Holy Cross folks love to fellowship together in the context of learning, exploring, and growing. We offer topical and seasonal classes as well as community art events throughout the year to enrich mind, body, and soul. All are welcome anytime!
Art & Wine
Parish Hall
Snacks and wine on a Saturday afternoon while you learn how to create a beautiful art project from an experienced artist. What's not to like? This year of Art & Wine includes Pamela Rounsley teaching the art of beautiful card making, Abbie Yandle teaches a technique that brings beautiful patterns to canvas (no skill needed!), art teacher Clara Rogers will do a class on painting, and retired Lutheran minister Steve Saxe will reprise his workshop on the art of pysanky egg decoration.
- Sep. 26 @ 2:00 p.m.: Pamela Rounsley — card making workshop ($15.00 per person)
- Oct. 17 @ 2:00 p.m.: Abbie Yandle — swirled paint on canvas technique ($15.00 per person)
- Jan/Feb (TBA): Steve Saxe — pysanky Ukrainian egg decorating ($25.00 per person)
How to Pray the Daily Office — Sep. 10 & 17 @ 11:00 a.m.
McGavern Room
The Book of Common Prayer includes what we call the Daily Office, Morning and Evening Prayer. The offices (services) were originally designed for a parish to read Holy Scripture, and to pray every morning and evening of each day. In subsequent years, the prayer book, which was intended for the pew, has also become a wonderful companion in your pocket. Whether you pray together in a group, or alone as an individual, developing the discipline of daily prayer is one of the most fundamental actions you can take to promote your spiritual health. Do you know how to pray the Daily Office? Fr. Robert Ard and Jonathan Trebilco will explain the rationale, method, and tools for keeping the Daily Office.
Adventures in Art — Sep. 11 & 18 @ 2:00 p.m.
McGavern Room
We are so fortunate to have retired art history professor Sherry Wallace as a member of our parish. She has taken us through a number of fascinating tours of art history, explaining the symbolism, the technique, and the glory of sacred art through the centuries. In these two one hour classes, she brings us to the ancient past to understand how different peoples and cultures have imagined sacred space.
Grief Support Group — Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Nov. 5 @ 10:00 a.m.
Vestry Room
For those who have lost a loved one, and are struggling with that loss and all it involves, we offer a grief support group. Led by Fr. Ian Williams in the Vestry Room (a private room down the hall from the elevator upstairs).
Mind of the Maker — Oct. 7, 14, 21 @ 10:00 a.m.
McGavern Room
We call God Creator, Word, and Spirit. But did you know that the Christian vision of the Blessed Trinity relates directly to all artistic endeavor? That was the brilliant insight of Dorothy Sayers, an Anglican writer of the mid 20th century who composed radio dramas for the BBC, wrote several detective novels (the Lord Peter Wimsey stories), published works on Christian theology, and translated medieval literature from Italian and French. Her work The Mind of the Maker, helps us understand how the doctrine of the triune God inspires our creativity and glorifies the act of making art as image bearers of God. There is no reading ahead or prep work for this class - just show up! Class led by Sommer Trebilco.
DOROTHY SAYERS - THE MIND OF THE MAKER
Brennan’s Book Study — Oct. 16, 23, 30 @ 10:00 a.m.
Common Room
Congregations that are alive and vibrant have vital music programs. How did they get that way? There are sensible and practical steps to develop such a program which begins with a clear vision of the end product. Our director of music, Dr. Brennan Szafron leads a study in Music and Vital Congregations by William Bradley Roberts.
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Centering Prayer - @ 10:30 a.m.
Oct. 29 & Nov. 5 / Dec. 3, 10, 17 / Feb. 11, 18, 25 / Mar. 4, 11, 18
Chapel
Centering prayer is a form of contemplative prayer that employs silence, concentration, and contemplation to increase intentionality and focus in your prayer life. Join the Dr. Marilyn Malcolm and the Rev. Mollie Turner in our chapel to explore this form of prayer and to learn how to practice it. On Oct. 29 and Nov. 5 they will explain the method. Then during Advent and Lent, you will join them in practicing centering prayer. No reading or preparation is required.
Lenten Lesson from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Feb. 17, 24 / Mar. 3, 10 @ 10:00 a.m.
McGavern Room & Common Room
One of the great lights of the church in the war torn horror of Germany during the Second World War was the Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer's courageous witness through that trial of terror has resonated through the years, and his writings and life history have been an inspiration to countless people around the world. This Lent, we look, not at a history lesson on Bonhoeffer's life, but at the profound lessons he can teach us on what it means to walk faithfully with Christ in this world. Class led by Jonathan Trebilco.
