The annual meeting and vestry elections will take place on Sunday, May 7th.   If you have any interest in running for Vestry for the upcoming term, and have any questions, please talk to a current Vestry member.  Also needed are Deanery Representatives. If you are interested, please contact the church office at info@old-swedes.org.

Meeting and voting will take place immediately following the Sunday service.

May 7 - Fifth Sunday of Easter

• Acts 7:55-60
• 1 Peter 2:2-10
• John 14:1-14
• Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16

May 14 - Sixth Sunday of Easter

• Acts 17:22-31
• 1 Peter 3:13-22
• John 14:15-21
• Psalm 66:7-18

May 21 - Seventh Sunday of  Easter

• Acts 1:6-14
• 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11
• John 17:1-11
• Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36

May 28 - Day of Pentecost

• Numbers 11:24-30
• Acts 2:1-21
• John 20:19-23
• Psalm 104:25-35, 37

Enjoy a live performance by The Jazz Sanctuary. Jazz & Joe is a "coffee-house" style venue. Active listening and quiet conversation is welcome throughout the evening. Refreshments are served, and attendees are welcome to BYOB. This event is free, but donations are appreciated to help defray costs. 

On Mondays at 9:00am, Megan Bartlett will lead a ten minute prayer, following the Morning Devotion service in the Book of Common Prayer. We lift up to God our personal and parish needs, as we search for a new Rector. 

Click here to join the Zoom meeting.

or use:

Meeting ID: 909 012 0129

Passcode: 1U029q 

If you have the BCP,  turn to page 137.

If you don't have a paper copy, this is the link to Morning Devotion as a PDF.. 

Join us for a refreshed version of our popular service. Don't worry, it isn't entirely different! Paul Fejko will still be performing on our beautiful Hook & Hastings organ. Keep an eye out for some interesting guest guitarists, a drum circle, poems, and discussions that we hope will inspire you throughout the rest of the week. The program will be led by our sextons, Jim & Paula Minacci, who want to create a welcoming and relaxed atmosphere that everyone will enjoy. 

Click here to join the Zoom

OR use:  Meeting ID: 856 1499 7430

                Passcode: 706722

OR cut and paste into browser:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85614997430?pwd=aXlCYUhieXRxeDYvNHRZZzBPeVNpZz09

OR dial in:  1 929 205 6099 

Our April 29th tour sold out so we've added another date! Join the Historic Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Preservation Corporation on Saturday, May 13, for a historical walking tour of Philadelphia’s Headhouse Square, led by researcher and writer Michael Schreiber. 

This area of South Second Street, became a central marketplace in the 1740s, serving the fast-growing area around Society Hill. In subsequent years, a colorful assortment of men and women could be seen within the market shambles — farmers from the “Neck,” French and Haitian pastry cooks, Irish revolutionaries, gentlemen merchants, foreign diplomats, and tavern brawlers and thieves. Schreiber will describe many of these characters and their adventures.

Tour participants will meet at the plaza at 2nd and Lombard at 1 p.m. (If it is raining, we will meet under the Shambles on 2nd Street, between Lombard and Pine). The tour should take under two hours. Rain or Shine. Tickets are $15 each.

Come down and find some treasures and enjoy the food trucks! 

Vendors: set up is from 6:00 - 8:00am. There will be guides to point you in the right direction. Choose a chalked-off space (6 foot) and set up your table. A parishioner will come around about 10:30am to take your $25 fee. There are no reservations, spaces are first come, first served.