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Worship Sunday - 5 July 2026
Fr. Ron will preach and officiate for the next two Sundays.
I look forward to worshiping with you again on Sunday July 19th, when our intern Jessie will preach. Rite I Eucharist is at 8:00 am, and Rite II Eucharist is at 10:00 am. Our 10:00 service is streamed via our Facebook page, our YouTube channel and our website.
I ask your prayers as I recover from surgery. I will be unavailable through July 8th; for pastoral emergencies during that time please contact Deacon Gail at (443) 995-4692 or Fr. Ron at (443) 257-0867.
Our Adult Bible Study will go through Paul's letter to the Romans through the end of September. We will meet upstairs again on Sundays July 19th from 11:45-12:40; when we will look at chapter 8.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Our June Healing Sunday offering went to support Claggett camp scholarships for children at St. Alban's, Glen Burnie, the parish that planted St. Andrew's.
The Rector's Discretionary Fund enables me to work on the church's behalf to care for those in need in our community, and to support the needs of worthy ministries, as I am made aware of these needs. I am always glad to receive gifts to this fund (either electronically or by checks made out to St. Andrew's with Rector's Discretionary Fund on the memo line). If you are facing job loss or a reduction in your family's income please don't hesitate to reach out to me personally.
--Fr. Jason
Worship Sunday - 28 June 2026
Fr. Ron will preach and officiate for the next three Sundays.
I look forward to worshiping with you again on Sunday July 19th, when our intern Jessie will preach. Rite I Eucharist is at 8:00 am, and Rite II Eucharist is at 10:00 am. Our 10:00 service is streamed via our Facebook page, our YouTube channel and our website.
I ask your prayers as I recover from surgery. I will be unavailable through July 8th; for pastoral emergencies during that time please contact Deacon Gail at (443) 995-4692 or Fr. Ron at (443) 257-0867.
Our Adult Bible Study will go through Paul's letter to the Romans through the end of September. We will meet upstairs again on Sundays July 19th from 11:45-12:40; when we will look at chapter 8.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Our June Healing Sunday offering went to support Claggett camp scholarships for children at St. Alban's, Glen Burnie, the parish that planted St. Andrew's.
The Rector's Discretionary Fund enables me to work on the church's behalf to care for those in need in our community, and to support the needs of worthy ministries, as I am made aware of these needs. I am always glad to receive gifts to this fund (either electronically or by checks made out to St. Andrew's with Rector's Discretionary Fund on the memo line). If you are facing job loss or a reduction in your family's income please don't hesitate to reach out to me personally.
--Fr. Jason
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“These sacrifices, which by you are offered to devils, neither can avail the worshippers, nor fulfil the desires and petitions of the suppliants. Rather, whosoever shall offer sacrifice to these images, shall receive the everlasting pains of hell for their reward.”
Saint Alban
Worship Sunday - 21 June 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday, when our intern Jessie will preach. Rite I Eucharist is at 8:00 am, and Rite II Eucharist is at 10:00 am. Our 10:00 service is streamed via our Facebook page, our YouTube channel and our website.
I ask your prayers for my surgery next Monday the 22nd, and my recovery afterwards. I will be unavailable through July 8th; for pastoral emergencies during that time please contact Deacon Gail at (443) 995-4692 or Fr. Ron at (443) 257-0867.
Our Adult Bible Study will go through Paul's letter to the Romans through the end of September. We meet upstairs on Sundays from 11:45-12:40; this Sunday we will look at chapter 7.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Our May Healing Sunday offering of $500 went to support the Bishop's Appeal, and our June Healing Sunday offering will support Claggett camp scholarships for children at St. Alban's, Glen Burnie, the parish that planted St. Andrew's.
The Rector's Discretionary Fund enables me to work on the church's behalf to care for those in need in our community, and to support the needs of worthy ministries, as I am made aware of these needs. I am always glad to receive gifts to this fund (either electronically or by checks made out to St. Andrew's with Rector's Discretionary Fund on the memo line). If you are facing job loss or a reduction in your family's income please don't hesitate to reach out to me personally.
