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.
Featuring Aaron’s sermon from Sunday, a new recording of a favorite Spiritual from the Parish Choir, A Prayer for Veteran’s Day, and a link to the full text of Bishop Rob Hirschfeld’s 2025 Diocesan Convention address, plus links to several of our content clearinghouses for all your SJC content needs!
Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday, the link to revisit our evening Requiem Mass Service for All Saints, a Prayer for Elections, as well as links to all our content!
Featuring Aaron’s sermon from Sunday, a recording from last year’s Choral Eucharist Service for All Saints, and links to several of our content clearinghouses for all your SJC content needs!
What are your three things today? This question causes me to pause. This pause is so important. Many of my days are frenetic and full to the brim with need and activity. The practice of pausing to consider and remember what I am grateful for is perhaps my most helpful spiritual practice while navigating a frenetic life in general and specifically this Fall Season at SJC.
I invite you to pause for a moment and examine how you practice the presence of God. The tendency that I hear, see and experience is that people, (myself included), look for God “somewhere out there.” Brother Lawrence reminds us that God is nearer than we might think. Psalm 139 expresses this reality well when the psalmist asks ..
Parallel rows of tobacco stretched to the edge of my sightline, their giant sagging from the in-tense heat of the day. In front of me were two circles of chairs nestled between two double-wide trailers. . We grabbed plates of food and took our seats in the circles. The thirteen young folks who gave a week of their summer to travel to North Carolina on a Mission Trip interspersed with the mi-grant farmworkers who had invited us into their home.
I had completely forgotten how overwhelming life is in a household with a new baby, especially if the baby is the first baby born into that household! I write from London where I am spending time with my lovely new granddaughter, Ada, and her terrific parents (very true, even if I am biased!). Ada is five weeks old, and life is a bit more settled, until it isn’t.
