Children's Sunday School
is underway
Beginning on Sunday, March 23, the St. Nicholas Chapel reopened for children's lessons and activities at St. Paul's. Thanks to Linda, Samantha and Paul for preparing the space in short-order.
Programming began with a "soft launch" during the service, with the children heading to the chapel just after the Gospel and returning communion. In the fall, we'll offer more formal Sunday school education programming.
If anyone would like to be part of the children's ministry, please let us know and we'll ensure you get the Safe Church training required of everyone working with children.
Programming began with a "soft launch" during the service, with the children heading to the chapel just after the Gospel and returning communion. In the fall, we'll offer more formal Sunday school education programming.
If anyone would like to be part of the children's ministry, please let us know and we'll ensure you get the Safe Church training required of everyone working with children.
Travel with us through 'The Last Week'
On Sundays after service throughout Lent, the Revs. Kay and Joe Ashby are offering a class based on the book “The Last Week” by John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg.
The book explores what the Gospels really say about the week from Palm Sunday to Easter, and gives us a glimpse of the Jesus who "is this new moral hero, a more dangerous Jesus than the one enshrined in the church's traditional teachings.”
The book will also be featured in the Wednesday Bible Study. So please, join us about 20 minutes after Sunday service or at 10 a.m. Wednesdays throughout Lent.
The book explores what the Gospels really say about the week from Palm Sunday to Easter, and gives us a glimpse of the Jesus who "is this new moral hero, a more dangerous Jesus than the one enshrined in the church's traditional teachings.”
The book will also be featured in the Wednesday Bible Study. So please, join us about 20 minutes after Sunday service or at 10 a.m. Wednesdays throughout Lent.
Bible Study
From butterflies to the Philadelphia 11 to the Middle East,
Bible study every Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Bible study every Wednesday at 10 a.m.
You are welcome to join us every Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the library for a discussion of the Bible in our world. You can also join us via Facebook, live or at other times that fit for you
Wednesday, Sept. 11: Butterflies and the resurrection. Click here for video.
Wednesday, Sept. 18: The cross and Philadelphia 11. Click here for video
Wednesday, Sept. 25: Israel, Palestine and the Anglican Communion, part I
Wednesday, Oct. 2: Israel, Palestine and the Anglican Communion, part II
Wednesday, Oct. 9, Israel, Palestine and the Anglican Communion, part III
Wednesday, Sept. 18: The cross and Philadelphia 11. Click here for video
Wednesday, Sept. 25: Israel, Palestine and the Anglican Communion, part I
Wednesday, Oct. 2: Israel, Palestine and the Anglican Communion, part II
Wednesday, Oct. 9, Israel, Palestine and the Anglican Communion, part III
Heaven and earth
Welcome to Eclipse 2024 Bible Study!
Wednesdays at 10:00a
This Bible Study is designed to help engage congregations and their communities in reflecting on how astronomical events such as the upcoming solar eclipse remind us of our relationship to our Creator. It is a great opportunity to invite conversation between theology and science. Materials provided by the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. It will be streamed on our FB page.
Click on this link for an overview of the course.
April 3rd—Lessons I and II: The Order of Creation, and Epiphany: Nero, Herod, and the Magi (Click here for a link to the video of the first session)
April 10th—NO CLASS WILL BE HELD!
April 17th—Lesson III: The Storm and the Sun
April 24th—Lessons IV: Darkness Over the Whole Land
Wednesdays at 10:00a
This Bible Study is designed to help engage congregations and their communities in reflecting on how astronomical events such as the upcoming solar eclipse remind us of our relationship to our Creator. It is a great opportunity to invite conversation between theology and science. Materials provided by the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. It will be streamed on our FB page.
Click on this link for an overview of the course.
April 3rd—Lessons I and II: The Order of Creation, and Epiphany: Nero, Herod, and the Magi (Click here for a link to the video of the first session)
April 10th—NO CLASS WILL BE HELD!
April 17th—Lesson III: The Storm and the Sun
April 24th—Lessons IV: Darkness Over the Whole Land
Understanding the saints
who risked it all and changed everything
who risked it all and changed everything
Throughout Lent in 2024, our Wednesday 10 a.m. study group is focusing on “Hazardous Saints: Christians Risking All, Changing Everything” by C.K. Robertson. You are welcome to one or all of the sessions, and can find out more by calling the office at (330) 455-0286. Video of our get-togethers are also on our Facebook page.
Here the schedule:
Here the schedule:
- Feb. 21 Barnabas: The Subversive Bridgebuilder
- February 28 Francis of Assisi: The Lovable Rebel
- March 6 Thomas Cranmer: The Tightrope Walker (Video available by clicking here)
- March 13 Sojourner Truth: The Persevering Prophet (Video available by clicking here)
- March 20 Dorothy Day: The Idealistic Realist (Video available by clicking here)
- March 27 Oscar Romero: The People’s Voice (Video available by clicking here)
2023 Lenten Formation Series
“Preparing to Become the Beloved Community”
February 26-March 29
Wednesday & Sunday Sessions
WELCOME And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. —Mark 1:9-12
This Lent, the Diocesan Community is invited into a journey to commit in new ways to becoming Beloved Community and growing loving, liberating, life-giving relationships across the human family of God. We make the journey not only as individual Christians and congregations but as a whole church. We are excited about the St. Paul’s family and friends joining together on this journey.
For your convenience, every session will be provided each week on both Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and Sundays at 9 a.m. the Meeting Room on the Lower Level. Please join us!
Session One: Lent 1 – Becoming the Beloved Community
Session Two: Lent 2 – Repairing the Breach in Institutions and Society
Session Three: Lent 3 – Proclaiming the Dream of Beloved Community
Session Four: Lent 4 – Telling the Truth about Our Churches and Race
Session Five: Lent 5 – Practicing the Way of Love in the Pattern of Jesus
Clips from the video series called “The Chosen” will be incorporated into the study. à Handouts will be provided. For more information, please see Deacon Robin, or call the Church Office at 330-455-0286.
“Preparing to Become the Beloved Community”
February 26-March 29
Wednesday & Sunday Sessions
WELCOME And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. —Mark 1:9-12
This Lent, the Diocesan Community is invited into a journey to commit in new ways to becoming Beloved Community and growing loving, liberating, life-giving relationships across the human family of God. We make the journey not only as individual Christians and congregations but as a whole church. We are excited about the St. Paul’s family and friends joining together on this journey.
For your convenience, every session will be provided each week on both Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and Sundays at 9 a.m. the Meeting Room on the Lower Level. Please join us!
Session One: Lent 1 – Becoming the Beloved Community
Session Two: Lent 2 – Repairing the Breach in Institutions and Society
Session Three: Lent 3 – Proclaiming the Dream of Beloved Community
Session Four: Lent 4 – Telling the Truth about Our Churches and Race
Session Five: Lent 5 – Practicing the Way of Love in the Pattern of Jesus
Clips from the video series called “The Chosen” will be incorporated into the study. à Handouts will be provided. For more information, please see Deacon Robin, or call the Church Office at 330-455-0286.
Lent historically has prepared us for a return to the church
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). https://www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/lent/
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). https://www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/lent/