Welcome to St. James!

Worship Services on Sunday and During the Week

St. James has two worship services on Sunday, at 8 and 10 AM, in the main church, an evening worship service on Thursdays in our Hallam Chapel at 5 PM, and a virtual Compline prayer service on Monday evenings at 8 PM.

The 8 AM service  on Sundays is a Rite 1 service and is held in-person only.

The 10 AM service is a sung Rite 2 in-person service that also has Zoom and YouTube connections and is also recorded and posted to our Youtube channel.

The Zoom connections to the 10 AM service are:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89357969444?pwd=REdjU09FcmhkRzFPUUdIcjBGTjN5dz09
  Meeting ID: 893 5796 9444
Passcode: 578386
By Phone: 1 929 205 6099
To call from out of the US: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcRK06nGWL

To see the 10 AM service on YouTube Live, visit our YouTube channel here. Closed captioning is available on YouTube, but be aware that the YouTube Live session will end immediately after the Postlude. The Zoom live session may have a virtual "coffee hour" after the 10 AM service if there a number of people remaining online after the service ends.

Sunday worship service recordings can also be viewed anytime on the St. James YouTube Channel by clicking  here  and selecting from the services listed.

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Anniversary Service of Evensong - Sunday, November 17 at 5 PM

This service is in celebration of the 240th anniversary of Samuel Seabury's consecration as the first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America on November 14, 1784. While serving as bishop, Samuel Seabury was also the pastor of St. James from 1785 until his death in 1796.

Choral evensong is the Anglican church service held near sunset, with the singing and reading of psalms, biblical canticles, prayers and verses from the old and new testaments. This will be a special evensong that will include a chorus composed of the regional Anglican Singers choir, the St. James Church choir, and choir members from area Episcopal churches. The music will include works of Bach, Cooper, Billings, Tallis, Russell, Stanford, Williams, Mendelssohn and Wesley. A reception in the parish hall will follow, and a goodwill offering is encouraged.

This service will also be livestreamed on Zoom and YouTube and recorded for later viewing on YouTube. We will use the same streaming connections as we do for Sunday services: Zoom connection is here; YouTube connection is here (or use the links in the Sunday service announcement above).

Holiday Service Updates

• There will be no worship service on Thanksgiving day, November 28.
• Christmas Eve on Tuesday, December 24 will have one service at 7 pm with Chorale Prelude at 6:30 PM.
• Christmas Day will have one service as usual at 9 AM.
• Sunday, December 29 will have one 9 AM service of Christmas Lessons & Carols with Holy Eucharist and a festive coffee hour after the service. Bring your Christmas cookies or goodies to share!

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Compline (Zoom only) is offered on Monday evenings at 8 PM. To join the Compline Prayer Service each Monday at 8 PM, click here.

Meeting ID: 858 5779 1597

Passcode: 021996

By phone: 1 312 626 6799

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For updates, reports or pictures of events as they happen, go to our Facebook page by clicking here or to our Instagram account by clicking here. The monthly Google calendar of events can be seen by clicking here.  For our semi-monthly newsletter, The Net, click here.  To get the newsletter of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, click here. 

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Links to:  Book of Common Prayer

Lectionary Calendar

Daily Office and Lectionary