Welcome to all!
Please join us
Service Schedule
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
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Good News,
Everyone!
A gala Sparkling Summer Soirée
to benefit St John in the Wilderness will be held
14 July at 5:30 pm on the grounds of our beautiful historic
church. Our evening will have a festive French theme in
celebration of Bastille
Day. Online
tickets and additional details.
Dale and Louise Peterson have published the May
edition of Voice
in the Wilderness. Fr John
reflects on the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
bringing us together and reminding us to be open to the
myriad gifts of the Spirit. Karen Flynn, Senior
Warden, looks forward to the Sparkling Summer Soirée
and other fun to be had this summer.
Our own Presiding Bishop, Michael
Curry, preached a stirring
sermon at the royal wedding of Meghan Markle
and Prince Harry. He called on Spirituals
and Jesuits
as he spoke from the heart on the power of love.
Bishops United Against Gun Violence is a group of
nearly 70 Episcopal bishops who call
for an assault weapons ban, as well as prayers of
lamentation. This is a response to the latest in a long
list of school shootings.
Our Capital Campaign is underway! We want to
prioritize those projects most important to many people.
Rectory porch repair and landscaping the church grounds made
the list. Make your preferences known with the Priority Survey.
Read about pipe organ restoration in Common
Bond (pdf), the newsletter of the NY Landmarks
Conservancy.
You may now subscribe to a digital edition of our church
newsletter, A Voice in the Wilderness. Sign
up here to receive future editions by email, saving
money and trees. 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 are going to know a new freedom and a new
happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut
the door on it." AA
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They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden
at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife
hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the
trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, and
said to him, “Where are you?” He said, “I heard the sound of
you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked;
and I hid myself.” He said, “Who told you that you were
naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you
not to eat?” The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be
with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” Then
the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have
done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”
Genesis
3:8-13
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