Ash Wednesday (Feb. 22)
Ashes and Eucharist will be offered both at noon and 7pm.
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Shrove Tuesday (Feb. 21)
Come eat pancakes and join in a liturgy to “bury Alleluia” and burn palms into ashes with our children.
Annual Meeting & Potluck
Our Annual Meeting & Potluck will be January 29, after worship. Hear the “State of the Church” addresses from your treasurer, wardens, and vicar. Bring a dish to pass.
Pentecost Sunday – June 12
Wear red or orange! Listen to scripture read in many languages. Celebrate Christian diversity and the gift of the Holy Spirit. Bring a dish from your homeland or family heritage to share. All are welcome.
The St. Benedict Festival
Saturday, July 16, 2011 8:00 am to 3:00 pm – Our event will be held rain or shine! The St. Benedict Festival is a one day event that offers a craft show, yard sales, merchants, spiritual growth and healing prayer opportunities, food, and fun! It’s located right on our church lawn, here at 909 Lily Read more
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
Black History Month
We are celebrating Black History Month at St. Benedict in many ways! – More spirituals than usual in Sunday worship to celebrate the gifts to our musical heritage from the African American tradition. – “Singing Spirituals”: a recital and presentation by Brian Cromer, music director. Sunday, February 13, after worship. (Accompanist: Michelle Braxton) – Absalom Read more
Dinner & a movie night
You’re invited to come to the parish hall at 6:30pm for dinner and Clint Eastwood’s 2009 movie, “Invictus,” as part of our Black History Month series. “Invictus” was based on the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, based on the book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation, by Read more
Bishop Lee in the Chicago Tribune
Bishop Lee wrote a column in the Chicago Tribune’s blog “The Seeker” last week about his experience in Sudan and the politics of the elections being held there this week. Click to read:
