2 congregations, 2 services

April 5, 2009
MARK BARNA
THE GAZETTE

Joy was the pervading emotion at St. George's Anglican Church and Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church during Palm Sunday services, but there was also a touch of sadness.

Some Anglican parishioners mourned the leaving of the gothic stone church on North Tejon Street, while a handful of members of both parishes lamented the emotional toll wrought over the last two years following the group split.

The congregations had only a few days to organize Palm Sunday liturgies, and both groups' liturgies encountered technical and organizational hiccups. But none of that mattered.

A new day for St. George's and Grace and St. Stephen's had begun."It's a major transition from the huge gothic church," St. George's priest Alan R. Crippen II said Sunday, "but it feels great." the rest