• Your parish leadership is seeking to keep you connected through opportunities to meet (virtually) face to face via Zoom (Zoom.us). Already our Men and Women's Bible Study and Fellowship groups have begun meeting this way.

• We recognize the sense of isolation can become quite quite pressing during a period of self-quarantine, so please seek to keep connected via our Zoom gatherings. If you, for any reason at all, need the advice, counsel, and comfort of a member of the clergy, do not hesitate to contact any staff cleric by email. Email addresses may be found on the church's website (click here).

In a  new weekly meditation series  offered by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, he invites us to cultivate “habits of grace.”

In his first installment, Bishop Curry notes: 

"One of the things that I’m aware of is that consistent habits, what some have called habits of grace, can really be helpful especially in unsettling times. I was watching television and saw where in Milan and throughout Italy apparently, a movement has begun. . . . at six o’clock every evening everyone who is in their apartment is socializing by coming out on the porch and at six o’clock they begin to applaud. They just start clapping. And everyone claps and applauds as a way of saying thank you to the medical folk who are working, the first responders who are working. Just a way of saying thank you. And then the applause moves into or morphs into a song. And they sometimes sing their national anthem or sing some other song, every day at six. A habit of grace."

Do you have a habit of grace? How might you cultivate such a habit in these trying times? And, how might you bring along others, strengthening (or developing) bonds in potentially isolating times?

If you feel called to share your habit of grace, we would love to feature it in our weekly E-newletter (like this one) as well as during our Zoom "connect" session(s). Simply click on Grace under Quarantine to share your habit.