For your thought:
[S]ince it is by God's mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.
--2 Corinthians 4:1
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SAINT MARK'S MISSION & OUTREACH |
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Tuesday: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper |
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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
Tuesday March 1, 5:30- 7:00pm
In lieu of our normal Mardi Gras, we will host a Pancake Supper this year on Mardi Gras. If you are willing to help with either prep work, serving or cleanup for this event, please sign up on the clipboards on the main table in the entry area (narthex) on Sunday morning.
Food
- Come enjoy pancakes, sausages and OJ and some great fellowship.
- Bring fruit or something to share to add to the meal and the festive nature of the day.
Music
- We will have live jazz music from our very own St. Mark’s musicians and lots of fun.
Fun
- Feel free to wear Mardi Gras beads, dress in costume, or wear face paint.
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
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"This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for Holy Baptism. It was also a time when those who, because of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to the fellowship of the Church. Thereby, the whole congregation was put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set forth in the Gospel of our Savior, and of the need which all Christians continually have to renew their repentance and faith." --Book of Common Prayer, p. 265.
Join us for any of the following liturgies on Wednesday, March 2nd to commence the Lenten season:
7:00 a.m. - Ash Wednesday liturgy with imposition of ashes and Eucharist. (In-person only.)
12:00 p.m. - Ash Wednesday liturgy, hymns with imposition of ashes and Eucharist. (In-person and virtual.)
7:00 p.m. - Ash Wednesday liturgy with imposition of ashes, Eucharist and choir. (In-person and virtual.)
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Sunday: Share & Care Sunday |
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11:30AM-12:15 in person and online
Share and Care Sunday
On the 4th Sunday of each month, our 11:30 a.m. formation groups focus on service to our church and the larger community.
Godly Play (ages 2-102, Stoney Chapel) - Cardmaking: Read stories and make cards for people who are sick, lonely, or in need of encouragement.
Holy Troublemakers (ages 9-109, Parish Hall) - Liturgical Leader Training: Learn and practice the various "jobs" that a Servant of Worship or acolyte does each week during the Sunday Eucharist.
Inquirer's (ages 16-116, Library) - Immigration Ministries: Members of St. Mark's share updates and discuss current opportunities to provide support for immigrants in our community.
AV Desk Team (Choir Loft): How to livestream to more than Facebook Live.
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St. Mark's Invites All to a Holy Lent |
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Starting March 3rd, St. Mark's will be providing the following Lenten offerings:
Sundays
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9:30 a.m. - Sunday Worship & Holy Eucharist - Join us on Zoom, Facebook or in person.
- 10:45 a.m. - Fellowship (In person)
- 11:30 a.m. - Formation Groups:
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Godly Play - Join us on Zoom or in person
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Holy Troublemakers - Join us on Zoom or in person
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Animate Spiritual Practices - Join us on Zoom or in person
Tuesdays
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10:00 a.m. - Rosary - Join us on Zoom
Wednesdays
Thursdays
Devotions at Home:
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Stations of the Cross - Help Needed |
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Walk with Jesus on the day of his crucifixion by doing the Stations of the Cross during Lent. Our gorgeous woodblock stations, on display in the Nave and created by artist Charlie Aldrich, are a means for prayerful contemplation and reflection during the season of Lent.
- Would you like to observe Stations of the Cross during Lent using our beautiful woodblock stations?
- Interested in helping to lead this brief meditative liturgy?
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Contact Fr. Christopher (email him here) if you would like to be part of making stations part of a weekly practice during Lent.
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DRG Lenten Vocations Course: God IS Calling You! |
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Join Mother Sylvia, Deacon David, and other members of the Episcopal Church throughout the Diocese of the Rio Grande for a Lenten Vocations Course
Thursday evenings, 6:00-7:30PM (Mountain Time): 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31
Our annual Diocesan Discernment Cycle begins each Lent with an Introductory "Vocations 101" course. This course/online retreat is open to any and all lay people, deacons, and priests in the DRG and beyond. Each session includes time for prayer, a brief topical presentation, and small group sharing. In this introductory course/online retreat we explore our basic understanding of Christian Vocation in the Episcopal Church. Over the course of five 90-minute sessions, we explore how the particular vows made in three different services from our Book of Common Prayer: the services of Holy Baptism, the Ordination of a Deacon, and the Ordination of a Priest, can shed light on particular aspects of the shared vocation of all Christians, and help us begin to see our own unique vocations, as individual members of Christ’s Body, more clearly.
