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Welcome to Saint Ann's Episcopal Parish

Welcome to Saint Ann’s Old Lyme, an Episcopal Church in Connecticut on the coasts of the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound. We have been a welcoming community on the shoreline since 1883. 

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We invite you to come and see us at Saint Ann’s Sundays as we share the love of God in Jesus Christ. Join us during the week for community events, educational programs and fellowship opportunities. Learn about our commitment to addressing poverty, homelessness, refugee resettlement, food insecurity and climate change.

 

Be with us in person and virtually in discovering God’s abundance and joy. 

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The Rev’d Dr. Anita Louise Schell, Rector

Saint Ann's

Mission Statement

We are a community of Christians,
open to all, who serve God in Jesus Christ through worship, education, mission and fellowship.

Save the Dates

February

17 - Office Closed for Presidents' Day

​23 - Orientation on our online Parish directory, Onrealm, with Mark Read at 9:30 in the Griswold Room.

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March

  2 - Mardi Gras Pancake coffee hour ~ 11:45 am

  5 - Ash Wednesday Services: Noon, 3 pm and 7 pm

11 - Tattoos on the Heart, weekly Lenten book class begins – 4 pm

30 - Lenten Vespers service – 4 pm

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LENTEN BOOK CHOSEN: 

Boyle’s Tattoos on the Heart

March 11 - April 15, 4:00 pm

 

Purchase your Lenten reading ($11) now from the office, or borrow the book, and get started reading. 

 

In person and online class led by Mother Anita and Charlie Potts.

 

“For twenty years, Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Heart, he distills his experience working in the ghetto into a breathtaking series of parables inspired by faith. 



Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved unconditionally. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JCPenney fresh out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of God's love. From ten-year-old Lula we learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Pedro we understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the darkness. In each chapter we benefit from Boyle’s gentle, hard-earned wisdom. 

 

These essays about universal kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional love and the importance of fighting despair. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.”

Event Calendar

Click on an individual event for more details.

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