Rector’s Blog

Happy New Year! Sunday is the 11th Day of Christmas (eleven pipers piping), and I hope you are feeling the warmth of the incarnation in your life (if not outside). Sunday is also our first trial of a “Potluck Coffee Hour.” Thank you to people for your feedback about the importance of food at Coffee […]

Today (December 21) is the start of our Christmas services. We will have Advent IV at the 8 a.m. service. At 10 a.m. we will have a spontaneous (no-rehearsal) Christmas Pageant. At 4 p.m. we will have our Longest Night service in the Chapel. Please invite your family and friends to our Christmas Eve services.

We are collecting funds to provide four local families with Christmas dinner. We had so much fun at Thanksgiving, collecting, shopping and delivering, that we thought we’d try it at Christmas, too. We’ll collect funds through December 21, and go shopping December 22 to get the families their Christmas groceries. There will be a wooden

Happy Second Sunday of Advent – the Sunday of Peace. Today we begin our Advent Adult Formation Class examining the meaning of the incarnation through the lens of “Justice.” Please join us in the Library at 9 a.m. After the 10 a.m. service we are having Advent Crafts. Make a nativity scene, Christmas ornaments and

It’s Advent! I adore the cyclical seasonal changes, but I have a particularly soft spot for Advent. It combines the hope in God’s promises, and a defiance against the increasingly shorter and colder days. May you have a happy and blessed Advent! We have several options for Advent formation. On Wednesdays (December 3, 10, and

From Mother Pippa We are now at the end of Lectionary Year C, because next Sunday (November 30) is the first Sunday of Advent. As we wind up November, I want to thank everyone for their generosity in bringing in food and donations for the Thanksgiving Groceries and Kettle Moraine Food Pantry. This Sunday, November

It’s the penultimate Sunday in Ordinary Time, and St. Mary’s is doing what we do best – feeding people! I am awed and humbled by your response as we collect food and funds for the Kettle Moraine Food Pantry! Thank you so much. We will continue to collect through November (and potentially longer, depending on

St. Mary’s is a place that delights in feeding people, and we have ample opportunities this month. First we have our Food Drive for Kettle Moraine Food Pantry. SNAP is partially funded, but delayed, and so we are trying to keep our neighbors fed. We have a list of items the food pantry suggests in

Happy End of Daylight Saving! Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour, and then also remember that we have one service at 9 a.m. this Sunday! As your reward, Canon Scott Leannah is here with us today as our guest preacher. Thank you to everyone who baked, set up, sold and bought baked

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Consecration Sunday was absolutely fantastic! Thank you to the Consecration Sunday team: Sally, Diane, Carol C, Carol J and Father Ryan! Thanks also to Kim and Craig who were “voluntold” and set up and served the meal on Sunday. We received 47 pledge cards, and then sent an additional