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March 2014
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Our Many Hungers, an Exploration for Lent By The Rev. Heather VanDeventer
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ur theme for Lent this year is hunger. We experience many kinds of hunger in our lives. Our bodies experience physical hunger for food, but we also hunger for touch and connection. We experience emotional hunger for deeper connection in our relationships, yet we also yearn for the release of fears and pain. We experience spiritual hunger and thirst and cry with the Psalmist, “As the deer longs for the water-brooks, so longs my soul for you O God” (Psalm 42:1). The Sunday forums during Lent will explore these different aspects of hunger, seeking to deepen your Lenten journey. Following the example of our high school forum youth, our Lenten focus on hunger calls us to look at the causes of physical hunger in our
communities, in the United States, and around the world. The Outreach Committee has suggestions for how to deepen your Lenten experience with practices that will alleviate hunger in our local community and educate about the root causes of hunger around the world. In particular, the congregation is invited to participate in the SNAP Challenge as a different way of keeping a Lenten fast. This year Christ Church returns to a shared Lenten book study for
Lenten small groups. All are invited to read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. This novel begins with the receiving of a letter, which causes Harold Fry to begin a journey that will take him 600 miles from his house, but that leads him to his heart’s true home. A variety of small groups and long-standing ministries will be reading and discussing the book. See the Lent section of the website for more information and to join a small group.
HVAC Construction Continues
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ork to replace and upgrade the existing heating and air conditioning systems in all Christ Church buildings, except for Fowler House, has been ongoing since January. While that work may not be visible at present, it is a massive undertaking, and throughout 2014 and into January of 2015, it will be obvious to all. As pointed out in last month’s Rejoice, there will be disruptions to the activities and the work of the parish. Those disruptions will include the relocation of meetings and possibly some services, as well as multiple staff office changes as work progresses
throughout the year. This will include moving the reception desk and rerouting foot traffic. Every effort will be made to provide timely updates to minimize those disruptions to staff and schedules by utilizing all communication tools available. The chiller that caused the failure of the air conditioning last summer is being replaced, and the concrete bases for the new chiller will be modified and poured in March. The new chiller is expected in late April and it will take several weeks for it to be fully installed. Unfortunately, there will be no air conditioning for Holy Week and
Easter, but since they take place this year in the latter part of April, we can all hope for milder weather to prevail. Replacement of air handling units located in the church cellar, scaffolding on the west side of the church, and removal of the west window in the tower will all begin in April and will be noticeable. The window opening will be used for removing old equipment and bringing in new equipment to serve the church. In addition to monthly Rejoice articles, look for regular updates in Parish Life and on the website, www.historicchristchurch.org.
Rejoice is the official monthly publication of Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, an Episcopal church in the Diocese of Virginia. The Rt. Rev. Shannon Johnston Thirteenth Bishop of Virginia The Rt. Rev. Susan Ellyn Goff Suffragan Bishop The Rt. Rev. Edwin F. (Ted) Gulick, Jr. Assistant Bishop of Virginia Vestry John Lawson, Senior Warden Janet Osborn, Junior Warden John Burns, Susan Davis, Elizabeth Dakin, John Kennedy, Brian Shannon, Kevin Smith, Steve Vajs, Stephanie Waldhoff, Peter Wyckoff, Janet Zavrel Tykie Tobin, Treasurer Andrew Baird, Assistant Treasurer Clergy The Rev. Pierce Klemmt, Rector The Rev. Ann Gillespie, Senior Associate Rector The Rev. Heather VanDeventer, Associate Rector for Faith Formation and Evangelism The Rev. Dr. Diane Murphy, Priest Associate Emily Lukanich Ministry Resident John Hogg, Fares Naoum Seminarians The Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Johnson, Jr. Director of Ministry Resident Program Director of Music M. Jason Abel Christ Church embodies God’s unbounded love by embracing, liberating, and empowering people, whoever you are and wherever you find yourself on your journey of faith. The Rejoice deadline is the third of the month preceding the publication. Please send proposed articles to membership@ ccalex.org. Those accepted are subject to editing for length and content. Tara Knox edits Rejoice and is the staff liaison while Craig Keith provides design and layout. Carol Donlan gives her time and talent as an advisor for Rejoice.
