Saint James Fordham
is happy to announce
its first
Men of Saint James Formal Dinner, Dance
& Award Ceremony,
to be held at Maestro’s,
1703 Bronxdale Avenue,
Bronx NY 10462
on Friday, July 11, 2008,
from 9 pm until 2 am.
Music will be provided by
“Tri-Sonic Sound”
and tickets are $75.
Call Norma Jones at 718-716-3847
to reserve yours.
May 22, 2008
Dinner Dance!
March 17, 2008
A New Deacon
Seminarian Mark Robin Collins was ordained to the diaconate at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine on Saturday March 15, 2008. The Vicar and Ms. Patience Okwuoha from Saint James acted as sponsors. Seen here are the Vicar with Mark, Ms Monica Stewart and Ms Pearline Bashford. Many other members of the parish attended the wonderful liturgy in support of Mark, who has been doing his seminarian field placement at Saint James. He served at his home parish (Ascension, Manhattan) on Palm Sunday, but will be back to Saint James on Easter Day -- when we have some festivities planned!
February 6, 2008
Lent Worship Schedule
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| 11 am |
Ash Wednesday Palm Sunday Maundy Thursday Good Friday Easter Day |
December 19, 2007
Christmastide Celebrations
Monday December 24 -- Christmas Eve
1 pm to 6 pm Feeding Body and Soul -- come and share home cooking and fellowship
7 pm -- First Christmas Celebration with Music and Blessing of the Creche
December 25 -- Christmas Day
11 am -- Christmas Liturgy (said)
December 30 -- First Sunday after Christmas
11 am -- Worship with Children's Presentation
December 31 -- Eve of Holy Name
11 pm - Midnight -- "Old Year's Night" Vigil and Prayer for the New Year
January 6 -- Epiphany
11 am -- The Holy Eucharist
November 27, 2007
Ralph Blackman RIP
We note with sadness the death of a long-time member of Saint James, Mr. Ralph Blackman, who died last week just before Thanksgiving. Mr. Blackman served on the altar at Saint James for many years, and later moved to Florida. A few years ago he returned to New York with his wife Mary, who predeceased him in 2006. Mr. Blackman’s health was in decline even prior to Mary’s death, and he has been in a home in Brooklyn for the last several years. His funeral will take place at St Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, 331 Hawthorn Street, at 7 pm on Thursday November 29. May he rest in peace.
November 25, 2007
Farewell Father Ifeanyi
Sunday, November 25, was Fr. Ifeanyi B. Obiechefu's last service with Saint James Fordham — he has answered a call to serve as associate rector of a parish in Atlantic City, Diocese of New Jersey.
He will be much missed, and we wish him all the best in his new ministry. His departure also marks the end of separate worship services in the Igbo language, held for the last year and a half in the afternoon following the English language liturgy. It is our earnest hope that many who have found Saint James a place of welcome will join in worship with the greater part of the congregation gathered on Sunday mornings to praise God and give thanks for the salvation offered in Jesus Christ, in whom "there is no East or West."
October 29, 2007
Evelyn Balz RIP
Long-time member of Saint James Church Fordham, Evelyn Balz, died on Friday in her 100th year. Her funeral will take place at Williams Funeral Home, Broadway and 232nd Street in the Bronx, on Tuesday October 30, at 11 am. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
October 5, 2007
Mark's Senior Sermon
Our seminary field placement seminarian, Mark Collins, preached his senior sermon at the General Theological Seminary on the feast of St Matthew. It begins:
My mom tells a story about one of her early lessons in parenting, which came from, not surprisingly, another more experienced mother. It came about in a neighbor’s back yard one summer afternoon at a pool party.
Now, when I was a kid, in my neighborhood, the above-ground, backyard pool was a new luxury. Their crimped metal sides and easy-to-puncture blue plastic linings were cumbersome to assemble. And they left a perfect yellow circle of dead Bermuda grass on the lawn when they were disassembled in the fall. But like dutiful wannabe suburbanites, my parents acquired one of these new luxuries, and so did a few other parents in our neighborhood.
Here is the full text...
August 27, 2007
Schedule Change
Note that on Sunday September 2, we return to the regular 11 am celebration of the Holy Eucharist.
