YOU BELONG HERE
Whoever you are or for whatever reason that you are looking at this website, we want you to know that in the Episcopal Church and particularly from the people of St. Christopher’s you will receive the Welcome of Christ.
Be . . . Be Here . . . Belong
St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church
in-person and livestreamed
Sunday via YouTube at 10:00 AM
WELCOME TO ST. CHRISTOPHER’S ON THIS FESTIVE DAY
Fifth Sunday of Easter – May 15, 2022
Saturday – The Great Vigil of Easter 2022
Good Friday 2022
ORDER FOR THE WAY OF THE CROSS
Click the link to access the prayers
Click the link to access the worship bulletin
Here is the Video of the Crosses made by parishioners for Good Friday liturgy and the Veneration of the Cross. You may use them on this Good Friday for your own meditation and veneration.
Maundy Thursday 2022
Holy Week 2022
Our Doors Are Open!
Follow Jesus through these ancient practices in sacred space and community. Come and see, the doors are open, the invitation wholehearted. Newcomer, returner, curious, long term practitioner: God is calling you here.
April 14 – Maundy Thursday
7:00 pm – Liturgy of Maundy Thursday
- Holy Eucharist
- Foot Washing (done with Covid safety in mind)
8:30 pm – Night Watch
- Quiet prayer in the church. Also will be live-streamed.
- Closing with Compline at 11:00 PM
April 15 – Good Friday
12 Noon – Stations of the Cross -mid-day devotional to keep Vigil
7:00 pm – Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday – principal service
- Veneration of the Cross
- The Passion of John
- Solemn Collects
April 16 – Holy Saturday
8:00 pm – The Great Vigil of Easter
- Lighting of fire
- Readings with Psalm and Prayers that tell story of salvation
- Proclamation of the Resurrection
- Renewal of baptismal promises
- Holy Eucharist
April 17 – Easter Sunday
10:00 am – Festival Eucharist
Monday and Saturday of Easter Week – April 18 and 23 – There will be no Inquirer’s Class
Tuesday of Easter Week – April 19 – 9:30 am – Women’s Prayer Breakfast in-person at the Church House (bring food)
Wednesday of Easter Week – April 20
7 pm Compline Join Zoom Meeting
FACEBOOK: St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church
Subscribe to the St. Christopher’s Church YouTube channel to check out what is being live-streamed or watch videos that have previously been aired. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1EwdTY0RpDjU9O1cdg1aTA
What is an Episcopalian anyway?
Come find out – you have two choices – Mondays at 6:30 PM or Saturdays at 11:00 AM – March and April. – NEWS FLASH!
All of the details can be found on the NEWS FLASH tab. Check it out!
A Prayer for the Power of the Spirit among the People of God
Our Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry has asked all of us to pray for all who are mourning due to the coronavirus. We were asked to continue to pray this prayer from Pentecost Sunday through the first Sunday in September, 2020, never imagining that the pandemic would continue much beyond that. Since the virus is still with us, we are choosing to continue praying this prayer until we return to a time when we can fully gather together to worship God in spirit and in truth. “This prayer – crafted by a team of Lutheran and Episcopal prayer leaders in light of the COVID pandemic – is meant to unite us in common prayer and revive us for common mission, wherever and however we may be gathered.”
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry praying the prayer: https://www.facebook.com/episcopalian/videos/2609858725901243/
God of all power and love,
we give thanks for your unfailing presence
and the hope you provide in times of uncertainty and loss.
Send your Holy Spirit to enkindle in us your holy fire.
Revive us to live as Christ’s body in the world:
a people who pray, worship, learn,
break bread, share life, heal neighbors,
bear good news, seek justice, rest and grow in the Spirit.
Wherever and however we gather,
unite us in common prayer and send us in common mission,
that we and the whole creation might be restored and renewed,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
May this be a time of grace and unity and may we use it to learn how to more deeply love and offer our lives in service to the common good.
May the peace of God which passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son, Jesus, and may the blessing of God rest upon you this day and always.
Because we want everyone to be included, St. Christopher’s is so happy to be able to provide a hearing loop to those who wear hearing aids. Just switch your hearing aid to ‘T’ to access the loop. If you do not wear a hearing aid and wish to have the benefit of the loop, you may ask the ushers and they will give you a headset to use.
And now, the sound system has been connected to a professional live-streaming camera so that we may have high quality sound and picture when live-streaming our services. The 10:00 AM liturgy is live-streamed.
Please click HERE for the Order of Compline
PLEASE HELP! – Dottie Baker’s Son, Buddy
Dottie Baker has been a long-standing member of St. Christopher’s and is beloved. Many of the children of the church walk in faith because of her teaching. Now, she needs our help!
I hope everyone will respond generously to the Go Fund Me appeal for her son, Buddy. He has been diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer and needs unbelievably expensive treatments. Dottie received some good news this week. Enough has been raised so that he can have his first treatment soon. Now we need to continue to contribute so that he can receive the other two scheduled treatments. You are amazing and Dottie and her son are so grateful.
FYI – the parish itself has helped Dottie who has given her life in loving service to this parish and its children. The Outreach Committee has given some of its budgeted fund, I have contributed out of the Rector’s Discretionary Fund that you so generously contribute to on the first Sunday of every month (Oh wait! That’s today!) and our bishop, +Bishop Daniel Gutierrez has also made a contribution from his Bishop’s Discretionary Fund. I thought you should know. Thanks to all of you too! Dottie told me recently he is making some improvement. Let’s keep going!
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