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+ Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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This Week...
Thursday, September 24: Anna Ellison Butler Alexander, Deaconess and Teacher, 1947
- Women's Bible Study, 7 PM
Friday, September 25: Sergius of Radonezh, Monastic, 1392
- Fridays are marked by acts of discipline and self-denial. If you wish to know more about the meaning of this practice and its benefits, please enquire with Fr. Brandon.
Saturday, September 26: Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop, 1626
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+ 8 AM: Holy Eucharist (said). In-person.
+ 9:50 AM: Nursery and Godly Play open.
+ 10 AM: Holy Eucharist (sung). In-person and online.
Following the 10 AM Liturgy:
+ Coffee Hour in the narthex
+ The Poetry Group meets in the Adult Ed room
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The Week Ahead...
Monday, September 28: Paula and Eustochium of Rome, Monastics and Scholars, 404 and c. 419
- The parish office is closed on Monday.
- 7 PM: Fall Bible Study on the Book of John, in the Fireside room of the Parish Hall.
Tuesday, September 29: Saint Michael and All Angels
Wednesday, September 30: Jerome, Priest, and Scholar, 420
- 10 AM: Rite I Holy Eucharist
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Prayer Requests from this Parish: Dale & Jeanné, Caroline, Mike, Patt, Beth & Jim, Juanita, Bill, Mary, Julia, Br. Matthew nOGS, Marilyn & Andreas, Patti, Rich, Family Promise, Salem for Refugees, Mending Wings Youth Ministries. For peace; for those who serve in the Armed Forces and their families. For the right use of civil authority, the maintenance of our Civil Rights, for the electorate, that they may choose wisely.
For Those with Birthdays Next Week: Amelia Haynes, Peggy Goforth
For the Departed: Coralie Peterson
For those who Mourn: The Peterson Family
In the Diocese of Oregon: Prince of Peace, St. Paul's, St. Timothy's; Salem
In the Anglican Communion: The Church of Bangladesh
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Zoom Recording of Last Week's Sermon
Sunday, September 20
Passcode: wX*$WzG0
Links will be valid for two weeks.
The Lectionary Readings for this past Sunday can be found here.
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If you enjoyed hearing from Church at the Park during our After Ten Forum, and are wanting to find ways to continue supporting this work, please consider attending their upcoming fundraiser. You will get to hear first hand stories of hope and transformation from those affected by homelessness. Tickets are $25 per person.
I am hoping to fill a table with St Timothy's folk, so please let me know if you would like to attend! -– Emma Glennen.
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Church at the Park | Welcome to the Table
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 7 PM
Mission Mill, Spinning Room
Your presence helps us continue creating spaces where everyone is seen, valued, and welcomed. Together we will share stories that remind us that transformation is possible when we show up for one another.
We invite you to take your seat at the table to listen, to share, and to be part of a community working for a future where everyone belongs. We connect isolated people on sidewalks and in parks to needed resources and services. We create safe and supported shelter spaces leading to stability and positive transitions. We support the formation of people, jobs, and housing.
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Poetry Group
The Fourth Sunday Thursday of each month
following the 10 AM Liturgy
The Poetry Group meets this Sunday, September 27 in the Adult Ed room following the 10 AM liturgy. All are welcome! Bring some poetry, or come along and listen to what others have to share.
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After Ten Forum
in October
A CONVERSATION ON BENEDICTINE SPIRITUALITY
During the month of October the After Ten Forum will focus on Benedictine Spirituality.
What is Benedictine spirituality?
Does one have to enter a monastery to practice Benedictine spirituality?
In what ways does Benedictine spirituality help me grow as a Christian?
Come to the Fireside Room for some or all sessions and join in the conversation!
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Sunday, October 4—Introduction: Humility – Fr. Brandon
Sunday, October 11—The Three Vows: Stability, Conversatio, Obedience
Sunday, October 18—Panel Discussion: Work, Study, Prayer
Fireside Room—Coffee & tea provided
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Parish Life Lite Brunch
Saturday, October 3, 10:00 AM–Noon | Fireside Room
Are you currently involved in or interested in helping with Parish Life events (such as the Advent Brunch, Shrove Sunday Pancake Brunch, Agape Feast, and other fellowship gatherings)? We'd love to hear from you! Join us on October 3rd for a lite brunch and time to discuss the coming year's event schedule, identify leaders and volunteers for each event, and share ideas for continuing our community hospitality and love in action.
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Catechumenate 2026
The Catechumenate at St. Timothy's continues its work this year. It has been at the heart of St. Timothy's life since 1981. It is an ancient way to prepare seekers for Baptism, to help them become members of the Body of Christ, and also to help those who are baptized to grow into their own baptism. Catechumenate works to engage each person with the Gospel in every aspect of life. It is  focused on formation, not just information. It is not a class but a journey—a journey toward Holy Week, toward Death and Resurrection. By God's grace, it helps to change the lives of those who journey through it, that they, in turn, may witness to others of the New Life blossoming within them.
