Annual Outreach Meeting
We will have our annual outreach meeting this
Sunday immediately following the 10:00 service. A printed list of recipients
from last year will be available on Sunday morning and a copy will be emailed
on Saturday for those of you who will attend via Zoom. Thank you to Marty
Cloran for leading our meeting. Please plan to stay for about 30 minutes after
the service to help decide who this year’s recipients will be.
Christmas Services Schedule
A Blue Christmas service will be held
at 5:30 on Tuesday, December 21 at 5:30 pm. This is a quiet,
contemplative service designed to offer comfort and consolation to those who
have lost loved ones. Everyone is welcome – spread the word!
Christmas Eve services will be held at
5:00 and 10:00 pm on December 24. The 5:00 service is a
family service and will be livestreamed on Zoom and Facebook Live for those who
cannot attend in person. The 10:00 service is a quieter, more contemplative
service, and will be in person only.
A Christmas Day service will be held at
10:00 am
On Sunday, December 26 there will be
services at 8:00 and 10:00 as usual.
On Sunday, January 2 there will be a
Service of Lessons and Carols at 9:00 am led by our lay Worship Leaders
Blessings, Caroline
This Sunday-December 12
The Third Sunday of Advent
at 9:00 a.m.
The Collect
Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, let your bountiful grace and mercy speedily help and deliver us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be honor and glory now and for ever. Amen.
First Reading
Canticle 9 The First Song of Isaiah Isaiah 12:2-6
Second Reading Philippians
4:4-7
The Gospel Luke 3:7-18
Updating the Prayer List
Please let Deb know if you would like to add someone to the prayer list. Thank you.
The snow
began here
this morning and all day
continued, its white
rhetoric everywhere
calling us back to why, how,
whence such beauty and what
the meaning; such
an oracular fever! flowing
past windows, an energy it seemed
would never ebb, never settle
less than lovely! and only now,
deep into night,
it has finally ended.
The silence
is immense,
and the heavens still hold
a million candles; nowhere
the familiar things:
stars, the moon,
the darkness we expect
and nightly turn from. Trees
glitter like castles
of ribbons, the broad fields
smolder with light, a passing
creekbed lies
heaped with shining hills;
and though the questions
that have assailed us all day
remain - not a single
answer has been found -
walking out now
into the silence and the light
under the trees,
and through the fields,
feels like one
