Welcome to All Saints Episcopal Church
We are glad you are here. On our Facebook Live site, you can actively participate in our weekly services as follows:
a) Sunday Eucharistic Service – 10:00 AM Pacific Time
b) Morning Prayer – Wednesday; 9:00 AM Pacific Time (Rebecca Friedenberg)
c) Compline – Wednesday; 8:30 PM Pacific Time (Rev. Donna Greene)
We welcome you to help the All Saints Community to continue to pray, live, and work in the midst of God’s people by sharing your time, talent, and resources.
You can also call: 360-573-8106 or email: admin@allsaints-vancouver.org.
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Open your hearts…make room
for our Lord.
Worship with Father Joe, the All Stars,
and your All Saints family
on this
PALM / PASSION SUNDAY
March 24, 2024
HOLY EUCHARIST
10:00 am
in person or virtually on Facebook Live.
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Greetings Saints,
What a truly amazing Lenten Season we have had “Making Space for God”. In our homes and shops, garages and closets simplicity is emerging before our very eyes. Also, in our hearts and souls as we practice our tools of Sacred Silence and connect with our “Light Within”, we are seeing the fruits of our collective labor of simplifying. This coming Sunday is Palm Sunday as Holy Week is front an center on our calendars. This year we will celebrate the Easter Vigil again here at All Saints.
Starting at 5:00 PM on Saturday Evening in Holy Week we will light the Sacred Fire that feeds light to the Pascal Candle, such a strong symbol of Jesus’s Resurrection. The lighting of the Sacred Fire is a very strong spiritual time and a wonderful opportunity for our de-cluttering. As we put our burdens together on Ash Wednesday in the Burden Basket Ceremony and released them from our being, so the same opportunity exists with the Sacred Fire. Opportunities for closure, unburdening and release. Why not simply write down what you have been working on during Lent on little note paper: victories, successes, near-misses and total flops and place them in the fire as an offering back to the Creator. Trust me, it will feel amazing just to let it go!
We have done our best, let it rest, let it be. Embrace the transition…Catch fire!
Peace and grace,
Father Joe
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BIG NEWS!! From Peace and Justice in Action at ASEC
Our brothers and sisters of the Chinook Nation have achieved a significant legal victory by securing access to settlement funds from their long-standing Docket 234 case. This journey began in the 1890s when their first attorneys were hired to seek damages for ancestral lands that the United States unjustly stole.
The Federal Courts, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Congress have now not only affirmed their right to these funds, but also confirmed their legitimacy as a tribe, their connection to ancestral lands, and their identity as the rightful descendants of the Lower Chinook and Clatsop ancestors.
Now that they have been recognized as rightful heirs of their ancestors, this victory reinforces the fight for full federal recognition under the anticipated Chinook Indian Nation Restoration Act.
You can read more about this historic moment on the tribe’s website: https://chinookjustice.org/docket-234-press-release/
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It’s BUNCO TIME!
APRIL 7 at 2 PM
It’s Spring and our White Elephant theme is all things spring – outdoors items and goodies for the garden. Bring a wrapped white spring elephant and take a new one home! Let’s roll those dice!
Tickets are $25 available THIS SUNDAY ONLY from Carol.
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All Saints Google Calendar
~Quick Look~
END OF LENT – HOLY WEEK – EASTERTIDE March 24, 2024 – Palm Sunday / Passion Sunday: Holy Eucharist at 10:00 AM in-person and virtually on Facebook Live. March 28, 2024 – Maundy Thursday: Birthday of the Holy Eucharist at 7:00 PM in-person and virtually on Facebook March 29, 2024 – GOOD FRIDAY Stations of the Cross at 12 Noon with Deacon Donna Drumming outside with TDS from 12 Noon to 3:00 PM Tenebrae Service of Light and Shadow at 7:00 PM in person and virtually on Facebook Live. March 30, 2024 – EASTER VIGIL with Holy Eucharist at 5:00 PM in-person and virtually on Facebook March 31, 2024 – EASTER SUNDAY : Holy Eucharist at 10:00 AM in-person and virtually on Facebook |