Epistle

From the Rector
Celebrating the Spirit of Renewal in Our Corporate Worship

My dear parishioners and friends of St. Paul's,

Just lately, I have had a surprising number of e-mails expressing people's gratitude for the quality of our worship. I must say it is nice to have positive and complimentary e-mails! But it dawns on me that, of course, the thanks goes to all of you. As you may have detected, there is a spirit of renewal in our corporate worship this year. That is, of course, the graceful movement of the Holy Spirit, but it also depends upon our own openness to the Spirit's promptings. I would like to thank and commend you all for your commitment to our worship.

Obviously, the first commitment is to be in attendance! I have often dreamt of what it would be like if everyone who claimed membership in this parish would be so faithful as to be present for Mass every Sunday -- we would not be able to deal with the numbers! But I think we are seeing more commitment to greater and consistent attendance. This is an example of how each one plays a part within the body of the whole. When we all come together, there is a sense of commitment and purpose and resolve. And I have always suggested that commitment converts.

There is also a commitment to a proper focus in our worship and a commitment to entering fully into our worship by attention to God's initiative in word and sacrament and by enthusiastic -- that word means literally, of course, "en-God-ed" -- and prayerful participation. So, I would like to thank all of you for your regular attendance and for your participation. And I would like to thank all those who take responsibility for leadership in our worship.

Of course, this applies not only on Sundays but also on weekdays. I have often said that the true strength of this place is not in the razzle-dazzle of special occasions but in the day-to-day discipline of the Daily Office and the daily Masses. I would also, therefore, like to thank and commend all those who make the commitment to attend Mass every day or at least sometime during the week. Here is the real heart of prayer at the heart of the parish.

I would not, however, run down the razzle-dazzle of special occasions! So I would like to thank all those who attended the fantastic procession and Solemn Pontifical Mass of Candlemas on Thursday, February 2. It was one of the most beautiful and powerful liturgies that I have experienced in this parish. Again, my thanks to all those who attended and also to our musicians, who provided us with such a sublime, Viennese experience! God was glorified and the church was certainly built up.

The start of Lent
The first day of March is also the first day of Lent, or Ash Wednesday. As usual, I would like to remind you that Lent does indeed begin on Wednesday prior to the First Sunday of Lent! I also remind you that Shrove Tuesday is not all about pancakes but is about being shriven. To that end, I shall be available for confessions on Shrove Tuesday from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. Any of the clergy are very happy to be available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, so if that time is not convenient to you, or if you would like to make your confession to one of our other priests, please do not hesitate to be in touch with us individually to set up a time that is convenient to you. You will be hearing much more about confession during the Lenten season. For the moment, let it simply be noted that confessions are heard regularly in the Angel Chapel on Saturdays at 5:00 PM; the priest's name for a given week should be in the Parish Notices given out at Sunday Masses for that week.

Ash Wednesday, March 1, there will be Low Masses at 7 AM and noon. The Solemn Liturgy of the Day will be at 6:30 PM. Ashes will be imposed at all Masses.

Lenten programs
We have a number of special Lenten offerings for the good of our corporate soul and our individual souls. You will read elsewhere in this Epistle of the offering on Wednesday evenings, following the 6 PM Mass, of the "Awareness" course produced by the Trinity Institute for Christianity and Culture on Sloane Street in London. Linda Wilkinson, Ann Korky, Ed Loucks, Peter Laugesen, and I attended a training course in Charleston, S.C., in January where this material was introduced. This is the first of three parts to be offered in this course, and I commend it to you with enthusiasm and confidence.

On Friday evenings in Lent, Fr. Humphrey is offering a program designed for families and children, though not exclusively so. On Sundays at the rector's forum (10:30 to 11:00 AM), we shall be studying Fr. Martin Warner's book, Known to the Senses. To describe this course, let me quote from the book cover:

Today's culture and pace of life can be exciting but overwhelming. Fast food, synthetic music and aromas, and visual assault of demands for our attention can combine to make us stressed and weary. Our senses become dulled, and we forget to how to use them as sentinels of the presence of God.

