Lumen Christi by Eustaquio Santimano. From Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. Photograph from St. Mary's of the Angels, Singapore. Prayers requested:If you would like to add a name to the prayer list or an event, please email the Rector.We pray for all our ministries and all who … Continue reading Happy Friday! January 26, 2024
Happy Friday! January 19, 2024
Prayers requested:If you would like to add a name to the prayer list or an event, please email the Rector.We pray for all our ministries and all who participate: for our worship partners, St. Martin's & St. Luke's Episcopal Church; for the Mail Service (Mon-Friday 10am-2pm), and Movie Night; for St. Mary's vitality; for on … Continue reading Happy Friday! January 19, 2024
Happy Friday! January 12, 2024
Prayers requested: If you would like to add a name to the prayer list or an event, please email the Rector. We pray for all our ministries and all who participate: for our worship partners, St. Martin's & St. Luke's Episcopal Church; for the Mail Service (Mon-Friday 10am-2pm), and Movie Night; for St. Mary's vitality; … Continue reading Happy Friday! January 12, 2024
SERMON: The Wounded Spirit of Resurrection
By: Eric Tuttle, St. Mary's seminarian This is a strange time to be celebrating Easter. Usually Easter is a time for celebrating new life: spring comes, flowers bloom, the trees stretch out their new green leaves to soak up the longer and warmer sunny days. But this year, what has changed? If anything has changed, … Continue reading SERMON: The Wounded Spirit of Resurrection
Easter Day Sermon
April 12, 2020 Good morning and happy Easter! Resurrection has not been easy on my mind. I was thinking of an image or idea that captures resurrection in our time, and what I came up with here at St. Mary’s are the tulip buds that will bloom very soon. We have not had tulip bulbs … Continue reading Easter Day Sermon
Sermon: The Costs to Integrity
By: The Rev. Mary Foulke February 16, 2020 • Epiphany 6A Good morning St. Mary’s. For a couple of weeks now I have been reflecting on the concept of integrity, and how we seem to have lost all sense of it in our culture. In the dictionary integrity is defined as the quality of being … Continue reading Sermon: The Costs to Integrity
Sanctuary
"In keeping with out commitment to welcome the stranger, our church, partners and ministers will not cooperate with the Trump Administration's efforts to deport or detain our immigrant and refugee neighbors. We will not provide any information to law enforcement agencies pursuing immigration cases, nor will we voluntarily allow them entry to our facilities." "De … Continue reading Sanctuary
Reflection on the danger of claiming: “We are all immigrants” July 2019
5th Sunday after Pentecost • Proper 10 C track 2, 7/14/2019 Good Morning St. Mary’s! It seems we couldn’t pick a more fitting scripture for this Sunday, a Sunday when raids are threatening to round up immigrants in our city and other cities - our impulse is to define this scripture as the obvious call … Continue reading Reflection on the danger of claiming: “We are all immigrants” July 2019
Contemplation and Action at St. Mary’s
Support St. Mary's Community Work and Prayer Just last week I came upon a Food Pantry volunteer deep in prayer: she was praying for each man, woman and child (as young as 7 years old) pictured on a poster of Black and Brown people killed by the police that is posted in the entryway to the … Continue reading Contemplation and Action at St. Mary’s
Sermon: The Sixth Sunday of Easter
by The Rev. Dr. Mary L. Foulke Sunday, June 2, 2019 Good Morning St. Mary’s! There is one of those sayings that has been going around for a long time, even before social media people had little posters of it: “if you want to make God laugh, make plans.” It’s a guess, but I think … Continue reading Sermon: The Sixth Sunday of Easter
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