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Read more →Have questions about what we do here in church? Want to know more about why our liturgy (the way we worship) gets changed around? Have questions like: “What’s Pentecost?” “Why…
Read more →Beginning on May 7th, our Labyrinth Walk & Compline (a short service of contemplative prayer) returns. It will be on the first Wednesday of the month. The church will be…
Read more →Need a safe space to talk about what is happening in our country? Want a chance to connect with others in a spiritually grounded community? Join Mother Diana at 6:30pm…
Read more →Our Mass on the Grass will return on June 5th. It will continue until it is too dark or cold. We meet on Thursdays at 6:00pm (service starting a bit…
Read more →The Feast of Pentecost is Sunday, June 8th. Pentecost is the ending of the fifty days of Easter. We celebrate the Holy Spirit descending as flames of fire upon the…
Read more →Read, or listen to, Mother Diana's Easter sermon…
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Have questions about what we do here in church? Want to know more about why our liturgy (the way we worship) gets changed around? Have questions like: “What’s Pentecost?” “Why…
Beginning on May 7th, our Labyrinth Walk & Compline (a short service of contemplative prayer) returns. It will be on the first Wednesday of the month. The church will be opened at 6:30pm for a moment sitting in the softly lit church or walking the meditative labyrinth. Ancient Chant or other contemplative music is played while you walk. At 7pm, there is a short service of Compline to close the day. All are welcome.
Need a safe space to talk about what is happening in our country? Want a chance to connect with others in a spiritually grounded community? Join Mother Diana at 6:30pm…
Our Mass on the Grass will return on June 5th. It will continue until it is too dark or cold. We meet on Thursdays at 6:00pm (service starting a bit…
The Feast of Pentecost is Sunday, June 8th. Pentecost is the ending of the fifty days of Easter. We celebrate the Holy Spirit descending as flames of fire upon the…
Check out all the photos from Holy Week and Easter Sunday: Photos
Check out the latest edition of our newsletter! Newsletter
Check out this article in The Glen Ridge Paper! https://essexnewsdaily.com/headlne-news/honoring-mlk-with-a-day-of-service And also this one in the Episcopal News Service: Washington bishop’s plea to Trump…
Mr. Ryan Bridge, our Director of Music, has launched a new youth choir. Rehearsals will be held on Sundays at 12:30. Choristers ages 10-17 who can attend 3 out of…
JOIN US FOR HOLY WEEK PALM SUNDAY – April 13th 10:30am Holy Eucharist We begin in the parish hall for a festive procession to the church. The Dzieci Theatre…
Easter Sunday – April 20, 2025: The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! And “Χριστός Ανέστη!” “Αληθώς Ανέστη” “Καλό Πάσχα!” “Christ is Risen!” “Truly [he is] risen!” “Happy Easter!” to all our Eastern Orthodox sisters and brothers in Christ, who today are also celebrating Easter Sunday. This doesn’t happen all the time, that we are celebrating the day together, so it is a wonderful thing when we are in alignment and the whole of Christendom is celebrating together. And in our various parts of the world, at our different times – we are listening to the story of the empty tomb. As we are in Year C in the Episcopal Church, we are hearing the account of the resurrection of our Lord from the Gospel of Luke, which is a very fitting for the time in which we are all living. Now, just the Cliff Notes version: The women,…
April 13, 2025 – Palm Sunday: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Somehow, I feel like this Palm Sunday feels more real than ever before. But before we get to that, I need to remind everyone that it is in fact Palm Sunday. We shouldn’t be reading the passion gospel at all today, and well, we actually don’t here at Christ Church, at least not as the gospel reading for the day. We stick with the story of the palms. Now, as you all know by now, the reason that we shouldn’t be doing the passion on this Sunday is that it really doesn’t fit. It’s too soon, and it makes no sense. Some say it began as a way of ensuring that people who did not attend Maundy Thursday & Good Friday services did not go from Palm Sunday to Easter bypassing the crucifixion,…
March 23, 2025: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Today The Episcopal Church does a thing. We usually go right along with the Revised Common Lectionary – the assigned readings for a Sunday followed by Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, and a whole lot of others, and also the Roman Catholic Church (on which it was based) to some degree. Not today though, as we replace the assigned reading from Isaiah with one from Exodus. Now, a few years ago, when doing some researching about the story in Exodus we heard today, about the burning bush and Moses, I came across an old sermon of mine. Except, this wasn’t on our church website. It was part of the recommended resources in a course at Yale Divinity School, where the professor had included links to three sermons. Cool!, I thought. And then I remembered being in seminary, and…
