February Calendar Notes & Notable Mark Your Calendar! 2 Sunday Services 8:00 & 10:30 a.m. All are welcome! Market Mass 8:30 - 9am every Wed. Swinging Seniors Luncheon Wed, Feb 8th at 11am Vestry Retreat Fri, Feb 17th & Sat, Feb 18th Cathedral Center Newcomer’s Luncheon Sun, Feb 19th, 12Noon – 2pm Mardi Gras Tues, Feb 28th, 6pm in Pierson Hall Ash Wednesday Mar 1, 2006 Wednesday Night Lenten Program Begins Mar 8 – Apr 5 6:30pm – 8:30pm begins with simple dinner Women’s Retreat May 19-21, 2006 Men’s Retreat June 9-11, 2006

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February, 2006 - Vol. 37, No. 2 - Archive - Search

Feasting and Fasting: the Lenten Observance
by The Rev. Hartshorn Murphy
During the early centuries, only one meal a day was allowed and meat, fish, eggs, cheese and milk were forbidden. Over the centuries, the Lenten fast has become more and more relaxed in the Western churches… MORE

St. A’s Alive in Two-Oh-Oh-Five!
by Christa Buswell
It is tempting to call St. A’s kitchen congregation, but that might bring forth a sharpened editorial blue pencil. Still, 2005 was definitely the year of the kitchen… MORE

A New Life
by Rose Kujawa
It was suggested that I visit several Episcopal Churches in my neighborhood and so began one of the greatest moments in my life, finding my way back to the Church after thirty years of absence… MORE

Sojourners in an Alien Land: The Christmas Sermon at Midnight Mass 2005
by The Rev. Hartshorn Murphy
What we do this night is to do what people have always done at the turning of the season. Ancient ancestors – people of every tribe, language, culture and nation - gathered on the darkest night of the year. Gathered in fear at the death of the sun and held vigil throughout the night… MORE

A Rabbinical Dialogue: An Invitation to a Lenten Journey
by The Rev. Hartshorn Murphy
Once, a bright and inquisitive preteen in confirmation class, asked me why we have readings from the Old Testament every Sunday in Christian worship. She rightly surmised that we could save “5-7 minutes each Sunday” by eliminating the psalm and the lesson from the Hebrew bible… MORE

God’s Paint Brush
by The Rev. Pat Hendrickson
It all started about the middle of the summer. It was Sunday morning and as usual I left the house in darkness. I was barely aware as the sky slowly became lighter. Then as I crested the hill in Calabasas I saw wide beams of light reaching from the tops of the mountains up into the sky. It was one of those moments that takes your breath away… MORE

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