How to do "church" when you can’t get to the church
The amazing snowstorm on Christmas Eve and our recent frigid weather have reminded all of us that sometimes just getting to church can be a challenge.
Several Episcopal churches in the diocese were forced to cancel long-planned Christmas Eve services for fear people would be endangered trying to travel on icy streets and roads.
All parts of our diocese have at one time or another experienced the way Texas weather can prevent some us from getting to our regular worship services. In addition to ice storms and snow, high winds, dust storms, and tornado warnings can also be scary.
So how to do "church" when you can’t get to church? That is a question posed recently at Episcopal Café.
Here are some resources they suggest from the Internet:
- Morning and Evening Prayer as well as Noonday Prayer, Compline, and Daily Devotions for Individuals and Families are hosted at missionstclare.com. (For Morning and Evening Prayer, make sure to turn on your computer's speakers.)
- If all you really want is Sunday's lections and collects, try The Lectionary Page.
- An immersive worship experience can be had at the Anglican Cathedral of Second Life, which has been covered by both Episcopal Café and Episcopal Life in times past.
- Barbara Cawthorne Crafton's Geranium Farm offers a quiet virtual Candle Vigil in which to light a candle for prayer.
- Praying the hours? The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration make an audio of their worship available on a comprehensive basis. Also, those who engage in fixed-hour prayer may find explorefaith's time-zone-generated services for morning, noon, evening, and compline to be helpful. (Services are based on Phyllis Tickle's The Divine Hours.)