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Save the Dates
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Church Cleaning:
Saturday mornings, March 24 and 31 Maundy Thursday and Good Friday Rehearsal: April 4, 6:30 pm Easter Vigil Rehearsal and Church Set-up: April 7 in the morning
Easter Triduum:
April 5-8
Grace Montessori
Benefit Auction:
Friday, April 27
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Neighborhood Events
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Adult Student Exhibition:
Baum School of Art,
through March 23
Paintings by Walter Baum and His Circle:
Allentown Art Museum
through May 13
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Welcome to the weekly e-newsletter of Grace Episcopal Church. Read about what's happening at Grace, and use the quick links to the left to find other helps to our life with God.
Lent is a spare, stark season in the church's year. We gather in silence for the Sunday liturgy, and we depart in silence. We fast from our weekly refreshments and conversation time, and we will return to these joyful practices at Easter. We reverently prepare for the immersion in Jesus' life, death, and resurrection that is the Easter Triduum (April 5-8).
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See you Sunday! --Beth Reed, Priest-in-charge |
| Sunday, March 18, at Grace | | |
Eucharist, Reflection on Exodus passage
We celebrate the Eucharist at 10:00. For the gospel, we hear the famous line of John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." Christians disagree on interpretations or emphases of that line--what is your sense of it?
After the service, we will meet in the gathering space to consider the third scripture reading of the Easter Vigil, the passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea. This story is a key to interpreting baptism and our liberation from sin.
Read more about this conversation, and the one next week, below. |
| Lent Meditations on Sundays (or any day) | |
Easter Vigil texts inspire us
During Lent, our Forum time after church will focus on some texts of the Easter Vigil. Beth Reed will lead these conversations.
A booklet with texts and meditations is available at the back of the church. It will ground our conversations on the Sundays in March. These conversations are open to everyone; please consider participating, especially if recent Forum offerings have not appealed to you! Each Sunday's discussion will stand on its own; that is, you do not have to commit to coming every week.
The texts can be read at home to prepare for Sunday's conversation. What questions do they raise for you? How do they sound to you in light of our Triduum celebrations? Which parts of the readings comfort and challenge you? How do you hear the Spirit speaking to God's people? When we come to celebrate the Vigil in the darkness of April 7, our experience will likely be richer for having already opened our hearts and ears to these texts.
If you cannot partake of these conversations at the Forum time,
the texts and meditations can seed your prayer at home through the season of Lent.
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| Grace's Food Pantry | |  Here are February's numbers
Patty McNamara and pantry volunteers served 279 families in our neighborhood last month. This included 32 seniors, 460 adults, and 396 children.
There were 81 new clients.
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| Grace in the Theatre | |  Go see two Fegleys and a Reed
You can see Michael Fegley in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), "a three-actor romp through the Bard's plays full of parody, improvisation, and farce." The Allentown Public Theatre show runs Thursdays through Saturdays, March 22 through April 7 in the Long Haul Room of the America on Wheels museum. (Michael is very sad to miss participating in the Triduum this year. Grace will miss his voice during the Genesis reading at the Vigil.) For tickets, click here. August Fegley and Julia Reed will appear in Alice in Wonderland at Allentown's Civic Theatre April 12-14. August is the White Rabbit, and Julia is Rose. The box office phone is 610-432-8943. |
| Lecture at Moravian Upper School | |  Fr. Roy Bourgeois will speak
On Friday night, March 30, long-time peace activist Fr. Roy Bourgeois will speak about "The School of the Americas and U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America." Tapas and live music start at 5:00 pm, and the presentation is 6:00-7:15 pm. The event is free and open to the public, and attendees are asked to bring a nonperishable food donation for New Bethany Ministries.
The event will be held in Dyer Auditorium in the Walter Building on Moravian Academy's Upper School campus, 4313 Green Pond Road in Bethlehem.
The image is from the website uncommonpromise.com.
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