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Sunday 

8:00 AM
Celebrant and Preacher:
The Rev. Noah H. Evans 
LEM:  June Pietrantoni
Altar Guild:
June Pietrantoni

10:00 AM
 
Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Noah H. Evans
Minister of Music:  Ruth Roper
LEM I:
Agnes Opara  
LEM II: Mia Benjamin 
Lector I*:
Deborah Jennings
Lector II*:
Cindy Scott  
Acolytes:
Chioma Opara, Nzube Opara and Francesca Viggiani 
Ushers: 
Jill Capuccio, Kristen Spence and India Smith 
Altar Guild
Olivia Bracken  
Coffee Hour Hosts: Steve Duggan,
coffee, Linda Foote and Jill Capuccio, food 
Counters:
Wes Foote and Bryan Spence   
Vestry Person of the Day:
Ellie Viggiani
Stewardship Testimonial:  Vin Maganzini

5:00 PM
Celebrant and Preacher:
The Rev. Noah H. Evans 
Musician 
Cheryl Forest Morganson
Altar Guild
Mia Benjamin 
 
*click on link to prepare for this week's readings  

Birthdays

 

Vin Maganzini and Malinda Walsh (9/26); Anne Deveney (10/30); Ella Daly, Elisabeth Hunt, Christopher Hunt and Thomas Quick (10/31); Shirley Corcoran, Kristen Cox and Kristen Spence (11/1).


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

Grace Church is presented with a Medford Energy Committee Green Award for 2014

 Welcome
Please join us at Grace Church!
We celebrate the Eucharist at 8AM, 10AM and 5PM The Rev. Noah Evans is the Celebrant and Preacher at the 8AM, 10AM and 5PM services. Sunday School begins promptly at 9:45AM.  Nursery care is available at the 10AM service.




On Sunday, October 26th at 5:00PM we will celebrate the feast of All Souls, where we remember all the faithful departed. During this service we will pray for all those buried from Grace Church over the past decade, along with any others requested by members of the congregation. If you wish, bring photos or other mementos of loved ones who have died to be placed by the altar during this service. Please arrive at least 10 minutes prior to the service to add names to the prayer list.   
The Grace Church Stewardship Campaign
Lucia Page kicked off our 2015 Stewardship Campaign by preaching at all three services on Sunday, October 19.  Click below to view her sermon.
Lucia Page Stewardship Sermon October 19, 2014
Lucia Page Stewardship Sermon October 19, 2014

Vin Maganzini, Vestry member will offer a Stewardship Testimonial this week on our youth and education programs at Grace Church.

To make your 2015 Stewardship Pledge to Grace Church online click here. 

Kid's Corner

 

Dates to remember this Fall...

There is no Sunday School on 11/30, 12/21, 12/28. There will be a Children's homily those Sundays.

Pageant rehearsals will begin on Wednesdays at Grace in November.

Sat., Dec. 6: Pageant rehearsal at 10am.

Sat., Dec. 13: Pageant rehearsal at 10am; CHRISTMAS PAGEANT AND DINNER AT 5PM

 

Acolytes needed!

Any child, 9 years or older who is interested in becoming an acolyte, please speak to or have your parents speak to Wes Foote, Jr.

In remembrance of
M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE (1945-2014)

Visitation hours will be held on Friday, Oct. 31, 4-9 p.m., including the Office of the Dead at 6 p.m., and Compline at 8:30 p.m., at the Monastery Chapel of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (980 Memorial Drive) in Cambridge.

 

A Celebration of the Life of the Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, with Holy Eucharist, will be held on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 2 p.m. at Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, with reception to follow.  Bishops, priests and deacons will not vest or process, and are invited to sit in the congregation.

 

In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be directed to the Society of St. John the Evangelist, 980 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02138 (www.ssje.org/donate) or the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111 (www.diomass.org/campaign-and-giving).   

 

For more information click here.

