Dear St. Paul’s community, As I’ve been thinking about this incredible season and how to encapsulate the purpose of our music-making, my mind quickly centered on the text of a hymn we know well: Joyful, joyful, we adore thee (#376). The first verse, in case you need a refresher as I did, is as follows: […]
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Message from Jen Crompton, Seminarian
Hello, St. Paul’s! It’s your friendly Seminarian Jen Crompton with a report and one final update for you before I graduate in May. As some of you may know, I worked on a project during our coffee hour throughout Lent to help us go a little deeper with our conversations or find different ways to […]
Message from Rev. Lynne Sharp
You will show me the path of life, in your presence there is fullness of joy; and in your right hand are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11 Four summers ago, I took a sabbatical. While pondering what would help renew my spirit, give me rest, and prepare me for the years of ministry to come, […]
Message from the Rev. Krista Fregoso
It’s time to break out of the tomb. Break out, spring forth, rejoice! Easter is a great season to break free from the tomb. Over these past couple of years, we, as a community, have come to understand what it means to be entombed. As the first deadly strain of COVID-19 hit our community, we […]
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
September 15 – 26, 2022with the Rev Lynne Sharp, St. Paul’s Walnut Creek, and the Rev Mark Stanger, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco You are invited to join your fellow pilgrims for this memorial journey as we walk in the footsteps of Jesus. Together, we will visit the places of His birth, life, ministry, and resurrection. Is […]
The Significance of Holy Week
Holy Week is the week before Easter, beginning with Palm Sunday and ending on Holy Saturday, which is the day before Easter Sunday. Holy Week 2022 begins on Sunday, April 10 and ends on Saturday, April 16. From early times Christians have observed the week before Easter as a time of special devotion. As the […]