Pastoral Letter From Mother Diana

Pastoral Letter Post-Election

Photos From The Bishop’s Visit & Fall Founder’s Fest

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 ►

Christ Church In The News!

Read this article about our new Director of Music, Ryan Bridge...

Blessing of the Animal Photos

Check out all the photos from our Blessing of the Animals. We also gave $200 to PAWS Montclair, as well as providing supplies for the animals in their care. Thank…

All Saints Sunday – Nov 3

On Sunday, November 3rd, we will celebrate the Principal Feast of All Saints, when we remember the saints of the church who have gone before us. It is also a…

Annual Meeting – Nov 10

Our Annual Parish Meeting will be on Sunday, November 10th, and as always there is so much news to share! We will be presenting our financial status resulting from the…

Advent Begins – Nov 10

We celebrate seven weeks of Advent. You might be wondering how that could be…doesn’t Advent start after Thanksgiving? But would you believe that it wasn’t like that in ages past?…

“Souls To The Polls!”

Read, or listen to, Mother Diana's latest sermon…

All Saints Sunday – Nov 3

On Sunday, November 3rd, we will celebrate the Principal Feast of All Saints, when we remember the saints of the church who have gone before us. It is also a…

Our Annual Parish Meeting will be on Sunday, November 10th, and as always there is so much news to share! We will be presenting our financial status resulting from the…

We celebrate seven weeks of Advent. You might be wondering how that could be…doesn’t Advent start after Thanksgiving? But would you believe that it wasn’t like that in ages past?…

On Giving Thanks Sunday, we will bring forward our pledge of our tithe to the church for its mission and ministry in the name of Jesus Christ. Most now pledge…

Pastoral Letter From Mother Diana

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).

Check out all the photos from our Blessing of the Animals. We also gave $200 to PAWS Montclair, as well as providing supplies for the animals in their care. Thank…

“Souls To The Polls!”

November 3, 2024 – The Feast of All Saints – May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. As I have said before, I just love that phrase from our collect of the day today: “ineffable joys.” Ineffable, which means “too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.” I love it today especially because I feel ineffable joy, the change in the hour allowed me to sleep in an extra hour– thanks be to God! And we have collective joy as a community because today we celebrate All Saints – a high Holy Day in which we remember those who passed on into the Saints Triumphant – that heavenly company of heaven that, together with us – the Saints Militant on earth, form the communion of Saints. And that is an Easter story…and there is nothing more wonderful, more joyous, more love filled, than…

October 27, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. The lesson we heard from the letter to the Hebrews started with “The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office.” Nice, right? As you might guess, this priest isn’t planning on preaching from THAT text today. I would much rather talk with you’all a bit about the gospel reading from Mark 10, in which a blind man calls out to Jesus, is healed, and then follows Jesus “on the way” to Jerusalem. Now, there is a lot to say about this very short story, but one thing I saw in a commentary had me rolling. It read, I kid you not, “While a symbolic reading offers insight, it has blind spots.” Seriously? A symbolic reading about a blind man offers insights and blind spots???” Needless to say,…

September 29, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. In our first reading, from the book of Esther, we got to hear a small part of this incredible woman’s story. For the life of me, I cannot understand why our lectionary, the readings chosen for each week, and used by nearly all denominations, only gives us this little bit of this fantastic story. This is it – just this reading. Sure, we can have five weeks on a single chapter of the gospel of John every August in Year B (the year of the lectionary we are in at the moment), but we can’t give this story more than a single Sunday? Not only that, we don’t give you the full story, so it is hard to understand what is really going on here. So…let’s correct that error and give Esther her due. Now, I…