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Sermon: C Easter 7 12 May 2013

Acts 16:16-34; Ps 97;Rev 22:12-14,16-, 20-21; JOHN 17: 20-26

Do not leave us comfortless, but send your Holy Spirit to strengthen us. Amen. 

This Sunday, Easter 7, three days after Ascension Day, a week before Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit, is the scariest Sunday of the Christian year, at least for me. The whole ten days from the Ascension to Pentecost are both challenging and lonely, and test us and our faith. These days remind us about heading into the unknown and what it takes from us to trust in promises that sound fine, but actually who knows, who can know? Such promises risk sounding too good to be true, and that makes us wary, but Jesus says, “I will not leave you comfortless,” and promises to send the Holy Spirit. Whatever can the disciples have made of that promise? What’s the Holy Spirit; what’s a Paraclete, and what would an Advocate look like or be?

Ascension Day Service

There will be an Ascension Day service on Thursday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. at The Church of St. John the Evangelist.

For further information, please call 617-227-5242.

Please join us!

Event: When Cancer Strikes a Friend . . . How to Help

An event sponsored by the Cathedral of the Diocese of Massachusetts and the Church of St. John the Evangelist:

When Cancer Strikes a Friend: What to Say, What to Do, and How to Help

Rev. Bonnie Draeger, a cancer survivor and the executive director of Friends & Cancer, has spent a decade researching these questions. Her new book, When Cancer Strikes a Friend: What to Say, What to Do, and How to Help, includes the advice and expertise of over forty professionals, as well as the experiences and wisdom of hundreds of survivors/family/friends.  Find out more.

Wednesday, January 16th, 7:00 p.m., Hunnewell Chapel. Free.

Special services for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Please join us for our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services!

Christmas Eve
Monday, December 24, 2012
Music: 6:30 p.m.
Service: 7:00 p.m.

Christmas Day
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
10:30 a.m.

For further information, please call 617-227-5242

Church of St. John The Evangelist
35 Bowdoin St.
Boston MA 02114

Bowdoin Square Church, now Church of St. John the Evangelist

Bowdoin Square Church (formerly Lyman Beecher Cong., now Church of St. John the Evangelist) built 1830 or 1831, Solomon Willard [architect] 

Hawes, Josiah Johnson, 1808-1901 (photographer).

Picture taken around 1860. 

Source: Boston Public Library.  Some rights reserved.