Saint Luke Episcopal Church | Mount Joy, PA

Morning Prayer: Maryam of Qidun, Monastic Fourth Century
2024-10-30 10:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on Wednesday October 30, 2024 for our weekly service of Morning Prayer, Rite II, led by Brother David Rutledge. We will remember Maryam of Qidun
Readings:
Hosea 11: 1-4, 8-9
Psalm 31:15-24
Romans 8:31-39
John 8:1-11
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23 Pentecost: Morning Prayer
2024-10-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us in celebrating the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost with a service of Morning Prayer. We use Rite II of the Book of Common Prayer. The service will be lead by parishioner Jim Johnson.
Scripture Readings:
Jeremiah 31: 7-9
Psalm 126
Hebrews 7: 23-28
Mark 10:46-52
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Coffee hour available at 9:30 am.

Music for Everyone Community Chorus
2024-10-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
You are invited to a concert by the Music For Everyone Community Chorus on Friday October 25 at 6:30 pm in the sanctuary of Saint Luke Episcopal Church. Darla Bair will conduct the chorus as they sing popular songs such as:
John Lennon’s “Imagine”
“One Voice”
“Cantar”
“Aleleloila” from Finland
“Hold Me, Rock Me”
“This Train Don’t Carry Sinners” and others that will have you singing in the pews!
Free will donations will be accepted at the door. The second floor sanctuary is accessible through a lift from the ground floor.
ALL ARE WELCOME!

Feast of Saint Luke: Holy Eucharist
2024-10-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on Sunday October 20 for a service of Holy Eucharist as we celebrate Saint Luke, our Patronal Saint. The Reverend Martha Harris will serve as the Preacher and Presider. Beth Warren will play the organ.
Scripture Readings:
Ecclesiasticus 38
Psalm 147
2 Timothy 4:5-13
Luke 4:14-21
Coffee Hour begins at 9:30 am. All are welcome!
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Morning Prayer: Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of Jesus Christ
2024-10-16 10:00 - 10:30 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on Wednesday October 16 for our weekly service of Morning Prayer, Rite II, led by Brother David Rutledge. We will remember Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Readings:
Psalm 119
Jeremiah 11:18-23
Matthew 10:16-22
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21st Sunday after Pentecost: Holy Eucharist
2024-10-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us for a service of Holy Eucharist as we celebrate the 21st Sunday after Pentecost. The Reverend Martha Harris will serve as Preacher and Presider. Scripture readings are:
Amos 5:6-7, 10-15
Psalm 90: 12-17
Hebrews 4: 12-16
Mark 10:17-31
Coffee hour begins at 9:30 am in the Undercroft. All are welcome!
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Taste and See: The Fruit of the Spirit. Workshop led by Br. Clayton Johnson, BSG
2024-10-12 09:30 - 14:30 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us in celebrating Saint Luke Day (transposed from October 18) with a special workshop led by Brother Clayton Johnson, a Friar in the Brotherhood of St. Gregory, a religious community recognized under the canons of The Episcopal Church and in communion with the Holy See of Canterbury.
His workshop Taste and See: The Fruit of the Spirit is based on Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 5: 22-23. Join us for this interactive, fun and inspiring workshop exploring spiritual gifts of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience/Forbearance, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self Control. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Episcopal Church Women of Saint Luke. Reserve your place by Wednesday October 10 by calling the church office, 717-653-4977 or by emailing stlukesmountjoy@gmail.com. A $25 donation is requested to cover the cost of lunch and workshop materials.

Morning Prayer: Bishop Robert Grosseteste,1253
2024-10-09 10:00 - 10:30 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on Wednesday October 9 for our weekly service of Morning Prayer, Rite II, led by Brother David Rutledge. We will remember Bishop Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln, the largest diocese in England.
Readings:
Psalm 90
Ezekiel 1: 1-14
Luke 16-10-15
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20th Sunday after Pentecost: Morning Prayer
2024-10-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us as we celebrate the 20th Sunday after Pentecost with a service of Morning Prayer: Rite II.5-12
Parishioner Jim Johnson will lead the service.
The readings are:
Genesis 2:18-24
Psalm 8
Hebrews 1:1-4, 2: 5-12
Mark 10:2-16
Come early and enjoy fellowship during Coffee Hour that begins at 9:30 am.
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Taize Worship led by Musician William Wright and Br. A J Robbins
2024-10-05 17:00 - 18:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on Saturday October 5, 2024 at 5 pm for our monthly service of Taize worship. Refresh your soul in our candlelit sanctuary, while chanting sung prayers led by Lancaster musician, William Wright. Br. AJ Robbins of the Community of Francis and Clare will serve as Prayer Leader. During the service, you are encouraged to meditate and give thanks for the season of harvest.
All are welcome!