Known to the Senses is about recovering and release: the recovery of the tradition of spirituality of discipleship that nurtures our senses in the discernment and worship of God.

Drawing on films, literature, art and personal reminiscences, Fr. Warner seeks to explore the media that convey something of the mysterious and astonishing experience of God, in which we are released from obsession with ourselves.

This book considers the interaction of Christian experience and tradition with contemporary culture. It offers material for use in our individual and groups who are seeking to explore and deepen faith in Jesus Christ as related to their life and society.

A compelling case indeed!

Our Lenten Quiet Day on March 11 will be led by Fr. Humphrey, and I urge your setting aside that day, or part of the day, from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM, to "be still and know." Our recent preacher, Fr. Philip North, from the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, spoke in his sermon of the importance of taking time out to be in "a lonely place" -- and to find it a place of healing and sending. A Lenten Quiet Day can help us to reorder the priorities of our lives as we, in silence, open ourselves to enter more deeply into the mysteries of God.

Parish book fair
I am grateful to Jeffrey Coulter who is arranging a book fair through the good offices of Cowley Publications. This will be a fundraiser for the Walsingham Appeal. The book fair will take place after the Lenten Quiet Day on Saturday, March 11, and after the 9:00 AM and 11:15 AM Masses on Sunday, March 12. The books are sold to the parish at a discount, and the difference between what we pay for the books and the price you pay is the fundraising aspect. Obviously, the more books we can sell, the more money we make for Walsingham. As well as raising money, it also provides opportunity for us to stock up on our spiritual and theological reading library.

One of the great feasts of the church, the Feast of the Annunciation of Our Lord, the beginning of the Christian story, falls on a Saturday this year (March 25). There will be a Solemn Mass at 11 AM that day.

As you know, the word "Lent" comes from the Old English word "lencten," which means "spring." So this time of year can really be a springtime of the soul and a time of renewal within our parish community. I pray that for us, and I pray for our growth in the depth of our commitment to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as well as our growth in reaching out to others in need and reaching out to others in the name of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit to bring them to a knowledge and love of God.

As I began, so let me end, in thanking you for all that you are and all that you do within and for this remarkable parish. Please continue to invite your friends, neighbors, and colleagues to join us for worship. There is no better time of year than Lent as we prepare for the central history of our faith, that is, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, to bring people to the community of faith.

May God grant us a holy Lent and a profound preparation for the Paschal Mystery.

With my love in Christ,
Andrew Sloane+

New Parishioner Profile -- Mozart Bernard

St. Paul's is quite similar to the church where Mozart Bernard grew up, although the two parishes are in some ways worlds apart. Mozart's boyhood parish was the Anglican cathedral in Liberia.

He came to the United States over 25 years ago and has been in Washington, D.C. -- where he works as a certified public accountant -- for 15 years. Mozart started attending St. Paul's in October 2005, drawn to the worship and our high church traditions.

"There is that whole air of seriousness regarding worship that emanates from St. Paul's," Mozart says.

In his boyhood, Mozart -- whose name has ties to French relatives, not directly to the famous composer -- "was an acolyte forever" at the cathedral in Liberia. His family left Liberia when the government was overthrown in 1980 and came to the United States. Mozart entered university in North Carolina at the early age of 15.

Mozart's immediate family is still based in the United States, with a brother in Alaska, and his parents and another brother in New York. But he does have an aunt back in Liberia with a pretty cool job: His mother's sister, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is the new president of Liberia. She is the first elected female president in Africa.

Last month, Mozart returned to Liberia for the first time in 26 years to attend the inauguration. His mother is staying in Liberia for now, helping her sister manage some of her new non-political responsibilities.

In the somewhat rare free moments that Mozart gets from his work as a partner in a CPA firm, he loves to read. He also enjoys cooking, gardening, and swimming in the pool at his Maryland home.

