Posts by St. Philip the Deacon (Page 8)

Posts by St. Philip the Deacon (Page 8)

Act from Home for Homes!

Act from Home for Homes! Portland City commissioners will be voting May 14th on proposed code and zoning amendments that will remove barriers to affordable housing development on faith community land. Show your support from home by calling and submitting online testimony. Join us to learn how!

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 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.

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…

SACRED GROUND

A FILM-BASED DIALOGUE SERIES ON RACE AND FAITH  St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church is hosting a free dialogue series for white people to discuss race, grounded in faith. Sacred Ground is a film- and readings-based dialogue series on race, grounded in faith.  Small groups are invited to walk through chapters of America’s history of race and racism, while weaving in threads of family story, economic class, and political and regional identity. Sacred Ground Who: White people committed to attending…

Tree of Life: Race Talks

St. Philip’s Tree of Life is our effort to give back to organizations that benefit our community, a commitment we made as a part of our 2019 Annual Budget. Not only do we experience God’s love in and through our parish, we recognize that God’s love is all around us, through organizations and ministries that care for all of God’s creation. Each one of these organizations is close to the heart of someone in our church family, and is supported by our…