So very close.... - Rector's Rambling for December 22, 2024

     Two days!  Can you feel the excitement?  The anticipation?  So close and yet the 4th Sunday of Advent cannot seem further away from Christmas Eve and Day as well!  We have a short week before the Christmas celebration begins. 

This week we have a great opportunity to finish our last spiritual preparations for the coming Feast of the Nativity, as well as Jesus’ return (it could happen beforehand).  If you would like to make a private confession this week, please call the office to make an appointment, or plan on being at a weekday Mass and we can do so before or after Mass.

The other thing we can do these days between Advent and Christmas is to spend time inviting people to join us for worship at St. John’s.  Christmas is a time when people are looking for a place to come to church.  Your invitation could be how God will reach the heart of someone searching!  Invite them to a Christmas service and even offer them a ride if they are unsure of driving downtown.  The fear of the unfamiliar can be overcome by your hospitality.  It is a great chance to introduce people to St. John’s and to have them join us for worship and fellowship in the Lord.

Today after the 10 AM Service we have to finish Greening the Church for Christmas.  Yesterday we got much of the nave (seating area of the church) decorated and today we have the choir and altar areas to complete. After a bowl of soup in the undercroft come on back upstairs to pitch in.  Many hands make for light work.  And thank you to those who helped yesterday.