Weekly Services

Sunday Morning Worship with Choir – 10am in-person & livestreamed

(Nursery opens at 9:30am, check in at Parish Hall)

Sunday Evening Contemplative Prayer – Zoom, 5pm

Morning Prayer – Zoom, 9am, Monday through Thursday

Compline – Facebook Live, 8pm, Monday through Thursday

Thursday Noon Day Prayer – Zoom, 11:45am

Thursday Evening Eucharist – Sanctuary, 5:30pm

November 20, 2022

The Feast of Christ the King

& Baptisms

10am Service

The Rev. Mary Claugus Preaching

& Pastor Katie Holeman Presiding

The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Katie Holeman Preaching

Sunday, November 13, 2022

Interfaith Hour of Thanksgiving

St. Michael's Hosting with Reception to Follow

Winterdance Christmas Celebration

(formerly Celtic Christmas)

by New World String Project

A potluck supper will immediately follow Lessons & Carols in the Parish Hall at approximately 6pm. This is an opportunity to celebrate Christmas with your St. Michael's family. We will even sing Christmas carols around the keyboard, led by John and Connie! The church will provide the lasagna, both veggie and meat. Please bring a dish to share alongside the lasagna.

All are welcome! Invite your friends and neighbors!

Please RSVP to rsvp@stmichaelscarmichael.org so we know how many tables to set up. Also, we could use some help! Contact the office at 916.488.3550 or by email if you are available to help or have any questions.

Youth Acolytes

What a wonderful sight this past Sunday to see some of our newest youth acolytes serving in worship! St. Michael's is blessed to have such wonderful volunteers. If you have a youth who might be interested in serving in worship, please contact Pastor Katie. 

Godly Play 

Our children's program, Godly Play, is open every Sunday during our 10am Worship for children in preschool - 6th grade in Johnstone Hall. Spread the word! Please contact Pastor Katie with questions.

Book Study with Pastor Katie

Beginning November 27th

Join us for an Advent book study on Light of the World by Jewish scholar Amy-Jill Levine. The book opens conversations around connections of the Gospel stories to the Old Testament, the role of women in first-century Jewish culture, the importance of Mary’s visitation and the revolutionary implications of Mary’s Magnificat, the census and the stable, and the star of Bethlehem and the flight to Egypt.

The book group will meet on Sunday mornings at 11:45am in the Friendship Center, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent, November 27. The book can be purchased on Amazon here. If you need help purchasing copies, please let us know. If you would like to join by Zoom, please contact Pastor Katie.

Living Compass in Advent

Beginning November 30th

The Living Compass theme for the Advent season is Practicing Simplicity with All Your Heart, Soul, Strength and Mind. Thought-provoking daily readings and reflection questions to enhance your Advent journey are available once again! 

The Living Compass Advent booklets will be available at the church beginning Sunday, November 13. 

There are multiple ways you can engage with this material through Living Compass at livingcompass.org/advent. You can:

---Sign up to receive a daily email of each reflection

---Download a free PDF file of the devotional

---Purchase an e-book of the devotional on Amazon for 99 cents

A weekly discussion group facilitated by Lisa Sargent will be offered on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-7:30 on Zoom beginning November 30. Please contact Lisa by e-mail at lisa@2sargents.com to sign up.

Consider taking a meaningful Advent journey focused on simplicity. As we live in this busy, chaotic, conflicted world, who among us doesn’t want the simpler, abundant life God intends for us?

Outreach Opportunities

Working with our partners, we invite you to sign up to help in the following ways found on our website.

• Serving at River City Food Bank, set up and distribution
• Shower and ministry at Carmichael HART
• Gifts in Kind for Arden Arcade HART (more info)
• Building, repairing, etc. for Habitat for Humanity

You can also check out our partners' websites for more details.

Christmas Flowers

Given in Thanksgiving & in Memory

This Christmas season, you can remember your loved ones and celebrate important moments in your life with the gift of flowers to the church. 

You can share with us the person or event you would like to give flowers in gratitude or memory of via our online form, or you can email the office. Please add "Christmas Flowers & Music" to the memo line of checks and mail or drop them off to the office. You can also pay online using the drop down menu by selecting Flowers & Music in Thanksgiving and Remembering.

Celebrating the Lives of our Beloved Members

The Celebration of Life service for Diane Hegland will be at St. Michael's on December 17th at 10am.

Choral Masterwork

by John Cozza, Music Director

Solemn Vespers of a Confessor by Mozart

One of Mozart's most famous vocal works is the "Laudate Dominum" soprano aria from the Solemn Vespers, K. 339, which Connie sang so beautifully last Sunday; the rest of this wonderful work is quite unknown. Vesperae solennes de confessore (Solemn Vespers for a Confessor), K. 339, is a sacred choral composition, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. It is scored for SATB choir and soloists, violin I, violin II, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones colla parte, 2 timpani, and basso continuo (violoncello, double bass, and organ, with optional bassoon obbligato).

The setting was composed for liturgical use in the Salzburg Cathedral.The title "de confessore" was not Mozart's own, and was added by a later hand to his manuscript. It suggests that the work was intended for vespers held on a specific day on the liturgical calendar of saints ("confessors"); however, the saint in question has not been conclusively established. This was Mozart's final choral work composed for the Salzburg cathedral.

Here is a spacious, majestic YouTube recording by the Viennese period-instrument group Concentus Musicus conducted by their founder Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with American soprano Barbara Bonney singing the famous Laudate Domoinum soprano solo: 

Diocesan News

The 112th Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California was a great success! If you missed it, please check out the highlights here on the diocesan website. Additional videos from convention can be found here.

St. Michael's Men’s Breakfast

Men's breakfast is on the first Saturday of every month at FlapJacks Diner. The group meets at 8am at the restaurant. FlapJacks Diner is on El Camino Ave. Please reply to Jim Dodds so he will have an idea of the numbers. If you have any additional questions, please contact the office.

Centering Prayer

All are welcome to come and pray! Centering prayer meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month via Zoom. Newcomers are welcome to come at 6:45pm for a Centering Prayer Newcomer Orientation. Centering Prayer begins at 7pm. We will offer a 20 minute centering prayer sit, followed by a variety of contemplative practices. They may include: Lectio Divina, experiential spirituality and occasionally a guest speaker. For more information, please contact the office 916.488.3550 or Chuck Schaller 916.390.3465.

Prayers for Pregnant Women & Their Babies

We have an ongoing relationship with the Episcopal Sisters at the Order of Julian of Norwich monastery who pray daily for pregnant women and their babies. If you have name(s) of loved one(s) who are expecting that you would like to have included in the sisters' prayers, please email Fr. Rod at fatherrod@stmichaelscarmichael.org.

Giving Thanks with Flowers!

You can still remember your loved ones and celebrate important moments in your life with the gift of flowers to the church.  

If you would like to give in this way, please let the office know

and what you would like to give thanks for in the bulletin. You can send a check (or drop it off) to the office or pay on-line.  

St. Michael's Hours

Office Hours: Monday through Friday 9am - 1pm

Sanctuary and Courtyard are open during office hours. Please let the office know you will be coming. Call 916.488.3550 or email.

Pastoral Hours

Rev. Mary will be available on request. Please call the office to schedule.

916.488.3550.

Pastor Katie's office hours are Mondays, 9am - 11am.



Giving 

Thank you all for generously supporting St. Michael's and our ministries. We are accepting pledge payments through the mail. We are also accepting online giving. You may have to set up an account to do so. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Kate Muris.