Episcopal church hosts
free organ concert
Christ the King Episcopal Church, 2800 W. Ina Road, will hold a free organ concert at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7. Organist Jeffrey Campbell will play from “Organ Masterworks a la Francaise.”
Special music at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church
The first Sunday of each month, St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., has special music at its 9 and 11:15 a.m. services.
On Sunday, Feb. 7, the St. Philip’s Singers, Canterbury Choir, Canterbury Apprentices and a string chamber orchestra will perform Arvo Pärt’s “Berliner Messe,” which premiered in 1990.
Talk on aging at Tanque Verde Lutheran Church
Tanque Verde Lutheran Church, 8625 E. Tanque Verde Road, will host a talk about growing old, including issues such as retirement and downsizing, according to press materials.
The discussion at 10:40 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, is free.
Jazz heralds the start
of Lent at Grace St. Paul’s
Leading into the season of Lent, Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2331 E. Adams St., will feature a “Jazz Eucharist” at its 10 a.m. service, Sunday, Feb. 7.
Then from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, the parish will celebrate Shrove Tuesday, also known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras, with a pancake dinner, jazz band, dancing and dessert.
To prepare ashes for Ash Wednesday the following day, the evening will conclude with the burning of palms from last year’s Palm Sunday.
Event hosts leaders of Islam, Mormonism, Catholicism
Congregation Anshei Israel, 5550 E. Fifth St. will launch the series “What We Need to Know About … Islam, Mormonism & Catholicism.”
From 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, 17 and 24, Tucson religious leaders will discuss their faiths in the third presentation of the congregation’s “Wisdom of Jewish Tucson” series.
Watheq Alobaidi, the imam of the Muslim Community Center, will present on Feb. 10. A. Cole Thies, the president of a Latter-day Saints’ Tucson stake, will speak Feb.17. Bishop Gerald Kicanas of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson will share Feb. 24.
The series costs $18 per person, plus a food donation for the food bank. Make reservations by Monday, Feb. 8.
Holidays, marriage topic
for Secular Humanist Circle
The Secular Humanist Jewish Circle will present a talk “Holidays Without the Holy: Secular Approaches to Religious Tradition,” 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11 at the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation, 1245 E. Second St.
Rabbi Adam Chalom of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in Illinois, the presenter, will also speak at 2:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14 about “Love and Marriage: From the Bible to Modern Jewish Life” at the Murphy-Wilmot Library, 530 N. Wilmot Road.
Jewish mysticism course offered at Tucson JCC
Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin with Chabad Tucson hopes a course on Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism, will help participants use the wisdom to better understand themselves, according to press materials.
The six-week Soul Maps course from the New York-based Rohr Jewish Learning Institute will run on Thursdays and begins at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, 3800 E. River Road. The course costs $100.
For more information, see chabadtucson.com/soulmaps or call 881-7956.
Synagogue’s religious school earns accreditation
The religious school at Congregation or Chadash, 3939 N. Alvernon Way, has earned accreditation from the Association of Reform Jewish Educators.
The reform Jewish synagogue offers Jewish education and prepares students for their Bar and Bat Mitzvah ceremonies.
For more information about the school, visit orchadash-tucson.org or call 512-8500.
