St. James' Episcopal Church

Sunday Worship—Holy Eucharist, Rite I
2026-02-15 08:00 - 09:00, 2026-02-22 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States
Join us Sundays at 8:00 a.m. for a celebration of Holy Eucharist (Communion). This is a quiet service, usually without music, though we often have a soloist with acoustic guitar playing before and after the service. The service uses Rite 1 from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with traditional language.

Sunday Worship—Holy Eucharist, Rite II with Sunday School and Coffee Hour
2026-02-15 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-02-22 10:00 - 11:30 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States
Join us Sundays at 10:00 a.m. for a celebration of Holy Eucharist (Communion). This service has music (usually organ and choir, along with special guest musicians) and uses a variety of prayers and language from traditional to inclusive and expansive, drawing from Rite II of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, Enriching Our Worship, and other sources.
Coffee hour in the Parish House usually follows this service.
Sunday School for kindergarten and up meets today on the second floor of the Parish House at 10:00 a.m. Students will rejoin the congregation just before Holy Communion. New to St. James’ Church? Your kids are welcome to Sunday School any Sunday. More details about St. James’ Sunday School at: https://stjameshydepark.org/for-children/

Fresh Manna Church (Chapel and Reading Room)
2026-02-15 10:00 - 14:00, 2026-02-22 10:00 - 14:00 | St. James’ Chapel, 10 East Market Street, Hyde Park, NY, 12567, United States

Hyde Park Group AA (Parish Hall, Rm. 201)
2026-02-15 18:30 - 21:00, 2026-02-22 18:30 - 21:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Parish Office Closed
2026-02-16, 2026-02-23 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Knit + Craft + Chat (Wilks Room)
2026-02-16 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-02-23 13:00 - 15:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States
A community of crafters and conversationalists meets Mondays from 1-3 pm (drop-in)—at St. James’ Episcopal Church in the Wilks Room of our Parish House. We are a friendly group: knitters, embroiderers, crocheters, conversationalists and miscellaneous other activities. All are welcome; no previous skill is required.

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and Burning of the Palms (Parish Hall)
2026-02-17 17:30 - 19:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States
Join St. James’ for our annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper in the parish hall on February 17 at 5:30 p.m.
Featuring:

Pancakes, and pancake-decorating for kids!
Mother Meredith’s famous Wheel of Lenten Disciplines!
King cake!
Help decorate our Alleluia banner, then “bury” it until Easter!
Prayer service with burning of last year’s Palm Sunday palms to make this year’s Ash Wednesday ashes!
And more!

Come, eat and be merry!
Bring a friend!
This event is totally free! ALL are welcome! Donations are gratefully accepted.

Boy Scout Troop 80 (Parish Hall)
2026-02-17 19:00 - 20:30, 2026-02-24 19:00 - 20:30 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Ash Wednesday—Services at noon and 7 pm + Ashes-to-Go and prayer in the parking lot 4:30-6 pm
2026-02-18 07:30 - 20:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States
Ash Wednesday Services at St. James’ will be offered at 12 noon and 7 pm in the Church.
Ashes-to-Go with prayer will be available in the driveway in front of the Church from 4:30-6:00 pm (please carefully drive up to the red church doors).

No Bible Study on Ash Wednesday
2026-02-18 11:00 - 12:15 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Ash Wednesday Service
2026-02-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-18 19:00 - 20:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Ashes-to-Go
2026-02-18 16:30 - 18:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Evening Prayer (Online)
2026-02-18 18:30 - 19:00, 2026-02-25 18:30 - 19:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Outreach Meeting (Wilks Room)
2026-02-19 18:00 - 20:30 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Fresh Manna Church - New Year's Revival (Chapel)
2026-02-21 16:00 - 2026-02-22 11:30 | St. James’ Chapel, 10 East Market Street, Hyde Park, NY, 12567, United States

Compline (Online)
2026-02-21 18:30 - 19:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

"Eleanor Roosevelt's Nightly Prayer" with author Donn Mitchell (MOVED ONLINE DUE TO WINTER STORM)
2026-02-22 15:00 - 17:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States
Due to winter weather, our event with Donn Mitchell, author of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer, has been moved online.
Please join us on Sunday, February 22 at 3 pm via Zoom or YouTube.
(Those who wish to participate in Q&A should please use the Zoom option.)

St. James’ Episcopal Church and the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill welcome
Donn Mitchell
author of
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer
(new from Morehouse Publishing)

Reading, Presentation, and Q&A
Sunday, February 22 at 3 pm
Online only due to winter storm. Please join us on Zoom or on St. James’ YouTube Channel. Those who wish to participate in the Q&A portion, please use Zoom.
Reception and book-signing in the Parish Hall are canceled.

About the Book
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer uncovers how Eleanor Roosevelt’s faith—shaped in part at St. James’ Episcopal Church—served as a wellspring for her courage, compassion, and moral clarity. Her tireless work for racial equality, refugee protection, women’s and workers’ rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights all bear the imprint of a woman whose belief in justice was inseparable from her belief in God.
“No account of the extraordinary life and achievements of Eleanor Roosevelt is complete without attention to the ways her deep Christian faith affected every aspect of her public and private life. Yet most of her biographers have followed the trend of political historians to minimize the role of religion in the lives of their subjects. Now, thanks to this richly sourced spiritual biography by Donn Mitchell, no one will be able to make that mistake again.”
— Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; author of A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See

About the Author
Donn Mitchell currently teaches at Fordham University. His work has appeared in the Christian Century, the Living Church, and the Anglican Theological Review. He is the author of Tread the City’s Streets Again: Frances Perkins Shares Her Theology. He has previously taught at Manhattan College, the General Theological Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary.

Johnson Controls Fire Extinguisher Inspections (all buildings)
2026-02-24 08:00 - 10:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Bible Study (Online)
2026-02-25 11:00 - 12:15 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States
Our weekly Bible study on Zoom usually focuses on the Gospel for the upcoming Sunday and is led by Mtr. Meredith. We practice a contemplative, prayerful style of Bible study that focuses on how God is speaking to us through our questions, responses, curiosities and doubts as we engage Scripture.
The study is followed by a brief, optional service of noonday prayer.
Join in any Wednesday at 11 am. No previous preparation is required. The Zoom link is distributed via our weekly email newsletter (or contact the parish office).

Vestry Meeting (Wilks Room)
2026-02-25 19:00 - 21:00 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States

Evening Prayer for the Common Good (Church)
2026-02-26 18:15 - 19:15 | St. James’ Episcopal Church, 4526 Albany Post Rd., Hyde Park, NY, 12538, United States
Every Thursday in Lent at 6:15 pm, starting February 26 through March 26, you are invited to the Church for a 30-minute service of Evening Prayer for the Common Good. We will pray together for justice and peace for our church, our neighbors, and our world community.

Our Lenten book study will follow directly after the prayer service in the Wilks Room (February 26–March 19).
