Got to go *twice* - this morning as "usual" at 11 with choir, and then got to sit with my wife instead of in the choir stalls at evensong. Both psalms were just top-notch house faves.

Had trouble finding a parking spot because the 9 AM family service was so packed! (Apparently, the 8 AM was full, too!) And then at the 11 AM, a crowd + marvelous preaching + top-notch hymns + a special blessing for an intention our family's holding dear right now.

We do, sort of - All Saints in the morning, All Souls Requiem sung in the evening. (Sort of especially nice this year with a bunch of All Saints baptisms in the morning! If a long day.)

Kickoff of our stewardship campaign. The sermon was lovely, and the stewardship chair's message equally so.

... so it was a day rich in blessings for our community! (Some of those blessings were through Scripture, and some through joy and humor, and some through a genuinely astonishing array of baked goods.)

All 3 of our usual services combined into one, at which Bishop Gene Robinson preached & presided and our choir premiered a piece written in his honor, conducted by its composer. And then after we worshiped together & gathered around the Table, we all brunched together in the parish hall...

Holder of a PhD in Literature, the snobbiest of the Literature degrees, here. Co-signed.

I did not love the anthems on tap for today, but after the service, a non-choir person commented that they were both meaningful. Reminder: just show up and sing and the Holy Spirit will handle it. Also, so many people that we ran out of the homemade bread for Eucharist and had to default to wafers.

Teaching young adults and yuuuup, though it's the same among colleagues.

Choir's back! Lots of holy chaos with children playing around the labyrinth! Blessing of the prayer shawls! Lunch and ministry fair after!

1) This is a bonkers thing for him to say. 2) I think he's just describing Episcopalians? Being an Episcopalian, I can assure him, we are fine with our feminism. And our beautiful churches. And lesbians in the pulpit. 🤷‍♀️

Last week in the pews before choir returns next Sunday. Good crowd for the holiday weekend. The little one baptized at the Easter Vigil got her first birthday blessing. ❤️