the The Newsletter for Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
December 2015
Lessons and Carols 11:00 Church
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Service of Remembrance and Light
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Nativity Pageant
Christmas Eve Services 7, 11, 1, 3, 5, 7, & 10;30
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Christmas Day 10:00 No 8:30 BMC service 5:30 Candlelight Mass Services 7:30 10 and 5:30
Volume 27 No. 12
Ground Lease Recommendation Made by the Campus Planning Committee
One of the things I love about the liturgies at Saint Michael and All Angels is their invariable beauty. Everything is done in a superlatively Anglican way – decently and in order (cf., 1st Cor. 14:40). The vestments are beautiful, the choreography (that’s actually the right word!) exceedingly well organized, the music superlative. There’s a palpable sense of mystery, which is especially apropos when one considers that in the Eastern Church the sacraments are called the “mysteries.”
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Advent Retreat
Making Worship More Personal at Saint Michael
I love worshipping at Saint Michael and All Angels Church! Even so, after going on retreat with the clergy a few weeks ago, we decided to make a few minor changes to our worship services. The first is that rather than rotating the priests through the services (one week in the Church, next week in Saint Michael Chapel, etc.), we’re going to assign two priests to each service, where they will do most of the preaching and celebrating of Eucharist. Why? Even in my brief time at Saint Michael, one of the refrains I’ve often heard is, “We don’t know our clergy.” In a parish this size it is generally impossible to develop the kind of intimacy with the clergy one enjoys in a much smaller parish. However, one of the primary means for coming to know a preacher is listening to his or her sermons on a frequent basis. Indeed, in most large Protestant cont. on page 19
With the announced departure of the Episcopal School of Dallas, the Campus Planning Committee was given the challenges of how to replace ESD’s rental income and how to provide the resources for the Saint Michael Episcopal School (formerly the preschool) to move into the vacated space. The Committee developed a Master Plan, incorporating our Strategic Plan and prior Master Plans, to include these precepts: • • •
A new entrance and welcome area facing Douglas Avenue; A ground-level Parish Hall near the Sanctuary; A contemporary worship/auditorium space; cont. on page 3
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Advent and Christmas at Saint Michael pages 10-12