March 5, 2026
Connecting you to the events, meetings & services
Sunday, Mar 8, 2026 - Daylight Saving Time Starts.
Don't be late for church! This weekend is the spring time change for Daylight Savings Time. Be sure to "spring forward" (set your clocks forward) an hour before you go to bed Saturday night. Most of our computers (including cell phones) will change automatically, but you still might want to take into account the change in calculating how much sleep you need!
Gospel Reflection
Jesus met her at a well outside the town of Sychar, in Samaria. The evangelist said Jesus "had" to pass through Samaria. Scholars say no GPS would have plotted that course: Jesus went out of his way to go through Samaria. He "had" to for a different reason.
Christian tradition calls her Photini: bringer of light. She is the most successful proclaimer of the Gospel we've seen besides Jesus himself. Maybe Jesus "had" to pass this way so she could teach the twelve how the word is passed. She didn't thump her Bible or use unassailable logic to argue down other points of view. She just told her neighbors what she had experienced and asked, "What do you think?"
What's your story? Why is Jesus a part of your life? What do you think?
Come to St. Luke's on Sunday. Let's talk about it.
Happening at St. Luke’s
Friday, March 6
8:00am Anglican Prayer beads (online)
Saturday, March 7
5:30pm Holy Eucharist Rite Rite II
Sunday, March 8
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
Monday, March 9
2:00pm Roosevelt Care Center Service
Tuesday, March 10
7:00pm Candlelight Vespers / Lenten study
Wednesday, March 11
12.15pm Eucharist with the Saints
6:00pm St. Cecilia’s Guild Meeting
7:00pm Bible Study with Mo, Crafton (Zoom)
7:30pm Finance Meeting
Friday, March 13
8:00am Anglican Prayer beads (online)
The Good Friday Cross Walk is coming quickly!
Come one, come all to a planning meeting for the St. Luke's 2026 Metuchen Cross Walk. We will meet about 7.30pm (after Vespers) on Tuesday, March 10.
Come at 7pm for Vespers, and stay for the planning meeting. We'll meet in the Robbins Room immediately after Vespers.
The Rite of Reconciliation (individual confession: see BCP 446) is always available by appointment from Fr. Todd or Mo. Barbara. You will also have opportunity to come make confession without appointment during Holy Week. If you are interested, come to the Chapel of the Holy Family (where Children's Chapel, Vespers, and the mid-week Eucharist meet) between 6-6.30pm on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday: 30, 31 March and 1 April.
Are you interested in organizing a "Garden Watch" on the evening of Maundy Thursday (2 April)?
There is a long tradition of watching in prayer with Jesus as we begin the Great Three Days. Most parishes accomplish this by signing up for shifts to pray through the night. If you are interested in organizing the sign-ups, please speak to Fr. Todd or send him an email.
Palm Sunday is also Passion Sunday, when instead of a homily we read the passion of our Lord. This year we will read the passion according to Matthew, and we will read it in parts, as Readers' Theater. Parts needed include the Narrator, Jesus, Judas, Peter, High Priest, Witness, Servant, Pilate's Wife, and Pilate. Please contact Kathy M. if you would like to read one of these parts. Readers for each part are needed for each of our three weekend services!
Coffee Hours hosts: Karen S. and Tom B.
Adult Forum - 11.30 am in the Fryer Room
Announcements
St. Luke’s
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.
Diocese
Subscribe to the weekly Diocese of New Jersey Communications by going to https://bit.ly/SubscribeDNJ
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) Frank
8:00AM (Sun) Sue
10:00AM (Sun) Doreen, John, Kathy M.
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, Mary Ann, Joseph, Joana, Brian, Brian, Pat, Michael, Amy, Jeff, Glenn, Sandra, Matias, Chuck
For Those Who Have Died
Alice, Dorothy, José, Robert, Gloria, Chrisanthi, William, Karla, Mary Lew
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.
