Click here to register and pay for the Pancake Breakfast.
Volunteers are needed for the event. Please contact Susan Esposito if you are interested in helping.
The Cloak will use all proceeds from this event to support Harrington Hall. Click here to learn more.
Christian faith is personal but never private. Our Christian faith speaks into the public arena where civic discourse takes place. How can we share more of our faith? Many of us are overwhelmed by the crises of these days, feeling they are too big to even know how to worry, let alone take constructive action. With the liturgy of Ash Wednesday, we begin by turning inward and confronting the frailty of our human nature. It is there that we may encounter divine strength. This year there are three opportunities to join us for Holy Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes, and a fourth opportunity for prayer and contemplation together.
Lenten Study Groups
Lent 2025 promises to be a season of unprecedented political crisis in our nation.
St. Martin’s offers a host of options for coming together in prayer, study, and worship.
Tuesday Night Lenten Supper: Faithful, Creative, Hopeful: Fifteen Theses for Christians in A Crisis-Shaped World, by the Rev. Jesse Zink, Principal of Montreal’s Ecumenical Seminary at McGill University, will form the centerpiece of our Tuesday evening discussion beginning March 11th and running for five weeks.
Suggested donation:
- $110 Standard Rate
- $150 Pay-it-Forward (to subsidize another attendee)
- Community Pay-What-You-Can
Registration includes the book and five vegetarian soup and salad suppers. Click here to register! You will be redirected to this page afterward.
Lent Book Group
How We Learn To Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith, by the Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Bishop of Washington D.C. This double book group begins Sunday, March 9th, and continues for five weeks. There are two groups meeting: Sundays in-person, 11:30-12:30, with K Casenhiser, OR Wednesdays on Zoom, 12-1, with Linda+. Readers may attend either session or both each week. Each person will need to order their own copy of Bishop Budde’s book, here are some options:
You may find that due, to a recent surge in popularity, the book is on backorder until mid-February. The book is immediately available in ebook format ($14.99) on Amazon (Audible version also available) and Apple Books. For more information or to register for either group, contact Linda+.
Unique Online Learning Opportunity
Joshua Maria Garcia will teach two online classes during Lent:
You can learn more and register by clicking here. St. Martin’s parishioners may attend the classes for FREE, using LENT25 as a coupon code. If you have any questions, please contact Joshua.
Prayer and Contemplation
Stations of the Cross
An audio recording for walking the Stations of the Cross is accessible here. This resource can be as a private meditation at home or while out walking, but during Lent, please feel free to visit the nave and walk the stations of the Cross in person.
Morning Prayer
Join us for Morning Prayer in the chapel or on Zoom, Tuesday-Thursday at 9AM. We use Daily Prayer , an app version of Common Worship from the Church of England. The app is downloadable from the Apple and Google Play stores. In addition to Morning Prayer at St. Martin’s, you can use the app any day for Morning, Evening, and Night Prayer (Compline). Audio is available for Morning and Evening Prayer for a contemplative listening experience.
Lenten Prayers and Meditations
Episcopal Relief and Development provides Lenten Prayers and Meditations on their website and in your email inbox, if you so choose. You can find more information here.