St. Margaret's Ecumenical & Retreat Center

Holy Eucharist
2025-05-07 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-14 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-21 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-28 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-04 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-11 12:00 - 12:30 UTC
Holy Eucharist – Wednesdays at Noon
In-Person and Zoom Worship Services – All Welcome!
Zoom.us ID: 842 3057 0175 Passcode: SMH

Wednesday Lunch
2025-05-07 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-05-14 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-05-21 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-05-28 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-06-04 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-06-11 12:30 - 13:30
Please join us for lunch, which includes main + veggies, salad, and dessert – All Welcome!
Please make a reservation by the Friday before 315-724-2324 or info@stmargaretshouseny.org.
Suggested donation $13 per person

Greater Utica Sunrise Rotary Pancake Breakfast at Grace Church to Benefit the Food Insecurity Program | May 11th from 9 AM to 1 PM
2025-05-11 09:00 - 13:00
Come enjoy a pancake breakfast and help raise funds to support community members facing food insecurity. The menu includes pancakes, sausage, orange juice, coffee, and tea and the cost is $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 6-12, and free for all under 6. Please use the 11 Devereux Street entrance at Grace Church. Tickets can be purchased at St. Margaret’s or contact Joyce at 315-723-5597. Consider making a donation to help feed our hungry neighbors.

Concert & Ice Cream Social with The Licorice Stick | May 12th at 6 PM
2025-05-12 18:00 - 19:30
Join us for an ice cream social and concert with The Licorice Stick clarinet quartet. The quartet was formed 15 years ago, and current members are Diane Vicik of Whitesboro, Linda DeAmicis of New Hartford, Lynne Cook of Clinton, and Chester Wright of Oneida. The quartet is known for its wide repertoire of music including classical music, ballads, swing, sacred, blues, ragtime, marches and pop music, and has played at area churches, libraries, benefit dinners, and nursing homes. This event is free and open to the public. Donations for the food bank will be greatly appreciated. Sponsored by Stewart’s Holiday Match Grant.

Friends of Emmaus House
2025-05-14 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-06-11 10:00 - 11:30 | St. Margaret’s, 47 Jordan Road, New Hartford, NY, 13413, United States
Friends of Emmaus House is a group of volunteers who provide support to help meet the needs of the house & guests. We meet 2nd Wednesdays at 10 am at St. Margaret’s. New Members Welcome!

Conversations with Father John LaVoe | 2nd Wednesdays at 1:30 PM
2025-05-14 13:30 - 14:30, 2025-06-11 13:30 - 14:30
Join us for conversations about faith hosted by Father John LaVoe.

Monthly Grief Support Group
2025-05-16 12:00 - 13:30 | St. Margaret’s, 47 Jordan Road, New Hartford, NY, 13413, United States
St. Margaret’s continues to host a facilitated grief group to support anyone experiencing loss. Beginning in January the group will meet on 3rd Fridays from Noon to 1:30 PM. Please reach out to St. Margaret’s if you have any questions or would like to attend.

InterSpiritual Wisdom and Practices | May 20th from 9 AM to 3 PM
2025-05-20 09:00 - 15:00
Join Rev. Dr. John Wilde for this wonderful retreat day! According to many pioneers on the InterSpiritual path, the planet requires a new consciousness where we can overcome centuries of suspicion toward others within our cultures and religions. Let us explore this essential path of the mystic heart, particularly focusing on Thomas Merton (prolific writer who saw how much Christian monks and contemplatives and Buddhist monks and contemplatives had in common), Thomas Keating (popular teacher of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina), Wayne Teasdale (student of Keating who wrote 3 books introducing the tenets of the InterSpiritual Path), and Edward Bastian (founder of the Spiritual Paths Institute and creator of a seven-step InterSpiritual Meditation). Teasdale coined the term “InterSpiritual” in The Mystic Heart published in 1999. Here is a quote from that book: “Humanity stands at a crossroads between horror and hope. In choosing hope, we must seed a new consciousness, a radically fresh approach to life drawing its inspiration from perennial spiritual and moral insights, intuition and experience. We call this new awareness interspiritual, implying not the homogenization of religion, but the recovering of the shared mystic heart beating in the center of the world’s deepest spiritual traditions.” Practices during the day will include Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, InterSpiritual Meditation and QiGong. Cost is $15 and includes lunch. Please register by May 7th.

