Breaking Bread
Regularly scheduled worship services:
Sundays in July & August
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9:00 a.m. in July & August in the Main Church, with communion. Modern. Childcare for infants and toddlers is available at the morning service year round, although all children are welcome to remain in worship with their parents and guardians. If children are in Childcare, parents are encouraged to bring their children back to the Main Church to receive communion.
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5:00 p.m. in the Main Church with communion. Expansive. This service is an informal, multi-sensory, and participatory worship experience that features guitar music, percussion, and a shorter homily.
- 7:00 p.m. September - May - worship and fellowship primarily for SLU students on the Frost Campus. See ECM at SLU for the room assignments, which change sometimes.
Wednesday Morning Communion Service - 8:00 a.m. in the Chapel.
Morning Prayer
If you would like to pray Morning Prayer online, please visit the Mission of St. Clare.
Communion at St. John's
Note: We have temporarily changed communion procedures to help prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus (swine flu).
In the Holy Eucharist, or communion, we are gathered together as the Body of Christ and sent out into the world to love and serve Christ in everyone whom we meet. Through the Eucharist, God gives us the spiritual food that we need to sustain us in the wider world.
In the Episcopal Church, we do not have and never have had a single understanding of what happens in communion. We consider it a Mystery, which individuals are free to experience and interpret for themselves. Most Episcopalians believe that Jesus Christ becomes "truly present" in a spiritual sense in the bread and the wine, but most do not believe that the bread and the wine become - or transubstantiate into - the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ.
In the Episcopal Church, all baptized Christians from any denomination or background are welcome to receive communion. Everyone is invited to come forward for either communion or a blessing. If you are not baptized and feel moved or called to receive communion, please do! God knows what is in our hearts and God welcomes everyone to the Eucharistic Feast! Figuring out whether or not you want to be baptized can wait until after the service. For more, visit Belonging.
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