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    Collect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestreams for Easter Sunday
    • Apr 17
    • 1 min

    Collect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestreams for Easter Sunday

    Today is April 17, 2022 - Easter Sunday. Collect of the Day: Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death...
    Easter Sunday at Christ Church
    • Apr 17
    • 1 min

    Easter Sunday at Christ Church

    Easter Sunday Saturday, April 17th Holy Eucharist at 8:00 a.m. in Old Brick 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. in New Brick 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. are...
    Holy Saturday at Christ Church
    • Apr 16
    • 1 min

    Holy Saturday at Christ Church

    Holy Saturday Saturday, April 16th Easter Vigil with Holy Baptism at 7:30 p.m. in New Brick and livestreamed on our website, YouTube, and...
    Lenten Meditation: Remembering our Baptismal Promises
    • Apr 15
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: Remembering our Baptismal Promises

    At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ He called a child, whom he put among...
    Good Friday Services at Christ Church
    • Apr 15
    • 1 min

    Good Friday Services at Christ Church

    Good Friday Friday, April 15th Holy Eucharist at 12 noon and 7:30 p.m. in New Brick both services livestreamed on our website, YouTube,...
    Maundy Thursday at Christ Church
    • Apr 14
    • 1 min

    Maundy Thursday at Christ Church

    MAUNDY THURSDAY at CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Thursday, April 14th in New Brick Seder meal at 6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist at 7:30 p.m. This...
    Lenten Meditation: Why Do We Feel That We Belong?
    • Apr 14
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Why Do We Feel That We Belong?

    Encountering a person from our Church, I feel a closeness and a connection. There is a warmth, a smile in greeting and a deep caring for...
    Lenten Meditation: Dear Lord
    • Apr 13
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Dear Lord

    Dear Lord, Teach me to quiet my mind. Stop my thoughts from racing from one thing to another. Stop me from the obsessive thinking about...
    Lenten Meditation: Forgiveness is One Way We Show We Belong to One Another
    • Apr 12
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: Forgiveness is One Way We Show We Belong to One Another

    One of the most significant, powerful moments in my work as a criminal defense attorney came on a day when my client and I lost our...
    Lenten Meditation: Let Your God Love You
    • Apr 11
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Let Your God Love You

    Be silent. Be still. Alone. Empty Before your God. Say nothing. Ask nothing. Be silent. Be still. Let your God look upon you. That is...
    Holy Week at Christ Episcopal Church
    • Apr 11
    • 1 min

    Holy Week at Christ Episcopal Church

    From Palm Sunday and the Meditations on the Passion through the three services on Easter Sunday, solemn and special worship services take...
    Meditations on the Passion - Tonight at 7:30
    • Apr 10
    • 1 min

    Meditations on the Passion - Tonight at 7:30

    This Palm Sunday evening, Christ Church will present Meditations on the Passion, a special service of poems, readings, dance, song, and...
    Collect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestream for Palm Sunday
    • Apr 10
    • 1 min

    Collect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestream for Palm Sunday

    Today is April 10, 2022 - Palm Sunday. Collect of the Day: Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent...
    Lenten Meditation: One Bread, One Body
    • Apr 9
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: One Bread, One Body

    On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Saturdays we include a piece of music, as well....
    Lenten Meditation: The Power of Thank You, Take Two
    • Apr 8
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: The Power of Thank You, Take Two

    For our Lenten booklet in the year after my Mom died, I wrote a piece about her titled “The Power of Thank You”, about how long after she...
    Lenten Meditation: Love
    • Apr 7
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Love

    If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift...
    Lenten Meditation: Thank you, Emily
    • Apr 6
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: Thank you, Emily

    Emily welcomed me as I joined the choir at Christ Episcopal Church thirty years ago. She is a quiet person with a beautiful, soft...
    Lenten Meditation: Manna from Heaven
    • Apr 5
    • 5 min

    Lenten Meditation: Manna from Heaven

    Life is a wilderness. Day to day life can hold monotonous drudgery on a good day and as bad as horrifying crisis on others. Honestly if...
    Lenten Meditation: Heaven
    • Apr 4
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Heaven

    We are In this Life, But not of it, Only for A moment, So, our sights Are always Soaring upwards, Seeking our source Without, But God...
    Collect, Readings, and Livestream for April 3, 2022
    • Apr 3
    • 1 min

    Collect, Readings, and Livestream for April 3, 2022

    Today is the Fifth Sunday in Lent. Collect of the Day: Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the...
    Saturday Song: We Are One Body
    • Apr 2
    • 1 min

    Saturday Song: We Are One Body

    On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Saturdays we include a piece of music, as well....
    Lenten Meditation: Life Lessons from a Cicada
    • Apr 1
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Life Lessons from a Cicada

    Although we won’t see them again for another 17 years, it appears to me that such interesting creatures have left us with some life...
    Lenten Meditation: Words of Wisdom from Others’ Life Lessons
    • Mar 31
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: Words of Wisdom from Others’ Life Lessons

    Over the years, my friends and relatives have shared their wisdom in the form of decoratively bound books whose content is meant to...
    Lenten Meditation: For Lent
    • Mar 30
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: For Lent

    It is my Lent to break my Lent, To eat when I would fast, To know when slender strength is spent. Take shelter from the blast When I...
    Lenten Meditation: Be Christ’s Body, Belonging to Each Other
    • Mar 29
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: Be Christ’s Body, Belonging to Each Other

