Homecoming Sunday at St John's in the Village: Welcome Back!

218 West 11th Street,New York NY 10014

11 September, 2022

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On the Sunday after Labor Day we welcome back to Greenwich Village those who have been away from the city for the summer: and also those who did not go away this year! It is from this Sunday onward that all our arts programming returns back in full swing. At the11am Choral Service St John's professional choir, with strings and trumpet, performs Mozart's Missa Brevis in D (K 194) and his charming Ave Verum Corpus. Our guest preacher, visiting us from Jerusalem, is Dr Richard Major, theologian and novelist, and author of This Lower World, in which St John's in the Village features thinly disguised as "St Polycarp in the City" in a fictionalized Manhattan. The service will also include a commemoration of those who perished on the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. AS St John's is an international community, including people from many Commonwealth Realms, we will also formally mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the 11am Service we bless and dedicate our newly-restored Common Room (Solarium), a new indoor/outdoor performance space to add to those we already use. Then we off our traditional end-of-summer cook-out in the beautiful St Benedict's Courtyard. Our new exhibition in Revelation Gallery (entered both from the Courtyard and from the Solarium), open for viewing on this Sunday specially, is Framing the Village, images of Greenwich Village and other art by Greenwich Village artists. All is, of course, free, but registration here is useful for catering purposes.