St. Peter's by-the-Sea in Cape May Point, NJ

St. Peter's by-the-Sea in Cape May Point, NJ Located at 102 Lake Drive, Cape May Point, NJ, 08212. St. Join us for worship this summer - our 143rd summer season! We look forward to seeing you this summer!

Peter's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church is a summer chapel in Cape May Point, New Jersey, providing a spiritual home-away-from home from Mother's Day weekend through mid October each year. We gather for worship each Sunday throughout the summer (Sunday, May 29th, through Sunday, September 25th). Due to the on-going COVID pandemic, we will have one worship service each Sunday this season, at 9:00 a.m.

Worshippers may sit in the church, or you may bring a lawn chair or blanket and sit on the church lawn. Our sound system will broadcast the service outside, and communion will be brought to you outside as well. While masks are not required, worshippers are encouraged to wear a mask when in the building. All are invited to attend this charming little Episcopal church, situated in Cape May Point, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. Located on a triangular patch of land at Lincoln, Lake, and Ocean Avenues, St. Peter’s by-the-Sea is an example of stick-style architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Join us, and experience for yourself what makes St. Peter’s such a special place.

We are grateful to the Rev Glenn Matis for leading us in worship yesterday. It was wonderful to have you with us on anot...
06/01/2026

We are grateful to the Rev Glenn Matis for leading us in worship yesterday. It was wonderful to have you with us on another beautiful, chilly spring day in Cape May Point.

Join us next Sunday, June 7, 2026, when we welcome back the Rev Glenn Matis.

Thank you to all who continue to donate to the Food Pantry. During June, there is a need for family size kid’s cereal boxes, canned tuna, individually wrapped snacks, soup and crackers. Coffee, tea, spices are always appreciated There is always a need for recyclable bags.

Thank you. Your generosity is sincerely appreciated.

06/01/2026

Conversation

Conversation often helps confirm or distill truth. Imagine the conversation between Elizabeth and Mary, these two related friends who bore witness in wondrous pregnancy. Both bore the weight of a gift and a call with shame and questions. Imagine the stories they told, the questions shared, the listening, tears, encouragement, and loving countenance. They are a model for us.

Br. Luke Ditewig, SSJE

06/01/2026

DAILY NOUWEN MEDITATIONS | June 1, 2026

Small Signs Of God's Presence

From: Gracias: A Latin American Journal

Our salvation comes from something small, tender, and vulnerable, something hardly noticeable. God, who is the Creator of the Universe, comes to us in smallness, weakness, and hiddenness.
I find this a hopeful message. Somehow, I keep expecting loud and impressive events to convince me and others of God's saving power; but over and over again, I am reminded that spectacles, power plays, and big events are the ways of the world. Our temptation is to be distracted by them and made blind to the “shoot that shall sprout from the stump.”
When I have no eyes for the small signs of God's presence – the smile of a baby, the carefree play of children, the words of encouragement and gestures of love offered by friends – I will always remain tempted to despair.
The small child of Bethlehem, the unknown man of Nazareth, the rejected preacher, the naked man on the cross, he asks for my full attention. The work of salvation takes place in the midst of a world that continues to shout, scream, and overwhelm us with its claims and promises. But the promise is hidden in the shoot that sprouts from the stump, a shoot that hardly anyone notices.

“A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.”
- Isaiah 11:1

05/31/2026

DAILY NOUWEN MEDITATIONS | May 31, 2026

Celebrating God's Love

From: Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective

The divine ecstatic joy of the house of love becomes manifest in celebration. Celebration marks the life of the disciple of Jesus as well as the life of his new community. The disciple leaves behind the old life in search of a new life. For every disciple as well as for the entire fellowship, following the Lord involves celebration, the ongoing, unceasing lifting up of God's love that has proved itself victorious. Celebration is the concrete way in which God's ecstatic joy becomes visible among us.

“And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
- Mark 2: 22

Join us tomorrow, Sunday, May 31st at 9am, as we welcome back the Rev Glenn Matis as preacher and celebrant. Seating ins...
05/30/2026

Join us tomorrow, Sunday, May 31st at 9am, as we welcome back the Rev Glenn Matis as preacher and celebrant.

Seating inside and on the lawn. Please bring a beach chair.

Non-perishable food collection each week. There is need of kid’s cereal boxes, individually wrapped snacks, soup & crackers.

All are invited to attend this charming little Episcopal Church, situated in Cape May Point, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. Located on a triangular patch of land at Lincoln, Lake and Ocean Avenues, St. Peter’s by-the-Sea is an example of stick-style architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Join us and experience for yourself what makes St. Peter’s such a special place.

05/30/2026

DAILY NOUWEN MEDITATIONS | May 30, 2026

Letting Go Of My Wishes

From: Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit

I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God, something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me.

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.”
- Psalm 20: 7

05/30/2026

Perspective

If the mystery of the Trinity elicits in us praise and celebration, the mystery of our own salvation by that same Trinity can only – should only – elicit in us a response of humble thanks and determination to adopt a fresh perspective: to see all our neighbors with the eyes of the Trinity as beloved siblings who share in the same hope of God’s future when all will be one.

Br. Lain Wilson, SSJE

Join us this Sunday, May 31st at 9am, as we welcome back the Rev Glenn Matis as preacher and celebrant. Seating inside a...
05/29/2026

Join us this Sunday, May 31st at 9am, as we welcome back the Rev Glenn Matis as preacher and celebrant.

Seating inside and on the lawn. Please bring a beach chair.

Non-perishable food collection each week. There is need of kid’s cereal boxes, individually wrapped snacks, soup & crackers.

All are invited to attend this charming little Episcopal Church, situated in Cape May Point, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. Located on a triangular patch of land at Lincoln, Lake and Ocean Avenues, St. Peter’s by-the-Sea is an example of stick-style architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Join us and experience for yourself what makes St. Peter’s such a special place.

05/29/2026

Presence

God is always coming to us. Pay attention to now. God’s presence is always in the present. There will be “thin places” where God breaks through to you, often mysteriously, in the here-and-now. Pay attention to now.

Br. Curtis Almquist, SSJE

05/29/2026

DAILY NOUWEN MEDITATIONS | May 29, 2026

Living At The Place Of Innocence

From: Finding Our Sacred Center

I know that I am called to live at the place of innocence – the place where Jesus chose to live. There he made his home and asks me to make mine. In that place I am loved and well held. There I do not have to be afraid. And from there I can forgive and heal and make things new….
I know that every time I choose for my innocence, I don't have to worry about the next ten years. I can simply be where I am, listening, seeing, touching in the very moment, always sure that I am not alone but with him who called me to live as God's child.

“Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed.”
- Matthew 8:8

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102 Lake Drive
Cape May Point, NJ
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