Dylan Thayer’s Archive

Feast of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ Procession and Solemn High Mass Thursday, May 18 at 6:45 p.m. — Guest Preacher: The Reverend William Whittaker Rector, St. Monica & St. James, Capitol Hill   Music: Canzona in F; Heinrich Scheidemann (1595-1663) Missa “Alleluia;” Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522) Psalm 47:1-9 set to Anglican Chant […]

Grate Patrol turned 40 this past year and we’re going to be celebrating in style!   Join fellow Grate Patrol volunteers at St. Paul’s in the Parish Hall on Sunday, June 4th, 2023, following the 10:30am Mass.   We’ll have some delicious food, connect with some of our friends on the street, and learn about where this […]

St. Paul’s will host a Solemn Evensong & Benediction in Thanksgiving for the Coronation of King Charles III on Sunday, 7th May, at 4pm. A community tea will follow. Music Voluntary: Land of our birth; Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), arr. Stanton D.B. Taylor Preces and Responses; William Smith (1603-1645) Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G […]

St Paul’s K Street is a downtown Anglo-Catholic parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (EDOW). We seek a full-time Director of Music responsible for all aspects of our parish music ministry.   The Director of Music should excel in organ, choral conducting, and the Anglican choral tradition.  Applicants should appreciate and respect our Anglo-Catholic faith and […]

  As part of the Diocese of Washington’s Tending Our Soil initiative, St. Paul’s parishioners walked around the parish boundaries in November of 2021. Enjoy this short film about that experience and our efforts to connect with our neighborhood!

Most years, “Pledgetide” sounds and feels familiar, perhaps almost to the point of exhaustion.  Sermons about the widow’s mite and the Parable of the Talents are preached, pleas from the Vestry are made.  The congregation, obligingly or reluctantly (or perhaps both at once) opens their pockets and furnishes the means that will continue for another […]

It’s March of 2020. Mask mandates are appearing across the country. Rules and advice are changing, sometimes by the hour. We all know that story. But when the edict came down from the Bishop that we were to immediately close our doors, I admit I panicked a little. It had never occurred to me that […]

Anglo-Catholicism 101: What is the Incarnation? with Seminarian Thomas Alexander   In the Prologue to his Gospel, Saint John famously writes, “and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us” (1:14). Why would God do such a thing? And just how is this even possible? These two questions lie at the heart of the […]

Have you missed congregational singing? Parishioners, family, and friends joined their voices together in our new project, a virtual hymn-sing. Check it out below: