Last year's Shamrock Festival was such a success, we're planning on doing it again. Mark Saturday, March 16, on your calendar now for an evening of fun, food, and fund-raising. Live music by Back Porch Grass. All proceeds will go toward our sanctuary renovation project. Tickets are $20 and include dinner.

Purchase tickets here

The Rev. Shirley Ross-Jones, retired Lutheran pastor and faithful member of our Wednesday congregation, will lead a Celtic-themed Lenten Quiet Day at Saint James on Saturday, Feb. 24, 9 a.m. to noon.

The morning will offer a time of fellowship, quiet contemplation, and exercises involving mandalas and circle patterns deeply rooted in Celtic spirituality. It will begin with coffee and sharing and close with Holy Eucharist. Come and bring a friend. This is a wonderful way to move your spiritual life into a deeper level for Lent.

We begin a Lenten study of African American spirituals on Feb. 22 with a screening of the film "I Can Tell the World," a documentary about The Spirituals Project, a Denver-based interracial choir committed to the preservation and performance of music born in slavery. We'll be joined that evening by the directors Larry Bograd and Colleen Hubbard.

On subsequent Thursdays, music director Allison Olsson will lead us into a deeper appreciation of the songs and the stories they tell. Dr. Arthur C. Jones, professor emeritus of music at the University of Denver and the founder of The Spirituals Project, will join us one evening. In addition, Allison's son, John Olsson, an African drum and dance leader, will join us for a class connecting African-origin music to spirituals as they developed.

We invite you, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word. And, to make a right beginning 

of repentance, and as a mark of our mortal nature ... remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. - Book of Common Prayer, Ash Wednesday rite

We'll have two services that day, at noon and 7 p.m. The noon service will be spoken, and will take the place of our usual noon service of healing. The 7 p.m. service will include music, and will be live-streamed.

Prepare for a season of fasting and repentance with one last butter-and-bacon blowout. The Men of Saint James will take over kitchen duties that night, fire up the griddle and get the bacon sizzling and the pancakes bubbling.

In addition to the feast, we'll crown a King and Queen to preside over the revels. Come be part of the fun! Cost of admission is whatever you feel like paying us. It all starts at 5 p.m.

Who makes the best soup at Saint James? Come find out! To enter, bring a crockpot full of your best soup to the parish hall before the start of worship on Sunday. During coffee hour, we’ll all get to sample all the entries and cast our votes for the prize-winner.