Note: This course is for all people (at every stage of life and in every order of ministry) who feel called to deepen their relationship with God and their vocation in the church and in the world. It is also the "starting place" for individuals who may be sensing a call towards ordained ministry in the Diocese of the Rio Grande and wish to enter into a formal process of discernment.
Questions: Please contact Mother Sylvia via email here.
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Experience Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Creation
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Event 1 Special Formation Opportunity
Sunday April 24th at 11:30 a.m.
The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: Haydn's The Creation - Introduction and Talk
Franz Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation, one of the greatest masterpieces of eighteenth-century music, celebrates the beauty and divinity of the cosmos by setting the words of the Hebrew Bible and Milton's Paradise Lost. In his talk The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: Haydn's The Creation, Bruce Redford (professor emeritus, Boston University, and a parishioner of St. Mark's) will discuss Haydn's inspired literary and musical choices, as well as the work's joyous theology.
Event 2 St. Mark’s goes to the Lensic
Sunday May 1st. 3pm Haydn’s The Creation
Join us for an all-parish outing to the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, for the Orchestra Season Finale of Haydn’s The Creation May 1st 3pm performed by Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra and Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Maxine Thévenot, artistic director.
Subsidized tickets are available. Email our Director of Music Jeremy Wirths, (email him here) to reserve a ticket for $40. You can also purchase your own tickets online and/or give a gift to help underwrite this St. Mark’s musical outing in the Easter season. For more information on the event go to https://lensic.org.
We hope parishioners, family and friends will enjoy this opportunity, carpool or ride the Rail Runner to Santa Fe and perhaps enjoy a casual dinner afterwards in small groups.
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February Shoe Drive for Asylum Seekers |
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We are helping the Annunciation House in El Paso as they receive asylum seekers who cross the southern border at Juarez. An ad hoc, citywide ecumenical group is meeting buses sent to Albuquerque to catch flights to their sponsors’ homes elsewhere in the U. S. They give people a change of clothes, food, and find them a motel room to stay in while they isolate five days after COVID testing. Then they board a flight or a bus on their way to sponsors, usually family members who filed the necessary paperwork and covered their transportation costs.
For St. Mark’s contribution to this outreach effort, we have chosen athletic shoes—people are arriving in flipflops. We need men’s sizes 5-7, women’s sizes 5-7.5 and children’s sizes 3.5-7.
Throughout February, St. Mark’s will be collecting new athletic shoes in the sizes mentioned above. Buy a pair and bring it with you next Sunday. New shoes only, please. If you have a limited budget, buy a pair of adult shoes. You will be helping families take the next step toward a new life.
If you have any questions, please email Kate Spielmann, Mary Ellen Elliott and Mary Beth Libbey (send them an email here).
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LGBTQ+ Holy Eucharist & Fellowship |
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All are welcome to give and/or pledge to St. Mark's by:
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Mail (St. Mark's has a secure mailbox and is checked regularly): 431 Richmond Place NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
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You may give electronically through the Diocese of the Rio Grande Parish Donation site and check the box next to "Albuquerque-St. Mark's". Just fill out the rest of the information and click the Next button at the bottom of the page. Please make sure fill out "special instructions or comment" to let us know how to apply your gift (i.e.: pledge, congregational relief fund, etc.).
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You may give electronically (including pledge payments) to St. Mark's - securely via PayPal® - anytime. Please consider checking the box that reads, "I’d like to add to my donation to help offset the cost of processing."
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DRG Women's Ministry Lent Retreat |
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The DRG Women's Ministry Lent Retreat will be hybrid on March 26 from 8:30AM-3PM. We'll be at St. Luke's, La Union, NM and on Zoom. Women in the 'south' are esp. encouraged to attend in-person and invite a friend. There are hotels in Las Cruces and El Paso for those who travel from other parts of the Diocese. Sunday services are at 9:30 for anyone who wants to stay over and join in.
The Rev. Patty Soukup will be our speaker. She will focus on ways women are uniquely qualified to share wisdom with each other with reference to Richard Rohr's book Falling Upward. She'll also talk about details (like wills, etc.) that can distract us. Taking care of these bits and pieces frees us to be leaders and wise women of faith.
The event is open to women in the Diocese of the Rio Grande and friends anywhere Zoom might reach.
Registration ($25 in-person and $10 for Zoom attendance) is available on the Women's Ministry website. Fees cover supplies (including Zoom license), lunch, and honorarium. Contact Cindy with questions.
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Painting and Praying with Icons |
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Mary Magdalene Workshop with Pat Catlett
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