Calvary Episcopal Church

Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist
2023-12-24 21:00 - 22:15 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us for our 9:00 pm candlelit Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist. All are welcome!

Christmas Day Holy Eucharist
2023-12-25 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us for our 10:00 am Christmas Day Holy Eucharist. All are welcome!

Annual Meeting
2024-01-28 09:30 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
All are invited to participate in the Annual Meeting of Calvary.
The meeting will be incorporated into our worship service that day – we will have one service beginning at 9:30 am in Brackenridge Hall. The usual worship schedule of 8:30 and 10:30 am will be suspended on this day only, returning to our normal schedule on February 4.
All members aged 16 and over are invited to vote on issues, including our new vestry member slate and the acceptance of the 2024 budget. Children will be gathering in the Sunday school rooms for snacks, games and fun!
All are not only invited – all are needed to attend this critical meeting as we move forward with our neighbors at the Mayo Clinic in their new expansion project, take an honest look at our finances, elect new vestry members, celebrate those members who are retiring, and celebrate our deep and rich people resources and leaders.
Coffee and snacks will be provided, and the vestry will stay following the service to answer questions and receive comments. You don’t want to miss this meeting! It will be livestreamed as well.

Mardi Gras Happy Hour
2024-02-02 16:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Beetle’s Bar and Grill, 230 20th Avenue SW, Rochester, Minnesota, 55902, United States
Start February on the right note (a little jazz might be in order) with your fellow parishioners at the first Calvary happy hour of the year. We will be celebrating Mardi Gras on Friday, February 2, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. You don’t even have to travel to New Orleans!
We will meet at Beetle’s Bar and Grill located two blocks west of Saint Marys Hospital on 2nd Street SW. Do you know what CHTBMGPOONO stands for? Be the first to tell us and you will get a free drink! This is very informal. Come when you can. Stay for as long as you want. Popcorn and water are free. You can purchase other food and drinks.
Added bonus: We can celebrate Groundhog Day together, too!

Adult Forum
2024-02-04 09:15 - 10:15 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
All are invited at 9:15 on Sunday, February 4, to Crawford Hall to hear a report on updates on the Mayo expansion project and the response work at Calvary, presented by the Calvary leadership team.

Pancake Power Breakfast
2024-02-11 09:15 - 10:15 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Shrove Sunday is almost here, which means it is almost time for our Annual Pancake Breakfast! Mark your calendars for Sunday, February 11.
The pancake breakfast is a fundraiser for a local charity of the kids’ choice and is a fun chance for our kids to get together as a community to give back! Thank you so much for supporting the kids at Calvary for this pancake breakfast. If you are able, please consider signing up for an available role by clicking on the link below to see which one would be a good fit for your talents and skills. If you are unable to do that, look for our ingredient sign up link below and sign up to donate an ingredient or two! Finally, if you are unable to do either of these things, buy a ticket – we look forward to seeing you there!
Michelle McKean
Click here for supervisory roles.
Click here for food donations (to be delivered in advance of the event).

Ashes to Go
2024-02-14 08:00 - 11:45 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us on the sidewalks outside Calvary for the Imposition of Ashes, in recognition of Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday: Holy Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes
2024-02-14 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us in the church for a service of Holy Eucharist and the Imposition of Ashes, in recognition of Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday: Holy Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes
2024-02-14 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us in the church for a service of Holy Eucharist and the Imposition of Ashes, in recognition of Ash Wednesday. This service will feature the Motet Choir.

Lenten Prayer Study
2024-02-25 09:15 - 10:15 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
All are invited to a Lenten course on Prayer from 9:15 – 10:15 am on Sundays in the Fireside Room. Please be a part of this learning about prayer as we move toward understanding how important our prayer lives, both individually and corporately, are at Calvary and in our work, family, and discretionary time.

Holy Eucharist and Silent Meditation
2024-02-28 12:05 - 12:45 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us Wednesdays in Lent for a service of Holy Eucharist, Rite II, with a period of silent meditation. The service begins at 12:05 pm..

Children's Formation and Activities
2024-03-03 09:15 - 10:15 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us every Sunday through Easter for fun children’s formation and activities!

Spring Forward Progressive Potluck Dinner
2024-03-10 16:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us for a fun collaborative St. Luke’s and Calvary Episcopal Churches Progressive Potluck Dinner.
Let’s SPRING FORWARD on the first day of Daylight Savings time (March 10) with a combination potluck supper & progressive dinner with the main meal at St Luke’s and dessert at Calvary. We may also have a fun game of Episcopal Trivia at both locations. If you would like to participate but need transportation, please specify that on the signup sheet in Brackenridge Hall.
Date: March 10, 2024
Times:

4:30 – 5:30 pm – Potluck main dinner at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
5:30 – 6:00 pm – Drive time between St. Luke’s and Calvary
6:00 – 7:00 pm – Potluck Dessert at Calvary Episcopal Church

You can sign up by filling out the form in Brackenridge, by visiting this link, or by scanning the QR Code in your Sunday bulletin. Questions? Contact Lee Gilmore at 507-951-3288. Deadline to sign up is March 3rd.

