Our Savior Lutheran Church- Port Charlotte, Fl Sunday Worship 10 AM

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02/24/2025

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Pr. Steve

08/03/2024

Hi all - it has been a while! Join us on Sunday for worship, fun, and fellowship at Our Savior. Come and see our new seating, sign, and the improvements to our property. See you soon!

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07/24/2023

Denver Colorado

03/17/2023

This post originated with Father Larry Recla, the Dean of the Florida Chapter of the Society of the Holy Trinity. Enjoy!

We celebrate March 17 in commemoration of St. Patrick's great and noble deed in driving the Norwegians out of Ireland.

It seems that centuries ago many Norwegians came to Ireland to escape the bitterness of the cold Norwegian winter.

Ireland was having a famine at the time and food was quite scarce.

The Norwegians were eating almost all the fish caught in the area, leaving the Irish with nothing but potatoes.

St. Patrick, taking matters into his own hands, like most Irishmen do, decided the Norwegians had to go.

Secretly he organized the IRATRION (Irish Republican Army to Rid Ireland of Norwegians).

Members of the IRATRION sabotaged all power plants in the hope that the fish in Norwegians' refrigerators would spoil,

and force the Norwegians to a colder climate where their fish would keep.

The fish spoiled all right, but the Norwegians, as everyone knows to this day, thrive on spoiled fish.

Faced with failure, the Irishmen sneaked into the Norwegians' fish storage caves in the dead of night and sprinkled the rotten fish with lye,

hoping to poison the intruders, but, as everyone knows, this is how Lutefisk was introduced to the Norwegians and they thrived on the lye-soaked smelly fish.

Matters became even worse for the Irishmen when the Norwegians started taking over the Irish potato crop and making Lefsa.

Poor St. Pat was at his wits end.

Finally on March 17th, he blew his top and told the Norwegians to go to Hell---and it worked.

All the Norwegians left Ireland and went to Minnesota.



Fr Lawrence (Larry) Recla, STS

04/12/2022

We are having our Christian Seder on Thursday, April 14th at 6 PM. We have plenty of food so feel free to join us.

The Good Friday service will be in remembrance at 6 PM.

Easter Sunday service wil be celebrated at 10 AM on this coming Sunday, April 17th.

Please join us for wonderful worship experiences.

02/26/2022

I would like to invite all of you to a special week.

Tomorrow, Feb. 27th, we will pull the pledges of the people to God for the year and put them in the cauldron to burn for the ashes for Ash Wednesday.

Tomorrow's service will also be a hymn sing celebration. We have 12 hymns selected and we will tell the story of each hymn and the scripture that inspired the hymn.

Wednesday, March 2nd, we will celebrate the imposition of Ashes as the beginning of a 40-day remembrance of the sacrifice of our Lord on the cross for our eternal life. Our Ash Wednesday Service begins at 6 PM.

Finally, we will celebrate a service of the laying on of hands and of healing on March 27th. I have a new service out of one of the new Lutheran Hymnal's Agenda. We will be trying this service for the first time.

Come join us in worship and celebration for these services!

02/02/2022

I want to thank Pastor Frances for serving as our leader during my recovery after surgery. I will be in the pulpit on Sunday, January 6th, to lead our worship.