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Sundays7:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I 9:00 a.m. Sung Eucharist Rite II Third Sundays: All-Generations Service (Sept. through May) 11:15 a.m. Sung Eucharist Rite II 4:00 p.m. "Come & See" Service 4:30 p.m. (third Sundays) Choral Evensong (preceded by organ recital at 4 p.m.) 5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II Tuesdays10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II and Healing 6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer (second Tuesday) Thursdays (Sept. through May) 11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I Worship services at St. Philip's
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For 6 months of the liturgical year we retrace the story of Jesus--from anticipating his arrival to celebrating his birth and ministry to making sense of his death, resurrection, and ascension. During the season after Pentecost, we ponder the question: If Jesus is the Christ, then who are we? We invite you to seek answers through the many spiritual, educational, musical, and ministry opportunities at St. Philip's.
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Message from the Rector
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Liturgy is one of the most powerful ways we have to help the world see with the eyes of faith -- to see beauty in bread and wine or in common men and women. Each gathering of the faithful is an opportunity for Christ to be revealed. Those who serve at the Altar and support our worship are not actors in a play, nor managers of a production, but stewards of mystery. For example, those who are carrying a chalice of Christ's own self cannot do it sloppily or we communicate an irreverence that distracts longing souls from finding a moment of peace with a Lord they seek to know and love. It matters deeply and powerfully how we approach the Holy Mysteries that have been entrusted to us, because the gathering of the Body of Christ at prayer is the very thing that makes us the Church. The Church, in our encounter with Christ, is a Body of people who help one another see that which we do not readily see with our own eyes. We are pointed toward the mystery of Incarnation when we would only see a manger. We are pointed toward the Crucifixion when we would only walk by those suffering on our own streets. We are pointed toward the Resurrection when we would only see a casket lowered into the ground; toward Body and Blood when we would only see bread and wine; toward Reconciliation when we would only feel anger. We are given wounds to touch when we only know doubt. In all of this, things that are unseen are made real and present. The way we do this work together is an outward expression of our shared belief that Christ is revealing himself and our work is part of the revealing. In a couple of weeks I will be meeting with members of key ministries involved in our worship services. I am so looking forward to spending this time with our liturgical ministers and leaders and sharing in this holy work of stewarding mystery together. --Fr. Robert
 Members of the Altar Guild, Ushers, Acolytes, Vergers, Lay Liturgical Ministers, and Affiliated Clergy are invited to a potluck dinner and evening of liturgy conversation on Thursday, September 15. The evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a potluck dinner in the Gallery, followed by the liturgy discussion in the Church. If you are involved in any of these ministries, please RSVP. You may either: contact Stella Lopez or call 299-6421 or click here to register online |
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This Weekend
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 First Sunday Food Drive
Sunday is the first Sunday of the month, and St. Philip's Food Pantry ministry will be accepting donations of nonperishable food in unbreakable containers. Desired items are canned meat and meat entrees, canned fruit, canned vegetables, canned beans, dried pasta and canned pasta sauce, soup, peanut butter, and cereal. We also gratefully accept checks made out to St. Philip's with "Food Pantry" on the memo line. Adult Forum
On Sunday, September 4, at 10:15 a.m. in the East Gallery, the Rev. Canon Ted Holt will present a program on the Biblical apocryphal book variously known as "Susanna" and "Daniel and Susanna" and "Susanna and the Elders" which is found in Chapter 13 of the Greek version of the Book of Daniel. It is a story of intrigue, danger, lust, innocence betrayed, deadly false accusations, and astute detective work which, at the end of the day, sets everything aright.  Talk to Barby at Coffee Hour about Opportunities to Serve ASMP St. Philip's After-School Music and Homework Program begins soon, on September 12. We still need help in the following areas: piano practice helpers for beginners; homework helpers for a few weeks until our winter members return; and homework helpers for Thursday afternoons 1-3 p.m. or 3-5 p.m. Call Barby Goldschmid, 237-8881, see her at Coffee Hour in the Gallery, or e-mail her. Helping with the After-School Music Program is very rewarding! Labor Day Holiday
The Church, office, and campus will be closed on Monday, September 5, in observance of Labor Day. Alarms will be activated. The office will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 6.
