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Sunday Worship Services at 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Saint Augustine's identifies itself as an "open church." By this we mean that all persons are welcome to come and be part of this community wherever they are in their spiritual journey. We seek to be a safe place for skeptics and doubters as well as for convicted believers. We are an inclusive church in which people from many backgrounds have found common ground. We are a diverse community which discovered in God a oneness greater in significance than our differences. We have come to know that our variety, in truth, refects the divine comprehensiveness of the God of all created things.
Episcopal 101: Part Two: The Sacraments by The Rev. Hartshorn Murphy In response to the question: "What are the sacraments?" from the Catechism we read: "The sacraments are outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace, given by Christ as sure and certain means by which we receive that grace…" MORE Holy Saturday Reflection by The Rev. Hartshorn Murphy In the Creation story, God scoops up a mound of moist earth and forms it into humankind but it had no life until God breathed his own breath into it. At that moment of inspiration, a part of the divine life enters into humanity and the human receives a soul. When a human dies, at the time of expiration, that breath or spirit leaves the body and the body becomes an empty vessel… MORE |
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