As we have done on several previous visits to Chicagoland, Mia and I left Windycon about 9AM Sunday, missing the con events of that day. Once again we went to worship at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston. This is what we did after after Capricon in February of this year and Windycon last year and in 2021. We are always glad to be back there, see old friends, and see that the parish is thriving.
On Good Friday this year, in addition to the evenlng servce at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, I went to the German language Karfreitag Abendmahl Gottesdienst (Good Friday Communion service) at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. I am not fluent in German, but I know enough to get by at such an event, especially since the general layout of the service was quite similar to the eucharist in the Episcopal Church, which, however, is not celebrated on Good Friday.
A few notes:
feel free to ignore the liturgical minutiae if that is not your thing
As Mia and I have done on other recent visits to Chicagoland, we left Capricon early on Sunday to go to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, which had been our spiritual home from 1977 until 1997. An unexpected treat was that the preacher that day was the Very Rev. Joy Rogers, retired Dean of St. James Cathedral. She began her ordained ministry at St. Luke’s while we were members and we remember her fondly. We also saw some other friends from our time.
My wife Mia and I left Windycon about 9AM last Sunday, missing the con events of that day. It took about an hour, in perfect traffic conditions, to reach the east side of Evanston. Just like two years ago, our objective was St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. It continues to thrive. We were able to talk to some people we knew from of old. Mia and I were members there for 20 years. It is one of the key places that made us who we are. Though the buildings are very different, our present parish, St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in St. Paul, feels very much like St. Luke’s and we instantly felt at home there when we first walked into it on Maundy Thursday of 2019.
My wife Mia and I left Windycon about 9AM Sunday, missing the con events of that day. It took nearly an hour, in perfect traffic conditions, to reach the east side of Evanston. Our objective there was St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. We were members of it from 1977 until 1997, and were married there in 1978. The church went through a difficult period in the late 1990’s, but has since recovered and seems to be thriving again. The liturgy is still excellent. Some people from our day are still members, and we were able to talk to a couple of them, including our old EFM mentor. There was quite a crowd for an ordinary Sunday in November, especially in the age of Covid. We introduced ourselves to the new Rector and told her how happy we were at how the parish is doing under her leadership.
At the Daily Episcopalian
St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis, Sunday, June 27, 2010. Across the street from Loring Park, where the Twin Cities Pride festival was taking place.
Rowan Williams and Katharine Jefferts Schori: Anglican Smack-Down
I hesitated slightly about the title I chose, but only slightly. Sometimes these arguments do seem like something in a zoo.
From my parish e-mail list.
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