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Welcome
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For generations, St. Mary's has been sharing the feast of worship, community, and outreach to a hungry people. -
This is the place where body and soul are fed and the love of God and care for each other is nourished. -
Services at St. Mary's - For Latest News see below...
Sundays
7:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
9:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Tuesday
7:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Wednesday
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist & Healing
(note: no Wednesday service last two weeks of June, and during July & August))
7:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
9:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Tuesday
7:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Wednesday
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist & Healing
(note: no Wednesday service last two weeks of June, and during July & August))
Location41 Park Street
Manchester, CT 06040 Handicap Accessible Entrance located on Church Street Find Us on Facebook God cooks; we share the feast. |
Latest News
Plans For Worship
This Fall season from September 9 through December 31, 2018 St. Mary’s and Concordia Lutheran Church will continue with shared music. As with the summer, both churches are making changes in order for this to be possible.
Effective September 9:
St. Mary's 10 am service will become 9 am Concordia's 10 am service will become 11:00 am
We will return to our respective liturgies and Sunday bulletins. Thus, our St. Mary's 7:30 am service will remain as it was before the summer worship booklet. Similarly, our second service at 9 am will return to its familiar liturgy and bulletin. The music will continue to be selected by the combined music team. Hymns that are not in our hymnal will be inserted into our regular bulletin. Essentially, what you will notice is the time change and the return to our familiar liturgy.
Choir and Music Plans
The "new" part of the "trying on" this Fall season is a new arrangement with the choir. The choirs of both churches will rehearse, a portion of time together and a portion as separate choirs. Each choir will sing at their respective church on Sundays. We are optimistic that as part of our "trying on" there may be parishioners who join the choir this Fall.
Why are we doing all of this? First, the Vestry shares our love of music and desires to hire a permanent church organist and choir director. We cannot afford to do this on our resources alone; combined with Concordia, we can. Second, we hope this brings us great joy in our singing and music. Our choir members have been a small, faithful group. It is time to bless them with new energy, both leadership and new singers.
The musicians who will be with us this Fall are currently serving temporarily at Concordia. They are excited about trying something new with our two churches together. Many of you may know them already: Linda Hilliard, choir director; John Anderson and Richard Hicks.
At the end of September, the combined music team will meet to decide if we would like to hire a permanent organist/choir director to serve both congregations. If we decide to go forward, this will allow us to pool resources to attract a high-caliber church musician.
Contact UsSt. Mary's Episcopal Church
41 Park Street, Manchester, CT 06040 860-649-4583 (office phone) email: sandy@stmarysct.org The Church Office is open Monday through Thursday - 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (We close for lunch 12pm to 1pm) |
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