This Sunday at Saint Paul's

Ninteenth Sunday after Pentecost

 Welcome to Virtual Eucharist at Saint Paul’s Church on Lake of the Isles!  Church is not cancelled – it has changed. Following the liturgy stay with us during Coffee Hour for this month’s All Parish Meeting. Bring your beverage and nosh of choice!

First – sign up for Zoom – it’s FREE (https://zoom.us/signup) . We will be using Zoom to broadcast Sunday’s liturgy. Zoom delivers audio and video, and you can log in on your computers, laptops, tablets, smart phones, and telephones. When you log in, you may be prompted to install Zoom. Click yes to install Zoom.

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Common Book of Prayer

provided for your prayers and meditations

Prayer Calendar

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for the Falkland Islands.

In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for the Bishop, Missioners, and Missional Support in the ECMN. We also pray for the foundations which minster to children with special needs, notably the work of the Sheltering Arms Foundation, and for all who work in child protection agencies throughout the state of Minnesota. Pray especially for the parish of the Spirit of the Wilderness (Grand Marais).

Saint Paul’s weekly Parish Prayer List can be found here. If you wish to be contacted by a member of our Pastoral Care Team and/or deacon, 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

provided for your prayers and meditations

Deacon Janet McNally

Sunday

O come, o come Emmanuel: Join us as we prepare a space for the coming Christ by lighting our third Advent candle. The Reverend Ramona Scarpace will officiate; view or download the service bulletin.

Stay with us after the liturgy for Coffee Hour and fellowship: bring your own nosh and cuppa, and enjoy a screenful of friendly faces!

Join us on Zoom – click the button to connect.
If logging in by telephone, dial: 312-626-6799 .
Meeting ID: 122 776 310#
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Faith in Action

When was the last time you signed into your Realm account? Never been there? It’s all good! If you need a refresher or a reset for your password, simply drop an email to Angie Paulson.

The Giving Tree 2020: COVID-19 Edition
We have ONE MORE RESIDENT at Southside Care Center who needs adopting! Read all about our pandemically-adapted process here. And we are still accepting donations for staff gift cards!
Have you accumulated Outreach donations for Joyce Uptown Food Shelf, Saint Stephen’s Outreach, Books for Africa, or the Little Free Library? You may drop them off during an abbreviated collection hour on Saturday 19 December. 
 
Outreach Update for December:
The willing hands of Saint Paul’s members continue to be busy helping others during the pandemic. Read the latest Outreach Commission update here.

A message from Lorrie Sandelin at Joyce Uptown Food Shelf:

“Monetary donations are welcome! Right now we are doing a prepackaged food model, and so have a need for specific items. We can purchase food at our food banks much cheaper than you can purchase food right now: for every $1.00 donated we can purchase about $2.20 worth of food.”

Please visit their website and look for the yellow DONATE button on the home page or click the DONATE button below.

 

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.”Matthew 25:40
Matthew 25:40

Upcoming Events

 

15 DEC: Get to know our new Priest-in-Charge at several Coffee & Conversations scheduled on Zoom in December, beginning tonight at 7:00pm. Find all the details and full schedule here.

 

19 DEC:Gifts for our Southside Care Center’s Giving Tree are due today. Socially distanced and masked curbside drop-off of wrapped gifts will be received from 10-11am. (Full details can be found here.)

 

21 DEC:The Everlasting Light: On the longest night of the year, we listen with our hearts and seek the light. Join us on Zoom for a celebration of the Solstice as we await the birth of the King. Details may be found here.

 

24 DEC: Start your holiday in an Anglican way: Gather with us on Zoom at 8:45am with your Christmas Eve breakfast (or last-minute gift wrapping) for a bit of fellowship. We will then hear the BBC Radio broadcast of A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols by the Chapel Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.

 

Our Christmas Eve liturgy will take place on Zoom at 8:00pm. Mark your calendars to join us one hour earlier, though – at 7:00pm a collaborative ECMN Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, for which our own Parish Choir offers a song, will be our prelude to the birth of the King. Gloria in excelsis Deo!

