Worship at St. Paul's
St. Paul's is open for Worship in accordance with all current State and Diocesan Guidelines.
If you are able to safely join us for in-person worship, we would love to see you!
Please do your own required medical screening by referring to the CDC website prior to attending in person. Even with our best efforts in precautions and protocols for mitigation, the possibility of a transmission event remains. Attendance implies accepting such risk.
Please call the office at (401) 294-4357 x 105 each week to make a reservation for the 10 am service. The reservations serve as our contact tracing list, as well as a way to help assure safety for all.
During the Governor's Pause between 11/29 and 12/13, the 8 am service will be virtual only. It will be posted to the YouTube channel "Virginia Heistand" each week.
The 10 am service is held outdoors on the Greeneway to the right of the Parish Hall (please bring your own lawn chair) for as long as the weather permits. The Greeneway is HDA-safe. The HDA entrance to the Greeneway is via the parking lot. The service is brief (around 35 minutes) in an attempt to limit everyone's time spent in a larger group. Bathrooms are unavailable.
Protocols for how to safely participate in in-person worship are printed at the top of the bulletin each week. Eucharist is received in one-kind only (no wine).
Virtual Morning Prayer will be offered on Tuesdays through Advent, on the YouTube channel "Virginia Heistand."
Masks, which must cover the entire mouth and nose, must be worn at all times on church property. Six feet of social distancing must be observed.
St. Paul's is open for Worship in accordance with all current State and Diocesan Guidelines.
If you are able to safely join us for in-person worship, we would love to see you!
Please do your own required medical screening by referring to the CDC website prior to attending in person. Even with our best efforts in precautions and protocols for mitigation, the possibility of a transmission event remains. Attendance implies accepting such risk.
Please call the office at (401) 294-4357 x 105 each week to make a reservation for the 10 am service. The reservations serve as our contact tracing list, as well as a way to help assure safety for all.
During the Governor's Pause between 11/29 and 12/13, the 8 am service will be virtual only. It will be posted to the YouTube channel "Virginia Heistand" each week.
The 10 am service is held outdoors on the Greeneway to the right of the Parish Hall (please bring your own lawn chair) for as long as the weather permits. The Greeneway is HDA-safe. The HDA entrance to the Greeneway is via the parking lot. The service is brief (around 35 minutes) in an attempt to limit everyone's time spent in a larger group. Bathrooms are unavailable.
Protocols for how to safely participate in in-person worship are printed at the top of the bulletin each week. Eucharist is received in one-kind only (no wine).
Virtual Morning Prayer will be offered on Tuesdays through Advent, on the YouTube channel "Virginia Heistand."
Masks, which must cover the entire mouth and nose, must be worn at all times on church property. Six feet of social distancing must be observed.
"The Book of Common Prayer is a treasure chest full of devotional and teaching resources for individuals and congregations, but it is also the primary symbol of our unity. As Armentrout and Slocum note in their Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, that 'Anglican liturgical piety has been rooted in the Prayer Book tradition since the publication of the first English Prayer Book in 1549.'
We, who are many and diverse, come together in Christ through our worship, our common prayer. The prayer book, most recently revised in 1979, contains our liturgies, our prayers, our theological documents, and much, much more." episcopalchurch.org/book-common-prayer
We, who are many and diverse, come together in Christ through our worship, our common prayer. The prayer book, most recently revised in 1979, contains our liturgies, our prayers, our theological documents, and much, much more." episcopalchurch.org/book-common-prayer
For a useful guide to our worship, please feel free to download the PDF to the Instructed Eucharist below.
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"I come with Christians far and near to find, as all are fed, the new community of love in Christ's communion bread. As Christ breaks bread and bids us share, each proud division ends. That love that made us makes us one, and strangers now are friends." #304, 1982 Hymnal, Verses 2&3
