Wednesday of Holy Week, April 1, 2015
Today is Wednesday in Holy Week. At sundown tonight the season of Lent officially ends and the sacred triduum begins. The triduum are the last three days of our Lord’s earthly life celebrated as Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day! Our Gospel reading for this day is John 13:21-30. It is Judas’ betrayal of […]
The Holy Eucharist – Part One
The principle means of Sunday morning worship worship at St. John’s is the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. From the earliest days of Christianity “the chief act of Christian worship on the Lord’s Day” (BCP, p. 13) has been eucharistic worship. Gregory Dix (1901-1952), an English monk and priest of Nashdom Abbey which is an […]
Growing the “Anglican way.”
The people of St. John’s are dedicated to Jesus Christ and to His Church. Looking at Sunday morning alone and what is involved in orchestrating three services on Sunday morning, from altar guild, choirs, readers, coffee hour in-between, Sunday school, adult formation, and vestry coverage and so much more, we easily have over 65 people […]
How to grow the Church
The Great Commission extended by Christ to all the Church is a call to grow the Church. Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; […]
St. John’s Architecture
At the heart of Anglicanism is the worship of the Triune God. When you walk through the front doors of St. John’s you know you have entered into sacred and consecrated space. When Joseph Patterson, a member of St. John’s was appointed architect he chose an early English Church architecture to best express the joy and […]
