This Sunday+
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164: St. Jerome (Lion)
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany
Sunday, January 25
8 AM — Indoor Holy Eucharist Rite I
9 AM — Outdoor Holy Eucharist Rite II
9-11 AM — NO Child Care this Sunday
10 AM — Indoor Holy Eucharist Rite II & Live Stream (no choir this Sunday)
10 AM — NO Church School this Sunday
11 AM — NO World’s Greatest Coffee Hour this Sunday (but probably hot coffee!)
Special Announcements
Sunday, Jan 25: Snow!
The most important thing is for everyone to be as safe as possible. Please follow local and state emergency management guidance during the storm.
Church will always happen in some form: clergy live adjacent to the campus and will celebrate the eucharist in whatever way is possible for whomever is present.
The 10AM service will be streamed as usual, as long as power and internet are available.
Out fantastic Property Manager, Edgar Gonzalez, and the wonderful Lifetime Landscaping crew will do their best to clear the snow. However, since it is expected to be snowing throughout the day conditions may still be poor.
So that no one is compelled to venture out this Sunday, there will be no Childcare, Church School, Choir, Confirmation Class, or Coffee Hour (though there may be hot coffee!)
Acolytes, Altar Guild, Chalice Ministers, Greeters, Lectors, and Ushers: please feel free to stay home. Kindly email us to say whether you are coming.
Peace be with you this snowy Sunday.
262nd Annual Parish Meeting • Sunday, February 1 at 11:30AM • In Morrill Hall & via Zoom
Mark your calendar! Following the 10AM liturgy, the first order of business is electing St. Mark’s lay leaders as Officers, Vestry, and Nominating Committee. While the votes are counted you will hear about the life, finances, and future of the parish from Senior Warden Janet Prill, Junior Warden Mark Thorsheim, and Treasurer Tim Dann. With enormous gratitude to the unflappable Gaby Beecher and the whole Nominating Committee, we are pleased to report that we have a complete slate for elections at the Annual Meeting! You can view them here.
138: Dialogue between Faith and Science (Maltese Cross and Atom)
Sunday’s Music
Sunday, January 18
We thank Michael Burnette for leading us, musically, through the 10am service this morning. Our Offertory Anthem is an arrangement of the final movement of Bach’s Cantata BWV 22, “Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe” (“Jesus gathered the Twelve to himself”), one of two that he composed as part of his audition for the post of Cantor et Director Musices (“Cantor and Director of Music”) of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, February 7, 1723. The text Bach set was the fifth stanza of a hymn written by Elisabeth Cruciger (c. 1500-1535), the first female poet and hymnwriter of the Protestant Reformation and a friend of Martin Luther. Our Solo during the Communion, Mendelssohn’s O rest in the Lord, is a movement from his monumental oratorio Elijah, premiering in August of 1846. “O Rest in the Lord” are the words (roughly based on Psalm 37 and related to this morning’s Proper Psalm, 40) of an angel, speaking to Elijah who has run into the wilderness for a whole day, and who has fallen asleep from exhaustion and despair. The angel awakens Elijah, and gives him enough food for forty days of travel in the wilderness, as well as encouragement to persevere in his suffering.