Our Worship Schedule
Worship via Zoom
Sunday Morning Worship Service at 10 am followed by “Coffee Hour”
Click to view the bulletin: Worship October 4, 2020 10am
The new service bulletin can also be found each week in the All-Parish Thursday Email.
Join us at https://zoom.us/j/360635588
Password: StStephen
Or dial: 1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
Meeting ID: 360 635 588 Passcode: 244953
Sunday Godly Play
Sunday Mornings at 9:30 am
Something Special for Children and Families!
Please join Beth Davis and your church friends for a virtual Godly Play session this Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
You can join the circle using Zoom technology. The link can be found in your Thursday Parish Email – or you may email ststephensmiddlebury@gmail.com and request it.
Sunday service will follow at 10:00 a.m.
Noonday Prayer via Zoom
Wednesdays at 12:00 pm
We invite you to join us for a lay-led service of Noonday Prayer on Wednesdays.
Join us at https://zoom.us/j/360635588
Password: StStephen
Or dial: 1 929 205 6099 US (New York) Meeting ID: 360 635 588 Passcode: 244953
Meditation via Zoom
Mondays and Thursdays at 4:00 pm
We are a diverse group of all ages and faith traditions. Our orientation is a Christian form of meditation/centering prayer, inspired by John Main and Laurence Freeman of the World Community for Christian Meditation, who themselves were inspired by the contemplative practices of the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Our mediators also include seekers and followers of other traditions–Buddhism, Quakerism, and Judaism. You are invited to join us.
We gather together to support each other’s practices and faith journeys in the hope of creating a beloved community, beginning in simplicity, silence, and love, and committed to peace and justice. We will give you simple instruction and the space to fold into our group however you feel called.
The meditation group currently (during the pandemic) meets twice weekly via Zoom on Monday and Thursday from 4:00 to 4:45.
Use this Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/360635588
The password is StStephen
Or dial: 1 929 205 6099 US (New York) Meeting ID: 360 635 588 Passcode: 244953
It’s often said that meditating is the most simple, most difficult thing to do! Simple, because all you do is sit up straight with your eyes gently closed and your hands gently folded on your lap or lying softly on your knees. You breathe normally and repeat a sacred word. Centering Prayer teaches that you choose a sacred word and repeat it when you discover you have wandered from your silence. While Christian Meditation teaches your say your word consistently. You may choose a sacred word yourself or we recommend “Mara natha” which is Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke and means “Come Lord”. It is simple because that’s it, it is difficult because you will discover that we all get distracted very easily and can very soon feel we are failing very badly at this rather simple exercise. In fact, that’s part of the invitation; to experience in the midst of our weakness the unfathomable depth of God’s unconditional love for us. Do consider joining us, our time will consist of an opening reading, a 25-minute sit in silence, and then a short time of checking in with each other.
