Pretty great. It was youth choir recognition and we had a father/daughter duet at 9 & a sisters duet at 11:15 & a sermon suggesting that following God means change. Plus "The peace of God, it is no peace, but strife closed in the sod. Yet let us pray for just one thing, the marvelous peace of God."
I actually made it there! Was touched by the Gospel and wrote a poem during the sermon (I was still listening!), then had brunch with a friend that included an excellent mimosa, salmon eggs benny, & tiramisu.
A little less attendance than usual, but our conversation in youth formation was robust and fun. Our Yarn and Yap youth lunch was quiet but so productive! Now I nap before I lead young adult Bible study tonight!
I was well-fed spiritually today by our rector’s great sermon, the Eucharist and a lively “Not Just for Newcomers” class where we discussed salvation and grace.
Lovely. Had a celebration of scouting & our Sunday School teachers at 9 a.m. with some of our Scouts serving as lectors. Our organist/music director snuck in some "Star Wars" theme to his communion meditation.
Sneaking in Star Wars is the kind of thing my organist ex-husband would have done. He once improvised on Pink Floyd's "Money", playing the melody slowly in the pedals.
It was beautiful! I got the extended director's cut version of the Acts reading as Lector, and it was a blessing that I got there in matching shoes even though our power was out and it was dark as night this morning. I got dressed by faith and not by sight! TBTG!
Pretty good. The wrong gospel was printed and put in the white Easter gospel binder so in the middle of the nave so I had to dig out my phone from under my alb, open Working Preacher and find the gospel text while we sang two extra alleluia verses. 😏 ⚓️
Third baptism in 3 weeks! Our first Sunday service at 10:30 is a children's service. Our children's choir sang "We are the church." I blessed a 2 week old infant and watched his grandmother weeping for joy. I still have a 5:00 service at this holy place. My heart is full.
Good as always. Thanks for asking
But a special thing: A young man at the altar rail asked for a blessing, and I, kneeling right next to him, was able to hear every beautiful word of it. ❤️🙏😇
We had our last campus ministry lunch of the semester and a giant community clothing swap and I handed out finals week care packages. Also, the youth group led the service and one of them preached. Pretty good day.
‘Twas youth Sunday and the kids preached great sermons! Ended with one of my favorite hymns: Crown Him With Many Crowns, and tho not the topic of discussion by the youth, the Psalm hit pretty hard in my soul. So overall a pretty good Sunday!
Youth Sunday: blessings for all the students hitting a milestone grade continuation or graduation. Excellent homily by one of the high school seniors and music from several of the youth.
And then our organist paid homage to May the Forth by playing the Star Wars theme as a postlude.
a great youth sunday! two of our graduating seniors preached, youth read, ushered, greeted and acolyted and we trained ~10 new acolytes between services! and then at the later service we baptized a baby!!! ❤️
I admit I skipped for our one kid-free weekend away that we give ourselves. We stayed at a traditional b&b so the conversations over breakfast were basically like coffee hour.
We had the Low Sunday this week that many had last week, but it was Youth Sunday, so it was a good day! A high school senior preached; other youth read the lessons, brought forward the offertory, and provided music. And anyone who was “graduating” got come up at the announcements for a blessing!
I was off this week, and sat in the pews elsewhere on Sunday morning for the first time in probably 5+ years. The church is currently served by my pastor growing up, whom I've always tried to emulate.
Fun (and not over, I'm going back at 5pm). Preached an adult's homily at 8am and one for the kids at 10:15 where we learned about resurrection with the help of some Swedish Fish.
we have a basket with knitting in it for people who listen better when their hands are engaged; the scarves are donated locally. I finished a scarf today!!
It was good, although everyone was exhausted after multiple big annual events yesterday. We were all exhausted together though!
I helped with our 4th ever Newcomer’s Welcome Coffee between services, and then it turned out we had a handful of additional first time visitors at the second service.
Two things: a strong sermon on imagining one’s self as Ananias, and the news that our meal ministry fed more people this month than ever before, which is a gratifying sign of its capability, but also evidence that harder times have come to our neighborhood.
I'm actually going to the "contemplative" service (I honestly think this is a euphemism for casual) at my regular church in a couple hours, and I'm excited to take part in it.
Mainly for practical purposes! An evening service frees up my morning and lets me visit another church that is special to me. Real Have My Cake & Eat It Too hours
I’ve toyed with the idea of also attending the 8am Rite 1 service at our cathedral here. But our Eucharist starts at 9:30 so it’d probably be cutting it a bit close!
I visited St Luke’s, Baton Rouge, and it happened to be Bishop Duckworth’s visit! A fine homily about loving Christ. Some confirmations and receptions. A lovely choir anthem and reception after. Got to meet the bishop too!
My round 2 was a 3pm Mass at St George Catholic Church. My niece/goddaughter received her 1st communion. Packed house with ppl standing. Music from 5th grade chorus was great, with unexpected Rich Mullens. Dinner w/ extended family. Then to my mom’s where I was able to bless the icon I got her
My nephew then asked me to bless his cross. Lots of good questions about blessing. He said, “I think it’s cool that I have an uncle who can bless things.” My heart is very full 🥲
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But a special thing: A young man at the altar rail asked for a blessing, and I, kneeling right next to him, was able to hear every beautiful word of it. ❤️🙏😇
And then our organist paid homage to May the Forth by playing the Star Wars theme as a postlude.
So, good. Happy to hear her preach again.
I helped with our 4th ever Newcomer’s Welcome Coffee between services, and then it turned out we had a handful of additional first time visitors at the second service.
It is a historically Black church which sings from LEVAS so it felt good to sing from there. "Aaaaand He walks with me and He talks with me…"