We invite you to join us for Easter Sunday Services:
8:00 a.m. & 10:15 a.m.
(Easter Egg Hunt following the 10:15 a.m. service)
Christ is Risen! Celebrate with music & prayer where all ages and all walks of life are welcome. Children are always welcome in church and nursery care for young children is available.
8:00 a.m. & 10:15 a.m.
(Easter Egg Hunt following the 10:15 a.m. service)
Christ is Risen! Celebrate with music & prayer where all ages and all walks of life are welcome. Children are always welcome in church and nursery care for young children is available.
Lent: February 26 - April 9, 2020
Early Christians observed "a season of penitence and fasting" in preparation for the Paschal feast, or Pascha (BCP, pp. 264-265). The season now known as Lent (from an Old English word meaning "spring," the time of lengthening days) has a long history. Originally, in places where Pascha was celebrated on a Sunday, the Paschal feast followed a fast of up to two days. In the third century this fast was lengthened to six days. Eventually this fast became attached to, or overlapped, another fast of forty days, in imitation of Christ's fasting in the wilderness. The forty-day fast was especially important for converts to the faith who were preparing for baptism, and for those guilty of notorious sins who were being restored to the Christian assembly. In the western church the forty days of Lent extend from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday, omitting Sundays. The last three days of Lent are the sacred Triduum of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Today Lent has reacquired its significance as the final preparation of adult candidates for baptism. Joining with them, all Christians are invited "to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word" (BCP, p. 265).
Sunday Evening Lent Programs have been cancelled until further notice
March 8, 2020
To the St. Francis Community –
Considering the latest recommendations from the Santa Clara County Department of Health on preventing the spread of the COVID-19 virus, today I made the decision to suspend our Sunday Evening Lent programs. The recommendation is to avoid unnecessary gatherings of adults and we can do the learning and fellowship that we had planned for Lent just as easily in Easter season by which time we pray that the risk or Coronavirus will have run its course.
This means that Evensong, Supper, Enneagram, Lords Prayer and Youth Connections are cancelled until such a time as it becomes prudent to begin holding such gatherings again.
Recommendations are evolving daily and the goal is to keep everyone healthy. Please do not take risks with your health and try not to be anxious – wash your hands frequently, eat properly, and get plenty of rest.
As we journey through this season of Lent, let it be our prayer that, for the health of the world, this virus will be contained as soon as possible. We can do our part to make that so.
Blessings,
Maly+
To the St. Francis Community –
Considering the latest recommendations from the Santa Clara County Department of Health on preventing the spread of the COVID-19 virus, today I made the decision to suspend our Sunday Evening Lent programs. The recommendation is to avoid unnecessary gatherings of adults and we can do the learning and fellowship that we had planned for Lent just as easily in Easter season by which time we pray that the risk or Coronavirus will have run its course.
This means that Evensong, Supper, Enneagram, Lords Prayer and Youth Connections are cancelled until such a time as it becomes prudent to begin holding such gatherings again.
Recommendations are evolving daily and the goal is to keep everyone healthy. Please do not take risks with your health and try not to be anxious – wash your hands frequently, eat properly, and get plenty of rest.
As we journey through this season of Lent, let it be our prayer that, for the health of the world, this virus will be contained as soon as possible. We can do our part to make that so.
Blessings,
Maly+
A Message from the Rector
Easter 2019
Dear friends:
Those of us who are members of a faith community are familiar with the Easter story. However, we are surrounded by people in the wider community who have never heard this story. That may seem unimaginable but, unfortunately, it is reality. Today, the only way others will know of this life-giving story and of our own experience is for us to share it. Holy Week is the perfect time for us to do this. Because it is during this week that we are invited to experience the story by remembering, once again, Jesus' journey to the cross and beyond.
Holy Week is an important time in our life of faith. I pray that you will commit to attending Easter services, if possible. And invite others to join you - especially those who have never heard the story, our story, before.
On Easter Day we will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ at 8:00 and 10:15 am in the parish hall. There will be festive music with choir and hand-bells at both of the services as well as coffee and refreshments after the service. Please bring a flower to decorate the cross.
At 10:00 am the children are invited to join Kimbra Ong, Director of Children and Family Ministry, in the parish hall to hear the Easter story. Following the story time the children will be led to unbury the “Alleluia” banner in time for the procession at 10:15 am. This signifies the end of Lent and the presence of the resurrected Christ. After the service (10:15 am only), the children are invited to hunt for Easter Eggs. Please have them bring their own Easter baskets.
Everyone, young and old, is invited to attend any and all of the services. We will soak in the story of God's eternal love for us and soak in the spirit of Christ. Walking these days of Holy Week with our Lord, and with each other, will give new meaning to Easter when at last we will once again cry, "Alleluia. Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia."
It is a joy and blessing to be with you again this Easter as rector. My thoughts and prayers will be with each of you and your families and I look forward to seeing you and those you invite to join us.
Easter blessings,
Maly+
The Rev. Maly Carswell Hughes
Rector
Easter 2019
Dear friends:
Those of us who are members of a faith community are familiar with the Easter story. However, we are surrounded by people in the wider community who have never heard this story. That may seem unimaginable but, unfortunately, it is reality. Today, the only way others will know of this life-giving story and of our own experience is for us to share it. Holy Week is the perfect time for us to do this. Because it is during this week that we are invited to experience the story by remembering, once again, Jesus' journey to the cross and beyond.
Holy Week is an important time in our life of faith. I pray that you will commit to attending Easter services, if possible. And invite others to join you - especially those who have never heard the story, our story, before.
On Easter Day we will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ at 8:00 and 10:15 am in the parish hall. There will be festive music with choir and hand-bells at both of the services as well as coffee and refreshments after the service. Please bring a flower to decorate the cross.
At 10:00 am the children are invited to join Kimbra Ong, Director of Children and Family Ministry, in the parish hall to hear the Easter story. Following the story time the children will be led to unbury the “Alleluia” banner in time for the procession at 10:15 am. This signifies the end of Lent and the presence of the resurrected Christ. After the service (10:15 am only), the children are invited to hunt for Easter Eggs. Please have them bring their own Easter baskets.
Everyone, young and old, is invited to attend any and all of the services. We will soak in the story of God's eternal love for us and soak in the spirit of Christ. Walking these days of Holy Week with our Lord, and with each other, will give new meaning to Easter when at last we will once again cry, "Alleluia. Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia."
It is a joy and blessing to be with you again this Easter as rector. My thoughts and prayers will be with each of you and your families and I look forward to seeing you and those you invite to join us.
Easter blessings,
Maly+
The Rev. Maly Carswell Hughes
Rector
Sunday Service Times
The Holy Eucharist, 8:00 a.m. & 10:15 a.m. in-person and 10:15 a.m. livestream |
