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Meet Our Seminarian: Linda Istad Brandt

Please join us after the 11 a.m. service this Sunday, October 18, to hear from our new seminarian, Linda Istad Brandt, a second year student at General Theological Seminary. She comes from a lifetime of public health nursing. In the introduction, you can expect to hear her 70 year long saga of family roots which informs and sends her from the Diocese of Minnesota

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Blessing of the Animals, October 4

During this season of Zoom church, a number of cats and a few dogs have made an appearance during services. In honor of St. Francis, on Sunday, October 4, following the 11 a.m. liturgy via Zoom, we’d like to bless them online, and give thanks for their presence in our lives. All animals and their people are welcome!

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Congratulations to the Episcopal Church on Its Newest Priest!

One of our own parishioners, Meredith Ward, is now the Rev. Meredith Ward, following her ordination to the priesthood at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Saturday, September 19. Congratulations to Mother Meredith on her ordination, to Deb on becoming a clergy spouse, and to the Episcopal Church and its Diocese of New York for receiving God’s blessings in ordaining our beloved

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Parish Newsletter & Order of Service for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Beloved God, all our times are in your hands. And frankly, this is a time that seems too much for us to hold. There is so much loss, so much chaos and confusion, so much distraction, anger and fear. And so we ask you to encircle us in your everlasting arms. Center us in your love, and guide us by your justice. Help us to know what is ours to do, and how to let go into your mercy. Grant us both the deep rest of your peace and the renewing energy of your Spirit. Use us, we pray, for the healing of your suffering, struggling, precious world, that our time here may be a blessing. Amen.

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Sermon – Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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