The Session has authorized virtual communion for this Sunday. Before you tune in to our worship service, please have your elements ready: Grape juice, or wine and bread. … Continue reading →
As many of you know by now, my father, Lee Knight, passed away early this morning. I am so grateful to have been his daughter, and to have had such a wonderful father. Howard essentially took it upon himself to be my father’s caregiver, and I will be forever grateful for his love, help, and support of my dad. Howard and I are grateful to each and every one of … Continue reading →
Pastor Lori shares brief videos to help us through these difficult times. You can find these videos on our YouTube Channel. Here are links to each, with most recent at the top of the list:
5 29 Lori Shares a Prayer of Thanksgiving
5 27 Lori Shares from Buechner’s Godric
5 5 Lori Shares Pied Beauty poem
4 28 Lori Shares Prayer of St. Francis
Lori Shares Easter-tide Psalm 118
Lori Shares 2 Corintians 5 on Holy Saturday
Lori Shares on Good Friday Matt 27
Who would have thought that we would experience a Holy Week like this one? During the highest Holy Days of the Christian Year, we cannot worship together in the traditional sense. But, as I hope you discovered on Palm Sunday, the Worship of God still goes on. The Palm Sunday Presbytery-wide service was wonderful Rev. Casey Carbone, pastor at Mahopac Presbyterian Church edited videos from over one third of the … Continue reading →
Thanks to our friends at HudRivPres, all Holy Week services will be made available on the HRP Facebook Page on the following days/times. Palm Sunday 10 am Maundy Thursday 6:30 pm Good Friday 6:30 pm Easter Sunday 10 am Communion will be celebrated during the Maundy Thursday service. You are invited to prepare your own elements and to celebrate virtually as the elements will be blessed during the service. YouTube: All services will be posted to YouTube for … Continue reading →
It is going to be a very different Holy Week and Easter this year, but worship will go on. Currently, services are being put together from many different churches in Hudson River Presbytery (including New Hempstead!) There will be what I think of as “patchwork worship”: different parts of the service read, performed, or preached by different folks in the presbytery. There will be a service for Maundy Thursday, Good … Continue reading →
My Dearest Congregation, On Thursday, March 19, I woke with a fever of 100.1. I called my doctor, who listened to my symptoms and said it sounded like I had a cold with a secondary infection. He prescribed antibiotics. By Monday, March 23, I still felt, I still felt bad and was running a temperature (~99.) I called my Dr. again, and he said it sounded as if I was … Continue reading →
I don’t know it you’ve seen the picture of the priest in South America—his church is empty (as is our right now.) But not quite. He has pictures taped along all the pews—pictures of his congregants and their families. This way, when he is saying Mass, he is reminded of his congregation; that they are in some mysterious way present even if not physically, and that they will be together … Continue reading →
(OK, just resource, but maybe others will add more) Stop & Shop has special early morning hours for older shoppers at risk from Coronavirus. https://www.wcvb.com/article/stop-and-shop-grocery-store-special-hours-high-risk-coronavirus-high-shoppers/31676833 … Continue reading →
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, We know that our God is good and faithful—all the time. We also are all aware of the potential dangers posed by the novel corona virus-19. In the interest of the health of the congregation, and the communities we live in, the Session of New Hempstead Presbyterian Church decided in a called meeting last night, March 12, 2020, that our worship would be … Continue reading →