I hope that you have seen the announcement about Adult Christian Education, also known as Adult Formation: “Episcopal-ness: From The Beginning. A five-Sunday look at the origin, faith, and practice of Episcopalians” beginning this Sunday, October 2, 2022, for the five Sundays of October, between the services, from 9:15am to 10:15am in the Auditorium. While READ MORE »
Adult Education
Meditations and teachings plus upcoming Adult Education opportunities at SsAM — the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
SsAM Presents: Upcoming Events
Upcoming events at SsAM or recommended by our church. Potluck “Fun-Raiser” Friday, September 30, 6-8pm, in Crypt Hall. Our new program year is beginning at SsAM, so let’s have some fun! All are welcome. If you would like to come for this potluck, please let us know by us know no later than September 23. READ MORE »
Eugene R. Young, Jr.
Eugene R. Young, Jr., Director of the Delaware State Housing Authority, will be our preacher on Sunday, October 30, at 10:30 a.m. “Our World at Peace” is his subject. Director Young was appointed to his current position by Governor John Carney in May of 2021. In cooperation with other state agencies and advocates, Director Young READ MORE »
First Friday Walks for Justice and Peace in Wilmington, Delaware
The next walk begins on Friday, October 7 at 5:30 p.m. in the SsAM parking lot, 713 N. Shipley Street. These walks are a public display of our belief that society needs to be more just in terms of race, sex, economics, and more. We begin at the SsAM parking lot and then walk to READ MORE »
Reflection: Creation and Conflict
Wing-ed white whispers of fluffy dandelion airies were drafting as feathery angels through the breezy late summer-like air as I wrote today, in flurries as if on a winter’s morn, yet warm and bright in the sun: Creation and Re-Creation at work. Yet also as I wrote, Puerto Rico has suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane READ MORE »
Cynthia Primo Martin honored
We are delighted to announce that Cynthia Primo Martin, a long-time member of SsAM and daughter of the late Bishop Quintin E. Primo, Jr., was recognized in 2022 for the Alumni Wall of Fame at the University of Delaware. Click here to read more In July, 2021, we congratulated Cynthia Primo Martin on the publication READ MORE »
Rejoice With Me!
A reflection by Danny Schweers, 18 September 2022. At one point in my adult life — I was 28 years old — the Spirit said, “Rejoice with me!” I do not want to say that I heard those actual words or that I heard words at all but that was the meaning. I was called. READ MORE »
Reflection: What is The Daily Office?
Click here to see our schedule of Prayer Services via Facebook. by Christina Brennan Lee. What is The Daily Office? A place I used to go to before I retired. Well, yes and not quite! If you were present during our Annual Meeting in 2022, or, perhaps watched it on SsAM’s YouTube Channel (or are READ MORE »
Power Outage
Reflection of 9-9-2022 by Christina Brennan Lee. On Tuesday, I woke with a good spark of energy. I had my first cup of coffee and tidied up the kitchen a bit. I went downstairs and started a load of laundry. Came back up and poured a second cup of coffee. Then to the laptop to READ MORE »
What Is Love?
by Mary Lou Edgar, September 2, 2022. Each of us has probably been in love at one time or another. Maybe it was when we were very young and the intensity of our first major infatuation disrupted everything else in our lives. Possibly it was after we completed a plan for our life and decided READ MORE »
Where Is God? A Reflection on Jeremiah, Chapter 2
A reflection by Danny Schweers, 28 August 2022. The Book of Jeremiah is not pleasant reading, but… Readings from the Book of Jeremiah may be heard often in those denominations which emphasize the sinfulness of human beings, but it is not a favorite among my fellow Episcopalians. Episcopalians emphasize God’s love and forgiveness, not God’s READ MORE »
Reflection: Spirit, Spiritual, Spirituality.
Spirit. Spiritual. Spirituality. What do these words mean to you? These are what I call faith words, that is, part of the vocabulary we can use to express our understanding and practice of faith. At SsAM we end the reading of the Sunday Lessons with “Hear what the Spirit is saying to God’s People.” We READ MORE »
Reflection: Walking The Road: My Prayer Journey
by Mary Lou Edgar, August 12, 2022 I have always felt that these words, from a song by Joe Wise, were about me —“Lord, teach us to pray. It’s been a long and cold December kind of day. With our hearts and minds all busy in our private little wars, we stand and watch each READ MORE »
Take Four Steps to Peace and Justice
SsAM Peace and Justice Initiative Communication No. 1 by Norwood Coleman, Sr. I am humbled to have been invited to serve as the liaison between SsAM and the Diocesan Justice and Reconciliation Commission. It is my intent to facilitate our church’s efforts by involving as many fellow congregants as possible in our deliberations. I am READ MORE »
A Busy Fall at SsAM
If you did not hear Father Jim’s sermon on the last day of July, he announced that he is looking forward with pleasure to serving as our church’s interim rector through the rest of 2022 and into 2023. This was greeted by applause. He made other announcements well worth mentioning. He announced that the members READ MORE »
Reflection: To Do, To Be, or Not To Be
To Do is To Be ~ Socrates To Be is To Do ~ Plato To Be or Not to Be ~ Shakespeare We in western culture are a doing people. Independent, pull-ourselves-up-by-our-bootstraps kind of people, where asking for help is considered, at least internally, as a weakness. Who hasn’t grown up with the saying God READ MORE »
The Importance of Children
by Mary Lou Edgar. As I was thinking about what I wanted to say, the word “importance” kept coming back to me. Most of us profess to believe that children are important. But there are times when I wonder. My career as a social worker focused on children. I have five children of my own. READ MORE »
Reflection – The Ten Thousand Things
What are we to do? For every one thing we do, ten thousand things are left undone. While one pursuit rejoices in our focus, ten thousand pleading voices cry out in anger and anguish for us to drop what we are doing and hurry to them, to reassess our priorities in their favor, for us READ MORE »
Reflection: What Does Freedom Mean?
by Mary Lou Edgar. Freedom. We hear it all the time, and especially now as we approach Independence Day and celebrate our freedom from the British in 1776. As a child of the ’60s, there was much music that made freedom a household word (Everyone Has Got to be Free, Born Free). At the heart READ MORE »
Reflection — Balancing Act
As the summer deepens, sometimes we fall away from the routines of an “academic year.” Even if we aren’t in school ourselves, there’s a cadence to the Autumn, Winter, Spring cycle in our western lives. Church, school, work, certain sports, tv schedules, even food, and more, all fall into a rhythm that loosens a bit READ MORE »
