St. John’s Episcopal Church South Farnham Parish

04/07/2026

To all the altar guild members, flower guild members, greeters, ushers, readers, chalice bearers, organist, service participants, staff, and everyone else who made our Holy Week and Easter services such profound experiences, thank you doesn't quite cover it--but thank you!
The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia

04/05/2026

Christ is risen, and everything has changed. Out of death, God has brought life; out of sorrow, joy that cannot be taken away. We are invited into this new life, to die daily to all that binds us, and to live with Christ in the freedom and joy of his resurrection.

04/04/2026

“We know what it is to wait between what has died and what has not yet risen,” The Reverend Canon Steven Lee

Follow along with our Lenten meditations by visiting the link below.
https://www.stjohndivine.org/about/blog/

04/04/2026

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe sent the following Easter message to the church on April 4, Holy Saturday. Dear friends in Christ: One of the paradoxical truths of our faith is…

04/04/2026

The Collect O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,....

04/04/2026

Holy Saturday
Luke 23:54-56
The day after, when what is done can no longer be undone. When everything seems to be changed forever. It’s too soon, perhaps to think of next steps, even as we may be stumbling into them. The disciples of Jesus keep the Sabbath by waiting. Some women quietly prepare myrrh and spices for his buried body. Some lie low, thinking of what might have been done differently. Some offer thoughts and prayers. Most of us know these sorts of days – times of waiting, darkness, stillness, fatigue, grief. Tomorrow will be a new day and will no doubt be different. But this is still today.
How do we wait in such a time? How do we hold on to one another? Where do we see new life, even if it’s not yet evident?
- Fr. Edgar Wallace
painting by Marie Bashkirtseff, "The Myrrh Bearing Women" 1883, State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia.

04/04/2026

04/04/2026

Maundy Thursday service at St. John’s.