This Week on the Mountain for Sunday, February 28th

This Week on the Mountain

Sunday, February 28, 2021

The Second Sunday in Lent

February 28: The Second Sunday in Lent

Holy Eucharist, Rite I, 8 am

Sung Morning Prayer, 10 am

Please join us at

8 am Holy Eucharist, Rite I, Church & Livestream
10 am Sung Morning Prayer, Church & Livestream

You are welcome to attend the 8 or 10 am services in-person or virtually. We urge you to do whatever feels safest to you!

The 8&10 am liturgies are held in the Church where social distancing and safe procedures are maintained.:

+ Every other pew is available for seating. Persons sit more than 6 feet apart.

+ Doors remain open to allow air to circulate.

If you are joining us at the 8 or 10 am in-person, please read the guidelines here before responding. Your reservation is acknowledgment that you have read and agree to conform to them.

The 8 & 10 am liturgies will continue to stream in the SJOTM Zoom Room as well.

All are welcome to and encouraged to join our Sunday Zoom Room Coffee Hour at 10:45 am.

This is the Zoom link

This is the Youtube link for the 10am Liturgy

The 8 am Service Leaflet is available here

The 10 am Service Leaflet is available here

The Great Litany

Watch the Choir of St John on the Mountain perform The Great Litany

Click HERE to read the entire Lenten Booklet

Contributions for Outreach Lenten Initiatives

You may be generous any time you want and as often as you want even though each initiative is listed for a specific Saturday in the booklet.

There are several ways that you can participate.

1. You can drop donations off into the large bin on the Parish House back porch. It is emptied and sorted daily. Feel free to drive up to the back porch for easy drop-off. (You can turn around in the small lot between the Parish House and the Church.)

2. You can order from Amazon with a shipping address of

379 Mt. Harmony Rd

Bernardsville, NJ 07924

Don't worry. We can sort it all out. The office will acknowledge your package with an email as soon as we get it.

3. You can make an on-line contribution to the Initiative of your choice. You choose the destination for your contribution. These funds are kept in four separate accounts.

FOOD for God's Co-op.

SOCKS for Grace Church, Plainfield.

DIAPERS for CASA SHaW.

CHOCOLATE for Somerset Foodbank.

If making an on-line donation. Please remember to:

+ enter the amount you wish to donate

+ when you're ready to give, click on the blue button at the bottom

Fr. Dave's Sermon

Click here for a copy of Fr. Dave's sermon from Sunday, February 21

Sunday School

Check out our Facebook page as Mrs. Mitchell reads bible stories. Each week is a new story and lesson....this is a fun way to continue religious education at home.

This week, Mrs. Mitchell reads The Story of Abraham by Maxine Nodel.

Also, don't forget to drop by the SJOTM office and pick up a craft bag.

Bags for February are in a bin on the front porch of the parish office building.

Listen to Sunday's Music

As we transition to in-person liturgies again, music of the day will continue to be posted on our SJOTM YouTube Channel. You can listen anytime throughout the week with this link . You can also Subscribe to our channel here for automatic updates and notifications.

Check out Our YouTube Channel

We are trying to get to 100 subscribers on our SJOTM YouTube channel so we can have a custom domain. Will you and your friends please SUBSCRIBE to our channel? You will receive automatic updates about our virtual liturgies.

The Open Table Men's Group continues to meet

Wednesday, March 3, at 8:15 am

The group is reading Making Sense of Paul: A Basic Introduction to Pauline Theology by Virginia Wiles. The book is available at Amazon for $24.

Please contact Rich McGlynn here for more information. Especially contact Rich if you want to receive a reminder and the Zoom link early on Wednesday morning.

Good News in the Garden State

Click here to read the Diocese Of New Jersey Weekly Newsletter