Dr. Stephen Barnes,a vestryman at St. Joseph, has been named a Fulbright Scholar. He and his family will depart for the Baltic Republic of Latvia late July, where he will be teaching at Daugavpils University for the academic year of Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
The Fulbright Scholar program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each gear where grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
This is a tremendous honor for the College of the Ozarks, St. Joseph Anglican Church, and the Barnes family.
Congratulations!!
Picture of our new organ, thanks to Mr. Matt Chadwick of McKinney, Texas!
Signed by Lawrence Welk!
On March 3, 2008, this group observed an old English tradition called Mothering Sunday. In this case, the people of St. Joseph in Branson, Missouri, and the people of St. Thomas in Mountain Home, Arkansas, returned to their mother church, St. Francis in Ava, Missouri.
In modern times, the term "Mothering Sunday" is essentially equivalent to Mother's Day, but this is a recent development and its history is quite different.
Mothering Sunday did not begin as a celebration of motherhood, but a synonym of Laetare Sunday in the Christian liturgical calendar. During the sixteenth century, people returned to their "mother church" for a service to be held on the fourth Sunday of Lent. This was either a large local church, or more often the nearest Cathedral. Anyone who did this was commonly said to have gone "a-mothering". It was often the only time that whole families could gather together, if prevented by conflicting working hours.
The Epistle for the fourth Sunday in Lent as set out in the Book of Common Prayer gives a special place to the theme of maternal love: Galatians 4:26 states that "Jerusalem which is above is free; which is Mother of us all."
