St Mary Anne’s participated in the “Stepping for Heroes–We will Never Forget” 9/11 remembrance event last Saturday morning at the North East firehouse. Fr. John offered prayers for first responders and a block away, our church bell rang after a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m.
Our church bell rang for a minute at 8:47am to commemorate the time when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Thanks to bell ringer parishioners Bill Weisel and Charlie Kornsey. Bill is a retired policeman and fireman and Charlie is a retired Philadelphia fireman.
Last Sunday, parishioners continued 9/11 remembrances with special prayers during our worship services.
Music set the somber tone, as parishioners first listened to Joel Alarcon’s beautiful and emotional violin performance of the “Schindler’s List” theme by composer John Williams.
If you missed it, you can watch a recording of last week’s livestream service at minute 35.20 for Joel’s performance, immediately followed by the special prayers.
On Tuesday, August 3, we will provide another meal for the Paris Foundation to distribute to their clients. We need four volunteers to join us and make ten individually wrapped sandwiches and ten individually wrapped desserts, in Ziploc sandwich bags.
Last year’s efforts to decorate our church yard with spring crocus blossoms and establish the Thompson Memorial Crocus Lawn was a thing of beauty! So, we plan to plant more bulbs in October and continue this lovely parish planting activity.
We encourage you to participate in Sacred Ground, a relevant race dialogue series designed by the national Episcopal Church. This Christian based discussion series provides a safe, inquiring forum for difficult, but respectful and transformative, conversation on issues of race and racism.
Each Sunday during worship, we read or hear stories and lessons from the most famous book in the world, the Bible. It is a book on which we base our faith as Christians but what is it really saying, and what does that mean for us now in 2021? What is the rest of the story?