Say hello to Mozart at the 11:15 Mass. [AF]

High School Formation Class Named "Ponticus"

After much deliberation, the high school Christian formation class is now the "Ponticus Group," named after a 15-year-old young man who was martyred near Lyons in Gaul (modern day France) during the reign of the Roman Emperor Verus in the second century A.D. Ponticus was given the opportunity to free himself by making an offering to the Roman pagan gods, but chose to face death instead. (See Eusebius, The History of the Church, Chapter 5.)

As to why the name Ponticus was chosen: When we celebrate the Eucharist, we are not only in fellowship with the people we see in the church. At St. Paul's, we believe that we are part of a fellowship that cuts across time and space, with Jesus and with Christians around the world -- and also those who came in the centuries before us and those who will come in centuries to follow. Although he is not formally recognized as a saint (i.e., with a designated feast day on the Church calendar), Ponticus appears to be unique as a martyr that we know of by name who went to his death when he was the same general age as the students in the high school formation class.

Accordingly, we thought it was appropriate for our group to help perpetuate the memory of this young man and his sacrifice and thereby strengthen the connection we all should have with the Christians who came before us. [NJAH+]

St. Paul's Book Fair

St. Paul's will host a Cowley Publications book fair on Saturday, March 11, and Sunday, March 12, with the proceeds benefiting the Walsingham Appeal.

Cowley Publications is a ministry of the brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, a monastic order in the Episcopal Church. They seek to provide engaging books for ongoing theological exploration and spiritual formation of seekers, pastors, and church leaders. They also aim to develop a new generation of writers whose books will encourage people to think and pray in new ways about the life of faith and the future.

Cowley distributes the works of distinguished authors, such as Archbishop Rowan Williams, Barbara Brown Taylor, Sam Portaro, and Margaret Guenther. Cowley provides everything from humorous autobiography, such as Karen Favreau's Ridiculous Packaging, to contemporary examinations, such as Get up off Your Knees, by Raewynne Whiteley and Beth Maynard, which the publisher describes as "a thoughtful and provocative collection of sermons by a group of preachers from across the international church spectrum who have been moved to theological reflection on the art and work of U2."

The book fair will be conducted after the Lenten Quiet Day on Saturday, March 11, and after the 9:00 AM and 11:15 AM Masses on Sunday, March 12.

If there is a particular Cowley publication you are interested in obtaining, or you wish to pre-shop, please visit www.cowley.org. You can place orders with Jeff Coulter up until Sunday, February 26, and save shipping costs! You can contact Jeff at coulterndc@yahoo.com, and he will be happy to work with you on purchasing your books! [JC]

Dupré's Stations of the Cross at St. Paul's

On Friday evening, March 31 at 7:30, internationally known organist Stephen Tharp will offer the Dupré Stations of the Cross as a part of our Lenten devotions. Hailed as "the organist for the connoisseur," Mr. Tharp is internationally recognized as one of today's most diverse yet stylistically informed performers. Although still in his thirties, Tharp is also known as one of the most active concert organists in the world -- performing at the staggering rate of nearly 60 concerts per season worldwide.

Stations of the Cross is a vast symphonic poem in which several leading themes recur. Each station has its own musical conception. It is a moving pilgrimage in sound and word following the way of the cross. These musical tableaus of the Passion will be accompanied by the reading of the French poetry upon which they are based.

Composer and organist Marcel Dupré (1886-1871) devoted his entire life to the organ, giving 2,178 recitals and teaching constantly. His virtuosity and improvising capabilities were legendary. In February 1931, at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, Dupré was asked to improvise between the reading of 14 poems entitled "Le Chemin de la Croix," written in 1911 by Paul Claudel. The event was part composition, part improvisation, as Dupré worked out most of the material before hand, spending time on that afternoon to rehearse many of his musical ideas. His themes or leitmotifs included the Cross, Suffering, Compassion, Pity, Consolation, Persecution, and Redemption; specific intervals as well as particular rhythmic cells were chosen -- such as an ascending scale for redemption and four notes descending by leap for crucifixion. The Stations were therefore both planned and improvisatory.

