FestivalSouth fun from Sarah Mabary

FestivalSouth’s third season features over 75 events in two weeks across Hattiesburg, June 9-23.  The festival is Mississippi’s only multi-genre event of its type, featuring music, art, theatre and dance events.  Music drives the performing line up with styles ranging from pop, rock, blues, broadway and gospel, including notable local, regional and internationally known performers….

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Mayberry Ministries

Mayberry Ministries

A fund raiser like no other
to benefit the Diocese of Mississippi’s Honduras Medical Mission!
You do not want to miss this wonderful evening!

Mayberry Ministries is a troupe of volunteer actors from the Jackson area who perform skits made famous by Andy Griffith and Don Knotts on the “Andy Griffith Show”. 100% of the proceeds…

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Holy Week 2012

Believe it or not, Holy Week is upon us again!  We begin this very special and important time in the life of the Church this Sunday with Palm Sunday.  If you have not ever attended the services of Holy Week, I cannot encourage you strongly enough to make attendance your highest priority.  These services will…

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Easter Flower Donations

Easter Sunday the church will be bursting to overflowing with the glories of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  As is our tradition, we place Easter lilies and other flowers in the Church as an offering to God in thanksgiving for our salvation.  To accomplish this, and to allow the faithful to offer a…

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Lenten Music- Missa what?

I often get questions and comments about Sunday morning worship, this because it is different from what most in our community do on Sunday morning.  One more prominent question is, “why do we sing the same songs every Sunday?”
What this question refers to is four particular pieces of music- the Kyrie (Lord have mercy upon…

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Lent 2012- Acts of Mercy

Believe it or not, Lent is almost upon us and Saint John’s is ready and waiting to lead the faithful on the journey through the Lenten wilderness and on to Easter Morning.
Our Lenten journey begins on Wednesday, February 22- commonly called Ash Wednesday.  This is a day of fasting and penance within the calendar of…

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