Friday Online Morning Prayer on our Youtube Channel, 9:00 am

Sunday Services 9:00 & 10:30 am

Optional Healing Prayer at both services

Church School at 10:30 am

Mo. Storm's Welcome Back Brunch after the 10:30 service (see sign-up below)

Christmas Pageant Rehearsal at 11:30am

Jr & Sr Youth Christmas Gathering (details below), 5:30 pm

As the holidays approach, we are reminded of how deeply gratitude shapes our life together at St. James the Less. This season invites us to pause, reflect, and give thanks for the blessings we have received — and to consider how we might share those blessings in return.

Our Annual Appeal gives us a chance to express gratitude for the spiritual home we have been given. Your pledge is not only a commitment — it is an offering of thanksgiving, honoring the generations who sustained this parish and helping build its future for those who will come after us.

We are delighted to share that we have now reached $282,000, bringing us well over the 50% mark toward our goal of $500,000. Thank you to everyone who has pledged so far! Your generosity is already making a difference.

If you have not yet made your pledge, we invite you to consider doing so during this season of gratitude. Every pledge helps us!

Kira Almeida, Sandy and Irv Atkinson, Joan Ballantye, Uma and Ajit Banerjee, John and Natalie Batilloro, Ruth Boser, Lisa and Peter Brady, Christopher and Kristin Burrows,Carolina Caballero and Kyle Chow, Pip and Richard Cacciato, Sarah and Dan Cline, Eileen Conde, Janet Darlington, (the Rev.) Eliza Davies, Juan DeCos and Gabrielle Anderson, Robert Fath and Ruth Boser, Tom Finlan and Ocean Mills, Jane Ford, the Hallowell Family, Lisa-Marie and Douglass Hatcher, Pam Heldman, Matthew Henry, Alice Herman, Priscilla and Tsutomu Ishiguri, Bud and Lynn Johnson, Tricia and Ray Joseph, Gloria Kan, Linda Killian, Nicholas King, Tom Lacalamita, Toni Lewis, Geoff and Margy Loftus, Phillip Martin, Pat Mahon, Tracy and Marc McCarthy, Liz and John McNally, Hadley and Doug Miller, Francia Morhardt-Smith, Maureen Moser, John and Barbara Palmer, Karl and Barrie Panthen, Gunilla Faringer-Perez, Karen Preiser, Greg and Rachel Roberts, Donna Robertson and Ray Chow, Monica Sganga, Cheryl Smith, Sean and Rebecca Smith, Stephen Stamas, (the Rev.) Astrid Storm and Andrew Wood, Andrea and James West, Val Wiggan, David Wiles, Deidre and Patrick Wynne (If your name isn't here but you already submitted your pledge, please let us know!)

THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO MAKE A PLEDGE:

You can fill out the card at the button above, which expresses your intention to give for 2026.

You can go to our giving platform and set up an automatic pledge starting January 1.

You can do either of those on your phone app now or while you're sitting in church. 

We've been uploading lots of good content to our Youtube channel, including (brief) Daily Advent Meditations with Mo. Storm and videos of fellow parishioners talking about their love for our parish. Check out our channel, and better yet, like and subscribe! 

Join us for services at 5 and 8 pm for Christmas Eve services. The 5 pm is a simple Eucharist with congregational singing, the adult and children's choir, brief homily and Holy Communion. The 8 pm service includes an extended prelude (begins at 7:40) consisting of music for choir and organ, sermon, and congregational singing. Both services last an hour and include a candlelit singing of Silent Night. On Christmas Day we'll have a quiet service with hymns, a sermon, and Holy Communion.

Parents! We could use some more volunteers for set building in December. If you are interested, please register below.

The Christmas Pageant is a wonderful way for all of us to come together (and all ages!) to celebrate and learn the story of the Christ Child. If you haven't signed your child up today, please do so! If you haven't signed up, come anyway to rehearsal on Sundays 11:30-12:30 afer church. All are welcome at this special event! The Christmas Pageant is on Sunday, December 21st during the 10:30am service. Questions?  Email Director of Music, Victoria Shields at music@stjamesscarsdale.org

We’re so excited that Mother Astrid Storm returns on December 7th! Let’s celebrate her return from sabbatical with a special Sunday Brunch following the 10:30 AM service on Sunday, December 7th.

Please sign up below if you’d like to contribute a dish or item to our celebration — your participation will help make this a joyful and delicious welcome back!

Thank you for your support and for helping us celebrate Mother Storm’s return to St James.

The 4th Annual Youth Group Christmas Party is happening on Sunday, December 7th from 5:30 PM to around 7:30/8:00 PM. A big thank-you to Ocean and Tom for generously hosting again at their home in Edgemont.

More details are in the link below. Please eachout to the office you would like to join the mailing list! (For grades 7-12)

Now is the season to buy a gift for Children's Village. See the attached Signup Genius for the boys who live there. Please deliver your gift in a gift bag, with a tag and their name and cottage, by December 12 to the Nursery School office, in the lower level of the church building (down the cloister stairs, turn left, and go all the way down the hall). Thank you!

Every year at Christmastime, St. James bakers deliver home-baked cookies for 40+ boys at Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry.  The boys are so appreciative of these tasty (and sometimes decorated) treats.  Please bring your cookies to St. James on Sunday, December 14th at 10am.  No fancy packaging necessary as we will be putting together a mixed box for each boy.

IMPORTANT:  NO NUTS!  And no almond extract either.

Please contact Margy Loftus at margyloftus@yahoo.com with any questions.  Please sign up below and indicate what you are likely to bake -- keeping in mind that we want to offer a nice variety.  Thank you!

We are proud to feature this year, Westchester-based, Charis Chamber Voices. Join us for “Rejoice!” a festive concert of sacred masterworks and seasonal carols featuring Britten’s “Festival Te Deum” and “Rejoice in the Lamb” as well as Vivaldi’s radiant “Gloria”. Carols of the season complete this celebration in song. A festive reception follows to meet greet the artists!

Our Breakfast with Santa on December 13 includes delicious foods including pancakes and bacon, munchkins, bagels and more. Enjoy holiday arts and crafts, pick up a Gingerbread House kit, take a family portrait, and bid on the silent auction to benefit the playground.

Get your tickets now as we sell out every year!

Ring in the New Year with all six of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos led by former St James the Less Music Director, Matthew Lewis. This masterpiece, forgotten and unpublished for over 100 years, almost lost during WWII, and today's most popular Baroque work, will be performed by an all-professional orchestra on the eve of a promising new year. Returning once again this year is a dinner that includes champagne, dessert and non-alcoholic beverages in our festive setting at St James the Less.

$125, dinner included

Sunday's sermons will continue to be posted during Mo. Storm's sabbatical. You can click the link below each week for the latest from Rev. Michelle, Mother Eliza or Father Holton.

You can view this Sunday's bulletin at the link below. Names of all readers, servers, and acolytes are always listed on the last page of the bulletin. Readings are also there for readers to view in advance.