This coming Sunday, September 7th, is “Wear Red Again” Sunday. No, that is not a new holiday in the church calendar. It will be our way to dedicate the new RED altar paraments. This particular set of paraments is only used once a year, on Pentecost Sunday. Although some churches in the reformed tradition have been known to pull out the red vestments for Reformation Sunday, the last Sunday in October.
This past Pentecost Sunday, we saw how meaningful it was to have the altar covered in red and the many red carnations on the altar and chancel. Now, thanks to a generous memorial gift honoring Louise Piper’s mother, Eleanor Conrad, we will have these lovely paraments to use. Thank you.
Pentecost Sunday (fifty days after Easter) celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birthing of the church. It is the official “sending out into all the world to tell the Good News of Jesus” Sunday.
We didn’t want to wait until next year to dedicate the paraments – so we decided that this first Sunday in September 2025 would be well suited to the task since you have just called your next Settled Pastor. You are birthing a new era in the story of Greenbelt Community Church. What better way to launch it than with the Sacrament of Communion and the dedication of the new red paraments? So, wear red in anticipation of your future!
See you Sunday!
Rev. Clara
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