From the Rector...:
Please join your parish family when you can in this holy season; travel safely if you are going to be away; and give thanks for God's compassion and Eternal love for each one of us revealed in the incarnate Christ.
The schedule of services, as well as additional information, follows below.
-- Stephen
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Worship Christmas Celebrations at St. Peter's Sunday, December 21st
8:00 AM Holy Communion, Rite II
10:00 AM Christmas Pageant and Eucharist, followed by soup and sandwich lunch in the parish hall. Wednesday, December 24th
3:00 PM Holy Communion including children's message and Junior Choir
5:30 PM Holy Communion with Adult Choir
10:00 PM Excerpts from Messiah with choir, Soloists and the Copley Chamber Players
10:30 PM Holy Communion with Adult Choir
Sunday, December 28th
8:00 AM Holy Communion, Rite II
10:00 AM Festival Service of Lessons and Carols, followed by farewell coffee hour for Interim Music Director Beverly Scheibert
Adult Bible Study, which meets each Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in the Bidwell Room, will resume on January 4, 2009. The Rector will lead a conversation on Mrk 1:4-11.
Christmas Pageant (Details)
Our annual Christmas Pageant is part of the 10:00 AM Sunday service on December 21st, offering a wonderful opportunity for our young people to engage in the nativity story. The rehearsal is on Saturday, December 20th at 10:00 AM, and all church school students are welcome and encouraged to take part. For further information, contact Beth Graham, Church School Coordinator, at ElizabethLGraham@gmail.com or call the parish office.
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Ministries
Flower Guild - Christmas Flowers
Please join us to decorate the church for Christmas Eve. Note this year we are working Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2 - 4 PM and our traditional time, Wed., Dec. 24, 9 - 11 AM. Please let me know if and when you plan to attend. Carolyn Ellis at cellis@stpetersweston.org.
Musical Notes
This Sunday, the choir will offer the beloved spirituals "Rise up, shepherd, and follow" and "Go, tell it on the mountain" and, during communion, John Joubert's reflective setting (1954) of medieval text:
There is no rose of such virtue as is the rose that bare Jesu: Alleluia.
For in this rose containèd was heav'n and earth in little space: Res miranda
By that rose we may well see there be one God in Persons Three: Pares forma.
Then leave we all this worldly mirth and follow we this joyous birth: Transeamus.
Movements from François Couperin le Grand's Mass for Convents comprise the organ prelude. Besides composing in several genres, he was organist to King Louis XIV at Versailles and at St. Gervais in Paris. By way of contrast, from a period nearly 300 years later, the postlude will be the Belgian composer Flor Peeter's jubilant Festival Voluntary, Op. 87.
Christmas Eve
3:00 pm: The Junior Choir will present "Sing Noel" by Natalie Sleeth, and John McDaniel will play a saxophone arrangement of "We Three Kings."
5:30 and 10:00 pm: The Choir will sing the following carols during the service:
"Cold December's winds were stilled"; trad. Catalan carol
"Torches, torches, run with torches"; John Joubert (b. 1927)
Coverdale's Carol (from Hodie); Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
"Lullay, my liking"; Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The shepherds' farewell (from L'enfance du Christ); Hector Berlioz (1803-69)
Trumpeter Evan Biela will accompany the hymn singing and play the postlude of carols.
At 10:00 pm, a half-hour of music will precede the service:
In nativitatem Domini canticum; Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704)
Excerpts from the Messiah; George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Sinfonia
And the glory of the Lord: chorus
The people that walked in darkness: Jonathan Cole, bass-baritone
O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion: Catherine Hedberg, mezzo-soprano, and chorus
Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
He shall feed his flock: Kathleen Flynn, mezzo-soprano
Come unto Him all ye that labour: Meredeth Kelly, soprano
His yoke is easy, and his burthen is light: chorus
Accompanied by the Copley Chamber Players, the soloists include, besides our own Meredeth Kelly and Jonathan Cole, guest artists:
Kathleen Flynn, newly arrived in Boston, has recently sung the role of Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni in Castres, France; Schubert's Winterreise at the Festival in Ribadeo, Spain; and Handel's Messiah at Carnegie Hall. She has performed in venues such as Lincoln Center Theater, Juilliard Opera Theater, Alice Tully Hall, Chicago Opera Theater, National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Tanglewood, and with New York State Baroque.
