During the summer months, instead of weekly letters in the E-News, I and other members of our staff and vestry will be writing a less frequent but more detailed letter to you all. Our letters will feature …
This week, I write to you as our parish announces the departure of out Interim Organist and Director of Music, Brian Locke. Although I write with sadness for his departure, I certainly …
This week, we enter a season in the church often referred to as Ordinary Time. It is also called The Season after Pentecost, or, if you’re a Church of England oldie like me, “Trinitytide,” where we …
As we approach the end of our program year of activities, we find ourselves indeed entering a new season not only in our general calendar but in the life of the church. This Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost where …
As we approach the end of the program year, I find myself increasingly grateful for all the ministries we share in this parish. We are a community of people who bring so many different interests, passions, and …
During weeks like this, I find myself feeling both grateful for the community that we share at St. John’s, and ever more called upon to share the gifts of our community with those often in deeper need.
This week, please join me once again in congratulating those among our community who were confirmed and received into the Episcopal Church last Sunday in Boston! Please pray for …
This week, in my (long-ish) letter to you there are many joyful things on the horizon in our community, and I want to both give thanks and bring a few things to your attention!
As we begin this joyful Eastertide, this message comes with every prayer, blessing, and thanksgiving for all of you, and the life we share in this parish.
As I write on this Good Friday, this note also comes with every prayer, blessing, and thanksgiving for the Easter season. As it is Good Friday, I will therefore refrain from …
This weekend, we begin the final two weeks of Lent. These final weeks are often called “Passiontide,” as we participate in a series of prayers and meditations which lead to our remembering deeply Jesus’s passion, death and resurrection.
Last week, I experienced three encounters, all with different groups of people, which gave me further pause for thought in this season of Lent, and about our shared …
There is something significant about reorienting ourselves towards God in ways which are not simply different, penitent, or more focused, but communal, purposeful, perhaps even radical.
Welcome once again to the season of Lent, the forty-day season in the church’s year where we are invited to reimagine our relationship with God, following the pattern of Jesus’s own journey of wilderness and prayer.
We are nearing the season of Lent, the forty-day season in the church’s year where we are invited to reconsider and reimagine our relationship with God.
During our annual meeting in January, we began to reflect on what a future vision for our parish might look like. And I found myself thinking on much of what I’ve recently learned about …
