Epiphany Anglican Fellowship

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EPIPHANY SERVICE.  Join us for an all Epiphany sites service as we celebrate Epiphany on Friday, January 6^th - worship @ 7pm at the Boulder site.

Fellowship and dessert potluck afterwards.

Epiphany SPIRITUAL FORMATION SCHOOL

These weekly teachings are led by Fr. Chris+ on Sunday mornings at Epiphany Broomfield from 9:00 to 9:50 AM followed by the worship service at 10:10a.  NO CLASS ON January 8, 15 and 22.  A new 4-week series begins January 29th: The Introduction to the Spiritual Life.  Questions-please contact Chris Bollegar at chrisbollegar@comcast.net or (303)514-8146.

Lay Eucharistic Ministers to be Trained and Commissioned          

Lay Eucharistic Ministers (LEMs) are drawn from the order of Laity and work closely with the order of Clergy. In fact, they represent Anglican clergy when LEMs conduct services and/or deliver the reserved sacrament RS) of Bread and Wine to the homes, hospital rooms or long-term care, facilities where Christians live.  There has always been some need for LEMs sent out by EAF~Boulder, but that need has become acute in the Manor Care nursing facility ministry God is blessing. Lay persons are needed, not just to conduct Prayer Book services, but also to offer life-giving Eucharist and the Real Presence of Jesus.  With this need in mind, Fr. Patrick+ Dorn (Rector of Church of the Apostles in Evergreen) is coming to EAF~Boulder to conduct LEM training from interested people from every EAF site. You must receive approval by your local pastor/priest to attend. You'll be notified of the location of the training.  This training will be held on Saturday, 14 January at 9.30 a - Noon.   LEMs in the Boulder congregation will be commissioned in a service on Sunday, 8 January.

    In the Western churches, the Epiphany (‘manifestation’) became an occasion to celebrate one element in the story of Christ’s birth: the visit of the far-travelled magi, understood as the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. Matthew’s account speaks simply of ‘wise men from the east’; later tradition fixed their number at three, made them kings and recalled their resonant names – Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. In this perspective, Epiphany tide (or the Season of Epiphany) is an apt season to pray for the worldwide mission of the Church. The feast of the Conversion of St Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, appropriately falls in the Epiphany season.

     The Epiphany is, also, the celebration of Christ’s baptism at the hands of John, when the heavens were opened and a voice from heaven declared Jesus to be God’s beloved Son.  The miracle of Cana in Galilee, where Jesus ‘first manifested his glory’, follows immediately:

Manifest at Jordan’s stream,
Prophet, Priest, and King supreme;
and at Cana wedding-guest
in thy Godhead manifest. (Christopher Wordsworth)

     The season of joyful celebration that begins at Christmas now continues through the successive Sundays of Epiphany, and the festal cycle ends only with the Feast of the Presentation. The child who has been manifested to the magi at his birth is now recognized by Simeon and Anna, when he comes to be presented in the Temple according to the Law of Israel. He is both ‘a light to lighten the Gentiles’ and ‘the glory of God’s people Israel’. But the redemption he will bring must be won through suffering. The Incarnation is directed to the Passion, and Simeon’s final words move our attention away from the celebration of Christmas and towards the mysteries of Easter.

– Dick Miller, EAF-Boulder Campus                                                             

 Source: Common Worship © 2000 The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England.

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