Welcome

At St. Paul’s on the Green, visitors and newcomers are an important and expected part of our communal vitality.  We welcome people of all races, classes, sexualities, beliefs, and talents to the radical hospitality of God’s table.  All people who enter our sacred space enter with the promise that they will be free to be who they are.

Sunday Worship Schedule

9:00 am - Solemn Eucharist with Music
Children ages 4 – 7 begin worship with their families, depart for special worship following the Gospel and return for Holy Communion. Refreshments & Fellowship follow the service.

11:00 am – Solemn Eucharist with Choir
Children ages 4 – 7 begin worship with their families, depart for special worship following the Gospel and return for Holy Communion. Refreshments & Fellowship follow the service.

9:00 pm – Compline
20 minutes of gorgeous chant in a darkened, candlelit church – doors open at 8:30pm for quiet meditation and prayer

Rector’s Greeting

Welcome to our website! Two thousand years after Jesus lived among us, we are a church that sees our principal ministry to be one of healing, transformation, and restoration. especially removing any obstacles that keep people from knowing a richer and fuller life and the experience of God’s all embracing, unconditional love. I hope that what you find as you explore our website is an invitation to visit us at St. Paul’s on the Green and learn more about our parish community, its exciting life, mission, and ministry.

One of our mantras here at St. Paul’s is that “we do church differently.” At the center of that way of life is the openhandedness with which we welcome all to be part of what we do. Our “outside the box” perspective on belonging boasts a bold celebration of diversity, and the recognition that God has given us this wonderful thing called a brain and, with it, our individual intellectual gifts.

When guests come through our church doors they find this message: All persons who enter this sacred place enter with the promise that they will be free to be who they are. Radical Welcome and intentional hospitality are at the center of every aspect of our mission and ministry and in every point of entry to our life here.

We have witnessed anew a week of Holy Drama – the celebration of ancient rites all leading to a glorious festival of Easter Day: Resurrection. You and I are constantly faced with signs of resurrection—sometimes sudden and inexplicable. The Eastering of life did not happen just once on a Sunday morning in Jerusalem two thousand years ago. It happens everyday in all kinds of ways. I wonder, though, if our culture does not try to persuade us to look for the tomb, rather than for the new dimensions, new dreams, new expressions of resurrection around us. It may seem far easier to settle for the ambiguity of the empty grave than to embrace the breath-taking mystery of resurrection and live into it. Yet, I invite you to claim the promise that God will — and does — continue to breathe life into the dead zones of your lives, raise you up, and restore you. Won’t you join us at St. Paul’s to share in the mystery and beauty of this most sacred and hope-filled time of the church year?

Blessings,

Nicholas Lang+
Rector

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