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The Ordo Advent 2023 through Advent 2024

The Ordo of the Daily Office and Holy Eucharist. Advent 2023 through Advent 2024 (Year 2 and Year B)
Compiled and edited by Jonathan Maury, SSJE
Program Retreats and Saturday Workshops
We Brothers are glad to announce our program retreats and workshop offerings at both the Monastery and Emery House for the coming year, along with the dates available for self-directed retreats.
Program retreats provide an opportunity to engage a specific theme or topic over the course of several days. The Brother leading the retreat offers addresses or meditations and provides suggestions for praying with the theme. Saturday morning workshops provide an opportunity to learn about a specific topic with practical implications for living a God-centered life. In addition to program retreats and workshops, we offer space for self-directed retreats during which you are free to use your time in the way that seems most beneficial to you.
Applications are to be made online only, by visiting our website, SSJE.org/visit.
Review the Monastery Program Offerings
2023 FSJ Day: Community Report
Watch the Community Report
Brs. James Koester, Keith Nelson, Luke Ditewig, Jonathan Maury, David Vryhof, Curtis Almquist, Geoffrey Tristram, Jim Woodrum, Lucas Hall, Sean Glenn, Jack Crowley, Todd Blackham, Michael Hardgrove, and Lain Wilson.
Click below to play report
The Ordo Advent 2022 through Advent 2023
The Ordo of the Daily Office and Holy Eucharist. Advent 2023 through Advent 2023 (Year 1 and Year A)
Compiled and edited by Jonathan Maury, SSJE
Advent Sermons for your small congregation
We have recorded a short sermon by the based on the Sunday lectionary. Videos and supporting questions and texts are available to watch or download below. Sign up here: SSJE.org/preachingmonks/
The details: The 12-minute, pre-recorded sermons for Advent I to Advent IV will be made available beginning November 12nd 2022. Brs. Todd Blackham, Jack Crowley, Jim Woodrum and James Koester will preach from the propers for each Sunday.
Ministry at Emery House
We are excited to announce that, after several years of prayerful discernment, the community has made the decision to revive our ministry at Emery House. As a first step in that process, a small group of brothers will re-establish a residential community there in January. We anticipate opening our guest ministry at Emery House sometime in the spring of 2023. We will be making an announcement about further steps later in the Fall. We ask for your patience as those details emerge, and for your prayers as we respond to God’s call in West Newbury.
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Sabbath
Sabbath-keeping is crucial to our life as Christians. “Brother, Give Us a Word” takes a Sabbath on Sundays. We hope that this weekly pause in our messages will offer a gentle reminder to pause in your own life.
Read more about the importance and practice of keeping the Sabbath >
Sabbath
Sabbath-keeping is crucial to our life as Christians. “Brother, Give Us a Word” takes a Sabbath on Sundays. We hope that this weekly pause in our messages will offer a gentle reminder to pause in your own life.
Read more about the importance and practice of keeping the Sabbath >
SSJE Reelects Brother James Koester as Superior
The Brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist (SSJE) have reelected Brother James Koester as their Superior for a third three-year term. A service of installation took place shortly after the election, in the Chapel of the Transfiguration at Emery House, West Newbury, the Society’s rural monastery and retreat centre.
We Invite your prayers and comments
Sabbath
Sabbath-keeping is crucial to our life as Christians. “Brother, Give Us a Word” takes a Sabbath on Sundays. We hope that this weekly pause in our messages will offer a gentle reminder to pause in your own life.
Read more about the importance and practice of keeping the Sabbath >