Posts from 2020 (Page 3)
Celebrating the Triduum
While Easter is every Sunday, the Great Three Days—the Triduum—are like one great Sunday. We have created a service booklet that allows you to pray the three central days of the Christian year at home or with family. The Maundy Thursday liturgy is designed to be done over a meal, or after, as you choose. Good Friday and the Easter Vigil will be celebrated via Zoom.
Palm Sunday Service (online)
Palm Sunday Service with help from the Diocese of Oregon Blessing of the Palms and Procession.
Palm Sunday Liturgy
Join us online at 10am for Palm Sunday Liturgy. We will join via video the Diocesan Blessing of the Palms, and continue with Morning Prayer, and then share coffee hour.
Celebrating Holy Week
Right now, Holy Week is almost upon us, a week we will spend at home. While this may seem strange to us, many of our Lenten and Holy Week practices began in the homes of early Christians, and only later grew into the magnificent services to which we have grown accustomed. At St. Philip, we will start by gathering over Zoom to celebrate the Liturgy of the Palms, and join with our sisters, brothers and friends across our Diocese throughout the week.
Mardi Gras Gumbo Feast
Come join us for Mardi Gras Gumbo! Some parishes do pancakes for Shrove/Fat Tuesday. We do Gumbo! St. Philip the Deacon, Feb 25, 5:30 – 7pm.
St. Philip Advocates for Zone Changes!
St. Philip and the Leaven Community Land and Housing Coalition EIGHTY Leaven Community Land and Housing Coalition members and supporters showed up at the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability’s public hearing on zoning code amendments on February 9th. We gathered in the building lobby, sang, had 1 to 1’s, and prayed. Coalition members from Ainsworth UCC, First Immanuel Lutheran, Leaven Community/Salt & Light Lutheran, Portsmouth Union, St Philip the Deacon Episcopal and Warner Pacific University gave powerful public testimonies, rooted in their stories, to the commissioners. The Commission’s Next…