If you missed its debut at the Annual Meeting on 5/19, watch it here: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IMe0oo2LOI

Each year, Rector Cliff Cutler selects a theme for the parish that begins and ends at the Annual Meeting. Last year’s theme was ‘Praise’. The 2013-14 theme is ‘Renew Your Mind’.

Persons who are commended to our prayers for healing or other concerns remain on our prayer list for four weeks. We ask that you obtain permission from those you are commending to the prayer list. If you would like to place names on the list, to have them remain for a longer period, or if a pastoral visit is desired, please contact Virginia Emlen at 215-242-2055 ext. 25.

Saint Paul’s Parishioners

Ginny Simons • Joanna Holland • Dasha Abramovich • Thomas Brunt •  Janet Lochner • Julie Clay

Friends and Family of Parishioners

Jennie Girondo (friend of Anne Brown) • Heather Hughes (friend of Pat and Fred Voigt) • Gabriel Line & family (friends of Anne & Wilson Brown) • Alvaro Jaramillo (friend of the O’Rourkes) • Kelly Bolgar (friend of Trudy Roman) • Starr Guckert (friend of Doug and Cyndi Anderson) • Christine Grieco (family of Nancy Anderson) • Susan Taylor-Connor (friend of Saint Paul’s) • Darin Hosier (friend of Ken Class) • Nat Maryn (friend of Ned Smith) • Debbie & Mike (friends of Hank Ballerstedt) • Karen (wife of Hank Ballerstedt) • Jay Craig and Felix Raymond (friends of Holly and Robin Peirce) • Clarisa Mize (cousin of Trudy Roman) • Russell McCormick (brother of Judy Smith) • Joan Taddei & Kristen Pavlick Weetenkamp (friends of the Wemples) • Roger Eastlake (friend of Sally Wolf) • Rosemary Davis (friend of Diana Moro) • Rachel Mechlin (friend of Jeanette Cord) • David Ernst (friend of John Zimmermann) • Ruby Prior (mother of Pamela) • Aurelia Moro (mother of Diana Moro) • Peter Fuller & family, Nola McCabe (friends of Anne Brown) • Katherine McGuigan (friend of Cathy Davis) • Stephen Dafilou (friend and colleague of Dale Lower & Sarah Heckscher) • John Bower & Greg Bolster (friends of Judy Smith) • Aileen M. Johnson (mother of Dale Lower)

Other Intercessions

We pray for: all those departed this life, and for the victims of all natural disasters, and those participating in relief efforts • all victims of terror throughout the world • the President and Government of the United States and all people serving in America’s armed forces • peace in the city of Philadelphia • the created world, which God has given us, and for the wisdom and will to care for it • God’s people throughout the world • Katharine, our Presiding Bishop, and Clifton, Rodney and Allen, our Bishops • Church of Saint Joseph in our companion Diocese of Guatemala • Diocesan Coordinator for Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the Advancement of Christianity  in our Diocese • Brandywine Deanery, The Very Rev. Richard T. Morgan, Dean

The world now has the means to end extreme poverty; we pray we will have the will.

The walk begins at 2:00 PM: Al Aqsa Islamic Center (mosque) 1501 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA19122 (at 3rd & Jefferson Sts.), then proceeds to St. Augustine’s Church (church) 243 North Lawrence Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 at 3:10 PM. At 4:30 PM the walk concludes at Congregation Rodeph Shalom (synagogue) 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123 where at 5:30 PM there will be Refreshments and Fellowship. Parking is available at Al Aqsa and at Rodeph Shalom. A bus will accompany the walk for people who are unable to walk the distance. A bus will bring people back to the parking lot at Al Aqsa at the end.

Other times, please check in at the office to open the church for your labyrinth walk. To see the Saint Paul’s Labyrinth Dedication photo album, go to our

Facebook Page.

Lauren Artress, founder of Veriditas, the World-wide Labyrinth Project, will dedicate the stone labyrinth embedded in the west end of Saint Paul’s Church, 22 East Chestnut Hill Avenue, Philadelphia on Sunday, April 21 at 10:15 a.m. Artress is an Episcopal priest and pioneer of the ancient practice of the labyrinth for spiritual meditation and renewal. She serves as Canon of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

The threshold to the Labyrinth at Saint Paul’s is formed by three stones cut from a single stone that had been set in Ely Cathedral in the 11^th century. This stone connected stone carver Kevin Schanbacher with an unknown mason from a thousand years ago. Schanbacher mused, “The tools that each of us used have not changed much over all that time.” Across this ancient threshold one enters a five circuit, octagonal labyrinth patterned after the shape of the church’s baptistery and baptismal font. The life journey of baptism and the journey of the labyrinth are both pilgrimages. There are no blind alleys to a labyrinth. If one stays to the path it is impossible to get lost. It is a perfect metaphor for any spiritual journey.

