Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday?

• Traditional Services | 9 am & 11:15 am in the Church – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill
• Awesome Worship Service for Families | 9:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Reagan Cocke
• Modern Worship | 11:15 am in the Hall Life Center – The Rev. Reagan Cocke
• Traditional Service | 8 am & 5 pm in the Chapel – The Rev. Dr. R. Leigh Spruill (8 am) & Bishop Josiah-Fearon (5 pm)
  

Worship Online

• Traditional Service in the Church (9 am - with Order of Service & Announcements)
• Modern Worship in the HLC (11:15 am - with Announcements)
  

All-Ages Education Hour — 
10:15 am Administration Building

Gathering as God’s People: 
The Priority of Worship for Christian Living – Hall Life Center

Discover: What We Believe – The Parlor

Children's Fall Sunday School – First Floor
Preparation for Communion – Lower Level
Youth Sunday School – Room 238 & Chapel
Youth Confirmation – Room 236

Happening Today

SJD Parish Flu Vaccinations
St. John the Divine again offers vaccinations for the flu in Doris Sumners area of Sumners Hall starting at 9 am. Please bring a copy of your insurance card. Traditional Medicare and insurance plans from BCBS PPO, Aetna TRS, and United Health Care will be accepted. 

Sunday Brunch Tacos & Quesadillas
Come to the Westheimer port-o-cochere from 10 am - 1 pm for some Tex-Mex food from El Taco Adorado. Tacos & quesadillas are available for sale. See menu for prices.

SJD Master Plan Town Hall
We are excited to share more news about Campus Master Plan for SJD. Please join us for a town hall for an update on our master plan process with our partnering architects, Merriman Holt Powell Architects at 10:15 am in the Hall Life Center. Learn more about the SJD 2030 Master Plan.

The Collect of the Day

Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Mark 9:30-37

9:30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.” 32 But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

33 And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34 But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 35 And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” 36 And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, 37 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Musical Offering in the Church

Our liturgy begins at the Introit with the Tudor anthem “Almighty and everlasting God” and is followed later in the service with two contemporary English anthems.

Howard Goodhall is an English composer of musicals, secular and sacred choral music, and music for television. His anthem, “The Lord is my shepherd,” was written as the theme for the BBC TV series The Vicar of Dibley, and in its elegant simplicity, quickly became a favorite in the choral repertoire. It is sung today by The Choir of St. John the Divine at the Offertory.

At the ministration, we hear the hymn, “It Is a Thing Most Wonderful,” as set to music by British composer Bob Chilcott in his St. John Passion. The text was authored by the 19th Century English Bishop William Walsham How. Five of his hymns are included in our hymnal, The Hymnal 1982.