8am - Holy Eucharist A spoken liturgy of prayer and sacrament
9am - Holy Eucharist for Children and Families A Eucharist service with music and prayers suitable for young children and families ~ Sunday School follows (Sept. through June) ~
10am - Holy Eucharist A service with choir, hymns and sermon
Weekday Services
Wednesday, 10am - Public Service of Healing A Eucharistic service with anointing and prayers for healing
Special Services: All Saints' Day (Nov. 1), The Epiphany (Jan. 6), The Ascension
8 Then I heard
the voice of my Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I; send me."9 And He said, "Go, say to that people: 'Hear, indeed,
but do not understand; See, indeed, but do not grasp.'10 Dull that people's mind, Stop
its ears, And seal its eyes -- Lest, seeing with its eyes And hearing with its
ears, It also grasp with its mind, And repent and save itself. I asked, “How
long, my Lord?”- Isaiah 6:8-10 (The Tanakh)
The prophet Isaiah is a messenger of hard news. Taken up into the divine presence, the prophet
and the entire prophetic enterprise, is given authority to hear and proclaim a
message of God’s purposes for God’s people. The message is not consoling, but
disturbing. Those who anticipate the voice of a fretless parent will be shocked
to hear instead the judgment of an almighty king. What Isaiah is given to say
is haunting: instead of knowing there is only ignorance; instead of sight there
is only blindness; instead of wholeness there is only fragmentation. This is
what the people are to hear; this is how the people are destined to live:
without the security or assurance of the God of their ancestors. Lest the
people absolve themselves from their own waywardness, God instructs Isaiah in a
comprehensive vision of human undoing.
How long, my Lord is the only question Isaiah can muster. How long?