Palm Sunday Worship
2024-03-24 08:30 - 09:15 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Passion Sunday Services
We will have two worship services on Passion Sunday:

At 8:30, we will celebrate the Holy Eucharist with the Rite I liturgy and a reading of the Passion Gospel by the rector.
At 10:30am, the Passion according to Mark will weave throughout the whole service, inviting us to think differently about a story we know well, and shaking up the liturgy a bit. We will be led through the Passion by two readers: Barbara Toman and Ian Jarman, by the Motet Choir, and by you, the congregation, as we sing familiar and moving hymns.

Let us move into Holy Week by joining together in these beautiful liturgies.

Maundy Thursday
2024-03-28 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
7:00 pm
Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar

Adapted from An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church:
The Thursday in Holy Week. It is part of the Triduum, or three holy days before Easter. It comes from the Latin mandatum novum, “new commandment,” from Jn 13:34. The ceremony of washing feet was also referred to as “the Maundy.” Maundy Thursday celebrations also commemorate the institution of the eucharist by Jesus “on the night he was betrayed.” Egeria, a fourth-century pilgrim to Jerusalem, describes elaborate celebrations and observances in that city on Maundy Thursday. Special celebration of the institution of the eucharist on Maundy Thursday is attested by the Council of Hippo in 381. There is provision for the consecration of the bread and wine for administering Holy Communion from the reserved sacrament on Good Friday. Following this, the altar is stripped and all decorative furnishings are removed from the church.

Good Friday
2024-03-29 12:00 - 12:50 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
12:00 pm
Good Friday liturgy

7:00 pm
Good Friday liturgy

Adapted from An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church:
The Friday before Easter Day, on which the church commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus. It is a day of fasting and special acts of discipline and self-denial. In the early church candidates for baptism, joined by others, fasted for a day or two before the Paschal feast. In the west the first of those days eventually acquired the character of historical reenactment of the passion and death of Christ. The liturgy of the day includes John’s account of the Passion gospel, a solemn form of intercession known as the solemn collects (dating from ancient Rome), and optional devotions before the cross (commonly known as the veneration of the cross). The eucharist is not celebrated in the Episcopal Church on Good Friday, but Holy Communion may be administered from the reserved sacrament at the Good Friday service.

The Great Vigil of Easter
2024-03-30 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
7:00 pm
Easter Vigil and first Eucharist of Easter

Join us for the Agape potluck meal following the service.

Adapted from An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church:
The liturgy intended as the first (and arguably, the primary) celebration of Easter in the BCP (pp. 284-95). It is also known as the Great Vigil. The service begins in darkness, sometime between sunset on Holy Saturday and sunrise on Easter, and consists of four parts: The Service of Light (kindling of new fire, lighting the Paschal candle, the Exsultet); The Service of Lessons (readings from the Hebrew Scriptures interspersed with psalms, canticles, and prayers); Christian Initiation (Holy Baptism) or the Renewal of Baptismal Vows; and the Eucharist. Through this liturgy, the BCP recovers an ancient practice of keeping the Easter feast. Believers would gather in the hours of darkness ending at dawn on Easter to hear scripture and offer prayer. This night-long service of prayerful watching anticipated the baptisms that would come at first light and the Easter Eucharist. Easter was the primary baptismal occasion for the early church to the practical exclusion of all others. This practice linked the meanings of Christ’s dying and rising to the understanding of baptism.

Agape Meal
2024-03-30 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
The Agape Meal is on March 30 at around 8:00 pm, immediately following the Easter Vigil service. We will be serving lamb, ham, rolls, Canadian Honker Bunnie Cake, and a gluten-free dessert option. Please sign up on the sign-up sheet in Brackenridge Hall, visit this link, or call, text, or e-mail Cindy Heins ((507) 993-5824 or heins.cynthia@gmail.com). If you are able to bring a salad or side dish, please list what you will be bringing. Also, indicate whether you can help with clean-up after the dinner.

Easter Day Services
2024-03-31 08:30 - 09:30 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
8:30 am
Holy Eucharist, Rite I

10:30am
Festal Holy Eucharist, Rite II, with Choirs and Musical Ensemble

Adapted from An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church:

The feast of Christ’s resurrection. Easter Day is the annual feast of the resurrection, the pascha or Christian Passover, and the eighth day of cosmic creation. Faith in Jesus’ resurrection on the Sunday or third day following his crucifixion is at the heart of Christian belief. Easter sets the experience of springtime next to the ancient stories of deliverance and the proclamation of the risen Christ. In the west, Easter occurs on the first Sunday after the full moon on or after the vernal equinox. Easter always falls between Mar. 22 and Apr. 25 inclusive. Following Jewish custom, the feast begins at sunset on Easter Eve with the Great Vigil of Easter.

