Welcome
to all!
Please join us
Holy Week
Maundy
Thursday, 17th
Seder meal, 6 pm
Maundy Eucharist, 7:30
Good Friday, 18th
10 am & 7:30 pm
Saturday, 19th
Easter Egg Hunt, 11 am
Easter Sunday, 20th
Spoken Eucharist,
8 am
Choral Eucharist, 10 am
Service Times
Sunday:
Spoken Eucharist, 8 am
Choral Eucharist, 10 am
Study Groups
Wednesday:
3 pm Divine Reading/Contemplative Prayer
Church is open daily for prayer and meditation
Clergy:
The Rev John P Thompson, Rector
Liturgical Calendar
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Good
News, Everyone!
Please join us for Holy Week and Easter
services. Celebrate Jesus’ love for us and his resurrection,
starting tomorrow with Palm Sunday and concluding
Holy Week with our joyful Easter. We also offer a Seder
(Passover) Meal on Thursday and an Easter Egg Hunt
on Saturday.
Read the April Voice
in the Wilderness for Fr John's view of the quiet
place in the midst of the information onslaught. Lucy writes a bit on Rebecca
Garrard and Jeanne VanHoesen
reports on the Episcopal Church Women.
After 3 decades of devoted service, Jane Peck, our
esteemed treasurer, is passing the mantle to Louise Peterson.
We thank Jane, Louise, and all the faithful serving the church,
sometimes in shadows and in silence.
Our parishioner, Jack Moody, recently celebrated
his 60th
anniversary of his ordination as an Episcopal priest. With
prayers of thanks...
Annual Meeting of St John in the
Wilderness was held on Sunday, January 19. We elected new officers and
vestry and Fr John preached a sermon celebrating the
joy and good ministry that abounds at St John's.
Rev George Brennan is editing a new information resource,
the Ecumenical
News, for church events in SE Columbia County. You
may request a subscription from him.
An study
from the Greater Good Science Center
reveals that an attitude of gratitude changes brain chemistry so as to
strengthen relationships and increase happiness. As has been said
before, science is catching up to truths that religion found
long ago.
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:
Put
Wednesdays at 3 pm on your calendar and gather with us in the rectory
for the Divine Reading/Centering Prayer Group. This
meditative
approach to scripture will bring peace to your soul.
If you would like to receive occasional emails
from
Fr John on church activities, request a subscription at info@stjohnw.org.
Have
you checked the St John's Photobook? Several new faces have been
added. Welcome
all!
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From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the
afternoon. And about three o'clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eli,
Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken
me?" When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, "This man is
calling for Elijah." At once one of them ran and got a sponge, filled
it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink. But
the others said, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save
him." Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last.
At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to
bottom.
Matthew 27:45-51
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