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New Members: Interested in Joining King's Chapel? Sunday, June 14
Anyone interested in joining King's Chapel, or getting more information about it, is urged to contact Joy or Shawn. They look forward to talking with you. This June, new members will join on the day we celebrate our Birthday: June 14.
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This Sunday
On Sunday, our the Book of Common Prayer appoints these words in our Collect for the Day:
"Almighty God, who has given thy well-beloved Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin and an example of godly living; give us grace that we may thankfully receive this inestimable benefit, and daily endeavor to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
That's a pretty bold statement: follow the blessed steps of his most holy life. And if I were you, sitting in the pews, I would say "easy for you to pray." The path of the Christian is no easy thing. Those blessed steps are not a leisurely stroll. The Christian life requires so very much. The Christian life is daunting, grueling, burdensome. But the Christian life also provides bread, comfort, and delight-a way of hope and promise.
Join us on Sunday as we give praise for this Christian life, as we together explore this Christian life, and as we ask for help-because you and I both know, we cannot follow those blessed steps alone.
--Shawn
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Choose Your Own Adventure: 1 of 4!
During the months of May and June, we hope everyone will choose one of the following 4 adventures, out and about in our city, in addition to attending worship.
These are chances to be with other members, beyond our sanctuary, and to help others.
1) Sunday, May 10 - Mother's Day Walk for Peace
Join Joy, Carol Genovese, Denton Crews and others in this 3 mile walk, before
Morning Prayer. Joy plans to get back in time for that.
2) Sunday May 31 - All Church Barbecue
Help bring food or cook burgers at the all church barbecue that is now our
tradition after the annual Children's Sunday. Come an honor the new little
ones in our midst, as well as the graduating seniors: Helen Scovel Grey's son
Dana and Pam and Michael Bergeron's daughter, Caroline.
3) Saturday, June 13 - Pride Parade
Join Shawn and Gregg Sorenson, plus many others, representing our church at
the Pride Parade.
4) Saturday, June 20th - Habitat for Humanity Build
Join the King's Chapel team for a build here in Boston. For more information, contact Peter Sexton.
Rev. Joy Fallon
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Boston Marathon | Monday, April 20th
The Parish House will be closed.
Here's a brief preview of road closures in Boston for Monday:
5:00 a.m.: Streets near Boston Common including Tremont, Washington, Avery, Park, Beacon, and Cambridge.
6:00 a.m.: Boylston Street, Hereford Street to Arlington Street
8:00 a.m.: All streets east of Mass. Ave. including Mass. Pike Exit 22; all streets west of Mass. Ave including Kenmore Square Audubon Circle.
8:30 a.m.: All streets in Brighton's area leading into the route.
A complete list of road closings and parking bans (some beginning Saturday) can be found here.
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If you haven't yet, check out our new service, every Wednesday, 6 -6:45 PM.
A quiet service in the candle-lit sanctuary, with beautiful music, a short homily, prayers and communion, gathered around the table in the chancel. Food and conversation follow.
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Annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace May 10th. Save the Date!
Have you ever wondered what you could do to help families who have suffered loss through violence? Join the King's Chapel team for the 19th Annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace on May 10th, 2105 from 8:00am to 10:00am in Field's Corner, Dorchester. The Walk is approximately 3.25 miles. Invite your friends & family!
This event supports families of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute who have lost children and other members to violence. In February, our guest preacher was the organization's director Tina Chery, who shared the story of losing her son, Louis Brown, to violence and the resulting establishment of the institute.
This organization aids families in the immediate aftermath of a loss and offers support throughout the process. They also have a peace curriculum which they teach to children in the Boston public school system.
For more information or to join the team, please contact Carol Genovese at
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Blessing of the Animals | May 17th 9:45 AM | Parish House Garden
Join the King's Chapel community in the beauty of our Parish House Garden for an annual service in celebration and thanksgiving for the animals that give us so much joy. Through a liturgy that includes brief readings, prayers, and hymns, we will bless each animal and each relationship. We will thank God for the loving and forgiving creatures that bless our lives.
Please contain animals that sting, bite, or scratch. If you cannot bring your animal, we will gladly bless photos.
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Boston Pride Parade | Save the Date | June 13th
March with King's Chapel in the Boston Pride Parade! Embarking from Copley Square, we will join the parade of thousands, passing by our Parish House and stone Chapel. The parade will end at City Hall Plaza in the heart of the Pride Festival. The 2015 Boston Pride theme is "#WickedProud: The 45th Anniversary."
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Habitat for Humanity Build | June 20th
Join the King's Chapel team to help build affordable housing in Boston. Contact Peter Sexton, petersexton@alum.mit.edu
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From the Rev. Earl Holt regarding our prayers for him, his daughter Julia, and his son-in-law Brian Hencel. Brian died at age 38 on April 1, 2015:
Please extend our sincere thanks to all those at King's Chapel who have kept us in their thoughts and prayers, as well as for their personal messages, calls and emails. We have felt buoyed by all the love and support.
