Summer fun at St. Patrick's, including the July 4th Palisades neighborhood parade.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
This Week at St. Patrick's June 22, 2011
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
"Pentecost" - The Rev. Dr. Kurt Gerhard, June 12, 2011
Acts 2.1-21
We have arrived at the
Feast of Pentecost. It is quite late this year, usually it occurs sometime in
May. I don’t think the excuse of its late arrival is why this important holiday
is often overlooked. If you missed last week’s announcement or the Wednesday
email, you might not have remembered that Pentecost existed at all. It is one
of those forgotten feast days of the Church year. Everyone knows Christmas and
Easter. For some Christians those feasts mark their only visits to a church in
any given year. That is not the case for you. You are here in mid-June, in the
heat and humidity of Washington, and in spite of the tantalizing lure of
beaches and water parks.
If Pentecost were to
catch on as a culturally important holiday (like Christmas and Easter), then
our major public places (and certainly our malls) would be decorated in red.
Instead, it is a major challenge to find a Pentecost themed greeting card.
Because it hasn’t caught the imagination of the marketers, doesn’t mean that it
isn’t important. If each of us sees ourselves in a continuum of renewal, and at
the same time we see our seasonal worship life nurturing our growth in faith,
then Pentecost is an essential celebration along that path.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
"Groundbreaking on Foxhall" - The Rev. Dr. Kurt Gerhard, June, 5, 2011
[The following remarks were delivered by the Rev. Dr. Kurt Gerhard, Rector of St. Patrick's, at the Groundbreaking for the new field the first phase in the development of St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School's Foxhall Campus. The ceremony was held on Sunday, June 5 beginning at 4:00pm. The Rt. Rev. John Bryson Chane, Bishop of Washington, officiated the ceremony. Peter Barrett, Head of School, and Keith Powell, past Day School Board Chair, also spoke.]
Thank
you Bishop Chane, Keith and Peter. Without your leadership, this groundbreaking
would not be possible. On behalf of the Parish, I want to thank the past and
present faculty and staff, the students and their extended families, the
wardens and Vestry, the Diocese and Bishops of Washington, the Board of
Trustees, and my predecessors as Rector of this Parish for the many seeds sown
on behalf of St. Patrick’s that continue to provide a grand harvest.
Jesus
called us to teach and share the Good News. He wanted his followers to ask
questions and to challenge the status quo by doing extraordinary things. That
is the expectation of the ministries of St. Patrick’s, to continue fulfilling
God’s mission in the world. This
Parish, in its 100 years of service in the Diocese of Washington, has taken
that responsibility seriously.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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