Responding to encouragement from those who were present, Dupré recalled and wrote down the music during the following year. It became one of his favorite compositions. He played it annually every Lent at St. Sulpice in Paris, where he served as organist from 1934 until his death in 1971. Dupré himself recorded the work in 1958.

Paul Claudel (1868-1955) was a French poet, playwright, and diplomat. At the age of 18, during a Christmas Day service in Notre Dame Cathedral, Claudel heard a voice from above saying, "There is a God," and he was immediately converted to Catholicism. The Bible became Claudel's inspiration, and, from then on, everything he did or wrote was based on the idea that God is the supreme architect of the world and he has placed man in the center of the world's drama. He spent two years in the Abbey of Ligug‚ as a Benedictine oblate. As a diplomat he spent the years between 1893 and 1934 mostly outside France, in, among other countries, the United States, China, Italy, and Brazil. He served as French ambassador in Tokyo, Washington (1927-1933), and Brussels. [MD]

St. Paul's delegate Dick Best lines up for the microphone at the
2006 Diocesan Convention. Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Washington.

Diocesan Convention 2006

The 111th Convention of the Diocese of Washington was held at the Cathedral on January 27 and 28. The diocesan website (www.edow.org) describes the main actions taken and provides the text of Bishop Chane's address on Saturday morning. St. Paul's was represented by Fr. Sloane and, for the first time, by Fr. Humphrey (who is so new to the Diocese that he was granted only a voice but not yet a vote) and by our lay delegates, Larry Toombs, Geoff Peckham, Arnitta Coley, and Dick Best. Fr. Sloane presented a motion (accepted without opposition) to honor the life and work of Fr. Pollen, the former rector of St. Luke's Church who also served this parish for many years after his retirement.

The Convention asked the General Convention to include the name of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a longtime member of St. Augustine's Parish, Washington, in the Book of Lesser Feasts and Fasts because of his long and conscientious service to the nation. The Convention was honored by the presence of his widow, Cissy Marshall, still a parishioner of St. Augustine's.

Much of the Convention was spent reviewing the progress of the Diocese during the three years of Bishop Chane's episcopate. There was general satisfaction with his initiatives in rebuilding the diocesan staff, for his emphasis on work with young people, and for his encouragement of Hispanic ministries. Concern remains that the diocesan budget remains dependent in large measure on income generated by the estate of Ruth Gregory Soper and that anticipated increases in parish contributions to the diocesan budget have not been realized.

Bishop Chane directed attention to the relationships the Diocese has established with South Africa and with Honduras. In addition, a 2006 budget of $4.5 million was adopted with approximately $1.2 million coming from Soper Trust income. The budget calls for some $670,700 be forwarded to the National Church Program; a motion to increase this amount was not accepted.

Elections were made to various positions on Diocesan Council, Standing Committee, and other diocesan bodies. A number of resolutions were considered in addition to the one honoring Justice Marshall. A motion to comply with recommendations of the Windsor Report was postponed indefinitely; another motion to reaffirm the authority of individual parishes to develop and adopt rites for the blessing of same-sex unions was adopted.

The representatives from St. Paul's continued the parish tradition of active participation in the work of the Diocese and contributed to the diversity of the Convention. We commend the life and ministry of the Diocese to your prayers. [DB]

Sisters in the Gospel

Our sister parish, St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, is one of London's most beautiful Victorian church buildings and home to a diverse and active Christian congregation. Whether they come because they know of the church's fine tradition for liturgy, music, and preaching or because they stumble across the building by accident -- perhaps as tourists or shoppers in nearby Knightsbridge -- those who pass through the church's doors discover a holy place of prayer and calm and a haven of peace in the heart of London's West End.

St. Paul's Church was founded in 1843 on the then recently established Grosvenor Estate developments of Belgravia and was in the vanguard of the Anglo-Catholic Revival or Oxford Movement in London. The community at St. Paul's is diverse and very welcoming. If you travel to London, making time to visit our sister parish should be included on your itinerary.

