Our Summer Worship Schedule. During July and August, St. Mark’s Sunday worship services will be combined into one 9am service.  While our monthly brunches will resume in September, our very own Chef Jerry Mishler will host a time for fellowship and refreshment on Sunday mornings after our worship service.

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Beach Cleanup Trip. Katie Mishler and Juan Valles are leading our youth and all other interested parishioners on a beach cleanup trip to Seal Beach on Saturday, August 21. Carpools will form and leave from St. Mark’s at 8am and return by approximately 1pm.  If interested, please let either Katie or Juan know, or contact the church office. Those willing to drive others are especially needed.

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The Girls’ Friendly Society. This active ministry for young women is celebrating its 133rd anniversary this year with events around the Anglican Communion. From its efforts to provide safe social space for young  female factory workers in Victorian London to equipping today’s young women for the modern world, we offer our prayers for those whose lives are improved by the work of the Society.  If you would like to learn more about the organization, please visit their homepage.

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Holy Women, Holy Men

The Episcopal Church remembers those who have gone before us in the faith by setting aside particular days to honor these holy people.  We look to these saintly men and women as examples of living out our Christian witness.

On July 28, we remember Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, and Henry Purcell.  These three men, in service of God and church,  composed and performed many of history’s most powerful and cherished religious works, many of which continue to grace our worship services to this day.  Their translation of the majesty of God and Holy Scripture into music enhances our worship of God in Christ and inspires all those who seek to honor God through the arts.

Almighty God, beautiful in majesty and majestic in holiness, who teaches us in Holy Scripture to sing your praises and who gave your musicians Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, and Henry Purcell grace to show forth your glory in their music: Be with all those who write or make music for your people, that we on earth may glimpse your beauty and know the inexhaustible riches of your new creation in Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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