Join us at St. Mary's for in-person and virtual worship!

   

☩ Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road ☩ 

Join us!

Sunday Services

Outdoor In-Person Holy Eucharist at 9am

Indoor In-Person Holy Eucharist  at 10am

(also broadcast on Zoom live)

Wednesday Services through May

Outdoor In-Person Holy Eucharist at 12noon

630 East Cathedral Road Philadelphia, PA 19428

215-482-6300

Join us online at our YouTube Channel

Our 10am Eucharist is posted online by 3pm on Sundays

Click  HERE to visit our YouTube Channel

☩ Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road ☩ 

Smile

 

A new thing

 

Be what you might have been

 

Worship with us in-person or virtually

  

☩ Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road ☩ 

Join us!

Sunday Services

Outdoor In-Person Holy Eucharist at 9am

Indoor In-Person Holy Eucharist  at 10am

(also broadcast on Zoom live)

Wednesday Services through May

Outdoor In-Person Holy Eucharist at 12noon

630 East Cathedral Road Philadelphia, PA 19428

215-482-6300

Join us online at our YouTube Channel

Our 10am Eucharist is posted online by 3pm on Sundays

Click  HERE to visit our YouTube Channel

☩ Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road ☩ 

Camp Welfleet

 

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Today is #MiltaryMonday! On this day of National Park Week, the National Park Service pays tribute to the the service and sacrifice of the U.S. military members and their families.

This year's #MilitaryMonday topic is Camp Wellfleet!

Cape Cod's positioning on the edge of the continent has always invited inventors, explorers, fishermen and military strategists. During the height of World War II when the nation was shaking off the shock of Pearl Harbor and London suffered under the Blitz of Nazi bombers, the U.S. government quietly leased 1,700 acres of land in a sparsely populated corner of South Wellfleet.

Dubbed Camp Wellfleet, it was a Strategic Air Command Base, firing range and even a temporary bomb target area. The 548th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, an active-duty regular Army unit and later guardsmen and reservists trained there. Artillerists unleashed immense barrages from the bluff aiming for targets towed by small remote-controlled planes. The military declared the camp excess in 1961 and the whispering pines and dunes near the former Marconi Site became part of Cape Cod National Seashore.

If you look to the buildings on the right side of the aerial image, you can see what will eventually become Cape Cod National Seashore's park headquarters building!

#FindYourPark #EncuentraTuParque #MilitaryMonday

NPS Photos

Mark your calendars ~ June 6th Luncheon after church at St. Mary's, Cathedral Road

 

☩ Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road ☩ 

Join us on June 6th for a festive Holy Eucharist and a Luncheon Social! 

10am Service ~ 11 am Luncheon

Food ~ Conversation ~ Spirit ~ Joy ~ Love ~ Community

“We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing.” 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS ~ Luncheon after church on June 6th

Please make plans to join us on June 6th when we will have a luncheon after our 10am service.   We will abide all CDC, City and Diocesan protocols and we will make sure that this luncheon is both safe and social, and welcoming to all.  

 

☩ 630 East Cathedral Road, Philadelphia, PA 19128 ☩ 215.482.6300

www.stmaryscathedralroad.com

“Hear what the Spirit is saying to the People”

The Guest House

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture,

still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out

for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.

meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.

— Jellaludin Rumi

18 April 2021 ~ 9am Holy Eucharist at St Mary's Episcopal Church, Cathedral Road, Philadelphia

18 April 2021 ~ 9am Holy Eucharist at St Mary's Episcopal Church, Cathedral Road, Philadelphia

 

Alleluia, Christ is risen!

 Alleluia, Christ is risen!

The Lord is Risen, indeed, Alleluia!

O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

9am - In Person Outdoor Holy Eucharist

We will again meet this week outdoors at 9am for Holy Eucharist. (If the weather threatens, we will hold this service in the Parish Hall, which is more accessible, and we can open windows to make it a safer context for us all.)

10am - In Person Indoor Holy Eucharist

Zoom link  for this 10 am Service

We will also have an indoor in-person service of Holy Eucharist in our nave at 10am, with Jonathan providing music on our organ. We will of course still abide CDC guidelines and remain safe.

Please join us for either of these services, we would love to see you. I also know that not everyone is able to join us, so we are also working to provide online options for participation.

Both of these services will be recorded and I will edit and post them on our YouTube channel later on Sunday afternoon. In addition, we will continue to stream the 10am indoor service on Zoom. We are working through some technical issues with the Zoom streaming.

YouTube Channel

Zoom link (More information below the signature block below)

Attached is the service bulletin which we will use for each of these services, if you would like to "follow along" with us.

Sending love and peace and blessings to each of you!

Happy Eastertide!

Wednesdays in Eastertide ~ Holy Eucharist at noon

On Wednesdays in the Season of Easter, from now through May, we will have Holy Eucharist at noon outdoors (weather permitting) at St. Mary's. If weather does not cooperate, we will move into the Parish Hall for the service. Please join us for these services, and bring your lunch and we can eat together and visit after the short service. Join us!

New Parish Directory coming soon - we need your photos!

