All Saints Memorial Church

A National Historic Landmark in the Highlands of Navesink, New Jersey

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Welcome to All Saints' Memorial Church
Written by The Reverend Lyndon C. Shakespeare   

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Welcome to All Saints' Memorial Church

 8am - Holy Eucharist
A spoken liturgy of prayer and sacrament

9am - Holy Eucharist for Children and Families
A Eucharist service with music and prayers suitable for young children and families
 ~ Sunday School follows (Sept. through June) ~

10am - Holy Eucharist
A service with choir, hymns and sermon

Weekday Services

Wednesday, 10am - Public Service of Healing
A Eucharistic service with anointing and prayers for healing

Special Services: All Saints' Day (Nov. 1), The Epiphany (Jan. 6), The Ascension 

 

Holy Week & Easter

Maundy Thursday
Thursday, April 1, 7:30pm 
Commemorates Christ'sLast Supper and the initiation of the Eucharist.. Foot washing is practiced atthis service.

 

Good Friday
Friday, April  2
Noon—Stations of the Cross
4pm—Stationsof the Cross for children
7:30pm--Solemn Liturgy

 

Holy Saturday
Saturday, April  
7:30pmEaster Vigil
The Vigil is the highpoint of Holy Week. Thisservice begins in darkness and candle light and ends with great joy, andfanfare marks the beginning of our Easter celebrations.

 

Easter Sunday
Sunday, April 4
8, 9 and 10am
Christ is risen, the Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! 

 

  Nota Bene
Note Well

**In the News: our Live Nativity HERE **

Photos from that snowy Sunday @ All Saints': HERE 

**In the News: Click HERE  to read an article on the parish in the Two River Times** 

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Pilgrimage to South Africa, 2010
For information, click here

Our friends at the Monmouth County Historial 
Commission have produced a short video on our parish: Click Here

 


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Lent 2 - 02/28/2010 - Ps. 27; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35
Written by The Reverend Lyndon C. Shakespeare   

Lent 2
Ps. 27; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35

The Lord is my light and my help;

whom should I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life,

whom should I dread?

2When evil men assail me

a-to devour my flesh-a

it is they, my foes and my enemies,

who stumble and fall.

3Should an army besiege me,

my heart would have no fear;

should war beset me,

still would I be confident.

Psalm 27:1-3 (The Tanakh)

“What could a man possibly hope to accomplish by playing music in the street? It wouldn’t bring anyone back from the dead, wouldn’t feed anyone, wouldn’t replace one brick. It was a foolish gesture . . . a pointless exercise in futility”[1]. Watching the unnamed cellist arrange his seat and prepare for another performance was Kenen, one of the protagonists in Steven Galloway’s novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, set during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. Days before, a Serbian mortar shell had drifted into the besieged city and landed amongst twenty two hungry citizens. In place of the bread they so desperately desired, the ‘visible world exploded’, and little was left except an empty crater.  What could be done in the face of such destruction? The cellist chose to perform, placing his body and cello within the crater where lives had been extinguished. For twenty-two days, one day for each of the dead, he played Albinoni’s Adagio, a composition the remnants of which were discovered in the firebombed music library of Dresden in 1945. Amidst besiege and war, fear and confidence found a home in the stirring beauty of human courage set to music.


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