Greetings from Asbury Park

The altar is a tray for serving breakfast in bed. The pews are large towels or striped beach chairs. And instead of doodling on the program, distracted children can play with a bucket or bury a parent’s feet in the sand.

On Saturdays in the summer, Trinity Church, an Episcopal congregation here, celebrates a beach Mass at 6 p.m., attracting up to 75 people — some passers-by from the Boardwalk, some regular parish members, and some visitors from Asbury Towers, a retirement housing complex that casts a welcome late-afternoon shadow on the sand.

Read it all in The New York Times. (Hat tip, Dan Webster.)

Posted by Jim Naughton on August 6, 2007 12:14 PM | |
Comments (1)

St. Catherine's in Manzanita Oregon has communion on the beach each summer.

Posted by Ann Fontaine [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 6, 2007 4:57 PM

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