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At St. John’s Church, we are learning what it means to love God and to love our neighbors. As heirs of the Anglican tradition, we have been given many beautiful tools to help us do this.
We use liturgy to help us do this — because we have found that ancient forms of Christian prayer help us order our thoughts and feelings before God.
We use music to help us do this — because we want to offer our whole selves to God in worship, including our minds, including our bodies, including our voices.
We use the sacraments to help us do this — because we believe that Jesus makes himself very present to us in the bread and wine of the Eucharist.
We use the fellowship of our community to help us do this — because we believe that Jesus makes himself very present in the body of his faithful people.
We use service and works of mercy to help us do this — because we believe that Jesus makes himself very present to us in our neighbors.
Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome here.
Day 1
Today we receive two messages, one from Pope Leo XIV and the second from Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally.
A Video Message From His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for Thy Kingdom Come
TKC 2026 - Day 1 - Ascension Day - Archbishop Sarah Mullally
Day 2
Today we have another inspiring film from Thy Kingdom Come, where Rev. Naomi Maxwell-Babtunder, Associate Rector of SAINT Church in London reflects on her London neighborhood, Hackney. “We're all meant to live as these beautiful masterpieces making people go, ‘there's something more to life than this.’ So much of what's spoken about when it comes to Hackney is negative. It's gentrification, it's youth violence, it's poverty lines. God has a better story for Hackney and a better story for East London, and it is ultimately one that puts him supreme and preeminent, and that draws people around this God who is real, who entered into humanity, who cares about us, and who is showing us how to be his body.”
Enjoy this potent 5-minute film here:
Day 3
Today's "The Kingdom Come" film asks a range of Christians doing various kinds of work, how you bring God's grace and love into the world?
It can be found here.
Day 4
From Lambeth Palace's ͏ "Thy Kingdom Come" initiative, we have two films today, focusing on the Spirit of Listening. One is from His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos, Archbishop of London for the Coptic Orthodox Church, who speaks of the "refreshing, thirst-quenching silence that our spirit craves." The second comes to us from the Mirfield Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican monastery. They advise us, "Pray as you can, not as you can't." I hope you are enjoying these as much as I am!
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Watch this inspiring video from His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos
Watch this beautiful video from the Community of the Resurrection- Mirfield.
