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Sunday 
8:00 AM
Celebrant:  The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Preacher:  Eva Englert, Emmaus Fellow 
LEM: Branwen Smith-King
Usher: 
John Schlesinger
Altar Guild:  June Pietrantoni 
10:00 AM
Celebrant: 
The Rev. Noah H. Evans  
Preacher:  Eva Englert, Emmaus Fellow 
Minister of Music:  Ruth Roper
LEM I: 
Dennis Hale 
LEM II:  Esther Brownsmith
Lector I *: 
Julia Lisella 
Lector II *: 
Lucia Page 
Acolytes: 
Genita Johnson, Alex Celletti and Melanie Edgecomb 
Ushers: 
Butch Edgecomb and Vin Maganzini 
Altar Guild
Olivia Bracken
Healing Ministers:
Brenda Pearson, Eva Englert, Cindy Scott and Sara Folta 
Coffee Hour Hosts: Tom Hamel, coffee, Deb Smith and Sharen Brown, food 
Counters:  
Wes Foote and Dennis Hale 
Vestry Person of the Day: Elianna Viggiani
    
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

Joan Deaderick (4/6); Pete Mumma and Cristina Orsino (4/7); Emily Capuccio and James Deveney (4/9); Steven Brown, Jonathan Cowan and Carol Thompson (4/10); Maeve Daly and Francesca Viggiani (4/11); Evan Fillebrown and John Rogers, Sr. (4/12).

 

If we do not have your birthday, please contact the church office at 781-396-7215 or office@gracemedford.org  

Welcome!
Please join us at Grace Church. 
On Sunday, we celebrate the Eucharist at 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Sunday School begins promptly at 9:45 AM.

Lenten Prayer and Worship at 5:00PM 

Join us for the Grace Church 5:00PM service's FIRST Lent! We are back in the church with the whole liturgical crew -- candles, music, Eucharist, and readings and prayers for our journey during this holy season, every Sunday from March 9 through April 13.

 

Protestant services at Tufts are at 7:00 PM in Goddard Chapel.  Click here for the schedule.   

Holy Week Schedule

Palm Sunday- April 13

8:00 AM - Liturgy of Palms and Holy Eucharist

9:30 AM - Liturgy of the Palms with St. Joseph's Church

10:00 AM - Holy Eucharist, Passion Play with music and choir

5:00PM - Contemplative Palm Sunday Service with Stations of the Cross

 

Wednesday in Holy Week- April 16

5:30 - Stations of the Cross for Children and Adults

6:00PM - Parish Dinner with Bishop Shaw in thanksgiving of his retirement

7:00PM - Holy Eucharist for Wednesday in Holy Week with Bishop Shaw

 

Maundy Thursday- April 17

7:00 PM - Holy Eucharist with

foot washing and stripping of the altar

 

Good Friday- April 18

12:00 noon - Liturgy for Good Friday

5:30PM Holy Week Service for young children

7:00 PM -Liturgy for Good Friday with music and choir

 

Holy Saturday- April 19

10:00 AM Proper Liturgy for Holy Saturday

7:00 PM - The Great Vigil of Easter

with music and choir

 

Easter Sunday- April 20

8:00 AM - Holy Eucharist with Traditional Language

10:00 AM - Festival Holy Eucharist with music and choir followed by Easter Egg Hunt

There is no 5:00 PM service on Easter Sunday

Outreach Corner    
The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining is April 26 (please note change).  Please contact Brenda Pearson at
if you are interested in volunteering or have questions.  

Food is needed for the food pantries that Grace Episcopal Church supports. Food items may be placed in the baskets just outside the main entrance to the sanctuary (an usher can help you locate them.)   The items for Sunday, April 6 are peanut butter or soynut butter.  The item for Sunday, April 13 is cereal.

Kid's Corner

Sunday School Teachers

Pre K - Teacher: 

Jessica Lee  Assistant:  Marina Novaes

Early Elementary - Teacher:  Steve DugganAssistant:  Nathan Brawley

Upper Elementary - Teacher:Sue MaltzAssistant: Tom Hamel

 

Barbara C. Harris Camp

Registration is now open for Summer Camp! Camp is for kids entering 4th grade and older. You can find more information at www.bchcenter.org.  Most Grace Church kids are signing up for July 6-12th this year, but others are signing up for other weeks as well.  Please see Noah for information on scholarships, or for more information on Summer Camp.

 

Passion Play 2014 by the Parable Players

If you start practicing your lines NOW, it will be a breeze playing your role at our first rehearsal on SATURDAY , April 5th, 10:00 AM to noon in the sanctuary.  Our second  rehearsal is SATURDAY, April 12th, 10:00 AM to noon.  The performance is on April 13th, PALM  SUNDAY. Cast call for costuming on performance day is 8:30 to 9:30 AM in the Common Room. At 9:30 AM, we will then line up outside in front of the church to parade up to St.  Joseph's.  Dakota the pony will join us.  Contact Laura at lrduggan@aol.com  or at in person at church!


