St Mark's Episcopal Church

8 a.m. Liturgy in Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene
2025-08-03 08:00 - 09:30, 2025-07-27 08:00 - 09:30, 2025-07-20 08:00 - 09:30, 2025-07-13 08:00 - 09:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306
Join us for a spoken 8:00 a.m. service from the Book of Common Prayer held in the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene.

Centering Prayer
2025-08-01 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-07-30 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-07-25 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-07-23 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-07-18 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-07-16 08:30 - 09:30, 2025-07-11 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-07-09 08:30 - 09:30 | Kennedy Room – St. Marks, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, California, 94306
Gather to spend time with God in quiet communion and Centering Prayer

Choir Rehearsal
2025-07-31 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-07-24 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-07-17 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-07-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Sanctuary, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306

Kids & Teens Cook for Hotel de Zink
2025-07-27 17:00 - 19:00
On Sunday, Jul 27, 2025, join us in the church kitchen from 5:00-6:45.
All ages are welcome at the combined kids and teens Hotel de Zink cooking night. This will be our LAST time cooking for Hotel de Zink, so everyone in both the children’s and youth program is invited!

Summer Sundays Storytelling Forum
2025-07-27 11:30 - 12:30
Our church tradition, from liturgy to Scripture, is full of storytelling. Join Debbie Clark for a Summer Sunday focused on stories and all the different ways we experience them!

10 a.m. Liturgy
2025-07-27 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-07-20 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-07-13 10:00 - 11:30 | Sanctuary, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306

Summer Choir - Sing With Us!
2025-07-27 09:30 - 10:00, 2025-07-20 09:30 - 10:00, 2025-07-13 09:30 - 10:00
While our choir is on summer break from June 22 to July 27, we will feature our summer choir at the 10:00am. service. All are welcome to come and sing (including children who can read fluently), rehearsing a simple anthem at 9:30am. No experience or signup is needed—please join us!

Summer Sundays Intergenerational Scavenger Hunt
2025-07-20 11:30 - 12:30
Following the 10:00 a.m. service on Sunday July 20, all ages are invited to join a St. Mark’s scavenger hunt! Teams will work together to solve riddles and search for hidden treasures across our campus. Those with limited mobility will still be able to participate.

Music Director Matthew Burt is coordinating—all are welcome.

St. Marks Book Club
2025-07-15 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.
This month, we are reading The Personal Librarian. Read the book’s blurb and order a copy here!
Email Kathy Gillam, kgillamk@stanford.edu, for more information and to be added to the group email.

July Book Club
2025-07-15 14:00 - 15:30 | Kennedy Room – St. Marks, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, California, 94306
The July book for the St. Mark’s Book Group is The Situation Room by George Stephanopoulos. Mary Murphy will be our discussion leader.

We’ll meet on July 15 at 2:00 in the Kennedy Room.

Everyone is welcome! Questions? Contact Kathy Gillam at kgillamk@stanford.edu.

Summer Sundays Forum - Humpty Dumpty Worship
2025-07-13 11:30 - 12:30
Almost all of us know that all the queen’s horses and all the queen’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again. Join Rev. Nancy and Rev. Nick at the July 13 Summer Sunday as we try to put our St. Mark’s Worship back together again after an epic mix up of Humpty Dumpty proportions.

Good Reads Book Club - The Book of Eve
2025-07-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
This Summer, the Good Reads group will be reading and discussing The Book of Eve by Carmen Boullosa (Author) and Samantha Schnee (Translator).

The group meets every-other week via Zoom on Thursday afternoons. 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM
Contact Marie Highby [mhighby@gmail.com] for more information and Zoom link!

Mexican writer Boullosa follows up The Book of Anna with another mischievous and winning revision of a classic story, this time drawing on the creation stories of Genesis. Eve awakes to a flat version of the paradisial Eden, which Boullosa describes as “silent and unashamed, fleshless.” From Eve’s perspective, there is no time, language, or understanding, though Boullosa puts her primordial impressions into words (the being she names “Thunder,” which Adam calls “God,” produces “sounds like those made by shovels and hatchets”). Eve, “with her fiery disobedience,” is no shameful sinner. Rather, she leads her fellows down the Divine Mountain to Earth, where she finds fire, sex, words, and becomes the mother of all people. Adam doesn’t like these developments; he transforms from Eve’s “puppy-dog” to a violent and spiteful man, distorting the truth of creation and twisting his version into a patriarchal religion: “Abel and Adam spoke to a ‘He.’ They made up prayers that allowed them to repeat their monologue ad nauseam.” What makes this so delightful is Boullosa’s chronicle of Eve’s discovery of pleasure, and of the misogyny of Christianity, in a tone as straightforward as Genesis itself. It’s a stirring challenge to an age-old narrative.

Summer Sundays: Contemplation & Crafts
2025-07-06 11:30 - 12:30
On July 6, join us during the forum hour for some intergenerational craft making and contemplative practices with Anne Anderson!
