BIBLE STUDIES @ St. Bart’s
This week's Gospel reading
THE BIBLE FOR THE CHURCH OF TOMORROW
WEDNESDAYS IN THE CHAPEL, 7:45 am
The Rev. F.M. "Buddy" Stallings
Using the Gospel lesson for the coming Sunday, the focus of this class will be to identify and examine practical implications of the gospel for the living of our lives. Participants need to arrive at the 109 50th Street entrance by 7:45; the class will end at 8:45. Consider adding this opportunity to your busy schedule—a little refueling in the middle of the week!
THE GOSPEL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and YOU
Wednesdays at 12:45 pm
The Rev. Lynn Sanders
The Rev. Lynn C. Sanders leads a reflection on the upcoming Sunday readings + the day’s New York Times Op-Ed page. Thoughtful, respectful discussion. Laughter. Occasional irreverence. All are welcome.
The Gospel for May 20, 2012: The Seventh Sunday of Easter
John 17:6-19 Looking up to heaven, Jesus prayed, "I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth."
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA BIBLE STUDY:
Every other Friday at 12:30 pm
Led by Christine Dorer
Next meeting: Friday, May 25, in the Welcome Center. This biweekly group continues its study of the Book of Revelation, which offers a clear and sharp vision of God's ultimate purpose for all of creation through the victory of Jesus the Messiah. Led by parishioner Christine Dorer. Email her at for more info.