Memorial Service for Rt. Rev John-David Schofield

Saturday November 16, 2013 at 10:30 a.m.
A Service Celebrating the Life of
The Rt. Rev John-David Schofield
IV Bishop of San Joaquin
October 6, 1938 - October 29, 2013

St Jude's Anglican Church ~ 111 S. Sixth Street ~ Burbank, CA 91501

Fr John and Amanda Roberts Potluck, etc.

Lots on the calendar for St Jude's so we want to touch base here on the blog, too:

Friday, August 30th at 11:00 a.m., we will celebrate the life of Buzz Ayers' father, Arnold Ayers.

Sunday, September 1st after the single service, we will have a potluck luncheon to welcome Fr. John and Amanda Roberts; there will also be a money-tree for the benefit of Baby Roberts.

Temple Beth Emet will celebrate the High Holy Days at St Jude's again this year. Service dates and times for 2013 are:
Rosh Hashanah: September 4th at 8 p.m. and September 5th at 10 a.m.
Yom Kippur: September 13th at 8 p.m. and September 14th at 10 a.m.

St Jude's will host Family Promise the week of September 22-29, ably assisted by Temple Beth Emet.

Ancient Paths II is scheduled for November 1st & 2nd (two days only); please contact the office for details: 818-842-7461.

S I N G L E service S U M M E R hours

For July and August (and maybe September, too) we will be enjoying a single 9:30 a.m. service on Sunday mornings. This will save us a lot in air conditioning costs and gives us the pleasure of connecting with folks who usually go to the "other" service, whichever service that happens to be!

So come join us, just come early... or late, as the case may be!!

Bible study will also start an hour earlier: 8:30a in the Glover Room.

HEALING the LAND - Dr. Suuqiina

Please join us on June 19, for Dr. Suuqiina teaching in the St Jude's Parish Hall; the topic will be "Healing the Land."

On the related topic of caring for and healing our bodies, St. Jude's will host another Life Line Screening on June 27. Please call the Parish Office to sign up for the Parish discount.

Dr Suuqiina and the Days of Remembrance in April

Dr. Suuqiina will be teaching at St Jude's in the sanctuary on Wednesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. If you've heard Dr. Suuqiina teach on Hebrew idioms and the Names of God before, you know this will be well-worth attending. If you haven't, then hurry up and join us for this one!!

And on April 23 at 7:45 p.m., we will have the Days of Remembrance event for the city of Burbank, commemorating the Holocaust. This year Temple Beth Emet will be hosting (600 N. Buena Vista St, Burbank, CA 91505).

God's Good Humor

Allow me to wax philosophical for a moment: how could we have a sense of humor if God didn't have one first? Consider the locomotion of a kangaroo or the face of a warthog or the fact that a giraffe's neck has the same number of vertebrae as yours or mine...

With that in mind, Saturday evening, April 6, St Jude's is hosting God's Good Humor at 7:00 p.m., featuring the comedy stylings of Rabbi Mark Sobel, Shaun Davy, Buzz Ayers and others, with Jean Darnall as Master of Ceremonies. You should come and enjoy some good clean fun. Please call the church office if you have questions.

Holy Week Services

PALM SUNDAY, March 24th - a single service at 10:00 a.m. We start in the courtyard and process into the church with palms.

MAUNDY THURSDAY, March 28th - 7:00 p.m. service concludes with the stripping of the altar and the start of the Garden Vigil.

GOOD FRIDAY, March 29th - Stations of the Cross at noon; Mass of the Presanctified at 7:00 p.m.

HOLY SATURDY, March 30th - The Great Easter Vigil mass at 7:00 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, March 31st - Two services at 8:00 a.m. and 10:15 a.m.

The Lenten Soup Supper Teachings have finished and, as long as we're talking schedules and calendars, do save Saturday evening, April 6, for God's Good Humor at 7:00 p.m., featuring the comedy stylings of Rabbi Mark Sobel, Shaun Davy, Buzz Ayers and others, with Jean Darnall as Master of Ceremonies. Please call the church office if you have questions.

Lenten Study on Wednesday & Thursday, 7pm

Our Lenten Soup Supper & Study continues this week on both Wednesday and Thursday evening at 7 p.m. (same teaching both nights). In addition to Louie Giglio's Indescribable videos, Father Chuck brought a book by Wayne Jacobsen, In My Father's Vineyard, and suggests we get copies. It's out of print so we can't really consolidate a single order but there are quite a few inexpensive used copies available.

Do come join us for yummy soup and inspiring teaching, either Wednesday or Thursday evening (or both, if you want to experience the teaching twice). 7 pm in the Parish Hall.

Ash Wednesday and Lenten Study

Ash Wednesday is February 13th (just in time for a not-so-chocolatey-good Valentine's Day?!) and we will have a single Ash Wednesday service at 7:30.

