From the Assistant Rector......
Pentecost is the Greek name for the Jewish Feast of Weeks (also called Shavuot), which happens on the 50th day after Passover (pentekosti is "fifty" in Greek). In Leviticus 23.15-16 the Lord tells Moses that, upon entering the Promised Land, seven weeks should pass between the harvest of the first sheaf of barley at Passover and the end of the harvest season. The new grain of the harvest would then be presented to the Lord on the Sabbath of the 7th week, or the 50th day. These fifty days have also become associated, in Jewish tradition, with the 50 days following the departure of the Hebrews from Egypt, when they arrived at Mount Sinai and received the ten commandments from the Lord. It is a remembrance of being established and settled enough to invite growth into something new: new grain for planting, a new people living a particular way under God's love.
In the Christian tradition, Pentecost is also known as "white Sunday" - contracted in Old English to become "Whitsunday - to recall the white robes that new Christians would wear following their baptism on this day. The popular tradition for Christians is that Pentecost is the day the Holy Spirit was made present to the general population: not just to Jesus at his own baptism, or to his twelve follwers, or to the seventy sent out as healers, but to the multitude of people gathered "all together in one place" in Jerusalem who witnessed the apostles speaking in a cacophony of tongues comprehensible to all present, each from a different country and language. The scripture for this Sunday ends before we are told that the Pentecost experience helped three thousand convert that day. Think of it: one calls twelve, which grow to seventy, and after that to three thousand, and by this time the train has left the station. Jesus in the flesh is no longer front and center among the crowd; it is now the spoken Word shared among believers out to the world that inflames the passion for building the Kingdom of God, and all this through the message and person of Jesus Christ.
The Church is born in the Holy Spirit each time that flame of fire - red is the color of Pentecost - touches us in such a way that, looking left and then right in our life journeys, we find ourselves in passionate comradeship with another, serving God through one another. It is an exciting way of launching ourselves forward into our life and growth as a people of God.
-- Hall Kirkham
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Worship
Adult Bible Study meets each Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in the Bidwell Room. On June 7, the Rector will lead a conversation on Mark 4:26-34..
 Prayer Group
The Prayer Group meets in the
Bidwell Room on Thursday afternoons at 4:00 pm and lasts about one hour.
We read aloud the Order for Evening Prayer, Compline, or a Service for
Worship in the Evening, and have 10-15 minutes of quiet reflection.
Anyone who would like to join us is welcome. Call the Office for more
information.
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Ministries (Church School, Youth Programs, Outreach, Adult Education, Altar Guild, Flower Guild, Ushers, Welcome Team, Vestry, Pastoral Care, Hospitality, Stewardship, Communications)
Vestry Vestry Meeting this Wednesday, June 3 - Vestry meetings are open to all St. Peter's parishioners.
Church School Classes will resume this Sunday at 9:45am. Contact Elizabeth Graham is you have any questions.
Outreach Outreach Committee meeting is June 7 in the Bidwell Room after the 10:00 service? Everyone is invited to attend this meeting as we make plans for the B-SAFE program the week of July 20 - 24.
St Peters ROCKS! Weston
St Peters ROCKS! Weston on Sunday night, May 31st with the next installment of our module on prison ministry. Prisoners are one of the groups - the final group - Jesus asks his followers to attend to, and learning about prisons and those in prison provides a way of seeking and serving Christ in all persons. We'll gather at 5:30pm for something to eat, review what we learned in our last session at the end of March, and watch the pilot episode of "OZ," the HBO television drama about life in a fictional maximum security prison. This is a powerful and disturbing - but very informative - visual insight to the prison system, and we definitely want to leave time to debrief and talk after our viewing! Plan on an 8pm pick-up time at the church. Contact Pastor Hall Kirkham for details.
Flower Guild Field Trip - Please Join Us!
Hortus Medicus: The Medicinal Herb Garden
Wednesday, June 3, 9:30 AM, meet at St. Peter's
Massachusetts Medical Society's Medicinal Herb Garden is located on the beautiful grounds of the 860 Winter Street headquarters in Waltham. We will have a one-hour guided tour with Dr. George Santos and Mrs. Dorothea Santos at 10 AM. Please let me know if you plan to attend so we decide about carpooling. Field trip is open to all.
For a preview, go to www.piam.com/mms_garden.
Though all of the MMS gardens share the two themes of nature and medical history and tradition, Hortus Medicus is considered the signature garden. Every medieval European university that had a medical school had a medicinal plant garden tended by medical students. The MMS Hortus Medicus features plants with known medicinal values and those that have not yet been scientifically proven to have medicinal value. There are more than sixty varieties of plants in Hortus Medicus and many more scattered throughout the MMS gardens.
Questions or for further information, contact Carolyn Ellis
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Parish Life
Women's Potluck - this Wednesday, May 27, 6:30 at the Rectory. Bring a salad, casserole, or dessert - join the fun! All women of the parish are invited!
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The Week Ahead
Sunday, May 31
8:00 A Holy Communion
9:00 A Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:00 A Adult Bible Study
9:30-11:30 Nursery Care
9:45 A Children's Field Day
10:00 A Holy Communion
11:15 A Coffee Hour
5:30 P St. Peter's ROCKS!, Weston
Monday, June 1
8:00 P AA
Tuesday, June 2
11:00 A Staff Meeting
Wednesday, June 3
9:30 A Flower Guild Field Trip
7:30 P Vestry Meeting
Thursday, June 4
4:00 P Prayer Group
Friday, June 5
Saturday, June 6
Sunday, June 7
8:00 A Holy Communion
9:00 A Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:00 A Adult Bible Study
9:45 A Church School
9:30-11:30 Nursery Care
10:00 A Holy Communion
11:30 A Coffee Hour
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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: Sarah Ardila; Teresa Swanson; Beth Graham (891-3200)
Choirs: Adult Choir:Andrew Shenton, (891-3200); Junior Choir: Kristen Dirmeier
Coffee Hour: Lynn Maruskin (899- 6290)
Communications: Communications Team
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: Andrew Shenton, (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, Ann Lombard, Marty Rodgers, Anne Ruggles, Keith Ward
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