUL’S. The
women of St. Anselm’s are invited to share a day of
prayer, reflection and fellowship with the women of
the cathedral, Tuesday, December 2nd from 9:45am until
3pm. The Rev. Luke Back will be the retreat leader.
The theme: “Advent with Rembrandt: Meditations on the
Christ Child.” A $5 donation is suggested to cover
the cost of lunch. For Reservations: 235-3436.

YOU ARE INVITED to the Second Annual Holiday Party at
Michael and Kelly’s house. Make a note in your
calendar. Saturday, December 13 from 7pm til 11 pm.
Please come and bring a friend. Casual.

WORSHIP SCHEDULE

++++++++++COMPLETE COVERAGE++++++++

ADVENT. A TIME TO PREPARE. (Latin ad-venio, to come
to). It cannot be determined with any degree of
certainty when the celebration of Advent was first
introduced into the Church. The preparation for the
feast of the Nativity of Our Lord was not held before
the feast itself existed, and of this we find no
evidence before the end of the fourth century, when,
according to Duchesne [Christian Worship (London,
1904), 260], it was celebrated throughout the whole
Church, by some on 25 December, by others on 6
January. Of such a preparation we read in the Acts of
a synod held at Saragossa in 380, whose fourth canon
prescribes that from the seventeenth of December to
the feast of the Epiphany no one should be permitted
to absent himself from church. We have two homilies of
St. Maximus, Bishop of Turin (415-466), entitled "In
Adventu Domini", but he makes no reference to a
special time. The title may be the addition of a
copyist. There are some homilies extant, most likely
of St. Caesarius, Bishop of Arles (502-542), in which
we find mention of a preparation before the birthday
of Christ; still, to judge from the context, no
general law on the matter seems then to have been in
existence. A synod held (581) at Mâcon, in Gaul, by
its ninth canon orders that from the eleventh of
November to the Nativity the Sacrifice be offered
according to the Lenten rite on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday of the week. The Gelasian Sacramentary notes
five Sundays for the season; these five were reduced
to four by Pope St. Gregory VII (1073-85). The
collection of homilies of St. Gregory the Great
(590-604) begins with a sermon for the second Sunday
of Advent. In 650 Advent was celebrated in Spain with
five Sundays. Several synods had made laws about
fasting to be observed during this time, some
beginning with the eleventh of November, others the
fifteenth, and others as early as the autumnal
equinox. Other synods forbade the celebration of
matrimony. In the Greek Church we find no documents
for the observance of Advent earlier than the eighth
century. St. Theodore the Studite (d. 826), who speaks
of the feasts and fasts commonly celebrated by the
Greeks, makes no mention of this season. In the eighth
century we find it observed not as a liturgical
celebration, but as a time of fast and abstinence,
from 15 November to the Nativity, which, according to
Goar, was later reduced to seven days. But a council
of the Ruthenians (1720) ordered the fast according to
the old rule from the fifteenth of November. This is
the rule with at least some of the Greeks. Similarly,
the Ambrosian and the Mozarabic rites have no special
liturgy for Advent, but only the fast.
From the Catholic Encyclopedia.

BINGO – WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3. St. Anselm’s will
call bingo at Whispering Pines on Wednesday, December
3, at 2pm. Meet at the nursing facility at 1:45
(corner of Porter and Robinson) or carpool with your
friends from Canterbury at 1:30. This is a
psychiatric nursing facility that treats patients who
rarely have an opportunity to get out and who rarely
get visitors. It is an important part of our outreach
program and has brought joy to the residents and to
our membership as well. Please join us!

AGAIN…THE PRIZE RULES HAVE CHANGED…SODA IS OKAY. The
large basket near the front door is which we used to
put our food offerings will be used to receive a
different kind of offering – BINGO PRIZES for
Whispering Pines! Whatever is received in the basket
will be offered at the altar each week just as were
doing with the food. But instead of bringing canned or
boxed food, please bring a little something that can
be used as a prize when St. Anselm’s goes to
Whispering Pines for bingo.

Here are some ideas for prizes: Soda and diet Soda are
back on the list now. Also, costume jewelery
(inexpensive) is enjoyed by the women. Large and Extra
Large clothing such as t-shirts, socks, caps, hats,
gloves, scarves, bandanas. Regular and SUGAR FREE
candies, candy bars and stuffed toys have proven to be
sought after prizes too. The clothing needn’t be new,
just clean and in good shape. One thing we must
remember though, is that these gifts will be used in a
psychiatric ward, and items that might be breakable or
otherwise harmful to the residents cannot be used.

Pick up a little something each time you go to
Wal-Mart, Target or the Dollar Store. It will be an
on-going offering; so, please bring a prize next
Sunday, and the next, and the next – just something
small each time. It is such a simple way to share. - K

REGULAR WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Monday Afternoons 2pm
Noonday Prayer (with the staff)

Sunday Evenings 5:00pm
Holy Eucharist.
A Community Dinner follows.

Wednesday Evenings 5:30 pm
Holy Eucharist.

MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES

Choir practice
Mondays at 7:30
Sundays at 4pm
Come and sing, laugh and practice with us! It’s a
blast.

Lay Readers / Eucharistic Ministers
Contact Kay Greenshields at jimnkay@swbell.net

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St. Anselm of Canterbury Episcopal University Association
800 Elm Street, Norman OK (405)360-6453
Chaplain, The Rev. Michael Athey
Deacon, The Rev. Kay Greenshields
Organist/Choirmaster, Ms. Suzy Hayes
President, Mr. Mark Sessing

oucanterbury@yahoo.com

http://www.ou.edu/student/canterbury/

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