Guest choir of choristers from St Luke’s Atlanta! Wilby “If Ye Love Me!” Longtime choir couple who moved to the UK back in town for a week with their terrific and shockingly grownup children!
Attended Grace Episcopal in Traverse City, Michigan, while doing a long weekend at a friend's lake house. Very good Rogation Days music and an on point homily about making the choice to work toward the New Jerusalem here and now.
It was a wonderful Sunday at Christ Church in Pensacola, Florida. Our parish incorporated some Memorial Day themes into the prelude, postlude, and announcements. We remembered many individual service members who died while serving.
For me personally, I got to church about a half an hour early and sat with a cup of coffee in the columbarium with my husband’s remains. It had been a while since I’ve shared coffee with him. It was good to spend time with him today.
I’m sorry for your loss, Stan. George died in March 2023… so just over two years for me. I try to visit him every week, even if it’s just for a few minutes.
We had a nice Rogation Day service today. Started with a Litany for the Planet, great hymns (including “All Creatures of our God and King”), good sermon by our assistant rector, and we all enjoyed the spectacular floral arrangements (see the pics)! ⚓️
Not officially. I’m planting a pollinator garden around the entry doors because the front of the church had been left during 2ish years of adjacent road contribution that just ended
Wonderful sermon given by @karanslade.bsky.social, a 3-week-old baby made his first church appearance, and got good news from a parishioner who had a big recent surgery. Lots to celebrate! ⚓️
Might have been the only “what this actually means in the original Greek…” sermon I have ever heard that remained a sermon and did not become an unwelcome academic lecture
My parish has moved from 5 Sunday services to 3 in the last few years (8/10/5), and it’s been an unambiguously good move for the congregation—I say as someone who was initially convinced it was the wrong choice.
I used to work at Christ Church Bronxville, so the world is my oyster, really! I was at St Ignatius of Antioch this morning. And have been to Christ’s Church Rye, and that’s kind of it!
I went to Christ Church Bronxville while I was attending Sarah Lawrence in the early 90s. The rector at the time turned out to be the son of the rector of the church in the East Village where I was baptized!
Low attendance because of the holiday. Well, they missed singing "Shall We Gather at the River" and a great sermon on healing. What was Jesus actually asking? And what was the crippled man actually saying in his answer?
Listen, the level of praise hands/hand motions rose gradually throughout the Mass and reached its peak when spontaneous applause and cheers broke out during v.3 of the closing hymn “then bursting forth in glorious day / up from the grave he rose again” so idk when the Spirit is up to but I dug it
i streamed it from home. one of the little girls had asked to be baptized and i was sorry to miss it. and our organist had a gorgeous postlude. we are so lucky to have him.
Read the prayers of the people this week and heard my parish choir give a rousing rendition of “Wade In The Water” as the communion hymn. Needed communion today and for all the faults of prayer C “for solace only and not for strength, for pardon only and not for renewal” hit like a truck today. ⚓️
Oh Prayer C has many wonderful moments. It’s the minutiae that I take issue with. It’s…dated to 1979 for sure and also I really like the propers so without them, it feels weird.
Also, as my parish has discovered by using it during Eastertide, many people are not used to the call and response of the Eucharistic prayer. Makes for very awkward moment in the beginning when maybe 1/4 of congregants say the first response and then you hear the frantic rustling of prayer books.
I agree with a lot of this, aaaand the fully sung setting of Eucharistic Prayer C that’s in the accompanist’s version of the hymnal kind of changed my mind recently! It just really really worked and really flowed well when everyone is singing all the pieces/responses. 😍
It was truly wonderful. I think modern-language hymns are starting to grow on me after we sang "Earth and All Stars". As silly as modern hymns are, they are truly sincere in calling the faithful to worship God. There is nothing like unabashedly praising the Lord without shame or reluctance. Amen!
We had a Rogation procession to the Memorial Garden and sand the Taize Vení Sancte Spiritus, with handbell accompaniment. All my favorite Rogation hymns. And a good sized congregation that included 14 kids/teens in our small congregation. After church the little ones gave our new playground climber+
2/ its inaugural work out. And a woman from the neighborhood (for whom I did a family funeral) came by with her 1.5 year old while we were on the playground and was inquiring about baptism for her daughter! ❤️
After doing deacon’s Mass last week and wisdom teeth extraction on Friday, I was toying with the idea of taking a rest day today to recover. Unfortunately, our supply priest fell ill, our “in residence” priest had a prior engagement, so we did MP with the Great Litany
I told our wardens we were leaning into the English Reformed side of the tradition today (we are rather High Church, but I’d quibble over charges of being AC lol)
I’m in charge of safe kids training, and I has to jump outta my pew to join children’s church out to the Sunday school room this morning, cuz there was no second person. So I missed the sermon.
Wonderful! An amazingly full house for a holiday weekend when the city feels pretty empty. Great hymns, including the Battle Hymn of the Republic. A young man new to the congregation with a gorgeous voice sat in the row behind me and supported the congregational singing.
We celebrated kids of the parish who are graduating from high school and gave them small scholarships. And there is a sense of joy and relief that our rector has decided to delay her retirement until a year from now.
There is a general feeling that with so much uncertainty in the lives of our congregation full of federal employees, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ folk, we could do without the uncertainty of changing clergy this year.
Online at 10:30 EDT at St. John the Divine NYC, lay Canon Stephen Nicholas, M.D., preached a bold and outstanding sermon. At 10:15 PDT in person at St. Gregory's, Long Beach, CA, was also uplifting. Nothing can replace Sacrament and fellowship face to face.
Great! One of our favorite supply priests. Fabulous sermon. Decent attendance for a holiday weekend. Recessional was Jesus Christ is risen today which made me scratch my head when I got the music schedule from our organist but it really worked!
Good sermon about asking oneself “are you ready” in the life of discipleship while holding the hope of Revelation and the peace of Jesus. People are excited about the next class I’m planning. I was upset that the final hymn was patriotic so I left for coffee hour early rather than sitting thru it.
I suppose that there would be some people who might be upset that we did not do patriotic stuff today…but they probably wouldn’t attend my church anyway!
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