Christ Our Advocate

Tonight!! Join us after the service to sample and vote for your favorite soup(s)! 🥣

That's right, it's our 2nd Annual Y'all Saints Cook-offs! Join us Sunday for Part 1: SOUP. A sign up link is available on our Upcoming Events page if you would like to contribute your signature soup to the fun! www.christouradvocate.org/upcoming-eve...

Thank you to all who joined us at the No Kings protest in Wheaton today! #NoKings

"Sin has colonized our “I”—that transcendental part of our selves—so that “I” become a cooperating partner in my own subjugation. But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ that we have a deliverer."

Alleluia. Christ is risen! Join us today at 5:00 for our Easter Evening service. A catered meal and time of fellowship and celebration will follow.

CORRECTION: Join us at 5pm tonight for our Easter Vigil service, which includes a Service of Light, Lessons, Baptism, and the Eucharist. There will not be Godly Play, but a safe space will be provided for those who need it.

Join us at noon today for our Good Friday service, which includes the stations of the cross, veneration of the cross, and reflections on Jesus’ 7 Last Words. There will not be Godly Play, but a safe space will be provided for those who need it.

Join us at 7pm tonight for a joint Maundy Thursday service with our host church, St. Paul Lutheran

A collect for Saint Gregory of Nyssa

A collect for Saints Perpetua and Felicity

"What difference does one life make? What difference does one decision make? What difference does one conversation make? In this present evil age, is there any righteous cause left? Beloved, [...] God calls life out of death and things into existence that do not yet exist."

A collect for George Herbert

"The good news of Lent is that our vindication comes from the triune God. [...] So, as gently as I can manage, I invite you to loosen your grip on being “one of the good ones.” Let go of the notion that you’re not one of them."

A collect for St. Matthias the Apostle:

A collect for Polycarp of Smyrna

"If you want to draw closer to God then go be near those God loves: the poor, the immigrant, the stranger, the enslaved; then God will rebuild in you all that Empire & consumerism & whiteness & misogyny & racism has ruined, because God is the God who calls life out of death."

A collect for Frederick Douglass

A collect for Martin Luther:

A collect for Ash Wednesday

"If these words are true, and I believe they are, then it means that every interruption, every transitional instability—whether good or bad, wanted or unwanted, joyful or sorrowful, or somewhere in-between—God is bringing us into new life, and God never wastes a chance to bring death back to life."

Join us this Wednesday at 7pm for a joint Ash Wednesday service with our host church, St. Paul Lutheran

To a group of wounded, humble, and uncertain disciples, Jesus says: You are the world’s salt. You are the world’s light. ... Together, through your efforts to love God, self, and neighbor, y’all bring the world seasoning and preservation, illumination and revelation.

"If you want to live well in the Kingdom of Heaven, here is what your life will look like under the Empires of this world: depleted, mourning, hungry, yet merciful, peaceful, and just."

A collect for the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas

"Do you find yourself at the end of hope? Do you find yourself weary, confused, or disoriented in a maze of darkness? Jesus says, “Caminemos en conjunto; Let’s walk together. [...] Come, be my apprentice to love and learn how to live, even if you're surrounded by darkness.”

A collect for the feast of St. John Chrysostom

A collect for the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle

A collect for St. Fabian, Bishop and Martyr

A collect for the confession of St. Peter the apostle

Through the waters of baptism, this same Spirit who descended upon Jesus, empowering him to fulfill all righteousness, descends upon you, filling and empowering you, and names you beloved.

A collect for St. Hilary of Poitiers

Keep us, O Lord, constant in faith and zealous in witness, that, like your servant William Laud, we may live in your fear, die in your favor, and rest in your peace; for the sake of Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first service at St. Paul this past Sunday! We are so grateful for this space and for this community God has brought together.

"Worship is never apolitical. So, whom one chooses to worship, whom one chooses to serve, matters immensely. The world wants us to tremble before Herod; God calls us to swear allegiance to Christ, the poor Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem."

O God, by the leading of a star you manifested your only Son to the peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know you now by faith, to your presence, where we may see your glory face to face; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

If you're joining us for our first service at St. Paul Lutheran tonight, please remember that this is a nut-free facility.

New year, new location! Beginning tomorrow, Jan 6, we will be meeting at St. Paul Lutheran (515 South Wheaton Ave). Join us for our usual Sunday Eucharist service at 5:00pm with a potluck dinner to follow.

Eternal Father, you gave to your incarnate Son the holy name of Jesus to be the sign of our salvation: Plant in every heart, we pray, the love of him who is the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

A collect in remberance of the Feast of the Holy Innocents

A collect for the feast of St. John