Ep 9: Hidden Gems of the Book of Common Prayer

This episode explores Hidden Gems of the Book of Common Prayer. In addition to the familiar Eucharistic Rites, the Book of Common Prayer contains many beautiful Prayers of Thanksgiving, Rites celebrating sacraments and life cycle events and educational materials about the history of the Episcopal Church. Did you know that the mastermind behind the BookContinue reading “Ep 9: Hidden Gems of the Book of Common Prayer”

Francisco-fact: Ash Wednesday Service

Join us This Wednesday at 7:30 PM in-person or Streaming. Yes, you may impose Ashes on yourself. The ashes are not a technical sacrament, they are more sacramentalish, a thing where-in God is present, but not guaranteed as in the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist, the essential Christian sacraments, or in the sacramental rites of Confirmation, Marriage, Unction, Reconciliation, and Ordination, the “all may, some should, but none must sacraments.

FRANCISCO-fact: We Adapt as a Congregation

Once we are allowed to worship in person, what happens if we cannot fit in the church? What happens to Prayer Books and other familiar things that go along with the way we did things at St. Francis? Our current reality is that when the Diocese approves the plan to worship in person again, weContinue reading “FRANCISCO-fact: We Adapt as a Congregation”