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By Jason Abel
Music in March
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horal Evensong will be sung on Sunday, March 2, by the Christ Church Choir. At 4:40 p.m., the organ prelude will begin by Nicholas Bideler. Mr. Bideler is the Associate Organist and Choirmaster at the Church of St. Michael and St. George in St. Louis, Missouri. At 5:00 p.m. the service of Evensong will begin featuring music of Herbert Howells, Harold Friedell, and Craig Phillips. A reception will follow the service. All are welcome to attend. On Thursday, March 13, the Birmingham Southern College Choir, under the direction of Dr. Lester Seigel, will perform a free concert at Christ Church from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. This remarkable ensemble has sung throughout the United States and beyond, and will be singing at Christ Church as part of their east coast tour. Birmingham Southern College is a four-year private liberal arts school located in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded in 1856, the school is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and enrolls about 1200 students.
Finance Committee 101
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goal of the strategic plan is to better inform the parish about the handling of money and general financial matters at the church. To that end, members of the finance committee have prepared information about the workings of the committee. This is the eleventh in a series about the work of the committee to appear in Rejoice. Detailing the total financial picture of Christ Church The best way to understand the resources and commitments of the church is to review the monthly financial package that is distributed to the church email list each month or by contacting the treasurer at 703549-1450. The budget report details the donations and other income
along with the financial commitments planned for the year by the vestry. Designated funds are detailed in a separate report in the package as is the donation and use of the funds from the Foundation. Christ Church also owns buildings, land, designated funds, a restricted trust, and reserves. These items are quantified each month on the balance sheet.
Senior Lenten Luncheon
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here will be a special Lenten luncheon for our seniors, at 11:30 a.m. on March 14, in the Meade Room. We will have a short Morning Prayer, with the Rev. Richard Jones, followed by a light lunch. Please join us.
Hunger Hurts By the Rev. Pierce Klemmt
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uring the season of Lent, the youth of Christ Church have challenged us to deepen our understanding and commitment to ending hunger. They will be inviting each of us to commit ourselves, so far as we are able, to pray, listen, reflect and offer ourselves in an ensemble of activities to sharpen our awareness and passion for those who hunger. As a backdrop to these invitations to learn and serve, our Sunday forums will focus on the many forms of human hunger. Hunger is normal for human life. But hungering and not being satisfied creates suffering. Some
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of the things we will be considering for discussion in Lent and beyond will be our hunger for good, fasting, exercise, spiritual journey, connection, purpose, emotional health, beauty, meaningful work, vocation, healing, community, service, home, and legacy. Physical hunger is not caused by the scarcity of food, limited agricultural capacity or lack of technology for distribution. You can get a dozen fresh roses from Brazil in less than a day. Hunger is the legacy of greed and the lack of social and political will to change the global systems that keep people hungry and poor. Ours is the first generation in
world history with the capacity to end hunger and, yet, we turn away from God’s will by devoting our politics and time to intelligence, fundraising, payoffs, war, frivolous entertainment, and consumption of things way more than we need. Yet there are other hungers shared by all in spite of wealth. What is the first thing off our shelves Lazarus guests desire most? The fresh flowers we get from Trader Joe’s. We hunger for meaningful work, the occasion to experience beauty in art or nature. We hunger for the connection and touch of lovers and friends. We hunger for robust health. What is on your list? Come and join me every Sunday in Lent as we explore and share these epic longings.