Fr. Alan Gyle, rector of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, wrote the following article for their December/January Epistle newsletter following his visit here in October. It is reprinted with permission. As he suggests, the link between our parishes will hopefully strengthen in the months and years to come.

At our daily and Sunday masses we pray for "Our sister parish St. Paul's K Street in Washington ..." in recognition of an historic link that exists between our parish here in central London and one of the most vibrant Anglo-Catholic parishes in the capital city of the U.S.A. But at a recent meeting in London, when their rector, Andrew Sloane, was visiting friends and family here in the U.K., he and I dared to have a conversation that ran along the lines of, "Well, we have both inherited this twinned relationship -- but what does it really mean?" One of their parishioners, Chip Heath, subsequently arrived in London to encourage a further reflection on the nature of the relationship -- and before I knew it I was accepting a generous invitation to visit "the other" St. Paul's, to meet the clergy and congregation there, and to preach for them.

Some history might help. With the westward expansion of the District of Columbia at the end of the Civil War, Saint Paul's Parish was founded in 1866 with the building of its first church at 917 23rd Street (Washington Circle), where the congregation worshipped until the end of World War II. In order to construct a new hospital for the George Washington University, the old building was closed at the end of 1944. On new property on K Street, purchased by the church with the compensation from the loss of the former site, the architect Philip H. Frohman was engaged to design a new building. The first service was held in the partly completed edifice in June 1948. Numerous additions of stained glass windows and appropriate religious adornments had been added in the intervening years. In 1966, Saint Paul's celebrated its centenary with a splendid liturgy of consecration.

From its founding, Saint Paul's has been noted for its witness to and celebration of the Catholic tradition of Anglicanism. The first vested choir in Washington and the first "choral service" were led by the first processional cross in the old church. Its "midnight mass" of 1870 was perhaps the first in the United States in an Anglican church. The Eucharist has been celebrated daily since before 1900, with the use of vestments before that. Saint Paul's has never had rented pews. The Parish was a pioneer in the use of envelopes for offerings. Although Saint Paul's has always been a "neighborhood" parish, its extensive commitment to the faith and involvement in diverse services have drawn members from great distances beyond the District line. Those who know the history of our own St. Paul's -- and its rootedness in the nineteenth century protests and courageous witness that helped to progress the establishing, in the twentieth century, of the mass as the normal act of Sunday worship in the Church of England and the daily mass as the proper central daily act of worship in the church, will see the parallels straight away.

However at the time I knew little of this, and I think that though I arrived in Washington enthusiastic to experience another church's fellowship and worship, I was fundamentally pessimistic about the possibility of continuing the link. My job -- I had quietly decided -- was to find a way of honourably severing the link and allowing us to go our own ways. But I left with entirely the opposite view, greatly encouraged by deep family resemblances between our two churches, and invigorated by our sister's vitality and energy!

I have always felt that our St. Paul's is, for all its "High Churchiness," a very Anglican place ... a place in which the painted portraits of the Caroline Divines in the Chancel -- Herbert, Ken and Andrewes -- signal a fidelity to the Catholic Anglicanism they lived for, unsullied by the Italianate tradition so loved by some other Anglo-Catholic Shrines. Our liturgical tradition is, in large part, informed by Sarum use and our liturgy has a simple dignity that is at once Catholic and English. Just as we live cheek-by-jowl with an Anglo-Catholic Shrine of a very different (much more Latinate) style, St. Mary's Bourne Street, St. Paul's K Street sits just along the road from the Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes (where a contemporary and college friend of mine, Fr. Lane Davenport, is rector). Our St. Paul's is to Bourne Street as our sister church is to the Ascension and St. Agnes ... and at the several masses (I had to preach not once but three times!) I felt entirely at home -- and close to God. They too have beautiful and dignified liturgy with immaculate but unfussy serving. They too have exceptional liturgical music. They too value honest preaching. They too live with a variety of differing views on the key questions facing the Anglican Communion today. They too are a warm and inclusive community.

