Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday, a second showing of our Service of Lessons and Carols, a note from Anne, info about Blue Christmas Service this Thursday, a full listing of all Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany offerings here at St. John’s, and information about the Vigil for the Longest Night, as well as links to all our content!
Featuring Aaron’s sermon from Sunday, a new recording of an Advent favorite from the Parish Choir, an invitation to attend the Ordination of Steve Falci, the full schedule of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany offerings at St. John’s, plus links to several of our content clearinghouses for all your SJC content needs!
Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday, an exciting new anthem for Advent from the Parish Choir, a full listing of all Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany offerings here at St. John’s, information about this Sunday’s St. John’s Selects concert featuring Joel Spears, and links to all our content!
Featuring Anne’s sermon from Sunday, music from the Parish Choir, several prayers for Thanksgiving, an invitation to Outside the Box this Sunday, and information on our upcoming St. John’s Selects presentation of Joel Spears, Lute: “The Great Mystery: Old Music for a New Advent” on Sunday, December 7.
Featuring our guest preacher The Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr.’s sermon from Sunday, a great new release from the Parish Choir, an invitation from Anne, a note of thanks and video tribute that was premiered at our annual Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday, and info on next Sunday evening’s Interfaith Service of Thanksgiving.
Homecoming brings as much excitement to the Altar Guild as it did when we were much younger and in school or college. As we prepare for Oct. 24, we look forward to using our treasured communion vessels and hope we remember the details of preparation. With great anticipation we look forward to being together, hearing music, singing hymns and being in our beloved St. John's.
The retreat for the kids isn’t just friends, hikes, marshmallow roasting, or crafts the kids love. It is all of it. They spend time with people they don't typically see, hearing them share what matters to them. Finding connections and common footing with people they've only seen at a coffee hour. None of it works without everyone stepping a little outside their comfort zone – including me.
Dark is the cloud that rests over the nation. Wild is the war cry that pierces the air… Lord, may the bonds of the captive be broken. May this struggle bring sweet liberty. Teach us that love is a heaven-born token and that the truth can alone make us free… — excerpt from a Prayer for the Captive by Sister Cecelia DeVere
What will be the future legacy of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Portsmouth? How do we being to write that story now? What will be our part in doing the important work of caring for each other, of loving our neighbors no matter what, of Welcoming All In The Name of Christ, of discovering the areas where we struggle individually and collectively to reconcile our relationship with oppression and/or hatred, and atoning for those sins?
