Update on Breaking News in Uptown: Our Response to This Crisis

Neighborhood Walk and Compline, Wednesday, July 29, 6:30pm (Walk) and 7:30pm (Compline)

A mass shooting took place on Sunday evening, July 26, at the Bite of Seattle event at Seattle Center, just a few blocks from St. Paul’s. Our parish community is already surrounding our neighbors with prayer, but we are also planning a more visible action of prayer and solidarity this Wednesday evening, at 6:30pm. Bishop Phil LaBelle will be joining us.

Beginning at our Roy Street doors, we will walk the neighborhood as we normally do every Sunday, bringing our SPiN wagons but also signs and banners. Our walk is a chance for us to be present and visible in this neighborhood, our home for more than 130 years.

When we return to the church at about 7:30pm, we will pray a short service of Compline (night prayer) in the sanctuary. Individual prayers with anointing for healing will also be offered. All are enthusiastically welcome to join us at any point on the walk, or for Compline. Clergy are invited to join us, and are encouraged to wear collars and stoles, if desired. Participants may make and bring their own signs, or join us at 4:30pm to make signs together. You may also just bring yourself, and join us in prayer and vigil, with no pressure to do more than simply be present and prayerful.

We would love to see you.

Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so
move every human heart, that barriers which divide us may
crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our
divisions being healed, we may live in justice and peace;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

—Book of Common Prayer, p. 823

Vision

God's holiness is revealed in the dignity of every human being.
In our sacramental life of communal prayer, study and learning, life in community, and social action,
God forms us to serve one another, our neighbor, and the stranger.