Holy Week and Easter
April 1st + Maundy Thursday
12:00pm Footwashing
12:10 Holy Eucharist & Healing Rite
7:15pm Foot Washing in Narthex
7:30 pm Holy Eucharist
April 2nd + Good Friday
12:00pm Service of music, reflection, and prayer
7:30pm Meditation on the Passion of Christ
April 3rd + Holy Saturday
9:00pm Great Vigil of Easter
Holy Baptism & Eucharist
April 4th + Easter Day
8:00am Eucharist with hymns
10:15am Sung Eucharist
11:30am Easter Egg Hunt in the Courtyard
Nursery available 10–11:30am
April 5th + Easter Monday
Parish Office closed
Hosha’na – Save us, now!
But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.
We too stand at a distance and watch these things. We, so far removed, and yet so involved. We, who stand at such a distance temporally, geographically, and culturally: a bunch of rich Gentiles living in 21st century, northern California; few of whom have actually been to Jerusalem. And yet, we have made this story part of our own. We too stand and watch the unfolding of this drama, from its noise and excitement into the loneliness, the ugliness of the arrest, the taunting, to the cruelty of the crucifixion. Today, we gather to watch together. Allowing the words to touch us as they will, opening ourselves to their possibilities: the opportunities to grow into our God-given vocations. Read more »
A Meditation on The Passion of Christ
Good Friday, April 2, 2010, 7:30pm
A contemplative service of 
music, scripture and poetry, accompanying Jesus from the Garden of Gethsemane to the tomb. Poetry of George Herbert, Christina Rossetti, and R.S. Thomas. Music of Johann Kuhnau, Francis Poulenc, John Sanders, William Byrd, and Frank Ticheli
Solar Energy in the News
John and Marge Posthauer’s daughter, Cassidy, wrote a paper on solar energy for her firm who has an office in Barcelona and has many clients in Spain. She was asked to speak at an solar energy conference in Milan, Italy where these remarks were made. Cassidy graduated from Stanford in June 2008 and works for Emerging Energy Research in Cambridge, Mass. but also works in their Barcelona office occasionally.
Cassidy’s remarks start in the 10th paragraph of this article. In the actual NY Times paper, it began on page 1 and continued on page 6 of the March 9, 2010 edition.
Organist Angela Kraft Cross in Concert
Sunday, March 21st, 4pm
Angela Kraft Cross
plays MENDELSSOHN on the 1969 von Beckerath organ
Preludes and Fugues Op. 37 in C minor, G major, and D minor,
Sonata No. 6, Fugue in E minor, Theme and Variations in D,
and Allegro, Chorale and Fugue in D
Admission $15/$10 Reception following
Sermon: On Fire and Evergreen
Repentance is the most exciting, most existentially galvanizing thing that can happen to you.
Here is the interchange that echoes through these scripture readings. Here I am. Who am I? Who are you? I am who I am and cause to be. Come with me.
In Jesus’ day, it was assumed that people suffered misfortune as divine judgment. But that explanation of suffering seemed inadequate when a loved one or you yourself suffered. It won’t meet the case anyway, because we all suffers and die. Jesus tells his audience that everyone perishes, in a biological sense. But he is more interested in teaching them how they might become imperishable, in a spiritual sense. So he warns them to stop playing the blame game and to start paying attention to the claim of the living God upon us.
Jesus sounds very much like his kinsman John, called the Baptist. Unless you repent, you will perish, Jesus says. Since we all die, he must be talking about viability of spirit. Unless and until you repent, you are as good as dead already. Playing the blame game is like fiddling while Rome burns. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a conflagration going on out there, one that either consumes or refines. Repent, while you have the opportunity. Repent, because you have been extended the invitation. It is now that repentance is required of you. Submit yourself for refinement and step into God’s imperishability. You will save yourself and perhaps the world.
Sermon: You are not leaving, you are arriving
Sometimes it takes
a great sky
to find that
first, bright
and indescribable
wedge of freedom
in your own heart.
