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Streamed Services and Virtual Offerings

THIS WEEK AT ST. LUKE’S
Live streaming and zoom gatherings from St. Luke’s. 

Please join us on our Facebook page for the streaming of the services.

**(Note: if you are NOT a Facebook member, when you click on the link it will ask you to sign in or create an account, which you can ignore and just scroll down the page a bit till you see the service.)

Click here for a copy of the Book of Common Prayer!
Click here for a copy of Enriching Our Worship 1. This contains supplemental liturgical materials (i.e. Canticles) we occasionally use for Morning and Evening Prayer.

Daily Office: Morning and Evening Prayer – Morning Prayer at 9 AM; Evening Prayer at 5PM are live-streamed on Sunday; Tuesday through Saturday.

SATURDAY, MARCH 6 – Evening Prayer livestreamed from St. Luke’s at 5PM. A full service leaflet for the Saturday Evening Prayer service may be found by clicking below:

     Click here for Saturday Evening Prayer Service Leaflet

SUNDAY, MARCH 7 – The Third Sunday in Lent
The Third Sunday in Lent (Lectionary Readings)

  • Morning Prayer, Rite I at 9AM live streamed from the Memorial Garden.
  • Sunday Liturgy, 10AM –Sunday Liturgy is a service of Ante-Communion with spiritual communion. A full service leaflet for the Sunday service may be found by clicking below:

Click here for the 10 AM service leaflet

  • Virtual Coffee Hour, Sundays, 11:15AM (following 10AM Sunday Liturgy). Please note the new time! Click here to join coffee hour. 

Children’s’ Christian Education and Formation

Sunday School, 9:30 AM – We use Godly Play a Montessori –based curriculum. Please email Mother Barnes at mthrbarnes@gmail.com to register and receive Zoom log-on information.

Children’s Christian Education Materials
Click below to access free faith formation resources for kids.

  • For Sunday, March 7, 2021. Materials include:   Lectionary based Sunday Paper Junior
  • For Lent, we are offering An Illustrated Lent for Families – Reflections on the Heart. To have these materials sent to you, please email Mother Barnes at mthrbarnes@gmail.com

See our Children and Youth page for more offerings including resources for talking with kids about the challenging issues of our time.

Lent at St. Luke’s

THURSDAY, MARCH 4 

  • Centering Prayer – Thursdays at 5:30 PM. Join in the virtual chapel by clicking here.  Click here for a brochure on The Method of Centering Prayer.

 LENT AT ST. LUKE’S:

  • Fridays in Lent: On Friday, February 19 at 7:00 PM (and continuing at this time on Friday evenings throughout Lent) we will pray the Stations of the Cross followed by Compline. Stations will be offered over Zoom. Click here to enter the Zoom chapel. A devotional booklet/service leaflet of the stations is available by clicking here.
  • LENTEN ADULT BOOK STUDY: Jesus and the Disinherited – On Tuesday evenings in Lent at 7PM, our seminary intern, James Smurl will lead us in a discussion of Howard Thurman’s classic theological treatise. “Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution to ending the descent into moral nihilism. Hatred does not empower–it decays. Only through self-love and love of one another can God’s justice prevail.”  This book study will be held on Zoom. Click here to join the discussion!
  • LECTIO DIVINA LENTEN VIRTUAL RETREAT DAY: On Saturday, March 13 from 10am-2pm, Mother Barnes will lead a virtual retreat on the spiritual practice of Lectio Divina. Lectio Divina, literally meaning “divine reading,” is an ancient practice of praying the Scriptures. During Lectio Divina, the practitioner listens to the text of the Bible with the “ear of the heart,” as if he or she is in conversation with God, and God is suggesting the topics for discussion. Join us to learn more about this traditional way of cultivating a relationship with Christ through reflection on His word that leads beyond mere acquaintanceship to an attitude of friendship, trust, and love. To register, please email Mother Barnes at mthrbarnes@gmail.com

New Vestry Members and Officers

Congratulation and welcome to our new Vestry members (Class of 2024) who were elected at the Annual Meeting, Rick Ammenhauser, Francis McMullen, and Jeremy Rich. At this past Wednesday’s Vestry meeting the following were elected officers: Mickey Baccoli, Senior Warden; Rick Ammenhauser, Junior Warden; Jane Merolla, Treasurer; and Kathy Selemba, Clerk. Many thanks and congratulations to all! And congratulations to our newly elected Delegates to Diocesan Convention: Sharon Sollami and David Wegner; Deirdre Frazier (1st Alternate), Bernard Ott (2nd Alternate).

