While transportation and technology connect us readily to the other side of the world, commercial and political forces work relentlessly to cordon us off from a next door neighbor, luring us into silos where we can be with people who like what we like, have what we have, and think like we think.
A week from Sunday is our first Choral Evensong of 2024! Please join us at 5:00 pm on February 4 as we celebrate the Feast of Candlemas, commemorating the presentation of Jesus at the Temple forty days after Christmas. In addition, a non-liturgical music event coming up at St. Michael’s is “Jane Austen’s Parlour” on Saturday, February 17, at 4:00 pm.
We are pleased to announce that the ordinations of our curate SuEllen Pommier and two others have been rescheduled for Friday, February 16, at 7:00 pm at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. They were originally scheduled for January 19 but delayed due to weather challenges.
Building on the success of last year’s bilingual reading group, which met throughout Lent, the group leadership has chosen another book to read together this year, “Holy Moments: A Handbook for the Rest of your Life,” by Matthew Kelly.
Members of the Advocacy Action Committee will be in the Gallery this Sunday, January 28, at 10:15 am with letters to the heads of Citibank and Bank of America. The letters are in protest of both banks continuing financial support of fossil fuel expansion. Please note that this activity was originally scheduled for Jan. 14 but delayed due to weather challenges.
In light of the potential for a variety of precipitation through this weekend, including the likelihood of snow and very low temperatures on Saturday, January 13, please keep an eye on your email or this space. In the event of cancelled services, that information will be sent out in an eblast (and on this Home Page) as soon as a decision is made.
Some of this Sunday’s music was chosen in recognition of MLK Day on January 15. The choir’s offertory anthem is an arrangement of the African American spiritual “Hush! Somebody’s callin’ my name,” which employs a simple, rhythmic pattern to highlight the last two letters of each “hush.”
The closest neighboring church to St. Michael’s, Rose City Park Presbyterian, is hosting a two-day retreat with Celtic luminary John Philip Newell and Cami Twilling on Friday-Saturday, February 16-17. The retreat, based on his award-winning book “Sacred Earth Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom or Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World,” offers several events at the church.
Sunday Worship Schedule
7:30 – Spoken Traditional language (Rite 2 with no music)
9:00 – Traditional Service with Choir
11:00 – Inclusive Language with Choir
1:00 pm – Misa en Español
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