The Epistle

St. Paul's Anglican / Episcopal Church / Iglesia San Pablo

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Maundy Thursday: April 17

Good Friday: April 18

THE FEAST OF THE RESURRECTION

April 19 and April 20, 2025

Dear George,

Our Palm Sunday Liturgies were well attended, despite many North Americans having returned North this year prior to a late Easter. English language Palm Sunday services saw 140, with 98 at El Desfile de Las Palmas at Noon.

Sandra López needs volunteers to work in assembling Easter Eggs, and hiding them in the back Garden for the children's Easter Egg hunt, which will occur during our 10:15am Mass On The Grass Easter Sunday, Aprill 20th. Following Mass on the Grass, two piñatas will be addressed by the children on the front lawn following the removal of lawn chairs. Sexton Pepe Bustamante will purchase the piñatas and supervise (as he does each year) the pummeling.

Volunteers are needed to work with our Flower Guild in the decoration of the Church and exterior on Holy Saturday, April 19th. Adrian Ross and Laurie Marino are much in need of assistance. An expansion of the flower guild is needed, for those who find delight as volunteers on this occasion and may wish to continue.

Keep Christine Eyre, Altar Guild Director, and our Altar Guild in prayer during this demanding ecclesiastical season. As with the flower guild, additional members, female or male, would animate and enliven our Guild. Interest may be expressed to Christine!

If you are unable to attend Holy Week and Easter liturgies and desire Easter Communion during Easter week, contact the parish office and arrangements will be made for a Lay Eucharistic minister or a priest to carry Communion to you.

All key lay folk listed above may be contacted through the parish office and administrator Claudia Rangél at stpaulmmanagementSMA@gmail.com

Please note our "End of Life" Seminars (below) April 12 and 26. These seminars and materials will require a fee and are open to the community. Pre-registration and payment are required. Memento quod moriaris.

Lenten grace and peace, and shortly, a blessed Holy Week unfolding,

GFW+

Emergency and End-Of-Life Preparedness Seminars

Tell your friends!!! St. Paul’s is pleased to host two Emergency and End-Of-Life Preparedness seminars in the Parish Hall on Saturday, April 12 and Saturday, April 26, 11 AM – 1 PM (please arrive by 10:45 AM).

Between the two seminars, speakers will cover a range of topics, including how to be prepared for short and long-term medical emergencies, the importance of having a Mexican will and other legal documents prepared here, end-of-life planning and a variety of resources available in San Miguel.

Being prepared provides peace of mind – both for us and our loved ones here and abroad. There will be a fee to cover the cost of the binder of materials provided for all attendees. Please plan to attend both seminars and invite friends and neighbors. If you would like to attend, please RSVP by emailing our Office Administrator Claudia Rangel at

stpaulmanagementsma@gmail.com.

PALM SUNDAY: THE SUNDAY OF THE PASSION

THE BLESSING OF THE PALMS, PROCESSION, THE PASSION NARRATIVE, and HOLY EUCHARIST

April 13th

9am and 10:15am

Bring bells, noise-makers, horns, pot lids and spoons, and other items for the procession from the Blessing of the Palms into the Church! (Noise-makers will be unnecessary during the Homily).

MAUNDY THURSDAY

THE WASHING OF FEET, INSTITUTION OF THE EUCHARIST, STRIPPING OF THE ALTAR AND PROCESSION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT TO THE ALTAR OF REPOSE

April 17th

7pm

Four stations will be provided for the washing of feet, each with three chairs. The first chair is for the removal of footwear. Thereafter the disciple will move to the second chair for the washing of feet, and then to the third chair for the replacement of footwear and return to the pew.

GOOD FRIDAY

VENERATION OF THE CROSS, SOLEMN COLLECTS, HOMILY and BURIAL OF THE SACRAMENT

April 18th

3pm

THE GREAT VIGIL

KINDLING OF THE PASCAL FIRE, SALVATION HISTORY INDWELT & THE FIRST MASS OF EASTER

Saturday April 19th

7pm

THE FEAST OF THE RESURRECTION:

EASTER DAY

FESTAL MASS ON THE GRASS

10:15am

Augmented Instrumentation

Children's Easter Egg Hunt

PIÑATAS

Doug Craig's famous Mimosas at the reception

(English)

MISA EN ESPAÑOL: NOON

The Liturgy for Palm Sunday 2025 may be found HERE

Sermons from our Companion Parish of All Saints'-by-the-Sea may be found HERE

The appointed lessons for Maundy Thursday are HERE, Good Friday HERE, and Easter Sunday may be found HERE

WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY GROUP

Meetings are generally the first Saturday of each month at 10AM - 11:30 in the parish Church.

ST PAUL'S BEREAVEMENT GROUPS: Martha Hamill, thanatologist and bereavement counselor, leads groups in English and in Spanish. The pain of loss can be overwhelming, but there are healthy ways to cope and heal. The groups are free of charge.

Saturday Breakfast Group -

The Saturday 9:30 breakfast group meets at Ataño Cuatro HERE

Virginia Barron (hospice car

Tom Burkdall (bereaved)

Adele Bushell (a friend of Mary and Tom undergoing chem

Hillary Canales (rotator cuff surgery)

Andres Candelaria

Nina Cavanagh (liver transplant)

Nolan Xavier Cavanagh (infant hemophilia A; grandson of Cheryl Cavanagh)

Joe Collerin

Robert Davis

James Fred

Lynne Gleason

Dorothy Glenn

Mireille Grovier

José Guadalupe

Ariadna Marlene Guzmán Hernández (Ariadna's mother, bereaved)

Linda Hickerson (cerebral tangle: friend of Carol Troys)

Deborah Holsworth

Laura Holleman (addiction recovery)

Ouida Huber (John Baker's mom)

Kathy Lapsys

Josefina Ledesma

Tim Noel Marinello

Darlene Marinello

Marni McGee

Margie McKinley (macular degeneration)

Tracey Montauriol

Santiago Munguia

Francisco Ortíz

Sunni Putnam

Karen Ramirez

The Rev'd Tom Rosiello

Susan Robinson

Father Jeff Sells

Rosalba Suárez (leukemia)

Pamela Summers

Fr. Ernie Townsend+

Canon Hebert (bereaved)

Canon George Woodward (shoulder dislocation recovery)

Paul in Brussels (friend of Carol Troy)

REQUIESCANT IN PACE

Roberta Rambeau

Socorro Buenrosto (Jesus Moria's grandmother)

Carolyn Vacchio (Canon Frank's aunt)

FOR OUR COMPANION COLLABORATIONS

All Saints'-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Montecito, California

Trinity Episcopal Church, Folsom, California

Santiago Apostol, Querétaro

UPCOMING DATES/EVENTS

• April 17: Maundy Thursday
• April 18: 3pm Good Friday
• April 19: 7pm The Great Vigil
• April 20: The Feast of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ
• April 26: Second "End of Life" Seminar 11am - 1pm