For your thought:
Jesus answered him, "It is said, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'"
--Luke 4:12
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SAINT MARK'S MISSION & OUTREACH |
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Bishop Michael Hunn in response to TX Governor Greg Abbott's Announcement Last Week Re: Transgender Youth |
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"As the Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Far West Texas, I want to make it clear that Governor of Texas Greg Abbott’s recent attempt to criminalize the process of people becoming their true selves cannot be justified on the ground of our Christian faith, or on the ground of human rights." --Bp. Hunn, 2/25/2022
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Lenten Offerings at St. Mark's |
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St. Mark's is providing the following Lenten offerings:
Tuesdays
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10:00 a.m. - Rosary - Join us on Zoom
Wednesdays
Thursdays
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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 in Stoney Chapel
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Holy Troublemakers - Join us on Zoom or in person in the Library (please note change of location)
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Animate "Spiritual Practices" - Join us on Zoom or in person in the Parish Hall (please note change of location)
- Sunday, March 6:
- Godly Play: Parable of the Leaven
- Holy Troublemakers: Rumi,
- Animate Practices: Prayer (Brian McLaren)
- Sunday, March 13:
- Godly Play: Parable of the Mustard Seed
- Holy Troublemakers: Valarie Kaur
- Inquirers: Animate Practices: Food (Sara Miles)
- Sunday, March 20:
- Godly Play: The Greatest Parable
- Holy Troublemakers: Gustavo Gutierrez
- Inquirers: Animate Practices: Worship (Mike Slaughter)
- Sunday, March 27 Share & Care Sunday
- Service Projects and Conversations for all ages, TBA
Devotions at Home
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DRG Lenten Vocations Course |
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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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LGBTQ+ Holy Eucharist & Fellowship |
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Experience Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Creation
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Event 1 Special Formation Opportunity
Sunday April 24th at 11:30 a.m.
The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: Haydn's The Creation - Introduction and Talk
Franz Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation, one of the greatest masterpieces of eighteenth-century music, celebrates the beauty and divinity of the cosmos by setting the words of the Hebrew Bible and Milton's Paradise Lost. In his talk The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: Haydn's The Creation, Bruce Redford (professor emeritus, Boston University, and a parishioner of St. Mark's) will discuss Haydn's inspired literary and musical choices, as well as the work's joyous theology.
Event 2 St. Mark’s goes to the Lensic
Sunday May 1st 3pm Haydn’s The Creation
Join us for an all-parish outing to the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, for the Orchestra Season Finale of Haydn’s The Creation May 1st 3pm performed by Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra and Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Maxine Thévenot, artistic director.
Subsidized tickets are available. Email our Director of Music Jeremy Wirths, (email him here) to reserve a ticket for $40. You can also purchase your own tickets online and/or give a gift to help underwrite this St. Mark’s musical outing in the Easter season. For more information on the event go to https://lensic.org.
We hope parishioners, family and friends will enjoy this opportunity, carpool or ride the Rail Runner to Santa Fe and perhaps enjoy a casual dinner afterwards in small groups.
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By Mail (St. Mark's has a secure mailbox and is checked regularly): 431 Richmond Place NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
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What’s New at ABQ FaithWorks? |
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Food Distribution. Last week, 21 asylum-seeking families resident in Albuquerque received a food distribution, as they can every three weeks, partially provided by Casa San Miguel, the food pantry at member congregation St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal.
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Afghan Support. FaithWorks is strengthening its partnership with Lutheran Family Services to support Afghans moving into our community. The learning cultural learning curve is less steep through connections we’ve made with the Afghan Society in Albuquerque.
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Clothing Distribution. As FaithWorks staff move to a new office this week, clothing previously distributed from First Congregational is going to the program at member congregation St. Andrew Presbyterian. Children’s clothing is going to the Downtown Community School Collaborative and Highland High School.
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A Homeless Man is Housed. Read about getting someone into housing after two years. It can be done! https://www.abqfaithworks.org/blog
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Painting and Praying with Icons |
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Mary Magdalene Workshop with Pat Catlett
March 20-26, 2022
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DRG Women's Ministry Lent Retreat |
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The DRG Women's Ministry Lent Retreat will be hybrid on March 26 from 8:30AM-3PM. We'll be at St. Luke's, La Union, NM and on Zoom. Women in the 'south' are esp. encouraged to attend in-person and invite a friend. There are hotels in Las Cruces and El Paso for those who travel from other parts of the Diocese. Sunday services are at 9:30 for anyone who wants to stay over and join in.
The Rev. Patty Soukup will be our speaker. She will focus on ways women are uniquely qualified to share wisdom with each other with reference to Richard Rohr's book Falling Upward. She'll also talk about details (like wills, etc.) that can distract us. Taking care of these bits and pieces frees us to be leaders and wise women of faith.
The event is open to women in the Diocese of the Rio Grande and friends anywhere Zoom might reach.
Registration ($25 in-person and $10 for Zoom attendance) is available on the Women's Ministry website. Fees cover supplies (including Zoom license), lunch, and honorarium. Contact Cindy with questions.
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