--Fr. Jason
We do not embrace religion primarily to improve our morals, but rather to improve our prayer. However interdependent the two may become, the end of man is not purity of heart but the vision of God. The best way to attain the former is by aiming purposefully at the latter.
—Martin Thornton (d. 1986)
The Rev. Jason A. Poling, D.Min.
Rector
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
7859 Tick Neck Road
Pasadena, MD 21122
410-255-1070 (o)
410-241-4838 (m)
Worship Sunday - 14 June 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday, when Elizabeth Olson Wise will preach. Rite I Eucharist is at 8:00 am, and Rite II Eucharist is at 10:00 am. Our 10:00 service is streamed via our Facebook page, our YouTube channel and our website.
Our Adult Bible Study will go through Paul's letter to the Romans through the end of September. We meet upstairs on Sundays from 11:45-12:40; this Sunday we will look at chapter 6.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Our May Healing Sunday offering of $500 went to support the Bishop's Appeal, and our June Healing Sunday offering will support Claggett camp scholarships for children at St. Alban's, Glen Burnie, the parish that planted St. Andrew's.
The Rector's Discretionary Fund enables me to work on the church's behalf to care for those in need in our community, and to support the needs of worthy ministries, as I am made aware of these needs. I am always glad to receive gifts to this fund (either electronically or by checks made out to St. Andrew's with Rector's Discretionary Fund on the memo line). If you are facing job loss or a reduction in your family's income please don't hesitate to reach out to me personally.
--Fr. Jason
Searching is mingled with thanksgiving,
And which of the two will prevail?
From the tongue
The incense of praise riseth
Along with the fume of disputation
And unto which shall we hearken?
Prayer and prying from one mouth,
And which shall we listen to?
--Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373), Deacon and Poet, who is commemorated on June 10th
The Rev. Jason A. Poling, D.Min.
Rector
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
7859 Tick Neck Road
Pasadena, MD 21122
410-255-1070 (o)
410-241-4838 (m)
Choir Summer Hiatus
My apologies to all who saw that our choir would have a practice this Thursday at 7pm. This would have been shocking to our choir members and our Organist and Choir Master, Gabriellia McNeil, who just announced that the choir would not be practicing during the summer. The next choir practice is scheduled for September 10, 2026 at 7pm. If this changes we will send out another announcement with the change.
Thank you!
Image by Peggy_Marco from Pixabay
Worship Sunday - 7 June 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday, when Deacon Gail will preach. Rite I Eucharist is at 8:00 am, and Rite II Eucharist is at 10:00 am. Our 10:00 service is streamed via our Facebook page, our YouTube channel and our website.
Our Adult Bible Study will go through Paul's letter to the Romans through the end of September. We meet upstairs on Sundays from 11:45-12:40; this Sunday we will look at chapters 4 and 5.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Our May Healing Sunday offering of $500 went to support the Bishop's Appeal.
The Rector's Discretionary Fund enables me to work on the church's behalf to care for those in need in our community, and to support the needs of worthy ministries, as I am made aware of these needs. I am always glad to receive gifts to this fund (either electronically or by checks made out to St. Andrew's with Rector's Discretionary Fund on the memo line). If you are facing job loss or a reduction in your family's income please don't hesitate to reach out to me personally.
--Fr. Jason
Wealth-loving sybarites are known from Holy Scripture, to keep in misery a fruitless watch, to spin vainly fragile spider-webs which catch a light breeze or dust, since, according to the psalmist, they heap up riches and know not for whom they gather them. And when death the agent of the hated Pluto, grinding his bloody teeth lurks at the threshold, terror-stricken and deprived of all heavenly aid they suddenly lose their precious and false wealth, which night and day they greedily and anxiously saved, and with it lose their souls. Then, caught away by fiendish hands, they enter the awful gates of Erebus to pay an eternal penalty.
--Boniface (d. 754), Bishop and Missionary, who is commemorated on June 5.
The Rev. Jason A. Poling, D.Min.
