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.
The St. Michael’s Vestry is beginning to plan for elections at the Annual Meeting, which will take place on January 28, 2024. We will be voting for four new members of the vestry as well as convention delegates. Please prayerfully consider if you have the time and interest in serving in one of these vitally important positions.
This week, we celebrated the spring equinox and the first full day of spring. As spring weather takes hold, we are invited to awaken to the stirrings of new life and renewed hope, winter’s stone is rolling away. Daffodils, crocuses and even some tulips have heard their names called and have unwrapped their faces to display their color and beauty, fresh from their winter tombs.
We are offering three meaningful prayer and study opportunities this Lenten season. One is a small-group gathering, and two are book studies.
In a series of Sunday history forums, continuing on Sunday, January 15, at 10:15 am in the Nativity Hall, we are exploring the roots of the attributes that make this such a special place. These forums will be in-person and also available to watch on Zoom. Check your Thursday eblast for the link.
January and February will be “St. Michael’s History Months.” In a series of Sunday forums, beginning January 8 at 10:15 am in the Nativity Hall, we will explore the roots of the attributes that make this such a special place. This series will be presented by parishioner and historian The Rev. Dr. Caroline Litzenberger.
Legacy Writing is the opportunity to tell your own story and impart your values, life lessons, wisdom and love with family and loved ones. The main purpose of Legacy Writing is to communicate to family and loved ones what matters most in your life. Your life has meaning and value. You have a legacy worth leaving future generations. Learn ways to document your unique legacy.
While much uncertainty reigns for many reopening plans in church and beyond, there are still several ways to connect with fellow parishioners on our shared journey of faith
One of the primary sources we have for understanding how monastics engaged the practice of contemplative reading of scripture in the first centuries of the Church’s life is called The Ladder of Monks, by a Carthusian named Guigo II. “The ladder” was the practice by which monks considered the text before them and examined it with study and questions and commentary, but then also began to leave their intellectual work behind for the spiritual work of contemplating what was beyond the power of their rational mind to understand.
Do you have a devotional practice around what you read in the morning? Would you like to develop one? Many people of prayer have kept books of inspirational texts and poetry nearby to tune their hearts with first thing in the morning.
Sunday Services
7:30 – Rite I Traditional language with no music.
9:00 – Rite II Holy Eucharist with choir
11:00 – Inclusive language with choir
1:00 pm – Misa en Español
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