I took good wishes from here to there, as have a couple of our own parishioners who have since found themselves in Washington -- and have been pleased to welcome at the door of St. Paul's since my return here several of their parishioners visiting London. I hope that they felt as home here as I did on my visit.

The future? The link will continue to be expressed through prayer and mutual hospitality -- and hopefully a hospitality that will be expanded and deepened into friendship and greater co-operation. We may well include information and news from time to time in this magazine as they may in their monthly magazine (also called the Epistle!), and a link between our websites seems an obvious thing. And in 2007, when K Street comes on pilgrimage to Walsingham, who knows ... perhaps some of us may join them in their journey and see if a notion of relationship can be enfleshed and made real... I would be glad to hear of any who plan to visit Washington and will gladly arrange an "introduction" to their rector. Please pray for our sister parish -- and for a strengthening of the link that exists between us.

Wednesday Evening Lenten Series: Witnessing in a Plural World

Beginning on March 8, our 2006 Wednesday Evening Lenten Program will feature the foundational module of the Awareness Course from the Trinity Institute for Christianity and Culture (TICC). The Awareness Course is an educational program designed to equip Christians with a deep understanding of their own faith, foster a better understanding of others' faiths, and explore ways in which Christians can affect and transform secular culture.

The sessions will be taught by Fr. Sloane and a group of parishioners who have received training from TICC, including Ann Korky, Peter Laugesen, Ed Loucks, and Linda Wilkinson. The course is not "academic" -- you do not need to write essays or do homework, you do not need to have read the Bible from cover to cover, and you do not need to have any academic qualifications -- but you can expect to be challenged!

The evening begins at 6:00 PM with Mass, followed by a potluck supper. At 7:15 PM, we begin the evening's program. Each evening, there will be significant time for discussion. The evening ends with compline at 8:45.

Module One, the foundational module, addresses the challenges and opportunities of living as a Christian in a diverse world. Topics include: Conflict of Cultures in the Third Millennium; Living in a Global Village; the Resurgence of Religion; Tolerance, Dialogue, or Embracing Diversity; Fear, Faith, and Change; the Culture of God and the Cultures of the World; Citizens of Two Kingdoms.

This foundational module looks at key global factors that are currently shaping relationships among different cultures and religious traditions and the ways in which members of different faith communities are responding. We examine how distinctively Christian beliefs about God's revelation in the Person of Christ and the dynamic of love within the Trinity should motivate the Church to make space for those who hold different beliefs and values. Central to this module is a conviction that a secure personal knowledge of God is essential for positive engagement with others in a multicultural society, and we hope this underlying principle will strengthen participants in their Christian discipleship.

The Awareness Course materials are provided by TICC, an educational institute that offers courses to Christians in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Its headquarters are in London, England. TICC aims to equip Christians to live their lives of witness in a multicultural and multi-faith society, and to celebrate this diversity while growing into an ever deeper faith in Christ.

Although not required, your attendance at all sessions is encouraged. St. Paul's classes will be among the initial presentations of the Awareness Course in North America, and we will be providing important feedback to the TICC in London. Reactions and comments from regular participants will be a key element in the feedback we offer. Regular attendees will receive a certificate of attendance at the conclusion of the course in recognition of their support for this new global enterprise. [LW]

Friday Nights in Lent

Beginning on March 3, Fr. Humphrey will be leading a family-oriented Lenten series every Friday night from 7:00 to 8:30 PM using The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as its basis. The weekly program will follow Mass and Stations of the Cross in the church, beginning in the dining hall with a potluck supper and continuing with an hour of presentation and intergenerational activities.