Capital Campaign Update
e continue to make great progress on the construction of the new Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. Construction began in early January, and continues every day during the week. (See page 1 for an update.) We have established a Capital Campaign to support the HVAC project, with a goal of raising $1.8 million from the congregation. Chris & Ann McMurray, and Ted & Lee Ellett are serving as Co-Chairs of the Capital Campaign, and so far have recruited more than thirty dedicated volunteers assisting them in this effort. As Ted Ellett shared at the February 23 forum, “The need to replace the broken HVAC system is very time-sensitive, and filling that need is absolutely critical to the healthy functioning of Christ Church and all of its programs. This replacement
will benefit all parish families and the many non-parishioners whose lives are enriched by our diverse community-oriented programs, both today and for decades to come. Raising $1.8 million through pledges from our parish family is challenging. But it is fully achievable if we all pull together and each of us does our part—by making a pledge that reflects the critical importance of this project, and hopefully, by serving as a volunteer visitor in the campaign. This is not somebody else’s campaign or somebody else’s responsibility. None of us can expect someone else to pick up the slack if we do not do our part. There isn’t any someone else. There is no us and them in this situation. There is just Me and We! Let’s all do our part!” Our goal is to visit each mem-
ber of Christ Church personally to explain how our needs will be addressed through this historic project. The Campaign has raised more than $500,000 pledged, so far, more than 30% of our overall goal. If you have already given to the Campaign, thank you. If you have not already been contacted, in the next few weeks a fellow parishioner will contact you to set up a visit to discuss this exciting endeavor. Please graciously accept their call on behalf of Christ Church. We would ask that each of you prayerfully consider the request. Know that your support of this project is crucial to the success of this campaign. We can only complete this project through the support of our entire church community. Through courage, prayer, generosity, and determination, we are confident Christ Church will succeed in this journey of faith.
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Youth Ministry Renovation Vision Retreat Report By Lisa Tenore
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he Youth Ministry Visioning Retreat occurred here at Christ Church February 6–9. There were nine children and twenty-nine adult participants from a broad cross section of the parish including all three clergy, staff members, Sunday school teachers and Youth Leaders, and others with children ranging from pre-school to adult. This combination of people brought a wonderful mix of ideas, historical perspective, and institutional knowledge to the process. It was an energizing and productive process. During the retreat, participants collaboratively prepared the following mission statement for the Youth Ministry. Christ Church Youth Ministry inspires, empowers, and celebrates youth, in partnership with their families, to develop a life-long identity in the body of Christ. We also named Loving, Serving, Accepting, Learning, and Seeking as the values we believe will allow us to achieve and live our mission. Finally, we identified seven major goals for the next three years and set one-year benchmarks for each. One example is: To create and implement a comprehensive seven-year framework of education, involvement, and service that addresses spiritual, emotional, physical, social and inter-faith issues, and is aligned with our youth ministry values. The one-year benchmark is to have a committee (recruited and in place) to develop the framework, and to have had a curriculum retreat to determine what type of religious education will be the backbone of the overall framework. We will publish the Mission Statement, Values and the full list of goals and benchmarks during the month of March.
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(above) Youth Ministry Vision Retreat (right) Parishioners of all ages attended the retreat. Importantly, the group also identified the need for a Youth and Families Committee that will oversee the programming and long-range planning for the Youth Ministry, and bring budget and other planning issues to the Vestry. This group will include, at least, one member of the clergy, the Children and Youth Minister, and representatives of the staff, teachers, parents, and the youth. We determined that this group is a critical short-term goal for Youth Ministry. Now that this initial step is complete, the real work of building a sustainable program for our youth begins. There is a role for everyone on the journey. The role of the renovation team is to facilitate the process in whatever way makes sense at any
given time along the way. Our next steps will be to address more short term items like establishing the Youth and Families Committee, organizing a curriculum team, and firming up the programming and volunteers for the 2014–2015 program year. We are and will remain open to comments and suggestions throughout this process. What role could you play? Please feel free to contact us: Lisa Tenore at ltenore@itr-llc.com, Kristi Thomas at kcthomas7@comcast.net, Anne Ramsey at aramsey@alionscience.com, Dan Plafcan at dan.plafcan@gmail.com, or Donna McCaffrey at donna.mccaffrey@mac.com.
On February 17 Christ Church parishioners marched in the annual George Washington Parade (more photos on page 5)
Children, Youth & Family Information By Mary Beth Abplanalp
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
A festive Shrove Tuesday meal will be served on Tuesday, March 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Auditorium. Stop by the church after school or work for a delicious breakfast-for-dinner feast hosted by the Brotherhood of St. Andrew and the Christ Church Youth Groups. This Mardi Gras event will feature food, fellowship and games for children and adults of all ages. Yes, there will be prizes too! You don’t want to miss it!
