bloomingdale: this week's The Dragon newsletter from St. George's Episcopal Church -- note that this Saturday is a Kwanzaa Kitchen breakfasts-to-go

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St. George's Episcopal Church

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost ~ August 23, 2020

160 U Street Washington DC 20001

This Parish of the Episcopal / Anglican Church was founded in 1930 as an Episcopal Church for African Americans. St. George's witnesses to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as expressed through the Anglican Tradition. We serve as a guiding light for our parishioners as well as the larger community. We bid you welcome in the name of the Lord!

Priest-in-Charge: The Rev Marilyn Jenkins

Congratulations on 56 Years!

Dr. LaMonte and Mrs. Janise Wyche will celebrate their 56th Wedding Anniversary on August 23, 2020.

O God, You have so consecrated the covenant of marriage that in it is represented the spiritual unity between Christ and his Church; Send therefore your blessing upon LaMonte and Janise, that they may continue to so love, honor, and cherish each other in faithfulness and patience, in wisdom and true godliness, that their home may be a haven of blessing and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Sunday Worship

Change in our Liturgy

This Sunday, you’ll notice a few differences in our order of worship. Most importantly, our service will include an opportunity to receive Holy Communion. If you previously picked up consecrated bread and wine from the church, you may consume it when invited to do so. We’ll follow the form found on page 396 of the Book of Common Prayer (“Communion under Special Circumstances”), which also includes Confession and a Post-Communion Prayer.

If there is more than one person in your household, I encourage you to serve Communion to one another.

If you did not have an opportunity to pick up consecrated bread and wine, you may wish to pray the prayer below while others are receiving. It’s a prayer for Spiritual Communion that originated in Apartheid South Africa, in another time when the sacraments of the Church were not always readily available.

Jesus, may all that is you flow into me.

May your body and blood be my food and drink.

May your passion and death be my strength and life.

Jesus, with you by my side enough has been given.

May the shelter I seek be the shadow of your cross.

Let me not run from the love which you offer

But hold me safe from the forces of evil.

On each of my dyings shed your light and your love.

Keep calling to me until that day comes

When, with your saints, I may praise you for ever.

Amen. (1989 Anglican Church of South Africa)

Sunday Schedule

The Next Sunday Service in Church will be determined by Public Health Indicators and implemented in a phased approach

7:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist RITE I with Sermon -- The Rev. Marilyn Jenkins

8:30 a.m.

Hospitality Hour

9:00 a.m.

Parish Choir Rehearsal

9:00 a.m. - Conf. Room

Bible Study with The Rev. Marilyn Jenkins

10:00 a.m.

Choral Holy Eucharist RITE II with Sermon -- The Rev. Marilyn Jenkins

11:00 a.m.

Hospitality Hour

This Week

August 22 - Kwanzaa

Kitchen (cooking starts at 6:00a.m. Food distribution at 9:00 a.m.)

August 23 - 9:00 a.m. Bible Study

August 23- 9:45 a.m.

Zoom Worship

https://zoom.us/j/3626271076

Today in History

Aug 20, 1965

On this day in 1965, civil rights worker Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a white Episcopal seminarian from New Hampshire, was shot and killed in Alabama protecting Ruby Sales. Read more here.

Design a sacred space in your house for the elements.

You will receive the elements in the vessels pictured below which can be reverently stored in your sacred space.

Holy Communion

All those desiring to partake in receiving Holy Communion during our live-streamed service may pick up pre-consecrated elements at the church on Fridays between 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. Or on Saturdays from 9:00 am to 11:00 am. Please ring the bell at the side door and The Rev. Jenkins will bring you the elements. You will receive the elements in a container. Please handle the pre-consecrated elements with reverence and keep in a sacred place in your home.

We begin with Holy Communion in our Liturgy this Sunday.

If you cannot stop by the church please let The Rev Jenkins know so that delivery can be made. Please email: revjenkins@stgeorgesdc.org

This Sunday's Worship

St. George's ~ St. Luke's ~ Calvary

This Sunday, August 23, 2020 we will again worship via zoom joining St. Luke's and Calvary live. Please join us on Zoom if you can. Or you may join us on St. George's Facebook page as we will stream the Zoom worship live onto Facebook and on St. George's YouTube Channel.

Sunday Worship:

Date: August 23, 2020

Time: 9:45 a.m.

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/3626271076

Meeting ID number: 362-627-1076. If asked for password -- 001891

If you are calling in by cellphone, we ask you to use this number: 301-715-8592, meeting ID: 362-627-1076.

If you must use landline to call in, use 1-877 -853-5247, meeting ID: 362-627-1076. Password is 001891 (this is toll-free, but it costs us)

St. George's Facebook Page Livestream Here

St. George's YouTube Channel Livestream Here

Outreach: Serving the Community

Kwanzaa Kitchen Schedule

Kwanzaa Kitchen: Janis has been able to come up with a unique way in which we will continue to feed the hungry in this important ministry. It involves fewer than 6 people and we will pack the food to go and place it outside on tables for people to take their breakfast with them. We will continue this way until we are able to gather groups together again.