Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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Sermon Series
"The God of the Living”
The Rev. Aaron B. Jenkyn
The sermon invites us to look honestly at two tables of hardship, the ones that draw easy compassion and the ones that expose our judgments. In this week's Gospel, Jesus reminds us that God is the God of the Living, refusing to let any story be dismissed. And when everything else shuts down, the Church stays open — because the work of seeing, loving, and lifting dignity is the very work we are called to do.
MUSIC
“My Lord, What a Morning,” African American Spiritual, arr. Michael Larkin; featuring the St. John's Parish Choir, under the direction of Olin Johannessen, Associate Director of Music. Featured Offertory Anthem at the 10:00am Rite II Service of Holy Eucharist on Sunday, November 9, 2025.
A PRAYER FOR VETERANS DAY
Almighty God, this Veterans Day we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad, those under active duty and those who have completed their service. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
— Book of Common Prayer
BISHOP ROB'S CONVENTION ADDRESS
“The world doesn’t need another statement, it needs communities whose lives are letters of Christ written on human hearts.”
At the 223rd Annual Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld, offering his penultimate convention address before his planned retirement in 2027, called the Church to meet this cultural moment of division, strain, and uncertainty with courage, compassion, and resilient hope.
Centering his message on the conviction that “Jesus comes to us now,” he urged congregations to embody the Beatitudes through concrete acts of generosity, justice, and neighbor-love, especially alongside those most impacted by economic and social hardship. He celebrated the diocese’s expanding ministries, from food programs to housing partnerships, as signs of the Spirit equipping NH churches for bold, life-giving mission.
Click here for the full text of Bishop Hirschfeld’s address.
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