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Pre-Service Prayer

  • St. Paul's 315 West 22nd Street New York, NY, 10011 United States (map)

All are welcome! Join us in the Community Hall of St Pauls as we pray for our church, our community, and our world every Sunday before the gathering.

Earlier Event: July 2
Post-Gathering Picnic!
Later Event: July 9
Sunday Gathering at St. Paul's

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W E E K S E V E N - Holy Week - Death + Rebirth Lenten Creative Practice . If Lent represents our seasons of long wading through hardship or temptation, Easter Sunday is the shocking triumph, the moments of surprise and fulfillment that come when they’re least expected. There is no truer place for poetry than the illuminating impossibility of life from death: resurrection. This week in your poetry, explore these themes of death and rebirth, cultivating gratitude for both the winter and the spring seasons of your life. . Art: Odilon Redon, Melancholy (1876) Cultivated by @maryjeden
Join us this Sunday for a special Easter service at 4.30pm followed by baptisms & a celebratory Easter Feast at 6pm for our broader community & neighborhood! . We’ll be cooking for all with dinner provided, bring desserts or sides to share. . This is a beautiful time to invite our neighbors, friends and family into taste the greatest story of hope and love. Join us
Join us for our 4:30pm Easter Sunday Gathering at St. Paul’s to celebrate God's abundance, followed by baptisms and a community dinner feast! Similar to our monthly First Tuesday Feast, we will be cooking a free delicious dinner for our broader community! This is a beautiful time to invite friends, family and all you encounter to celebrate Easter with us and give thanks for the greatest story of love and hope. All welcome.
We gather on Easter to celebrate the victorious work of Jesus over sin and death. He is risen, He is risen indeed! Join us for our Easter Sunrise Service at 6am on April 21st. All are welcome. . All are also invited to our 4.30pm service and community feast dinner at St. Paul’s to celebrate later the same day. We can’t wait to see you!
W E E K S I X - Disappointment Lenten Creative Practice . As we approach the final moments of Lent, we are forced to grapple with the inevitable disappointment within the Christian story. Good Friday looms ahead, the body of the man who did everything right hangs from a cross, abandoned by God, by followers, friends. . This week in your work, contemplate the disappointment of the cross. Use your poetry, your art, to explore new aspects of this story you've heard so many times -- is there anything new for you to discover under the dark shadow of this cross? Merge your own experience with the ancient story: what role has disappointment played in your own experience? See whether there are any contrasting themes you can discover -- as Redon portrayed the sky behind the cross in lively, playful blue, perhaps revealing a kind hope lingering behind the disappointment, behind his back and out of sight, but near. . Art: Calvary, c. 1897 Odilon Redon Cultivated by @maryjeden
W E E K F I V E - COMMUNITY Lenten Creative Practice . Together we practice Lent. Together we acknowledge that "from dust we are and shall return." Together we consider the beauty and the failings of human life, and the promises of present and future redemption. We also live in the tension of two identities: we are individuals, but we are also a community, a people, humanity. "No man is an island," (Thomas Merton). What can we learn from this mystery of communion? . This week in your poetry, write about your community. Write about them, write to them, write against them, write for them, write among them. What faces do you see? Whose voices do you hear? What are they saying, and how do you want to respond? . Art: "Unstable welcome" by Su hyun Kim Cultivated by @maryjeden Sign up for weekly prompts here: www.tgcchelsea.com/Lent

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