What's Happening! Readings for this Sunday - March 24, 3rd Sunday in Lent Trouble viewing email? Open as Webpage.

Family Sunday and Coffee Hour This Week! Spring has sprung and we are celebrating the change of seasons with Peep Fruit Pops! Join us at 10 a.m. coffee hour to make fun, healthy, fruit pops including Peeps! Create your own masterpiece and enjoy the results! Before that, children and families gather at the altar during Communion to experience the mystery and joy of the Eucharist up close. Join us!

This Sunday - Spiritual practices that help us connect with God and with each other. March 24 Connecting with God through Prayer Beads (Laurel+), Board Room after both services Sometimes when we pray, it is easy to become distracted or for our minds to wander. For centuries, Christians have used beads to pray: from the pebbles of the desert fathers and mothers, to the Catholic rosary and more recently, with Anglican prayer beads. In this session, we'll explore how prayer beads can enhance our prayer lives, aiding us in stilling ourselves, in listening, or providing a tangible, touchable way to encounter the Holy.

Lenten Quiet Day - Our Sacred Mandalas: Connecting To The Center Led By Paula+ Next Tuesday March 26, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. This quiet day will explore some of the history of mandala art and how the mandala has been used as a tool for meditation, personal growth and expression. In our two sessions, we will have opportunities to experience the centering practice of creating a mandala, Sanskrit for circle, starting from the center and building out. Paula+ is excited to lead our time together and share her own personal journey and work with mandala art. Lent calls us to go within and connect to the quiet center and energy of God’s love. Meditating with or creating one’s own mandala offers a release of healing and centering energy.

Lenten Taiz é Next Tuesday March 26, 7:00 p.m. Join us for our Taizé service of healing for Lent. This Taizé service, filled with music and candlelight, also provides the option for intercessory prayer with a Prayer team leader. We pray that the time will be a healing comfort for whatever you face or hold in your heart.

Lenten Supper Series - "God And Science Agree - We Are Meant To Be Together", led by local psychiatrist Joseph Lee M.D. Supper ($8 pp/$20 per family) 6:00 p.m. Program 7-8:15 p.m. Week 3 - Next Wednesday, March 27: Rationalism and Empathy Making good choices involves reliable data and critical thinking, right? Actually, reliable data and critical thinking say that the most inexplicable feeling, empathy, is much more important to almost everything that we do. Dr. Lee specializes in a health-oriented focus on personal growth and well-being, who also speaks at churches and conferences on his passion, Social Emotional Learning for parenting and relationships. He is a life-long learner who enjoys being able to find the intersections between all the facets of his identity and interests. He also has an embarrassingly large collection of Transformers.

Baptism Opportunity! Are you or a family member wanting the Sacrament of Baptism?  On April 20, the Easter Vigil , the night before Easter Sunday, is our next offering to celebrate someone becoming a new member of our faith tradition. (After that date, Pentecost, June 9, is the next of four offerings in the church year. We also perform baptisms for pastoral exceptions when another time is best for a family.) Contact Paula+ with questions.

Other News, and Coming Up!

Volunteer At Harbor Interfaith With St. Francis Parishioners Thursday, April 4, and every 1 st Thursday of the Month, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Join St. Francis volunteers helping bag and stock groceries for the working poor and homeless which Harbor Interfaith helps to help themselves.  Contact — Hank Gatlin and/or sign up in the church office. Donations also welcome - toiletries (esp. toothpaste/brushes, shampoo, conditioner, bath soap/gel, deodorant, and razors & shaving cream). Food —peanut butter & jelly, and tuna. Please place items in the Harbor Interfaith baskets in the narthex & church office. Thanks and Godspeed!

Ongoing Spiritual Groups Meditation Group - Thursday Mornings, 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the Nason Prayer Chapel. No charge. Yoga - Monday & Wednesday mornings 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Free-will offering. Contact Jill Fenske for more info, or to be added to her email contact list.

Sunday Worship Bulletins - download your bulletin to your phone or tablet and help us save the planet! Sermons Online Archive The Rt. Rev. Bishop John Taylor Readings for Mar 17, Second Sunday in Lent Episcopal News Weekly Email Paula+, 310-375 4617 x223 Email Peter+, 310-375 4617 x225. Email Laurel+, 310-375 4617 x226 You are not interrupting our work - you ARE our work!

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