Blessed are you
who bear the light
in unbearable times,
who testify
to its endurance
amid the unendurable,
who bear witness to its persistence
when everything seems
in shadow
and grief.

Blessed are you
in whom the light lives,
in whom
the brightness blazes-
your heart
a chapel,
an altar where in the deepest night
can be seen
the fire that
shines forth in you
in unaccountable faith,
in stubborn hope,
in love that illumines
every broken thing
it finds.

-"For Those Who Bear the Light" by Jan Richardson's Circle of Grace
How to Join Sunday Worship 
(please note this is the same zoom info from last week and will remain the same)


The link for Sunday worship (11 am) will always stay the same. Please note a "waiting room" has been enabled so that we can make sure everyone who comes for worship is present for prayer and support.

click here to participate online:


or you can phone in:
+1 669 900 6833

meeting id: 813 1165 8277
password: cyprians
upcoming:

feb 14: annual meeting

book group

This Tuesday we will be discussing the chapters "Sitting in a Circle" and "Burning a Cascade Head" in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass.

Happy hour beginning at 6pm and book group at 6:30pm.

If you'd like to join us for book group please send rev. hannah an email at vicar@stcyprianssf.org. I have a couple extra books available.








next book: beginning feb 23rd

During Lent we will be reading Amy-Jill Levine's Entering the Passion of Jesus.


Inauguration Prayers & Services with Grace Cathedral

  • On Wednesday, January 20, we'll host early Morning Prayers for our Nation at 8 a.m., with extended prayers and organ meditations, preparing us to watch the 9 a.m. PT Inauguration ceremony. Morning Prayer will also stream on FBLive.
  • Then, we'll hold space to respond at The Vine at 5 p.m. with the Rev. Mary Carter Greene presiding, and a sermon conversation with the Rev. Canon Abbott Bailey, Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of California, and the Rev. Anna Rossi.
  • On Thursday, January 21, at 5:15 p.m., a special Interfaith Evensong in partnership with the NorCal MLK Foundation gathers King and Faith co-founder, Dr. Dwight Hopkins, now the Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology and the University of Chicago School of Divinity; our Dean Malcolm Young, cathedral staff and interfaith partners to reflect on the theme "Justice and Hope," with a concluding reflection from Bishop Marc Andrus.
  • We will also be updating our Prayers for Difficult Times with the texts from Sunday and Wednesday liturgies, and updating our blog later today with a clergy reflection and prayer in light of last week’s attacks.

All St. Cyprian's worship services continue to be suspended to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

We'll continue sharing updates and scheduling changes via email and our Facebook page. Feel free to share our services with anyone!

Please don't hesitate to stay in touch and reach out to Rev. Hannah (vicar@stcyprianssf.org or 415.439.3998) for pastoral care, assistance getting food (or even toilet paper), access to bulletins/morning prayer, or if any other needs arise.

More information about the diocese's response to COVID-19 is available here.