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Connecting you to the events, meetings & services at St. Luke’s, Metuchen - February 26, 2026
Gospel Reflection
Nicodemus comes to see Jesus at night. He knows there's something significant about Jesus. He can't quite put his finger on it. Jesus is inviting him to leave behind his status, his learning, his hard-earned social capital, and become a child, a beginner: vulnerable and dependent. That is the only way he can access the great mystery: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
Come to St. Luke's this weekend. Hear God's invitation to you!
Happening at St. Luke’s
Friday, February 27
8:00am Anglican Prayer beads (online)
Saturday, February 28
5:30pm Holy Eucharist Rite Rite II
Sunday, March 1
8:00am Holy Eucharist Rite I (livestream)
9:00am Bible Study with Mother Crafton - Fryer Room
10:00am Holy Eucharist Rite II with Music (livestream)
11:15am Coffee Hour
11:30am Adult Forum
Tuesday, March 3
7:00pm Candlelight Vespers / Lenten study
Wednesday, March 4
12.15pm Eucharist with the Saints
7:00pm Buildings and Grounds Meeting
7:00pm Bible Study with Mo, Crafton (Zoom)
Thursday, March 5
10:00am Gallery Meeting
Friday, March 6
8:00am Anglican Prayer beads (online)
Coffee Hours hosts: Mary S. and Tom B.
Adult Forum - 11.30 am in the Fryer Room
Born From Above
In this coming Sunday gospel reading, Nicodemus asks Jesus what that might mean. The ethics surrounding actual childbirth have been deeply controversial in our era. Francesca M. will lead us in considering reproductive health. She is Senior Vice Chancellor for the Student Experience at Rutgers.
Announcements
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Easter Memorial Flowers - Please provide the names in a typewritten form and inform about your payment with your request. Preferably by email to secretary@stlukesmetuchen.org.
This special memorials are announced in our weekly communications well in advance. Be sure to observe the deadline. Last day for Submissions March 22, 2026.
Please provide the names in a typewritten form. Please make a payment or send a check with your request
Comunity
The Rotating Homeless Shelter 2026. Christ Church (our sister Episcopal congregation in New Brunswick) will be hosting the shelter the weeks of March 8-14 and we are seeking volunteers to serve as overnight hosts or to supply a dinner. Typically, the rotating shelter serves 15 men.
Join us to Candlelight Vespers and Conversation. Tuesdays in Lent at 7pm in the Chapel at St. Luke’s.
Episcopal Relief and Development and Sister Monica Clare from the Community of St. John Baptist (in Mendham, NJ) offer us a series of meditations for Lent designed to lead us more deeply into our very Episcopalian ways of knowing God.
Written by Sister Monica Clare, an Episcopal nun, author and unlikely TikTok star, these meditations offer an invitation to rediscover — or deepen — holy habits of prayer, worship and Scripture engagement. These holy habits provide a path to a life rooted in God, given shape, meaning and direction.
You can engage in these meditations at home on your own throughout Lent, but you are especially invited to join us in the chapel at St. Luke's on Tuesdays at 7pm as we celebrate the service of Vespers (in which the meditations are rooted) and talk together about the meditation of the day.
Daily Office 9am, 12 noon, 5pm, 8:45pm (link)
Serving in Worship this Weekend
5:30 PM (Sat) Perla
8:00AM (Sun) Jane
10:00AM (Sun) MaryJo. Leah, John
Click here to find the readings for this weekend.
In Our Prayers This Week
Please continue in your daily prayers for:
Mary Jo, Rosie, David, Louise, Andy, Eletia, Suzan, Michael, Lenny, Kristi, Frank, Frank, Susan, John, Suzanne, Gregg, Robert, Robin, Shady, Janice, Dale, Jeremy, Karen, Don, Stephen, Vanessa, Ryan, Charlotte, Tina, Maria, Paul, Dwinal, Skyler, Easton, Gene, Randi, Chad, Sally, Katherine, Shannon, Adriel, Tim, Janis, John, Dottie, Delphine, Candice, Peter, Cheryl, Richie, Carl, Carmelina, Mary Ann, Joseph, Joana, Brian, Brian, Pat, Michael, Amy, Jeff
For Those Who Have Died
Alice, Dorothy, José, Robert, Gloria, Chrisanthi
Links for: the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer
For Those Who Celebrate Birthdays - February
Emily G., Ariana, Rocco, John F, Austin, Samantha H., Christina D., Aidan R., Ellie R., Ana C., Annette G., Diane L., Julia J., Nora C., Sandra S, Steven F., Michael F., Maria F.
Parish Information Form
Everyone is welcome at St. Luke’s. This form is designed to help us to keep in your records up-to-date so we can keep you connected to what is going on the parish.
Prayer requests may be submitted on the website.