September 1 Wedding
At 3 pm on Saturday September 1, 2007, Ugwunna Peter Ogugua and Adeola Elizabeth Ayodele will be joined in the bonds of Holy Matrimony. Rejoice with them!
July 3, 2007
June 7, 2007
Outreach to the Carpenter's Kids
Saint James Fordham is happy to have over fifty members each of whom has pledged to contribute fifty dollars a year for five years in support of children living in the Diocese of Central Tananyika. Saint James has been linked with Dabalo Parish in Dodoma, Tanzania.
Dabalo is located approximately 85 kilometers from Dodoma, mostly on an unpaved road. Main crops for food include white and brown millet and maize. Cash crops include groundnuts (peanuts), sunflower and simsim (sesame seeds). There are at least five hand pumps near the center of the village. Those who live on the outskirts of the village must travel to the center to collect water from the pumps, or collect water from other temporary water sources in the village. These temporary water sources include shallow wells which dry up during the dry season. Water-borne diseases like typhoid and cholera are common in the village because safe water is not always available, particularly for those who live on the outskirts of town. There is a large pond near to the village which is used for washing only because the high salt content of the water makes it unusable for drinking.
Transport between Dabalo and Dodoma is regular but the road is very bad. During the wet season it can become impassable. In the last (very) wet season, one road to the village was impassable for three months.
There are four elementary schools in the area and one high school. Most of the students at the secondary school are day students because the boarding facilities are insufficient for all the students to be able to stay on campus.
One health center with three health workers serves the entire village.
Until 2001 there was an area development program running in the parish. The program worked in three main areas - nutrition, agriculture and education. The nutrition work focussed on educating villagers about nutrition, and ways that they could improve their nutrition, the nutrition of children and of pregnant women. The agricultural work involved the sale of ‘improved seeds’ to farmers to increase crop yields, distribution of farming equipment and ways to treat their cattle and other animals for disease. The education component of the program involved the distribution of school materials to children at the primary school.
The extent of HIV/AIDS in the parish is still limited. This is in large part due to the isolation of Dabalo from main transit routes. HIV is spread primarily multiple spouses, casual sexual relationships, poverty that forces women into prostitution to provide for their children, and an increasing number of businessmen who travel to Dar es Salaam and who use prostitutes before returning to their village all contribute to the problem. As a result, the number of children who are affected by this disease is also growing. Praise God for The Carpenter’s Kids program
Carpenter’s Kids selection complete
We are pleased to confirm that the Parish Committee and the central Screening Panel completed their assessment of the most vulnerable children in Dabalo parish on 17 May 2007.
All of the selected children were measured for shoes and uniforms and photographed, (both individually and with their guardians) on Saturday 19 May 2007.
Uniforms, shoes and school supplies were distributed to the children on Saturday 26 May 2007. The photos show some of the Carpenter’s Kids and their guardians receiving school uniforms, shoes and school materials.
We hope that over the coming years The Carpenter’s Kids will be as much about building inter-parish and cross-cultural relationships as it is about the material needs of the children and families that are involved in the program. It is our hope that through the regular exchange of messages between our parish and our link parish that both parishes will grow in their understanding and love of the other, and uphold each other in prayer over the coming years.
The Carpenter’s Kids has a website that makes regular inter-parish communication possible. The website address is: www.thecarpenterskids.org
May 8, 2007
Geraldine Hamilton - RIP
Geraldine Hamilton, who would have been 96 in July 2007, passed away peacefully at home after a long struggle with congestive heart failure and dementia. She was on hospice care for the last six months. Since 2003 she had been living with her nephew, longtime Rockville Center resident Anthony S. Hendrick.
Born in Manhattan, she was a lifelong resident of the Bronx and also a lifelong member of St. James Episcopal Church Fordham. She was a direct descendant of Alexander Hamilton. Her older sister, Mrs. Eleanore H. Hendrick, Rockville Center resident and Oceanside school teacher, died in 1958. Geraldine died on what would have been Eleanore’s 100th birthday. She was also predeceased by her brothers John Alexander Hamilton, Jr. and Lander Charles Hamilton. She is survived by nephews Anthony Hendrick and William Hamilton and niece Mrs. Susan Benzinger.
