Due to a small glitch, we are unable to post Rev. Clarence’s homily for Palm Sunday today. We hope to post it later. In the meantime, please enjoy last year’s Palm Sunday sermon, below. The readings for today are, however, as follows: Psalm 31:9–16; Isaiah 50:4–9a; Philippians 2:5–11; Mark 14:1–15:47 And, if you so choose, …

Dear Members and Friends of St. James,  I send you warm greetings as we enter this most solemn period of our faith tradition.  As I mention in my homily (long, because it replaces the long recitation of the Gospel normally heard at Mass on Palm Sunday and Holy Friday), a second year of not observing …

5 Lent Psalm 51:1–13; Jeremiah 31:31–34; Hebrews 5:5–10; John 12:20–33 Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies, it bears much fruit.  John 12:24 In the most recent issue of the periodical “The Atlantic,” (April 2021, p. 10), Shadi Hamid replaces the …

Dear Members and Friends of St. James, What you next read comes as reminders as we enter into the most solemn period of our liturgical year. A message from our bishops, sent two weeks ago to clergy and lay leaders of the Diocese. “As we look towards Holy Week and Easter, we know that traversing …