Quicklinks:
-Dedicate altar flowers https://forms.gle/9MYAw6CdHjvdjH4H8
-Host coffee hour https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080445ACAF2E5-57613910-coffee#/
-Submit a prayer request https://forms.gle/ZdxuP36Commodo6L6
-Request a nametag https://forms.gle/SS27AueptdmQT64Q9
-Listen to last Sunday’s sermon https://youtu.be/vY8ZZ_dP95Q?t=1381
-Watch Sunday School for Adults https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8yU2xXdBbcVjsKnUK8xlRnvPDb__posy
Word of the Week
Our word of the week is Canon, a word with many meanings, but this week we’re looking at canon as in Canon of the Mass. The Canon of the Mass is the part of the Eucharistic prayer that is the same Sunday to Sunday. Liturgical theologians are not in agreement about where the Canon begins and ends, but it’s basically from after the Sanctus until we get to the Lord’s Prayer.
Fall Coffee Hour Signup
We have a new signup sheet for coffee hour hosts, with dates through the end of the year. You can use the link in the quicklinks section at the top of this email, or click here. If you’ve never done it before, there are instructions, and there will be help. Our sexton Preston will set up tables and help with beverages, and consider co-hosting with a friend to make it half as much work and twice as fun! And if you’ve never hosted coffee hour before and would like to co-host with someone who has hosted, let Fr. Todd know and he’ll be happy to connect you with an experienced host.
Outreach: Manna Bags This Sunday
“Manna bags” are filled with snacks, personal hygiene items, and other small necessities that are especially helpful for people experiencing housing insecurity. You can pick up manna bags from the baskets on the tables in both narthexes and keep them in your car or your bag and offer them to folks in need you encounter during the week. Once a month, we make more manna bags to keep those baskets full. Alex Corwell will set up a manna bag-making table at coffee hour after the 10am service this Sunday for anyone who would like to help put them together.
Outreach: Yellow Bags for Hampden Food Pantry
Every month we collect food for the Hampden Food Pantry. Pick up a yellow bag at church (on the tables by the entrances, or under the drop box in the lobby of the office wing), and please return your yellow bag, filled with non-perishable food items, to the church by Sunday the 23rd. All non-perishable items are welcome, but the food pantry has given us a list of things they particularly need: cereal, tuna, spaghetti sauce, soup, cake mix, and canned fruits and vegetables. When you see these items or other non-perishables on sale, pick up some extra for the yellow bags!
Inreach: Wednesday Morning Ride
Parishioner Margie Guyther volunteers at the Day School on Wednesday mornings, and we’re looking for another driver to help out on the 4th Wednesday of the month. Pick Margie up at Stella Maris around 8:30am and then pick her up at St. David’s around noon to return her to Stella Maris. If interested in helping, please contact Fr. Todd.
Outreach: Chess Players Needed
A group of our parishioners volunteers at the St. Luke’s Youth Center afterschool program to play and read with the children, and some of the children there have expressed an interest in learning how to play chess. One parishioner has volunteered to instruct the children, but we could use a few more chess players to help. If you’re interested in volunteering, contact Holly Crosby.
Outreach: Back-to-School Backpacks
The St. David’s Outreach Committee is once again looking forward to assisting Holy Nativity, Pimlico with their back-to-school backpack project. The actual packing day won’t take place as previously announced – there’s a schedule conflict with the diocesan day of service in honor of Pauli Murray, former rector of Holy Nativity, Pimlico. But we’re still helping by supplying supplies! If you’d like to contribute school supplies (click here for the supply list), that is also very welcome. You can leave them at the church office or along the back wall of the church where we leave yellow bags.
