Hello – Here are farthings to know about August at St. Paul’s: 1. The Back to School Barbecue is a week from Sunday, on August 20th, immediately following worship. Not only will there be great food and music, and we’ll also be offering a super easy way for you to express support to each of our students…
Hello – Three things (Surprise!) • Celebration: Tomorrow Erin and I present John, Kristen, Margaret, Aidan and Harper to receive the sacrament of Confirmation at Grace Cathedral. Be sure to offer your congratulations to them on this great step in their life of faith. • Invitation #1: Sunday I begin Basic Discipleship right after church in…
Hello – We are now in the Christian season of Ordinary Time. We’ve celebrated the birth of the church at Pentecost and so now enter a time of few major feasts. Here are some things to know about the summer at St. Paul’s: • My major focus for the next month will be starting and…
Hello – Chloe and I leave tomorrow for Harper’s graduation from college and I continue on to pilgrimage to the holy island of Linidfarne, in England. The Rev. Lynn Oldham-Robinett and the Rev. Carol Luther will be covering the two services while I’m gone. You’re in the good hands of two people who know and…
Hello – A quick reminder that today is our second annual celebration of flowers. If you have access to some flowers, please bring them so that you can participate in the opening of the service, when all who have flowers will be invited to bring them to the front of the church in honor of…
Hello – This Sunday is our second annual May Day Celebration of Flowers. I encourage you to bring flowers to church, particularly if you have them in your garden. The 10am service will begin with along and a ritual honoring Mary, where you will be invited to bring your flowers up to my french wooden statue of…
Hello – I am honored to have officiated at two gay weddings at St. Paul’s and to have been an advocate for gay rights since the 1980s. Yet it is undeniable that the plain sense of a handful of passages in the Bible seem to suggest that it is against the Bible to support gay rights…
Hello – After scaling back on our usual weekly schedule for Holy Week and Easter Week, we’re back up and running starting this week. Consider joining one of our weekly prayer and learning groups: • Tuesday at 8:30am is Morning Prayer on Zoom. Email Mike Green at mjesgreen@gmail.com to get the link. • Wednesday at 10am is Bible Study in Duncan…
Hello – The major projects of the next few months can be summarized by the title Flowers and the Three “C”s C #1 is Confirmation. On Saturday, June 10th, I will be taking a contingent of youth and adults to Grace Cathedral to be Confirmed, Received or Reaffirmed. All three are rituals led by the Bishop…
Hello – Tomorrow’s Good Friday Service at noon will be live-streamed both on Facebook and on our YouTube channel, ‘St. Paul’s, San Rafael.’ It will be just over an hour long. Our Easter morning 10am service will also be live-streamed as usual. Because it is the Vigil, it will be an hour and a half. Participation in…