We welcome you to Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, a congregation of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona. Visitors and guests are always welcome at St Luke’s. Through our website, you will have a pretty good idea of who we are and what we do as followers of Jesus Christ. You can find our Sunday bulletins, listen to our past sermons and to special anthems performed by our great choir. You will also discover St Luke’s many ways to serve the Lord by serving those around us.
We are a blend of traditional worship and contemporary ideas, where everyone is free to question, doubt, and wrestle with great issues of life and faith, as a part of a loving, inclusive community.
When you visit us for worship, please stop at our Welcome Table. You can’t miss it, because it’s probably the first thing you will notice when entering the wooden doors of our building. First-time visitors will receive a symbolic gift from us: a bread of love. You will be invited to put your name in our guest book.
We worship following the order of service found in the 1979 version of The Book of Common Prayer. But no worries; to make our services more “user-friendly,” we are using bulletins. You can download the current one here.
After the 10:00 am service you are invited to join us for a time of fellowship in our Parish Hall. Just follow the flow!
All are welcome, and we can’t wait to meet you and to journey with you in the service of the Lord and our neighbors.
Wednesday 10:00 am Holy Eucharist, with Healing, in Crowell Chapel
This is a quiet and spoken service with communion. Because small, intimate character of this service, the homily is very often a time where people are invited to share their thoughts or comments about the readings or what the Spirit leads them to share. The heart of the service is a healing prayer with anointing and laying on of hands. The service is usually about 50 to 60 minutes long.
Saturday 5:30 pm Holy Eucharist, Rite II, in Crowell Chapel
This is an early Sunday Service. It includes the same collects and readings to be used the next day. This is a quiet and spoken service. This service has a sermon and communion each week and is usually about 50 to 60 minutes long.
Sunday 8:00 am Holy Eucharist, Rite II, in Crowell Chapel
This is a simple service with organ music and hymns (at the beginning, before the proclamation of the Gospel, and at the end). “Rite II” refers to the use of regular, everyday language in our worship. This service has a sermon and communion each week and is usually about 60 minutes long. For special occasions, such as Easter, we welcome the choir and worship in the Sanctuary.
Sunday 10:00 am Holy Eucharist with Choir, Rite II, in the Sanctuary
This is a more formal service (although you do not have to dress formally to participate!). This service has a sermon and music, including congregational singing of hymns, our great choir, organ, and other instruments on occasion. Parts of the worship service are sung, rather than spoken. This service has a sermon and communion each week, and is usually 65 to 75 minutes long. It is during this service that Confirmation and Baptism often take place.
The Episcopal Church is the American member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which numbers 60 million members in over 100 countries. “Episcopal” and “Bishop” are both derived from the same Greek word, “episkopos,” which means “leader” or “guardian.” It is sometimes described as the “bridge church,” or “church of the middle way,” because it draws from both Catholic and Protestant traditions. It preserves the ancient catholic (meaning “all-embracing”) faith and sacraments, as well as its traditional structure, with Bishops as its chief pastors. It is at the same time a Protestant denomination, the Anglican Church having separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth century. The Episcopal Church’s focus rests in the basic authority of Holy Scripture and the proclamation of the Word of God.
Episcopalians make a solemn commitment to follow Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.
One God, the Father who created us and all things, the Son who redeems us from sin and death, the Holy Spirit who renews us as the Children of God.
Episcopalians believe the Holy Scriptures to be the Word of God and to contain all things necessary for salvation. We believe God inspired human authors and continues to speak to us through the Bible.
Episcopalians affirm that salvation is the end of our separation from God and the beginning of a new relationship with God and with one another. The Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds are basic statements of our beliefs in God.
In worship, we unite ourselves with others to acknowledge the holiness of God, to hear God’s Word, to offer prayer and praise, and to celebrate the sacraments. The Celebration of the Holy Eucharist (sometimes referred to as Holy Communion) is the central act of worship in accordance with Jesus’ command to His disciples. Three books are used at every service: the Holy Bible; the Book of Common Prayer, (1979), which is composed of both ancient and modern liturgies and prayers; and the Hymnal (1982), which includes both traditional and contemporary Church music. Episcopal services preserve the rich worship and tradition of the historic Church. Everyone present participates actively in this joyous response to God’s love.
Sacraments are the “outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual grace.” Grace is God’s love freely given to us for forgiveness and spiritual renewal.
The two sacraments of the Gospel, instituted and ordained by Christ Himself as essential for every Christian’s salvation are:
Yes. There are five other sacramental rites:
The mission of an Episcopalian is not simply a matter of “saving souls.” Neither is it simply a matter of “feeding the hungry.” Christian mission is seen as the quest for both the spiritual and the physical welfare of mankind since Christ’s love extends to all aspects of life. The mission of the Church is to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.
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