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Join the Shoreline community in prayer at: Shoreline Community College Cafeteria / Pub Building 7:00pm Thursday May 4, 2017    

 Easter season is celebrated for fifty days (the “Great Fifty Days”).  It marks the time between Easter and Pentecost. Nestled in this period is Ascension Day which is 40 days after the first resurrection appearance of Our Lord.  All of this is appropriate to the earth-shaking event (literally so according to Matthew 28:2) in which … [Read more…]

The somber expression of Holy Saturday is broken with the great joy of Christ’s New Light, marking the beginning of the Great Vigil. Join us tonight as we celebrate His new light with a baptism and sharing the Eucharist. We experience Christ Our Passover who has been sacrificed for us! We gather at 7:00pm to … [Read more…]

Good Friday (April 14 this year) focuses on Jesus’ crucifixion and death.  At St. Barnabas, we make a mini-pilgrimage around fourteen “stations of the cross,” pictures that recall events of Jesus’ last day.  This practice began centuries ago as people who had visited Jerusalem returned to Europe and tried to convey a sense of what it was … [Read more…]

Maundy Thursday (April 13 this year) commemorates an event described in all four Gospel accounts, the Last Supper of Jesus with his followers before he was arrested and killed.  The word is a modified version of the word “mandate” (commandment) because, according to the Gospel of John Chapter 13, Jesus said that he was giving … [Read more…]

Holy Week 2017 Schedule April 9th    Palm Sunday                    Services 8:00 and 10:30am April 13th  Maundy Thursday                    Service starts at 6:30 and concludes                     With an Agape Feast* – April 14th  Good Friday                    Stations of the Cross                    Services at Noon and 7:00 pm April 15th  Holy Saturday                    Service at 7:00 pm … [Read more…]

          April 9 is Palm Sunday, marking the beginning of Holy Week and commemorating Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem shortly before he was crucified.  The name comes from this description in Matthew’s gospel chapter 21:  Jesus asked for a donkey and colt to be brought so that he could ride it into the city, thus making a … [Read more…]

          There is much discussion about community life with the publication of “The Benedict Option” a book by Rob Dreher ( https://books.google.com/books?id=GaMgDgAAQBAJ&source=kp_cover&hl=en ) In the setting of a small church, the community life Dreher describes, occurs around our time together. Lent is a focused period of community life for every Christian. We explore that life … [Read more…]

March 25 marks the Church’s celebration of the Annunciation (an old word for “announcement”).  Here is the story from the Gospel of Luke:  In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house … [Read more…]

The Feast Day of St. Patrick: Patrick was born into a Christian family somewhere on the northwest coast of Britain in about 390. His grandfather had been a Christian priest and his father, Calpornius, a deacon. Calpornius was an important official in the late Roman imperial government of Britain. It was not unusual in this … [Read more…]