Blessing of the Animals: Saint Francis of Assisi
2024-10-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Bring your four legged furry friends to be blessed by the Reverend Martha Harris, Priest in Charge, and the Reverend Eleanor Garner, Retired. We will gather outdoors on the lawn at Saint Luke at 4 pm for a sacred service based on the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi. We will remember the pets who live with us now and those who are no longer with us.
All are welcome!

Wednesday Morning Prayer
2024-10-02 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-09-04 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-08-07 10:00 - 10:30 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month at 9 am at the Mount Joy Friary, 211 Market Street in Mount Joy. Enjoy snacks and casual conversation with friends of Morning Prayer.
Our weekly morning prayer service begins at 10 am to the Saint Francis Room in the Education Building at Saint Luke. Not able to join us in person, join us online via ZOOM.
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19th Sunday after Pentecost: Join us at Columbia Crossing Visitor Center
2024-09-29 10:00 - 12:30 | Columbia Crossing, 41 Walnut Street, Columbia, PA, 17512, United States
Join us on Sunday September 29 at 10 am for a joint worship service with our friends from @SaintPaulColumbia for a celebratory service of Creation Care and Holy Eucharist – followed by our Parish Picnic.
Note: No services will be held at Saint Luke or at Saint Paul on this day.
Preacher and Presider will be the Reverend Martha Harris, Priest in Charge of both churches.
Scripture Readings:

Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29
Psalm 8
Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12
Mark 10: 2 – 16

Bring a lawn chair and a salad to share during our PotLuck Picnic in the pavillion next to the Visitor Center.
All we are welcome. Note, this service will not be recorded on YouTube.

Spaghetti Dinner!
2024-09-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on September 26, 2024 from 5 – 7 pm for a delicious Spaghetti Dinner and community event. All proceeds will benefit the refurbishment and repair of the beautiful historic stained glass windows that grace our Sanctuary.
Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling/texting Gail Fridy: 717-538-0810
Adults: $15, children $10.
Thank you for your support of Saint Luke Episcopal Church

18th Sunday after Pentecost: Holy Eucharist
2024-09-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on the 18th Sunday after Pentecost for a service of Holy Eucharist. The Reverend Martha Harris will serve as Preacher and Presider. Beth Warren will play the organ.
Scripture Readings:
Jeremiah 11: 18 – 20
Psalm 54
James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a
Mark 9:30-37
All baptized Christians are welcome to receive Communion. Join us for fellowship during Coffee Hour at 9L30 am
Not able to join us in person? Watch the service on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@saintlukesepiscopalchurchm1591

17th Sunday after Pentecost: Morning Prayer
2024-09-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on the 17th Sunday after Pentecost for a service of Morning Prayer. Our worship leader is Jim Johnson.
Scripture readings:
Isaiah 50: 4-9a
Psalm 116: 1 – 8
James 3: 1 – 12
Gospel of Mark 8:27-38
All are welcome. Join us for Coffee Hour in the Undercroft at 9:30 am.
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Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Morning Prayer
2024-09-08 11:00 - 12:00
Join us on Sunday September 8 for a service of Morning Prayer, Rite II from the Book of Common Prayer. Enjoy this contemplative service of scripture and prayer in our air conditioned sanctuary.
Readings are:
Isaiah 35:4-7a
Psalm 146
James 2: 1-17
Gospel of Mark 7: 24-37
Join us for coffee hour before the service in the Undercroft.
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Taize Worship
2024-09-07 17:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us for our monthly service of Taize worship, featuring music and chants from the religious community in Taize, France Heather Trenary will play the chants on the flute. Father Bradley Mattson, Rector, Hope Episcopal Church will lead the vocal chants.
Meditation Theme: Creation Care.
Enjoy this devotional time of candlelight, music enhanced prayer and reflection. All are welcome.

