For your thought:
"But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
--Luke 6:35-36
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The offices of St. Mark's will be closed on Monday, February 21 in observance of Presidents' Day. |
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Please come wearing a mask - Masks are required indoors - even if fully vaccinated. |
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For a complete listing and schedule of our online / in-person offerings available, please click on the button below: |
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Fill out a form to volunteer, donate altar flowers, fill out a new member/visitor form, and more!
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SAINT MARK'S MISSION & OUTREACH |
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February Formation Small Group Classes |
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11:30AM-12:15 in person and online
2/20
Godly Play: Parable of the Sower
Holy Troublemakers: Rev. Wil Gafney
Animate: Bible: A Book Like No Other (Lauren Winner)
2/27 Share & Care Sunday
Service Projects and Conversations for all ages, TBA
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Wednesday, March 2: Ash Wednesday |
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"This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for Holy Baptism. It was also a time when those who, because of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to the fellowship of the Church. Thereby, the whole congregation was put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set forth in the Gospel of our Savior, and of the need which all Christians continually have to renew their repentance and faith." --Book of Common Prayer, p. 265.
Join us for any of the following liturgies on Wednesday, March 2nd to commence the Lenten season:
7:00 a.m. - Ash Wednesday liturgy with imposition of ashes and Eucharist. (In-person only.)
12:00 p.m. - Ash Wednesday liturgy, hymns with imposition of ashes and Eucharist. (In-person and virtual.)
7:00 p.m. - Ash Wednesday liturgy with imposition of ashes, Eucharist and choir. (In-person and virtual.)
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St. Mark's Invites All to a Holy Lent |
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Starting March 3rd, St. Mark's will be providing the following Lenten offerings:
Sundays
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9:30 a.m. - Sunday Worship & Holy Eucharist - Join us on Zoom, Facebook or in person.
- 10:45 a.m. - Fellowship (In person)
- 11:30 a.m. - Formation Groups:
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Godly Play - Join us on Zoom or in person
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Holy Troublemakers - Join us on Zoom or in person
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Animate Spiritual Practices - Join us on Zoom or in person
Tuesdays
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10:00 a.m. - Rosary - Join us on Zoom
Wednesdays
Thursdays
Devotions at Home:
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St. Mark's is Stepping Up to Support Immigrants
February Call to Action
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Members and Friends of St. Mark's are stepping up in all sorts of ways to provide support for immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, and we invite you to join us! Whether you take smaller steps or bigger steps, whether you take one step or several, your participation helps encourage and support displaced individuals and families on their journey towards safety, stability, and thriving.
Medium Step: Donate one or more pairs of unused athletic shoes for asylum seekers who are coming through Albuquerque (see "February Shoe Drive" announcement below for more details) or contact Mary Ellen or Kate
Bigger Step: Consider serving as a financial sponsor for one or more members of an Afghan Family seeking safety in the US. Contact Mother Sylvia or Tela Schwebach for more information and invitation to a Zoom Meeting with one of the family members on February 12th at 9AM.
Next Steps: Join others committed to this important work on Sunday, February 27th (and the 4th Sunday of EACH month) from 11:30-12:15 at St. Mark's for prayer, updates, sharing, and identifying our "next steps" for the coming month! Contact Mary Beth.
Thank you for stepping in and stepping up!
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February Shoe Drive for Asylum Seekers |
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We are helping the Annunciation House in El Paso as they receive asylum seekers who cross the southern border at Juarez. An ad hoc, citywide ecumenical group is meeting buses sent to Albuquerque to catch flights to their sponsors’ homes elsewhere in the U. S. They give people a change of clothes, food, and find them a motel room to stay in while they isolate five days after COVID testing. Then they board a flight or a bus on their way to sponsors, usually family members who filed the necessary paperwork and covered their transportation costs.
For St. Mark’s contribution to this outreach effort, we have chosen athletic shoes—people are arriving in flipflops. We need men’s sizes 5-7, women’s sizes 5-7.5 and children’s sizes 3.5-7.
