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Collect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestream for March 28, 2021
Today is Palm Sunday. Collect of the Day: Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our...


Palm Sunday at Christ Church
Christ Church is open for in-person worship today, Palm Sunday, with three services: at 8 a.m. in Old Brick, and at 9 and 11 a.m. in New...


CEC Outreach News: March 26, 2021
Spread the Word to Help the Hungry: Food Giveaway at Howard Community College Public-health students at Howard Community College are...


Sound Of Silence
Last year by this time we had been asked to quarantine. I had just returned from a trip to Ghana with two of my children. Everything was...


Lenten Meditation: We’re all Connected
The pandemic and its consequences have shone a light on how connected we are to everyone else in the world. Amongst the ways COVID-19 has...


Lenten Meditation: The Light of the World
He almost walked right past the painting in the museum. But there was a small crowd standing there, talking. So he stopped to see and...


Our 2021 Wednesday Evening Lenten Series Comes to a Close Tonight
The Spiritual Life Commission invites everyone to join us tonight on Zoom for our Wednesday Evening Lenten Series, which centers on our...


Lenten Meditation: Isaiah
Isaiah 49: 7 - I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” In Isaiah, God seeks to...


Lenten Meditation: Weston Prayer
I pray to stay open today. Open to the unrestrained energy of now. Open to mystery and power. Open to whatever comes. Open to routine and...


Lenten Meditation: Past Experiences of Living in God’s Light
“Me help you?” was a hopeful question from a toddler-aged grandchild, who wanted to be a connected and incorporated member of the family....


Collect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestream for March 21, 2021
Today is the Fifth Sunday in Lent. Collect of the Day: Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of...


Sunday Song: How Great Thou Art
On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Sundays this year we include a piece of music, as...


CEC Outreach News: March 20, 2021
Columbia Community Care Plans To Help Kids Celebrate Spring The all-volunteer effort that came together in response to the pandemic,...


Lenten Meditation: Psalm 139:1-8, 12-17
Lord, you have searched me out and known me, * you know my sitting down and my rising up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You trace my...


Talk To Me
Denzel Washington tells a story about being on the verge of flunking out of Fordham University. His GPA was 1.75. He remembers so vividly...


Lenten Meditation: Life is Alive
If I knew you and you knew me, And each of us could clearly see By that inner light divine The meaning of your heart and mine; I’m sure...


Wednesday Evening Lenten Series - Lesley DiFransico
The Spiritual Life Commission invites everyone to join us on Zoom for our Wednesday Evening Lenten Series, which centers on our 2021...


Lenten Meditation: The Answer
When for a purpose I had prayed and prayed and prayed Until my words seemed worn and bare With arduous use, And I had knocked and asked...


Lenten Meditation: Light of God
The stars are shining in heaven tonight follow their path to God's glorious light we will shine in the glory of the divine seeking His...


Lenten Meditation: Pandemic
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath- the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling....
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