Community Worship and Dinner for Students: Wednesdays 6pm @ Covenant House
Our main worship service on Wednesday nights features music, prayer, meditation, readings from Scripture, and a short message. Most weeks, we come around the table to share in Holy Communion (i.e. Eucharist, or the Lord's Supper). After the service, we sit down to enjoy a big home-cooked meal together, lovingly prepared by one of our staff or volunteers. Newcomers, visitors, and anyone just curious are always welcome - there's plenty to go around!
Worship for Wednesday May 14, 2008 6:00 p.m.: Episcopal worship service
We mark worship this week with an Episcopal worship service. Worship is short and to the point for students who live busy lives. Great homecooked dinner served afterwards, stick around for a bit and get to know some other students and enjoy a real dinner. Bring a friend! Looking for some peace and clarity in Spring Quarter? Make Wednesday night worship a regular part of your time here at the UW! Students are always welcome here!
Coming up : Worship on May 21, Holden Evening Prayer
Our worship is the attitude and acts of reverence to God, the Father, Jesus, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In our common worship (corporate worship), we unite ourselves with others to acknowledge the holiness of God, to hear the good news of God's word and to offer prayers for ourselves and the world and to celebrate the sacraments. Worship calls us into community with each other and with the world. Worship shapes our lives. It is a taproot into the Holy. Through prayer, songs, scripture, preaching, Holy Eucharist, we are equipped, nourished and raised up to do the work we are called to do.
Worship does not just happen Sunday morning nor does it need to be in a church building. There is the practice in the Episcopal church of orderly prayer and worship from morning until night -- there are designated times to stop and turn our attention to God. Holy scriptures are arranged in a two-year cycle to work with the Lectionary for Sundays that is arranged in a three-year cycle. This offers a systematic process for scripture study and for worship. But worship does not have to be systematic. It can and should be spontaneous, joyful and wildly free. Worship should feed the heart, mind and spirit. Worship is about relationships, our relationship to with each other, with the world and with God. Our love for God and God's love for us finds voice in worship and worship equips us to live our love in the world.
-The Rev. Mary Shehane (Episcopal chaplain)"It is right to give God thanks and praise."
- Episcopal Book of Common Prayer