St. Matthew's Episcopal Church 919 Tennis Avenue | Maple Glen, Pennsylvania 19002 | 215-646-4092

Ash Wednesday & Lent 2021

Unless otherwise noted, regular Sunday and weekday offerings, are scheduled during this time.

Ash Wednesday, February 17

12:00 p.m., The Imposition of Ashes & Holy Eucharist – Rite II in the sanctuary (registration required! register here) (In-person only)

6:00 p.m., The Imposition of Ashes on Zoom, Mtg ID: 960-2682-5472 (Bulletin)

7:00 p.m., The Imposition of Ashes & Holy Eucharist – Rite I in the sanctuary (registration required! register here) (Bulletin) (In-person + livestream)


Lent-at-Home Kits

How will your family observe a holy Lent this year? Try one of our Lent-at-Home kits for families! These are now available for pickup outside the church doors facing the lower parking lot, and in the narthex.

Fr. Rodney introduces Lent-at-Home kits

Posted by St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, February 12th, 2021

Healing Eucharist Service on Wednesday Evenings

Starting on February 24, a Healing Eucharist service will be offered Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m., registration required here. These services are in-person only and will not be livestreamed.


Stations of the Cross on Friday Evenings

Starting on February 19, join us for Stations of the Cross via Zoom on Friday evenings at 7:00 p.m.


Lenten Book Club

What does it mean to live what you pray? When you pray the Lord’s prayer have you often thought about what the words really mean?

Join us in reading the book Living the Lord’s Prayer: The Way of the Disciple by Albert Haase, OFM. Father Haase teaches us to think about the words we pray and the meaning our prayers have for our spiritual formation and daily lives. Starting February 25th, we will begin a five-week session from 7 p.m. to no later than 8:30 p.m. via Zoom. The book is available at Amazon (click here). If you cannot purchase the book, but would like to attend, please contact the church office at 215-646-4092. Please consider joining us for this Lenten opportunity.


Adult Lifelong Learning Forum

During Sundays in Lent we will take a video pilgrimage together through the Holy Land. Offered by Saint George’s College, Jerusalem, The Holy Land video series invites one to experience the beauty, wonder and inspiration of this most sacred region.

You can view each week’s video at your convenience at any point in the week, and then join us on Sundays via Zoom for conversation and fellowship. The first video in our series is ‘The Desert.’ (Supplemental material here.) Our first Lenten forum will begin on Sunday, February 21 at 11:00 a.m.

We look forward to our Journey with Christ together with you!

The desert has profound significance in the Christian life. We are most readily drawn to think about the desert because of Jesus’s temptations there which mark the beginning of his public ministry. But that significant moment evokes the much earlier foundational event of the Exodus of the Hebrew people who escaped the clutches of Pharaoh on a long journey towards the ‘Promised Land’.

Updated: 2/16/2021