Dear Members and Friends of St. James, Because I am pleased to report no major development or change in our common life, I share with you several prayers from our Book of Common Prayer that have this week forced their way into my mind.  I pray that you also might find them beneficial. For Ascension …

6 Easter Psalm 98; Acts 10:41 – 48; I John 5:1 – 6; John 15:9 – 17 This is my commandment, that you love one another.  Jn. 15: 12 It may not (perhaps, even should not) come as a surprise to any of you that at this time of the year my mind turns to …

Dear Members and Friends of St. James, Such updates as they are are centered on discussions of how we may meet diocesan guidelines for regathering for in-person liturgies. Our regathering shepherd/liaison, a member of St. John’s Church, Chelsea is, so I learn, acquainted with St. James and our area in Somerville. For that reason, although …

5 Easter Psalm 22:24 – 30; Acts 8:26 – 40; I John 4:7 – 21; John 15:1 – 8 I am the vine; you are the branches. John 15:5 A spoiler alert to my reflections on this Fifth Sunday in Easter 2021:  When reading the gospel lesson for this Sunday, a fairly long string of …