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Come walk with us in faith and friendship.
Share our desire to explore our relationship with God and support one another.
Join us to make a difference in our world; serve all with compassion.
Be yourself among us.
Worship times
Sunday Mornings
8am: Rite II, solemn Eucharist
10am: Rite II, choral Eucharist
Also livestreamed via our YouTube channel
Coffee hour following the 10am service
Wednesday Mornings
10am: Intimate service with conversation, reflection, and communion
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Saint Dunstans Episcopal Church & Montessori School
We are an active, engaged and growing faith community striving to love like Jesus and to serve well.
Join us for the free screening of Appalheads -- the documentary film by St. Dunstan's Member and Carmel Valley Local -- Anna Richardson White. Returning to her roots in Appalachia, she unearthed her father's filmmaking legacy, and explore the concept of "home" -- what it is and why it matters to us.
We will gather on Sunday, April 26th at 5pm at St. Dunstan's. The screening will begin at 5:15pm, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker, and a light reception. All are invited to come watch the film and join in the conversation.
See you then!
St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church -- 28005 Robinson Canyon Road, Carmel.
The Lord is Risen Indeed. Halelluia! What a glorious Holy Week--thanks go out to all who participated and made our Agape Meal/Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil and Easter Day Services and Celebrations so wonderful and meaningful. We were blessed to welcome so many new folks and to welcome home so many of our families and friends. And now...see the last image for Rev. Laurel's final word. ❤️😆🐣
For Monday of Holy Week. Blessings.
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Come join us for Holy Week - a deeply spiritual journey toward Easter. Come, and be fed. Your soul will thank you!
When we gather as a faith community: to worship, to study, or to serve,
we often discover that we are like-minded. We may share understandings about God & theology, about what it is to serve our neighbors or how to be a Christian. Sometimes we even hold the same world views. And to be honest, there is some comfort in that. It feels good to be around others who feel and believe as we do.
But what happens when we don’t align? What are we to do when our views, whether religious, political, economic, moral, social or ecological, to name a few, conflict with those of our family, friends, neighbors, or one another, and cause a breakdown in relationship? How are we to navigate the way when we struggle to have a conversation with one another, let alone to hear what the other has to say?
Perhaps it is easier to anchor into one’s own world view than it is to take time to listen and consider that of another. Human beings are complicated with a wide spectrum of cultural and lived experiences that inform who they are. If any of us become too deeply entrenched in our point of view, we may not be able (or willing) to listen and consider those of others. Uncomfortable with conflict, we might rather avoid such topics completely, than risk being at odds with others — but at what cost?
Holding tenderly that which binds us together in Christian community,
and mindful of our commitment to being a congregation where all may
Be Themselves Among Us, we gathered yesterday for a Forum led by Rev. Laurel:
Dialoguing across Difference and Listening for Understanding.
Employing 4 Questions from the Episcopal Church's FROM MANY, ONE: Conversations Across Difference, we talked about:
- how our faith calls us to create and foster safe spaces for all people;
- the opportunities and challenges of dialoguing across difference;
- what gets in the way, and how Lent is the season for letting things go;
- and how we may practice listening for understanding, and heal one another.
The last many years we have been living through a difficult and disruptive season in our country and in the world. In such times it can be very hard to communicate well with one another. And yet, we are called to love, and to listen. Asking, and listening to one another's answers to these 4 Questions opened the door to rich and beautiful connections.
- WHAT DO YOU LOVE?
- WHAT HAVE YOU LOST?
- WHERE DOES IT HURT?
- WHAT DO YOU DREAM?
Be curious, and discover that what we share in common is greater than that which threatens to divide us.
Pilgrimage — walking the path that thousands have walked before you, paving the path for those who will follow—can be transformative, challenging, and enlightening. Let us join in praying for the Archbishop of Canterbury as she walks the Becket Way, toward Canterbury and her installation. Stepping forward in faith, trusting in God’s call and purpose, holding with awe and wonder the journey.This is the first time in modern history that an Archbishop of Canterbury has walked a pilgrimage to Canterbury in the lead-up to their installation. Dame Sarah Mullally will be walking six days humbly as a pilgrim, meeting and praying with people along the way, and arriving for @choralevensong to finish. What a wonderful move by her. Such positive leadership.
The route from St Paul’s Cathedral, London, to Canterbury Cathedral is fitting given she was previously the Bishop of London, so it’s a literal rite of passage towards her new post. This route, known as the ‘Becket Camino - Southwark to Canterbury’ can be followed along the Thames Path, the Via Britannica and the Augustine Camino, which are all linked in this article on the historic significance of this moment: www.britishpilgrimage.org/news/historic-first-archbishop-walks-pilgrimage-to-canterbury-installation
This is a big deal given that Thomas Cromwell banned pilgrimage in 1538 in an injunction, condemning ‘wandering to pilgrimages’, just as the Church of England was created. The practice of pilgrimage in Britain never fully recovered, until now.
Cromwell declared that Henry VIII’s subjects should “not to repose their trust and affiance in any other works devised by men’s phantasies besides Scripture; as in wandering to pilgrimages, offering of money, candles, or tapers to images or relics, or kissing or licking the same”.
The world is changing very fast and this is a positive demonstration of that. Thank you, Sarah, for this proud moment of the Church of England reconnecting with the land and soulful practice of pilgrimage.
Walk well, Dame Sarah!