While we are still likely a ways off from reopening for regular in-person worship at St. Michael’s, we wish to create a few opportunities for you to prayerfully visit the space and draw near to the sacred center we share with one another.

We’re kicking off another four-week round of our small groups with Associate Rector James Joiner in July. These groups meet over Zoom for an hour each week and are a great opportunity for checking in with each other about the news and our lives as we reflect on the upcoming Sunday Gospel and pray together.

He shall deliver the poor who cries out in distress, and the oppressed who has no helper.

Father of orphans, defender of widows, God in his holy habitation!

You, O God, have heard my vows; you have granted me the heritage of those who fear your Name.

You make the dawn and the dusk to sing for joy. You visit the earth and water it abundantly.

Whenever I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

Discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

For you yourself created my inmost parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will thank you because I am marvelously made; your works are wonderful, and I know it well.

Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. I would flee to a far-off place and make my lodging in the wilderness. I would hasten to escape from the stormy wind and tempest.

I say to you, do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.