Tuesdays in Lent: Feasting on the Word
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.
Stations of the Cross/Viacrucis
Padre Beto Arciniega is offering Stations of the Cross/Viacrucis in Lent on Fridays at 7:00 pm. These are in Spanish and on Zoom for a more interactive experience.
Ash Wednesday services
Our Ash Wednesday services are at 7:00 am, 12:00 noon and 7:00 pm, all virtual. Please check our Facebook page, the home page of this website or our YouTube channel, STMAA Connection, to watch. The evening service will be bilingual, with music led by our usual Sunday small ensemble of awesome singers and musicians! Click here for the bulletin for all three services. The morning and noon services will be on pages 1-6, and the evening service on pages 7-20.
Lenten Reflections with Chris+
This Lent, Rector Chris Craun will be using 40-Day Journey with Howard Thurman as a daily practice of reflection, prayer and writing. If you would like to join her, please order the book or reserve one with the office as a few have been purchased. She will be offering space for mutual sharing and conversation on Wednesdays at noon, starting February 24, throughout the season. Please email her if you would like to receive the Zoom link.
Opportunities for an Uplifting Lent
“Uplifting” may not be the first thing you associate with Lent, but we hope it will be by the time Easter comes around this year. We’ve all suffered enough over the past year, but Lent was never about suffering more, anyway. Lent is a time for us to focus as much of our attention as one community as possible on who God is lifting us up to be, right here, right now. There are a range of ways you can help Lift Up Lent this year at St. Michael’s.
A Shining Moment
One of the shining moments of the inauguration of President Biden that I want to continue to reflect and pray about was Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, reading her poem
