[FiOS1 News] For Pastor Richard Hong and congregants from the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood, which was severely damaged by a fire, this Easter will have a particularly special meaning.
On Good Friday, March 25, 2016, about 100 people from a dozen Jersey City congregations performed the Stations of the Cross by visiting 14 sites of violent incidents that took place in their community during the past year.
[The Montclair Times] When we last checked in on Toni's Kitchen — the warm and welcoming drop-in dining room at St. Luke's Episcopal Church — Tara Chowaniec and Anne Mernin were explaining operational details to the day's volunteers (my daughter and I among them).
With sadness we share the news of the death of the Rev. Wesley "Wes" Wubbenhorst, 62, on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at his home in Annapolis, MD, of lymphoma. A Requiem Eucharist will be held this Saturday, March 19 at 1 PM at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Baltimore. The service will be livestreamed on the internet; the video link will be available at www.episcopalmaryland.org.
[The Star-Ledger] The basement of the Grace Church in Newark is catacomb-like, with a narrow stone tunnel that runs almost a city block long. There are a few musty rooms down there, and much of the Anglican Catholic parish's history is stacked among discarded furniture, old hymnals and dismantled organ keyboards and pipes.
Listening isn’t easy – but if one persists, it does bear fruit. That was the consistent theme of the reports from the six congregations who came together at Episcopal House on Saturday, March 5 to check in with each other on the Going Local experiments they are launching.
[NorthJersey.com] Beginning on March 23, a labyrinth will be open to the public at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 215 Boulevard in Mountain Lakes.
On Sunday, March 6, members of Christ Church in Short Hills watched the video of Bishop Beckwith’s Convention address, “Blessed and Beloved,” as part of both the 8 AM and 10 AM Eucharists. Following coffee hour that morning, six members volunteered to facilitate table discussions to reflect on what they had heard.
[Daily Record] The Church of the Redeemer is hosting an exhibit made by an artist to stay sane during a more than two-decade stint in solitary confinement in state prison.
A little more than a year ago, men from Church of the Incarnation and St. Paul’s Church in Bergen, neighboring Jersey City congregations located just a few blocks apart, formed a monthly Men’s Group. Getting to know one another as they prayed and socialized together, they began to take stock of the gifts they possess that they might share with others.
