St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church

What with announcements during the service and after, it looks like a busy week ahead. 10 AM Communion on Epiphany, 6 PM Evensong, but the Epiphany Party will be next Sunday after the service. Maybe this year somebody will find the coin in the cake...

Sunday was my first time to encounter the "new" Order for Holy Communion. I'll be honest and say my initial response is mixed, but I also think it will be fine. Moving the Gloria to early in the service.....

It's certainly a busy time for Fr. Davis. Last evening led off with "A Festival of Nine Lessons Carols" well constructed to take us from Genesis through the promises and prophecies to the Annunciation through Epiphany and the Incarnation...

After everything else was done Sunday afternoon Fr. Davis fired up the thurible for a test run on air circulation in the Nave, in preparation for the Christmas services...

Yesterday, after Mass and coffee hour, was our annual event called "The Greening of the Church" (decorating the church for Christmas on Advent IV). But we ran into a bit of an issue -- we couldn't find the Christmas lights!...

I admit, the title of this posting gave me some trouble. But I finally found the word in my father's 1950 Merriam & Webster's Collegiate Dictionary in the sense I intended, "sports: a player returned to the bench" or in other words, out of the game (for now)...

They've been gone long enough that many of us did not even know they were expecting, but the Parish is overjoyed at the news that's been circulating, and confirmed today in a Parish e-mail from Fr...

I showed up at church quite early for this evening's Evensong, light supper, and choir practice, mainly because I just couldn't hang around the office any more. It's getting a little bleak, what with increasing number of offices vacant for the holidays. So I had a chance to chat awhile with Fr...

Preparations for music at Christmas are underway. This morning after the service Claire, Kathy and Ruby were practicing together for a performance of cello, harp and flute...

Despite the chill (it was just above freezing this morning, with a few snowflakes fluttering down) it's become common after the Sunday service to see some of the kids out in the parking lot tossing a football around.

The news came at noon: George passed away a couple of hours earlier. O GOD, whose mercies cannot be numbered; Accept our prayers on behalf of the soul of thy servant departed, and grant him an entrance into the land of light and joy, in the fellowship of thy saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord...

I confess to a small but growing annoyance: it's Advent but everywhere around me it's "Christmas" -- including my Sunday afternoon/evening radio programs (Celtic & Medieval music)...

News reached me this morning that one of our parishioners, George, was rushed to the hospital with a brain injury requiring surgery. Soon after his chances for recovery looked good, but by yesterday his condition had deteriorated significantly and as of last evening his chances were put at 10%...

An item on our calendar but hardly noted here was our second provision of dinner last night for "Tent City 4", a "roaming" camp for the homeless, currently hosted by The First United Methodist Church of Bellevue...