The next Youth Night is April 11th from 6:30 to 10 PM at Grace Church. All youth Grade 5 and up welcome, bring a snack to share. See Maria Fenn for more information or email her at fennways@verizon.net.  

 

Help Grace Church Send a Kid to Camp!

Grace Church contributes almost $192 per child from Grace Church who goes to Camp on a scholarship (the Diocesan Camp Scholarship Fund pays $191, and families pay the same).  The vast majority of our kids receive a scholarship.  You can help send a Grace Church kid to camp with a contribution to the Grace Church Camp Scholarship Fund.  Please speak to Noah (noah@gracemedford.org) for more information.

Other Announcements     

 

Wednesdays at Grace

5:30: Preschool Godly Play, Godly Play 2

6:00: Community Dinner

Dinner Host April 9:  Maria Fenn 

6:45: Godly Play 3, Faith Explorers, Rite 13 and J2A

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM 

 
Adult Ed Lenten Series: "Free"  Wednesday March 12 through April 9 at 6:45PM
Led by Rachael Pettengill-Rasure and Sara Folta
Join us for a five week series on the book "FREE: Spending Your Time and Money on What Matters Most" by Mark & Lisa Scandrette. In this series we will explore how we use our resources and how we can live according to our values both as individuals and as a community. For more information about the book check out this website: http://markscandrette.com/books/ or speak with Rachael Pettengill-Rasure or Sara Folta.
 

BISHOP SHAW'S VISIT TO GRACE CHURCH

Wednesday in Holy Week, April 16

Bishop Shaw will be visiting Grace Church for the final time before he retires in September.  He will be coming Wednesday in Holy Week.  Please save the date for this special visit from Bishop Shaw as he completes his 20 year ministry with our Diocese.

Stations of the Cross for Children and Adults:  5:30PM

Parish Wednesday Night Dinner: 6:00PM

Holy Eucharist for Wednesday of Holy Week with Bishop Shaw:  7:00PM

 

THERE IS NO WEDNESDAYS AT GRACE ON APRIL 23rd SCHOOL VACATION WEEK

 

Chasing Ice Film Screening

Wednesday, April 30th at 6:45PM

Acclaimed photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.

 

Love, Loss and What I Wore  

Friday, April 4 at 7:00 PM at Grace Church

Have you ever gone through boxes of old clothes and discovered a shirt, or a pair of pants, or a coat that brings back old memories? Can you remember the robe your mother wore when you were a child? Or the first time you bought a bra? Or your prom dress? Girl Scout uniform? Those old boots you loved in college?

 

Love, Loss and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and has a cast of five principal women which includes Brenda Pearson, June Pietrantoni and Sarah Masciave. The play revolves around memories we have that revolve around the clothes we remember best! Its' about purses and friendship, shoes and tragedy, coats and love, and robes and loss. It is, at heart, about being a woman. The show encapsulates these moments and uses them to explore what it means to be a mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, girlfriend or wife.

 

Please join us on Friday April 4th at 7pm in Wiles Hall for an enjoyable evening of comedy which will benefit the youth groups, J2A and Rite 13, of Grace Church. You can also help us to fill up our clothing pantry by bringing an item or two for donation. Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door.

 

Book Club 

Grace Church Women's Book Club meets monthly at 7 pm on the third Thursday except August. Any woman is invited to attend any meeting.  In April we will meet on the 10th as the third Thursday is Maundy Thursday.  We are reading; Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier.  On May 15, we're reading Someone by Alice McDermott.  For more information about meetings please contact Genita  at pawleyslegacy@verizon.net. 

 

 

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Green Up Clean Up
This weekend we have a cleanup joint with Tufts University.  If you and your family can come and help represent Grace Church at this cleanup, that would be great!  Bring your friends too.  We will have coffee, water and muffins, courtesy of Tufts University.  Tufts students have been invited as well.

Saturday April 5, 9AM-Noon
Capen Street Park
We will have raking, much spreading, sand spreading, weeding, and trash collecting as activities.  Children can come and help, or play in the playground.
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We have several more cleanups scheduled as well, please mark them on your calendar and help spread the word!

   * Saturday April 26 - Grace is supporting two cleanups in honor of retiring Rt Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, Bishop Diocesan
9:30AM-1PM - Mystic River Cleanup organized by Friends of the Mystic River.  Meet at Hormel Stadium for supplies and assignment, details at  http://www.fomr.org
9:00 - Noon - Spring Belle Isle Marsh Cleanup  organized by Friends of Belle Isle Marsh. Meet at John Kilmartin Walkway across from Short Beach at the Winthrop-Revere (Beachmont) town line.

   * Sat May 10, 10AM-Noon - Dugger Park - West Medford Moms Book Club - Amy Stewart

   * Sunday May 18, 2-5PM - Victory Park with Temple Shalom

   * Sat June 21, 1-3PM - Clippership Park - as part of "Into the Mystic" Environmental Art & Film Festival, meet at Mystic Art Gallery on Clippership Drive, behind Citizens Bank

If you are interested in any of the above, or have suggestions or requests for areas to focus on, please email: 

greenupcleanup@gracemedford.org 

 

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