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Rector’s Update: Sat 4/13
Dear friends, Attached is the leaflet for tomorrow's service. Remember that we will have only one service at 10 a.m., which will incorporate our annual parish meeting. After the service there will be a chili lunch in the parish hall. You're invited to bring a side or...
Rector’s Update: Thur 4/11
Dear friends, This Sunday is our annual parish meeting, a time when we affirm new vestry members, hear reports of the past year, and look ahead to the future. It's also a time for any questions or comments or things that we need to discuss as a parish. As we have for...
Rector’s Update: Sat 4/6
Dear friends, Tomorrow continues our Easter celebration. Actually it will continue until the Day of Pentecost, which this year is May 19th. The service leaflet for tomorrow is attached. We also will begin a new Sunday School series tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. based on a...
Rector’s Update: Tue 4/2, part II
Hi everyone, There was a serious omission in the listing of people to thank for the beautiful Holy Week and Easter services. But as you can tell by the pictures below, maybe this needed its own email. So, I thank Katharina McCawley for the exquisite (and...
Rector’s Update: Tue 4/2
Dear friends, There is news to share from the diocese today. Bishop Wright is one of four bishops nominated to be Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. The presiding bishop presides over meetings of the bishops, and participates in the ordination of new bishops....
Holy Week
Dear friends, This evening begins what is called The Triduum, or the Three Days, the most holy time of the Christian year. Tonight we mark the last night of Jesus' earthly life, and remember his final command to his disciples -- to love one another. Tomorrow evening,...
Rector’s Update: Sat 3/23
Dear friends, Tomorrow begins the most solemn, sacred week of the Christian year, the lead up to Easter known as Holy Week. We start tomorrow with Palm Sunday (service leaflet attached), a day that begins with joy and triumph as Jesus enters Jerusalem, and ends in...
Rector’s Update: Sat 3/16
Dear friends, The service leaflet for tomorrow is attached. It's hard to believe that one week from tomorrow is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. I'll be sending out a lot more information about that next week, but mark your calendars for the week's...
Rector’s Update: Mon 3/4
Dear friends, Last week was the first anniversary of Joe's death. It was a day I had dreaded for weeks, really since Joseph Henry and I got back from Italy in early January at about the same time that Joe went to the hospital last year. For the last two months I have...
Rector’s Update: Sat 3/2
Dear friends, You may remember that last Sunday we changed one of the hymns mid-service because, as I said at annoucements, it contained a word that is forbidden during Lent. Several of you asked me afterwards what that word was, which made me think it might be time...