 

25 DEC: Welcome the King! The Feast of Christmas Day will be celebrated in liturgy and song at 10:00am on Zoom.

 

Every Wednesday – Join us for Sung Compline, a contemplative oasis for your midweek: gather on Zoom at 7:45pm to greet your neighbors, then the bells sound at 8:00 for Compline. We depart in silence, refreshed.

 

FRIDAYS: Lay-officiated Morning Prayer office will take place on Zoom at 10:00amThis liturgy, as set forth by the Book of Common Prayer (page 75), may be prayed communally or individually. We will come before God’s presence with thanksgiving on Friday mornings in August. Please join us! Use the same Zoom information for all our online service events, and you can find the weekly service bulletin on our home page.

 


click here for Book of Common Prayer (page 75)

Joining the liturgy: We use Zoom (www.zoom.com) to broadcast all our liturgies. Zoom delivers audio and video, and you can log in on computers, laptops, tablets, smart phones, and telephones. You may be prompted to install Zoom; click yes to install.

Ten minutes before the liturgy, log in by clicking this link:

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If the link does not work, copy and paste it into your browser.

If logging in by telephone, dial: 312.626.6799
Meeting ID: 122 776 310#
Password: 1917
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General Announcements

Reverend Ramona’s virtual office door is open! She is available Monday-Wednesday from 10:00am-3:00pm via Zoom, phone call, or text; pastoral care emergencies may be communicated at any time. Contact her at Saint Paul’s at 612-377-1273, or 612-201-6634 (cell/text) OR by using the contact form below. Her email address is [email protected].
The Right Reverend Craig Loya has extended an historic welcome within his bishopric. Read his proclamation here.
Calling all lectors and intercessors: Please sign up to serve for 27 December and January services on our Google sheet. If you have any questions, please contact Pat Trumbull.
Free to a good home: The resident baby grand piano in the third floor office needs to live elsewhere, and is being offered free to an interested parishioner! Open this link for photos and more details. Contact Beth Carlson by 12 December; if multiple parties engage, a winner will be drawn at random.
The School for Formation is offering its Spring 2021 courses with donation-based tuition, in response to the economic strain of the global pandemic. Is there an area of faith you’ve always wished to explore more deeply? Check out their schedule here.
All Saints In memoriam: Our 2020 celebration of saints gone before us is available to view here. The video is neither publicly searchable nor posted on our regular YouTube playlists; please feel free to share the link with loved ones.

Senior Warden Beth Carlson shares the information from the All Parish Meeting on 29 November 2020:

If you know a parishioner who would benefit from receiving our weekly E-pistle news in printed form, please email Angie.
Is there a hymn or song you’re particularly longing to hear as part of our Bridge of Song playlist (link in right sidebar) on YouTube? Your requests are welcome; email them to Jacob Manier.
We have spaces to let in our lovely Beim House and church proper for several officing tenants. If you know any professional or organization looking to relocate, contact Senior Warden Beth Carlson.
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.

Ministries Stay Connected “The Lord is My Shepard, I Shall Not Want.” – Psalm 23

Virtual Eucharist

If you are unable to join us on Sunday mornings or just want to revisit, you can view our services anytime here or on our YouTube channel. You are not alone!

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!

Pastoral Care

The Pastoral Care Team has a request for all: as we practice our social distancing, do not let that extend to social isolation. Take a few minutes every day to call someone to see how they are doing – to reach out and say a prayer with them and/or find out if they need anything. One of the things that is so important right now is to connect with our community. If there are those who need help, please let us know and we will figure out how to assist; if you are that person, please reach out to Deacon Janet or Pat Trumbull. As Jesus said: Love one another.

Saint Paul’s Leadership

The Reverend
Ramona Scarpace

priest-in-charge

Deacon Janet McNally
deacon

Jacob Manier
choirmaster-organist

Jacob Reeves
finance

Kelly Belanger
sexton

Beth Carlson
vestry senior warden

Mark Anderson
vestry junior warden

Jesus said to her,
      "I am the resurrection and the life."

John 11:25a

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