by Patricia Templeton | Apr 10, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, The funeral for our parishioner Tommy Hannah will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow. Attendance is limited because of our Covid protocols, but you can watch a live-stream of the service here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2960901054188227/ Please keep Mary Jane...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 8, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Hi everyone, I just have a few announcements/reminders. First, we do still have spots open for Sunday’s service. We need to know by tomorrow how many people are coming so that we can do the seating arrangements. Remember that because of the Covid protocols you...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 6, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, What a wonderful Easter Sunday it was! It lacked some of the “pomp” of previous years with no singing, no procession, and a limited number in the congregation. But after more than a year of being apart, it was great to be together, and to...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 4, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Wow! I could just stand here and look at you all morning. It is so wonderful to see your faces, or at least your eyes. It is so wonderful to hear more than one or two voices joining together to say the prayers, the psalms, the responses. It is so...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 3, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, I’m looking out at something I haven’t seen in more than a year — the church bustling with activity preparing for tomorrow. Silver is being polished, linens are being ironed, flowers are being arranged, floors are being mopped, grass is...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 2, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Unimaginable suffering. Excruciating pain. Bottomless grief. Incomprehensible cruelty. All of that is on display on this most somber day when we remember the death, the execution, of Jesus. It’s a hard...
by Patricia Templeton | Apr 1, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Today we enter into the Triduum, Latin meaning three days. The Easter Triduum begins this evening with the Maundy Thursday service remembering the last night of Jesus’ life. Tomorrow, Good Friday, we remember Jesus’ death on the cross. On...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 30, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Today is Tuesday in Holy Week. In a normal year, I would gather this day with all the clergy of the diocese and Bishop Wright to renew our ordination vows. That is a Holy Week practice throughout the church. In the busiest week of the year for clergy, we set aside...
