​Upcoming Events

Featured Events

Lunch and Learn Series 2022 begins with 

“Collecting” our Prayers

Assistant Bishop Geralyn Wolf Episcopal Diocese of Long Island

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​Almighty God, to you all hearts are open. With the words of this short prayer, the Collect for Purity, we begin The Holy Eucharist. In three one-hour sessions in February, Bishop Wolf will explore the background, structure, and usage of these short prayers found in ourBook of Common Prayer. Emphasis will be placed on how to use the collects as a source for prayer, contemplation, insight, and spiritual growth.
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Wednesdays, from 12 Noon to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom
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Welcome back to Online Lunch & Learn 2022!

This popular program continues with an offering once monthly from February through June. Making the classes available via Zoom allows us to eliminate the commute!
Each course meets for one hour at lunch time on one weekday over a three- or four-week period. Planned topics include The Psalms, “Collecting” our prayers (BCP Collects), “Family Feuds” (church councils), “Witnesses from the Cloud” (Saints), and “Textual tradition of Mary Magdalene.”
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Check back periodically for announcements!

School for Ministry
Registration opens Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022

The School for Ministry will meet online via Zoom one Saturday each month, from February through June.  
The School for Ministry Formation program for postulants completed its first 3-year cycle with the new curriculum. 

The dates for the Spring semester classes for diaconal postulants, Anglican Studies students, and interested Lay learners are the following Saturdays:  Feb 19, March 19, April 16, May 21 and June 18, 2022

Classes run from 8:30 am – 5 pm and include Morning Prayer.  All sessions conducted fully via Zoom through June 2022. 
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If you would like more information about the classes for Spring 2022, School for Ministry, please click here and contact Co-Chair, Director of Academic Programs - Canon Ted Gerbracht tgerbracht@dioceseli.org. 

Working Our Way to General
Convention 2022: Canon Chuck Robertson Discusses the Modern Episcopal Church

As part of the final online meeting of the School for Ministry course Church History 2 Anglican Christianity, Canon Ted introduced The Rev Canon C. K. (Chuck) Robertson, Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Ministry Beyond the Episcopal Church. Previously recorded via Zoom in interview format, the discussion covered major themes in the development of the Anglican Communion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and offered a peek into the agendas of the summer 2022 meetings of the Episcopal Church’s General Convention and the Lambeth Conference. A link to this conversation is here:  Dialog with Canon Robertson

Featured Video:  Mercer School of Theology Annual Capon Lecture

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The Rev. Canon Bruce D. Griffith. Th.D., Honorary Canon is Residence at the Cathedral, gives a lecture on his recently published book, Grace and Incarnation: The Oxford Movement's Shaping of the Character of Modern Anglicanism for the George Mercer's Annual Capon Lecture.   Click the video to enjoy the replay.  Thank you Rev. Canon Bruce Griffith.  ​

SAFE CHURCH UPDATE

All in-person Safe Church dates are cancelled until further notice. 
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​Winter 2022


The Advent season marks the start of a new church year.  The word “Advent” is derived from the Latin “adventus”:  defined as an approach, appearance, arrival, “a coming on the scene.”  In the late Roman Empire, ceremonies, “liturgies,” were created to mark the adventus of the emperor or a leading citizen.  While these were secular activities, there was a touch of the religious, as late Roman emperors had a sense of divine purpose.  We Christians know who is coming, and we have four weeks to get ready.  New fair linen is laid across the altar, the seasonal color changes to purple or blue, and a new cycle of readings from scripture begins.

Readings from Scripture on Sunday mornings follow a three-year cycle (Years A, B, and C).  Each year, during Advent, Mercer offers a three-session short Lunch & Learn course on the themes and readings associated with that liturgical year. During each year, the Holy Gospel proclaimed at the Sunday Morning Eucharist focuses on one of the three synoptic gospels. On the first Sunday in Advent 2021 (Year C) we open the gospel of Luke. Our conversation for Lunch & Learn will explore the Christian story through the eyes, ears, and voice of Luke.  Join us on Zoom for three Thursdays in Advent, from 12 Noon to 1 p.m. beginning December 2.  Look for further details and a link to registration on this web page.

In this time of anticipation, we are also looking ahead to the start of our spring semester at the School for Ministry in February.  In addition to courses in scripture, theology, and liturgics from our core academic curriculum, we have some interesting plans in the works.  Watch this web page in early January for further details!

Adventus – anticipation.


HOW TO REGISTER FOR
CLASSES & EVENTS

There are four options: 

1. Click on the cover of the new Course Book pictured on the upper right hand corner of this page. Then find your event and click on the link Register Here. Follow instructions for online registration. The online system should send a confirmation to your email address.

2. Find your event by date on the Google calendar located on the left side of this page. Click on the event and click on the Register tab located at the end of the description. Follow the instructions to register online. The online system should send a confirmation to your email address.

3.  Click on School for Ministry Tab above and then click on Spring 2022

4.  Register by telephone or email, contact the Mercer Office at 516 248-4800 Ext 140. or merceroffice@dioceseli.org.

Mercer Library Hours


Tuesday and Wednesday 10am - 3pm
Saturday by Appt Only

Contact jherbst@dioceseli.org

Spring School for Ministry Catalog coming soon! 

Welcome to Mercer!

Diane Muscarella
Co-Head, Director of Operations
dmuscarella@dioceseli.org
Canon Ted Gerbracht
Co-Head, Director of Academic Programs
tgerbracht@dioceseli.org
Aissa Hillebrand
Assistant Director of Operations
ahillebrand@dioceseli.org
Jane Herbst
Librarian
jherbst@dioceseli.org
The George Mercer, Jr. Memorial School of Theology
Episcopal Diocese of Long Island
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