Lent got started at St. Peter’s this week with the Pancake race (above) and pancake supper on Shrove Tuesday (March 8), Ash Wednesday service (March 9), training for LEMS and ushers on Sunday along with adult education (Hidden Power of the Gospels on Sunday). You can review the week with this this photo gallery. The weather was glorious on Tuesday when it needed to be. In Adult Ed we began the study of the Hidden Power of the Gospels book by Dr. Alexander Shaia which hopefully will provide us a new lens or context on these four books as well as providing suggestions for our own spiritual journey. You can review the first session notes here. Next week there are new offerings – a healing service on Wed morning at 7am and the book group at 7pm on Thursday studying St. Peter.
The week was overshadowed by the Japanese earthquake which was part of Catherine’s sermon found here. The service was stripped down to essentials with plainer flowers, less music and the change from Rite II to Rite I. The bulletin is here. Lent is a time of preparation for Holy Week but as the sermon said on Sunday "a time [for us] to get our spiritual windshield wipers working efficiently, so that we can travel safely through the storms" of our lives. It is a time of self-meditation and penitence as well as building the church community.