Jerusalem Peacebuilders Announce Summer Program
This summer, 14 - 17 year old teens will have an exciting opportunity to explore interfaith citizenship, identity, communication, leadership, and peace by participating in a nine-day service-learning program with peers from North America and the Middle East. Activities will include: dialogues, sports, workshops, presentations at local faith communities and field trips to East Rock Park, the United Nations HQ and the 9/11 Museum at Ground Zero in New York City, and historic Mystic Seaport and Aquarium.
In addition, participants will be joined by youth from IRIS (Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services) for a part of the program. The program will be held on and around the Yale University campus in New Haven, CT and will be organized and led by Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc. Yale University is aware of this program and eager to welcome us to New Haven. Dates and Location: Monday, July 25 - Tuesday, August 2, 2016 in New Haven, Connecticut. Participants will be lodging at Christ Church New Haven, a five-minute walk to Yale University's main campus. Cost: $950.00 for US participants. . The camp's vision is a world where Jews, Muslims and Christians live together as sisters and brothers in dignity, equality, and peace. Continue reading about details and apply, here.
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Lula White to receive Thurgood Marshall Award
The Black Law Students Association of Quinnipiac University School of Law invite all to the 2016 Thurgood Marshall Award Ceremony on Thursday Feb 27 at 7 pm, in the Ceremonial Courtroom of their North Haven Campus, 370 Bassett Rd, North Haven CT.
The Award Recipient this year is Ms. Lula White, Civil Rights Activist and Freedom Rider. Reception beforehand will begin at 6:30 p.m. Lula is a former member of the altar guild at St Paul and St James', New Haven. People needing handicap access please contact Kathryn Greene-McCreight (203-687-8910 or greene-mccreight@aya.yale.edu) in advance. The reception and awards ceremony are free and open to the public. Follow the link for an article on Lula from the New Haven Register, 2012, here.
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Annual Spring Training & Gathering
This year's Spring Training & Gathering is scheduled for April 2, 2016 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lincoln Middle School, Meriden.
Join other Episcopalians from across Connecticut and enjoy a day of fellowship, learning, prayer and fun. All are welcome - from people in the pew and vestry members to parish leaders and staff. Other information, including fliers in Spanish and English are located in this folder.
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UTO 2016 grants will focus on the Fifth Mark of Mission - to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth.
Grant applications are for start-up costs for a new ministry. Unless there is a definite new direction added to an existing program, the grant will not be used for the continuation of an ongoing ministry.
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This week the Church remembers George Herbert
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George Herbert, Priest, 1663
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George Herbert is famous for his poems and his prose work, A Priest in the Temple: or The Country Parson. He is portrayed by his biographer Izaak Walton as a model of the saintly parish priest. Herbert described his poems as "a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could submit mine to the will of Jesus my Master; in whose service I have found perfect freedom."
Lines from his poem on prayer have moved many readers:
Prayer, the Church's banquet, Angel's age,
God's breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, the heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth.
Herbert was unselfish in his devotion and service to others. Izaak Walton writes that many of the parishioners "let their plow rest when Mr. Herbert's saints-bell rung to prayers, that they might also offer their devotion to God with him." His words, "Nothing is little in God's service," have reminded Christians again and again that everything in daily life, small or great, may be a means of serving and worshiping God.
Collect
Our God and King, you called your servant George Herbert from the pursuit of worldly honors to be a pastor of souls, a poet, and a priest in your temple: Give us grace, we pray, joyfully to perform the tasks you give us to do, knowing that nothing is menial or common that is done for your sake; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Positions Open
To submit a job opening to be included here, please fill out this form. Jobs will be reviewed and then posted once in the weekly enews and posted on the website for four weeks.
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Coming up soon
REGIONAL & DIOCESAN OFFERINGS
The ECCT calendar is located here. It allows you to filter events by category and includes a subscribe link at the bottom of the page. Events at The Commons in Meriden unless otherwise noted.
- Feb. 24, 6 p.m. Deacons Council
- March 5, Companions in Mission Conference, St. Paul's, Huntington
- March 8, 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ConnECA, St. Marks, New Canaan
- March 19, Faith Behind Bars and Beyond Annual Forum, Hamden, details here
- March 20, Palm Sunday
- March 25, Good Friday (The Commons is Closed)
- March 27, Easter Day
BISHOPS' SUNDAY SCHEDULE, FEBRUARY
- Feb. 28 - Bishop Douglas - St. Andrew's, Stamford
- Feb. 28 - Bishop Ahrens - St. John's, Salisbury
- March 6 - Bishop Douglas - St. James, Higganum
- March 6 - Bishop Ahrens - Good Shepherd. Hartford
- March 20 - Bishop Ahrens - St. Paul's, Southington
complete list of events is available on the website, for your consideration.
Feb 24, 12:00 p.m. Mid-Day Music, St. Paul's, Norwalk
Feb. 28, 7 p.m. Celtic Vespers, St. Mary's, Manchester
Feb. 28, 5 p.m. Choral Evensong, Christ & Holy Trinity, Westport
Fridays - March 18, 6 p.m. Come Walk the Way of the Cross, Grace, Hartford
Fridays - April 15, 7 p.m., Lenten/Easter Study Group, Christ Church Quaker Farms, Oxford
March 1, 6:30 p.m. ARTWorks: Elisa Keogh "Beyond Horizon,"
March 2, 6:30 p.m. Iconography, Practicing a Living Tradition, Trinity, Southport
2016 SPRING CLERICUS MEETINGS
Clergy are invited to attend whichever of these meetings that best fits their schedule and location. Each line provides a link to the respective Eventbrite page. From there, you can find more details and register for the event. Each event is scheduled from 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., and you are invited to bring your own lunch.
SAFE CHURCH TRAINING FOR LAITY
- Mar. 5, 2016, 9 a.m., St. James's, West Hartford
- Apr. 16, 2016, 9 a.m., Trinity, Collinsville
- Apr. 30, 2016, 9 a.m., St. Peter's, Cheshire
- May 7, 2016, 9 a.m., St. John's, Vernon
- May 14, 2016, 9 a.m, St. Paul's, Brookfield
- June 4, 2016, 9 a.m., Christ Church, East Norwalk
- June 25, 2016, 9 a.m , St. John's, Niantic
Safe Church Recertification - for Laity
- March 7, 2016, 6:30 p.m. The Commons, Meriden
- April 9, 2016, 9 a.m. St. Mark's, New Canaan
- April 12, 2016, 6:30 p.m., Trinity, Tariffville
- May 21, 2016, 9 a.m., St. Paul's, Shelton
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