March Birthdays

1 Gary Greene
4 Michael Hendron; Mary Jo Clark; Betty Eckart
8 Nancy Bush; Robert Jones
9 Jo Stelzig
10 Jeremiah de Michaelis
11 Tanya Betsy
12 John Klein
13 Peter Martin; Christian Mixter
16 Robert Groves, Jr.; Cassandra Metzger; Alfred Lawrence Toombs
18 Frederick Williford; Douglas Wood; Kenton Brown; Eugene Stone; Charles Toftoy; Laura Mixter
21 Naomi DeVries; Florence Mallett; Anne Bagley; Sebastian Braw-Smith
22 Anna Stillner
25 J. Suzanne Cox
26 Bronwen Okwesa; Catharine Little
27 Omotunde Johnson; Frederick Grill
28 Bette Spencer; Michael Guishard
29 Susan Holleran; Nedra Agnew
30 Linda Wilkinson
31 Hugh Guishard; Christian Crane

If you have a March birthday that was not included, or if there are any mistakes, please contact the parish office. [MW]

Parish Statistics
Transfers In: Marcia Withiam-Wilson from St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Arlington, Virginia; Marilyn Withiam from St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Arlington, Virginia; Scott Spaulding from Church from the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas; Wiley R. Beevers from St. Augustine's, Metairie, Louisiana; Aaron Altman, Sylvia Altman, and Nichole David from Church of the Ascension, Silver Spring, Maryland

Transfer Out: Elizabeth Roueche Krijgsman to the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Death: Delores Beitzel (January 14, 2006)

Feast Days in March

Ash Wednesday
Wednesday, March 1
6:45 AM Morning Prayer
7:00 AM Low Mass with imposition of ashes
Noon Low Mass with imposition of ashes
5:30 PM Devotions at the Walsingham Shrine
5:45 PM Evening Prayer
6:30 PM Solemn Liturgy of the Day with imposition of ashes

St. Joseph
Monday, March 20 (transferred)
6:45 AM Morning Prayer
7:00 AM Low Mass
5:30 PM Devotions at the Walsingham Shrine
5:45 PM Evening Prayer
6:00 PM Low Mass

The Feast of the Annunciation
Saturday, March 25
9:15 AM Morning Prayer
9:30 AM Low Mass
11:00 AM Solemn Mass
5:00 PM Confessions
5:30 PM Devotions at the Walsingham Shrine

Mission Calendar
Hunger/Homeless
Grate Patrol every weekend
Preparation Friday afternoons 3-5 PM
Delivery Saturday and Sunday mornings
Salvation Army dinner preparation
First Friday of each month, 5-7 PM,

The Epistle
A monthly publication of St. Paul's Parish
K Street -- Washington, D.C.

Editor Alistair Nevius
Assistant Editor Allison Freeman
Desktop Publisher John Walker
Designer David McGaw
Contributors Dick Best, Jeff Coulter, Mark Dwyer, Allison Freeman, Alan Gyle, Nathan Humphrey+, Andrew Sloane+, Melva Willis, Linda Wilkinson

Submissions Invited
We welcome the submission of articles, comments, and suggestions. Manuscripts and correspondence can be dropped off at the church office or e-mailed to the editors at nevius@erols.com. Electronic manuscripts are preferred. Articles accepted for the Epistle are subject to editorial revision.

SAINT PAUL'S PARISH
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phone 202-337-2020
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Parish Staff
The Rev'd Andrew Sloane, Rector
The Rev'd Nathan Humphrey, Curate
Mark Dwyer, Music Director
Scott Dettra, Assistant Music Director
Melva Willis, Parish Administrator
Frederick Murdock, III, Maintenance Manager

The Vestry
The Rev'd Andrew Sloane, Rector
David B. J. Chase, Senior Warden
Philip Schlatter, Junior Warden
Chip Heath, Secretary
Polly Peckham, Treasurer
Jeremiah de Michaelis, Debra Loucks; Rhoda Geasland, Brian Hoyle, Matthew S. Leddicote, Lynne V. Walker; Alistair Nevius, Geoffrey Peckham, David Schnorrenberg, Linda Wilkinson

Our Mission
St. Paul's Parish seeks to restore all people to God and to each other, through Sacramental Worship and Christlike lives.

Deadline for next issue
Monday, March 13