About our Logo

The St. James logo was adopted in 2025 by our Vestry to symbolize who we are and what we hold dear.

The design's origins come from a kneeler which can be found in the Historic Church which combines a Celtic style cross and a scallop shell. Across our campus you will find many other appearances of the cross and the scallop shell. What do they mean to us?

We believe that Christ's work on the cross, in the words of our liturgy, is a "full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world." The cross represents God's one-way love towards us and the grace that is available for all who put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe that grace becomes active in our lives at Baptism, symbolized by the scallop shell. In Baptism we are united with Christ in his death so that we might walk in the newness of his resurrected life (Romans 6:4-5). The scallop has a special significance for our parish because of its traditional association with St. James the Great, our patron saint. Through the centuries, scallops have been used on the Camino de Santiago by many pilgrims journeying to the final resting place of St. James to eat food with, to drink from or even to bathe with. Baptism is the beginning of our own journey of faith, made possible by Christ's work on the cross, and we are sustained along the way by God's constant grace.