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…
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 →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 →The annual greening of the church will take place on Saturday morning, Dec.21st, from 9:30am-12:00pm. Everyone is welcome to participate in this fun gathering that helps to decorate the church…
Read more →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 →Read this article about our new Director of Music, Ryan Bridge...
Read more →Read, or listen to, Mother Diana's latest sermon…
Read more →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…
The annual greening of the church will take place on Saturday morning, Dec.21st, from 9:30am-12:00pm. Everyone is welcome to participate in this fun gathering that helps to decorate the church…
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…
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…
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).
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…
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 wondering, with all the news of the past few weeks, what is there to be thankful for? Maybe it was hard for you to sing that opening hymn, “Now Thank We All Our God.” Perhaps though, the story of Martin Rinkart, will help. “German pastor Martin Rinkart served in the walled town of Eilenberg during the horrors of the Thirty Years’ War of 1618-1648. Eilenberg became an overcrowded refuge for the surrounding area. The fugitives suffered from epidemic and famine. At the beginning of 1637, the year of the Great Pestilence, there were four ministers…
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 – with these end times passages. But, I think we all can agree, it speaks to us now in a way that perhaps it hasn’t before. I mean, it could not have been lost on any of you the words of Jesus in the gospel this morning, and how strangely they echo through the centuries to our current circumstances. The gospel passage begins with Jesus, having done some smack downs of the leaders inside the temple, now outside of it with his disciples. To fully get what this setting was like for them, you gotta understand…
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…
