Adults
Opportunities abound for adults to deepen their lives of faith at Grace, from our Explorations in Spirituality program to our book and reading groups to our 100 Days of Amazing Grace program and more!
Explorations in Spirituality
Sundays @ 9am, Library
Our Explorations in Spirituality program has included series on “Understanding Scripture” through the letters of Paul and an “Understanding Church” series, which included sessions that brought together our high school youth and Outreach Committee members with regular attendees for stimulating intergenerational and cross-cohort conversations about the core elements of church.
Our Advent series, “The Art of Advent,” explored the Annunciation and other Advent themes through visual art, music, poetry, and more—kicking things off with a “craft & learn” on the First Sunday of Advent, making our own Advent wreaths as we learned about Mary’s prophetic voice. As we begin a new year, we look forward to a new Lenten Explorations series on St. Louis native T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets!
Book Group
Tuesdays @ 10 a.m., LaVielle Room (in-person & via Zoom)
The Book Group gathers to read and discuss books in the LaVielle Room every week. The group chooses from fiction, non-fiction, and spiritual titles, and enjoys discussing morals and religious themes in our modern world.
Spiritual Reading
Thursdays @ 6:30 p.m., LaVielle Room (in-person & via Zoom)
The Spiritual Reading program gathers over several weeks to read spiritual books arranged around a theme. Our first series, “Nun Narratives,” included Ron Hanson’s Mariette in Ecstasy, Mark Salzman’s Lying Awake, Lauren Groff’s Matrix, and Karen Armstrong’s memoir, Through the Narrow Gate. Our next series, “Priestly Passports,” will explore priestly narratives around the world, from France’s Diary of a Country Priest to South Africa’s Cry the Beloved Country to New England’s The Rector of Justin to Japan’s Silence. And then we’ll blast off to another planet with the Jesuits in Mary Doria Russell’s classic, The Sparrow!
Days of Amazing Grace
Sundays @ 5 p.mm, Library; Wednesdays @ 6:15 p.m., Library; Tuesdays @ 10 a.m., LaVielle Conference Room
Join us for a 100-day journey through Lent and Easter to Pentecost as we deepen our knowledge of our Episcopal tradition with Jennifer Gamber and Bill Lewellis’s Your Faith, Your Life and The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus, a collection of writings by Dorothy Day. We’ll gather over simple meals during Lent and Eastertide to explore and deepen our faith, culminating in a visit by Bishop Deon shortly after Pentecost in May.