Grace Lutheran Church
1 W. Montgomery Street ~ Johnstown, NY 12095-2409
The Rev. David Almleaf, Pastor ~ May 2018
AY
Dear Members and Friends,
May is a busy month on the national and church calendar. We celebrate Mother’s Day and Memorial
Day asa nation. The Christian Church observes the remaining Sundays of Easter, the Ascension, the day of
Pentecost and the Holy Trinity,
Each American family observes Mother’s Day and Memorial Day according to their unique traditions.
‘The Christian Church observes Faster for seven weeks on the principal that the Resurrection is the
highest holiest day of all and it deserves a week of weeks to properly celebrate it.
cas Forty days after Easter Sunday, on the Thursday between the sixth and seventh
yy" Sundays of aster, the church observes Jesus’ day of Ascension , The Easter (or Paschal)
¢ / candle which has been lit and atthe altar since Faster morning is removed and unlit except
SS for baptisms and funerals as a way of symbolizing the Lord's return to the right hand of the
Father.
‘The cighth Sunday after Easter is Pentecost and a time to celebrate the giving of
the Holy Spirit to the church. ‘This day has become the most common day for Lutherans
to confirm our young People.