St. Martin's Episcopal Church - Fairlee VT

04/01/2026

Holy Week and Easter at St. Martin's

Good Friday - April 3
16:00 PM - Good Friday Service

Easter Sunday - April 5
9:00 AM - Holy Communion, Hymns

03/31/2026

From Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally - Holy Week - beautifully said

03/13/2026

03/13/2026

On March 30, The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont will host a Vigil of Lament at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Bishop Shannon will preside. This service will be an opportunity for our diocesan household to come together and lament the injustice and violence that have become commonplace in the United States and world....

02/18/2026

Join us today at 5:30 for the Imposition of Ashes and Holy Communion.

In a time when so much is crumbling, is burning, I don’t want to romanticize the ashes that come with destruction and devastation. As we approach Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent, I do want to keep asking what the Holy One can do with dust, and to keep looking for how I can be part of that. So many blessings to you, beloved ones, as the new season arrives.

BLESSING THE DUST

All those days
you felt like dust,
like dirt,
as if all you had to do
was turn your face
toward the wind
and be scattered
to the four corners

or swept away
by the smallest breath
as insubstantial—

did you not know
what the Holy One
can do with dust?

This is the day
we freely say
we are scorched.

This is the hour
we are marked
by what has made it
through the burning.

This is the moment
we ask for the blessing
that lives within
the ancient ashes,
that makes its home
inside the soil of
this sacred earth.

So let us be marked
not for sorrow.
And let us be marked
not for shame.
Let us be marked
not for false humility
or for thinking
we are less
than we are

but for claiming
what God can do
within the dust,
within the dirt,
within the stuff
of which the world
is made
and the stars that blaze
in our bones
and the galaxies that spiral
inside the smudge
we bear.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “Ash Wednesday Cross”
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

01/24/2026

⚠️ Weather-Related Shelter Update – Lebanon Seasonal Shelter ⚠️

Due to expected frigid temperatures, the Lebanon Seasonal Shelter will open early at 2:00 pm, tomorrow, Saturday, January 24.

🛏️ Important Sunday Notice!

On Sunday the 25th, the shelter will remain open during the day but access will be limited to guests who stayed at the shelter on Saturday night.

Cot Sign-Up Information:

• Monday–Friday: Cot sign-up takes place at the TLC Resource Center (24 Hanover Street, Lebanon) until 4:30 pm. Guests who sign up may remain indoors at TLC until the shelter opens at 5 pm.

• Saturday & Sunday: Cot sign-up takes place at the Lebanon Seasonal Shelter.

We will return to our regular shelter schedule on Monday, January 26.

Please share so this information reaches those who need it.

01/14/2026

"I do not believe that God plays favorites among all of us children, even though we like to pretend otherwise. Our claims to being exclusive clubs of faith fall flat before the breath of a Spirit that blesses and heals those in need without regard to their denomination or lack there of. The democracy of grace reveals a love without conditions • How much more peaceful this world would be if we could do the same. How quickly wars might cease and the hungry find nourishment if we suspended our pretense to be the one and only, trusting rather the God who shaped us all to show us the way to worship together."

-Rt Rev Steven Charleston

12/26/2025

Good King Wenceslas look’d out,
On the Feast of Stephen;
When the snow lay round about,
Deep, and crisp, and even:
Brightly shone the moon that night,
Though the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
Gath’ring winter fuel.

“Hither page and stand by me,
If thou know’st it, telling,
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?”
“Sire, he lives a good league hence.
Underneath the mountain;
Right against the forest fence,
By Saint Agnes’ fountain.”

“Bring me flesh, and bring me wine,
Bring me pine-logs hither:
Thou and I will see him dine,
When we bear them thither.”
Page and monarch forth they went,
Forth they went together;
Through the rude wind’s wild lament,
And the bitter weather.

“Sire, the night is darker now,
And the wind blows stronger;
Fails my heart, I know now how,
I can go no longer.”
“Mark my footsteps, good my page;
Tread thou in them boldly;
Thou shalt find the winter’s rage
Freeze thy blood less coldly.”

In his master’s steps he trod,
Where the snow lay dinted;
Heat was in the very sod
Which the Saint had printed.
Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
Wealth or rank possessing,
Ye who now will bless the poor,
Shall yourselves find blessing.

- John Mason Neale, (1818-1866)

12/13/2025

A Blue Christmas: When Christmas Hurts

Wednesday, December 17 – 6:00 PM

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, White River Junction

Blue? As in "I am feeling blue." Christmas can be a painful time for some.
Come share and hear prayers, scripture, and music that acknowledge that God is present for those who mourn, for those who struggle - and that God’s Word comes to shine light into our darkness.

Everyone is welcome ~~ God Loves you – No Exceptions