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.

09/03/2026

Ambition

Competition can be helpful for creating and improving, but in trying to be great and greatest, we often abuse power. We hurt and kill one another, both humans and non-human neighbors. “Where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.” Our fragile mother earth bears the wounds of our ambition.

—Br. Luke Ditewig, SSJE

09/03/2026

DAILY NOUWEN MEDITATIONS | September 3, 2026

People Of Hope

From: The Road to Peace: Writings on Peace and Justice

We are called to be a people of hope. Together, we can face our despairs – personal, global, or ecclesiastic. Together, too, we can find the risen Lord, emerged from his tomb of despair, ready once again to love us first. In embracing us, Jesus gives us the hope we need to find and live the life he has hidden in us and in the world.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
- Hebrews 13: 5

09/02/2026

DAILY NOUWEN MEDITATIONS | September 2, 2026

Life Is Small

From: The Road to Peace: Writings on Peace and Justice

Living without judgment is very difficult. It means trusting that new life can emerge even in a world full of distrust, violence, destruction, and war.
Life is always small. It is always vulnerable. It never shouts or screams. It always needs protection and guidance. Saying “yes” to it means being willing to look at the small life that seeks to be born in your heart, in your body, in your mind, among people…. Because life is very small, you can never see it happening. Have you ever seen a tree actually grow? Can you see a child grow? Growth is too gentle, too tender. Life is basically hidden. It is small and begs for constant care and protection. If you are committed to always saying “yes” to life, you are going to have to become a person who chooses it when it is hidden.

I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
- Philippians 4: 12

09/02/2026

Creation

As the dignity of creation is renewed and restored at the altar Sunday by Sunday, we have the opportunity once again to choose life, that we may live. In choosing life, our fellowship with creation is restored. It no longer is a thing to be exploited. We discover it to be a revelation of God’s love, and a means of God’s grace.

—Br. James Koester, SSJE

09/01/2026

DAILY NOUWEN MEDITATIONS | September 1, 2026

Sending Our Spirit Of Love

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

After a very short visit to earth the time comes for each of us to pass from this world to the next. We have been sent into the world as God's beloved children, and in our passages and losses we learn to love each other as spouse, parent, brother, or sister. We support one another through the passages of life, and together we grow in love. Finally we ourselves are called to exodus, and we leave the world for full communion with God. It is possible for us, like Jesus, to send our spirit of love to our friends when we leave them. Our spirit, the love we leave behind, is deeply in God's Spirit. It is our greatest gift to those we love.

Your father's blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills.
- Genesis 49: 26

09/01/2026

Infinitude

The galaxies remind us of the infinitude of God’s light, and life, and love which is beyond us, around us, and also within us. We ground that awareness in our own work of righteousness, for the love of God. Our life’s mission is to be agents of the majesty and mercy of God, who is the beginning, the way, and the end of all life.

—Br. Curtis Almquist, SSJE

Sunday was a beautiful day for a wedding at St Peter’s.Everyone looked absolutely fabulous, and the flower girl was a wo...
09/01/2026

Sunday was a beautiful day for a wedding at St Peter’s.

Everyone looked absolutely fabulous, and the flower girl was a wonderful junior bellringer—thank you, and well done!

Wishing the happy couple every happiness as they begin this exciting next chapter of their lives together. May their journey be filled with love, joy, and many wonderful memories.

We are grateful to the Rev Canon Dr John Mitchell for leading us in worship yesterday. It was wonderful to have you with...
08/31/2026

We are grateful to the Rev Canon Dr John Mitchell for leading us in worship yesterday. It was wonderful to have you with us again, on another beautiful day in Cape May Point.

It was wonderful to have a Bellringer and Usher’s helper too. Well done!! Thank you.

Join us next Sunday, September 6, 2026, when we welcome back the Rev Glenn Miller.

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

Special thanks to those who are helping to deliver the food donations, and to all who volunteer their time assisting at the food pantry.

Your generosity is sincerely appreciated.

08/31/2026

Seed

The desire to meet Jesus directly is good. It is a healthy desire. It is a healthy desire to cultivate, day after day, with seeds of prayer and work. The good news is that Jesus is already available. If you feel the desire to meet Jesus directly, that means he is already calling you. God is already at work inside of you.

—Br. Jack Crowley, SSJE

08/31/2026

DAILY NOUWEN MEDITATIONS | August 31, 2026

Being Attentive

From: Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety

Lord Jesus,
Free me from the many things that occupy and preoccupy me. Help me just to be with you. To pray with you, glorify you, thank you, worship you. I want to be attentive, more ready to hear you, more willing to understand the mystery of your birth and life, your dying and your rising. Make me still, Lord, make me quiet, and speak to me in that silence.
Amen.

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
- Mark 14: 38

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102 Lake Drive
Cape May Point, NJ
08212

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