Centering Prayer
2025-02-26 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-02-28 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-03-05 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-03-07 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-03-12 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-03-14 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-03-19 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-03-21 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 1 more date | Kennedy Room – St. Marks, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, California, 94306
Gather to spend time with God in quiet communion and Centering Prayer

Religion, Race, and the “Heathen”
2025-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Parish Hall, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, United States
The fourth event in the speaker series, Community, Faith, and Racial Justice. This series on racial injustice in America explores the role of Christianity, including the current white Christian Nationalist movement, in racial injustice and seeks to define a path toward justice, healing and reconciliation.

Professor Kathryn Gin Lum will speak on her recent book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History.

Kathryn Gin Lum is Professor in the Religious Studies Department, in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, at Stanford University. Her teaching and research focus on the lived ramifications of religious beliefs; she specializes in the history of religion and race in America.

She will speak on themes in her most recent book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, which looks at how the figure of the “heathen” in need of salvation underlies American conceptions of race. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

This event is free. Please register here for tickets.

Accessibility: St. Mark’s is wheelchair accessible; closed captioning will be available.
Parking: Ample parking behind the church.
Questions: Please email beloved_community@saint-marks.com
Presenting Sponsor: Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church – Palo Alto
Co-Sponsors: American Muslim Voice Foundation • First Congregational Church of Palo Alto UCC • First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto • Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice • Peninsula Solidarity Cohort • Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga • Saint Jude’s Episcopal Church, Cupertino • Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Burlingame • Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church, Redwood City • Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Sunnyvale • Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Mountain View • Showing Up for Racial Justice Santa Clara County • Stanford Canterbury • Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, San Jose • Trinity Episcopal Church, Menlo Park • Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto • University Lutheran Church at Stanford

Choir Rehearsal
2025-02-27 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-03-06 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-03-13 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-03-20 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-03-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Sanctuary, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306

8 a.m. Liturgy at Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene
2025-03-02 08:00 - 09:30, 2025-03-09 08:00 - 09:30, 2025-03-16 08:00 - 09:30, 2025-03-23 08:00 - 09:30 | Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306

10 a.m. Liturgy
2025-03-02 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-03-09 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-03-16 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-03-23 10:00 - 11:30 | Sanctuary, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Party
2025-03-04 17:30 - 19:30 | Parish Hall, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, United States
Join us in the Parish Hall for our annual Pancake Supper Party! Enjoy a fun meal, pancake-themed games, and some great entertainment from a local performer. Bring friends!

Ash Wednesday Noon Service
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Sanctuary, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306
The first of the forty days of Lent, named for the custom of placing blessed ashes on the foreheads of worshipers at Ash Wednesday services. The ashes are a sign of penitence and a reminder of mortality, and may be imposed with the sign of the cross.

Ash Wednesday Evening Service
2025-03-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Sanctuary, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306

Rapid Response Training for ICE Actions
2025-03-16 14:00 - 17:00 | Parish Hall, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, United States
Please join us for Rapid Response Training for ICE Actions in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

Jesus Ruiz from Pangea Legal Services and Lorena Melgarejo from Faith in Action Bay Area will provide Know Your Rights materials and training for rapid response to ICE actions in both counties. You will learn how to be an observer, a reporter, a rumor verifier or truth teller. This training will help our immigrant neighbors access justice and services that are available to detainees and family members, will reduce fear and increase our collective sense of community.

The event is free, but registration is required. Please register here: https://bit.ly/4hO5wB5

Evensong at Christ Church Portola Valley
2025-03-16 17:00 | Christ Church Portola Valley, 815 Portola Rd, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, United States
On Sunday March 16 at 5PM, St. Mark’s Choir will join the choirs of St. Bede’s Menlo Park and Christ Church Portola Valley for an Evensong held at Christ Church, 815 Portola Road, Portola Valley.

The service will be officiated by The Reverend Matt McDermott, and will be followed by a reception.

In honor of women’s history month, the choral selections feature works by women composers from 1600 to the present day. All are welcome!

March Book Club
2025-03-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Kennedy Room – St. Marks, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, California, 94306
The March gathering of the St. Mark’s Book Club will be Tuesday, March 18, at 2:00 in the Kennedy Room.
Our book will be The Women, by Kristin Hannah, and Jan Terry will be our discussion leader. Everyone is welcome!

St. Marks Book Club
2025-03-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Kennedy Room – St. Marks, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, California, 94306
The St. Mark’s Book Club is a group of dedicated readers who gather to discuss great books! We meet every 3rd Tuesday of each month at 2 p.m
Email Kathy Gillam, kgillamk@stanford.edu, for more information and to be added to the group email.