Outreach Corner    

The next opportunity to help at St. Luke's Community Dining is coming up on November 29th.   In November we will most likely be cooking our first meal at St Luke's in the newly renovated Community Dining kitchen.  Stay tuned for more information. 

 

Also, ST. Luke's will be looking for volunteers for Thanksgiving Day! If you are willing to help let me know and I will pass it on. Thank you, Brenda Pearson bpearson267@gmail.com


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 item for October 26 is rice.   The item for November 2 is cereal

Wednesdays at Grace

5:30: younger children's Godly Play classes

6:00: Community Dinner

Dinner Hosts on Oct. 29:  

Maria Fenn and Sharen Brown 

6:45: Older children's classes

Adult Education- 6:45-8:00PM

 

Local Historian Dee Morris presents "Boston in the Golden Age of Spiritualism"

Wednesday, October 29th

6:45PM

Local historian Dee Morris, will be talking about her new book, "Boston in the Golden Age of Spiritualism". Spiritualism flourished in Boston from the first rumblings of the Civil War until the early twentieth century. Numerous clairvoyants claimed to bring messages from beyond the grave at séances and public meetings. Motives for belief were varied. Wealthy John Wetherbee sought business advice through supernatural means. Psychic Fannie Conant attributed her restored health to spirit intervention. Grieving theater manager Isaac B. Rich wanted to contact his deceased wife. While many earnestly believed in the movement, there were those who took advantage of naïve Bostonians. Determined to expose charlatans, world-renowned magician Harry Houdini declared the famous medium and Bostonian Mina "Margery" Crandon a fake.

 

Save the Date! 

Visit by the Rt. Rev. Alan Gates

January 7, 2015

Bishop Alan Gates will come to Wednesdays at Grace on January 7, 2015.

Other Announcements     

  

Medford Rehab and Nursing Center Ministry Open Meeting:

What does it mean to be a good neighbor? The residents at Medford Rehab and Nursing Center right down the street from Grace are in need of spiritual support and social interaction from friendly visitors. If you are interested in getting involved in ministry and outreach activities to our neighbors at Medford Rehab, come to our open meeting on Sunday, October 26 in the Common Room after the 10:00 am service or contact  mia@gracemedford.org.

 

Reading and Signing of Grace Church
parishioner,
Julia Lisella's new book, Always
Please help celebrate the publication of Julia Lisella's second full-length collection of poems Sunday, November 2 (All Saints Sunday), following the 10 a.m. service. Julia will read a few poems and answer questions about the work. The books will be on sale for $18; the profits of each copy sold will go to our Grace Church Fund for the Organ Restoration. 

Grace Women's Lunch:

The next Grace Women's Lunch will be at John Brewer's Tavern at 12 noon on Monday, November 3, 2014. Contact Cindy Scott by November 2 if you will be attending.


20's & 30's Fellowship Group

The 20/30's Fellowship group will be meeting at 6:00 PM. in the Parish Hall on Sunday, November 9th. You are also invited to attend the 5 PM service beforehand. To sign up to bring broth, bread, or soup ingredients email Mia at mia@gracemedford.org or friend her on Facebook to get added to our Facebook group!

 

Come-See The Show

Friday, November 7, 7:30 P.M.  

in Wiles Hall

Don't miss our parishioners Brenda Pearson, Sarah Masciave and June Pietrantoni in the by-request performance of "LOVE LOSS AND WHAT I WORE" that will be presented November 7th. Those who attended in April laughed and cried throughout the evening and they have asked us to do it again. So, if you saw it before, come see it again. And, if you missed it in April, don't miss it now.

 

Tickets are $10 and can be obtained from, Maria Fenn, Brenda, Sarah or June, and at the Parish Office.   Dessert and coffee will be served.     Proceeds are for the youth groups of our parish: J2A and Rite 13.

 

Book Club 

Grace Church Women's Book Club meets monthly at 7 pm on the third Thursday.  Any woman is invited to attend any meeting.
 
The book we're reading on November 20th is,

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes..  For more information about meetings please see Genita during church at 10 AM service or contact her at