New St. Luke’s Newsletter:  Our latest edition of the St. Luke’s Newsletter is hot off the press. Click here to see the March 2021 edition.

OTHER EVENTS AND SERVICES

Diocese of Bethlehem Black History Month Series.

 

 

From Many, One: Conversations Across Difference

Starting January 18 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), The Episcopal Church launches “From Many, One: Conversations Across Difference,” a campaign urging Episcopalians and our neighbors to engage in the spiritual practice of listening and honest conversation across the many differences that separate us, starting with four simple questions:
  1. What do you love?
  2. What have you lost?
  3. Where does it hurt?
  4. What do you dream?

Inspired by the Latin phrase on the U.S. seal – E Pluribus (“from many”) Unum (“one”) – the campaign is designed to offer a faithful perspective and time-tested practice for knitting deeply divided communities into a diverse, more perfect union. In a cultural moment shadowed by pandemic, fractious politics, and deep division within families, communities, and nations, Episcopalians can partner in simple ways to celebrate difference, listen with deep curiosity, and promote healing.

“I have never been more profoundly aware of the need for passionate and practical commitment to the way of unselfish, sacrificial love that Jesus taught,” Presiding Bishop Michael Curry said. “Conversations with others across difference is not just a nice thing to do. It is a spiritual practice of love in action. It’s how we reknit the fabric of our democracy and the human family of God.”

Listening, adapting, and leading in tense cultural times is deep in the Church’s DNA.

“From Many, One” is designed to be simple and transformative. It is geared toward individual people talking to other individuals, although congregations may join, too. Participants are encouraged to follow these steps:

  • Learn about The Four Questions and related wisdom at www.episcopalchurch.org/from-many-one
  • Watch videos of people modeling The Four Questions
  • Sign up and set a conversations goal
  • Have the conversation(s)
  • Pray for your partner
  • Contribute to the “From Many, One” story space with insights, video/audio highlights, a poem, prayer or image inspired by your conversation(s)
  • Check out partner efforts like Braver Angels: With Malice Toward None, Civil Discourse Course, Sacred Ground, and The People’s Inauguration
  • Join the Easter campaign celebration with a special online worship and sharing time

“We hope people understand this is only scratching the surface of the practice and learning that we’re called toward,” said Rev. Melanie Mullen, the church’s director of Reconciliation, Justice and Creation Care, one of the departments that collaborated to shape the campaign. “Our goal is to point people toward partner efforts that meet you where you are: for more simple conversation, further learning, deeper reckoning and/or action. More than that, we hope people see this as part of a life-long commitment to creating beloved community.”

For more information on the “From Many, One: Conversations Across Difference” campaign, contact the Rev. Canon Dr. Stephanie Spellers, canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism, Reconciliation and Creation Care, sspellers@episcopalchurch.org or 212-716-6086, or Sarah Alphin, associate for Evangelism, Reconciliation and Creation Care, salphin@episcopalchurch.org or 212-716-6102.

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Past events and services

Thursday, January 21, 2021

For a copy of the service leaflet for the National Prayer Service from Washington National Cathedral click here.

Monday, January 18, 2021

7PM  Interfaith Service in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  – Scranton Area Ministerium.

https://fb.watch/3DYhiQFQ93/

A service program is available at the link below:
http://stlukescranton.org/…/SAM-MLK-Commemoration-2021…

MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2020

7pm Interfaith “Longest Night” Service 

This service is designed especially for those who have experienced loss, especially in this pandemic year, or find the holidays difficult. This years’ service will be an interfaith service offered by the Scranton Area Ministerium and will be live-streamed. 

https://www.facebook.com/ScrantonAreaMinisterium/videos/195285278896294

Prayers and Litanies and Devotional Resources
Prayers for Self, Church, Community, and World Amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic (The Episcopal Church)
Prayers : For Use During the Coronavirus Outbreak (Church of England)
A Pandemic Prayer Litany for Health Care Workers (St. John’s, Boulder)
A Pandemic Prayer Litany for Police Officers and First Responders (St. John’s, Boulder)
A Prayer for Peace in Our Streets (from dailyoffice.org)

