There will be a Parish Meeting, immediately following the 10 am service, to prepare for our coming High Holy Days.  Mother Susan will provide a "crash course" on the Paschal Triduum, and we will talk about how our community will celebrate the days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Great Vigil of Easter.  Our candidate for Holy Baptism, Melissa Sharron, will share some of her story of her call to the waters of baptism.  Please join us for this wonderful opportunity in our common life. 

Donations are down this year and we are still in need of meals for six families.  Please consider helping a struggling family this Easter, by providing an uncooked meal.  It's easy!  Just buy the makings for a meal, and deliver to your Adopt-a-Family. To help or for more information, please call Sue Kennedy at 908-234-0267. 

Join us tomorrow, Saturday, March 23rd at 9:30 am as we clean-up the grounds in preparation for Holy Week and Easter Sunday.  Refreshments will be served.

The Paschal Triduum - March 28th, 29th, & 30th.  The Three Holy Days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Great Vigil of Easter, are the center of our Christian year and our common life. In these days we fully enter into the Mystery of the Passion, Death, and Glorious Rising of the Lord Jesus, who we know to be among us.  The liturgy is so rich that it takes three days to unfold.  The Rector, Wardens, Vestry, Staff, and People of St. John on the Mountain invite you to be with us as we celebrate the Paschal Triduum.  Please consider honoring us with your presence and sharing with us in the Divine life of the Lord Jesus who has made us his Sacred Body in the world.

Maundy Thursday

7:00 pm in the Church

 Good Friday

7:00 pm in Parish Hall

 The Great Vigil of Easter

7:30 pm in the Courtyard, with babysitting

Festal Reception Immediately Following

Sunday, March 31st

8:00  am      Holy Eucharist with Hymns in the Chapel

10:00 am     Festal Holy Eucharist with Choir in the Church

11:15  am     Easter Egg Hunt, Outside

We will have our annual Easter Egg Hunt, for children of all ages, on Easter Sunday morning, March 31st, just after the 10 am service.  Weather permitting; we will hold the hunt outside.

SJOTM parishioners will staff the Food Bank Pantry each Saturday in April from 9:45 am to noon. Located at the United Reformed Church, 100 West Main Street in Somerville. Click here for driving directions. All are invited, including older children, to help interview clients, bag and distribute food.  A sign-up sheet is on the bulletin board near the Parish Hall kitchen.  For more information, please contact Sally Hespe (908) 875-1518 or email sallyhespe@aol.com.   

 Please consider joining this important ministry.  Greeting people, distributing bulletins, conveying the sacred elements to the altar, and inviting parishioners to partake of Communion are central to our worship services.  No experience needed.  To sign-up or for more information contact Fenn Putman 973-543-7017 or email fennironia@earthlink.net.

Join the Diocesan MDG Task Force Study trip hosted by Foundation Cristosal, a faith-based organization dedicated to human rights and community development.  Find out first hand how the Millennium Development Goals guide permanent, sustainable change in a very poor country.  Total cost is $1,500.  A deposit of $200 is required by March 22, 2013.   Contact Diane Paulsell at dpaulsell@gmail.com.