St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
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Trinity of Love,
Maker of man and woman in your image
help us to accept ourselves as we are,
and to know our need for each other
and most of all for you.
Hear this prayer for your love's sake. Amen.
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Creating a well-worn path, again.
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After living in the woods for 7 years, I know now how paths are formed in the forest-- but
a lot
of footsteps. Nearly each day, I have made my morning spiritual pilgrimage to fill my many bird feeders, spending time leaning into this relationship I am nurturing with God's created world, by offering something back to the woods to sustain its many creatures (yes, squirrels benefit too!), for I am given so much by living set within nature.
And now I have well-trodden paths from one feeding station to the next. Who knows, maybe these paths will ultimately become a part of my labyrinth, my intentional walk deeper into the woods, to journey deeper into the holy.
Just this week I feel I have come to a new place in my experience of our brand new world. Much still seems confusing or disorienting-- and there is still grief at what feels like has been ripped from my soul in a heartbeat. But when someone asked this week how I was, these words leapt out of my mouth: "I feel centered and creative again." It was one of those experiences that you feel like turning around and wondering who said that, for it at first the thought or words feel completely foreign!
I'm not sure how I got here, what path God led me on to find this holy and sacred place of feeling rooted in God and active with God in creating and loving. Yet, it made me think about the trinity -- how these elements of being centered, creative, and loving can in so many sum up what the trinity is all about.
I imagine my well-worn paths, although will most likely stay true in my bird-feeding realm, have shifted and God and I are beginning to form a new well-trodden path in my heart, that will draw me closer to God and to being your priest in whatever many ways we will discover together.
How has God been creating a new pathway in your heart? in your soul? I'd love to sit and talk with you sometime about this (or Zoom, etc) -- Please invite me into this conversation you and God are sharing, for I believe all our hearts have been molded through this time of the pandemic.
I am holding you in love and prayer,
Mother Barbara
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This Sunday is Trinity Sunday
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Click below for the Worship Service
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We invite you to engage with our worship for this weekend.
The service is An Evening Service of Holy Eucharist with Healing Prayers. The music, images, and text are offered to invite your soul into a time of rest and restoration.
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Click here to listen to only the homily
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Being in right relationship
Mother Barbara's Homily for Trinity Sunday.
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Click the link to engage with the Sunday morning service at the
Washington National Cathedral
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We invite your blessing
upon this prayer shawl.
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We invite each one of you to offer the prayer of healing and blessing provided here or your own prayers upon this shawl, so it will be infused with the love from each one of us.
Mother Barbara plans to offer this beautiful shawl lovingly knitted by Lisa Woolley to Sarah, Ivy's granddaughter who sat vigil with her so faithfully during her last days.
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We still all participate in the Worship
for we are still the Body of Christ
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If you would like to add someone to our prayer list, please
email
Mother Barbara or call or text her at 717-333-5590.
And if you would like to update her on any ongoing pastoral situation, please reach out to her. Providing pastoral care to one another is so vital in this time and we want make sure all are feeling the love and care we wish for all of us.
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Image which connects with the reading from Genesis, read by Jim and Steve Smith.
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Imagine which connects with the Reading from Psalm 8, chanted by Lisa Turchi.
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Imagine which connects to the reading from Matthew, read by Wanda Kloza.
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It is such a gift to me to receive your voice recordings of the lessons. This is a time when I can hear your offering, settle into the scriptures, and have my heart feel with gratitude. Thank you to everyone who contributes to our services.
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Worship Ministers
Celebrant & Homilist:
The Rev. Barbara Hutchinson
Musicians:
Kevin Gorman, pianist
Michelle DiBona Trefren, organist
Vocalists:
Kevin Gorman
Jean Shepherd
Milan Shepherd
Michelle DiBona Trefren
Lisa Turchi
Readers:
Jeanine Goodwin
Virginia Jelinek
Wanda Kloza
Susan Sanders
Jim Smith
Steve Smith
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St. Andrew's Contemplative Worship Service with healing prayers-- Anytime
The Washington National Cathedral Service -- Sunday, 11:15 a.m.
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Saturday, 6/6 or Sunday, 6/7 - Contemplative Worship Service with Healing Prayers
Monday, 6/8 - Community Meal
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When can we come back to church?
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It's a great question! Of course, we are the church, whether we are worshiping and ministering in person or in other creative ways -- so the real question is, "When we will re-enter our church buildings for worship?"
Your leadership (Mother Barbara and your vestry) have created a plan for re-entering the church, based on the Diocesan guidelines for parishes in the various phases (red, yellow, green) per Governor Wolf's designation, which will be discussed with our bishop next Friday. We of course will integrate her input and suggestions into the final plan, which we will then share with everyone. There will be guidelines in place that will protect us all, as best as we can, which include deep cleaning and sanitizing the church after each service, a limit of the number of people, and the safest way to offer the Eucharist, which will be receiving bread only at this time.
Our first priority is to get the 8 a.m. folks back into the church for worship -- and we are hopeful by late June or early July to do that. Then we will add an outdoor Sunday service, similar to our typical 10 a.m. service (although without congregational singing) -- and then a contemplative service on Saturday evenings. At this point, only 25 people will be able to gather at one time, so we'll offer whatever services we need to meet the spiritual needs of our parishioners.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Mother Barbara or Christina Luo, Senior Warden. We want very much to know what will make re-entering church feel and be safe for you. Your spiritual and physical safety is our priority.
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St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
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St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
206 E. Burd Street, Shippensburg, PA 17257
717-532-8089
Mother Barbara
717-333-5590
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