Welcome!
SPECIAL EVENT
Zoom in to WASC on October 31st at 7 pm
for All Hallows Eve Radio Theater!
Costumes, face masks, and spooky virtual backgrounds are enthusiastically solicited.
Share Halloween memories, join in a song recognition contest, and be unsettled by Edgar Allan Poe’s erstwhile impostor. We are also in hot pursuit of a U-U fortune teller.
Tune in to WASC for sixty minutes of frightfully (virtual) fun!
on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96571006038
If the technology is a barrier, you can call in by phone at 646-876-9923 and enter Meeting ID: 965 7100 6038
Join us for Sunday Online Service at 10:30 am
Everyone is welcome.
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A recent Sunday sermon recording is below
See you on Zoom Sunday at 10:30 am
Don't forget to turn your clocks back and check smoke detectors (at 2 am) Sunday morning.
Service Theme for the month of November - Healing
November 1, 2020: Grounding in Anxious Times
Rev. Joanna Lubkin
This Sunday before the election, we explore spiritual practices to help us through anxious times.
Don't forget to turn your clocks back and check smoke detectors (at 2 am) Sunday morning.
Service Theme for the month of November - Healing
November 1, 2020: Grounding in Anxious Times
Rev. Joanna Lubkin
This Sunday before the election, we explore spiritual practices to help us through anxious times.
The Dickens Festival is Online this year
We hope that you are successfully coping with the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to conform with social distancing requirements, we cannot safely hold our usual Dickens Festival in the church in which hundreds of shoppers flood the Artisans' Marketplace and people jostle for a vantage point from which to choose their favorite raffle prizes.
Reluctant to relinquish the opportunity to spread good will and holiday cheer, All Souls Church is taking the Dickens Festival virtual!
All Souls Church will be taking orders for our signature Apple Pies as well as a selection of home-baked cookies and fudge. We have partnered with Market2Day who will deliver pies and other treats to your door.
Customers must use the Market2Day app and reside in the delivery area. Order between November 14 and 19 for November 21 doorstep delivery. Minimum Market2Day order is $35 (any of the market's offerings can be combined with one of our pies, cookies or fudge) and there is a 10% delivery charge.
Raffle tickets will be sold online. As in years past, winners will be notified so we can arrange for them to pick up their prizes. Some of our favorite artisans are offering their handmade items for sale online. Visit them here.
We are also taking orders for Christmas wreaths, kissing balls, swags and garland delivered direct to your door.
On Saturday, November 21, we will be live on Zoom. (Details to be announced). Father Christmas will join us from the North Pole to speak with anyone who has a secret Christmas wish. Our musicians will share some music and we will feature a cooking video or two. Raffle Winners will also be announced.
Reluctant to relinquish the opportunity to spread good will and holiday cheer, All Souls Church is taking the Dickens Festival virtual!
All Souls Church will be taking orders for our signature Apple Pies as well as a selection of home-baked cookies and fudge. We have partnered with Market2Day who will deliver pies and other treats to your door.
Customers must use the Market2Day app and reside in the delivery area. Order between November 14 and 19 for November 21 doorstep delivery. Minimum Market2Day order is $35 (any of the market's offerings can be combined with one of our pies, cookies or fudge) and there is a 10% delivery charge.
Raffle tickets will be sold online. As in years past, winners will be notified so we can arrange for them to pick up their prizes. Some of our favorite artisans are offering their handmade items for sale online. Visit them here.
We are also taking orders for Christmas wreaths, kissing balls, swags and garland delivered direct to your door.
On Saturday, November 21, we will be live on Zoom. (Details to be announced). Father Christmas will join us from the North Pole to speak with anyone who has a secret Christmas wish. Our musicians will share some music and we will feature a cooking video or two. Raffle Winners will also be announced.
Know you are one with community
as you join us online.
Because of COVID-19, All Souls Church's regularly scheduled programs have moved online.
Connection Circles are our small group offerings:
Online Tuesday Mid-day Meetup, Friday Coffee Hour, and Discussion Groups are Open to All Souls Members, Friends and Visitors.
Tuesday Mid-Day Meetup
Meet up with us for some
online conversation and companionship Tuesdays at 1 pm.
Friday Morning Coffee Hour
Join us Fridays at 10 am for online coffee and conversation.
Covid-19 Update
Over the summer, the board and Rev. Jo have been working carefully and closely to plan for the fall. After much reflection, research, and listening, we’ve crafted the following plan for the fall at All Souls Church.
We hope this will help us maintain and strengthen our connections to one another, as well as keeping us and our neighbors safe.
Over the summer, the board and Rev. Jo have been working carefully and closely to plan for the fall. After much reflection, research, and listening, we’ve crafted the following plan for the fall at All Souls Church.
- That All Souls' Sunday morning services remain online-only through December 2020. We want to make sure no one is pressured to jeopardize their health to participate in Sunday services, or misses out.
- That we help members and friends who want to meet in person gather as safely as possible while continuing our small groups meeting by Zoom and phone
- Our various small groups are all ways of staying connected with each other, so why not name them as such? Connections Circles are our small group offerings: Tuesday's mid-day meetup, Friday's coffee hour, the spiritual writing group, the book group, plus a new anti-racism group Rev Jo will be facilitating later this fall. All are ways to stay connected with each other.
- We’ll be launching one in-person connection circle. We’ll be sending out an interest form, and individuals who wish may self-organize, choosing whether the group will be social and unstructured or have a focus. When meeting in person, this group may meet in the parish hall (with some guidelines), in public spaces like parks, or at people's homes.
- We will organize at least one experimental outdoor service/gathering in September or October, for a time other than Sunday morning. We'll learn from that and see if there's energy to have additional outdoor/distanced programming.
We hope this will help us maintain and strengthen our connections to one another, as well as keeping us and our neighbors safe.
All Souls’ Spiritual Writing Group
The Writing Group will meet on Zoom, Wednesday, October 28 at 4 pm. Our writing topic for October is the United States Election of November 4, 2020.
We will take this opportunity to express our thoughts, objections, praises, or write about what influences determine our political decisions. It is not necessary to inform others about whom you will vote for.
Consider what results are important to you. What would be a favorable outcome for you personally, as well as how it would impact the rest of the United States. Expand your ideas to include the world stage.
This is a sensitive topic. We will not all agree on how to achieve stability or unity.
As always, we welcome new members who wish to share their ideas in our supportive gathering of minds.
Some quotes on government:
“[T]he only title in our democracy superior to that of President [is] the title of citizen.”
—Louis Brandeis, 1937
“In contrast to totalitarianism, a democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.”
—Sidney Hook
“Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.”
—Irish blessing
“No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed … except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
—Magna Carta, 1215
“The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic government.”
—George Mason
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard
We encourage all who are interested to join us for an interesting discussion of our writings.
Diane Doucette – for ASC Writing Group
