St. James Parish, Farmington, CT

09/06/2026

Holy Eucharist, Rite I, Proper 18A, Sunday, September 7, 2026

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09/06/2026

Reminder that his upcoming Saturday, we will celebrate our Annual St. James Fall Fair. Please join us for the fun! Details below!

08/31/2026

Morning Office, Monday, August 31, 2026

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08/30/2026

Holy Eucharist, Rite 2, Proper 17A, Sunday, August 30, 2026

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08/24/2026

Sorry, folks, we had some technical difficulties and, in spite of the "heroic" efforts of your pastor, we couldn't get the system going this am. Apologies and we will be back next week. Today is the Feast of St. Bartholomew. I will leave you with his prayer for the day.

Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your Word: Grant that your Church may love what he believed and preach what he taught; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

08/23/2026

Holy Eucharist, Rite II, Proper 16A, Sunday, August 23, 2026

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08/20/2026

Thanks to Maggie Ososki and her family, along with the wonderful people who donated items for the backpacks, and everyone who showed up, including a lot of our children, to prepare 18 backpacks - filled with school necessities- for children in the Farmington school system, who otherwise might not have the supplies that they need for a new school year! Thank you, St James for being such a caring community!!

08/20/2026

Feed my Sheep

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly. John 10:10

I have always been mesmerized by the Job story, which is part of Holy Scripture’s “wisdom literature.” Today’s Daily Office began with Job’s story, as we see Job, the wealthiest man in the east, with nearly unfathomable wealth and prosperity. Satan (in Hebrew translated as Adversary) comes into the presence of God and tells God that if Job, who seems to be favored, has everything he possesses taken away, he will no longer be faithful. God gives Satan leave to test Job, but he cannot take away Job’s life. A series of calamities simultaneously befall Job and in one fell swoop he loses his livestock and his ten adult children. Chapter 1, verse 21-22 tells us: “Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped. He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."”

Job, throughout the book, gives homage to God, sometimes questions God, but holds on until the end when God himself restores all that Job had lost, at least in a sense. He shaves his head in mourning, is inconsolable, we could see something capricious about the God of Job, the Lord who gives and takes away almost at a whim. I was listening to a podcast the other day, in my copious spare time (just a clip from it, actually) where a well-known comedian told how he had been a committed Christian his entire life but lost his faith when his wife had an affair and left him. It is totally understandable that we can lose our way when calamity, old age, isolation, illness, betrayal, or violence crash into our lives. It makes sense to me that when we see how war, greed, and prejudice can keep some folks in a state of generational deprivation, that millions of children go hungry every day, etc. that some lose their way. When set against the world, sometimes faith may not make sense to us. And we know that the world, in the throes of secularism and so many who do not follow any kind of true spiritual path, will never be as it should be until Christ comes again. Yet, the Gospels tell us if we are faithful, we will see the face of God in Jesus and live. We will have “life abundant” (see John 10:10) in hope, faith, and grace understanding that God will never leave us alone. The world can promise us very little, really, when God is absent. God, in Christ, promises us Himself which is everything.
in Christ,
Fr. George

08/20/2026