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Worship Sunday - 3 May 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday. 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; we resume this week with 1:18-2:24.
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.
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
Eternal God, eternal Trinity, You have made the Blood of Christ so precious through His sharing in Your divine nature. You are a mystery as deep as the sea; the more I search, the more I find, and the more I find, the more I search for You. But I can never be satisfied; what I receive will ever leave me desiring more. When You fill my soul, I have an ever greater hunger, and I grow more famished for Your light. I desire above all to see You, the true Light, as you really are. Amen.
--Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Mystic, who is commemorated on April 29th.
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 - 26 April 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday. 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.
The Women of St. Andrew's (WOSA) will gather at Laura Otto's for brunch this Sunday the 26th at 11:30, not 1:00 as previously announced.
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; we are off this week but we will resume next week.with 1:18-2:24.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. March donations totaling $350 went to support the Maryland Food Bank. Our April Healing Sunday offering will go to support NCEON (North County Emergency Outreach Network). Also, proceeds of over $800 from the Corned Beef Dinner went to support the Emmanuel Lutheran Food Pantry.
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
This is a great wonder, beyond understanding
Love’s giving and her taking.
When she gives comfort
the tender fruits tremble on the vine.
I bid and beg of Love
that she open noble hearts
and teach them to sing her song:
the low notes of fear and the heights of hope.
—Hadewijch of Antwerp, Poet and Mystic. Hadewijch (13th c.) is commemorated on April 22nd.
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 - 19 April 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday. 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.
The Women of St. Andrew's (WOSA) will gather at Laura Otto's for brunch next Sunday the 26th at 11:30, not 1:00 as previously announced.
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's passage is 1:8-17.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. March donations totaling $350 went to support the Maryland Food Bank. Our April Healing Sunday offering will go to support NCEON (North County Emergency Outreach Network). Also, proceeds of over $800 from the Corned Beef Dinner went to support the Emmanuel Lutheran Food Pantry.
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
No other clergyman in the diocese came close to the theological maturity and scholarship that Peter Williams Cassey exhibited in his ministry and teachings. We should be proud of these great souls that helped lay the foundations of this diocese.
--Rt. Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed, Bishop of Florida, on the Rev. Peter Williams Cassey, Deacon and Educator. Dcn. Cassey (1831-1917) and his wife Annie Besant Cassey (d. 1875) are commemorated on April 17th.
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)
Latest Shield - Easter 2026
Dear Friends,
The latest edition of our newsletter, the St. Andrew's Shield, is on our website for your review. You can find it under "Shield" in the menu. Just look for The Shield - Easter 2026 on the page.
As always if you have any information for the good of the order, please pass it on to me for inclusion in our next seasonal newsletter.
Peace of the Lord be with you
AMC
Editor of the Shield.
Easter Sunday Worship Service
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
We will have only one service this Sunday, Rite II Eucharist at 10:00 am. Our 10:00 service is streamed via our Facebook page, our YouTube channel and our website.
Holy Week Services are as follows:
Maundy Thursday (April 2): With St. Martin's in-the-Field, at St. Martin's (375 Benfield Rd., Severna Park), 7:00 pm.
Good Friday (April 3): Manresa (85 Manresa Dr., Annapolis) service at noon. St. Andrew's service 7:00 pm.
Easter Vigil (April 4): With Epiphany, Odenton at St. Andrew's, 7:30 pm. Festive reception to follow.
Easter Sunday (April 5): Community sunrise service at Kurtz's Beach (2070 Kurtz Ave., Pasadena), 6:30 am. St. Andrew's service at 10:00 am; Bible study groups will not meet.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Our March Healing Sunday offering of $350 went to support the Maryland Food Bank, and over $800 in proceeds from the Corned Beef Dinner went to support the Emmanuel Lutheran Food Pantry. Our April Healing Sunday offering will support the North County Emergency Outreach Network (NCEON).
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
He sought thee, when thou wast nowhere, nothing, he brought thee then, the greatest step of all, from being nothing, to be a creature; how early did he seek thee, when he sought thee in Adam's confused loins, and out of that leavened and sour loaf in which we were all kneaded up, out of that massa damnata, that refuse and condemned lump of dough, he sought and severed out that grain which thou shouldst be; yea millions of millions of generations before all this he sought thee in his own eternal decree; And in that first scripture of his, which is as old as himself, in the book of life he wrote thy name in the blood of that Lamb which was slain for thee, not only from the beginning of this world, but from the writing of that eternal decree of thy salvation...when thou wast nothing he sought thee so early as in Adam, so early as in the book of life, and when wilt thou think it a fit time to seek him?
--John Donne (1572-1631), Priest and Poet, 1617. Donne is commemorated on March 31st.
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 - 29 March 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
We will have only one service this Sunday and next, 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.
During Lent your priests will hear confessions in the church from 5-6pm on Wednesdays (not Tuesdays as previously advertised). The Sacrament of Reconciliation is always available, and I am happy to meet for it by appointment, but as Lent is an especially suitable time for this practice I reserve an hour each week. Lay-led Stations of the Cross are held at 7pm on Fridays; thanks to our friends from St. Christopher's, Linthicum for sharing their Stations with us.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our annual Corned Beef Dinner , especially head chef John Dunker. Over $700 was raised for the Epiphany Lutheran Food Bank.
