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Throughout each week, the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest offers several opportunities for worship.  Our two Sunday morning services in the nave with Holy Eucharist are complemented by our Sunday school classes for adults and youth. Every weekday morning, we start the day in the chapel with morning prayer and on Wednesday evenings we meet for our healing service with Holy Eucharist.  Join us throughout the week for these services and review our church calendar for a more complete listing of parish life.

Schedule of weekly worship at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest

Confirmation Class at Heavenly Rest

The Inquirers Class, taught by the clergy, is for anyone interested in learning more about the Episcopal Church and, in particular, for those seeking confirmation and membership in the church. The confirmation class will meet each Sunday for several months and culminate with Bishop Mayer's visitation to confirm, reaffirm, and receive members of the class as members of the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest.

Heavenly Rest asks its parishioners and friends to create and, in the future, update your church contact profile.  By doing this, we will be able to include you in church life events arise that appeal to you.  When develop your contact profile, be sure to indicate areas of church life that are important to you so that we limit our announcements and maintain relevancy.

On Monday, January 23, join the Reverend David Romanik for the Curate’s Study: a weekly session where we will read and discuss some of the great thinkers of Christian history. Currently, the Curate's Study is reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis who one of the writers featured in this year's Lenten program. Classes will be held in the parish house at 6:30 pm on Mondays. Call 677-2091 or email Father David for more information.

Following the 10:45 am Holy Eucharist, the Heavenly Rest family will gather for a spaghetti and salad lunch and meet to hear about the state of the parish. New vestry members and delegates to the annual diocesan convention will be elected and parish directories will be distributed.

The artist's renderings of the master plan detailing renovations to the west entrances and columbarium expansion will be available for viewing. The new parish directory will be handed out at the meeting. Call 677-2091 or email the parish office for reservations to the luncheon.

The Inklings were a gathering of friends – all of them British, male, and Christian, most of them teachers at or otherwise affiliated with Oxford University, many of them creative writers and lovers of imaginative literature – who met usually on Thursday evenings in C.S. Lewis’s and J.R.R. Tolkien’s college rooms in Oxford during the 1930's and 1940's for readings and criticism of their own work, and for general conversation. “Properly speaking,” wrote W.H. Lewis, one of their number, the Inklings “was neither a club nor a literary society, though it partook of the nature of both. There were no rules, officers, agendas, or formal elections.”

Given the informality of this structure, the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest hopes to continue this tradition organized around our Lenten evensong services. Tolkien and Lewis will be featured, along with George MacDonald, Dorothy Sayers, and T.S. Eliot as we discuss the themes of these writers as we examine the importance of the told story in our own spiritual, moral, and creative development.

As a community of faith centered in God through liturgy and Christian practice, the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest exists to:

- care for members of all ages and stages of life
- share God's inclusive and healing love with all people
- create opportunities to grow in Christ
- serve the church, the community and the world