Rector
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
7859 Tick Neck Road
Pasadena, MD 21122
410-255-1070 (o)
410-241-4838 (m)
Worship Sunday - 31 May 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
Deacon Gail will officiate Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament Sunday, with our intern Jessie preaching. Rite I Eucharist is at 8:00 am, and Rite II Eucharist is at 10:00 am. Our 10:00 service is streamed via our Facebook page, our YouTube channel and our website.
Our Adult Bible Study will go through Paul's letter to the Romans through the end of September. We meet upstairs on Sundays from 11:45-12:40, but we are off this Sunday. When we resume on the 7th we will look at chapters 4 and 5.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. April donations totaling $350 went to support NCEON (North County Emergency Outreach Network). Our May Healing Sunday offering will support the Bishop's Appeal. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our Ascension offering at our service with St. Luke's, Annapolis last week; Mo. Lauren and I were pleased to give the Bishop the $200 we collected for the Bishop's Appeal.
The Rector's Discretionary Fund enables me to work on the church's behalf to care for those in need in our community, and to support the needs of worthy ministries, as I am made aware of these needs. I am always glad to receive gifts to this fund (either electronically or by checks made out to St. Andrew's with Rector's Discretionary Fund on the memo line). If you are facing job loss or a reduction in your family's income please don't hesitate to reach out to me personally.
--Fr. Jason
To love, and not to know,
Is through a dark wild land to go;
To know, and not possess,
Is hell’s dread bitterness;
Possess, yet not be where Thou art,
Hath rent my heart.
--Mechtilde of Magdeburg (13th c.), Mystic, who is commemorated on May 28th.
The Rev. Jason A. Poling, D.Min.
Rector
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
7859 Tick Neck Road
Pasadena, MD 21122
410-255-1070 (o)
410-241-4838 (m)
Worship Sunday - 24 May 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday., when we will celebrate the Feast of Pentecost with only one service, at 10:00. Incense will be used. Our 10:00 service is streamed via our Facebook page, our YouTube channel and our website.
On Pentecost we will also have a Family Meeting at 9:00 and a Burger Burn following the service. (In case of rain we will use the upstairs hall.)
Our Adult Bible Study will go through Paul's letter to the Romans through the end of September. We meet upstairs on Sundays from 11:45-12:40, but we are off this Sunday and next. When we resume on the 7th we will look at chapters 4 and 5.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. April donations totaling $350 went to support NCEON (North County Emergency Outreach Network). Our May Healing Sunday offering will support the Bishop's Appeal. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our Ascension offering at our service with St. Luke's, Annapolis last week; Mo. Lauren and I were pleased to give the Bishop the $200 we collected for the Bishop's Appeal.
The Rector's Discretionary Fund enables me to work on the church's behalf to care for those in need in our community, and to support the needs of worthy ministries, as I am made aware of these needs. I am always glad to receive gifts to this fund (either electronically or by checks made out to St. Andrew's with Rector's Discretionary Fund on the memo line). If you are facing job loss or a reduction in your family's income please don't hesitate to reach out to me personally.
--Fr. Jason
The times are perilous; tribulation followeth hard upon tribulation; the people are in poverty; the rulers in distress; the church beset with anxiety; its priests in dissension; there is nothing stable; all things are in a state of unrest.
--Alcuin of York, late 8th c. Alcuin, Deacon and Abbot (d. 804), is commemorated on May 20th.
The Rev. Jason A. Poling, D.Min.
Rector
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
7859 Tick Neck Road
Pasadena, MD 21122
410-255-1070 (o)
410-241-4838 (m)
A Note From Father Jason
It is my sad duty to inform you that the Rev. Corby Zeren passed into the nearer presence of our Lord last night. Dcn. Corby serves faithfully as St. Andrew’s Deacon-in-Charge before I was called to serve as our priest.
I am grateful that Dcn. Gail and I were able to visit Dcn. Corby this spring (photo attached) and celebrate the Eucharist with her.
I will share details as to funeral arrangements once I have them. “How precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.”
—Fr. Jason
The Shield - Pentecost 2026
The Pentecost edition of our seasonal newsletter, The Shield, is attached for your pleasure. If you prefer a hard copy, they are available in the Narthex.
May the Spirit be with you!
AMC
Editor of the Shield
