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!
Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday, and a new recording of a powerful anthem from the Parish Choir, as well as links to all our content!
Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday, and a new recording of a powerful anthem from the Parish Choir, as well as links to all our content!
Featuring our guest preacher Sam DeFlitch’s sermon from Sunday, a Retreat Wrap-up with video slideshow, an update from the Building Hope Campaign, and an important update regarding the appointment of Dame Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, and links to several of our content clearinghouses for all your SJC content needs!
God is ready to listen, ready to see, ready to love us with a love beyond our dreams. I invite you, during this strange time of isolation, to lean into that Home with God. Now, more than ever, we and the world need to remember that God, Love and Home are still present to us, and we can share that with good news with others.
That first crowd cut palms and put them before Jesus because that’s what they had available. For centuries, people who live in places where palms are not native have connected to the story with whatever they had available. So, this year, we encourage you to harvest what you can – pine boughs, birch branches, beech twigs, forsythia – and to decorate your doors and homes for Palm Sunday! Ann Tarlton offers a DIY tutorial!
I believe that by holding the world in prayer, we are doing something. That’s not to say that we shouldn’t be writing letters, making cards, or offering donations – those things are important too. I hope we can see our prayer as our gift to the world, one of many ways we can continue to radiate God’s love into a world and time that desperately needs it.
It is now clear that we will not be able to gather as usual for our Holy Week and Easter celebrations. The earliest we might consider returning to our sanctuaries for worship may be Sunday May 10, which happens to be Good Shepherd Sunday/Mothers’ Day. In the meantime, your local church is providing on-line worship services of word, prayer and spiritual communion, even as we experience this time of sacramental exile and fasting.
In these uncertain and strange times, I wanted to simply let you all know what is going on with the Stevens family. Firstly, we are all doing well. Secondly, we are in the United States and never did make our planned trip to New Zealand. Currently, we are in FL with my parents simply praying for all and being grateful for the time together.
In the days since we sent our last update about how we as a community are responding to the Coronavirus, we have been tracking new information, speaking with other communities of faith, listening to you, and talking with our Bishop.