We are a small group, meeting weekly, usually on Zoom on Wednesday nights, but at times in person from October through Pentecost. The first few weeks are focused on information (a tour of the church and our liturgy, a tour of the Book of Common Prayer, and a look at the history and structure of Anglicanism). The rest of the year is spent discussing the Scripture Readings from each Sunday with a focus on our being formed as a disciple of Jesus Christ.
So if you are interested in Baptism or Confirmation, or if you just want to travel along with this group as we explore together what being a Christian means, do talk with Fr. Brandon or me or one of our other catechists—David Tatman, Sue Bergquist, and Jana McFerron. And watch for announcements about our beginning this work in October. We look forward to another year on this journey.
-- Mike McFetridge
The first Inquirer's Class is on Wednesday, October 7 at 7 PM, lasting an hour. We begin with a Tour of the Church, Fr. Brandon being our guide. This will be an in-person consideration of the meaning of sacred ground and consecrated space, as well as various parts of the church (especially the narthex, baptistry, nave, altar) and some of the holy items used in liturgy. Anyone may attend, and time for questions will be included. Come and see!
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Fall Scripture Study
The Gospel of John
Mondays at 7 PM in the Fireside Room of the Parish Hall
 Our Fall Scripture Study continues on Monday nights in the Parish Hall's Fireside Room. This is a thematic study, looking for key themes in the Gospel account from John and developing insights about how it teaches us to live as disciples and know the meaning of Christ and life in Him.
Assignment for September 28: Please read chapters 5 & 6. What are the key themes you find in your reading?
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From Your Parish Librarian
She grew up next door to Cary Grant in Beverly Hills. Her mother taught her that privilege meant responsibility. Young Mary, along with her mother, was active in various supportive programs, such as sending medical supplies to Africa, Asia, South America and India. They also provided assistance to the United Farm Workers movement. As an adult, Mary frequently hosted charity events.
It took two marriages and two divorces, and raising seven children until something shifted inside her at 50 years old that she would fulfill her mother's counsel.
It began when a priest had invited Mary Clarke to accompany him to maximum security, La Mesa State Penitentiary, Tijuana, Mexico--a fortress prison "where men died in darkness." She went expecting to deliver aspirin; instead, she felt something she had never felt in a Beverly Hills, charity ballroom: she felt needed...she felt called...she felt home.
The Roman Catholic Church said, "No. How could she."--twice (!) divorced and past her useful years. No Roman Catholic order would accept her. So Mary did something quietly radical. She bought fabric and sewed herself a white habit. Like the saints of old, she gave her possessions to the poor; and drove south; and moved into one of the concrete prison cells at La Mesa. It was about the size of your bedroom, but spacious enough for her Bible and a Spanish dictionary.
No window. No privilege.
The same food, the same hard bed, the same concrete walls, the same uncertainty as every other prisoner.
Mary, now Mother Antonia, stood in roll call. She listened when the men screamed in the night. She held hands with murderers and thieves, and she loved them without judgment. She bought toothbrushes and medicine and bail money. When the guards beat the inmates, she fought for them.
When local bishops finally noticed and asked, "What have you done?" Her answer was simple, "I showed up."
Then came the riot: There was no water for days; there were fires...weapons...chaos; and there was an older woman in a white veil who walked into that chaos alone.
Blackie, the leader of the men (because even in chaos, you need a leader), heard her voice and told his people to drop their guns. The riot stopped because Mother Antonia was there. The Lady in the White Veil showed up.
The Bishop of Tijuana and the Bishop of San Diego both legitimized her work when they made her their auxiliary. In 1977, Mother Antonia was inspired by St Eudes (1601-1680) to name her religious community, the Eudist Servants of the Eleventh Hour, because at the eleventh hour is when everyone else has given up, because at the eleventh hour is when love shows up.
The small (five women in Tijuana and six in different parts of the US) association of women is made up of women like herself: older women (currently aged 56-85), divorced women, women the world has dismissed. In 2003 her community was formally accepted by the Bishop of Tijuana.
Mary Clarke's last 36 years were in La Mesa. She never left the prison. Never.
She died in her concrete cell, at 86, in 2013, in the company of the sons and daughters she had chosen.
For Mary and the prisoners in La Mesa, redemption is not in a church, but in a prison cell, not in comfort, but in sacrifice, not for the worthy, but for everyone.
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—Newly Shelved Books at St Timothy’s Parish Library—
Russian Icons by Jean A Keim
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Nuns Having Fun by Maureen Kelly
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Humor
Kel-nun
The Monastic Diurnal Revised ed Community of St Mary
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Com-mon
Winter Grace: Spirituality and Aging by Kathleen Fischer
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Aging
Fis-win
My Body Is Not A Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church by Amy Kenny
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Disabled
Ken-myb
The Abolition of Man: How education develops man's sense of morality by C S Lewis
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Characters of the Reformation by Hilaire Belloc
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History
Bel-cha
—Bonnie Bonham—Parish Librarian—
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O Lord our God,
order the course of this world in peace
that your Church may joyfully serve you
in all godly quietness;
through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever.
Amen.
(An Ancient Collect, 6-7th Century)
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