Rector’s Blog

Big thanks to the Strawberry Fest Team for a very successful event! Jane P, Kim S, Craig B, JR & Marit F, Mary Alice E and Barb R organized a wonderful event, and we raised $3457.64 for the Haiti Project! Our next fun event is St. Mary’s Day, coming on August 15! It is the […]

This Sunday is Strawberry Fest! We are having one single service at 9 a.m., so be sure to change your alarms for Sunday. If you have ordered strawberry goodies, please pick them up between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. this Sunday. Your Vestry met and voted, and we are no longer asking vaccinated people to

From Mother Pippa Welcome to Ordinary Time! After moving from Advent to Christmas to Epiphany to Lent and Easter, we are now in the longest season of the year – Ordinary Time. I confess that as much as I love the church seasons, Ordinary Time holds a special place in my heart. After all, so

Thank you to Jim, June, Bob, Sandie, Mary-Beth and Marian for helping with Adopt a Highway last weekend! We picked up seven bags of trash as well as one tire! Additional thanks to Mary-Beth and her team for cleaning up the Church last Sunday. We moved the hymnals and prayer books out of the basement

A reminder that this Saturday is our Adopt a Highway! Please consider showing up at 9 a.m. to help clean up County Road DR! It’s a lovely walk, and I feel better knowing that all the trash we collect is no longer polluting the area. Thanks to Jim L. for his leadership! Unable to join

This Sunday is not only the Sixth Sunday of Easter, it is also Mother’s Day! On this day we will celebrate and lift up all who mother in our community. Should those who mother attend either 8 a.m. or 10 a.m., I hope you will pick up a flower and piece of fudge in honor

Our annual Bike Blessing is coming up on Saturday, May 8! I am quite excited to bless any wheeled form of transportation – bicycles, skateboards, unicycles, motorcycles, roller blades, tricycles, longboards and other wheeled forms of motion. We will gather at 9 a.m. for a short blessing service, and will then send you on your

Thank you to everyone for your generous support of our three Easter ministries! We raised a total of $3290 to split between Family Promise, the Kettle Moraine Food Pantry and the St. Mary’s Discretionary Fund. I continue to be awed and humbled by the generosity of spirit that so defines St. Mary’s. Speaking of generosity,

I want to welcome our new Provisional Bishop, Jeff Lee! Bishop Lee was previously the Bishop of Chicago, but retired December 31, 2020 (the same day Bishop Miller retired as our Bishop). Bishop Lee has agreed to serve as designee for provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee until we call a new Bishop.

I hope you enjoyed our wonderful Easter services. Of course, Easter continues for 50 days, so we have many more opportunities ahead to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection and his promise of eternal life. In other good news, the Diocese is allowing us to have church service in the church at 25% capacity. Starting this Sunday, we