All on-site worship, services, and programming are cancelled until further notice. To learn more, read this letter: COVID-19 and Service Suspension.
Worship Information
Sunday: 8:00am & 10:30am Morning Prayer
Wednesday: 6:30pm Evening Prayer
Services are streamed on Facebook Live or you are invited to join with your voice and video here: https://zoom.us/j/6825512342
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Our Ministries
St. Michael’s Ministries include Christian Formation, Worship Ministries, and Outreach Ministries.
Our Service Times & Events
St. Michael’s Ministries include Christian Formation, Worship Ministries, and Outreach Ministries.
Our Outreach
Our Outreach Ministries include Family Promise, Kairos Prison Ministry and the Samaritan Center.
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Written to the tune of "Come Thou Font," Amanda Udis-Kessler wrote new lyrics for the time we finds ourselves in. Allison Kenning performed the tune. Phishing alert! Do not reply to a message from: Terri Landry <pastoralaffairs058@gmail.com> Zoom does not want to initiate the live streaming but you'll get to see Fr. Robert! Here is the service slideshow: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cCghDs-JtTD8hpIGCvI0RI8qM_2mDkPgaG8uehPJ1h8/edit?usp=sharing Zoom has updated their security for meetings. The link below may work or you may have to enter the password listed. Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing zoom.us At a time when we cannot observe some of our most cherished traditions, it can sometimes help to try something different...something new! We are thus encouraging folks to hang a branch from their yards from a door or window (boxwood is traditional in parts of France, where Palm Sunday is called Dimanache des Rameaux, or Sunday of the Branches). Share your palms on Facebook with #stmichaelsla so we can share them later and make sure bring some palms (or branches) to service on Sunday! Miss your church family? Virtual Coffee Hour at 10am today! Same Zoom link as Sunday worship. St. Michael's Needs You! If you haven't seen this idea online yet, many folks are making Palm Door Wreaths to hang on their front doors throughout Holy Week. I would love for us to do this and share the pictures online. Get creative and use branches from throughout your own yard! If there had been Aspen and Fur trees in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, Palm Sunday would probably be called Evergreen Sunday. Here is the daily meditation I quoted in my sermon today: Good morning and thank you for joining us for worship! Please “hi” in the comments box so we know who is with us. Here is an incredible story about the presence of God in the midst of our hospitals Good morning and thank you for joining us for worship! Please “hi” in the comments box so we know who is with us. 
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Add #stmichaelsla to the description of your pictures so I can find them easily. Attached is a coloring page of a Palm for you or your younger loved ones to make. Pictures of kids coloring them would be awesome! If the attached picture doesn't work, here's a link to file.
God bless and keep the faith,
Fr. Robert
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March 28, 2020
By 3:00pm Sunday, I was only able to draw 30% of a fighting breath with each inhale, and that ability was diminishing by the hour. It was the end of a week long battle with what I thought was asthma that had somehow crawled back from my childhood to haunt me. All thanks to Vicki for "strongly encouraging me to seek help in the ER.
Two hours later I was wheeling onto the Covid isolation floor at Ochsner-Baptist, still gasping for each breath with my shoulders. I was expecting a scene out of a TV hospital drama: equipment littering the halls, people in scrubs rushing here and there with iPads, barking orders. Instead, the halls were wide and sparkling clean. Medical staff were standing about in twos and threes, talking quietly. The eyes of the staff told of smiles I could not see behind their masks. It was a visual antidote for the dark fear and struggle taking place in my chest.
In my room, four nurses quietly attached me to IV’s and monitoring gear. From within the glow of her lighted med-helmet, one or the four, Elana, spoke softly to me by name, “ I see you struggling, Mr. Marsden; (placing her gloved hand on my forehead) you are in a good place…” Her Mississippi accent was comforting. “…you just give yourself to us; we are now your crag and your stronghold, darlin’.” I could not hold back the torrent of tears. She was speaking from Psalm 31, cornerstone scripture in our family (read at my daughter’s wedding); “Be my strong rock, a castle to keep me safe, for you are my crag and my stronghold.” Ps. 31
Over the next four days, I made a habit of asking my caregivers how they came into nursing, and what was the experience like, nursing here, in the time of Covid.
Elana’ s mom was in nursing school during Katrina; she never finished, but guided her daughter into nursing. Claire had a favorite grandmother who was a combat field nurse in Vietnam; Denisha was a Navy corpsman, as was her uncle. Tina’s dad was a Marine combat chaplain in Iraq… Most had volunteered to be there. All had a sense of professional and personal destiny about the work. All invoked God’s role in the moment.
I began to see my place as a call to feel the heat of Sacred Ground beneath my bare feet. I was in the care of healers who drew their lineage from beneath stones in the generational river of humankind. These are folks who are given a world of pestilence and fear and see Sacred Ground. I was given the opportunity to see clearly a phenomenon that is likely quite normal within communities of healers all over the world. Heeding the call to heal, through prayer, action, and faith is not just for some. It is THE call for us all. Moreover, it is our call to overtly acknowledge the courage and faith and work of the medical community everywhere. NOW.
-Marsden Leverich Moran
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I hope you will join us Wednesday at 6:30pm for Evening Prayer followed by Adult Education.
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I hope you will join us Wednesday at 6:30pm for Evening Prayer followed by Adult Education.
Generosity from afar - remember to mail in your check to the church or give online at: my-site-101429.square.site/
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Worshiping without Eucharist
Dear St. Michael's Parishioners, As many of you know, I grew up a cradle Episcopalian. The “new” 1979 Book of Common Prayer could legally drink by the time its Rite II words reached my infant ears and worship was centered around Holy Eucharist. As a full member of the...
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