Holy Week Services are as follows:
Palm Sunday (March 29): One service at 10:00 am with guest preacher the Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson; Bible study groups will not meet.
Maundy Thursday (April 2): With St. Martin's in-the-Field, at St. Martin's (375 Benfield Rd., Severna Park), 7:00 pm.
Good Friday (April 3): Manresa (85 Manresa Dr., Annapolis) service at noon. St. Andrew's service 7:00 pm.
Easter Vigil (April 4): With Epiphany, Odenton at St. Andrew's, 7:30 pm. Festive reception to follow.
Easter Sunday (April 5): Community sunrise service at Kurtz's Beach (2070 Kurtz Ave., Pasadena), 6:30 am. St. Andrew's service at 10:00 am; Bible study groups will not meet.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Proceeds from the Pancake Supper and our February Healing Sunday offering of $600 went to support Arundel House of Hope. Our March Healing Sunday offering will support the Maryland Food Bank.
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
In some countries the Church is little better than a vassal of the state instead of its converting power. Until the churches unite we shall have to move as men grievously wounded—haltingly, lamely, without a supernational and final guide in the moral and spiritual movements of the time.
--Charles Henry Brent (1862-1929), Missionary Bishop, 1926. Bp. Brent is commemorated on March 27th.
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)
Corned Beef Dinner - 22 March 2026
Hope to see you there for a fine repast and an afternoon of music!
Worship Sunday- 22 March 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday. 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.
During Lent your priests will hear confessions in the church from 5-6pm on Wednesdays (not Tuesdays as previously advertised). The Sacrament of Reconciliation is always available, and I am happy to meet for it by appointment, but as Lent is an especially suitable time for this practice I reserve an hour each week. Lay-led Stations of the Cross are held at 7pm on Fridays; thanks to our friends from St. Christopher's, Linthicum for sharing their Stations with us.
On Sunday the 22nd we will have our annual Corned Beef Dinner from 2:00-5:00. Live music will begin at 3:00. Proceeds will support the Epiphany Lutheran Food Bank.
Holy Week Services are as follows:
Palm Sunday (March 29): One service at 10:00 am with guest preacher the Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson; Bible study groups will not meet.
Maundy Thursday (April 2): With St. Martin's in-the-Field, at St. Martin's (375 Benfield Rd., Severna Park), 7:00 pm.
Good Friday (April 3): Manresa (85 Manresa Dr., Annapolis) service at noon. St. Andrew's service 7:00 pm.
Easter Vigil (April 4): With Epiphany, Odenton at St. Andrew's, 7:30 pm. Festive reception to follow.
Easter Sunday (April 5): Community sunrise service at Kurtz's Beach (2070 Kurtz Ave., Pasadena), 6:30 am. St. Andrew's service at 10:00 am; Bible study groups will not meet.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Proceeds from the Pancake Supper and our February Healing Sunday offering of $600 went to support Arundel House of Hope. Our March Healing Sunday offering will support the Maryland Food Bank.
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
Cuddy
by Malcolm Guite
Cuthbertus says the dark stone up in Durham
Where I have come on pilgrimage to pray.
But not this great cathedral, nor the solemn
Weight of Normal masonry we lay
Upon your bones could hold your soul in prison.
Free as the Cuddy ducks they named for you,
Loosed by the lord who died to pay your ransom,
You roam the North just as you used to do;
Always on foot and walking with the poor,
Breaking the bread of angels in your cave,
A sanctuary, a sign, an open door,
You follow Christ through keening wind and wave,
To be and bear with him where all is borne;
The heart of heaven, in your Inner Farne.
St. Cuthbert (ca. 637-684), Bishop, is commemorated on March 20th.
The Rev. Jason A. Poling, D.Min.
Rector
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
410-255-1070 (o)
410-241-4838 (m)
St. Andrew's Pasadena - Capital Campaign Feasibility Study
Your Vestry has decided to consider whether St. Andrew's should conduct a capital campaign in order to address various facility needs. As part of this discernment process, we are working with a consultant to determine what the scope of this effort might be. This first part is called a feasibility study.
Our consultant will review budget and giving data from the last few years, as well as other information that is publicly available. We take everyone's right to privacy very seriously, so we want to assure you that this information will only be shared among our team of three people, along with Fr. Jason and our consultant. We also want to make sure anyone who's not comfortable having their data shared with our consultant can opt out of that.
We do believe that that the better our consultant's information is, the better the advice he'll be able to give us for the feasibility study. We have been assured that he will delete this data after completing his analysis, and we have been in touch with other congregations like ours that have been very happy with his work. Nevertheless, if you would like to opt out of this process we will anonymize your giving data when we share it with him.
If you do wish to opt out please contact Sue McDonald or Fr. Jason by the END OF MARCH. Please feel free to address any questions about this to them as well.
Sue McDonald, Pat Quick and Rick Clarke
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 - 15 March 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
The Rev. Canon Randy Callender will preach and preside Sunday. 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.
