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Weekly Rector's Note
Inspiring Women Art Exhibit this Sunday
posted on Apr 5, 2024 Dear Saints, What a beautiful Holy Week and Easter we shared together! Thank you to everyone who participated. If you didn't get enough Easter and Alleluias, not to worry. Our celebration continues in the Great Fifty Days of Easter leading to P...
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Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship / Social Justice & Advocacy
Social Justice & Advocacy Column April 2, 2024
posted on Apr 2, 2024 Easter Easter is the feast of hope. This is the feast that says God will have the last word and that God's final judgment is resurrection. God will turn all that we maim and destroy and hurt and punish into life and beauty... So to b...
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Worship / Weekly Rector's Note
Celebrating Easter
posted on Mar 29, 2024 This Saturday and Sunday we celebrate Easter! Our Vigil service begins outside at 8pm. On Easter Sunday, we will have brass, Chancel Choir and gift bags for children at both services. Our 8am Easter Sunday service will be followed by a brun...
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Worship
Good Friday
posted on Mar 29, 2024 Cross Embracing our most fearful, returning again to our anguish, the Gentle One shines so bright with patient love to make the darkness a mirror: in love, entering our wound, Christ escapes our doom; reduced to nothing, becomes infinite; God ...
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Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship / Social Justice & Advocacy
Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 26, 2024
posted on Mar 26, 2024 The Journey of Easter Be fruitful, resist violence, open your eyes, open your heart, feel the grace that permeates your lives, and see the awe that inhabits the whole of the universe. Live in forgiveness, embody courage, be compassionate, ...
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Art Ministry
Inspiring Women Art Exhibit at All Saints
posted on Mar 22, 2024 Hello Saints, I am so honored to present to you the artist Anne Shams and her collection Portraits of Inspiring Women. Anne's art opening is Sunday, April 7th and you will be blown away by the beauty, presence and strength of her portraits. Pleas...
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Outreach Programs
Thank You New Seasons
posted on Mar 22, 2024 Great news! All Saints has been selected to be a recipient of the New Seasons Bag it Forward program. For every reusable bag brought in, New Seasons makes a donation to local non-profits. We are among 25 applicants in the Portland Metro region th...
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Weekly Rector's Note
Holy Week Begins
posted on Mar 22, 2024 Dear Saints, Our Lenten observance is coming to an end, and Holy Week is nearly upon us! During this time, the central drama of the Christian faith is remembered, retold, and replayed in liturgy as it has been for centuries. It is a time that w...
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Committed to Racial Justice & Allyship / Social Justice & Advocacy
Social Justice & Advocacy Column March 19, 2024
posted on Mar 19, 2024 The Suffering of God Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), a young, Dutch, Jewish woman who died in Auschwitz, truly believed her suffering was also the suffering of God.... "And that is all we can manage these days and also all that really m...
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Weekly Rector's Note
St. Patrick's Day this Sunday!
posted on Mar 15, 2024 Dear Saints, I am so excited for our service on Sunday! We have beautiful Celtic music and prayers that we will be using and St. Patrick's Day treats for Coffee Hour. The Mustard Seed Thrift Store will also be open after services. Invite friend...
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