Hello – Two of the things we can all do to stay healthy and balanced as we shelter-in-place are to attend to ritual and rhythm. Our major effort these last few weeks has been to connect us virtually for our most important weekly ritual of Sunday worship and the rhythm of our ordinary gatherings through the…
Hello – Join us tomorrow for virtual worship. Come to your screen prepared with a piece of bread and perhaps a sip of wine or juice for a virtual blessing at the appropriate time. Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/stpaulssanrafael/ And join us afterwards at 10:15am when we will virtually discuss Gerard Manley Hopkins’ great poem God’s…
Hello – First of all, our Bible Study of the Gospel of John continues tonight at 6:15pm, and you’re welcome to jump in. Email me at c.h.mrtn@gmail.com and I’ll send you the Zoom invitation. We’re on Chapter 6. Second, we continue to work on improvements to the Sunday 9am Facebook Live Service. We’re learning as we’re going. We…
Hello – In addition to ongoing phone calls, we continue our efforts to connect as many of us together as possible via phone, Zoom and Facebook Live. • Our Sunday 9am Worship had at least over 75 people watching it live and well over 120 people total who looked at it at one point or…
Link for Tomorrow’s Worship (Sunday) Hello – Here’s the link to join us for live worship tomorrow at 9am: https://www.facebook.com/stpaulssanrafael/ Libby will be leading us in music. For the offertory we’ll be singing the following hymn, which Libby taught the children. Here are the lyrics if you’d like to sing along: I want to walk…
Hello – In the last few days we’ve made some solid strides toward setting up a Virtual St. Paul’s to keep up our sense of connection in this time of isolation. • Worship on Sundays at 9am on Facebook Live. This coming Sunday, we will have better camera equipment and, you don’t have to have…
Hello – Our work together this week is setting up virtual St. Paul’s so that we can stay connected in this time of physical isolation. Starting next week you will have the opportunity to virtually gather with people from St. Paul’s on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: Tuesday Morning Prayer at 7:30am. Richard O. will lead…
Hello – I just met with members of the Vestry and the RenewalWorks Group. Together we came up with protocols for St. Paul’s for the next week, at least. The following is how we will keep this season of Sabbath together for the next week: • Worship tomorrow is at 9am. It will be broadcast…
Dear Friends, In light of the Coronavirus crisis we will be entering into a Sabbath time at St. Paul’s, at least for the remainder of the month of March. Sabbath time, in the biblical tradition, is a time of rest, of careful attention to purity codes and of deepening relationship with those few with whom…
Hello – I know that not all of you get the Diocesan emails. Here’s the latest from our Bishop about appropriate responses to the Coronavirus: March 7, 2020 Dear friends in Christ, With Sunday morning services less than twenty-four hours away, I know many of you are now weighing the difficult decision of whether to…