The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday

Pentecost

Summer is right around the corner. Ask any student (or any teacher!), and they can tell you days and hours until the school year is done and summer begins. The life of a parish is similar in that our program year is winding down, but we’re not in summer mode just yet!

This Sunday is Pentecost, one of the seven major feasts of the church year. It’s the Sunday we celebrate that God is with us in the third person of the Trinity, wearing red to commemorate the tongues of fire that rested on the disciples’ heads in Acts, reading the gospel in various tongues, and baptizing new Christians into the Resurrection that all who follow Jesus share.   

The festivities continue the following Sunday, 4 June, as well. While we celebrate the indescribable and ever-dancing Trinity the first Sunday after Pentecost, this year we are honored to host a reading and book signing, immediately following the service, of Destiny: Creating our Global Community—Sustainable, Peaceful, Just, the latest publication of parishioner Bob McCan. We have planned a festive coffee hour to mark the occasion, and we will offer copies of the book for sale during the event.

Additionally, the choir next Sunday will sing Evensong, the service of sung evening prayer that has been a staple of Anglicanism for centuries. This sublime service at the end of the day is a fitting way to end a Sunday AND the program year, and I encourage you to join us for that beautiful service.



I would also ask your prayers next Sunday for three of our youth, who will be confirmed by Bishop Stevenson during his visitation to Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna.

While the rest of the world may be winding down, our lives at The Falls Church are full with wonderful opportunities for worship and fellowship. Please make a point to join us this weekend and next for the festivities in store. We look forward to seeing you at church!

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This service is the first of our single summer services - Sundays from May 28 through September 3 we will have one, 10:00 a.m. service in The Contemporary Church with nursery and livestreamed, followed by coffee hour.

If you would like to support the blood drive by putting up posters in local businesses or by providing snacks on the day, please use the SignUp Genius.

SAVE THE DATE: All members of The Falls Church are invited to join together to march at Capital Pride 2023, Saturday, June 10.

Further details of timing and special t-shirts will be provided next week.

You can register via Realm or by filling out this form and returning it to the parish office with a check for the deposit.

On Sunday, May 28, we move to our Summer schedule of a single service. Nursery will be provided on Sundays throughout the summer. There will be no Children's Chapel or Children's Formation Classes until September 10.

Hogwarts VBS Prefect registration via Realm

Please use the Prayer List in your prayers for each other and the world. 



Praying for each other and the needs of the world is a powerful way to love our neighbors as ourselves! This week's Prayer list.

Click here to email Father Matthew and add someone to the prayer list.

If you have questions about Realm or eGiving, please contact Claire Hardie