Pastoral Care
Pastoral
care of parishioners - by both fellow parishioners and by clergy - is
of the highest priority. Several parishioners have had critical medical
needs in the past few weeks, and it is very helpful to the clergy for
others to tell us when they know there is a need. In the rush of
addressing a crisis, family members don't always think to call the
church office and hospitals no longer make calls informing us of
admissions. Please, let us know of needs - even if you think we already
know! - so we can respond as promptly as possible! To contact Stephen at any time, please call 781-899-3071 or email to
sovoysey@comcast.net
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The Week Ahead
Sunday, September 14
8:00 Holy Communion
9:00 Adult Bible Study
9:00 Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:30-11:30 Nursery Care
10:00 Holy Communion
10:45 Church School
11:15 Coffee Hour
11:30 Junior Choir Rehearsal
11:30 Outreach Committee Meeting
Monday, September 15
8:00pm AA
Tuesday, September 16
State Primary Voting in Parish Hall
7:30pm Vestry Meeting
Wednesday, September 17
1:00pm Satff Meeting
Thursday, September 18
4:00pm Prayer Group
7:30pm Adult Choir Rehearsal
Sunday, September 21
8:00 Holy Communion
9:00 Adult Bible Study
9:00 Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:30-11:30 Nursery Care
10:00 A Baptism/Holy Communion
10:45 A Church School
11:15 A Coffee Hour
11:30 A Junior Choir Rehearsal
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CHURCH SCHOOL
New Locations;
Not in the Parish Hall!
Nursery Rooms: Lower Level Elementary: 3rd Floor
6th-8th Grade: Bidwell Room
Teens: TBD
A couple of needed items: We seek gently used
items for our nursery:
1) Two rocking chairs are in need of cushions/pads
2) Changing table
3) Two porta cribs.
If you can help, please call or
email the church office.
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Website, Keys Notes and QuickLinks
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From the Rector's Desk
GIVING THANKS
Among the most ancient names
for the Sunday service of Holy Communion is eucharist,
coming from the Greek eucharistia,
meaning "thankfulness" or "gratitude." The Book of
Common Prayer uses the title "Holy Eucharist," so the use of
the word in the faith community is intended to remind us that prayer
is always approached with an attitude of thankfulness, and that it is
in thankfulness that we are able to experience the holiness of God.
Some of what we experience in life does not naturally lead us towards
an attitude of thankfulness, and as the very human beings we are, we
may forgive ourselves for the times when we are unable to approach
God with thankfulness. In the end, the basis of our gratitude
towards God does not depend upon our experience.It is rather
our gratitude that in Jesus, the one in whom the paradoxical truth of
full humanity and full divinity is to be found, we discover God's
gift of wholeness. In all things, may we strive to begin our prayers
with gratitude for God's life-giving gifts which never pass away. Stephen
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Announcments
Adult Bible Study meets each Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in the Bidwell Room. On September 21st, the Rector will lead a conversation on Matthew 21:23-32
The Vestry meets this Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Bidwell Room. Members of St. Peter's may attend.
Adult Choir Rehearsals
are every Thursday 7:30-9:00 p.m. in the third floor music room and new
members are most welcome. For questions, please see Beverly Scheibert
after the service or call her at 617-739-1751 .
Outreach Committee Meeting today following the 10 a.m. service. All are welcome.
A group interested in Youth Ministry Discernment
will meet in the Bidwell Room from 7-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 23
to begin a year long, forward-looking reflection on how St. Peter's is
called to live and work with its youth. Please let the Assistant Rector
know if you are a parent, non-parent adult or teen interested in this
kind of ministry and wish to attend (hkirkham@stpetersweston.org)
Coming in October: Drop-In Discussion Group will meet on Wed., Oct. 15 at 9:30 a.m. in the Bidwell Room to discuss Gift of the Red Bird by Paula D'Arcy and The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico. All are welcome. Details will follow in mid-Sept. Questions? Call Shannon Hartmann or Pat Jensen.