    When my family and I joined Christ Church some 40 years ago, we immediately felt the presence of Christ, and that the Christ Church...
    Lenten Meditation: Be One Body in Christ,Belonging to Each Other
    • Mar 28
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: Be One Body in Christ,Belonging to Each Other

    As I read the Spiritual Life Theme, I had to recall many of the things that happened in my life over the last two years. Sometimes, I...
    Collect, Readings, and Livestream for March 27, 2022
    • Mar 27
    • 1 min

    Collect, Readings, and Livestream for March 27, 2022

    Today is the Fourth Sunday in Lent. Collect of the Day: Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the...
    Saturday Song: Truth Be Told
    • Mar 26
    • 2 min

    Saturday Song: Truth Be Told

    On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Saturdays we include a piece of music, as well....
    Lenten Meditation: Home Blessing
    • Mar 25
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Home Blessing

    Your house is Love’s house. It is a sanctuary, a garden, A safe haven. May it be delightful. May it be a home that encourages Creativity...
    Lenten Meditation: The Body of Christ
    • Mar 24
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: The Body of Christ

    In the church, there is no longer any distinction between Jew or Gentile, male or female, slave or free, because all are united equally...
    Lenten Meditation: Marked By Ashes
    • Mar 23
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Marked By Ashes

    Ruler of the Night, Guarantor of the day . . . This day — a gift from you. This day — like none other you have ever given, or we have...
    Lenten Meditation: Church is Just a Start
    • Mar 22
    • 3 min

    Lenten Meditation: Church is Just a Start

    All people who marvel at the complexity and awesome beauty of life recognize there are two components of existence: a physical vessel,...
    Lenten Meditation: Nothing Stands Alone
    • Mar 21
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Nothing Stands Alone

    Nothing Stands Alone – A Prayer for Our Community God, Lord of all creation, lover of life and of everything, Please help us to love in...
    Collect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestream for March 20, 2022
    • Mar 20
    • 1 min

    Collect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestream for March 20, 2022

    Today is the Third Sunday in Lent. Collect of the Day: Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep...
    Saturday Song: If We Are the Body
    • Mar 19
    • 2 min

    Saturday Song: If We Are the Body

    On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Saturdays we include a piece of music, as well....
    Lenten Meditation: It’s All About Relationship
    • Mar 18
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: It’s All About Relationship

    Christians hear the message that Jesus Christ is calling us to return to an interactive relationship with the Father through Him, and...
    Lenten Meditation: Child of Wonder
    • Mar 17
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Child of Wonder

    My bare feet walk the earth reverently for everything keeps crying, Take off your shoes The ground you stand on is holy The ground of...
    Lenten Meditation: Family
    • Mar 16
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Family

    Family: “Be One Body in Christ, Belonging to Each Other” I have, in the past, been cautioned to refer to our church body as a “Community”...
    Lenten Meditation: Each of Us
    • Mar 15
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Each of Us

    Each of us has a purpose, we just need to find it each has a talent to apply so together we can fit. Each of us has a measure, of faith...
    Lenten Meditation: A New Family in Our Community
    • Mar 14
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: A New Family in Our Community

    The word had gone out that our church would sponsor a refugee family. Housing was secured and then the gifts of love and welcome began...
    Saturday Song: All the People Said Amen
    • Mar 13
    • 2 min

    Saturday Song: All the People Said Amen

    On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Saturdays we include a piece of music, as well....
    Lenten Meditation: Angel's Datebook
    • Mar 11
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: Angel's Datebook

    This year, I received an Angel’s Datebook, and I opened it not only to see different hand-painted angel portraits, but also to see...
    Lenten Meditation: Pieces of Holy
    • Mar 10
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: Pieces of Holy

    We are all Cherished player pieces In our gaming world -- In this vast enigma – With minds of our own That often wander Aimlessly Across...
    Lenten Meditation: St. Teresa of Avila Prayer
    • Mar 9
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: St. Teresa of Avila Prayer

    Cristo no tiene cuerpo, sino el tuyo, No tiene manos, o pies en la tierra, sino los tuyos, Tuyos son los ojos con los que ve La compasión...
    Lenten Meditation: ALL the Body Parts are Important
    • Mar 8
    • 2 min

    Lenten Meditation: ALL the Body Parts are Important

    Our Sunday school class was talking about how each one of us is important to the church, just as each body part is important to a person....
    Lenten Meditation: A Prayer for Today
    • Mar 7
    • 1 min

    Lenten Meditation: A Prayer for Today

    O God, Give me strength to live another day; Let me not turn coward before its difficulties or prove recreant to it duties; Let me not...
    Saturday Song: Canticle of the Turning
    • Mar 5
    • 2 min

    Saturday Song: Canticle of the Turning

    On weekdays during the season of Lent, we post daily meditations on our website, and on Saturdays we include a piece of music, as well....
    Taizé Worship Services in Lent - Begins this Evening
    • Mar 4
    • 1 min

    Taizé Worship Services in Lent - Begins this Evening

    Beginning this evening, March 4th at 6 p.m. in Old Brick, Christ Church will offer the first of six Taizé worship services including...
    Lenten Mediation: Connection
    • Mar 4
    • 2 min

    Lenten Mediation: Connection

    Our world is not perfect. We’re all seeking connection. The connection piece is so strong and yet it remains elusive to many of us. As a...
    Lenten Meditation: Marcia's Dragonfly
    • Mar 3
    • 3 min

    Lenten Meditation: Marcia's Dragonfly

    Every year during Lent the Spiritual Life Commission of Christ Episcopal Church compiles and publishes a Lenten Meditation Book,...
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