Catherine Hedberg, who holds degrees from Boston University and the New England Conservatory of Music, is well known in the Boston area as soloist with the Cantata Singers, Musicians of the Old Post Road, and Exsultemus Period Ensemble, among others. Under the direction of Ton Koopman at Carnegie Hall, she sang in J. S. Bach's Cantata BWV 146. Her particular interest in Spanish song has led her to perform works of Iberian composers in the United States and Spain.
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Parish Life
Ecclesia Ministries' CityReach Program, January 23-24.
St Peter's Rocks! Weston will be participating in Ecclesia Ministries' CityReach program during the weekend of January 23rd - 24th. We will travel to the Cathedral Church of St Paul in Boston for an overnight there beginning at 7pm on Friday, and return Saturday afternoon after spending our time with people who are homeless and learning about their life on the streets. Questions or want to learn more? Contact: The Reverened Hall Kirkham (hkirkham@stpetersweston.org)
"Ground of your own Choosing: Winning Strategies for Finding & Creating Work," January 31, 9am-11:30am
A workshop with Beverly Ryle...in the Parish Hall. Further info: Carolyn Ellis, 781-899-5880, Bill Symonds, 781-899- 7697 or the Church Office.
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The Week Ahead
| Sunday, December 21
8:00 A Holy Communion
9:00 A Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:30-11:30 Nursery Care
10:00 A Nativity Pageant and Holy Communion
10:45 A Church School
11:15 A Soup and Sandwiches
11:30 A Junior Choir Rehearsal
4:00 P Lessons and Carols at Campion Center
Monday, December 22
7:30 P Finance Committee
7:30 P Adult Choir Rehearsal
8:00 P AA
Tuesday, December 23
Christmas Eve, December 24
9:00 A Flower Guild
3:00 P Family Holy Communion with Children's Message
5:30 P Holy Communion
10:00 P Musical Prelude
10:30 P Holy Communion
Sunday, December 28
8:00 A Holy Communion
9:00 A Adult Choir Rehearsal
10:00 A Lessons and Carols Communion from the reserved Sacrament offered in the Chapel following the service.
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Who Does What At St. Peter's Church
320 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA 02493 | www.stpetersweston.org | 781-891-3200
(Click on any name that is underlined to send an email.)
Rector: Stephen Voysey (891-3200)
Assistant Rector: Hall Kirkham (891-3200)
Parish Secretary: Mercer Riis, (891-3200)
Acolytes: Stephen Voysey (891-3200)
Church School: Peggy Batchelder, (781-736-0280); Beth Graham (891-3200)
Choirs: Adult Choir: Beverly Scheibert, (891-3200); Junior Choir: Kristen Dirmeier
Coffee Hour: Lynn Maruskin (899- 6290)
Communications: Jim McDaniel
Finance Chris Phaneuf (891-3200)
Flowers: Carolyn Ellis (899-5880)
Keys Newsletter: John Marchiony, Meg Pierce & Keith Ward
Lay Liturgical Ministries: Bill Symonds
Men's Group: John Bulbrook, John Marchiony Rob Rodgers
Music: Beverly Scheibert, (891-3200)
Newcomers: Michelle King, Suzie Reeves
Outreach: Ron Corley; Rosanne Iacono (891-3236)
Lay Pastoral Care: Flora Booth (899 -2006) and Mary Pughe (894-5961)
Property: Carolyn Ellis (899-5880)
Stewardship: Marty Rodgers
Ushers:Ushers: Ed Vydra (894-7131)
Web Site: John Bulbrook
Youth: Hall Kirkham
Members of the Vestry:
Janice Corley (891-3236), Senior Warden; Marshall Bartlett, Junior Warden; Chris Phaneuf, Treasurer; Richard Batchelder, Clerk; Members: Carolyn Ellis, John Jacobs, Tom Keery, Marty Rodgers, Anne Ruggles, Maggie Tyler-Rubenstein, Keith Ward
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