Acts of the Apostles Study
2024-04-15 18:30 - 19:45 (America/Chicago) | Online
What came after Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances to his disciples? What happened to those disciples, and how did we evolve from a small band of Jews following Jesus to being called Christians? You are invited to a study of the Acts of the Apostles – a book of the Bible that we read in worship throughout the Great Fifty Days of Easter, but don’t really spend much time with. As St. Luke’s “second chapter” after his gospel account of Jesus’ life, the story of the Acts of the Apostles is the natural study to follow our study of the Gospel according to Luke that we did last fall. Bishop Loya has invited all of us in the Episcopal Church in Minnesota to study Acts during this Eastertide.

We will begin on Monday, April 15, and meet together, all on Zoom, every Monday through May 20 from 6:30pm to 7:45-ish. Two resources are recommended: Acts (Interpretation Bible Studies), by Charles C. Williamson and Acts from Scratch, by Donald L. Griggs and Paul W. Waleskey. We will also use our Bibles!

If you are interested in this study, please email Rev. Beth at rector@calvary-rochester.org, so that you can receive the Zoom link.

Litter Bit Better
2024-04-27 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | St. Mary’s Park, 901 4th Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55904, United States
Calvary has signed up to participate in the Litter Bit Better Spring Clean Up Event with the city on April 27, 2024, at 10:00 am at St. Mary’s Park. This is a wonderful chance to participate positively in our community and we look forward to seeing you there!

Children's Church
2024-04-28 09:15 - 10:15 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
April 28, 2024, is a Children’s Church Day! Please bring your children to join in with fun activities as we learn about Philip and the Ethiopian and how God is the vine and we are the branches!

Teacher Appreciation Preparation
2024-05-04 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Parents, please save the dates of May 4, 2024, at 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm and May 5, 2024, 11:30 – 12:30 pm. We are planning a special meal to say thank you to the teachers who have worked so tirelessly over the past school year and who have so willingly volunteered their time for the children/teens at our church. Thus, the Middle Schoolers and any High Schoolers who want to join in will be meeting on May 4th at 1:00 pm in the kitchen to make food for the next day, and will supervise the younger kids in setting up and serving the teachers, class helpers, and their significant others if they choose. The menu will be: soup, salad, homemade bread or dinner rolls and a dessert. May 5th will also be the End-of-Year party for the kids, so it will be a busy day! Will be sending out a Sign-Up for ingredients next week so keep an eye out for it!

Children's Formation End-of-Year Party
2024-05-05 09:15 - 10:15 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us as we participate in fun games for the younger kids, an ugly t-shirt contest for the older kids, and for those who want they are welcome to bring a football along to throw around as well. Best of all, there will be an ice cream bar at the end which will include the traditional favorite – Cookie Monster!!

Teacher Appreciation Day
2024-05-05 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902

Spring Fling Happy Hour
2024-05-10 16:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Beetle’s Bar and Grill, 230 20th Avenue SW, Rochester, Minnesota, 55902, United States
Celebrate spring with Calvary’s Fellowship Committee and your fellow parishioners. We will be hosting a happy hour on Friday, May 10, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at Beetle’s Bar and Grill, located two blocks west of Saint Marys Hospital on 2nd Street SW.
The secret code is SIITAAC. Be the first person to tell us what this stands for and you get a free drink! The happy hour is very informal. Popcorn and water are free. You are welcome to purchase other food and drinks. Please don’t miss this opportunity to visit with Calvary friends.

Parish Meeting
2024-05-12 09:30 - 10:15 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
All are invited to a parish meeting from 9:30 to 10:15 am on Sunday, May 12, in Crawford Hall. This will give everyone time to grab a cup of coffee and a doughnut and head upstairs for an update on the parking plan during the initial stages of the Mayo Expansion project, as well as a few other updates from the “Nuts and Bolts” Team of the Calvary response. The meeting will not be livestreamed.

Oasis Garden Planting
2024-05-18 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
The Oasis Garden planting is a long-standing tradition at Calvary. Each spring, parishioners of all ages gather to plant and mulch the hundreds of flowers that help make our churchyard a welcoming oasis for our congregation, for Mayo patients & staff, and for all in the community.

This year, we’ll plant from 9:00 am to noon on Saturday, May 18. No gardening skill is necessary, and the needed tools will be available. Plant a few flowers or spend the whole morning – all contributions of your time are welcome.

Questions? Contact Joan Rabe at (507) 269-3162 or joan.rabe@icloud.com.

Lay Weeders
2024-05-24 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
We gather to tend Calvary’s Oasis garden (watering, weeding, trimming, etc.) each Friday morning from 9:00 am to 11:00 am, through August. All are welcome to join in – no reservation or gardening skill required! Come once in a while or come every week, just as you like.
Questions? Contact Joan Rabe at (507) 269-3162 or joan.rabe@icloud.com.

Healing Service
2024-06-06 17:15 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Calvary Episcopal Church, 111 Third Avenue SW, Rochester, MN, 55902
Join us in the church each week for a lay-led service of quiet prayer focused on healing and hope.
All are welcome!
