All are welcome to celebrate Solemn Evensong for the Feast of the Holy Cross on Saturday September 14 at 4pm in the sanctuary. Our festal Evensong will also commemorate the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s stigmatization. As mentioned in our Lesser Feasts and Fasts: “Not long before his death, during a retreat on Mt. La Verna, Francis received on September 14, Holy Cross Day, the marks of the Lord’s wounds, the stigmata, in his own hands and feet and side.”
We wish as well to honor Francis’s love of nature by calling attention to the fact that, now more than ever, our physical world is experiencing all manner of injury and suffering.
The Rev. Rachel Field will be guest preacher at the service. She is the Program Manager for An Episcopal Path to Creation Justice as well as the Priest Associate at St Mary’s in Northfield Vermont. She lives on a regenerative farm and forest in Randolph VT with her beloved cat Eowyn. Evensong will be followed by a reception in the Grace Church Parish Hall, featuring light refreshments, along with three brief talks on various aspects of St. Francis’s legacy. Please join us.