Geraldine retired in 1976 from the NYPD where she had worked in the Police Property Clerk’s Office in Manhattan, dealing with items of evidence. Both of her brothers were NYPD officers.
As a young woman she pursued her career as a singer and appeared in several Broadway shows. These included White Horse Inn in 1936, starring Kitty Carlyle (Hart) and William Gargan; I’d Rather Be Right in 1937 starring George M. Cohan as an FDR-like President; and The Devil and Daniel Webster as staged by John Housman in 1939. She also appeared in American Jubilee, an outdoor musical extravaganza presented at the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair, with dialogue by Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Arthur Schwartz.
She donated her body to the Medical School at SUNY-Stony Brook. Her cremated remains will later be interred in the Hamilton family plot in the Flushing Cemetery.
April 4, 2007
Jane Galarza - RIP
The funeral liturgy for Jane Galarza will be held on Saturday, April 7. Her body will be in the church for a brief time of vigil from 9 AM, and the liturgy will begin promptly at 10 AM. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery, and a repast will be offered at the church following the interment.
March 29, 2007
Holy Week Schedule
Palm Sunday
10:30 am -- gather at the square at 188th Street and Fordham Road (opposite Modells) for a joint Palm Liturgy with Fordham Evangelical Lutheran Church
11:00 -- am Palm Liturgy and Eucharist at Saint James
Maundy Thursday
7:00 pm -- Joint "Seder" and Liturgy at Fordham Evangelical Lutheran Church (2430 Walton Avenue just south of Fordham Road); The Rev Tobias Haller will preach
Good Friday
11:00 am -- Reconcilation available in the church
12 noon - 3:00 pm -- The Good Friday Liturgy with the Office of Readings (with sermon by Fr Haller), Solemn Collets, Veneration of the Cross (including a meditation by Pastor Katrina Foster of Fordham Lutheran Church) and Communion from the Reserved Sacrament
Easter Day
11:00 am -- Festival Holy Eucharist with the Ingathering for the Carpenter's Kids
Please join us in worship!
March 21, 2007
Rest in Peace
We remember Megan Eudora Lewis who died this past weekend; the viewing will be held at Saint James on Saturday March 23, from 10 to 12, followed by the funeral liturgy. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
December 2, 2006
Day of Reflection 12/9/06
Advent Day of Reflection
Saturday, December 9
Saint James Fordham
Meditations by
Randall Horton, Sol.
10:00 a.m. Gathering and refreshments
10:30 a.m. Morning Prayer
10:45 a.m. Meditation: The Via Negativa
Silence
11:45 a.m. Meditation: The Via Affirmativa
Silence
12:45 p.m. Noonday Prayer
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Meditation: Resolving the Paradox
Silence
3:15 p.m. Holy Eucharist
October 27, 2006
Funeral this Saturday, October 28 2006
Saint James Church will celebrate the life and mourn the death of Elmita Brown this Saturday morning at 10 am. The interment will follow at Woodlawn, and a repast offered back at the church in the parish hall.
We also note with sadness the death of Nellie Tucker, who became a member of the parish in April. We join our prayers with those of her daughter Dorothe.
May God's light continue to shine on our beloved sisters in Christ, as they await the day when we will all rejoice in the Risen Life.
October 1, 2006
Funeral Scheduled
The funeral for Denise Ann Christie will take place at Saint James Church on Saturday October 7, 2006 at 10 am. Burial will follow at Valhalla, in Westchester County.
September 29, 2006
May they rest in peace
Ita Thomas, mother of Monica Stewart
Denise Christie, daughter of Cecily Andrews
In sure and certain hope of the resurrection from the dead, we sorrow yet still make our song of Alleluia at the grave.
Light perpetual shine upon them.
Amen.
July 24, 2006
Welcome to Saint James Church
Saint James Church is a vibrant, multicultural congregation worshiping in a landmark building in a changing neighborhood. If you are interested in worshiping with us, our liturgy on Sunday takes place at 11 am (10 am in the summer months of June-August).
All are welcome to praise God and give thanks for the opportunity to serve.
Tobias S Haller, Vicar
Jonathan Baker, Minister of Music
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