Gleanings: Online articles Rector Scott Walters really likes, discussed on Zoom Join an online conversation about faith, justice, empathy, prayer, and more each week with a small group. Conversation fodder will come from articles accessible online by authors from Barbara Brown Taylor to David Foster Wallace (and others who don't use all three of their names). Class size will be capped at 12 to allow for participation, but other groups may form if there is interest. Contact Scott Walters: swalters@calvarymemphis.org
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Bishop Phoebe has approved Calvary's plan to offer Holy Eucharist at our 6 p.m. evening service at the Madison Ave. Pocket Park (across from the Brass Door)! Face coverings are required when entering the park and anytime you move from your seat, and all households will be seated over six feet apart. Clergy and Eucharistic Ministers will sanitize their hands immediately prior to consecrating and before distributing Eucharist. Only bread will be offered at this time. Currently, there are 25…
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Early morning prayer is offered live on Calvary’s Facebook page each day at 6:30 a.m. This prayer service is modeled on Daily Devotions (p. 137 in the Book of Common Prayer) and lasts about 10-15 minutes. All early risers (by preference or necessity!) are invited to come pray together. Morning Prayer led by Calvary’s clergy will continue at 8 a.m. on Facebook Live.
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Morning Prayer is streamed live each weekday at 8 a.m. on our Facebook page. "In many times and places, daybreak has been a time of prayer. Jews prayed in their synagogues at sunrise as well as at other times each day. This Jewish pattern of prayer formed the basis of the Christian monastic Daily Office, with its prayers or "hours" at seven times in each day. Thomas Cranmer's revision of the Daily Office for the first English Prayer Book (1549)…
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Compline is streamed live each weekday at 8 p.m. on our Facebook page. The last of the four services in the Daily Office (BCP, p. 127). It is descended from the night prayers said before bed at the end of the monastic round of daily prayer. Compline is a simple office including a confession of sins, one or more psalms, a short reading from scripture, versicles and responses, the Lord's Prayer, collects which ask for God's protection during the night…
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Noonday Prayers are offered in-person in the Calvary chancel on Wednesdays only and feature a reflection by one of our priests. The church doors open at 11:45 and close at noon. It is not necessary to make a reservation. All are welcome.
Find out more »Beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 30, Scott Walters's "Gleanings" class is moving to Wednesdays for a study of Francis Spufford's "Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense." The book set out to be a defense of the Christian faith in the face of the so-called "New Atheists." But many Christians have found in it a fresh and compelling description of why the Christian faith can still be so life-giving and sustaining to people like us in a…
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