April 5| 11 AM | Snow Park

Having celebrated Easter the night before, we’ll spend Easter Sunday together over brunch at Snow Park (just off Lake Merritt) with a little bit of liturgy (some songs and a few prayers) and an egg hunt! Feel free to invite friends/neighbors/lovers and bring a dish or any food to share! This service, given that we’ll be out in the wild, will require a little more effort to set-up, clean-up, and to hide the eggs. If you’re able to come a little early and help, or stick around and help clean up afterwards that would be lovely.

April 4| 8 PM | St. Paul’s

The Great Vigil of Easter is intended to be the first and primary celebration of Easter in the Book of Common Prayer and in ancient Christian liturgy and so we at St. Lucy’s will treat it as our primary Easter service. It’s a long service (like 3 hours!), starting in darkness and fire and ending in light and Easter. Emily will be serving as a Deacon in the Vigil at St. Paul’s and we encourage all of you to attend that vigil as well! Click below to read a little more about the Vigil.

April 3| 7:30 PM | St. Paul’s, Oakland

Good Friday is the day we recall the story of when Jesus suffered and was executed in the style of a political rebel by crucifixion. This will be a fairly short, spare, haunting service with a sermon, some songs, and where we’ll pray the solemn collects from the Book of Common Prayer.

April 3| 6 PM | Tommy & Lizzie’s home (RSVP to receive the address)

This is the first event of Holy Week where we remember Jesus' command (Maundy comes from the Latin word Mandatum) to love one another just as Jesus demonstrated when he washed his disciples' feet just before he was crucified. In this service we'll share a meal together, wash each other's feet, and have a simple liturgy with prayers and song over dinner. For this meal, we'll meet in Tommy & Lizzie's home, just as Jesus shared his last meal with his disciples in the Upper Room, which is thought to have been in a home and to have functioned as a dining room. RSVP here so we know how much food to have ready.

“Remove futurity from experience and you leach meaning from it just as surely as if you cut out a man’s past. ‘Memory is the basis of individual personality.’ Miguel de Unamuno writes, ‘just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future.’” –Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss

This is the first dinner in a series we'll be hosting in 2026 around topics we think are interesting and which deserve a sit-down meal and conversation with others.

We believe that gathering for meals, over intentional conversation, in community is one of our greatest forms of resistance to the things that make us less human. As Ronald Reagan said in his farewell speech in 1989: "All great change in America begins at the dinner table."

You don't need to prepare anything to attend these dinners, just show up ready to eat, to be served a meal, and to engage in conversation, with depth, with others. The conversations will be structured, but casual. 

For this first dinner we're going to focus our attention on the spiritual life, specifically: how it is that we live a spiritual life in community? and what is the role of belief? We'll think together and share some of the stories from our lives that emerge. Our hope is that over dinner each of us experiences something of depth, which helps us heal, grow, and make meaning of the events of our lives and the world at this particular moment. RSVP here.

LOGISTICS
Location: Emily’s backyard in Richmond. Dress warm (though we’ll have a fire pit and some heat lamps going). We’ll send out the exact address once you’ve RSVP’d.

Time: 6:30pm
 
Kids: Kids are welcome. There will be plenty of space for the kids to move around. We'll also have some coloring activities for kids who don't want to or are not able to participate at the tables in conversation.

Food: Please note below if there are any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate. All food and drinks will be provided for.

Cost: There is no cost to these dinners, but if you are able or wanting to contribute, please do! You can send money over by clicking here or just bring some cash to the dinner and we'll have something to collect any donations. 

RSVP Here!

We won’t have a St. Lucy’s Ash Wednesday service, but encourage you to head to one in your neighborhood or at St. Paul’s (where we meet for St. Lucy’s). At St. Paul’s you can catch a service at 12:10p or 7p.

Come party with us! We’ll gather at Brix Factory Brewing in Oakland (June’s Pizza is next door) around 5:30p to just party together and celebrate this night before we launch into the season of Lent––as we walk towards the death and resurrection of hope and Jesus. Kids are welcome. We’ll have some kind of ritual at the end of the gathering to send us into Lent.

Join us for St. Lucy’s first Annual All-Church Meeting. We’ll spend some time reflecting on what’s been––celebrating our launch year and the lessons learned––and we’ll look ahead to what’s coming in 2026, including financial updates and goals for the coming year. Everyone is welcome to participate. We’ll aim to have some childcare provided and some snacks. Join in as shaping where we head in 2026! We’ll roll into our regular service following the meeting.