Grace and peace to you from soggy and drizzly Chuckatuck on a day of transition. Today was a transition point during Coronatide from hybrid Eucharist to a couple weeks of Lay-led hybrid Morning Prayer. It will be a first for those leaders but we’ll do well under their leadership. After the weeks of Morning Prayer […]
Greetings from Chuckatuck on the Feast Day of St. Francis. Sadly, with all the perturbations of Coronatide we couldn’t have a blessing of the animals as part of worship. Although, most of our well-behaved animal friends are no longer with us so maybe that’s not a bad thing. This past week we observed the (hopefully) […]
Blessings and greetings to you from Chuckatuck as fall starts to set in at St. John’s. The first signs of fall include the chestnuts starting to fall from our chestnut tree, even though the neighbor’s tree (45 feet away) started last week. The squirrels are starting to wrestle in the attic more frequently but that’s […]
Happy Sunday on the last Sunday before the autumnal equinox, and first hints of fall are upon us. The hummingbirds seem to have begun their southward journey, the temperature is in the 50s overnight, and the squirrels are spending more time wrestling in the attic at church. We had some visitors after church looking for […]
Greetings from Chuckatuck in the middle of September. It has been a pleasant week and life continues to move forward for us. As one might imagine, life and wildlife at St. John’s is something to behold: between the hummingbird who has taken up residence to the brown orb weaver spider that snagged a cicada – […]