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Gethsemane Episcopal Church began with a handful of people in 1856, seeking to establish a worshiping community in the soon to be burgeoning city of Minneapolis. For over 150 years, The Garden has been sowing seeds of worship, community and justice.
If you have further questions about the Garden, or would like to know more about the Church, its worship, mission and ministry and the community, please email our Vicar, Aron Kramer. The best way to get to know us is to join us for worship on a Sunday. All people, of every race, class, gender, sexual orientation, belief, and those seeking to learn more about their faith journeys, are welcome to experience and join this forming community.
Our services are Sundays at 8AM and 10AM.
Gethsemane's Garden
This summer, parishioners have been working hard to get the Garden of
Gethsemane up and running. There is Creation at work in our garden plot, as volunteers strive to keep weeds in check and to aid in the survival of crops. Sign up to help with the Gethsemane food mission see all your options on the bulletin board at church.Melville and the Shelf of
Hope
By Douglas L.
Krueger
"Charity never faileth." The Bible says it and Melville quotes it in his riverboat novel, The Confidence Man, written in 1857 after an excursion up the Mississippi as far as the Falls of St. Anthony, then a limit of traffic on the Great River Road. The story has long fascinated me and from it I've learned that as a member of the "Party of Hope," I may be more charitable to and optimistic about river people than Melville in his novel, for I am one of them.
I'm supposing that like the people served weekly at the food shelf, we as a church, like they, are unintentionally diverse. So how do we, like they, deserve the food we have? How elect or how elite do we have to be to be nourished? Does the host we take at the Eucharist get redistributed like loaves and fishes by the water for them? Is such transformation possible? Melville's acceptance of Original Sin as total -- Absolute -- presents itself as skepticism but doesn't account for it, and my own liberalism is too rational to explain it. All I can conclude is that the charity that "never faileth" seems to have a kind of multiplying effect around here. Now I wonder, would Melville have called that confidence"?
"Charity never faileth." The Bible says it and Melville quotes it in his riverboat novel, The Confidence Man, written in 1857 after an excursion up the Mississippi as far as the Falls of St. Anthony, then a limit of traffic on the Great River Road. The story has long fascinated me and from it I've learned that as a member of the "Party of Hope," I may be more charitable to and optimistic about river people than Melville in his novel, for I am one of them.
I'm supposing that like the people served weekly at the food shelf, we as a church, like they, are unintentionally diverse. So how do we, like they, deserve the food we have? How elect or how elite do we have to be to be nourished? Does the host we take at the Eucharist get redistributed like loaves and fishes by the water for them? Is such transformation possible? Melville's acceptance of Original Sin as total -- Absolute -- presents itself as skepticism but doesn't account for it, and my own liberalism is too rational to explain it. All I can conclude is that the charity that "never faileth" seems to have a kind of multiplying effect around here. Now I wonder, would Melville have called that confidence"?
 WONDERING WHERE TO PARK? We are able to offer free parking on Sundays at
the Goodyear lot next to the church on 9th Street and 5th Avenue.
Please place a bulletin on your dashboard. The meters along 4th and
5th Avenues, and on 9th Street are free on weekends. We no longer have
a contract with the NRG ramp on 4th Avenue. However - parking is free
to the public on most Sundays when there is no event in town. When the Vikings
are playing at home starting at Noon - you may also park in the lot
next to the Drake Hotel (NOT directly behind the church). Enter on
10th Street. |
