Easter Flowers & Music
Your memorial and thank offerings will be listed in the Easter Sunday leaflet. The deadline to be included in this listing is Monday April 7th. We will accept donations past this date, and your names will be included in the leaflets following Easter. Your support is deeply appreciated and enriches our community.
Contributions to the Easter Flowers & Music fund may be made in the following ways:
1) Brought in person to the church with check or card information (please include Flower/Music Card with memorial & thank offering)
2) Mailed with a check or card information (please include Flower/Music Card with memorial & thank offering; allow time for slow mail delivery)
3) Online via this link
Lenten Offerings
Shrove Tuesday: March 4th
5:30-6:30 PM: Pancake Supper (Great Hall–Register on Realm)
7-8 PM: Burning of the Palms (Columbarium)
Ash Wednesday: March 5th
7-8 AM: Imposition of Ashes & Holy Eucharist
12-1 PM: Imposition of Ashes & Holy Eucharist
5:30-7:30 PM: Family Service & Simple Supper (St. George’s Chapel & Great Hall–Register on Realm)
7-8 PM: Imposition of Ashes & Holy Eucharist*
Lenten Quiet Morning: Three People Looking for Resurrection | Saturday, March 8th, 8 AM-12 PM
The Rev. Thomas Kincaid serves as a Senior Program Officer at the Rees-Jones Foundation in Dallas, primarily funding international opportunities, as well as an Investor with Cubit Capital, a mission-driven private investment firm. Previously, he was Vice Rector at Church of the Incarnation (Dallas) from 2015 to 2022. Educated at Duke University Divinity School and Southern Methodist University, he is married to Dr. Elisabeth Rain Kincaid. They have two elementary age children. Fr. Thomas was a summer seminarian at St. Michael & St. George prior to ordination.
The Crucified Word: Meditations on the Seven Last Sayings of Jesus | March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 9 AM in St. George’s Chapel
Led by Fr. Stewart Clem.
Church Service League Lenten Series
Join us for Bible Study on Tuesdays with Fr. Tom at 10:30 AM in the Sverdrup Room, Eucharist at 11:30 AM, and lunch at noon followed by a program in the Great Hall.
RSVP to Lynne Roney at roneyeditorial@gmail.com or 314-223-3426 by 4:00 PM on the Sunday before.
- March 11: The Rev. Peter James Speropulos: Confessions as Worship
- March 18: Mrs. Heather Martin Cooper, Assistant Organist: The Journey of a Pedal Pusher
- March 25: The Rev. Dr. Stewart Clem: Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC)
- April 1: The Rev. Laurie Anzilotti: Avoiding Dignity Violations through Episcopal Prayer Practice
- April 8: The Rev. Anne Hunter Kelsey: Vietnam, A Photographic Journey to Reconciliation
- April 15: The Rev. Canon Victoria Sirota: Holy Week Guest Speaker
Lenten Women’s Retreat: March 21 and 22 at Mercy Center
‘Ignatian Prayer’, or ‘the Examen’ is a structure for daily, weekly, or situational prayer based on a series of open-ended questions that help us pay deep attention to and find direction in our recent experiences. Our Retreat Leader is The Rev. Natalie Hanson. She was educated at Wesleyan University and the Harvard Divinity School. She is a clergy member of the United Methodist Church, now retired after 40 years of ministry. (Register on Realm)
Palm Cross Making: Wednesday, April 9th, 5-6:30 PM in the Great Hall
Holy Week
Holy Week Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Victoria R. Sirota
Victoria R. Sirota, Episcopal priest, organist and author, has degrees from Oberlin, Boston University and Harvard Divinity School, and has taught at Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music, Boston University and The Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary and University. Former National Chaplain for the American Guild of Organists and Association of Anglican Musicians, Rev. Dr. Sirota was Canon Pastor and Vicar at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York from 2007-2016, as well as having served churches in Baltimore MD, and Yonkers NY. Her book “Preaching to the Choir: Claiming the Role of Sacred Musician” is available from Church Publishing.
The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday, April 13th
- 8 AM: Holy Eucharist
- 10 AM: Choral Eucharist*
- 5 PM: Passion Vespers*
Holy Monday, April 14th
- 5:30 PM Evensong*
Holy Tuesday, April 15th
- 5:30 PM Evensong*
Holy Wednesday, April 16th
- 5:30 PM Evensong*
Maundy Thursday, April 17th
- 5:30 PM: Family Service with Footwashing and Holy Eucharist (St. George’s Chapel) Simple Supper will follow.
- 7 PM: The Mandatum, Holy Eucharist, and Stripping of the Altar*
- 9 PM: Vigil at the Altar of Repose starts (register online at csmsg.org or in the Ellenwood or Wydown Narthex)
Good Friday, April 18th
- 7 AM: Stations of the Cross
- Noon: Vigil at the Altar of Repose ends
- Noon: The Good Friday Liturgy*
Holy Saturday: The Eve of Easter, April 19th
- 7 PM The Great Vigil of Easter* (Incense will be used–a reception with dessert will follow.)
The Sunday of the Resurrection: Easter Day, April 20th
- 7:30 AM Holy Eucharist
- 9 AM Choral Eucharist* (The nursery will only be available for this service)
- 11 AM Choral Eucharist
- 5 PM Holy Eucharist
*Live streamed
The building will be closed Monday, April 21st.