Stewardship Events and Upcoming Faith at 4: If you signed up for Saturday evening’s wine tasting stewardship event or Sunday’s “In the Kitchen with Peter Coote, check your email for the sign-on info! Also, on Saturday, October 24th and Sunday the 25th we have Faith at 4 — note that Read more
PLEASE join us this Sunday for coffee hour as we welcome Hermosa Beach Chief of Police, Paul LeBaron. This is part of the Faith and Blue weekend, where houses of worship are encouraged to build bridges for more inclusive communities. Even if you are not a resident we hope you Read more
Dear St. Cross, Hopefully most of you heard from me, Rev. Rachel, this past week. If you did not, please email me so I can be in touch. I am trying to reach out to all parishioners via email. Also if you would like to schedule a time to zoom Read more
Dear Members of the St. Cross Community, Given the state’s changes to gatherings, we will not be continuing Stations of St. Cross. However, we will be happy to keep the 15 minute meetings with a clergy person in the garth. We are allowed to meet outside in groups of 10 Read more
First, as you know there are many activities that take place during a coffee hour on a Sunday morning or even during announcements in our service. One of them is to alert you to when an Eagle Scout or Golden Scout is working on their project. Connor Wadhams was just Read more
In light of Rev. Rachel’s letter to the parish this week on Wednesday, we are going to hold a Service of Remembrance on Sunday, June 7. This will happen at 7 PM in lieu of Compline. We will broadcast on Zoom, Facebook and YouTube so congregants can participate in response Read more
Death and grief have never been easy or wanted, to say the least. Our society doesn’t like to talk about either. I have often dreamed of what it would be like if we could midwife people into death the way we welcome them into life, with care, love, presence of Read more
For many of us this time of quarantine has been isolating and a challenge. For a few of us, this time has been a welcome quiet. For many of the parents it has been a struggle to morph into teachers on the one hand and on the other try to Read more
Right now in the sphere of Episcopal priests, the question we ask one another is “what are you doing and how are you doing it?” Are you doing Morning Prayer, Ante-Communion, Spiritual Eucharist, Agape Meals, or some other daily devotion? Are you online? Delivering via mail and email? Are you Read more
Do you have questions for Rev. Rachel? Are there things you really want to know such as why are we doing Morning Prayer on Sundays, or why is the Lord’s Prayer shorter in Compline? This Sunday for Adult Education there will be an open forum with the rector. Come and Read more