If you wish to join by telephone, dial 312-626-6799.
A note about our summer liturgies from Rev. Ramona…
Holy Eucharist will be celebrated at the 10:00AM liturgy, in person and via Zoom; login instructions above. The bulletin and day’s lectionary are available to view or download. Join us for Coffee Hour snacks and fellowship immediately following.
The loose plate collection on third Sundays goes into the Rector’s discretionary account. These funds are used to assist people in need, and for unexpected expenses not covered in the budget.
Pastoral visits with Communion: If your health or mobility renders you unable to attend on Sundays and you wish Rev. Ramona to bring Holy Communion to your home, please email her (or call/text at 612-201-6634).
Prayer Calendar
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for the Anglican Church of Melanesia.
In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for all hospital chaplaincies, counseling chaplaincies, and Spiritual Directors throughout ECMN; and for your faith community’s nurses, health ministers, and all those who minister to the sick. We also pray for the parish of Saint Helen (Wadena).
Saint Paul’s Parish Prayer List can be found here.
If you wish to be contacted by a member of our Pastoral Care Team and/or priest, request prayers for yourself or someone else on the Parish Prayer List, or simply make someone aware of an acute or ongoing need, click the blue button below:
Common Book of Prayer & The Hymnal 1982
SERVING THIS SUNDAY AT 10AM (click to open or close)
EUCHARIST 10AM
Sarah Bauer
Deb Low
ushers
Peter Montgomery
crucifer
The Reverend
Ramona Scarpace
presider
Kevin Donnan-Marsh
Frank Johnson
lectors
Lu Whitney
vestry announcements
Trevor Wolter
sabbatical organist
Team III
altar guild
Deb Low
bread baker
Julie L’Enfant
Judy Johnson
hospitality
Donald Childress
Tom Lockhart
vestry tellers
View Our Sermon Archive
Upcoming Events
19 AUG: The August Vestry meeting will be held 7:00-9:00PM in the Conference Room. All are welcome to attend the general proceedings.
*please note new date*
25 AUG: The blessing of school supplies amassed during this year’s drive will be given during the 10AM liturgy.
SEPT 8: The Right Reverend Craig Loya is scheduled to make his next parochial visit, when he will preside and preach at the 10AM liturgy! Mark your calendars and join in welcoming him back to Saint Paul’s Church.
SEPT 15: Homecoming Sunday 2024 is a mere four weeks away. Mark your calendars and plan on a celebratory morning to launch us into the new program year!
View all of our events on the church calendar
Faith in Action
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Two more weeks of collections! Let’s make the table groan with supplies for learners at Ella Baker Magnet School. Click here for this year’s detailed list and info.
If you’d like to help deliver our donations the following week, please contact Angie.
August’s food shelf theme is PANTRY PROTEINS: beans, canned tuna/chicken, peanut butter, nuts, and the like. Place your items in the bins outside the Undercroft. p.s. General donations are always welcome. Email Liz Gamble Taylor or call 612-889-5250 to assist with delivery.
From Joyce Uptown Foodshelf: “Monetary donations are the most helpful and can be made through PayPal *new link*here or sent to Joyce Uptown at 3041 Fremont Ave S, Minneapolis 55408. For every $1.00 donated we can purchase $2.20 of food from our foodbanks.”
Saint Paul’s Little Library is perpetually popular! Children’s picture books and adult fiction are most needed; all donations can be placed in the bins outside the Undercroft. Your continued generosity helps make this outreach possible.
Episcopal Relief & Development accepts donations to aid those in need both at home and abroad. Click here to donate in a way meaningful to you.
The school supply drive is back!
Despite the summer temps, it’s time to look to fall and helping the learners at Ella Baker Magnet School get ready for the new year. Click here for this year’s info…
And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.”
Subscribe to our Bridge of Song playlist, now on YouTube. Is there a hymn or song you’re particularly longing to hear, your requests are welcome, and may be e-mailed to Jacob Manier. Click the thumbnail of the video you would like hear to play.
Food Shelves
Have you taken the Saint Paul’s Food Shelf Challenge?
The need for grocery assistance never wanes. Let’s fill the baskets each week!! Donate today!
General Announcements
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A Message from Our Rector
Rev. Ramona’s Invitation Letter
Dear members and friends,
expectation for the coming celebration of the birth of Jesus, the coming of Christ incarnate (the fully human and fully divine nature of God).
I invite you onto this season of waiting and longing for the coming of Christ. Spend time in prayer and reflection and in reading the scriptures. Commit to being a participant in Sunday
worship in person or on-line. Help with the greening of the church this Saturday, November 30 at 8:30AM. Join Saint Paul’s for the beautiful service of Lessons and Carols on Friday, December 6 at 7:00PM. Offer items for the Saint Nicholas Food Shelf. Give a gift to the residents and staff at Southside Care center (gift tags on the Giving Tree in the Undercroft.)
Do one kind act every day. Prepare the way of God! Attached are some resources from the Episcopal Church for Advent prayer, readings,
practices and discussion. Click on the link to access “Journeying in the Way of Love for Advent”.
https://www.episcopalchurch.org/journeying-way-love/
Also, to start you off on your Advent journey, I share with you this meditation by Ruth Burgess from her book, Hear My Cry – A daily prayer book for Advent.
A reading from John 15:15
I call you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from God.
O Friend,
Always wanting the best for us,
trusting us with justice and love:
Come walk beside us
And share our joys and fears.
Offer Prayers:
Pray for your friends past and present.
If you can, spend time with a friend today.
Write Jesus a friendly letter.
Share your news and plans with God.
I wish you a blessed Advent!
Rev. Ramona+
Spring 2025 Worship and Programming Guide
Dear members and friends of Saint Paul’s, Happy New Year! May the light of Christ guide you throughout 2025. As a faith community, we have much to look forward to in the coming year – beautiful and meaningful worship, Faith in Action opportunities, faith formation,...
Bishop Loya’s Visitation 08 Sept 2024
Thank you to all who prepared for and attended Bishop Craig Loya’s visitation on September 8. Responding to a thank you note from Saint Paul’s, the Bishop wrote…
Fall Book Study: Loving the Questions
Beginning September 24, Rev. Penny Warren will lead a series of ten Tuesday evening sessions discussing Marianne H. Micks’ Loving the Questions: An Exploration of the Nicene Creed (Church Publishing Incorporated, 2004). Each session will begin at 7:00PM; follow this Zoom sign-in link.
ATTENDANCE
Aug 11, 10AM:
35 in pews, 4 online
Aug 4, 10AM:
28 in pews, 5 online
2024 Sunday total:
1567
2024 Sunday average:
49
(things you may have missed)
- Blessing o’ Animals 2023
- Sts. Francis and Clare:
Part 1 and Part 2 - Conv. address by The Right Rev. Craig Loya
- Conv. sermon by The Most Rev. Michael Curry
RESOURCES:
- Saint Paul’s Mailing List
- ECMN website
- ECMN Mailing List
- The Lectionary
- Book of Common Prayer
- NEW* Forward Day by Day
- Realm (online directory & giving record)
- Memorial Giving Policy
Pastoral Care
Saint Paul’s Leadership
(click a name to email)
Ramona Scarpace
Rector
The Reverend Dr. Penelope Warren
priest associate
Jacob Manier
organist (on sabbatical)
Caytie Anderson
vestry senior warden
Lu Whitney
vestry junior warden
Tom Lockhart
vestry treasurer
Pamela Hofstadter
bookkeeper
SAINT PAUL'S, IN SO MANY WORDS II
created from parishioner responses, 29 January 2023
Jesus said to her,
"I am the resurrection and the life."
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