News from Brunhilde Engelhardt
Dear Parishioners and Friends
of St. Peter's
I would like to let you know
that I have accepted a full-time position as Music Director and Organist
at St. James Episcopal Church in Wilmington, North Carolina, and that
I will be moving there this week! I am very excited about it,
and it seems like an ideal situation for me. I will be part of
the staff of a big, active, and healthy church in a beautiful place
right on the ocean with a nice, historic feel to it, with pleasant weather
and the opportunity to swim in the ocean nine months out of the year,
and all that for a fraction of the cost of living compared to Boston!
My new address is: 309 South Third Street, Wilmington, NC 28401. Feel free to get in touch with
me also via email (bruniengelhardt@hotmail.com) or cell phone (617) 230-3503.
All the best to all of you
at St. Peter's!
Sincerely,
Brunhilde Engelhardt
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Music This Week
This
Sunday, the choir will be singing a joyful setting of Psalm 148 by the
Italian composer Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657-1743) and also the lovely
devotional song "A rose touched by the sun's warm rays"
by the German-born composer Jean Berger (1909-2002), who worked in Paris,
Brazil, and eventually the United States. Soloists will be Aneta
Augustyn, soprano, and Evan Biela, tenor. A portion of Csar
Franck's Choral in E major, a staple of the organ repertory,
will comprise the prelude.
Let
us welcome our newest section leader, Rebecca Saslow, mezzo-soprano,
who holds degrees from the Juilliard School and Boston Conservatory,
and has performed roles with Opera New Jersey, Longwood Opera, and
Aspen Opera Theater Center, among others. Last Sunday, she and Barry
Singer sang one of the little-known gems of our hymnal, No. 696, which
is a perfect marriage of text from Dietrich Bonhoeffer and music by
Joseph Gelineau.Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), a German Lutheran pastor and
theologian, participated in the German Resistance movement against
Nazism. Implicated in plots by the German Military Intelligence Office
to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was arrested in 1943, incarcerated, and
finally executed at Flossenberg concentration camp in 1945. This
background information lends a special poignancy and meaning to the
text of Hymn 696.
Beverly Scheibert
Interim Music Director
bscheibert@stpetersweston.org
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Youth Discernment; Rock St. Peter's; Getting Acquainted
from Hall Kirkham
TO PARENTS AND TEENS!
I am convening a group for Youth
Ministry Discernment that will spend important time during the next
year discovering what it is God wants this parish to provide its junior
and senior High School folks. Any parents and teens who are interested
in this kind of ministry are invited to join us at an inaugural meeting
(with food) on one of the following days:
- Sunday, September 14th
(after the 10am service, we'll have lunch)
- Thursday, September 18th
(beginning at 7:00pm, we'll have supper)
- Tuesday, September 23rd
(beginning at 7:00pm, we'll have supper)
Please let me know which date, if any,
works best, and there is no obligation to go any further than that! hkirkham@stpetersweston.org
To THOSE who ROCK ST PETERS, LISTEN
UP
(this means you, teens)!
I am inviting you all to come to a
ST PETER'S ROCKS! WESTON party I'm throwing in the Parish Hall one
of these days from 6pm to 8pm , and I want to know which date works!
- Friday, September 19th
- Saturday, September 27th
- Sunday, September 28th
Send me an email (please) (hkirkham@stpetersweston.org), or grab me after services and tell me if
you'll be there, or tell me if you'd be there if you could and is
there a better day!! We'll have pizza, music, a game or two,
and we will talk about what kinds of things you and I have in mind to
make St Peter's rock this year. Together we can create something
meaningful, in synch with who you are and what you're about, and in
synch with God and what we together think God is about.
TO THE CONGREGATION AS A WHOLE
My dedication to helping St Peter's
Church meet the pastoral needs of its congregation is great, and will
grow I am sure as I get to know the members of this exceptional family,
wherever they are physically, theologically or spiritually. I
am here at the church regularly Sunday through Thursday, and can come
out to meet with you then or at a time that we are able to plan together.
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