We gather together in the name of Christ as Episcopalians in worship and in community. To pray, learn, love, and share. To reach out in hope to those within our parish and beyond. To empower one another to live the love of Christ in the world as good shepherds. We celebrate our diversity and we welcome all. 

CGS at dusk

You are welcome here!

We extend a cordial welcome to you to worship with us, and offer this web site as a brief intro­duction to the Episcopal Church and its ways.

THE HIDDEN BROOK RETURNS!!!
Good Shepherd's Thursday first evening service will be September 11, 2008

As always on the first Thursday of the month, the service will be in the style of Taize, with candlelight, music, poetry, and time for reflection.
 
All the old regulars will be there:  The labyrinth looks forward to your footsteps on a symbolic inward journey, the floor cushions hope to make any sprawlers among us comfortable, the candles wait to be lit for the concerns of your heart, and the Hidden Brook Team very much looks forward to welcoming you.
 
Come by any Thursday, at 7 pm to spend some lovely, quiet, candlelit time at CGS.

Regular Service Schedule

Wednesday through Friday   Morning Prayer 7:15 am in the Chapel
Thursday   Hidden Brook Candlelight Prayer Service 7:00 pm
Sunday   Holy Eucharist Rite II 8:00 am spoken service.
Sunday   Holy Eucharist Rite II 10:00 am service with music.

The Hidden Brook is rediscovered!

Thursday nights resume with a new name. "The Hidden Brook" resonates on several levels, both historic and spiritual. Literally, it describes the underground stream that runs down Russell Avenue and irrigated the celery farms that were on this land before the church was built. It was also the name of Good Shepherd's first nursery school. And now, for CGS's Thursday night community in the 21st century, it evokes the spiritual hidden brooks in all our lives -- sources of peace and refreshment that we can touch more deeply by spending time on our inner journeys?individually, yet still together..

 
Mid-Week Services

Our service schedule reamins the same:

Wednesday - Friday 7:15 AM --- Morning Prayer
Thursday Evening 7:00 PM -- "The Hidden Brook" A candlelight Service for all

The last Wednesday of each 3:00 PM  --- Holy Eucharist in the Community Rooom as the Arsenal Apartment

If you are traveling on the weekends this summer consider attending one of our mid-week services. 

If you attend a church at your travel destination, please take them our greetings in the name of Jesus Christ.
 
May the glories of summer bring a song of praise to our lips. 
 
You appointed the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows the time to its setting?.O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.  Psalm 104

This Place of Worship

As you enter, you will notice an atmosphere of worship and reverence. Episcopal churches are built in many architec­tural styles; but whether the church be small or large, elaborate or plain, your eye is carried to the altar, or holy table, and to the cross. So our thoughts are taken at once to Christ and to God whose house the church is.

This church was built in 1887, and rebuilt after a fire in 1959. On or near the altar there are candles to remind us that Christ is the ``Light of the world'' (John 8:12). Often there are flowers, to beautify God's house and to recall the resurrection of Jesus.

On one side at the front of the church, there may be a lectern-pulpit, or stand, for the proclama­tion of the Word; here the Scriptures are read and the sermon is preached. In many churches, however, the lectern is separate from the pulpit and stands on the opposite side of the church.