2 days ago1 minCollect, Readings, and Livestream for May 22, 2022Today is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Collect of the Day: O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our...
4 days ago4 min32 YearsRoberta Drury had a big heart - which is that one thing that should move each one of us. Roberta had visited her brother, who had a bone...
5 days ago4 minChrist Church Outreach News: May 19, 2022Columbia Community Care Expands Request for Volunteers to Sort Pantry Supplies, Continues to Request Diapers, Personal Care Items The...
May 151 minCollect, Readings, and Livestream for May 15, 2022Today is the Fifth Sunday of Easter. Collect of the Day: Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to...
May 125 minBroken StemThis past Sunday, we had our wonderful Mother’s Day celebration. Unfortunately, many of our parishioners - mothers, especially - couldn’t...
May 124 minChrist Church Outreach News: May 12, 2022Somos Amigos Holds Its April Clinic, Expands Diabetes Care, and Expresses Gratitude for Parishioners’ Support At last, Somos Amigos...
May 91 minMother's Day at Christ ChurchThe Christ Church family certainly came out in numbers to celebrate this Mother's Day! Whether in person or online, wearing hats in...
May 81 minCollect, Readings, and Livestream for May 8, 2022Today is the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Collect of the Day: O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we...
May 64 minChanges at Christ ChurchThe past couple of years has been very hard on everyone. It has been very unsettling for many of us - not counting the numerous...
May 52 minWOCC News for MayHats On For Mother’s Day! Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 8th, and we will be keeping to our WOCC tradition of wearing hats to the...
May 54 minChrist Church Outreach News: May 5, 2022Inviting One and All to Get Involved in Christ Church Outreach by Joining in Our Next Meeting on Monday, May 9th The Outreach Commission...
May 11 minCollect, Readings, and Livestream for May 1, 2022Today is the Third Sunday of Easter. Collect of the Day: O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of...
Apr 294 minChrist Church Outreach News: April 29, 2022CCD Requests Prayers for Special Projects and for Its Staff and Disabled Children in Thailand as the Pandemic Continues Christ Church has...
Apr 241 minCollect, Readings, and Livestream for April 24, 2022Today is the Second Sunday of Easter. Collect of the Day: Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new...
Apr 223 minChrist Church Outreach News: April 22, 2022Columbia Community Care Seeks Volunteers for Its Distribution Sites The all-volunteer organization, Columbia Community Care (CCC) is...
Apr 224 minMenu FolderRestaurants have changed a lot these days. It used to be that when you visit a restaurant, you will be given a seat or you seat yourself,...
Apr 222 minWomen of Christ Church April UpdateLots of WOCC activity this spring! Mark Your Calendars: 12:00 p.m., Saturday, April 23rd, we’ll be meeting at the Robinson Nature Center...
Apr 221 minOur Final Taizé Gathering of the Spring is this Evening.... Join Us!This evening, April 22nd at 6 p.m. in Old Brick, Christ Church hosts our final Taizé gathering of the spring, a brief and wonderfully...
Apr 171 minCollect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestreams for Easter SundayToday is April 17, 2022 - Easter Sunday. Collect of the Day: Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death...
Apr 171 minEaster Sunday at Christ ChurchEaster 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 161 minHoly Saturday at Christ ChurchHoly 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 155 minChrist Church Outreach News: April 15, 2022SAFE Offers Gluten-Free Food And Accepts Items for Distribution on April 16 The SAFE Food Pantry, a nonprofit organization that helps...
Apr 152 minLenten Meditation: Remembering our Baptismal PromisesAt 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 151 minGood Friday Services at Christ ChurchGood 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 141 minMaundy Thursday at Christ ChurchMAUNDY 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 141 minLenten 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 131 minLenten Meditation: Dear LordDear 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 122 minLenten Meditation: Forgiveness is One Way We Show We Belong to One AnotherOne 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 111 minLenten Meditation: Let Your God Love YouBe 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 111 minHoly Week at Christ Episcopal ChurchFrom Palm Sunday and the Meditations on the Passion through the three services on Easter Sunday, solemn and special worship services take...
Apr 101 minMeditations on the Passion - Tonight at 7:30This Palm Sunday evening, Christ Church will present Meditations on the Passion, a special service of poems, readings, dance, song, and...
Apr 101 minCollect, Readings, Sermon, and Livestream for Palm SundayToday 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 91 minLenten Meditation: One Bread, One BodyOn 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 82 minLenten Meditation: The Power of Thank You, Take TwoFor 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 85 minThe SlapIt was a strange, bizarre and uncharitable moment. What occasioned this moment was a joke about Jada Smith by comedian Chris Rock. Jada...
Apr 85 minChrist Church Outreach News: April 7, 2022A Message of Gratitude from our Afghan Refugee Family Each member of the Afghan refugee family who has been under Christ Church’s care...
Apr 72 minWOCC News for AprilMark Your Calendars: 12:00 pm, Saturday, April 23rd, we’ll be meeting at the Robinson Nature Center to have lunch and conversation...
Apr 71 minLenten Meditation: LoveIf 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 62 minLenten Meditation: Thank you, EmilyEmily welcomed me as I joined the choir at Christ Episcopal Church thirty years ago. She is a quiet person with a beautiful, soft...
Apr 55 minLenten Meditation: Manna from HeavenLife 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 41 minLenten Meditation: HeavenWe 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 31 minCollect, Readings, and Livestream for April 3, 2022Today 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 21 minSaturday Song: We Are One BodyOn 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 11 minLenten Meditation: Life Lessons from a CicadaAlthough 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 315 minThrough Him, All Things Came Into BeingRamadan begins this Saturday. Our Muslim friends will observe a month-long period of prayer, reflection, and fasting, much the same as...
Mar 314 minCEC Outreach News: March 31, 2022Looking Back on a Warm Welcome as Christ Church Learns about Bridges to Housing Stability During Worship Services and at the Adult Forum...
Mar 312 minLenten Meditation: Words of Wisdom from Others’ Life LessonsOver the years, my friends and relatives have shared their wisdom in the form of decoratively bound books whose content is meant to...
Mar 301 minLenten Meditation: For LentIt 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 292 minLenten Meditation: Be Christ’s Body, Belonging to Each OtherWhen my family and I joined Christ Church some 40 years ago, we immediately felt the presence of Christ, and that the Christ Church...
Mar 282 minLenten Meditation: Be One Body in Christ,Belonging to Each OtherAs 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...