As Spring is finally beginning to show promise, it is time to start thinking about gardening! St John’s invites you to participate in our Community Garden, a joint effort of the African Women’s Alliance and St. John’s. This year we will treat the garden with compost to amend the soil. …
“Then he opened their minds, to understand…” On Palm Sunday we will begin our commemoration of the last week of Jesus’s life on earth. It is a week of extraordinary importance for Christians, the most sacred time of the Christian year, “Holy Week.” And, while Easter Sunday is the…
The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, continues for six and a half weeks and climaxes on Easter Day. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry explains it, in part, like this: “Lent has two quite remarkable bookends. On Ash Wednesday, we are reminded that we are dust and that God loves…
Epiphany means “manifestation” or “revelation” or “appearing”. It makes sense that Epiphany season comes right after Christmas. Christmas is about the birth of Jesus; Epiphany is about the spread of the good news to the wider world. Epiphany Season lasts four to nine weeks, from the Feast of the Epiphany…
