Lent 2025: Our Sacramental Life 

Wednesdays in Lent 

5:30pm - Stations of The Cross

6pm - Low Mass

6:30pm - Lent Supper

7pm - Lent Formation 

March 12th - How Confession Can Help You More Than You Realize (Fr Martin Smith)

Fr Martin will draw on his wide experience guiding people through the Rite of Reconciliation to explain how it can benefit us. The Rite can help us make a much-needed fresh start in life. It can help us have a more intimate appreciation of God’s tenderness and compassion towards us. It can help us ‘travel lighter’ in life by giving us a means of handing over to God our regrets and shame. It can bring into focus the healthy kinds of behavior we want to develop, supported by the grace and patience of Christ, and the confidential spiritual counsel a priest can give us, specific to our individual needs.



March 19th - Anointing for Healing (Fr Shawn Strout)

March 26th - Baptism, Eucharist, and the Church - Part 1 (Fr Shawn Strout)

April 2nd - Baptism, Eucharist, and the Church - Part 2 (Fr Shawn Strout)

Fr Shawn will present drawing on two books he has recently published - Shepherding Souls and Bound Together: Baptism, Eucharist and the Church. 

Parish Conversations

Sacramental living reaches far beyond rubrics and mass settings, and sees beauty, mystery, and vocation in the entirety of our common life and the world all-around. Lent is a time to pray, wonder, and be curious about what it is that God wants us to do. Over the course of Lent we create space for four parish conversations around four areas that show particular promise, and discern the next faithful step. 

March 9th - Parish Endowments & Legacies

March 16th - Nursery

March 23rd - Childrens' First Communion & Confirmation Formation 

April 6th - Newcomers: Welcome & Formation 

Each conversation will be held in the Volunteer Room, following Sunday 10:30am Solemn Mass. 

Lent Quiet Day - Saturday 22nd March - Fr Martin Smith

“It is no longer ‘I’ who live, but Christ who lives in me” Exploring the Profound Spirituality of Baptism

with St Paul as our Guide 

Join us for a day of prayer and reflection in which we will explore the symbolism of baptism, the sacrament of dying and rising with Christ. What is the false self, dependent on conventional sources of validation, that the gospel calls us to let die? How do we discover our true identity grounded in the Christ who dwells in our hearts? What kind of freedom can we expect to experience when we intentionally live into this baptismal identity of union with Christ? Fr Martin will give three presentations offering guidance for prayer and pondering during the quiet time that follows each one. There will be an opportunity for questions and sharing at the end.

Coffee will be available from 10am; Quiet Day begins at 10:30 and ends by 3:30pm. A simple lunch will be provided.

Fr Martin L. Smith is well known throughout the Episcopal Church and beyond as a retreat leader, writer and preacher, exploring a contemporary spirituality that seeks to find resources in Scripture and our great mystical traditions that deepen our response to contemporary challenges. Among his best loved books are A Season for the Spirit, The Word is Very Near You, Reconciliation, Love Set Free, and Compass and Stars. He lives in Washington, DC. 

Our Sacramental Mission

I have no manner of doubt that it is the present duty of every Churchman to send money across the seas for foreign Missions...

You must set yourselves, brethren, here in the midst of London to show people that it is perfectly possible to lead a happy, a wholesome, healthy life, developing your true manhood without in any way forsaking the simplicity which goes with the Cross of the Christ of Nazareth; that you shall live simple lives, that you shall fight against luxury, that you shall encourage the rich to set a limit to the amount of money that they will use upon themselves, that they will do it not under pressure from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but out of personal devotion to him, Jesus. (Bishop Frank Weston - Our Present Duty)

All mission work we offer in the name of Christ is sacramental in shape, for it all begins and ends at the Altar: greeting Christ in both the Blessed Sacrament and in the least of all His Brethren. Part of this is a discipline of sacrifice that too is sacramental - diverting resources away from ourselves to where the work of mission needs our dollars the most.

This Lent we invite all members of our community to support mission work in the largest diocese of our Episcopal Church: Haiti. A priest of our own diocese, Fr Joseph Constant, leads Haiti Micah Project - many of you remember Fr Constant's presentation here a few months ago. Haiti Micah Project undertakes mission work at the most basic and crucial level: food, clothing, education, health care, clean water. The cost of sponsoring food, clothing, health care, and education for one child for one year is $570. Our vision this Lent is to ask every parishioner to donate at least $20, with the goal of sponsoring one or more Haitian children over the next year, via Haiti Micah Project.