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Floor nominations at the Annual Meeting
The nominations committee has, in accordance with parish bylaws, put before the parish nominees for co wardens, vestry members, co treasurers, clerk and delegates to the annual convention of the diocese. The bylaws and church canons provide for nominations from the floor except for the office of warden. Any person so nominated must agree to placing […]
Continue ReadingEpiphanies — from the Parish Wardens
Most of the conversations we’ve had in late December and the 1st of January have included some version of “I’m sure glad to see the end of 2020!” Indeed! And, yet, we might also pause to reflect on the Epiphanies many of us have had – both small and large. What were yours? An awakening […]
Continue ReadingLove Came Down at Christmas
Looking back over Advent, I count over 50 different St. Paul’s gathering events where we’ve participated in prayer, reflection, socializing, and giving. In addition, many of you have continued to check in on one another weekly and sometimes daily. In this way we have been able to reach out, connect, and care for one another […]
Continue Reading“Finding joy and blessings in cooking for others” by Margaret West
I am baking again this Advent, as I have ever since I can remember. Dozens of batches of cookies with the extravagant holiday aromas of spices, chocolate, mint, nuts, fruit or candy added to the basic butter, sugar, eggs, flour, leavening and salt. What began as early childhood helping turned into a competency that by […]
Continue ReadingA Reflection on Middle Collegiate Church by Fr. Daniel
Many of you may have heard of the tragic fire that destroyed Middle Collegiate Church in New York City this past week (read Pastor Jacqui Lewis’ post here). Middle Church is the oldest continuously gathered congregation in America, dating from the earliest Dutch settlement on Manhattan. The church building was historic and beautiful, and its […]
Continue Reading“Connection” by Sandy Bria
This past week we celebrated the Thanksgiving Holiday. For me, suffice it to say, the week was like no other as my family was forced to quarantine under the threat of Covid. While test results eventually came back negative, we were not able to celebrate in person on the holiday. I discussed my disappointment with […]
Continue ReadingConnected Christmas at St. Paul’s
“The heart of this parish beats strong, and I so look forward to celebrating this upcoming season with you, full of faith, hope, and love. God bless us all with eyes to see Christ coming among us, bringing disruptive and liberating good news for all people, and doing a new thing in our time.” […]
Continue Reading“Staying Grounded in this Time of COVID” by Ann Russell
Rituals can be powerfully grounding, inspiring, transformative…when mindfully conceived, authentically communicated, artistically executed. Or they can be repetitive OCD behavior, pretty much devoid of lively, meaningful metaphor and depth, disconnected from the very real challenges of life. At best, perhaps a comforting superstition Since my first experience of Compline at St. Paul’s in 2004, I […]
Continue ReadingRegathering Update, November 11, 2020
Over the past two months, a St. Paul’s team convened by Fr. Daniel and led by Sandy Bria and Carol Custus, along with Marsha Dunn, Ryan and Elia Kopreski, Barbara McCabe, Terri Polley, Jake Street, and Anne Watkins, has worked to define the conditions and mitigate the risks of our regathering for worship in the […]
Continue Reading“Room for that and more” by Terri Polley
I so want to be a better person. A more Christ-like person. Every morning when I wake up and drink my coffee, read my morning readings and say my morning prayers, I resolve, again, to be just that. I will remember today, I tell myself, that in every encounter with another living being, I will […]
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