St. Christopher's Episcopal Church

05/01/2025

Email from Episcopal Diocese of Washington I am pleased to announce that the Right Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton has accepted the call to serve as part-time Assistant Bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Wa

04/25/2025

The Anglican delegation will be led by the Most Rev. Marinez Bassotto, the archbishop of the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil. She serves on the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion as the regional primate for the Americas.

[Anglican Communion News Service] A delegation from the Anglican Communion will attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome on April 26, representing the prayers and condolences of Anglicans around …

04/21/2025

Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe's message concerning the death of Pope Francis.

My heart is heavy at the death of our brother in Christ, Pope Francis. Throughout his life and ministry, he has been a witness for the Gospel and a champion for the poor and marginalized. Especially in this season, I give thanks for his powerful advocacy on behalf of migrants and refugees. Pope Fran...

04/19/2025

Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe's Easter message.

Easter 2025 message from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe April 19, 2025 Office of Public Affairs English Dear Friends in Christ: Luke’s Gospel tells us that on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Joanna went to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus. When they got the...

04/13/2025

A letter from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe about the bombing of al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza.

Dear People of God in The Episcopal Church: Early this Palm Sunday morning, we received confirmation that al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, was hit last night by Israeli missiles. The diocese and many media outlets report that the emergency department,....

04/12/2025

A different experience of Holy Week invites your participation.

Building on its extraordinary success over the past three years, the “Holy Week with Jesus” text-message experience is back for 2025—inviting Christians of every tradition to join a real-time spiri…

04/04/2025

Remembering this prophet today.

04/03/2025

Diocesan Staff Announcement

We are delighted to announce that the Rev. John Deason will join our diocesan staff as Associate for Congregational Vitality. In this part-time position, John will work closely with the Rev. Dr. Kristofer Lindh-Payne, our canon to the ordinary for leadership, in the areas of church revitalization, congregational growth, strategic partnerships and collaboration with Lutheran congregations. His role will include consulting, coaching, and supporting initiatives on church planting, property use and leadership development.

John has served since 2020 as pastor of the Church of the Holy Apostles and St. Stephen, Arbutus, a “Lutherpalian” congregation formed in partnership with the Delaware-Maryland Synod of the ELCA, and he will continue to serve that community part time. He previously served on our diocesan staff as development director and with Church on the Square, Baltimore prior to his call to ordination.

We look forward to working with John as we revitalize and strengthen our church communities and live into our vision of a community of love. Please join us in welcoming him to our diocesan staff.

This message was sent by the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, [email protected].

03/21/2025

First day of Spring

On this spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, I am thinking about seeds; I am thinking about the darkness in which green and light and spring have their start; I am thinking about what it means to begin, and to begin again. Here is a blessing about that for you, for this day and every day. And for friends in the Southern Hemisphere, blessings of the autumnal equinox to you!

BLESSING THE SEED

I should tell you
at the outset:
this blessing will require you
to do some work.

First you must simply
let this blessing fall
from your hand,
as if it were a small thing
you could easily let slip
through your fingers,
as if it were not
most precious to you,
as if your life did not
depend on it.

Next you must trust
that this blessing knows
where it is going,
that it understands
the ways of the dark,
that it is wise
to seasons
and to times.

Then—
and I know this blessing
has already asked much
of you—
it is to be hoped that
you will rest
and learn
that something is at work
when all seems still,
seems dormant,
seems dead.

I promise you
this blessing has not
abandoned you.
I promise you
this blessing
is on its way back
to you.
I promise you—
when you are least
expecting it,
when you have given up
your last hope—
this blessing will rise
green
and whole
and new.

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

Image: “Into the Seed”
© Jan Richardson

03/10/2025

A poem for the first week in Lent by Dylan Thomas:

This Bread I Break

This bread I break was once the oat,
This wine upon a foreign tree
Plunged in its fruit;
Man in the day or wind at night
Laid the crops low, broke the grape’s joy.

Once in this wine the summer blood
Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine,
Once in this bread
The oat was merry in the wind;
Man broke the sun, pulled the wind down.

This flesh you break, this blood you let
Make desolation in the vein,
Were oat and grape
Born of the sensual root and sap;
My wine you drink, my bread you snap

03/07/2025

Don't forget to set clocks FORWARD an hour on Saturday night!

03/05/2025