If you have a photo of yourself for us to put into our Parish Directory, please email it to me revpetermcarey@gmail.com. I have many photos of most of you from many events at St. Mary's, but if there is a favorite that you have, do send it along - or mail it to the church if you don't have it digitally. I'm hoping to get these directories done very soon!

The Rev. Peter M. Carey, Rector

St. Mary's Episcopal Church - Cathedral Road

www.stmaryscathedralroad.com/

revpetermcarey@gmail.com

C.S. Lewis on the efficacy of prayer

 

Holy Eucharist at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Cathedral Road on the Second Sunday of Easter

Alleluia, Christ is Risen

The Lord is Risen, Indeed, Alleluia!!

9am Morning Prayer in the Parish Hall

 10am Holy Eucharist in the Nave

Tower of Pisa

 

Easter is 50 Days! "pick up the shattered pieces and make something holy"

 

Vocare

 

Vocare^†

Loving God,
You have created in me
a unique expression of Divine love.
May I know that I am blessed,
loved, and cherished, exactly as I am.
May I step into the fullness of my being.
May I learn to trust in You, in the
same way You trust in me.
May I be alert and open-hearted,
so that I may hear Your voice,
O Divine Beloved,
calling me to bring my unique gifts,
to a world in need of care and healing.
Help me to know, in closeness to You,
that which is mine to do. Amen.

(^†Vocare is Latin for “to call.”)

Easter is 50 Days! "Jesus Christ is Risen Today"

 

Jesus invites us into a story

 

“Jesus invites us into a story that is bigger than ourselves, bigger than our culture, bigger even than our imaginations, and yet we get to tell that story with the scandalous particularity of our particular moment and place in time. We are storytelling creatures because we are fashioned in the image of a storytelling God. May we never neglect the gift of that. May we never lose our love for telling the tale.”

–Rachel Held Evans, Inspired, p. 164

Easter is 50 Days! The strife is O'er

 

Easter is 50 Days! "Oh Happy Day!"

 

George Herbert's Easter Wings Poem

George Herbert, Easter Wings

 

Happy Easter to all the Troops

 

Happy Easter to all the troops

 

Happy Easter

 Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Happy Easter

 

Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Easter Message from Bishop Gutierrez

 

 

Alleluia, He is Risen. He is Risen Indeed. Alleluia. After a long, cold, and snow-filled winter, signs of new life are evident in our landscape.

 

Easter reminds me of something that is intimately connected to the depth of my faith, the intensity of hope. This Easter, let us not lose this perspective. We have endured a challenging and painful year. Despite the challenges, we hoped upon hope, dreamed, prepared, and acted. Think of what we have learned, how we have grown stronger since Easter of 2020. 

 

This Easter, hope continues to spring forth from the truth that Christ is Risen and with us as we take our next steps forward. Like the light of life found in the empty tomb, we discard the linens of despair and dream as to how we further our Lord’s kingdom in the years to come. Do not hope for too little.

 

The light of Easter is the knowing that when Jesus walked out of that tomb on Easter morning, he did not walk out alone. He grasped our hands into his and took all of us with him into a new light, a new day, into a new life. The love of Christ brings his life to our lives - the message of Easter.

 

All along the way he is telling us, you are good, beautiful, and loved. When the world tells us we are not worth it, Jesus says you are mine. When we cannot take another step, Jesus tells us we are strong. When people say you do not belong, he says sit by our side. Look up and catch the rays of the rising sun, listen to the song of the birds and the beauty of our prayers and be reminded of the glorious truth, he has truly Risen. 

 

In the same way, our churches are being reborn through bold acts of innovation and faith. We are combatting poverty in ways unimaginable 12 months ago. This revolutionary diocese is proclaiming the Good News as a beloved family of God. He is Risen. This Easter discerns what light you will bring to the world through your life and service to God. Ask yourself, “what story will you tell of God?” And, what new person will you share it with?

 

Be kind to someone who is not expecting it, forgive, reach out to someone alone or invite someone to a service (on Zoom or in-person). Take an extra 15 minutes of your day, pray and spend them with our Lord (it is worth it). Don’t ever forget that the Christ who is among us is brilliant in his various disguises. Jesus loves surprising us, and you never know when he will appear or whom he will be disguised as.

 

I deeply believe in Jesus Christ and the promise to be with us. I deeply believe in the Love of God. All will be well. Never stop dreaming, hoping, and acting in His name. Never stop loving God and one another because “Love is stronger than death.” Love is all that remains.

 

Our message as a diocese is the Easter message - Jesus Christ is Risen. Let us greet a new day, new life, and new world, with joy. The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming. Alleluia, He is Risen. He is risen indeed. 

Bishop Daniel

Easter Eve

 

O God, who made this most holy night to shine with the glory of the Lord's resurrection: Stir up in your Church that Spirit of adoption which is given to us in Baptism, that we, being renewed both in body and mind, may worship you in sincerity and truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Easter Eve

 

O God, who made this most holy night to shine with the glory of the Lord's resurrection: Stir up in your Church that Spirit of adoption which is given to us in Baptism, that we, being renewed both in body and mind, may worship you in sincerity and truth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Good Friday Online Service

 

Good Friday

 

Good Friday

The Collect

Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family,

for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed,

and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross;

who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Good Friday

 

Good Friday

The Collect

Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.