All Saints Episcopal Church

09/06/2026

Our Creation Care Celebration began this week with a beautiful display of art from many talented parishioners. Check out the display around the nave and sanctuary – there is much to enjoy and meditate on. Many thanks to Evelyn Judson for organizing the project.

09/04/2026

🙏 Let’s pray for those in need.

09/03/2026

Good Morning,
From the Collect for Purity which was read during Sunday’s liturgy, “Graft in our hearts the love of your Name”. Because I am a lover of words, the word GRAFT stood out and stayed with me during the following days. Scripture dwells a lot on giving action to our hearts; such as “listen with the ears of your hearts”. I wish I still had the dictionary of my youth which was so big I could barely hold it on my little lap. I can hear my mother telling me to “look it up” when I questioned the meaning of a word. Grafts and grafting are words that many professions use, such as grafting on trees and plants. I am more familiar with the medical profession’s use of grafts. When a wound needs a graft of skin covering it, there is a long process to prepare the wound to receive something new and different. The conditions have to be right to accept the graft and make it a part of the limb or whatever part of the body that will receive it. Sometimes the graft is rejected or not welcomed by the body. My thoughts turned to grafting the love of God’s name on, or in, my heart. I think this was done at my Baptism and then, for those who know and love God, it continues to be permanently attached to our hearts. Sometimes a heart is hardened and not ready to receive God’s love, but God is truly the Great Physician and does not give up on those whose hearts need to be softened and made ready to receive the love of His Name.
In Christ’s Love,
Rosanne

08/31/2026

This summer has been full of wonderful music! From viola to bagpipes, marimba to organ, French horn to piano for four hands, many Sweetheart City Saints have shared their talents during our services. We’ll be glad to welcome back the choir, and we will look forward to welcoming these talented folks - and others - to share their gifts with us again next year!

08/27/2026

Good Morning,
There are so many things happening in the world today that I cannot understand and I think I am not alone when I say, “I can’t believe this is happening.” I ask God for a deeper understanding of what is going on around me. I read a half page newspaper article about a Judge who is going to rule on the manner in which a woman will be executed. This woman’s defense attorneys don’t want it to be a painful death, so they are asking the judge to rule on a less painful way of ending her life. According to the article, the judge might consider hanging the woman when her scheduled ex*****on takes place on Sept. 30. This woman was r***d as a toddler and again at ages 11 and 17 and was sexually abused by several family members and family friends during her childhood. When she was 18, she killed her friend and was convicted and sentenced to death. She has been in prison for 30 years and the male guards constantly trigger her PTSD. I can believe, but not understand, her childhood history because I worked for Therapeutic Foster Care and recorded and filed the same kind of horrific childhood histories. One which remains with me is about a girl who had been sexually abused by every adult male in her family before she was six months old. I believe the assailants in these cases are evil-minded and should be punished. However, I don’t understand the people who are charged with making the decisions on how to put a victim/perpetrator to death after serving a 30 year prison sentence. It is unbelievable for me to understand how hardened their hearts and minds are that they cannot, or will not, let God’s love in. Have we not learned anything about changing archaic laws? The last time a woman was executed in the Tennessee death chamber was in the 1800’s. Pray Holy Father to enlighten the minds and hearts of the people who make our laws and who are charged with enforcing them. Pray for all parents to know your love and pass it on to their children and pray for us who believe in your love and goodness to not be constantly questioning what we don’t understand. In Christ’s Love,
Rosanne

08/24/2026

Did you know…?
If you miss the service in person or on Zoom, you can still see it on the All Saints Episcopal Church YouTube channel. Here’s the link to our most recent service.

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08/24/2026

Thanks to David and Valerie Smalley for sharing their musical gifts on marimba and french horn for today’s prelude and anthem.
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08/21/2026

Message from Bishop Kym: Called to Stand in the Way

Greetings, beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day. On August 20th in 1965, an Episcopal seminarian named Jonathan Myrick Daniels was in Hayneville, Alabama. He was there because he had become convinced that civil rights were human rights. He was there in a nonviolent movement working for voter registration, working to procure rights for Black people who had been systemically denied rights for so long. On August 20th, he was killed by Tom Coleman, who raised his shotgun and was shooting at a 17-year-old girl named Ruby Sales. Jonathan shoved Ruby out of the way and placed himself between that shotgun blast and that young woman.

Jonathan died doing perhaps the most Christian thing that anyone could do, and that was safeguarding another human being. In the Episcopal Church, we celebrate Jonathan’s feast day on August 14th, but I always take time on August 20th to remember his sacrifice because August 20th is the day that Ruby Sales’ life was saved. Ruby Sales is alive and well this day because of the sacrifice of Jonathan Daniels. If you want to learn more about Jonathan’s story, I commend to you the PBS special, Here I Am, Send Me. It is a powerful witness to the violence of those days, to the persistence of faithful people striving for justice and for peace and a testament to the life of Jonathan Daniels. I ask that as you consider your walk of faith that you consider those around you who are in harm’s way that you consider what you might be called to do in the interest of doing what is meet and right and what is just in this very cold, broken, and divided world. Blessings.

Greetings, beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day. On August 20th in 1965, an Episcopal seminarian named Jonathan Myrick Daniels was in Hayneville, Alabama. He was there because he had become convinced that civil rights were human rights. He was there in a nonviolent movement workin...

08/20/2026

Good Morning,
I have been thinking about last Sunday’s Gospel lesson from Matthew where we heard Jesus tell the crowd, “it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.” Growing up there was a popular phrase about this same admonishment, “Load your brain before you shoot your mouth off”, and that led me to thinking about the complex subject of forgiveness. I most often have to ask for forgiveness for something I have said, rather than something I did or did not do. Forgiving a big offense or offender is more difficult to understand or accomplish than small slights or offenses. The really big ones, like Jacob forgiving his brothers for selling him into slavery, or the biggest one of all was Jesus hanging on the Cross tell his Father to “forgive them for they know not what they do!” Most people find it difficult to comprehend the ability (God given) of a parent at the sentencing of the criminal who killed their child; to forgive this person and the heinous act they committed. Many have looked directly at the criminal and said, “I hope you rot in hell”. Because I wanted a deeper understanding of Forgiveness of others and importantly the forgiveness of myself, I compiled a file of what many others have said about this subject and will share some of these thoughts with you another time. For today I will end this with a reminder from the Book of Colossians, “Forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.”
In Christ’s Love,
Rosanne

08/18/2026

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