Midweek Reflection for Lent 4

Of late, I've been fortunate enough to serve as Priest Associate at St. Mark's Episcopal in Charleston and given the pandemic, we've been recording messages for our friends and members.  Here is the link to my reflection for the Fourth Week in Lent.  (This will take you to YouTube)

Missing Church Tomorrow?

 Stained glass from Stephen Wilson - Baton Rouge

Remember to keep the Sabbath Day holy...

Many Churches have cancelled services as an expression of concern for their parishioners given the worry over transmitting the Corona virus.  If this applies to you or if you are home for whatever reason, consider the following. There are alternatives to reading the newspaper or watching sports reruns on TV!  

Following the example of the earliest Christians as well as those who are not able to go out due to their life circumstances, you can have Home Church – saying Morning Prayer together – or watch Church online.  I much prefer Home Church although am also happy to tune into online services on occasion.

Some resources for Home Morning Prayer…

Do you have a copy of the Book of Common Prayer at your house?  The service is right there. In the 1979 book, it starts on P.37 or 75 (contemporary language).  In the 1928, it starts on P. 3.  Don’t have a prayer books but do have internet?  There are several options.

  The online BCP link is HERE .  

Mission St. Clare posts the entire service with music and lessons for tomorrow, March 15^th is  HERE.  

More resources below. 

In our family when we’ve been unable to attend Church and especially when our children were younger, we often read a modified form of  Morning Prayer together which includes:  an opening prayer, a time of confession – naming one thing we are sorry for in the week past, reading the lessons for the day (sometimes just the gospel), talking it through, a few more prayers (for the world, for the sick, for our own worries) and then a closing prayer of thanksgiving. Sing a hymn or two if you are musical.

If you want to look at Church online this Sunday, these are two possibilities (there are many others, I am sure):

The Washington National Cathedral (Episcopal)  at 11:15 EST – the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael Curry, preaching.  HERE.

St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN (Roman Catholic) in Collegeville, MN.  10:30 CST - HERE   

Other resources:

Want to know what the lessons are for the day … Click on this link

 https://www.lectionarypage.net/CalndrsIndexes/Calendar2020.html

Here is a good site with reflections on the Sunday lessons:

http://www.edgeofenclosure.org/home.html

Want to have the whole BCP service for each day? 

https://www.missionstclare.com/english/


Above all, pray for each other and that God will use this time to draw us closer - both to Christ Jesus in the mystery of his suffering as well as to each other.