Featuring “The First Star of the Night,” a sermon from The Rev. Aaron Jenkyn, a musical reflection, and other offerings from the clergy and staff of SJC for your week.

Featuring “Restoration,” a sermon from The Rev. Rob Stevens, a musical reflection, and other offerings from the clergy and staff of SJC for your week.

Welcome to the Chapel Street Chronicle, your weekly St. John’s digest. Each Tuesday morning, the Chronicle will bring together highlights from our community.

As we gather for this celebration of Thanksgiving in 2024, how might we endeavor to order our priorities thoughtfully, so that our prayers and our actions are pleasing to God? Gratitude is the place to start I believe.

“In Bright Mansions Above,” arr. Roland Carter; featuring the St. John's Parish Choir, under the direction of Jennifer Mulhern, Director of Music. Featured Communion Anthem at the 10:00am Rite II service on Sunday, November 24, 2024.

As many of us prepare to gather with friends and loved ones this week, I offer to you this simple prayer: God, help me to be nonviolent. Help me to remember that I am from LOVE.

Breathe

"Music for recorders," featuring Nancy Garnhart and John Stromgren. Featured during Communion at the 10:00am Rite II service on Sunday, November 17, 2024.

When things feel as though they are crumbling beneath or even all around us - where do we turn? I’d say that because of our faith, we are blessed with a grounding God to whom we can turn, and that we have the gift of Scripture, and perhaps in particular the Psalms to anchor our own practice of faith.

Joy in Giving

As I seek to process the events of this past week, in particular the results of the election, I look to Jesus' example, of one who is not simply going to name and decry bad behavior, but also one who is going to use his position of power to CONNECT.

Our Work

In these autumn days, with the changing of the light and the trees dropping their leaves and creatures big and small all around us settling into the cooler months ahead I can't help but think we are entering into a thin place, a holy and liminal space where heaven and earth feel almost within reach of each other.

A Hope That Cannot Be Shaken, a gospel reflection by The Rev. Aaron Jenkyn.

The Rev. Rob Stevens preaches on the ways we all experience blindness, the ways we actively or inactively shut out certain things in our own worlds; and the ways we all wish to feel seen by those in our lives.

Persistence

What does servant leadership look like in the today’s world? How do we learn to lead with love, how do we share “the cup” and build beloved community wherever we find ourselves?

Whose Image?

What does it mean to give freely, and how does it change our perceptions of our things? Our time? Our money?

A reflection for Indigenous Peoples' Day 2024, by The Rev. Aaron Jenkyn.