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Children's Programs
There will be no children's program on Sunday, July 5th. Children are welcome to join their families for worship service.
Summer Worship  Schedule
Sunday
Holy Eucharist Rite I
8:00 a.m.
Holy Eucharist Rite II
9:30 a.m.
Celtic Eventide
5:30 p.m.
The Wednesday morning service will return in the fall
Dear Alban....Who is our new Presiding Bishop?

click here for the answer
The Nurse is in...
monthly meeting of the Alzheimer's Support Group will be held Monday, July 13, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. 
click here to learn more 

A NEW MUSIC-MAKING OPPORTUNITY  
FOR SOME OF OUR YOUNGEST VOICES!

The St. Alban's Treble Choir is coming this fall
click here to learn more
and register.

We come to our 4th of July weekend as a nation and a church churned up...churned up by big things!

 

My prayer is that we stay a bit churned up. We are a people contemplating big things and that's a good thing, especially as we celebrate our country with families and friends, parades and fireworks and quiet sails on the blue waters.   

 

We've been visited by some big issues to grapple with and they belong to us all, and include questions of race and justice and freedom and meaning of family for all.And questions of making things new. 

 

Good things for the nation on its anniversary and a church at any time!

 

As a people, we were visited with the gun violence that took those beautiful, faithful lives in Charleston...and then by the families of the victims somehow leading toward forgiveness...and then by southern states rejecting old symbols of hatred...and then by the president and the other moving eulogists calling us to hear God's grace in the midst of the revealing tragedy...to find a more perfect union, emboldened by God's love.

 

And then this week the Supreme Court historically declared that the gifts of marriage are free for every family. Church bells, wedding bells, and parades poured out across the land as gay and lesbian couples, some together for decades, many with thriving children, heard their nation's civil endorsement in all fifty states. And then... at its convention the national Episcopal Church, after forty years of progress, took the big step offering spiritual and sacramental endorsement of  marriage for all. It voted to make its canons on marriage apply to all and created liturgies to be used for the marriage of gay folks in all dioceses.

 

The Episcopal convention also elected the Rt Rev. Michael Curry, our first African-American Presiding Bishop. He is an inspiring leader with a broad, fresh voice to lead us. My response to every one of his sermons is Wow!  

 

These big things churn us up. Sometimes to the points of tears. How blessed we are to have a country and a church where we are free to be churned...free to celebrate and to grieve, and free as Jesus call us "to make all things new"...from sea to shining sea.

 

Many blessings to you and yours,


The Rev. Timothy A. Boggs, rector




Summer Worship Schedule

Our Sunday worship will remain the same:
 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 5:30p.m.

Our Wednesday services and Senior Services
(Cape Memory Care, Village Crossing and Betsy Ross House)
are taking a summer hiatus and will return in the fall.
Hometown Nazareth:
Population 30 and growing!

Marketplace construction scheduled in Bonoff Hall on Wednesday,
July 8th from 11:00am - 4:00 pm.
Crew needed - come join us! (hard hats not necessary)
Thanks to all who have donated supplies - but we still need a few more items. Please click here to see how you can help.
  E-mail Debbie @ [email protected]
Preble Street Soup Kitchen asks for volunteers... especially to help with clean up.

  Our next visit to the Soup Kitchen
is Saturday, July, 11th,
and we really need help washing the dishes!

Dear Members of the St. Alban's Family,

 

Family is definitely an apt word to explain the loving support you have given me as I coped with illness this spring. Your cards, notes, emails, phone calls, gifts of food, your visits and your prayers have meant more than I can express. I have awakened each morning with a heart grateful for the overwhelming love and kindness you have given me. Thank you for being such an important part of my life.

 

Peace and love,

Anita Samuelsen

 



Celtic Eventide
Come as you are, for God's embrace is wide.
Every Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at St. Alban's.
Celtic music, quiet space,
a sacred moment for you to start your week.