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SaturdayPM version. Rite II version in files at page bottom.
This service, built on the model of Lessons and Carols, combines scripture and historical touchstones with music and prayers for our country. It was well received and boosted holiday weekend attendance both Saturday evening (alternative worship) and Sunday morning (more traditional) with parishioners requesting additional leaflets to share with friends. I would like to offer something similar the Sunday before July 4 with Red White & Blue potluck and games.
Interview including My Call Story
and advice for seminarians.
A sermon for Annual Meeting Sunday ~ AUDIO
Prayer for Christopher offering Deaf friends and hearing family equal access to his memorial service.
"Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen." This ancient praise "doxology" offers the Psalm to God. (We are always adjusting our ASL signs for clear meaning and vitality!)
Rev Emily delights in interactive worship grounded in contemplative spirituality. Crafting worship nourishes her soul.
She relishes collaboration with variously creative others. Her preaching flows from the confluence of the congregation's shared interests and pastoral & theological needs, encountered in church life, mirrored in scripture & expressed in liturgy.
2018 Annual Meeting Day SERMON during interim & search (pdf)
Download2017 SERMON NOTES Resistance Failure Redemption Proper 9A (pdf)
DownloadMaundy Thursday SERMON (pdf)
Download2019 Proper 23C SERMON NOTES — St. Thomas visit CCC 200th Anniv (pdf)
DownloadYou are the salt SERMON ~ Matthew 5:13-20 (pdf)
DownloadEaster Vigil w Baptisms SERMON short n sweet (doc)
DownloadBaptism LITURGY WORKSHOP presented with diocesan colleagues (pdf)
DownloadTaste of EASTER VIGIL fam friendly: fire, dark, candles, God stories, H2O Alleluias bells Eucharist (pdf)
DownloadChristmas Pageant Eucharist with stage directions (pdf)
DownloadECW Diocesan Women's Retreat WORSHIP BOOKLET (pdf)
DownloadChristmas Eve Late & Mellow w Recorder & Cello ~ carols interspersed w nativity gospel (pdf)
DownloadChristmas1 Evening Contemplative Eucharist (pdf)
DownloadRed White Blue Worship ~ more traditional for SundayAM (pdf)
DownloadVisual Bulletins show what's next & which leader to spotlight on Zoom for interactive worship in ASL. The addition of worshipers' pet pictures requested beforehand added a pastoral element.
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