Christ Episcopal Church

“Stand Up And Raise Your Heads!”

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…

“Now Thank We All Our God”

November 24, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. This Sunday we enter into a week of thanksgiving to God for all of life.  We gather with family and friends, and laugh, cry, cheer for our favorite teams, and argue over some thing or another.     Perhaps though, you are…

“Lift Every Voice And Sing!”

November 17, 2024: May God’s words be spoken, may God’s words be heard. Amen. Well, that’s a cheery gospel, isn’t it?  If you ever doubted if the church’s lectionary was in Advent in this time, this text ought to be perfectly clear about that, because Advent always begins with the second coming of Christ –…

“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…

“Disturbance In The Darkness”

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…

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 you David Drislane for organizing this service.