Throughout February, St. Mark’s will be collecting new athletic shoes in the sizes mentioned above. Buy a pair and bring it with you next Sunday. New shoes only, please. If you have a limited budget, buy a pair of adult shoes. You will be helping families take the next step toward a new life.
If you have any questions, please email Kate Spielmann, Mary Ellen Elliott and Mary Beth Libbey (send them an email here).
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What would Jesus do? Social Studies Standards in NM |
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As our Bishop is fond of saying, "In the Episcopal Church, no one is going to tell you what to believe. No one will rob you of the responsibility to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." There is room in the Episcopal Church for people of good faith and good will to reasonably disagree on a wide range of matters. We encourage you, in all matters of conscience, to make every effort to inform yourself on the matters at hand, and to prayerfully discern your own response in light of the "3-legged stool" of our Anglican Heritage: Scripture, Tradition, and Reason, and with particular attention to the promises made at Baptism (See the service of Holy Baptism, Book of Common Prayer, pp. 299-308.)
You may view portions of Mother Sylvia's interview with Fox News regarding the proposed changes to the New Mexico Social Studies Standards here.
For further reflection, we invite you to consider how God might be calling you to respond to this issue, in light of the baptismal promises, below:
Celebrant
Will you persevere in resisting evil, and, whenever
you fall into sin, repent and return to the Lord?
People
I will, with God's help.
Celebrant
Will you proclaim by word and example the Good
News of God in Christ?
People
I will, with God's help.
Celebrant
Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving
your neighbor as yourself?
People
I will, with God's help.
Celebrant
Will you strive for justice and peace among all
people, and respect the dignity of every human
being?
People
I will, with God's help.
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Call to Photography Artists |
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The next show to be featured in St. Mark’s Gallery from March through May, will be photography. If you are a photography artist, please consider entering several pieces of your finest works to this show. Contact Audrey Minard (email) or Anne Gordon Fritz (email) for a prospectus and entry form. The deadline for entries is Monday, February 21.
Thank you,
St. Mark’s Gallery
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All are welcome to give and/or pledge to St. Mark's by:
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Mail (St. Mark's has a secure mailbox and is checked regularly): 431 Richmond Place NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
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You may give electronically through the Diocese of the Rio Grande Parish Donation site and check the box next to "Albuquerque-St. Mark's". Just fill out the rest of the information and click the Next button at the bottom of the page. Please make sure fill out "special instructions or comment" to let us know how to apply your gift (i.e.: pledge, congregational relief fund, etc.).
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You may give electronically (including pledge payments) to St. Mark's - securely via PayPal® - anytime. Please consider checking the box that reads, "I’d like to add to my donation to help offset the cost of processing."
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DRG Lenten Vocations Course: God IS Calling You! |
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Join Mother Sylvia, Deacon David, and other members of the Episcopal Church throughout the Diocese of the Rio Grande for a Lenten Vocations Course
Thursday evenings, 6:00-7:30PM (Mountain Time): 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31
Our annual Diocesan Discernment Cycle begins each Lent with an Introductory "Vocations 101" course. This course/online retreat is open to any and all lay people, deacons, and priests in the DRG and beyond. Each session includes time for prayer, a brief topical presentation, and small group sharing. In this introductory course/online retreat we explore our basic understanding of Christian Vocation in the Episcopal Church. Over the course of five 90-minute sessions, we explore how the particular vows made in three different services from our Book of Common Prayer: the services of Holy Baptism, the Ordination of a Deacon, and the Ordination of a Priest, can shed light on particular aspects of the shared vocation of all Christians, and help us begin to see our own unique vocations, as individual members of Christ’s Body, more clearly.
Note: This course is for all people (at every stage of life and in every order of ministry) who feel called to deepen their relationship with God and their vocation in the church and in the world. It is also the "starting place" for individuals who may be sensing a call towards ordained ministry in the Diocese of the Rio Grande and wish to enter into a formal process of discernment.
Questions: Please contact Mother Sylvia via email here.
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