For the sixth year in a row, Episcopal congregations in towns across northern New Jersey will take to the streets on Ash Wednesday, March 1, marking the beginning of the Christian holy season of Lent by giving “Ashes to Go.”
For the seventh year in a row, Episcopal congregations in towns across northern New Jersey will take to the streets on Ash Wednesday, February 14, marking the beginning of the Christian holy season of Lent by giving “Ashes to Go.”
For the fifth year in a row, Episcopal congregations in towns across northern New Jersey will take to the streets on Ash Wednesday, February 10, marking the beginning of the Christian holy season of Lent by giving “Ashes to Go.”
For the fourth year in a row, Episcopal congregations in towns across northern New Jersey will take to the streets on Ash Wednesday, February 18, marking the beginning of the Christian holy season of Lent by giving “Ashes to Go.”
For the third year in a row, Episcopal congregations in towns across northern New Jersey will take to the streets on Ash Wednesday, March 5, marking the beginning of the Christian holy season of Lent by giving “Ashes to Go.”
St. John's Church in Jersey City was built in 1870. Once known as the “Millionaires’ Church,” it was one of several Jersey City churches that closed in the 1980s and 90s due to a shrinking congregation facing growing expenses. It has not housed a congregation since 1994.
In March 2013 the City of Jersey City served the Diocese of Newark with a Notice of Unsafe Structure for St. John's, requiring the diocese to either demolish or repair the building, or face weekly fines. The diocesan Trustees concur with the assessment that the building is unsafe.
Episcopal congregations in at least 20 towns in northern New Jersey will take to the streets on Ash Wednesday, February 22, marking the beginning of the holy season of Lent by giving “Ashes to Go.”
Ash Wednesday initiates the Lenten season of reflection and penitence which precedes Easter. In the Episcopal tradition, clergy use ashes to mark the foreheads of the faithful with the sign of the cross, saying “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
NEWARK, January 14, 2010 – The Episcopal Diocese of Newark will donate $10,000 for relief efforts in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.
“Haiti has been shattered by this earthquake,” said Bishop Mark Beckwith. “There are deep, longstanding connections between the Diocese of Newark and Haiti, and we are drawing on those connections to offer the most helpful and hopeful response that we can.”
The Church of the Atonement (Episcopal) in Tenafly, NJ has received a grant of $36,755 to enable its rector, the Rev. Lynne Bleich Weber, to participate in the 2009 National Clergy Renewal Program funded by the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. It is one of 149 congregations across the country that will support their ministers in the program, which allows pastors to step back from their busy lives and renew their spirits for the benefit of their ongoing ministries.
NEWARK, October 21, 2009 – Downtown Newark will soon see a new revitalization project – the renovation of the exterior of Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral, the nation’s oldest Episcopal cathedral building and the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.
