Art and Spirituality – Lenten Evening Speaker Series

Wednesdays, March 4,11,18,25; 6:30 - 7:30 pm, Parish Hall

Join us for five Wednesday evenings in Lent as guest speakers share their visions of Art and Spirituality. Sometimes, only art can reveal the invisible, inspiring, and often inexplicable aspects of our faith and our relationship with God. C.S. Lewis likened the human soul's journey to a painting in progress and Thomas Merton captured a similar vision, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”  See the poster larger.

Mar. 4: Just Now, Look—Mingei and Seeing Afresh, Rob Sidner, Former Director, Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park

March 11: Artists And Easter, Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves

March 18: Older Voices in Newer Art: Influences on Twentieth-Century Spiritual Art, Dr. Nicole Holland, Visiting Scholar and Emerita Lecturer, Art History, USD

March 25: Saints in Art, Dr. John Wilson, Emeritus Director, Timken Museum of Art, Balboa Park

To accompany the speaker series, we invite you to read The Art of Lent by Sister Wendy Beckett, to aid our Lenten reflections. St. James will offer copies of the book at our first Wednesday evening session.

Daylight Saving Time Begins

Sunday, March 8

Time to set your clocks forward one hour Sunday, March 8th.

Men's Breakfast

Saturday, March 14, 8:00 am, Parish Hall

Men of St. James are invited to breakfast and conversation with Rev. Mark on Saturday, March 14th.

The topic is Parables of the Coming Kingdom.

Evensong and Organ Recital

Sunday, March 15: 4:00 pm Choral Evensong | 5:30 pm Recital



EVENSONG: Choral Evensong follows the Anglican tradition of evening prayer set to music. The service includes psalms, readings, and canticles. The Choir of St. James leads this timeless, reflective evening service.

RECITAL: Featuring Bryan Anderson and Yuri McCoy, this organ recital will offer a dazzling program for four hands and four feet, including original duet works, as well as transcriptions of orchestral music. The concert demonstrates the full range of the

Rosales/Parsons organ at St. James in a fun, inspiring event. Free Admission

Sunday Sermon

Sunday, March 1, Lent 2

Recognizably Religious?

The Rev. Dr. Mark Hargreaves examines how both Abraham and Nicodemus came to faith. Noting that "...Faith is always a gift. It's a miracle..." he asks this Lent that we examine the big question of how faith is manifested in our lives? 

Watch or read the sermons HERE

Bach’s Lunch concert: French Baroque

 Wednesday, March 4, 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Bring your lunch and enjoy a free concert

Multi-talented soprano Katie Hickey unites with SD Baroque for a program of French baroque Airs de cours, including music by Lully, Lambert, Charpentier, and others.

RefugeeNet's Annual Fundraiser Reimagined!

Saturday, March 21, 4:00 - 7:00 pm, St. Luke's

Join us for our reimagined annual fundraiser on Sat, Mar 21 from 4-7 pm at St Luke's (3725 30th St, San Diego 92104) full of the people, cultures, food, song, and dance of those whom we serve. RefugeeNet's Story Fest will center around the stories of the families we've helped to resettle over the past year, inviting them to share what the first twelve months of life in San Diego has been like. We hope you'll join us in celebrating the resilience of the human spirit

together! RSVP at refugee-net.org. Childcare available. Questions?: colin@ernsd.org