On December 22nd at our 10:30am service all parishioners are invited to participate in an interactive pageant. It will be a fun and joyful experience as we all get to…
Read more →On Sunday, December 22nd, at 5pm, Christ Church will be presenting a traditional Christmas Lessons & Carols. An evening of sacred music, readings, prayers, and hymns. Featuring the Christ Church…
Read more →Join us for Christmas Eve to celebrate the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. We will gather together at 5pm (Family Mass) and at 11pm (Midnight Mass). Bulletins for…
Read more →Our Christmas Day service is fun, casual, and…in the afternoon! Come join us at 3pm for some singing, blessing of children’s presents (all are welcome to bring a present to…
Read more →Join us on January 5th at our 10:30am service, when we celebrate the visit of the magi. All sorts of surprises abound as we remember those who traveled far to…
Read more →Mr. Ryan Bridge, our Director of Music, will be launching a youth choir in the new year. Rehearsals will be held on Sundays at 12:30. Choristers ages 10-17 who can…
Read more →Check out all the photos from this wonderful day with Bishop Hughes and of our Fall Founder’s Fest (the birthday celebration of Christ Church). [Show slideshow] 1 2 3 ►
Read more →Read, or listen to, Mother Diana's latest sermon...
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On December 22nd at our 10:30am service all parishioners are invited to participate in an interactive pageant. It will be a fun and joyful experience as we all get to…
On Sunday, December 22nd, at 5pm, Christ Church will be presenting a traditional Christmas Lessons & Carols. An evening of sacred music, readings, prayers, and hymns. Featuring the Christ Church…
Join us for Christmas Eve to celebrate the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. We will gather together at 5pm (Family Mass) and at 11pm (Midnight Mass). Bulletins for…
Our Christmas Day service is fun, casual, and…in the afternoon! Come join us at 3pm for some singing, blessing of children’s presents (all are welcome to bring a present to…
Mr. Ryan Bridge, our Director of Music, will be launching a youth choir in the new year. Rehearsals will be held on Sundays at 12:30. Choristers ages 10-17 who can…
Join us on January 5th at our 10:30am service, when we celebrate the visit of the magi. All sorts of surprises abound as we remember those who traveled far to…
Join us on February 2nd, for the official end of Christmas, called Candlemas, or The Presentation of Our Lord, which this year falls on a Sunday! At our 10:30am service,…
Many hands make light work, and lots of fun too! Check out these photos of the Greening of the Church for Christmas!
A short video invitation, and a reminder that everyone is loved by God – no exceptions!
Advent and Christmas in the church is a most holy time. Don’t miss out on any of it, and save these dates: Saturday, December 21 Greening of the Church (9am-12pm)…
Check out these photos of the Christ Church deputation: CC @ 150th Diocesan Convention For all the photos from the convention, click on this link:
Pastoral Letter Post-Election
Check out this fabulous article about our new Director of Music, and the choral tradition here at Christ Church! Glen Ridge Paper Article
Check out all the photos from this wonderful day with Bishop Hughes and of our Fall Founder’s Fest (the birthday celebration of Christ Church).
December 15, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Okay, here’s the thing…the gospel you just heard isn’t the one prescribed for this Sunday. The church would have us hear another passage about John the baptizer, and never hear the annunciation of Mary (except if you come to Lessons & Carols). It is the story of when the archangel Gabriel tells her she is to be the God bearer, the one to birth our savior into the world. Now, it seems to me that the lectionary folks could have put the two readings about Jesus’ cousin John into one for last Sunday, and given Mary more of her due. Instead, they reduce her story down to one tiny paragraph, which we will hear next week, about her visit to her cousin Elizabeth, John’s mom. As next week is our pageant, and I won’t be preaching,…
December 8, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Well, we have made the annual Advent turn. You know, the turn our gospel just took for us. Today, we are not hearing about the second Advent, but the first. After weeks of his return, we are heading into weeks of preparing the way for his birth. We have made a turn toward Bethlehem. And this gospel author does set a scene for us – one that has deep meaning too. There is a reason he names all those political and religious leaders. It isn’t just to set the story in the context of time. The author name drops all the rulers and religious leaders of the places of the life and death of Jesus. The Emperor Tiberius ruled during the time in which Jesus was active in ministry, arrested, and crucified. Pontius Pilate was…
December 1, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Welcome back from the great Thanksgiving feast-a-thon! I hope yours was as wonderful as mine was – filled with good food, good friends, and a rainy parade. In the gospel (cheery again, right) Jesus says “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars…People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world…Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because it’s December at the malls!” Okay, maybe not what Jesus was talking about in the gospel passage from Luke today, but if you have ever been in those crowds, it can seem like the world is coming to an end, right? Now, I know the stores are already in Christmas, but we are still in Advent. For us it is Advent 4,…
