Archive for March, 2020
March 31, 2020
Dear St. Paul’s Parish Family, It seems much longer ago than it actually was that we were all together in church (Lent 2), beginning to practice safe distance by elbow-bumping the Peace and receiving only bread at the Eucharist. Much has happened since then that we couldn’t predict, and much more that we still can’t […]
Continue ReadingAn Online Holy Week
Thank you for worshiping with us online throughout this Holy Week! Read Fr. Daniel’s Easter letter to the congregation, available here: Easter Letter 2020. Palm Sunday, April 5th (click for leaflet) Tenebrae, Monday-Wednesday, April 6th-8th Tenebrae I, April 6: click here for the worship leaflet and here to watch the livestream Tenebrae II, April 7: click here for […]
Continue ReadingMarch 24, 2020
Dear St. Paul’s Parish Community, Another week has brought us rapidly to another place in our collective and personal lives. I have written previously of the heavy loss we are feeling at the death last night of our long-time parishioner Mary Roman. We also mourn with another parish member, Frank Kimball, for the loss of […]
Continue ReadingMarch 19, 2020
Dear St. Paul’s Parish Community, In the fast-changing and increasingly challenging situation the Covid-19 pandemic places us in, many of us are expressing a wide range of conflicting emotions. This may include a sense of helplessness to do more than follow directives to distance ourselves. I’m writing now to talk about some collective and individual […]
Continue ReadingMarch 12, 2020
Dear St. Paul’s parish community, As COVID-19 health precautions continue to evolve in our region, one essential practice to help flatten the curve of the virus’s spread is “social distancing” – suspending non-essential gatherings until we are past the height of transmission, which is still ahead of us. To do that at St. Paul’s, here […]
Continue Reading“Living As the Wind Blows,” March 8, 2020, The Rev. Daniel Simons
Sermon preached by the Reverend Daniel Simons St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The Second Sunday in Lent John 3:1-17 When I was a child I spent a lot of time in church. It was a small, country Bible Church, founded by my grandparents — on both sides, so I was pretty baked into […]
Continue Reading“Pulled Off Our Center,” March 1, 2020, The Rev. Daniel Simons
Sermon preached by the Reverend Daniel Simons St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT The First Sunday in Lent Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7; Matthew 4:1-11 We’ve all probably felt the experience in life of being “played.” When somebody has an agenda for you that serves their own ends, and their agenda in part depends on you […]
Continue Reading“Our Soul’s Liberation,” February 26, 2020, The Rev. Daniel Simons
Sermon preached by the Reverend Daniel Simons St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT Ash Wednesday Here we are on this wet, gray day, focusing on two distinct themes: sin and mortality. These are two things we don’t like to talk much about. But today is the day we intentionally turn toward them both, and […]
Continue ReadingAsh Wednesday, February 26, 2020, The Rev. Louise Kalemkerian
Sermon preached by the Reverend Louise Kalemkerian St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, CT Ash Wednesday Isaiah 58, Psalm 103, Matthew 6 Today’s Gospel stands in stark contrast to the one we heard on Sunday, when Jesus was again called “beloved” by God, as God calls each and every one of us, today and every […]
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