The following Wednesday we will start our Lenten Study and Soup Suppers, running for five weeks. THIS year we are having the same program on both Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m., to accommodate parishioners who work Wednesday evening or Thursday evening - you may come either night (or both, but the teaching will be the same). Sign-up sheets are in the narthex or call the church office (818-842-7461) and let us know you're coming. All are welcome.

The High Holy Days

In Jewish life, the beginning of the year is Rosh Hashanah and, since the Jewish calendar is lunar rather than the rigid Gregorian calendar that we commonly use, it means the date floats... this year, Rosh Hashanah will begin at sunset on Sunday, September 16, and continue through sunset on September 17th.

St Jude's is once again delighted and honored to welcome our friends, the congregation of Temple Beth Emet to celebrate the High Holy Days at our church. The Sunday evening Rosh Hashanah service will begin at 8:00 p.m. and the daytime service will begin Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. with the children's service beginning at 10:30 a.m. Congregants are reminded to bring their shofars... which means David Van Ausdal will likely bring his didgeridoo!

Chabad.org has a pretty extensive website which explains Rosh Hashanah in great detail, for those of you interested in what our friends at Temple Beth Emet believe, commemorate, and celebrate at the High Holy Days. Ten days later they will be at St Jude's for Yom Kippur; more on that most significant holiday in the next blog post; Temple Beth Emet's schedule can be found here.

St Jude's parishioner's are invited to come early and bring a flashlight to help direct parking (we will be using additional parking lots once our own lot fills up) and accompany our friends from the lot to the sanctuary.

Oh, and the Vestry meets Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m.

Single Service Continues Through AUGUST!

Due to the popularity of the single service at 9:00 a.m. and our enjoyment of being together as a whole congregation, we've decided to continue through August. This is also a good plan for air-conditioning purposes! Worship music will begin about 8:40 a.m. and continue to 8:55 and then break for silence before the service formally starts at 9:00, or pretty close. And don't forget, WEDNESDAY night July 25th at 7:30 p.m., Dr. Suuqiina is teaching from the Hebrew on the musical tones in the names of God - it will be fascinating! Do come join us.

Dr. Suuqiina teaches Wednesday night

7:30 pm, Wednesday, July 25th - come join us in the sanctuary for Dr. Suuqiina's newest teaching.

Bill Weber Memorial Service

We will be commemorating the life of Bill Weber, our brother and long-time member of St. Jude's, on Saturday May 19th at 10 a.m. There will be a reception in the Parish Hall following the service.

April 18 & 25 = Final Two Wednesday Soup Supper & Teaching Nights

The final two teachings from Jonathan Cahn's The Harbinger will be given on Wednesday, April 18th, and Wednesday, April 25th. We will start with soup at 7:00 p.m. - please join us!

Holy Week Services at St Jude's Anglican Church in Burbank

APRIL 5th - Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m. followed by stripping the altar and the Garden Vigil. Please call the church office to sign up for a half-hour or an hour to sit in the Presence of the Lord. (818-842-7461)

APRIL 6th - Stations of the Cross at 12 p.m. (noon) on Good Friday.

Mass of the Presanctified at 7 p.m. Good Friday is the one day the priest may not consecrate the elements of the Eucharist, thus this is the mass of the Presanctified.

APRIL 7th - Great Vigil of Easter at 7 p.m. on Holy Saturday. The first celebration of the resurrection of our Lord, complete with incense! Come and celebrate!!

APRIL 8th - Resurrection Sunday - Easter services at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. (worship music begins at 10:15 a.m.)

Palm Sunday - the Triumphal Entry

We will have a single service this Palm Sunday, starting at 10:00 a.m. in the courtyard and processing in with joy. DO come join us! Easter Sunday we will celebrate Rite I at 8:00 a.m. and Rite II at 10:30 a.m. (worship music will start at 10:15).

Annual Meeting this Sunday, January 29th

We'll have a single service at 10:00 a.m. (Rite II) and then a potluck in the Parish Hall, leading into the Annual Meeting. New Vestry members will be elected, departing Vestry members will be thanked, the budget will be presented, etc. Thrilling stuff!

Advent Soup Suppers

Starting November 30, 2011, we will enjoy Wednesday night Soup Suppers and teaching in the Parish Hall.

Join us at 7:00 pm for homemade soup followed by a recorded teaching on healing by Tony Kemp.


111 S. Sixth Street, Burbank, CA 91501

Annual Meeting this Sunday, February 13, 2011

Yes, brother & sister Judeans, the Annual Meeting (and potluck!) is this Sunday and, to simplify life for everybody, including our priest, we will have ONE service at 9:30 a.m.

This means the early service parishioners may sleep in a bit (or perhaps prepare something really fancy) and the late service parishioners get to do their impersonation of Alice's White Rabbit.

But, despite the change to our standard schedule, we are always blessed to be together as a whole parish and the Annual Meeting is more fun than formal.

See you in church and then the Parish Hall!

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Now that we have a website, we also have a calendar and this blog.

It remains to be seen just how we'll use all this good web tech but, hey, we thought you'd like to know!