St. Barnabas Episcopal Church

St. Barnabas Episcopal Church We live to learn, experience and share God's transforming love in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. Welcome to St. Barnabas Episcopal Church!

Services: 10:30 on Sunday, live here on Facebook! We are located in the heart of New Jersey in South Brunswick Township and serving nearby communities, including South Brunswick Monmouth Junction, Dayton, Cranbury, Monroe, East Windsor, West Windsor, and other townships in Mercer county.

06/04/2026

Seek grace for the smallest things, and you will also find grace to accomplish, to believe in, and to hope for the greatest things. Attend to the smallest things, examine them, think about putting them into effect, and the Lord will grant you greater.
—St. Peter Faber, SJ, in The Spiritual Writings of Pierre Favre: The Memoriale and Selected Letters and Instructions

"Well done, good and trustworthy servant; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master."
—Matthew 25:21

Ask for the grace to be faithful to a small, nagging task that you find difficult to do.

06/03/2026

Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him. 1 KINGS 19:5

God does not chide His tired child when that weariness is a result of toil for Him: “I know . . . your hard work” (Revelation 2:2)—the Greek is “labor to weariness.” And what happened? “All at once an angel touched him.” There is no wilderness without its angels. Though Elijah knew it not, angels guarded him round about in his blackest depression and were actually placing bread and water at his head while he was asking for death. A man may have to cry in the midst of an apostate community, “I am the only one left” (1 Kings 19:10); but he is always companied by legions of holy angels. But more than that. Who is this angel? It is the Angel of the Lord, God’s Angel; the One who, centuries later in Gethsemane, had to have an angel to strengthen Him. He touched His exhausted child. Blessed exhaustion that can bring such a touch! As the psalmist has said (Psalm 127:2), He giveth to His beloved while they sleep. And God does not chide His tired child.
—-LBE Cowman

THE DAWN
Dear child, God does not say today, “Be strong”; He knows your strength is spent; He knows how long The road has been, how weary you have grown, For He who walked the earthly roads alone, Each bogging lowland, and each rugged hill, Can understand, and so He says, “Be still, And know that I am God.” The hour is late, And you must rest awhile, and you must wait Until life’s empty reservoirs fill up As slow rain fills an empty upturned cup. Hold up your cup, dear child, for God to fill. He only asks today that you be still.
GRACE NOLL CROWELL

06/02/2026

O Creator God,
both the thick darkness of the night and the gleaming light of the day are gifts from You.
Thank You for the darkness: for rest, forgetfulness, blessed silence.
Thank You for the light: for action, purpose, blessed voices.
The night and the day come from You-this day I dedicate to You, through Christ my Lord.
Amen.
-DAVID P. GUSHEE (1962-)

06/01/2026

Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

05/30/2026

I’m going to hold
steady on You. You’ve
got to see me through.
—Harriet Tubman

05/29/2026

Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in Love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.
—Attributed to Pedro Arrupe, SJ

05/28/2026

MY DAUGHTER, KATHERINE, is very farsighted. Her adorable Coke-bottle glasses correct her vision well enough for her to be able to color fairies, bead necklaces, and watch SpongeBob SquarePants on the tube. However, you take away the glasses and she panics. Hyperopia, the technical term for farsightedness, is an inability to focus on near objects. Although I don’t wear glasses or need contact lenses, I totally understand this vision problem because I have great difficulty seeing the things that are right before my eyes. Instead I concentrate on signs a hundred feet away. I take a project, a goal, a dream, and I view it twenty years away. Not surprising, then, I get overwhelmed before I even start. So, as a cognitive-behavioral exercise, I picture myself wearing Katherine’s Coke-bottle glasses and try to focus on something that’s less than three feet from me. I take a few steps around the base of the mountain I’m trying to climb, or slice off a mere piece of the task I want to accomplish… like recognizing and untwisting one of 2,345 distorted thoughts in my head, or attempting three minutes versus three hours of mindful meditation, or saying no to just one thing that I don’t want to do but feel like I should because I love that word, should, so much. Forget about all that stuff in the distance, I tell myself, and focus on the fairies.
—Therese Borchard

05/27/2026

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. PAUL TILLICH

We rarely think of ourselves as courageous persons. We think of courage as something that is the possession of heroes and persons much beyond us in life and living. One of Paul Tillich’s greatest books is The Courage to Be. He understood that just “being” took a barrelful of courage at every turn. To be free, truly free, is to make decisions and, in living, we make thousands of decisions every day. We decide (really!) when to get up or to go to bed. We decide what to wear, what to eat, what we’ll say, how we’ll say it. We may not see ourselves as decisive and we make many, many decisions every day. In fact, the courage of making our decisions and living with them gives us the freedom to be. It is the freedom to be that gives us the courage of being free. When we refuse to make decisions or we want others to make them for us and then be victims, we forfeit our “courage to be free.”

My decisions may not always be good ones, yet when I own them I am free.
—Anne Wilson Schaef

05/26/2026

Looking Outward Together

I have often quoted what Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said: "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." I wonder whether the problem today is precisely that some lovers have lost the sense that there is anything else to look at besides each other, and that when they become bored they move on.

The promise of love is like the promise of a shared pilgrim-age: that of moving together toward God, and therefore toward the source of love. Only with such a hopeful promise can couples weather the inevitable storms of the pilgrimage. And only with such a promise can one sustain hope, sustain desire, sustain joy-even during periods when one is unhappy.
—Tim Muldoon, Dot Magis blog

And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another.
—Hebrews 10:24-25

Reflect on your pilgrimage-and on the people who share it with you. Consider what you share. Can you put it into words?

05/25/2026

For Memorial Day

O Judge of the nations, we remember before you with grateful hearts the men and women of our country who in the day of decision ventured much for the liberties we now enjoy. Grant that we may not rest until all the people of this land share the benefits of true freedom and gladly accept its disciplines; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen+
—Book of Common Prayer

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Monmouth Junction, NJ
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