Ash Wednesday (Feb. 22)
Ashes and Eucharist will be offered both at noon and 7pm.
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Lent
Sunday Worship in Lent: The sanctuary will be rearranged again this year for Lent. The baptismal font will be filled with sand to symbolize emptiness and longing. The chairs will face one another, as in a monastery choir. We’ll move from our chairs to surround the altar for the Eucharist, where we’ll use bread instead Read more
Ash Wednesday & Fat Tuesday
Fat or “Shrove” Tuesday, March 8: 5:00-7:00pm, Pancake Supper & 6:15, Children’s Liturgy of Palm Burning
Ash Wednesday, March 9: 12 noon & 7:00pm services
Canon Vicki Garvey to preach and speak
This Sunday, January 9, Vicki Garvey, The Canon for Christian Education for the Diocese of Chicago, will be coming to preach at our 9am service and to speak at our Sunday Seminar on “How do I raise my kids as Christians?” Vicki is very knowledgeable and very fun!
The Presiding Bishop’s Advent Message
Our Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, speaks on prayer in this time of year. (Click on heading to view.)
Reflection from Theresa O.
Theresa read this reflection as inspiration for the 2011 St. Benedict Giving Campaign on Sunday, November 21. To make a pledge to St. Benedict for next year, click here. The prayer of St. Francis is one of my favorites for a lot of reasons. I’ve been listening to a song based on this prayer a Read more
Reflection from Miranda H.
Miranda read this reflection as inspiration for the 2011 St. Benedict Giving Campaign on Sunday, November 14. To make a pledge to St. Benedict for next year, click here. I have been coming to St. Benedict since I was 4, so 12 years now. This really is my “home away from home.” Just like the Read more
Bishop Lee’s Fall Dinner Blessing
Bishop Lee “virtually” blessed our parish on Saturday, October 23rd, at “An Evening at St. Benedict.” Click the link above to watch the video again.
2010 Blessing of the Animals
On Sunday, October 3rd, St. Benedict’s held it’s annual “Blessing of the Animals”. Rev. Heidi and Rev. Donna led the flock (and pack!) of about twenty owners with their animals in a celebration of the richness of God’s animal life and our special relationship with those that we make our pets. There was singing and Read more
