Worship at St. Paul's
St. Paul's is open for Worship with Phase 3 Reopening Guidelines.
Those guidelines can be found at reopeningri.com and episcopalri.org, respectively.
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 and our attached guidelines 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 M-W, 9-1 at (401) 294-4357 x 105 each week to make a reservation for either the 8 am or 10 am service. The reservations serve as our contact tracing list, as well as a way to help assure safety for all.
The 8 am will continue to be held inside the main church and live-streamed via the Youtube channel "Virginia Heistand." If live-streaming confuses you, please know you are not alone in that, and that the "Live stream Tutorial" video linked below may help. If you use a wheelchair, please make a reservation for the 10 am service as we use the front HDA pew for live-streaming at 8.
The 10 am service will be held outdoors on the Greeneway to the right of Parish Hall (please bring your own lawn chair) for as long as the weather permits; if it is a rainy or cold day, the 10 am will be inside the main church. Both the main church and the Greeneway are HDA-safe. The HDA entrance to the Greeneway is via the parking lot.
There is an additional Tuesday service at 9 am in the church, no reservation required.
Services will be brief (around 35 minutes) in an attempt to limit everyone's time spent in an enclosed space and in a larger group. Bathrooms will be unavailable.
Masks, which must cover the entire mouth and nose, must be worn at all times. Six feet of social distancing must be observed.
A downloadable PDF copy of our full set of guidelines and a video reviewing how to access the live-stream are attached below.
St. Paul's is open for Worship with Phase 3 Reopening Guidelines.
Those guidelines can be found at reopeningri.com and episcopalri.org, respectively.
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 and our attached guidelines 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 M-W, 9-1 at (401) 294-4357 x 105 each week to make a reservation for either the 8 am or 10 am service. The reservations serve as our contact tracing list, as well as a way to help assure safety for all.
The 8 am will continue to be held inside the main church and live-streamed via the Youtube channel "Virginia Heistand." If live-streaming confuses you, please know you are not alone in that, and that the "Live stream Tutorial" video linked below may help. If you use a wheelchair, please make a reservation for the 10 am service as we use the front HDA pew for live-streaming at 8.
The 10 am service will be held outdoors on the Greeneway to the right of Parish Hall (please bring your own lawn chair) for as long as the weather permits; if it is a rainy or cold day, the 10 am will be inside the main church. Both the main church and the Greeneway are HDA-safe. The HDA entrance to the Greeneway is via the parking lot.
There is an additional Tuesday service at 9 am in the church, no reservation required.
Services will be brief (around 35 minutes) in an attempt to limit everyone's time spent in an enclosed space and in a larger group. Bathrooms will be unavailable.
Masks, which must cover the entire mouth and nose, must be worn at all times. Six feet of social distancing must be observed.
A downloadable PDF copy of our full set of guidelines and a video reviewing how to access the live-stream are attached below.
| reopening_guidelines_.pdf |
"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