Brian's memorial service will be in St. Louis on Sunday afternoon (April 12). Here's the text of the Obit placed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Brian A. Hencel, 38, gave the world one last smile on April Fools' Day 2015. A rare and unique individual, his disease, SNUC, was the same. He is survived by his wife, Julia Holt Hencel, mother, Karen Staloch and spouse Marvin, father, Roman Hencel Jr. and fiancée Diane Deckelman, brother, Mark Hencel and special friend Valerie Gazzo, aunt, Jane Hencel and spouse Lori Fisher, uncle, Bill Gangol and spouse Valerie and countless friends. A memorial service will be held on April 12th at 4 PM at De Smet Jesuit High School theater, where he taught for many years. His passion for teaching inspired his students, and his passion for life inspired all those who knew him. This passion was perhaps his most important lesson. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in his memory to a cause that inspires you or to the Señor Hencel memorial scholarship fund at De Smet Jesuit High School, 233 N. New Ballas Road, St. Louis, MO 63141.
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Farewell to Lucas Griswold
It is with a mixture of sadness and optimism that I received the news from Lucas Griswold of his coming departure from King's Chapel. His last day with us will be April 30th before he begins a new job with the Park Service in May. Though parishioners may not know him or know him well, he has been an extremely committed member of our staff and has been instrumental in seeing our Visitor's program through many transitions in recent months. And beyond that, I will miss him: His love for King's Chapel, the pride he takes in our presence on the Freedom Trail and our place in History, his diligent bow ties and reminiscent vests.
Lucas-- I know that you leave us to pursue another great opportunity. We wish you well in the adventures that lie ahead. You know where to find us if you ever need to come home: where the Freedom Trail meets at the corner of Tremont and School Streets. Stay in touch!
--Julina
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From Lucas:
I have been with King's Chapel for seven years, off and on. In that time I have Come to hold many titles and wide-ranging responsibilities under the auspices of the Society's banner. I've been a guide, of course, having started in that capacity in the summer of 2008. But I've also been a verger, Assistant Parish Administrator under Elizabeth Sloane, and even (in a thoroughly unofficial capacity) assistant-to-the-Sexton. Having spent so much of my professional life here, and seen it from so many angles and perspectives, I can't help but be a little reluctant to go.
I am excited, too, glad that the many opportunities and experiences King's Chapel has offered me over the years now allow me to take this leap, to continue my journey. Starting in May, I will be wearing the distinguished uniform of a United States Park Ranger at the Saugus Ironworks National Park. This site, established by a neighbor to the Chapel (John Winthrop the Younger, who rests in the burying ground next door) promises many new opportunities grow in my career.
In spite of the course of my life now pointing me away from King's Chapel, I will doubtless yet be seen stopping by, unable to resist checking on a program and an institution that I have grown over the years to love, to view as home.
Lucas Griswold
Interim Head Guide
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Sunday April 19th
The Rev. Shawn Fiedler,
preacher
- Anne Sexton, Head Usher
- Sylvia Soderberg, Usher in Charge
- Todd Lee, Betsy Peterson, & Karen Dalton, Ushers
- Sylvia Soderberg, Lector
- Lee Glenn, Lay Reader
- Carolyn Conley, Verger
The Readings:
- Psalm 4
- First Lesson: 1 John 3:1-7
- Gospel: Luke 24:13-49
The flowers on the communion table are given in loving memory of Harriet Felton Parker,
with the fondest memories, by Harriet Parker Hofheinz and Patricia Ross Pratt.
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This Sunday | Blessing of the Athletes | Morning Prayer:
This Sunday, we will bless runners, their families, and volunteers of the Boston Marathon. We will bless them to give thanks to God for all of their courage, grit, and strength. We will bless them to partner with them in our pride, our cheers, and our inspiration. We will bless them to send them forth, wrapped in our most humble hopes and prayers, to meet one of their life's greatest challenges and achievements.
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By Heinrich Christensen
This joyful Eastertide, our trend of happy music continues with three different settings of Psalm 117:
Praise the Lord, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!
Short and sweet, this Psalm really says it all. Our Introit setting is by Estonian contemporary composer Urmas Sisak, whose work is uniquely inspired by astronomy. Based on the trajectories of the planets in the solar system, he created the "planetal scale", consisting of the pitches C#, D, F#, G#, and A. Later, he discovered to his surprise that this was exactly the same as the Japanese Kumayoshi mode, which is also known as the Japanese pentatonic scale. His Laudate Dominum comes from the cycle Gloria Patri, 24 pieces for the church year, all based on this planetal scale.
The second version of Psalm 117 is by Danish composer Søren Birch who was Heinrich's choral conducting teacher at the Århus Conservatory and thus has much to answer for...
Thirdly, we return to more familiar waters with Mozart's setting of the same psalm, taken from his Vesperae solennes de confessore, KV 339, with an extended soprano solo sung by Joei Marshall Perry.
For the prelude, you will hear 3 pieces by Jewish composer Ernest Bloch, and the postlude is J.S. Bach's short setting of Erstanden ist der heil'ge Christ (The holy Christ is risen).
