Welcome to Holy Trinity Church!
We are delighted to welcome you to our worship of the True and Living God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.  Please join us following Worship for a time of fellowship and refreshments.  This Service Leaflet provides the printed order of service so worshippers can follow the succession with little direction from the Celebrant.  This formality is observed to allow for greater concentration on the Worship of Almighty God and to minimize incursions in the service which is designed to emphasize both the majesty of the Triune God and the worshipers’ reverence and awe in His presence.

 About The Reformed Episcopal Church
For 130 years, the Reformed Episcopal Church has remained faithful to the inerrant Word of God, powerfully proclaiming the unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ and worshipping Him in Spirit and Truth using the Biblical and time-honored Book of Common Prayer.

Directory
The Most Reverend Leonard W. Riches, D.D.         Presiding Bishop & Diocesan
The Right Reverend Daniel Cox, D.D.		       Interim Bishop Suffragan
The Venerable Jon W. Abboud, M.Div.                            Diocesan Archdeacon
The Reverend Canon David L. Hicks, M.Div.                 Canon to the Ordinary
The Reverend Robert W. Bowman, D.Min.                              Missionary Vicar
Dr. Sam E. Mansour					      Bishop’s Warden
Mrs. Sam E. Mansour (Joanne)					      Organist

Church Mailing Address, Phone and Website 
P.O. Box 321442      Centreville, VA.  20120
703-579-1069			                                   www.fairfaxrecus.org

Sundays at Holy Trinity Church
9:30 AM in our temporary location at the John C. Wood Complex, 3730 Old Lee Highway, old town Fairfax (behind the police station).
Holy Communion & Sermon - First and Third Sundays and all major feast  days.
Morning Prayer & Sermon- Second and Fourth Sundays.
Morning Prayer, Litany & Sermon - Fifth Sundays (and  Second, Fourth & Fifth Sundays in Advent, Pre-Lent, Lent and Passiontide).
Sunday School follows worship.

Holy Trinity Church 

A Mission of the Reformed Episcopal Church
Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic

The Second Sunday in Lent

March 7,  A.D. 2004                              NineThirty O’clock in the Morning

“BLESSED ARE THE MEEK”

	Additional help in determining for us the meaning and scope of the word “meek” is to be obtained from duly noting our present verse in the light of the two preceding ones.  It is to be kept steadfastly in mind that in those Beatitudes our Lord is describing the orderly development of God’s work of grace as it is experientially realized in the soul.  First, there is a poverty of spirit: a sense of our insufficiency and nothingness, a realization of our unworthiness and unprofitableness.  Next, there is a mourning over our lost condition, sorrowing for the awfulness of our sins against God.  And now we have meekness as a by-product of self-emptying and self-humiliation; or, in other words, there is a broken will and a receptive heart before God.  Meekness is not only the anithesis of pride, but of stubbornness, fierceness, vengefulness.  It is the taming of the lion, the making of the wolf to lie down as a kid.  Meekness is the opposite of self-will toward God, and of ill-will toward men.  Matthew Henry says, “The meek are those who quietly submit themselves before God, to His Word, to His rod, who follow His directions and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward men.”

(from AN EXPOSITION OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT by A.W. Pink, pages 22-23)