February 5: Annual Parish Meeting

A reminder: Our annual parish meeting will be this Sunday, February 5, after Liturgy. Please read your reports at home; they will not be read again at the meeting.

February 7: Great Prayers of the Church

We're starting a new study series, with once-a-month meetings. Each meeting will focus on a different prayer of the church, with analysis, biblical content, and reflection. Our normal meeting date will be the second Tuesday, but as you can see this month, we might have to move the date around as conflicts arise. It does give us the chance to meet in early March, when the prayer we study will be the prayer of reconciliation after confession - timely for Lent. At our first meeting, we will study the prayer of the Betrothal, from the marriage service. It's a good place to start ... it is only three or four lines long, which will give us time to explain the basic template that will guide our sessions at all future meetings.

The idea for this study group grew out of our preparations for the 7th-9th grade church school class, when it seemed that this structure might also work well in an adult-study format.