Shrine Mont Summer Camps
Online registration for the summer 2014 camp season is open. Spaces are filling up fast so don’t delay. Shrine Mont is the camp and conference center for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia located approximately two hours west of Alexandria. There are 10 different camps that take place at Shrine Mont in the summer for children and youth from 8 to 18 years old. There are also lots of volunteer and employment opportunities available for youth and young adults. Visit www.shrinemontcamps.net for descriptions and dates of each camp and much more detailed information.
Richard Parkins to Preach on Mission Sunday
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n honor of World Mission Sunday, Richard Parkins will be preaching at the 9:00 and 11:15 a.m. services. Richard is the Executive Director of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (AFRECS). There will be a forum at 10:15 a.m. in the Meade Room where Russ Randle, our parishioner and Board Member of AFRECS, will provide an update on the current situation in South Sudan. Please attend to learn more about the challenges for our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. Upon retirement after fourteen years as director of Episcopal Migration Ministries, the refugee and immigration program of The Episcopal Church, Richard Parkins accepted the position of Executive Director of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (AFRECS). Richard was among the
founders of AFRECS in 2005. He had a career in refugee and immigration work, having served as Operations Director in the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. As a manager of various faith-based refugee resettlement and assistance programs, Richard served on the staff of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops as refugee policy director and later was elected chair of the Refugee Council USA. Earlier in his career, he served as a consultant with The Ford Foundation in India and Nepal and with the Asian Development Bank in Malaysia and the World Bank in Thailand. In recent years, Richard has been a frequent traveler to South Sudan in promoting the work of AFRECS as a partner with the Episcopal Church of Sudan and South Sudan.
Save the Date for These Outreach Opportunities Outreach Sunday, April 6 Outreach Sunday will focus on Lenten practices and how outreach participation can deepen our experience. The forum on April 6 will be a time to reflect on your Lenten practices, individually and in small group sharing. For more on the Outreach Sunday forum, please see Explore Our Hungers in Lenten Forums on page 7. Rebuilding Together, Saturday, April 26
The Revs. Heather VanDeventer and Pierce Klemmt join Donnie Wintermute and Kate Ballard to honor George Washington on parade day.
Jenny Considine with George and others
One day a year Rebuilding Together volunteers assist in making repairs to homes of low income, elderly, and disabled individuals who are unable to make the repairs themselves. Please contact Dave Buffaloe at dave_buffaloe@ yahoo.com if you or your family are interested in volunteering.
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Ashes to Go By the Rev. Heather VanDeventer
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or the second year, Christ Church will participate in the movement known as Ashes to Go this Ash Wednesday. The idea for Ashes to Go started over five years ago by an ecumenical clergy group in St. Louis. Since then, a number of Episcopal churches across the country, particularly those along commuter rail and metro lines, have joined the movement. As the organizers of Ashes to Go say, “It is about bringing spirit, belief, and belonging out from behind church doors and into the places where we
go every day. It’s a simple event with deep meaning, drawing on centuries of tradition and worship to provide a contemporary moment of grace.” At 6:30 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, Christ Church will position a team
Inspiring Change: Celebrating International Women’s Day
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n Saturday, March 8, Christ Church will be sponsoring its third celebration of International Women’s Day. This year we are hosting Empowered Women International (EWI) for a day of celebrating women and encouraging advocacy for women’s advancement everywhere in every way. EWI is an award-winning nonprofit organization that channels the entrepreneurial spirit, the arts and creative talents of immigrant, refugee and low-income women into small businesses to create jobs, opportunity for women, multicultural understanding and a new generation of American leaders and entrepreneurs. It will be a day of fellowship, Page 6 ✠ Rejoice ✠ March 2014
heartfelt stories, prayer, reflection, small group sharing, food, art and hand-crafted goods. You will have the chance to hear the stories behind three local businesses started by women entrepreneurs with EWI. At the end of our afternoon you will have the opportunity to shop their Artisan Marketplace with art, jewelry, and baked desserts. The event will be on Saturday, March 8, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Fowler House. The cost is $12 to be paid at the door. Please RSVP in advance to Megan McCullough at mmccullough@ ccalex.org. Consider inviting a friend to attend this wonderful event and celebrate who we are as women!
outside the King Street Metro station to impose ashes and pray briefly with those who are drawn by the Spirit. We will also invite those who pass us by to join us for Ash Wednesday service that noon and evening, as well as to join us for worship at other times. It is not meant to be a full sacramental experience, but a taste. Again, from Ashes to Go, “God meets us not just in worship, but in the midst of life, and we offer the opportunity to remember our faith to those whose schedules make it hard to stop and pray with others on a busy Wednesday.” For more information, visit Ashestogo.org.
