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...
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- Apr 17, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 16, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 15, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 15, 2022
- 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,...
- Apr 14, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 14, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 13, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 12, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 11, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 11, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 10, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 10, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 9, 2022
- 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....
- Apr 8, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 7, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 6, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 5, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 4, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 2, 2022
- 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....
- Apr 1, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 31, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 30, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 28, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 27, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 26, 2022
- 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....
- Mar 25, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 24, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 23, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 22, 2022
- 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,...
- Mar 21, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 20, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 19, 2022
- 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....
- Mar 18, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 17, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 16, 2022
- 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”...
- Mar 15, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 14, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 13, 2022
- 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....
- Mar 11, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 10, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 9, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 8, 2022
- 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....
- Mar 7, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 5, 2022
- 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....
- Mar 4, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 4, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 3, 2022
- 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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