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Holy Eucharist
2024-09-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us in celebrating the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost with a service of Holy Eucharist. All baptized Christians are welcome to receive Communion in the Episcopal Church. The Reverend Martha Harris, Priest in Charge, will preach and preside.
Scripture readings:
Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9
Psalm 15
James 1: 17-27
Gospel of Mark 7:1-8, 14-15. 21-23
Join us for Coffee Hour beginning at 9:30 am.
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Morning Prayer: Augustine of Hippo. Bishop and Theologian, 430
2024-08-28 10:00 - 10:30 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us on Wednesday August 28 for our weekly service of Morning Prayer, Rite II, led by Brother David Rutledge. We will learn about Augustine of Hippo, a Bishop and Theologian in the early Church. Perhaps the best known theologian in the history of Western Christianity, he was born in 354 at Tagaste in North Africa. Augustine wrote countless treatises, letters and sermons. His writings provided a rich source of new and fresh insights into Christian truth.
Readings:
Psalm 87
Isiah 62: 6-12
Hebrews 12:22-24, 28-29
John 14: 6-15
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Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Morning Prayer
2024-08-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us for a service of Morning Prayer on the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. All are welcome to join us in this contemplative service of scripture and prayer.
Readings:
Joshua 24: 1 – 2a, 14-18
Psalm 34: 15-22
Ephesians 6:10-20
John 6:56-59
Come early and enjoy Coffee Hour beginning at 9:30 am in the Undercroft
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Morning Prayer: Bernard of Clairvaux, Monastic and Theologian 1153
2024-08-21 10:00 - 10:30 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us for our weekly service of Morning Prayer, Rite II, led by Brother David Rutledge. We will learn about Bishop Bernard of Clairvaux, Monastic and Theologian, 1153. Bernard, fiery defender of the Church in the 12th century, preached love for God “without measure.” He is credited with writing familiar hymns, including “Jesus, the very thought of thee.”
Scripture readings:
Psalm 19: 7 -11
Ecclesiasticus 39:1-10
Jude 1 – 3
John 15: 7-11
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Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Service of Holy Eucharist
2024-08-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us for a service of Holy Eucharist as we celebrate the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. The Reverend Martha Harris will serve as the Preacher and Presider. Tom Brennaman will play the organ.
Scripture Readings:
Proverbs 9:1-6
Psalm 34: 9-14
Ephesians 5:15-20
John 6: 51-58
All are welcome. Join us for Coffee Hour at 9:30 am.
Not able to join us in person? Watch the service live on our YouTube channel: http://@saintlukesepiscopalchurchm159

Wednesday Morning Prayer
2024-08-14 10:00 - 10:30 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Today we commemorate Seminarian and Martyr Jonathan Myrick Daniels, killed by an unemployed highway worker in Hayneville Alabama on August 14, 1965. Daniels traveled to the south to participate in civil rights protest. He was killed by a gunman after shielding Ruby Sales from gunshot.
Our weekly morning prayer service begins at 10 am to the Saint Francis Room in the Education Building at Saint Luke. Not able to join us in person, join us online via ZOOM.
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Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Service of Holy Eucharist
2024-08-11 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for a service of Holy Eucharist as we celebrate the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. The Reverend Martha Harris will serve as the Preacher and Presider. Tom Brennaman will play the organ.
Scripture Readings:
1 Kings 19:4 – 8
Psalm 34: 1 – 8
Ephesians 4: 25-5:2
John 6: 35, 41-51
All are welcome. Join us for Coffee Hour at 9:30 am.
Not able to join us in person? Watch the service live on our YouTube channel: http://@saintlukesepiscopalchurchm159

Morning Prayer: John Mason Neale, Priest and Hymnographer
2024-08-07 10:00 - 10:30 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us for our weekly service of Morning Prayer when we commemorate the Reverend John Mason Neale, Priest and Hymnographer who died in 1866. According to the book, Holy Women, Holy Men, Rev. Neale was a priest of many talents, As a hymnodist, he authored several original hymns and more than thirty translations of Latin and Greek hymns. Many of his hymns are included in the current 1982 Hymnal used by the Episcopal Church today.
As priest, he gave active support to the Oxford Movement in its revival of medieval liturgical forms. A humanitarian, he founded the sisterhood of St. Margaret for the relief of suffering women and girls.
Scripture Readings: Psalm 106, 2 Chronicles 10: 20-21, 1 Corinthians 1: 1 – 9 and the Gospel of Matthew 12: 44-52
Brother David Rutledge is the worship leader.
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Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost: Morning Prayer
2024-08-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us for Morning Prayer on Sunday August 4 at 11 am as we mark the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost. The service follows the liturgy for Morning Prayer, Rite II as found in the Book of Common Prayer.
The scripture readings are:
Exodus 16: 2 – 4, 9 – 15
Psalm 78:23 – 29
Ephesians 4: 1 – 16
Gospel of John 6:24-35
Worship Leader: Jim Johnson. Join us for Coffee Hour starting at 9:30 am. All are welcome.
Not able to join us in person? Watch the service live on YouTube: @saintlukesepiscopalchurchm1591

Taize Worship
2024-08-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Saint Luke Episcopal Church, Mount Joy PA
Join us for a special service of Taize music and prayer led by Lancaster pianist and orchestra conductor, Dr. William B. Wright. Dr. Wright serves as the Choral Conductor and Senior Teaching Professor of Music at Franklin and Marshall College.
Our meditation focus is the Transfiguration of Christ. All are welcome to draw closer to the divine in our sacred, candlelit sanctuary at Saint Luke.
