Dear Members and Friends of St. James, As this is the first note to you since my Staycation, I wish to bring you up to date on several important items of concern. And as always, I invite your comments and questions. OUR CAMPUS: I have returned to my habit of spending at least one day …

  Ps. 96; Isaiah 9:2 – 7; Titus 2:11 – 14; Luke 2:1 – 14 Now hope that is seen is not hope.  For who hopes for what he sees?  But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.  Romans 8:24f.   It may seem peculiar to you …

“O God, who makest us glad with the yearly remembrance of the birth of thy only Son Jesus Christ…”  Dear Members and Friends, So begins the Collect of the Nativity of Our Lord, the words that I would intone with fervent solemnity, were we able to assemble in our sanctuary in order to observe, in …

Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. James, You receive via this medium, in addition to my weekly reflections on the state of the parish, two attached items [see separate posts].  The first, my Advent-Christmas 2020 Newsletter, many of you should have by now received via USPS.  I insert it here, because I became aware that …