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Welcome to Holy Cross Episcopal Church! |
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Holy Cross Is Gearing Up for the Fall!We are a scripturally-driven church with a wide variety of ministries and activities. Please come and worship with us!Worship Services  Parishioners talking at Fr. Jeff's
welcoming, July 13, 2008
Sunday:
8:00 AM Holy Communion (Said)
10:00 Holy Communion (Full Choir) Brunch is served following each service
Nursery is provided for the 10:00 AM service.
Christian Education is at 9:00 AM. Wednesday:
10:00 AM Holy Communion (Said) All baptized Christians are welcome to receive Holy Communion, regardless of denomination. Great Wednesday Activities5:00 p.m. Children’s Choir
5:30 p.m. Dinner
6:15 p.m. Evening Eucharist (3rd Wednesday of every month)
6:15 p.m. Christian Education-All Ages (begins Sept. 7)
6:15 p.m. Bell Choir
7:15 p.m. Choir Practice |
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Fr. Jeffrey Jencks, Our Rector |
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 The Rev. Jeffrey A. Jencks is the fourth rector of Holy Cross Episcopal Church since its founding in 1976. His previous parish was St John’s Episcopal Church in Cumberland Rhode Island. He served at St Johns for twenty two years including a three year period where he was Priest-in-Charge. During his tenure at St. John's he evangelized a one hundred fifty year old Church for two decades in spiritual renewal and growth. Many outstanding achievements were the products of active lay involvement including rehabilitation of Church buildings that had been left for years of decay and neglect. Today St John’s is a symbol of renewal to the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island.
While serving at St John’s, Fr. Jeff was heavily involved in the community. He worked with the Rhode Island Army National Guard and the Family Court to develop a program for troubled teenagers who had broken the law. Many of the teenagers who successfully completed Operation Guardian were spared time in the Youth Correctional Center. In the year 2000, Operation Guardian came in second place nationwide in the Minute Man Mike award. Because of this achievement Fr. Jeff received both the Rhode Island commendation and the Rhode Island Star medal. |
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Worship Holy Cross utilizes Rite II primarily, with Rite I sometimes celebrated in penitential seasons and when requested for funerals, and other special occasions. Worship at Holy Cross is balanced to meet the needs of all parishioners. We also experience journeys into The Book of Occasional Services with house blessings and anniversary of a marriage. Stations of the Cross are traveled during Holy Week. Foot washing has been practiced on Maundy Thursday. Regular Sunday services are at 8 A.M. and 10 A.M. Sunday school is at 9 A.M. Music is provided at the 10 AM service only. For the past two summers these two services have been combined into one service at 9 AM. There is also a 10 AM celebration of the Eucharist on Wednesday morning with healing services held once per month. A licensed verger assists during worship services. CURRENT INTERIM SCHEDULE IS ONE SUNDAY SERVICE ONLY AT 9 A.M. WITH CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOLLOWING. Music Music at Holy Cross includes everything from children’s music to hand bells, adult choir, organ music and serious classical music performed by members of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra. Children's Chapel During the 10:00 Sunday service, elementary children meet for Children’s Chapel. This program is designed to provide an understanding of the gospel that is age appropriate. The program concludes in time for the children to return to the worship service to participate in the Eucharist. |
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Jeremy Taylor, Prose Stylist |
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Written by Fr. Jeffrey Jencks
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:37 |
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On my 57th Birthday, August 21st 2008 Jeremy Taylor is best known as a prose stylist; his chief fame is the result of his twin devotional manual, Holy Living and Holy Dying. (The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living, 1650 and The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying, 1651). These books were favorites of John Wesley, and admired for their prose style by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, and Thomas de Quincey. They are marked by solemn but vivid rhetoric, elaborate periodic sentences, and careful attention to the music and rhythms of words: "As our life is very short, so it is very miserable; and therefore it is well that it is short. God, in pity to mankind, lest his burden should be insupportable and his nature an intolerable load, hath reduced our state of misery to an abbreviature; and the greater our misery is, the less while it is like to last; the sorrows of a man's spirit being like ponderous weights, which by the greatness of their burden make a swifter motion, and descend into the grave to rest and ease our wearied limbs; for then only we shall sleep quietly, when those fetters are knocked off, which not only bound our souls in prison, but also ate the flesh till the very bones opened the secret garments of their cartilages, discovering their nakedness and sorrow." From Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying I preached on the life of Jeremy Taylor about ten day’s ago at our Wednesday morning Eucharist and I have discovered that his ‘haunting’ words about life and death still challenge my everyday thoughts. It just may be the times in which we live seem to be so oppressive. Which one of us has not let our eyes linger at the cost of fuel at the pump? It really isn’t all that much… just another dime or a quarter… that should not seem to make a large difference in our income should it? There is just an overwhelming feeling of disgust and despair about the world situation. I really try to overcome these feelings of being so powerless. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 22 August 2008 08:34 )
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Directions to Holy Cross Episcopal Church |
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From Downtown Pensacola and Points South:Take Ninth Avenue north from downtown to the Church. The Church will be on your left.Alternatively, take Scenic Highway to Olive Road, turn left onto Olive, and then left onto Ninth Avenue. The church is on the right about 300 yards south of Olive. |
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