At St. Paul’s Parish there will be three observances of Good Friday, April 6, 2012: Communion from the Reserved Sacrament at 8:00 a.m. The Stations of the Cross at 12:00 noon The Liturgy of the Presanctified at 12:30 p.m. The…
Continue ReadingAlmighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and…
Continue ReadingWe give you thanks, loving God, for the ministry of Daniel Wu, priest and pioneer church planter among Asian-Americans, and for the stable worshiping communities he established, easing many immigrants’ passage into a confusing new world. By the power of…
Continue ReadingFr. Funston’s sermon for the first day of the Triduum (“the three-days”, the church’s commemoration of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection) is now available on line. Redemption is a drama in three acts – three acts and a brief intermission –…
Continue ReadingToday, April 5, 2012, is Maundy Thursday. At St. Paul’s Parish the Holy Communion will be celebrated jointly with two other Medina County Episcopal congregations: St. Patrick’s, Brunswick, and St. Mark’s, Wadsworth. Father Allan Belton of St. Mark’s Parish will…
Continue ReadingAlmighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives…
Continue ReadingEverliving God, you called the women at the tomb to witness to the resurrection of your Son: We thank you for the courageous and independent spirit of your servant Pandita Ramabai, the mother of modern India; and we pray that…
Continue ReadingLord God, whose blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time, confident of the glory that shall be revealed;…
Continue ReadingAlmighty God, by the hand of Moses your servant you led your people out of slavery, and made them free at last: Grant that your Church, following the example of your prophet Martin Luther King, may resist oppression in the…
Continue ReadingO God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer shame…
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