Communion Delivered
Lay Eucharistic Visitors (LEVS) are trained and licensed to take communion directly from the service to parishioners at retirement communities, hospitals, or their homes if they are unable to come to church.
Prayer
Epiphany prays for you. In response to requests from parishioners, our prayer team adds loved ones to their own prayers, and the Epiphany community prays for those who are ill or who have died each Sunday.
Meals
The meals team organizes, schedules, prepares, and then delivers meals to parishioners who are temporarily in need of extra help — whether adjusting to life with a new child, recovering from an illness, or facing other major life transitions.
Cards
We send cards to parishioners we know to be struggling, just to let you know we are with you and we are praying for you. The elderly who cannot make it to church, those who have just given birth, those ill or in recovery, those commemorating a loss.
Flowers
Floral arrangements are lovingly crafted by parishioners from our weekly altar arrangements and flowers from Epiphany’s gardens. We deliver these to parishioners homebound or in the hospital.
Discernment
Occasionally, as there is interest, we will convene a group of parishioners considering a transition or wrestling with a hard decision to support one another through the process of discernment. This group will meet for a limited period of time to provide a loving, confidential community of support. The group supports use of the St Ignatian method of discernment and each member of the group applies it to whichever transition they are facing.
Confession
Epiphany offers formal Confession with a priest three times a year. It is a sacred rite in which a person honestly confronts, owns, and releases the idols that get in the way of their relationship with God. We follow the liturgical protocol of confession that can be found in the Book of Common Prayer on p. 448. There are two times a year where formal confession is strongly encouraged: Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The third time Confession is encouraged is whenever you need it.
Unction or Last Rites
The passage from the temporal to the eternal is a sacred moment that can be acknowledged and marked upon the memory of the soul through the rite of Unction. This may include confession and absolution, laying on of hands, anointing with oil, and communion.
