From Deacon Ron Reno:
Pine Ridge Christmas Project. For several years Saint John’s has collected 
Christmas gifts for the children of the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota in South Dakota. Our church and others have helped with this project. If you can help, contact our Nick Behrens about possible donations. According to Nick this reservation is one of the poorest so even bedding, toilet paper, paper towels etc would be welcome. Jesus wants us to help the poor, so please do what you can to help for this project.
O LORD, we beseech thee, absolve thy people from their offenses; that through thy bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the bands of those sins, which by our frailty we have committed. Grant this, O Heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ’s sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen. Collect for the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity.
Our service last weekend included the Litany. This was the first officially sanctioned liturgy into English in the English Church during the time of Henry VIII. It came about with the English Reformation following the break from Rome. This work was done by Archbishop Cranmer and is mostly from the Latin Sarum Rite. Influences for this litany came from Cranmer himself, influences from Martin Luther and from early church father John Chrysostom. We at Saint John’s sing the Litany at the first service in any calendar month for its historical, ancient penitential and intercessory nature.
Father Andrews homily is attached and is really two homilies in one. This is a must read, as it addresses our last election and takes a wonderful Godly historical spin that honors our veterans, world history and how faith enters into this history. Thirteen pages, so brew up some tea to read. God bless, Deacon