FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Year B
Isaiah 63: 16b – 17, 19b, 64:2 – 7
We begin Year B in the Sunday Liturgical Calendar this Sunday. The Gospel featured this year is Mark; the oldest Gospel and the shortest. And, as we do in year A, we will hear for the next three weeks from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. This Sunday, it is from the chapters that are often called Trito-Isaiah (56 – 66) and most scripture scholars assign to the time after the people have been allowed to return to Jerusalem. But, as […]
Cecelia Scholar: Meghan Woodard
Meghan Woodard enjoys a rich career as an oboist, oboe professor and scholar based in the Greater Philadelphia area. Meghan is a sought-after orchestral and chamber musician on oboe, English horn, and Baroque oboe. She regularly performs with the Reading Symphony Orchestra, Symphony in C, the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, and is a member of Revolution Winds—an internationally-performing woodwind quintet known for musical activism and recent residencies at the Aruba Symphony Festival and Drexel University. Meghan currently holds positions as Professor of […]
Parishioner Engagement and Faith Sharing
The three Parish Plan committees continue to support and strengthen the SKS values of faith, community and family. In the past year, you may have noticed the new music at Mass, the more robust parish coffees and new opportunities to explore your faith; all the result of combined efforts by several committees. Advent by Candlelight, details below, is happening because the Faith Sharing committee conceived and planned the event while the Parishioner Engagement committee helped spread the word to the parish.
Advent by Candlelight
November 30, 6-9pm
Church and Parish […]
THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year A)
As you may have noticed, I usually begin our Bible Study/Faith Sharing with the first reading and then review the Gospel; if there is time, I then reflect on the second reading. I do this because the first reading is usually selected to prepare us for the principal message for the week which is found in the gospel. This week, however, I would like to start with the second reading because it is through the lens of this reading that the other two readings make most sense. As we approach […]
Lydia’s Giving: Dinner, Showing and Dance Performance
The Not By Bread Alone faith-sharing group, formed at Daylesford Abbey in the 1990s, is focusing on the theme of “Women in the Church” for their meetings this year, and has partnered with the Women’s Sacred Music Project, founded in Philadelphia in 1995 to commission and promote sacred music by female composers, to present a screening of Lydia’s Giving, a chamber work for choir, instruments, and solo dance, at the SKS Parish Center on Saturday, November 18th at 6:30pm. Dinner will be […]
Cecelia Scholar: Ren Martin-Doïké
Hailing from Honolulu, Ren Martin–Doïké is a versatile performer on a mission to share music with diverse audiences around the world. Ms. Martin–Doïké has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas as a soloist and member of a diverse range of ensembles including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Duo RenJi, and the Rietveld Jazz Quintet. Often heard on the radio, Ms. Martin–Doïké has performed for broadcasts on National Public Radio (NPR), Radio France, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), as well as RTHK television […]
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year A)
Wisdom 6:12 – 16
This Sunday, we will hear from the Book of Wisdom. Again, the passage was clearly chosen to prepare us for the Gospel. We need to seek wisdom in our lives in order to prepare for the time when God calls us to his heavenly banquet. It has been awhile since we heard from Wisdom, so let’s review. This book is not part of the Hebrew Masoretic collection but is included in the Septuagint manuscript; there, it is known as the Wisdom of Solomon and is included in […]