Feast of All Saints, Notes from the Fires Feature, and More!
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Celebrating the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls this Sunday, November 2
Icon by Kelly Latimore
This is a special Sunday when we celebrate both of these important feast days. We will celebrate the saints in our lives and hold in prayer the names of those who have passed. If you would like to honor someone who has left this world, please share their name with us here.
Quarterly Meeting This Sunday
Please join us for our quarterly meeting this Sunday, November 2 at 9:30 upstairs in the Parish Hall classroom. We will give updates on finances, the capital campaign, the reopening, and much more!
An Interview with a Member of the Choir of St James
Choir of Saint James member Nancy Sulahian was recently featured in two episodes of Notes from the Fires, a series on Classical California (91.5 FM) that shares stories of musicians affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires earlier this year.
Five churches, one synagogue, three choirs, two bands, a concert pianist, gospel and Hebrew music, soulful preaching and teaching. Join us for a joyful, inspirational celebration of unity, community and gratitude with our neighbors and friends.
In these divisive times, come together with the faith leaders and congregants of Cochran Avenue Baptist Church, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – Wilshire 3rd Ward, Hollywood Presbyterian Church, Saint Basil Catholic Church, Saint James in the City Episcopal Church, and Wilshire Boulevard Temple. Be the miracle you would like to see with love, faith and fellowship.
Followed by a dessert reception.
Cost: A non-perishable can or box of food for donation to our food pantries.
November 22 & November 23: Evensong, Return to the Sanctuary, Choir Reunion, and Saying Goodbye to Canon James Buonemani
Please mark your calendars! On Saturday, November 22 at 4:15PM, we will have our first Evensong of the season, combined with a service of rededication of our restored Sanctuary. Then on Sunday, November 23, we will celebrate the Feast of Christ the King, which will also be Canon James Buonemani’s final Sunday leading the music program at St. James after more than 30 years of dedicated service and extraordinary artistry. If you have sung in the choir under Jim’s direction during these years, you are warmly invited to join us in singing Hubert H. Parry’s I Was Glad at this special service. Please reply no later than Monday, November 3, to ChoirRSVP@stjla.org, indicating your voice part. Additional details will be shared with all who respond. We look forward to gathering voices old and new for this meaningful occasion.
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Meet the Wardens! With a new Vestry class comes new Wardens. We are excited to share that Mike Mullins (mmullins@stjla.org) will be our Senior Warden and Lynn McCarthy (lmccarthy@stjla.org) will be our Junior Warden. We want to thank Ken Robbins and Chris Marcil for their incredible work as they respectively served as Senior and Junior Warden. Bishop-Elect names Jon Feuss Canon to the Ordinary From the Episcopal News Bishop-elect Antonio J. Gallardo L. will call the Rev. Jon Feuss — currently...
A Special Evensong this Sunday at 4:00PM Be sure to attend evensong this Sunday afternoon at 4PM to celebrate our new statues, bell tower crown, and Korean ministry at St James. And save time for a joyful reception to follow. Look at these two great articles, one from this week’s Episcopal News Update and the other from Korea Daily Wilshire Center Parish Will Bless New Statues, tower "crown" at Feb. 22 Evensong Bishop Honored with Statue at 100th Annviersary of L.A. Church A Zoom class during...
New Friends Join St. James’ this Week How exciting this week to see a large lift transport our new statues up the front of the church building and place them in their designated niches. The statues look amazing! And just think – they will be looking out over Wilshire Blvd and Koreatown for the next one hundred years, and more. What a powerful witness to the great spiritual and social justice leaders who have come before us: The Bishop Barbara Harris, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Bishop Simon Kim,...