Final Things in Lent By the Rev. Heather VanDeventer
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or the second year, the Episcopal churches in the city of Alexandria, along with Good Shepherd ELCA Church, will join together to co-host a weekly Lenten Speaker Series from March 12 to April 7. The series is titled Final Things and centers around questions of heaven, hell, and the afterlife. Christ Church will host the Rev. Craig Phillips, rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Arlington and adjunct professor of systematic theology at Virginia Theological Seminary, on Wednesday, March 26, for a presentation titled Is there a hell and (if so) who’s going there? The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with the Holy Eucharist in the historic Church, then moves to the Auditorium for a simple supper at 7:00 p.m., followed by the presentation from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Last year seventy to one hundred people attended each week. A full list of the speaker series is found on our website with the Lent material, under the tab for Learn. We hope you will invite a friend and come to give a warm Christ Church welcome to all on March 26!
Explore Our Hungers in Lenten Forums
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e invite you to join us this Lent on Sunday mornings at 10:15 a.m. in the Meade Room as we explore different experiences of hunger. March 9, Hunger for Consolation: Composers working through their grief Music reaches deep into the hunger in our being and can access emotions that we find difficult to express in words. We will look at a number of musical works (both sacred and secular, familiar and unfamiliar) which were composed during a difficult time in the life of the composer. For many of these compositions, the composer’s grief permeates the musical score. Join Jason Abel, our director of music, for this musical exploration of our hunger for consolation. March 16, Hunger for Touch: The Power of Physical Connection Touch is one of the most fundamental expressions of social connectedness. Nurturing physical contact is as essential to our health as good food and clean water. Many years ago a now famous research study was done at an orphanage. The researchers wondered why at that particular orphanage the children were living, while at the other ones children seemed more likely to die. They found that the assistant at the orphanage where the
Liturgy of Mourning for the Loss of a Loved One By the Rev. Ann Gillespie
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any of us have lost loved ones who died in faraway places and we were unable to grieve in the context of a worship service. On March 16, we will offer a special service of mourning along with our regular 5:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist. Please bring a picture or memento of your loved one.
children weren’t dying, simply hugged and held the children! Come and explore with the Rev. Ann Gillespie our hunger for touch, for embodied connection. This will be an experiential forum. March 23, Hunger for God: Spiritual Hunger in Christian Tradition Christian mystics and spiritual writers throughout the ages have written about spiritual hunger and thirst. Psalm 42 says, “As the deer longs for the water-brooks, so longs my soul for you, O God.” Come join Dr. Kathy Brown, leader for our Lenten Quiet Day (March 22) for a taste of satiating spiritual hunger. For more about Kathleen Hope Brown, D. Min., see the Quiet Day article on page 8, Hunger Within and Hunger Without: An Exploration of Spiritual Hunger. March 30, The Hunger for Purpose: A life filled with God’s abundance E.B. White once observed, “Things move with lamentable swiftness, events crowd in and we are in the tide of life’s whitewaters working like mad to survive but heading nowhere fast.” We all hunger for significance in life. Come and join the conversation with the Rev. Pierce Klemmt as we explore the bounty of a passiondriven life.
April 6, Physical and Spiritual Hunger in Daily Life: Reflection on your Lenten Practices and the SNAP Challenge Experience The Outreach Committee invites everyone in the parish to participate in the SNAP Challenge of living on a food stamp budget for a meal, a day, or a week. The SNAP Challenge will run March 30–April 6. This exercise of eating on approximately $1.30 per person per day is intended to help us more deeply understand the physical hunger of our neighbors who rely on SNAP. On April 6, we will come together to reflect on your Lenten practices. A variety of Christ Church parishioners will share their experiences with the SNAP Challenge and how other Lenten practices have influenced their spirituality throughout Lent. There will be time for individual reflection and small group sharing.
