Guardian Angels News

As many of you already know, Sara Fleetham has left GA for a new opportunity at Listening House, a drop-in day program for the homeless. We wish her great success.  With the change in staffing and the changes brought on by COVID, Fr. Rodger decided that this would be an excellent time to...

Prayer Service for Life (Jan. 22) This prayer service commemorates the millions of lives lost to abortion and the many women and men wounded by abortion’s aftermath. Limited seating will be available, and COVID-19 protocols will be followed. The prayer service will also be livestreamed on...

In 2017 Amanda Gorman was named the first Youth Poet Laureate in America. Now 20 years old, she is a junior at Harvard and has been published widely. If you have not yet heard her read some of her work, don’t wait – it’s beautiful and mesmerizing. Follow this...

Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, a fierce orator and a writer. I thought of him recently as a team here at the parish was preparing a session for Blessed Is She: Celebrating Women Mystics. Why? Because that session included getting to know St. Theresa of Avila. Her writings include a...

Many of you know that throughout the year people will stop in to the parish needing some emergency help. Through your generous donations to our emergency assistance fund we have gift cards to local stores that will help them with a tank of gas, a prescription, baby formula and diapers, or...

Registration Open NOW Are you interested in learning more about racism but don’t quite know where to begin? Would you like to be part of a small group that provides a safe space for conversation? The Justice and Outreach Commission and our parish Racial Justice Team will offer another...

It continues to be a year like no other and some of our usual holiday giving partners were unsure what the response would be to their gift requests. They were a bit worried that asking us to provide gift cards rather than toys and games would mean less participation. They were wondering if...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a young Nigerian writer with a particular gift for affirming young women. She is a novelist, a poet and a strong advocate for young women of color. If you have an important young person in your life, Adichie’s wisdom is worth passing along:   What I want...

Howard Thurman was an author, scholar, civil rights activist, pastor – and a force of nature that many have never heard of. His relationships with Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other contemporaries changed the course of the Civil Rights movement. To Thurman, the nonviolent witness of...

Holiday gatherings pose a serious health risk this year. The safest gathering occurs only amongst those who quarantine for 14 days, a very difficult but smart choice. For those unable to meet that high bar of safety, the Infection Control Specialists at St. John’s and Woodwinds Hospitals...