"Today in America we enjoy a Church life enriched in a multitude of ways; with beautiful choirs and liturgical music, religious education programs for children and adults, charitable programs, youth programs, seminaries, a growing enthusiasm for spiritual and theological writings and journals, and much more. Virtually none of this existed at the beginning of the twentieth centruy. We owe a great debt to the generations that have come before us who built a vibrant Church life from very little more that their own commitment and faith and the mighty grace of God." - from The Saint Nina Quarterly magazine
Some of the people who have helped build our community at Saint Marks have gone before us to the Lord. Please keep them in your prayers -
O God of spirits and of all flesh, Who hast trampled down death and overthrown the Devil, and given life to Thy world, do Thou, the same Lord, give rest to the souls of Thy departed servants in a place of brightness, a place of refreshment, a place of repose, where all sickness, sighing, and sorrow have fled away. Pardon every transgression which they have committed, whether by word or deed or thought. For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind; because there is no man who lives yet does not sin, for Thou only art without sin, Thy righteousness is to all eternity, and Thy word is truth.
For Thou are the Resurrection, the Life, and the Repose of Thy servants who have fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, together with Thy Father, who is from everlasting, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever unto ages of ages. Amen.
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