Rites of Passage Baptisms • Charlotte Lyons Avitabile, daughter of Elizabeth & David Avitabile • Bradley McAllister • Harriet Louise McAllister, daughter of Carrell & Bradley McAllister Deaths • Iris Arnold • Patricia Giguere • Olivia Greenlee • Betty Guall • Ruthanne Lodato • Frances Rebecca Myers • Floyd Rollins • Sam Townsend • Peter Williams • Thomas C. Williams
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Hunger Within and Hunger Without: An Exploration of Spiritual Hunger
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n Saturday, March 22, we will offer a Lenten Quiet Day from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in McMurray Commons led by Dr. Kathleen Hope Brown. As human persons, we hunger and thirst for many things. The Lenten practice of fasting can help us to focus on what it is that truly matters. During this Lenten Quiet Day, we will have the opportunity to reflect deeply on our spiritual hunger and thirst, our desire for relationship with God. Using the spiritual practices of silence, reflection on Scripture, and guided meditation, we will explore our deepest and holiest longing. Come and join us. Make this year’s Lenten journey a meaningful one! Kathleen Hope Brown, D. Min., is
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Associate Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Virginia Theological Seminary. She was previously Dean of Students and Director of Formation for Ministry at the Washington Theological Union. She re-
ceived her Doctor of Ministry degree from Catholic University in 2001 and her Master of Pastoral Studies from the Washington Theological Union in 1977. A Roman Catholic laywoman, Dr. Brown has worked since then in parish ministry, campus ministry, and theological education after a previous career in economics. She is the author of Lay Leaders of Worship: A Practical and Spiritual Guide (Liturgical Press, 2004), co-author with David M. Orr of Companions on the Journey: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship (DeSales Resource Center, 2006) and several articles on spirituality and spiritual formation. To register, contact Pat Henkel at pathenkel@prodigy.net The registration fee is $35.
Lent & Holy Week 2014 Wednesday, March 5 Ash Wednesday
6:30–9:30 a.m., Ashes to Go at the King Street Metro 7:15 a.m., 12:05 p.m., 7:00 p.m., Holy Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes (Church) 5:00 p.m., Children’s Service, Holy Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes (Meade Room)
Sunday, March 16
5:00 p.m., Liturgy of Mourning for the Loss of a Loved One (Church)
Sunday, April 6
5:00 p.m., Choral Evensong (Church)
Sunday, April 13, Palm Sunday 7:30 a.m., Liturgy of the Palms & Holy Eucharist (Church) * 9:00 a.m., Palm Procession (from Market Square) & Holy Eucharist (Church) * 11:15 a.m., Liturgy of the Palms & Holy Eucharist (Church)*
5:00 p.m., Liturgy of the Palms & Holy Eucharist (Church)
Monday, April 14
7:15 a.m. & 12:05 p.m., Holy Eucharist (Chapel)
Tuesday, April 15
7:15 a.m. & 12:05 p.m., Holy Eucharist (Chapel)
Wednesday, April 16
7:15 a.m. & 12:05 p.m.v Holy Eucharist (Chapel) 7:00 p.m., Taizé Service (Auditorium)
Thursday, April 17 Maundy Thursday
7:15 a.m. & 12:05 p.m., Holy Eucharist (Chapel) 7:00 p.m., Holy Eucharist & Stripping of the Altar (Church* 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., All-Night Prayer Vigil (last hour of vigil ends at 7:00 a.m.) (Chapel)
Friday, April 18, Good Friday
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Noon, Joint Service at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 228 S. Pitt St. (with separate children’s service) Noon–3:00 p.m., Walk the Labyrinth (McMurray Commons) 7:00 p.m., Service of Lamentation (Church)
Saturday, April 19, Holy Saturday
10:00 a.m., Liturgy of the Day (Chapel) 7:00 p.m., Great Vigil of Easter & Holy Baptism (Church)*
Sunday, April 20, Easter
7:30 a.m., Holy Eucharist (Church)* 9:00 a.m., Festival Eucharist (Church)* 9:00 a.m., Family Service with Holy Eucharist (Auditorium)* 11:15 a.m., Festival Eucharist (Church)* 5:00 p.m., Holy Eucharist (Church) * Childcare available