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Healing Services During Lent

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Chrism Oil and Paschal Candle at the consecration of Bishop Jeffrey D Lee of Chicago

We are fortunate to have in our community the Revs. Tony and Fran Begonja, members of the Order of St. Luke. They will be providing us the gift of Healing Prayers and blessings during the Lenten Season. Each Saturday in Lent and the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays in Lent, both Tony and Fran will administer and share Healing Prayers for any and all who wish to share in the resorative powers of prayer. Whether it be physical, emotional or spiritual, the Spirit will be invoked and prayers and blessings will be offered. The blessings will take place as part of the Liturgy of the Eucharist at the Saturday 4:30pm Liturgy and the 10am Sunday Liturgy: participants are invited, after receing Holy Communion, to proceed to the Baptismal Font where the blessings will take place. Celebrate the sacred season of Lent with this most blessed of sacramental gifts. All are invited and this gift may be received as often as one wishes.

via News from St. Nicholas Episcopal Church

We Have a Vicar! Good News from St. Nicholas Episcopal Church

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More information is forthcoming, such as a date for a formal installation, but the wonderful news is officially official.

The full text of the announcement, which was made at Sunday’s service just before the final dismissal, is on the linked page.

Very cleverly, Senior Warden slipped Father Manny’s new title into the bulletin, a fun fact that was previously blogged, tweeted, and Facebooked.

For the past eleven months, our congregation has been in a Transition, following the resignation of Steve Martz as our Vicar. To some in the congregation, it may feel like this has been a long process. The reorganization that took place in our Diocesan Pastoral Center created a speed bump for our process in the summer, which we successfully overcame and moved forward.

Link: We Have a Vicar! Good News from St. Nicholas Episcopal Church

UPDATED: Top Ten Reasons Men Give For Not Going To Church.

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This is an old post from before the merger between Holy Innocents and St Nicholas, but it still gets “hits” and is worth repeating in the days before Super Bowl Sunday..

The following list is courtesy of the Rev. Steven C. Rice, St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Waynesboro GA. Do you know someone who gives one of these reasons?

The following list comes from a book reviewed in the Augusta Chronicle on June 18. The book is called (not surprisingly) “Why Men Hate Going to Church” by David Murrow. The Top Ten…Letterman style:

10. I don’t have time
9. Church just doesn’t work for me
8. It’s boring
7. It’s irrelevant to my life
6. I don’t like the pastor
5. I don’t want to talk about it
4. It’s too long
3. They ask for money too much
2. It’s for wimps
1. There are too many hypocrites there

Now, if we were to install a drive-through window along one side of the church, with salvation Happy Meals to go (large drink extra), we might be on to something, because that would neutralize answers 10, 8, 4, 3, and 1 for certain and might take care of some of the others, too.

UPDATED to add: With Father Manny now on board, we can probably take reasons 6 and 8 off, especially if you are a football fan. The vicar of St Nicholas is a fervent sports fan and has the Giants up by 3 in the Super Bowl.

There was talk of hauling the big screen TV out and getting the Pre-game festivities on for coffee hour, though cooler heads may have prevailed.