Holy Week 2013 at St. Paul's

                                    Holy Week at St. Paul’s Church

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Palm Sunday

The Sunday of the Passion

Solemn Blessing of Palms

10:15 a.m.

Maundy Thursday, March 28, 2013

High Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Procession to the Altar of Repose

7:30 p.m.

Good Friday, March 29, 2013

Solemn Liturgy of the Passion

Mass of the Presanctified

7:30 p.m.

Easter Vigil, March 30, 2013

The Great Vigil

The Lighting of the New Fire

The First Mass of Easter

7:30 p.m.

Reception to follow

Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013

The Feast of the Resurrection

Of our Lord Jesus Christ

10:15 a.m.

Our New Video: Welcome to St. Paul's

Welcome to St. Paul's Episcopal Church

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
A Traditional Anglo- Catholic Parish
Where Everyone is Welcome

225 St. Paul's Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10304
718-273-9572

Sunday Mass Schedule:
Sung Mass 10:15 am


All Are Welcome.

Welcome to St. Paul's Memorial church, one of the oldest Anglo-Catholic Episcopal parishes in New York city. We are located in the landmarked "Mud Lane" section of Stapleton, an ethnically and culturally diverse neighborhood near the Staten Island ferry. Our beautiful church and rectory are triple landmarked Gothic Revival structures nestled among some of the finest examples of Victorian residential architecture. Our parish grounds are also home to a large award winning garden...a quiet place to come and be close to God. And we're as beautiful on the inside as we are on the outside. We warmly invite you to come visit us as we explore the Holy Mysteries of Christ and serve the community in love and fellowship with one another.

The New Decorating Angels, Advent 2011

A Poem for Advent

And the angel spoke and went to great trouble

with the man, who clenched his fists;

But dost thou not see by every fold

that she is as cool as God’s early day?

Yet the other looked somberly at him,

murmuring only: What has changed her so?

But at that the angel cried: Carpenter,

dost thou not yet see that the Lord God is acting?

Because thou makest boards, in thy pride

wouldst thou really call him to account

who modestly out of the same wood

makes leaves burgeon and buds swell?

He understood. And as he now raised his eyes

very frightened, to the angel,

he was gone. He pushed his heavy

cap slowly off. Then he sang praise.

Joseph’s Suspicion by Rainer Maria Rilke

Magnificat

My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden.
For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath magnified me, and holy is his name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations.
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek.
He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel, as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed forever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.

Remembering Gwen Simmons

First let me start of by saying my heart goes out to you for your loss and I am sorry I cannot be there with you all. I have had the privilege to come to know Ms Gwendolyn Simmons. From 1973 to 1977 she was my Assistant Principal at McKee high school. I cannot explain how much of an impact she has made on my life.

She was like a mother to me encouraging me through my tough times as a student. She was able to see the potential in me that some teachers did not see. She always had a way of correcting you with love and you could only receive it because it would benefit you. She always had someone else’s best interest at heart and she had the God given ability to make you believe that you could achieve anything that you put your mind to.

I called her momma Simmons because we had such a great relationship and she meant the world to me. I kept in touch with her ever since I graduated from McKee HS in 1977. She was a woman of wisdom and a soldier for the Lord. I say to you today, II Timothy 4: 7-8 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day and not only to me, but to all who have longed for his appearing”.

I will truly miss, Ms. Simmons she was a world changer a woman of integrity, a mother to me and an Angel for the Lord who never stopped reaching out to people for the good of God. She will always be in my heart.

God bless you all and remember what you do for others God will do for you. That was Gwendolyn Simmons a world changer and a soldier for God.

Love you all,

Demetrius Means