GRACE MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH
A Parish for all people in the heart of the city.
We are a community of story, symbol, service, and song.
Wherever you are on your journey of faith, you are welcome here.
This coming Sunday:
The First Sunday of Lent
Sunday, February 22, 2026
8am – Holy Eucharist, Rite I
9am – Bible Study in the Chapel
10am – Holy Eucharist, Rite II
hymns, kids, & coffee
5pm – Vigil for These Times
LOOKING AHEAD:
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
February 17
6pm in the Parish Hall
Shrove Tuesday: Join us on February 17 at 6:00pm for a delicious pancake supper (both gluten and non-gluten) and fellowship. After dinner, we will be burning the palm fronds from this past year’s Passion (Palm) Sunday to use in our Ash Wednesday services as a symbol of our repentance, mortality and transformation from past sin
to our new life in Christ.
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ASH WEDNESDAY services
February 18
12noon: in the Chapel of the Nativity
7:00pm in the Sanctuary
You are invited to begin a holy Lent
through the ancient practice of the Imposition of Ashes.
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Incense during Lent
It is our practice at Grace to burn incense at the Sunday 10am service throughout Lent as well as on Maundy Thursday, at the Easter Vigil, and at 10am on Easter morn. Incense is an ancient part of church practice: it is an offering to God and a way of praying with all of our senses.
A Vigil for Times Such as This
Sunday, February 22 at 5pm in the Chapel
“Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love for what we hold close.” –Francis Weller, “From the Wild Edge of Sorrow”
Many of us are sad and grieving currently. It is easy to become numb, desensitized and withdraw. Instead, let us draw together as community, work together to lament and to hope and to dream of the world as it should be. Terror and trauma can send us into fight, flight or freeze. Connection pulls us out of these responses and when we name the truth of our experience and begin to grieve together, we tap into the love that inspires our grief and we can find a flow of love and inspiration. Together, we can seek and build community and systemic change.
Come join us for A Vigil for Times Such as This on 2/22/26
at 5 PM.
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Events
Community dinner every Sunday evening
5pm – 6:30pm
Opens at 4:30pm.
All are welcome!
Amadeus Chamber Orchestra
Baroque Candlelight Concerts – Every Tuesday*
Artists in Residence at Grace
Adam LaMotte, Artistic Director
*except 2/24, 3/31, 4/6
Grace In Action: Episcopal News Service: Solar Paneled Borehole Well Project transforms lives in Liberia
Trinity Cathedral & BW Harris Episcopal School celebrate!
On the left, Charles A. McGee II, co-senior warden at GMEC, Portland Oregon, visits the Very Rev. A-Too Williams, Dean at Trinity Cathedral at the site of the Borehole Well Project at the B. W. Harris Episcopal School in Monrovia, Liberia. Victor Paasewe, photographer
READ MORE HERE
about our wonderful Companion Parish Project
Wednesday evening Compline
on Zoom
@ 8pm Wednesdays
Join us for this lovely, evening prayer time together on zoom.
We’ll gather on Zoom at 8pm. Look for the link in Grace Notes.
Photos from our Bishop’s Visitation
Weekly Worship Services:
Sundays
8:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite I
10:00am Choral Eucharist, Rite II*
Nursery Care 9am – 11:30am
Church School at 10am
Wednesdays
8:00pm Compline on Zoom
Thursdays
9:30am in the Chapel
Videos of our recent services
*Live-streamed on YouTube.
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