Monthly Dinner
2025-05-20 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-06-17 17:30 - 19:00
3rd Tuesdays – Dine In at 5:30 PM and Take Out at 6 PM – Suggested Donation $19
Please make your reservation by the preceding Friday.
May 20th | Lasagna, Bread, salad, and dessert
June 17th | London Broil, roasted salt potatoes, corn, salad, and dessert
No dinners in July and August – enjoy your summer!

Men's Group with Father Nick
2025-05-21 10:30 - 11:45, 2025-06-04 10:30 - 11:45, 2025-06-18 10:30 - 11:45
Fr. Nick Smith will lead a new men’s group beginning on January 15th at 10:30 am. Meant to be a time of fellowship and exploration, Nick would like to begin each week by asking the question “What is saving your life today?” Is it spiritual practice? Is it coffee? Is it a random friendly smile? Is it some deep profound insight? Is it some curious enigma? Let’s find out and share our conclusions!

Join us for Scrabble!
2025-05-28 09:15 - 11:30 | St. Margaret’s, 47 Jordan Road, New Hartford, NY, 13413, United States
Our scrabble crew meets Fourth Wednesdays at 9:15am. New members welcome – call 315-724-2324 or email info@stmargaretshouseny.org to sign up. Please let us know if you would like to stay for lunch by the preceding Monday.

Coffee & Conversation | 4th Wednesdays at 1:30 PM
2025-05-28 13:30 - 14:30
Join The Reverend Deacon Jean Skinner for conversation and coffee in our library. Please consider bringing a few cans of food for our food pantry as a donation.

Sacred Site Tours | June 2025
2025-06-05 14:00 - 17:00
We are excited to bring back our popular group tours of local area holy places this summer. We will meet at St. Margaret’s and carpool to our destinations. Please call or email to register and indicate if you are willing to drive or need a ride. Dates or locations may change due to changes in availability:
June 5th, Historic Old St. John’s, Utica (meet at 2:00PM this day)

Emmaus House Open House | June 13th 2 - 4PM
2025-06-13 14:00 - 16:00
Join us for Emmaus House’s annual Open House at 1215 Kemble Street. Learn more about the house and its mission. There will be a raffle basket fundraiser as well.

Quiet Day with Father LaVoe | June 16th from 9 AM to 3:30 PM
2025-06-16 09:00 - 15:30
New seasons invite us along as they come and go. Christmas is most blatant, but springtime bids us to put our snow equipment away and break out the Easter baskets and gardening gloves. Religions, including ours, but certainly not limited to ours, have taken cues from the sun, moon, temperature, agricultural growth and other natural changes for millennia. Old Testament feasts and New Testament seasons, the entire church calendar, daily office, and even children’s prayers at meals and at bedtime all have roots in the natural ordering of God’s creation. What serious, lasting, beneficial adjustments do you make, now that the walruses have migrated north, and the groundhogs are returning from Capistrano?
One thing you can do is indulge yourself in a Quiet Day at St Margaret’s. Leaving aside distractions and demands, you can treat your body, mind, soul and spirit to the peaceful, prayerful atmosphere of the grounds, chapel, library and sitting areas, and the partaking of treats, beverages, and lunch provided throughout the day. Father LaVoe’s talks on little known spiritual backgrounds of Commandments, Bible, and Sacraments are bound to increase and enrich your understanding. Use reflection time between talks in any way you choose. It may be just what you need in order to be closer with God, Jesus, the Spirit, and God’s grace. A charge of $15 will be asked for lunch, but help is available if needed. For those who find silence a challenge, conversation rooms will be available. Please register by June 9th.