During Lent your priests will hear confessions in the church from 5-6pm on Wednesdays (not Tuesdays as previously advertised). The Sacrament of Reconciliation is always available, and I am happy to meet for it by appointment, but as Lent is an especially suitable time for this practice I reserve an hour each week. Lay-led Stations of the Cross are held at 7pm on Fridays; thanks to our friends from St. Christopher's, Linthicum for sharing their Stations with us.
On Sunday the 22nd we will have our annual Corned Beef Dinner from 2:00-5:00. Live music will begin at 3:00. Proceeds will support the Epiphany Lutheran Food Bank.
Holy Week Services are as follows:
Palm Sunday (March 29): One service at 10:00 am with guest preacher the Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson; Bible study groups will not meet.
Maundy Thursday (April 2): With St. Martin's in-the-Field, at St. Martin's (375 Benfield Rd., Severna Park), 7:00 pm.
Good Friday (April 3): Manresa (85 Manresa Dr., Annapolis) service at noon. St. Andrew's service 7:00 pm.
Easter Vigil (April 4): With Epiphany, Odenton at St. Andrew's, 7:30 pm. Festive reception to follow.
Easter Sunday (April 5): Community sunrise service at Kurtz's Beach (2070 Kurtz Ave., Pasadena), 6:30 am. St. Andrew's service at 10:00 am; Bible study groups will not meet.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Proceeds from the Pancake Supper and our February Healing Sunday offering of $600 went to support Arundel House of Hope. Our March Healing Sunday offering will support the Maryland Food Bank.
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
All Christians, therefore, who desire to reign with Christ are to be warned not to reign through ambition for worldly power. They are to keep in mind the admonition of that most holy pope Gregory in his book on the pastoral office: "Of all these things what is to be followed, what held fast, except that the man strong in virtue shall come to his office under compulsion? Let him who is without virtue not come to it even though he be urged thereto" [Book of Pastoral Rule, IX]. If, then, men who fear God come under compulsion with fear and trembling to the Apostolic See [the papacy] where those who are properly ordained become stronger through the merits of the blessed Apostle Peter, with what awe and hesitation should men ascend the throne of a king where even good and humble men like Saul and David become worse!
--Pope Gregory VII (11th c.), quoting Gregory the Great (6th c.), who is commemorated on March 12th.
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 - 8 March 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday. 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.
During Lent your priests will hear confessions in the church from 5-6pm on Wednesdays (not Tuesdays as previously advertised). The Sacrament of Reconciliation is always available, and I am happy to meet for it by appointment, but as Lent is an especially suitable time for this practice I reserve an hour each week. Lay-led Stations of the Cross are held at 7pm on Fridays; thanks to our friends from St. Christopher's, Linthicum for sharing their Stations with us.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Our January Healing Sunday offering of $300 went to support the Anne Arundel County Food Bank. Our February Healing Sunday offering will support Arundel House of Hope.
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
Now dawned the day of their victory, and they went forth from the prison into the amphitheatre as it were into heaven, cheerful and bright of countenance; if they trembled at all, it was for joy, not for fear. Perpetua followed behind, glorious of presence, as a true spouse of Christ and darling of God; at whose piercing look all cast down their eyes. Felicity likewise, rejoicing that she had borne a child in safety, that she might fight with the beasts, came now from blood to blood, from the midwife to the gladiator, to wash after her travail in a second baptism.
--The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity (3rd c.). Perpetua and Felicity (ca. 182-ca. 202), Martyrs, are commemorated on March 7th.
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)
New Link - The Bible In A Year
We've added a new link to allow you to follow along with our Sunday morning "Bible In A Year" Study Group. The link is also on our Episcopal Links page! For more information you can send an email to Father Jason or give him a call!
Worship Sunday - 1 March 2026
Dear Brothers and Sisters of St. Andrew's,
I look forward to worshiping with you Sunday. 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.
Thanks to everyone who gave do generously of their time, talent and treasure to welcome our neighbors during Winter Relief, especially our site coordinator David Richardson.
During Lent your priests will hear confessions in the church from 5-6pm on Wednesdays (not Tuesdays as previously advertised). The Sacrament of Reconciliation is always available, and I am happy to meet for it by appointment, but as Lent is an especially suitable time for this practice I reserve an hour each week.
On the third Sunday of each month we take up a special offering to address needs in our community. Our January Healing Sunday offering of $300 went to support the Anne Arundel County Food Bank. Our February Healing Sunday offering will support Arundel House of Hope.
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
A broken ALTAR, Lord, thy servant rears,
Made of a heart and cemented with tears:
Whose parts are as thy hand did frame;
No workman's tool hath touch'd the same.
A HEART alone
Is such a stone,
As nothing but
Thy pow'r doth cut.
Wherefore each part
Of my hard heart
Meets in this frame,
To praise thy name:
That if I chance to hold my peace,
These stones to praise thee may not cease.
Oh, let thy blessed SACRIFICE be mine,
And sanctify this ALTAR to be thine.
—George Herbert (1593-1633), Priest and Poet. Herbert is commemorated on February 27th.
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)
