Chanted the Great Litany (rector with choral responses) and we've pivoted to Rite 1 for Lent. Pretty good turnout even with lots of snow expected later in the day.

If you're an English teacher and you make your students diagram a single sentence from the president's formal remarks, you will be charged with felony assault and sent to prison for the rest of your natural life.

Evening is the largest, though increasingly, some of the working folks (myself included) get "Ashes to Go" at the train station and then come for the service in the evening.

Missed choir practice last week (and my rule is if I don't practice, I don't sing on Sunday morning), so I got to sit with the wife in the pews. The rector preached and was absolutely on point.

We had about 10 in person for Eucharist this morning, plus 45 households on the livestream. Everyone in the sanctuary waved to those of us at home, and it was still a great joy to pray together, even apart. ⚓

Also, thanks be to God for the music director who now has exactly one day to plan music for the weekend.

Thanks be to God, it's not our annual meeting this week!

Call chain to the Vestry, proofread the parish-wide message, identified new date. Advised the rector (from Texas) on prepping for him & the fam. Next up, hoping that we can get there Sunday and don't have to resort to the livestream ourselves!

A day in the life of the rector's warden: got an 8 AM call from the rector. "There will of course be Eucharist on Sunday, but maybe we should reschedule the Jazz Mass and not have seven musicians from all over the country entangled in travel during the winter storm?" ⚓️

A Christianity that sides with the empire over the immigrant, the poor, the sick, the hungry, the marginalized, the vulnerable, and the oppressed, is a Christianity that follows someone other than Jesus.

Our church received a $2mil donation to restore & renovate our organ 5 yrs ago. The project took all of those 5 years (pandemic didn't help) and went over budget. Thanks for sharing this.

Numbers a little low due to snow, but most of the choir made it! And we packed up 1000 snack bags to distribute in our community, plus at least 200 turkey sandwiches headed to a local org we partnered with. (We lost count around the time we had to raid the freezers for more bread.)

The rector preached a powerful word, and then at the special occasion blessings our other clergy got to bless him on the 15th anniversary of his ordination! Two baptisms. Our poor music director was under the weather but charged bravely on (and we're dropping soup on his porch tomorrow).

Because I sit in the chancel with the choir, I snapped a couple of our recently-ordained assistant both celebrating for the first time and again for her first Christmas eucharist.

We still have the window candles up (those stay 'til Candlemas), but Miss Freddie does not find that adequate sparkly light. 🤷‍♀️

We're doing that tonight, and the cat is truly devastated. (Of course she wants us to leave it up til Candlemas.)

An adult home from college was baptized! And no choir call, so I got to sit with the fam in the pews. Plus a great deal to give thanks for at the moment, even with the world being, well, *gestures.*

Missed due to travel, sigh. So it was morning prayer together in the car for me & wife, complete with some particular thanksgivings. ❤️ (Along with a firmly-worded text to our rector to take a real break in the coming days.)

Love the Thurman - and, being a medievalist, also the Julian of Norwich!

Glad to say the Episcopal Church is included here. ⚓️

Put up candles yesterday & got this fab shot from the gallery at our beloved church. Then got to #TouchPews w/wife this morning & sing Lessons & Carols this evening. ⚓️

We are in (another) waiting time in our journey toward growing our family, if #Narthex folks would hold us in prayer this week!

Snowy! But enough of the choir made it for us to do the anthem. Plus the cookie exchange & ingathering of the toys for the toy drive. And a special blessing for me & wife from our assistant rector for an intention we're holding dear this week.

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Christ the King Sunday is also our Stewardship Ingathering Sunday, which meant rainbow ribbons to wave at the blessing of the pledges! And a celebratory brunch at which my wife joined/helped the kids in attacking the pinata. And a fav psalm today.⚓️

When your relatives ask you what good that English degree is....

Got to go *twice* - this morning as "usual" at 11 with choir, and then got to sit with my wife instead of in the choir stalls at evensong. Both psalms were just top-notch house faves.

Had trouble finding a parking spot because the 9 AM family service was so packed! (Apparently, the 8 AM was full, too!) And then at the 11 AM, a crowd + marvelous preaching + top-notch hymns + a special blessing for an intention our family's holding dear right now.

We do, sort of - All Saints in the morning, All Souls Requiem sung in the evening. (Sort of especially nice this year with a bunch of All Saints baptisms in the morning! If a long day.)

Kickoff of our stewardship campaign. The sermon was lovely, and the stewardship chair's message equally so.