Breaking Bread
Regularly scheduled worship services:
Sunday
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9:00 a.m. through September 7, 2008:
Main Church, with communion and choir. Modern. Childcare for infants and toddlers is available at 10:00 a.m. year round, although all children are welcome to remain in worship with their parents and guardians. If children are in Childcare, parents are encouraged to bring their children back to the Main Church to receive communion.
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5:00 p.m. Chapel, with communion. Expansive. The 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month are a "Fun Service" especially for kids. The Fun Service is an Interactive Service especially for kids. It is a multi-sensory worship experience that features a smaller altar so that kids can see what is going on, as well as art projects, guitar music, percussion, homilies & stories geared to help our younger members learn about being disciples of Christ. Kids of ALL Ages are welcome, of course! A Potluck follows immediately after the Fun Service on the 1st Sunday of each month.
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7:00 p.m. September - May Fusz Hall Chapel at SLU - worship and fellowship. ECM at SLU
Wednesday Morning Communion Service - 7:30 a.m. in the Chapel - on summer break starting in June. Will resume on September 3rd.
Morning Prayer
Morning prayer is sung in the Chapel at 7:00 a.m. Tuesday through Friday. If you would like to pray Morning Prayer online, please visit the Mission of St. Clare. Communion at St. John's
In the Holy Eucharist, or communion, we are gathered together as the Body of Christ and sent out into the world to love and serve Christ in everyone whom we meet. Through the Eucharist, God gives us the spiritual food that we need to sustain us in the wider world.
In the Episcopal Church, we do not have and never have had a single understanding of what happens in communion. We consider it a Mystery, which individuals are free to experience and interpret for themselves. Most Episcopalians believe that Jesus Christ becomes "truly present" in a spiritual sense in the bread and the wine, but most do not believe that the bread and the wine become - or transubstantiate into - the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ.
In the Episcopal Church, all baptized Christians from any denomination or background are welcome to receive communion. Everyone is invited to come forward for either communion or a blessing. If you are not baptized and feel moved or called to receive communion, please do! God knows what is in our hearts and God welcomes everyone to the Eucharistic Feast! Figuring out whether or not you want to be baptized can wait until after the service. For more, visit Belonging.
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