Under the direction of Father Rick, in concert with lay leadership, we offer a robust program of Adult Spiritual Formation and Prayer with opportunities for everyone. For more information, click here.
In the Winter of 2026 we offer sessions of our Wednesday Bible Study; Friday Lunch and Learn; our Men’s Spirituality Group; and our viewing and discussion of the series, The Chosen.
Join us, via Zoom, for Sunday Evening Prayer at 7 PM; Wednesday Bible Study at 6:30 PM: and Friday Lunch and Learn. Our Men’s Spirituality Group gathers in the Parish Hall on the second Saturday of each month.
Lunch with The Chosen: Led by – Blair Lord
Come and see! We invite you to our viewing and discussion of episodes of The Chosen on the first Sunday of each month. As the first multi-season show about Jesus’s life, The Chosen delves into gospel stories by portraying the life of Jesus through the eyes of those who knew Him. Join us to watch and discuss how the show explores the time, place, and people of His earthly ministry. We will convene in the Parish Hall directly after the 10 AM service.
This is a bag lunch event, so be sure to bring your loaves and fish!
CLICK HERE for Lenten Meditations Booklet – 2026
Wednesday Bible Study
Wednesday Bible Study at 6:30 PM, via Zoom.
Roadmap, myth, or history? An accessible review of The Book of Revelation for today’s audience. Conversations with Scripture: Revelation is the first book in the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholar Study Series. Written in accessible language and sensitive to those who have little or no experience in reading the bible, each book in the series focuses on exploring the historical and critical background, as well as how the biblical texts written centuries ago can still speak to readers today.
Frederick W. Schmidt, also the series editor, explores the approaches that have dominated the interpretation of John’s Apocalypse and offers the reader an accessible means of understanding and evaluating them. With this grounding in hand, Schmidt explores how Revelation can shape our understanding of God, and nurture our spiritual lives in unexpected ways. Leaving behind left-behind theology, Schmidt offers instead an approach that allows this obscure, almost opaque text to speak to us anew about God, faith, hope, and justice.
Topic: St. Edward’s Bible Study – Conversations with Scripture: Revelation
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Friday Lunch & Learn at 12 Noon via Zoom
Beginning Friday, February 20th, we will hold a very special Lenten Lunch & Learn series with the book: Everything Could Be A Prayer. We will meet, via Zoom, on Fridays at 12 Noon and follow a reading guide to Saints and Mystics outlined for us in this beautiful art book. The readings are short and filled with history and insights that will inspire you! This is a wonderful Lenten discipline we can participate in, as a community. The book is available on Amazon. Each week we will cover the reading guide for Lenten saints and discuss how their virtues and how they lived can guide our journeys in this modern world. What better way to travel through Lent than with each other, in reflection, and in discussion about the lives of this great cloud of witnesses showing us a way to how Everything Could Be A Prayer.
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Pray and meditate along with mystics and saints through this luminous collection of more than one hundred block prints by artist/author Kreg Yingst, curator of the beloved Instagram account @psalmprayers.
Teresa of Ávila, Howard Thurman, Black Elk, Fannie Lou Hamer, Simon of Cyrene, and Jarena Lee: through radiant woodblock prints of these and other icons of the faith, artist Kreg Yingst ushers us into God’s presence. In Everything Could Be a Prayer, mystics who have communed with God and who worked for justice, mercy, and liberation come alive. Yingst carves images onto blocks of wood or linoleum and then inks and prints them on paper. The resplendent portraits of mystics and justice-seekers that result lead us into visio divina, or “sacred seeing.” This form of ancient Christian prayer, in which one meditates on a work of art, moves us into sacred reflection and action.
Each mystic embodies a virtue or practice such as mercy, vulnerability, forgiveness, worship, and courage. From Brigid of Kildare we learn hospitality; from Ida B. Wells, truth. From Josephine Bakhita we learn freedom; from Takashi Nagai, trust. All point us toward Christ Pantocrator: ruler of all. Each print is paired with a scripture, a meditation on a life well lived, and a prayer. Everything Could Be a Prayer, complete with Lent and Advent reading guides, is a rich resource for private prayer and communal reflection.
Together with the saints we pray our way toward the resurrection. We pray along with Sandhu Sundar Singh: “You alone do I desire, and where you are, there is heaven.” And with Mary of Egypt: “Blessed is God who cares for the salvation of all souls.” With this great cloud of witnesses, we find kinship with Christ. We see anew, and we ask: What if everything could be a prayer?
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In reflection, as we complete our sixth year, we continue to be enriched through the leadership of Bob Mosebach and Father Rick and the wide range of books that our group members have been lifted up to explore. The exciting aspect of this group is delving into such a variation of book titles and engaging in open and lively conversations. Our library of books for Lunch & Learn include:
Walk in Love-Episcopal Beliefs and Practices by Scott Gunn & Melody Wilson Shobe
The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
The Greatest Prayer-Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of The Lord’s Prayer by John Dominic Crossan
The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
Into the Silent Land-A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation by Martin Laird
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Abba’s Child by Brennan Manning
Life Together – The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus The Teacher Within by Laurence Freeman
NRSV Harper Collins Study Bible – General Editor, Revised Edition Harold F. Attridge; General Editor, Original Edition Wayne A, Meeks
Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings By Richard Hopper
Miracles and Wonder by Elaine Pagels
Saturday Men’s Spirituality Group: 2nd Saturday of each month, from 8 AM – 10 AM: Join us at St. Edward’s, in the parish hall, in partnership with Saint James Episcopal Church, for two hours of fellowship, including Morning Prayer. Coffee and donuts will be served.
We all have spiritual gifts that we have received, and those which we can give. Our first spiritual gift was the one we received from God in the form of our first breath. And whether we realize it or not, we all possess spiritual gifts from God that are meant to be used in His service.
Recognizing, and then giving, your spiritual gifts are vital to the successful mission and ministry of a parish. The Body of Christ is made up of many members. As Christians, we are all ministers of the church and we all possess unique gifts, given by the Spirit, that allow us to carry out the Great Commission.
The Commissioning of the Disciples
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:16-20)
What are your Spiritual Gifts? Below you will find two resources that can help you determine your Spiritual Gifts Inventory. This is a wonderful way to begin your participation in ministry. We need your unique gifts to help us accomplish the ministry and mission of St. Edward’s! By starting your journey of discipleship and spiritual practice with this exercise, you will discover how you can best serve in a ministry that connects with you.
We hope you enjoy this exercise of discovery as you learn what makes you unique, and inspires you to travel with your fellow Episcopalians as we follow Jesus “into loving, liberating and life-giving relationship with God, with each other, and with the earth.”
Click here to download your Spiritual Gifts Inventory Exercise
Click here to download your Gifts and Talents Inventory worksheet
Please contact the parish office to learn more about the various ways you can serve, in ministry, at St. Edward’s.
Lenten Silent Retreat 2027
Mariawald Renewal Center
February 10 -13, 2027
We have taken a hiatus from holding a Lenten Silent Retreat for 2026. Our next Lenten Silent Retreat will begin on Ash Wednesday, 2027. The dates are February 10 – 13. Led by Father Rick and Bob Mosebach, this self-directed retreat will be an interesting opportunity of deep reflection as we begin our Lenten journey. We are seeking a minimum of 10 participants for the retreat next year. Mark your calendars!
To view our 2025 retreat booklet, click here.
