Our 2024 Calvary Christmas Community Meal will be after our 10:30 Eucharist on Christmas Day, December 25, 2024. There are sign-up sheets on the bulletin board outside the Calvary kitchen. Here is a copy of the paper sign-up form we are using at church. Online we use Sign-up Genius. Here is the link to sign-up online....

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Our 2024 Calvary Thanksgiving Community Meal was a success. 27 people came and shared conversation and plenty of Thanksgiving food. People had some to take home and the balance of the left-overs made a nice contribution on Thanksgiving to Lazarus House in St. Charles. Thanks to everyone who came and to everyone who donated food. Here are some pictures from the meal as well as a list of donors....

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Sunday, November 24, 2024 Hi, Everyone, Happy Holidays! It is again my pleasure to ask each of you, to pray and to give thought to Christmas gifts for Fr Mike and for our staff, Valerie Budach (our office manager) Ross Neir (Director of Youth Christian Education and Development), Mark Kline, our Interim Organist, and Phil Prior, our Sexton. As we did last year, while your gift is not tax-deductible, you can make your checks to Calvary Special Funds and mark on them Christmas Gift for—then please add the name(s) and amount(s) of......

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. Fr Marcus Johnson’s homily for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost, 07/10/2022, Calvary Episcopal Church, Batavia, IL. “Go and Do Likewise”–the parable of the Good Samaritan– Love the Lord. Love your Neighbor as Yourself. Who is my neighbor? This is Christ’s answer to “Who is my neighbor.” (Readings: Amos 7: 7-17; Psalm 82; Colossians 1: 1-14; Luke 10:25-37) YouTube Link: Holistic Eucharist–5th Sunday after Pentecost–07/10/2022 Link: Tithe.ly–Our Online Giving Resource Link: CEB Stewardship 2022 Link: Independent Movie Study 2022      ...

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Two Zoom Recordings are presented here–one from 01/03/2021 and one from 12/06/2020.. There are four files in each recording. These are housed on the Amazon Cloud server and are unedited files created by Zoom. Holistic Eucharist–01/03/2021 Holistic Eucharist—2nd Sunday after Christmas Day–01/03/2021–Zoom Speaker View Holistic Eucharist–2nd Sunday after Christmas Day–01/03/2021–Zoom Gallery View Holistic Eucharist–2nd Sunday after Christmas Day–01/03/2021–Zoom Audio Holistic Eucharist–2nd Sunday after Christmas Day–01/’03/2021–Zoom Chat Holistic Eucharist 12/06/2020 Holistic Eucharist–2nd Sunday of Advent–12/06/2020–Zoom Speaker View Holistic Eucharist–2nd Sunday of Advent–12/06/2020–Zoom Gallery View Holistic Eucharist–2nd Sunday of Advent–12/06/2020–Zoom Audio Holistic Eucharist–2nd Sunday......

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While we work to resolve the issues generating these errors, if you refresh the page (by clicking on the curving arrow at the upper left where the URL is listed), you should get the page you are looking for. We’ll resolve the problem quickly. Part may also be that your computer has cached (saved) a version of the website that had the error–and will display it even after the page is fixed....

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Christ's words and Spirit are within us. We need to thank God daily for these gifts. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can produce yields of 100, or, 60, or 30 times--in our words and deeds. ...

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Joel Montgomery serves as Calvary’s Stewardship Chair.  This year, he is one of several parishioners who wants to speak with the congregation about his story and how it relates to stewardship.  You can find a .pdf of his remarks here....

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