The center of the labyrinth is patterned after the four large, interlocking circles of the church’s rose window. The linked circles convey a sense of interconnection and wholeness. The center is a place of openness to whatever insight or wisdom may be received. When replenished, one leaves the center by the same way that one entered. On the return many experience clarity and discover a new resolve.

The labyrinth is made possible through the generous gift of Edith R. Dixon who is committed to the healing space of Saint Paul’s. The labyrinth is open to the wider community as well as to members of the church. For more information about the labyrinth and its dedication on April 21 please call: 215-242-2055.

All proceeds benefit the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Northwest Philadelphia and Face to Face Germantown.  All concerts are held in the Saint Paul’s sanctuary and are followed by a wine

a cheese reception.  Come enjoy yourself while supporting good work in your local community.

All tickets are $25 and can be purchased here.

With your help, and enough tickets sold, we will have the option to show a video about the

Diocese on the jumbo screen, have a representative from our diocese sing the national anthem, and have Bishop Daniel invited to throw the first pitch.  This is a wonderful opportunity for the Episcopal Church to be visible to the more than 40,000 fans that will be in attendance.  Please post the enclosed flyer where it can be shared with your members.  A template for a Sunday bulletin insert has also been included.  If possible please make an announcement about the event, taking note of the bulletin inserts so that all in attendance will be aware of our day together.

Last year tickets sold out, so in order to ensure that members of your parish are able to buy tickets please order them as soon as possible.

To order tickets, please click on

this link:
www.phillies.com/episcopal
Be sure to use our special code: EDOP
We’ll look forward to seeing you there!

and free of charge.

The Laurentian Singers, a select coeducational choir of 24 undergraduate singers, continues its 67-year tradition of choral excellence at St. Lawrence University in 2012-13. The group has won wide acclaim since its founding and in addition to their many performances on campus and in the community, the ensemble has toured extensively. In recent years, they have toured in Puerto Rico, France, New York and Boston, New Orleans and Central Europe, singing for enthusiastic, packed audiences and meeting with other choirs. Their wide-ranging repertoire, drawn from musics of many styles and countries, reflects the spirit of the liberal arts experience at St. Lawrence.

The Laurentian Singers includes undergraduate students who represent a wide variety of academic majors and interests. For this year’s tour repertoire, director Barry Torres has chosen an eclectic mix of American, European and African-based music.

The program opens with 3 Traditional American folk hymns: Down to the River to Pray as arranged by accompanist Barbara Philips-Farley, and Alice Parker’s beloved arrangements of Wondrous Love and Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal. The Singers then pay a musical visit to Leipzig, singing J.S. Bach’s magnificent motet for double choir Singet dem Herrn. Continuing in a European vein, they will sing several Romantic selections including music by Brahms (O schöne nacht), Schumann (Du bist wie eine blume), Elgar (The Snow and a stunning arrangement of Nimrod from the Enigma Variations) and Grieg (Hvad es du dog skjön). A set of African based songs follows including Stevie Wonder’s Sir Duke, selections from Paul Simon’s Graceland, South African composer Paul Van Dijk’s Horizons (written for the Kings Singers) and the popular Baba Yetu, from the video game Civilization IV. Civil Rights Movement songs Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ‘round and I’m on my way to Freedomland bring the concert to a rousing conclusion. The program will feature several Laurentian Singers as instrumentalists playing violin, fiddle, guitar, African percussion and ukelele.

Located in an ideal location in the northern part of New York State between the St. Lawrence River and the Adirondack Mountain range, St. Lawrence University is a diverse liberal arts learning community of inspiring faculty, serious students and accomplished alumni, guided by tradition and focused on the future. The mission of St. Lawrence University is to provide an inspiring and demanding undergraduate education in the liberal arts to students

selected for their seriousness of purpose and intellectual promise.

Founded in 1856, St. Lawrence is oldest continuously coeducational institution of higher learning in New York State. Explore St. Lawrence University at www.stlawu.edu and on Facebook and Twitter

it is you who do all this.” Jeremiah 14:22