Welcome to
all!
Please join us
Service Schedule
Holy Week & Easter
14 April, Palm Sunday
8 and 10 am services
18 April, 7:30 pm Maundy Thursday rite
19 April, Good Friday
10 am, 7:30 pm
20 April, Holy Saturday, 11 am, Easter Egg Hunt
21 April, Easter Day
8 am, Holy Eucharist
10 am, Festive Choral Eucharist
Sundays
Holy Eucharist, 8 am
Choral Eucharist, 10 am
Study Groups
Wednesdays, 3 pm
Divine Reading &
Contemplative Prayer
Church is open daily for prayer and meditation
Clergy:
The Very Rev John P Thompson, Rector
Liturgical
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Good News,
Everyone!
We now approach Holy Week and Easter. Be with us as
we celebrate these ancient and universal traditions of our
faith. Centerpiece of the Jewish celebration of
Passover is the Seder
meal, a retelling of their liberation from
Egypt. Jim Hedrick will lead our Seder on
Maundy Thursday at 6 pm, followed by Holy Eucharist at
7:30. Breathtaking
poster.
Voice in the
Wilderness for April is here. Fr
John muses on faith and abundant life. Lucy
Eldridge reports on a retreat to Holy
Cross Monastery that a group made in
February. It was a day of worship and renewal. Marjorie
Hoog, senior warden, reports that "things are chugging
along nicely". Bob Dodd, laments again the
tension in the Anglican Communion over LGBTQ
rights, now surfacing in preparation for the Lambeth
Conference for 2020.
Flight: Birds of the Hudson Valley, an exhibition of
photographs by Heather Kitchen and Stephen
Schumacher, will be on display in Burke Hall through
19 May. Come to the opening on 2 March at 5 pm.
See poster
for more.
We mourn those lost in the terrible shooting at Tree
of Life Synagogue. Our rector, Rev
John Thompson, lived in the Squirrel
Hill neighborhood and has friends in the Tree of Life
congregation who knew the victims. His letter
to us.
Holy Cross
Monastery, an Anglican Benedictine community in West
Park welcomes visitors for a day or a longer spiritual
retreat. Fr John encourages us to spend some
time with the monks in prayer and worship. It can be a
life changing experience. West Park is on the Hudson,
about a 70 minute drive southwest.
If you would like to receive occasional emails from Fr
John on church activities, request a subscription at info@stjohnw.org.
Church of St John in the Wilderness
is located in a park-like setting, Taconic
State Park! We're on the Harlem
Valley Rail Trail and Bash-Bish
Falls is just up the road. Come, enjoy!
We made a list of the many Good
Causes supported by St John in the Wilderness.
Can you add to this list?
Divine
Reading & Contemplative
Prayer Group: Gather with us Wednesdays at 3
pm in the rectory for the Divine Reading & Centering
Prayer Group. This meditative approach to scripture
will bring peace to your soul.
Our little church hosts meetings of Alcoholics
Anonymous twice a week, on Friday and Sunday at 7:30
pm. "We claim spiritual progress not perfection." AA calendar.
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Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into
Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have
been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as
Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,
so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been
united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be
united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our
old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin
might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to
sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have
died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with
him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will
never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The
death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he
lives, he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves
dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans
6:3-11
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