Who we are
Mission Statement: St. Mark's is a welcoming, caring, affirming and inclusive community. We come together to worship Jesus Christ whose loving example and teachings call us to love God and our neighbors without exception and to serve our communities wherever there is need.
We are a diverse and active parish, located in the heart of downtown Mt. Kisco, drawing our congregation from across Northern Westchester. We invite you to learn more about us here and we hope that you will visit us in person as well.
We seek to serve all persons who may have unanswered spiritual needs; religious questions; major life events; a hunger for a fresh sense of community; or who want to learn more about God, Jesus, the Church, or a Life of Faith. We recognize that the spiritual life is a unique journey for each person. It would be a privilege to have you come and journey with us.
Our weekly Sunday service is a 9:30 am celebration of the Holy Eucharist in the form of Rite II, which uses contemporary language, for most Sundays, and the more Traditional, Rite I, service on a Sunday during each season. We also have a service on Thursday mornings at 9:00 am followed by our Bible/Book Study.
9:30 am Eucharistic Service
85 East Main Street
Mt. Kisco, NY 10549
This Week's E-Blast Message from the Rector
“Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.” “I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?” [Matthew 18-NRSV]
Peter comes to Jesus with a number already in his hand this Sunday. Seven, he will offer, like he's being generous, and honestly he really is. Seven is a number of completion, a whole week of being the bigger person. And Jesus will at him and say, not seven, but seventy-seven, which is not a bigger quota of forgiveness, but a broken calculator. Anybody who can still count the times they've forgiven their brother or sister, Jesus names for us, hasn't really forgiven them once.
This Sunday we'll sit with the parable Jesus told next, the one about a man who owed about sixty million days of labor and was let go of every last cent of it, and who then walked out the door and took a man by the throat over a hundred. He received mercy, sure, but he simply never really understood it. The debt was cancelled and he was not changed, so he went on living in the old economy, where everything is owed and love is a ledger you defend with your hands around somebody's neck. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter Mpho, also a priest, wrote that without forgiveness we stay tethered to the person who hurt us, bound in chains of bitterness, tied together and trapped. The unforgiving servant thinks he's holding the chain. In reality: he's wearing it.
We'll talk honestly about what forgiveness is and is not. And then we'll talk about the rhythm, which is the actual invitation: confess, receive, release, and do it again tomorrow. It's the shape of our whole liturgy, and it's meant to follow us out to the parking lot and into this broken and hurting world.
May Peace live in your heart,
Rev. Kyle
Meet The Team
The Rev. Kyle Martindale
Rector
Chrissy Fontanilla
Parish Administrator
Anthony Rispo
Organist & Music Director
Misael Enamorado
Sexton
Alex Antes
Senior Warden
Jody Sherman
Junior Warden
Jennifer Barlow
Bookkeeper
Amanda Allen
Treasurer