SPECIAL SERVICES DURING LENT:
COMMUTER COMMUNION
Every Wednesday during Lent, we’ll begin the
day at 6:30 a.m. with communion and pray for
everyone in our Redeemer family. You’ll be
out by 7 a.m. and blessed to the souls of your
feet.
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Coming in March: An Inquirers’ Class
DO I HAVE TO BELIEVE IN THE VIRGIN
BIRTH TO BE A CHRISTIAN? IS THE
SECOND COMING TO BE TAKEN
SERIOUSLY? WHAT ABOUT ALL THIS
RESURRECTION STUFF? IS GOD A
HEAVENLY POTTER AND ME A LUMP OF
CLAY?
Have you ever asked questions about religion?
Are you perplexed? Wonder what all the
spiritual brouhaha is all about? Why is the
Episcopal Church special? What is the
authority of the Bible? Can an ancient faith fill
the modern void? Does faith really inspire
violence? What about science? Can I seriously
believe in God when we know that the universe
began with a Big Bang? There is no question
you cannot ask at our upcoming INQUIRERS’
CLASS.
For six Sunday afternoons in March and April,
we’ll gather here at the church between 1:30
and 2:30 and have a conversation about our
faith and our doubt. We’ll share the religions of
our childhoods and our adult paths. We’ll look
at the three legged stool of the Episcopal
Church: scripture, tradition and reason. JOIN
US!
Dates are March 4, March 11, March 18, April
1, April 15, April 22.
CONGREGATIONAL CYCLE OF
PRAYER
March 4: On this Second Sunday of the One
Earth Lent, remembering that Abraham was a
sojourner in the land, we pray for all who have
been displaced by war and economic
catastrophe and forced to wander in search of
home and safety. As we remember the refugees
of today we also remember that our own
ancestors were themselves sojourners once who
found in this place their own Promised Land.
March 11: On this Third Sunday of the One
Earth Lent, we stand with Moses in the place
beyond the wilderness where the bush burned
and was not consumed. We humbly remember
that in the natural world, nothing is ever
consumed, only transformed. We are sorry for
all that we have wasted, and in the light of the
burning bush, ask God’s help in transforming it
into new life.
March 18:
On this Fourth Sunday of the One
Earth Lent, we give thanks for all of the riches
that God has so freely bestowed upon all of us.
March 25: On this Fifth Sunday of the One
Earth Lent, we remember that God, who brings
living waters into the desert, is not just the God
of people, but of all life, the jackal and the
ostrich, the lion and the lamb. We pray for the
world’s waters, for melting glaciers and silting
dams, for the people whose lives depend upon
rivers, that our rivers may always flow with
grace and health into the sea.
April 1:
On this Sunday of the Passion, we
place our hope in the coming of Christ, in his
teachings, in his courage. May we learn with
time to see the radiance of life that shines
within the darkness of death and the cross.
April 8:
On this Easter Sunday we rejoice that
the Angel of Death has passed over us and left
us whole. Help us to see the risen Jesus with as
much wonder and surprise as his astonished
disciples were when they arrived at the tomb to
mourn and were instead met by angels.
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