Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore

What is the Holy Spirit for? Is it all about performing spiritual “parlor tricks”, or something more substantial?

 

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[ May 11, 2008; 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. ] There will be one service only on the Day of Pentecost, at 10:30 AM.

From Wikipedia:

Pentecost (Ancient Greek: πεντηκοστή [ἡμέρα], pentekostē [hēmera], “the fiftieth day”) is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year, celebrated the Fiftieth day after Easter Sunday (the tenth day after Ascension Thursday). Historically and symbolically related to the Jewish [...]

A very sincere thank you to all who made the logistics of Holy Week happen. These include:

Helping in the food activities, making lunch on Lazarus Saturday, dinner on Maundy Thursday, setting up for and cleaning up after lunch, dinner, or the Agape.
Preparing the Education Building for the Altar of Repose, setting up for [...]

“The words of the Exultet mean exactly what they say. This is the night when we have passed over from death to life, and bondage to sin has been broken. This is the night that the past and the present and the future have come together and there is no time. It’s not a metaphor. [...]

 

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[ April 6, 2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] To: All Team Captains, Rehearsal Leaders, and Volunteer Assistants

Lest we forget all that was good or what needs improvement, let’s get together on Sunday, April 6 at 12:00 PM following Coffee Hour. If you cannot make it, please forward your responses to me, via e-mail. Consider the following:

1. Were there volunteers who didn’t [...]

Maundy Thursday
6:00 PM - Soup Supper
7:30 PM - Liturgy
9:00 PM-12:00 AM - Gethsemane Vigil (Undercroft)
Good Friday
Noon - 3:00 PM - Nave open for private prayer
7:30 PM - Good Friday Liturgy
Holy Saturday
10:00 AM - Ministry of the Word (Education building)
The Great Vigil (Saturday night)
9:00 PM - Vigil, followed by a gala Agape
(Overflow parking is available across [...]

[ March 23, 2008; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. ] 11:00 AM - Choral Festival Eucharist

Redeemer will celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior with an 11:00 AM Choral Festival Eucharist in a beautifully decorated worship space.

Music
Two solos from Handel’s Messiah:

“I know that my Redeemer liveth”, with soprano Christina Siemens
“The trumpet shall sound”, with baritone Glenn Guhr and Judson Jay Scott, trumpet

Also, the choir will [...]

[ March 22, 2008; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] 9:00 AM to Noon - Rehearsals and preparation for the Great Vigil

10:00 AM - Ministry of the Word (Education building)

[ March 22, 2008; 9:00 pm; ] 9:00 PM - Vigil, followed by a gala Agape
(Overflow parking is available across the street in the Bethany parking lot)

Festive Easter music by the choir, and guest trumpeter Judson Jay Scott will perform solos by Hovhanness and Telemann.

From the 1st Century, the Church’s primary celebration of the Resurrection has taken place in the middle of the night [...]

[ March 21, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Noon - 3:00 PM - Nave open for private prayer
7:30 PM - Good Friday Liturgy

The gentlemen of the choir will sing a close-harmony arrangement of “Were You There” by noted African American composer/arranger H. T. Burleigh.

At this liturgy, the first thing to strike our senses is the unfamiliar barrenness of the worship space. There is [...]