Grace and peace to you on the first Sunday in 2022. It was a nice celebration of the second Sunday after Christmas. While our tradition of Christmas Lessons and Carols was delayed one week we celebrated, as the Bidding Prayer reminds us by observing “our duty and delight to hear once more the message of […]
Merry Christmas on the 1st Sunday after Christmas and the second day of Christmas. The hooded mergansers are back in the pond for their annual visit, a refreshing reminder of the constancy of life in the middle of the chaos of life well lived. We had a slightly lower key celebration as we heard the […]
Merry Christmas on Christmas Eve 2021. We had a wonderful worship this evening in dramatically different conditions than last year – warm and pleasant as opposed to cold and rainy. Worship helped us remember the blessing of the birth of Jesus and all that it stands for. Thankfully, there was a good gathering to help […]
Christmas Eve Worship – We will have our Christmas Eve service at 3:00 pm this year. Please come out and join us for worship to ring in Christmas. Christmas Lessons and Carols – We will celebrate Christmas Lessons and Carols on Sunday, January 2, 2022, at worship. Please join us to hear the story of […]
May God’s blessings be on you on the last Sunday of Advent. Our celebration in Chuckatuck was a bit breezy and damp (more like – wet) as the (much needed) rain has fallen overnight. It was a special celebration, the beginning of my 12th year at St. John’s and the 4th journey through the lectionary. […]