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Christmas Music CD

December 18, 2020 by St Mary Anne Admin

A Last Minute Gift Idea!
Last Christmas, our Director of Music Joel Alarcon, and our Choir Director Alex Jiheng Bi, created a beautiful Christmas CD featuring their respective violin and piano talent. We quickly sold out but they now have more copies.
For a minimum donation of $15.00, you can receive your own copy of the CD and help support our St. Mary Anne’s String Studio. We offer a few music scholarships to local school children so they can learn how to play the piano or violin.
To learn more about this new ministry, click here . We will have copies available in the church office on Monday. To purchase a CD, contact our church office to reserve a copy.

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Christmas Eve

December 18, 2020 by St Mary Anne Admin

Christmas Eve 5:00PM
Traditional Candlelight Service
with music
We cannot have in-person worship this Christmas due to the Bishop’s Pastoral Directive on 12/16/2020.
We will live-stream the service at 5PM via our YouTube channel–meaning you can watch it in real time!
If you miss the live-stream, we will post the service recording on Christmas morning.
We will send the appropriate links, bulletin and readings, with our weekly Enews.

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Drive Thru Communion on Christmas Eve Day

December 18, 2020 by St Mary Anne Admin

Drive thru Communion
December 24 3:00-4:00PM
Don’t miss receiving Communion on Christmas Eve. Stop by and see Fr. John!
Please enter the churchyard driveway thru the Church Point Road entrance. Pull up to the tent. You do not need to leave your car. Father John will offer a prayer, safe Communion cups, and a Christmas blessing.

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Diocesan Suspension of All In-Person Services

December 18, 2020 by St Mary Anne Admin

Due to the recent surge in COVID cases in our area, Bishop San made the decision to suspend in-person church services thru January 3, 2021.
That includes canceled in-person services on
  • Sunday, December 20 at 8 and 10AM
  • Wednesday, Dec. 23 at 7PM
  • Christmas Eve Services at 5 and 7PM
  • Christmas Day Services at 10AM
  • Sunday, December 27 at 8 and 10AM
  • Sunday, January 3 at 8 and 10AM
We will continue to record our Sunday services and post them to our YouTube channel. We will live-stream to YouTube the Christmas Eve 5PM Service–so you can view it in real time.
Please be patient during this time of uncertainty. Please pray for those affected and a reduction in COVID infection rates. Click to read the Bishop’s Pastoral Directive.

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2020 Parishioner Advent Reflections Day 20

December 18, 2020 by St Mary Anne Admin

I’m standing at the table, unwrapping all my Christmas ornaments. As they are opened, they will be rewrapped and placed in another box for Jenn, who will be the new family Official Keeper of The Ornaments. The box was not opened last year, as I had just moved to my present situation, so this will be a real treat.
First to come out of the box, and then be placed in Jenn’s box, are the multi-color twinkle lights.
About 30 years ago, my parents bought a decorated Christmas tree from Treasure Island. The store held annual contests and charity auctions. My parents bought two strips of tickets and placed them all in the collection box of a tree decorated with colored lights and hand-made angel ornaments. Angels were prominent in mom’s decorating scheme. Although Mom had won the chance to purchase (for 50 percent off!) the tree of her dreams, it could not be removed from the store until Epiphany. Five years later, my parents decided to switch to clear lights and the drama that followed is a treasured family memory.
The first ornament I touch is clear. Inside it are ribbon strips and a photo of Gwen taken three months before her first and only Christmas. A thin strip of rose-colored ribbon covers the bale at the top of the ornament. I give a tearful smile as I remember Father Tommy Allen, the priest who officiated at Gwen’s funeral, said that sometimes God was selfish, taking His most perfect creations Home at an early age. This deprives their loved ones but also allows the newly arrived soul to remain in His Kingdom, free of life’s vicissitudes. Gwen was interred in a family plot where a small evergreen tree stands. Gwen’s Christmas tree is decorated with her special decorations. A new one is bought and added to the collection each year.
Next is a cranberry colored ornament. It is one of nine that I purchased at the former Eckerd’s in Havre de Grace. It features a sketch of SMA by Anne Bates which used to be on the cover of the service bulletins. On another ornament from this set, I placed a Tome School picture of Jenn. Seeing it always gives me a nostalgic smile remembering her at the young age of six.
One ornament is a rabbit, sitting in a rocking chair knitting. She’s wearing her robe and her own bunny slippers. It was a gift from Hank, because I used to knit a lot. However, I now have mild arthritis in my hands, causing them to ache after a half hour of knitting.
The last ornament, which I’ll specifically describe, is from a series called The Fabulous Decade. It depicted a series of cats, with thin brass numbers worked into each ornament. This one is from 1975, our 20th anniversary. It depicts an orange tabby lying on a green box. We had a brown tabby then, so this is fairly close.
Each of the ornaments remaining is equally memorable and I treasure the entire collection. Now it’s time for Jenn to take over. This has been a nostalgic afternoon.
 Kay Ross

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410.287.5522
office@stmaryanne.org
315 South Main St.
North East, MD 21901
Hours: 9am – 12pm M-F

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410.287.2230
outreach@stmaryanne.org
Hours: 9:30am – 12pm M-W-Sat

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Sunday 8:00AM: Rite I Service with Holy Eucharist

Sunday 10:00AM: Rite II Service with Holy Eucharist

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