On Sunday, March 2, we will celebrate and give thanks for the tremendous work undertaken to renovate our beloved parish buildings.
Following our 8 a.m. worship service, we will have our first Parish Breakfast in the Mural Room after a long hiatus, and we’ll say prayers of blessing in the dining and kitchen areas.
Join us at the 10:30 worship service to honor the yearslong efforts of the architects, construction workers, and parish leaders. At the conclusion of our worship service, we will process to the Atrium and say prayers of blessing on all the updated areas. We’ll have a festive coffee hour, and households will be offered chalk and prayers to take this practice of Epiphany blessing home with them.
AND come back at 5 p.m. for a hymn festival! A hymn festival is an experience of word and song where you are the choir. Guest organist and Yale University lecturer Walden Moore will lead us on Calvary’s newly restored, historic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, revealing its glorious majesty and inspiring us to sing. For forty years, Walden led services on our “sister” Aeolian-Skinner instrument, installed just months before ours, at Trinity on the Green (Episcopal), New Haven, CT.
Following the festival, we will progress to the Mural Room for a feast to celebrate the end of Epiphany in our new spaces. It will also mark that launch into Lent, a unique time at Calvary that fosters spiritual depth through the Lenten Preaching Series and caloric depth and community in the Waffle Shop.