Almighty God, you have so linked our lives one with another that all we do affects, for good or ill, all other lives: So guide us in the work we do, that we may do it not for self alone, but for the common good; and, as we seek a proper return for our own labor, make us mindful of the rightful aspirations of other workers, and arouse our concern for those who are out of work; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Deuteronomy 30: 15-20
Psalm 1
Philemon 1-21
Luke 14: 25-33
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Next Week
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Parents' Night In
Parents and children (newborn through 6th grade) are invited to St. Philip's Parents' Night In on Friday, September 9, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Children's Chapel. Dinner will be served (at a low cost per person) and free childcare provided. Please contact Ambur Mette with any questions. RSVP to Ambur by September 6. Can't join us? Save the date for future gatherings: October 7 and November 11.
Casa Maria Sandwich Making Casa Maria lunch-making ministry thanks all of our faithful helpers who have been showing up this summer. Our next sandwich making is on Saturday, September 10, beginning at 7 a.m. in the East Gallery. We appreciate all helping hands! Thank you for helping our neighbors in need.
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The Beauty of Holiness
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"Nowhere" can be a comfortable place. Just ask the designers of malls, shopping centers, and chain stores. To take the example of a chain store -- they are designed so that anyone who arrives can easily find their way around. Jeans are always in the same place as are hoodies and shoes. Each place is nearly identical to the others, and they all run together in a sort of geography of nowhere. We are blessed to worship in a place that feels like "somewhere." It is a place that is unique and blessed with beauty. God uses beauty to speak to us and to challenge us to see in a more transcendent way -- to see the heart of things. Over the next few months, I will spend some time each week praying with one of the pieces of art that it is easy to walk by or to ignore in this magnificent place and write a bit about what I am seeing here. It will be a spiritual tour of sorts and a way for us to re-engage the beauty that gives so many of us a sense of home here. I hope that you will share with me too what you are freshly seeing as we look with eager longing with the eyes of faith.
--Fr. Robert
 Credence Table FrameMy eyes were drawn on Sunday to the ornate silver scrollwork around the Credence Table that connects the altar area with the Sacristy, where the Altar Guild works hard to help our services come off beautifully. The scrollwork is similar to the metalwork elsewhere in the church but much more elaborate. It is fitting that it adorns the place where the most precious thing we share, Communion, is prepared. Through that scrollwork-adorned space pass precious metalware chalices that are precious because they contain the Source of our life together. Their beauty is found in their transformation from simple cups to something more -- something set aside for holy purpose. In our lives, perhaps the most precious thing our hands will ever do is become a throne in which Grace will rest at the Communion rail. During our lifetime we will cradle newborns, cool the brows of the dying, hold the hands of long-time partners and first loves -- we will use our hands to love and sometimes to hurt. Yet every Sunday, for generation after generation, back to the time at that Last Supper which was the Church's first, we have held out our hands to do as Christ commanded -- to take and eat. We become precious vessels as we pass through the ornate beauty of this place -- yet we are precious not because an economy or a society says so but because we have been counted among those of whom even angels may be jealous, because we are guests at a Feast prepared before the foundations of the world were laid. We come and are blessed -- transformed -- for a beautiful, holy purpose. --Fr. Robert
[This repousse silver frame, probably from Peru, was cut from a larger frame to fit this location. It was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fowler.] Click here to read Fr. Robert's series of meditations on St. Philip's art.
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Worcester Residency
In July 2016, the St. Nicholas Choir and Schola Cantorum from St. Philip's In The Hills completed a week-long residency at Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, England. Singing services at the historic cathedral was an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experience. At the end of the week, the Dean of the Cathedral presented a gift to the choir, offered many words of praise, and invited the choir to return to Worcester to sing again. Read more. 
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