Back From Vacation Hello – Today is my first day back at church after vacation. I already had lunch with the Belles of the St. Anne’s Guild and have been in touch with a wide range of our excellent leaders. It’s been good to hear of how much has been done while I’ve been gone…
A potluck is a situation in which one must take a chance that whatever is available will prove to be good or acceptable. To me, that sounds a little like faith. A potluck is also defined as a community gathering where each person brings a homemade dish of food to be shared. And has faith…
As we crest over the middle of this year and into the heat summer I suddenly realized the importance of one of the projects we have been working on these past months. St. Paul’s has been putting together its own disaster plan to help prepare us for future events that might impact our Parish community…
Grace and Peace be unto you from God our Creator and the Lord Jesus Christ. I can hardly contain my feelings at how wonderful it is to join with colleagues such as Joan Adams, Judy Rowcliffe, Michael Green, Walter Tanner, Kate Sprague, Rev. Christopher Martin, and most recently Pat Curtis who is leading St. Paul’s…
It is a great gift to me to be here, in this place and at this time, with all of you! I’m grateful for your hospitality and for the honor of being entrusted by your Rector with the care and feeding of St. Paul’s while he is away. As I said to Christopher, I will…
From the Senior Warden: This weekend the sun will reach its highest point in the sky, we’ll have the longest days of the year, and summer has definitively arrived. Likewise the Church’s liturgical season has passed from Pentecost to Ordinary Time, also called Trinitytide. “Ordinary” doesn’t mean regular or every-day, but rather comes from ordinal, meaning…
Hello – This Sunday, for the third time, we begin a new liturgical season with a worship service centered in silence. Brigitte and Pat will be leading this celebration of silence at the 8am service. The 10am service will be as usual with at least three important additions. Jacob will be sharing with us a…
Hello – This Sunday, our late service will be at 10:30am at Nativity Church at 333 Ellen Drive in San Rafael. Like last year, we will be celebrating Pentecost, the birth of the church, with Nativity, Redeemer and St. Francis’ Episcopal Churches. The Rev. Lynn Oldham Robinett, former Associate Rector of St. Paul’s, will be preaching a…
Hello – The next two weeks at St. Paul’s are spiritually rich. Here’s the rundown of what’s going on: 1. Annual Assessment of Christian Practices. Please take 2-3 minutes to fill out the Annual Assessment of Spiritual Practices. It’s just 12 multiple choice questions. It’s open form now until June 9th, Pentecost. Here’s the link.…
Thanks to St. Paul’s San Rafael for hosting the first Values in Action Event “We had a delightful, community-building event preparing the bags of Honore flour for our sister churches throughout the country. We started and began with prayer and had a productive, sociable and flour-covered two hours together. Our one piece of advice is…