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Tuesday, April 21st
at 12:15 pm
Nick Cutroneo, guitar
Works by Britten, York, and more |
"According to the Bible, as we have seen, the material world is so good that the one who created all things actually became flesh. The material world is so good that Jesus rose bodily from the tomb. The material world is so good that all [believers] will be resurrected bodily to dance and revel in a renewed creation when the Lord returns. That's how good the material world is. God wants you and me to rejoice now in the good earth's bounty." -Ron Sider, "Tending the Garden without Worshiping It" from The Best Preaching on Earth: Sermons on Caring for Creation
Whether or not we or someone else we know proclaims Jesus as Savior or even chooses to believe in his bodily resurrection or not, I think one of the richest and most important ways we are both material and spiritual beings is in our participation in the cycles and seasons of earth and life: we go through periods of death, new life, growth, pruning, regeneration, composting, and so on- perhaps even overlapping and at times unseen by us. One of the most practical ways I'm reminded of this is through gardening, especially in experiences I've had gardening with children. I am excited to share in this rich (and fun!) practice of digging in the dirt and planting beautiful and useful plants with our church school children and families this upcomingSunday, April 19, following worship at 9:45am. A wooden planter box (which will allow us to garden from a standing position in our parish garden space) will be assembled, filled with soil, and planted in with some herbs and shade-loving plants. Levina & family, our teachers/musician Katie Aucella and Kade Phillips, as well as church member Ciael Hills (a gardening enthusiast) will be joining us. I hope to see you all join! Please note other announcements for this week (like the traffic advisory) and upcoming events below and in the side column.
Eva Englert
Church School Director
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Upcoming Church School Happenings:
Sunday April 19th
Early Worship
9:45 am at the Little Chapel (Parish House)
Church School following (creation stewardship lesson for younger children and "Can I Ask That?" for older children, plus combined mosaic-making)
Sunday, May 3
Early Worship, 9:45am at the Little Chapel
Church School following the service (creation stewardship lesson for younger children and "Can I Ask That?" for older children, plus gardening and mosaic-making)
Sunday, May 17
Pet Blessing at Early Worship, 9:45am
Sunday, May 31 Church School Sunday at the Chapel, 11:00am A brochure with a complete list of spring activities and church school lessons is now available at the Parish House.
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More News from the Parish
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Carl Scovel's Lecture Last Sunday
Many thanks to Carl Scovel for his wonderful lecture last Sunday, with its focus on the Anglican history of our church, and especially our prayer book. We recorded the remarks, so hope that we will have them available soon for you in an audio format.
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A very special thanks to Louise Perkins, Kathe German, Elsie Herrmann, and Simon Pilecki, who oversaw the decoration of the church on Saturday. It looked beautiful on Sunday morning for Easter as a result of their efforts!
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Coffee Hosts Needed
We are looking for new people to host coffee hour on dates in May, June, and throughout the summer. Signing up is easy! Just go to the doodle link at: http://doodle.com/vr3afr6pqd3rgius. For more information on hosting coffee hour, please contact Anne Sexton, chair of Hospitality, at "anne.sexton@
alumni.norwich.edu."
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Heinrich Christensen performs with The Seraphim Singers
King's Chapel Music Director and organist Heinrich Christensen will perform an interfaith concert with The Seraphim Singers and Kol Arev Chamber Choir of Hebrew College on Sunday, April 26th at 3pm at First Church Cambridge (11 Garden St., Cambridge). "Jerusalem: Holy, Disputed, Lamented" features music inspired by the holy city, including ancient psalms, world premieres by Israeli composer Avner Dorman and Boston's Joseph Ness, and works by Aaron Copland, James Woodman, Mikołaj Zieleński, Manuel de Sumaya, Volker Wangenheim, and more.Tickets are $15-20; visit www.seraphimsingers.org for more information. |
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Accessibility and Hearing Assists
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Our beautiful Georgian sanctuary designed by Peter Harrison and completed in 1754, has been lovingly maintained by the congregation since its completion. Some of the box pews have been made wheel-chair accessible. Ushers are available to assist those who are wheelchair-bound to those pews.
Many of us have trouble hearing in our sanctuary, which does not have amplification. Small hearing devices are available; an usher also will be happy to provide one, and explain how they work.
The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel is the cornerstone of worship at our 11 am Morning Prayer Services. Printed orders of service including hymns, Psalms, and responsive sections of the Prayer Book liturgy are available to facilitate participation in worship for everyone. |
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Flower Dedication Dates Avaiable
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| King's Chapel has several dates open to those who wish to have a flower arrangement placed on the chancel, either in memory of a loved one or in celebration of a joyous event. For those interested in making a dedication, along with more information on the specific dates and prices, please contact Simon at the Parish House (Simon@kings-chapel.org/617-227-2155). |
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Videographer/ Camera volunteer for recording Sunday Sermons
Since last Fall, King's Chapel has benefited from the regular volunteer work of Bill Sears in recording the sermons on Sundays for use on our website and YouTube channel. Thank you, Bill!!
We are now looking to build out the team. If you are interested in bringing your skills to this important outreach effort, please contact the Parish Administrator: administrator@kings-chapel.org
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