Palm Sunday will be a festive day at Lake of the Isles. The Sunday School children will process with their palms. The service will include a choral reading of the Passion Story According to St. Mark woven together with the music of Dietrich Buxtehude’s sacred cantata... Read More →

The Ash Wednesday Service will follow the traditional liturgy of reflection, confession and the imposition of ashes. Read More →

The congregation celebrates Jesus’ Presentation in the Temple. It is the end of the days of Christmas and begins the shift of focus to Lent. This will also the day the welcome the children who have been baptized in the past year. The choir will sing The Newborn Infant Mild... Read More →

In St. John’s gospel, we read that Jesus first miracle was performed at the wedding in Cana.  It is the familiar story where Jesus turned water into wine. This passage of scripture is often read at weddings. We will use this story to celebrate the gift of marriage and the... Read More →

The Twelve Days of Christmas end on January 5th. Historically, these were favorite days for music and theatre. William Shakespeare wrote his comic play “Twelfth Night” for the close of the Christmas season.  In Leipzig, Germany, during the time of J. S. Bach, the city... Read More →

The Candlelight Service of Holy Communion will celebrate the mystery of the Word made Flesh. The LOTI Church Choir, together with guest musicians will lead the congregation in a retelling of the Christmas story, holy communion and the candle lit singing of Silent Night. Read More →

St. Lucia was a young Christian of Sicily who was martyred in 304 AD during the persecution under Emperor Diocletian. According to tradition, she had decided to devote her life to God and to give her possessions to the poor. In Sweden in the late 1700’s, there were legends... Read More →

One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy (Amahl) and his mother are confronted by crushing poverty. Suddenly, there is a knock on the door the Three Kings, following the Star of Bethlehem in search of the Christ Child, ask to take shelter with the family for the night. The... Read More →

  Music from the British Isles and France Celtic artists Laura MacKenzie and harpist Andrea Stern, along with trumpeter Ben Alle and the the LOTI Church Choir will lead the congregation in an Advent Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, December 10th. This year’s... Read More →

In many Lutheran churches the Confirmation worship service is known as the Affirmation of Baptism. The name recalls the promises that were made by the parents and godparents at the time of a child’s baptism. They vowed that the Christian faith would be a child’s one... Read More →