Holding on to Hope

A National Service for Healing and Wholeness – Live from Washington National Cathedral – Sunday, November 1, 2020, 4-5:30PM
 
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry led a live-streamed prayer service from Washington National Cathedral, Holding on to Hope: A National Service for Healing and Wholeness, on All Saints Sunday, November 1, at 4:00-5:30 p.m. EST. In the midst of a pandemic, racial reckoning, and a historic election, the live-streamed service gathered Americans for prayer, song, lament, hope, and a call to love God and neighbor. The event was simulcast in English and Spanish.

Resources on Race and Racism

“Can you yearn enough for Church; can you yearn enough for Jesus.”

Bishop Kevin expresses his support of Kelly Brown Douglas, Stephanie Spellers, and Winnie Varghese, and encourages everyone in the diocese to read their message, “Speaking of Freedom,” and reflect upon this moment.

Here is their written statement.
https://dfms-my.sharepoint.com/…/EWobhXqaQGVPogF-T-ysGXkBoN…

In this video they read the statement and discuss.

Please, I urge you to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest. This is a call to the Church, to us Episcopalians, to BE CHURCH.

In peace,
Mother Barnes

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White Fragility 
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’” (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.”

To purchase the book visit: http://www.beacon.org/White-Fragility-P1346.aspx, or purchase here as a pdf.

Here is another good book on racism that is free right now – Me and White Supremacy   And here’s a workbook to accompany it.

And a good article from Psychology Today – The Psychology of Rioting: The Language of the Unheard.
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For those who still wish to view our Holy Week at Home booklet – Click here to access a full service booklet of resources which were used for observing Holy Week at Home. These may be used in the home by individuals and families. St. Luke’s supplemented these with the streamed services which are still available on our parish Facebook page.

If you haven’t used Zoom before, we encourage you to watch this video in advance. Want to know more about how to find a live stream on Facebook? Click here.

Contact Us

And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another.
-- Ephesians 4:32

232 Wyoming Avenue
Scranton, Pennsylvania 18503
(570) 342-7654
StLukesScranton@verizon.net

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232 Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, PA 18503 570-342-7654
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And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another.
— Ephesians 4:32
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233 Wyoming Avenue
Scranton, Pennsylvania 18503
(570) 342-7654
StLukesScranton@verizon.net
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Video tour of St. Luke’s

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Upcoming Events

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND UPCOMING EVENTS

We are currently closed for indoor gatherings. At this time all services continue to be streamed online. 

*Please see our Covid-19 Updates page for updates and information regarding Coronavirus (COVID-19)

LIVE-STREAMED SERVICES

Our schedule of daily live streamed services is:

Sundays: Morning Prayer (Rite I), 9 AM; Sunday Liturgy, 10AM; Evening Prayer at 5 PM.

Tuesday – Saturday Morning Prayer at 9AM; Evening Prayer at 5 PM.

All services are live streamed on the St. Luke’s Facebook page and may be accessed by clicking here.

For a complete schedule of our parish worship services, classes, and events please visit our Livestreamed and Virtual Offerings page.

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In a Pastoral Emergency, please contact—The Reverend Rebecca A. Barnes, Priest-in-Charge at 646-533-1836 or via e-mail at mthrbarnes@gmail.com.  If you or a family member are in the hospital, health care facility, or are home bound and would like to have a visit from a member of our Pastoral Care Committee, please contact the parish office. Due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly known as HIPAA, the hospitals no longer automatically provide churches with the names of admitted parishioners. St. Luke’s church complies with all HIPAA requirements and cannot provide personal information for sick or injured members without permission of the member or his or her close family member.

Please note: As a result of the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, visitations to nursing facilities and hospitals have been restricted. Pastoral visits in these facilities will resume as soon as restrictions have been lifted.

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Office hours – The physical parish office is operating under reduced hours due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Normal office hours (Tuesday – Friday from 8:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.) are being maintained remotely. You may reach us via email at StLukesScranton@verizon.net.

In the event of a pastoral emergency, Mother Barnes may be reached on her pastoral cell phone, (646) 533-1836.

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To spread the Gospel to all people through hospitality, service, and spiritual growth.

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