Confirmation 2026
The Rt. Rev’d Carrie Schofield-Broadbent, Bishop of Maryland, will be visiting us on Sunday, December 13th, 2026. She will be offering the rite of confirmation and reception at the 10am service that day. Confirmation is for folks who are baptized and are ready to make a mature affirmation of their faith. We’ve had many adult confirmands here at St. David’s in addition to youth confirmands. The diocesan “minimum recommended age” is 15, but I will make exceptions for youth as young as 12, just talk to me! If you were confirmed already as a Roman Catholic, ELCA Lutheran, or Eastern Orthodox, or were baptized as adults, will be received rather than being confirmed. Those confirmed in churches outside of the historic apostolic succession (churches other than the ones named above) will be confirmed in The Episcopal Church. There will be classes; we’ll choose a time once we know who is wanting to be confirmed or received. The first step is to fill out this form and let us know you’re interested!
Dedicating Altar Flowers
There is a long tradition of “dedicating” the flowers we have on the altar on Sundays to the glory of God and in memory of someone who has died or in thanksgiving of someone still living, commemorating birthdays, anniversaries, or some other important date or holiday – the anniversary of a baptism, or in honor of a child or godchild’s graduation. All Saints’ (Nov. 1st this year) and Easter are occasions on which you might wish to dedicate flowers in memory of dear ones who have died, and on Christmas, you might want to dedicate flowers in thanksgiving for your children and/or grandchildren. Dedications, along with the names of the donors, are listed in the worship bulletins just above the opening words of the service or on a special page in the Christmas and Easter bulletins.
If you would like to dedicate the altar flowers, use our online form here. We’ve changed the form so that you can do multiple dates on one form! You can submit dedications up to a year in advance, so if you know you want to dedicate the altar flowers between now and the end of August 2027, go ahead and submit them. The suggested donation for altar flowers is $75. At St. David’s, we have other flowers in addition to the altar flowers at Christmas and Easter, and you can use this form to dedicate those Christmas poinsettias and Easter lilies; the suggested donation is $20 per name and please put “poinsettia” or “lily” as your flower preference on the form so we’ll know you’re not dedicating the main altar flowers on those days (though you can do that, too, if you’d like!). Donations can be mailed or dropped off in the office or the collection plate; please memo your check, write on the outside of the pew envelope, or attach a note, “flowers.”
After Sunday services, the altar flowers get a second life when they are sent out to folks who are sick, recovering, grieving, or celebrating, so when you dedicate altar flowers, you’re taking part in a good deed, too!
Summer Choir
Join Director of Music Douglas Buchanan and two section leaders at 9am on Sunday mornings to learn a low-stress piece which we will sing during the Offertory. This is a casual opportunity to make friends through music and offer our gifts in the service; it’s fine if you don’t have much experience singing or making music. There’s no audition to join, and you aren’t required to be present every single Sunday. If you’re interested, contact Dr. Doug.
Sunday Mornings for Children
Our professionally-staffed Nursery is open from 9am until noon. Your kids can be there throughout the service or you can go down and get them at the offertory so that they can join you for Communion.
We all need a break sometimes. We’ll be broadcasting the 10am service live on the TV in the Great Hall downstairs. If your child needs to let it out, feel free to go down there and take a break and be as loud as you need to be, or run around in circles, and still not miss any of the service!
Please Pray For:
Debbie and family, Jim, Corky, Tod, Kathleen, Darlene, Robert, Mark, Leila, Bill, Amy, Nancy, Meg, Manish, John, Jenny, Katie, Laila, Linda, Barbara, Eleanor K., Judy, Allison, Randy, Peter, Dockery, Anne, David, Jim, Dianna, Will, Nathaniel, Penny, Elizabeth, Betsy, Anne, Mike, Patricia Ann, Russell, Betsy, Braeden.
Serving This Sunday:
8am: Lector: Cleaveland Miller
Intercessor/Chalice: John Gould
Usher: Mac Barrett
Altar Guild: Jill Heptinstall
Flower Guild: Sylvia Parker
10am: Lectors: Mike Olson, Kelly Buchanan
Intercessor: Daniel Casasanto
Chalices: Bruce Lyons, Barbara Pilert
Crucifer: Alex Corwell
Ushers: David Gorman, Holly Crosby
Altar Guild: Judy Pittenger
Flower Guild: Sylvia Parker
Tech Team: Lina Nandy
Coffee Hour: Tracy Collins