August 15th: Feast of St. Mary, Mother of our Savior and God Jesus Christ
To celebrate the Feast of St. Mary the Virgin, one of the major feast days, we will hold a Holy Eucharist on Wednesday at noon.
When we rejoice in God’s loving embrace of humanity by the birth of Jesus, we also remember that God becoming human means God came to have a human mother! Of all the people in the world, Mary participated in a most special way. She heard the Gospel from the angel, and said, “Yes.” That is faith, our faith, too. “With Mary we behold him,” we sing at Christmas in the Carol “Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming.” (Hymnal 1982 # 81)
Collect: O God, who has taken to yourself the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of your incarnate Son: Grant that we, who have been redeemed by his blood, may share with her the glory of your eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Assumption of St. Mary
The Search Begins
On Sunday, April 15th, the Profile Committee will be honored, and its work, the St. Hilda St. Patrick Profile will be formally handed over to the new Search Committee that will also be commissioned on this day.
After this blessing, the committee will go to work applying the Profile to interested clergy members forwarded by the Diocese. At the end of the process, they will report one nominee for consideration by the Bishop’s Committee (congregation governing council). The BC will take it from there. All this will take some several months more. We are now in the second of the two stages of transition work: writing a Profile and Searching for the clergy member to nominate.
Searching for our next Vicar
It is with great pleasure that we announce that our Profile has been enthusiastically approved by Bishop Greg Rickel, and we have just posted links to it on our St. Hilda St. Patrick website Transition page.
I invite each of you to open it and read it. It is an amazing portrait of our church family. It represents months of hard work and dedication by our Profile Committee – and great participation by the members of SHSP in both small groups and in the CAT survey.
With the achievement of this milestone we are now ready for the next phase, and we begin calling our Search Committee. And we eagerly wait for the Diocese to send us news of interest in our wonderful church by clergy looking for a church like ours.
Now, just as much as ever, your prayers for the Episcopal Church of St Hilda St Patrick are vital. Please pray also for the Bishop’s Committee as they begin the work of discerning whom they will call to be part of the Search Committee.
Stay tuned for more details!!
In Christ,
Michael Rader
your Senior Warden
Welcome for all People
The Rev. Mark Miller is the interim priest for the rest of 2017 and into 2018. He retired this past year after many decades of experience. “I have found this church full of very cooperative leaders and members who are ardent in love for this congregation and dedicated to making it available and welcoming for all persons,” he said after the first months this summer.
Godly Play
This hands-on, “Montessori”-style learning time is for children in 1st through 3rd/4th grades. It is based on learning the stories of the Bible by showing them in small images and figures which the children handle, and then asking “I wonder…” about how it was to be there when these stories happened.
Godly Play meets every Sunday at 9:30am (at the same time as the regular service).
