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Lessons in how to read music from the weekly bulletin.
Current Lesson, Part 15, Aug. 28, 2016 – "Brethren, We Have Met Together"
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Link to the reports from Jan 17 Annual Meeting
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Saints of the Week, Dec 11 – 18
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[Thomas Merton, Contemplative and Writer, 1968] |
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[Lucy (Lucia), Martyr at Syracuse, 304] |
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[Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross), Mystic, 1591] |
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[Ralph Adams Cram, 1942, and Richard Upjohn, 1878, Architects, and John LaFarge, Artist, 1910] |
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[Maria Stewart, 1879, Prophetic Witness] |
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Dec. 14 -10:00am – Ecumenical Bible Study
Dec. 18-11:00am, Advent 4, Christmas Pageant
Dec. 18 -5:00pm, Moravian Candle Tea for the ECW
Last Sunday Advent 3, Dec. 11, 2016)
Everett’s Christmas Party, Dec. 11, 2016
Once again we entered Santa’s playroom aka the Everett’s home on Dec. 11 for what has become one of the best ways to get into the Christmas spirit. A Christmas village, moveable Santas, manger scenes, lights, trees with ornaments – this house and party has it all. Not only do you get a wonderful buffet and conversation but music with a sing along dinner This year was perhaps the largest attendance with over 45.
A Christmas Village Harvest, Dec. 21
This month, on Wednesday, December 21st, we’ll be serving a simple supper to all who come to the food distribution. The plan is to prepare bean soup for people to enjoy eating and to provide supplies so that they can make jars of bean soup mix to give as a gift or to make at home again later.
You can help by volunteering to cook soup, to help serve soup or to help people prepare their own jars of bean soup mix.
Lots of dried beans will be needed—red beans great northern beans split peas pintos and black beans. Also needed—quart jars. This is a great opportunity to get all of those quart jars you’ve been saving out of your pantries, attics and basements.
You can always make a monetary donation with a check to St Peter’s with "Village Harvest" in the memo line.
Coming Up!
Sunday Readings and Servers, Advent 4, Dec. 18, 2016
Advent 1 links
Advent 2 links
Advent 3 links
Explore Advent, Part 4 – Over the Sundays in Advent there will be a presentation each week focusing on that week’s scriptures, art and commentary and how they demonstrate the themes of advent. Let’s continue with Advent 4.
Feast of the Annunciation – 9 months before we celebrate the nativity there is the related Feast of the Annunciation on March 25 which is described here .
Art of the Annunciation – The Annunication has been depicted in art for a thousand years. Here are 30+ images of that history .
Blessed Like Mary- David Lose invites us to understand that we are Blessed Like Mary .
National Geographic explores – "How the Virgin Mary Became the World’s Most Powerful Woman"
A Digital Nativity.
What if current social media like Facebook, Gmail, etc had been available at the birth of Christ ? Watch the Digital Nativity
Christmas Play, Advent 4, Dec. 18, 11am
Here is last year’s event:
Cast of about 25!
St. Francis asks Giovanni so that he could see the nativity with his own eyes
Links:
Moravian Candle Tea for the ECW, Dec. 18, 5pm
This is a wonderful way to wrap up Advent 4 and to look forward to Christmas
We last celebrated Moravian traditions back in 2014. Here is the Candle Tea from Dec. 7, 2014, part of 1st Sunday Social. We did a complete Christmas Love Feast that Christmas Eve.
Here is a link to Candle Teas Candle Teas and other Moravian Christmas traditions
Our St Peter’s Candle Tea includes Moravian Advent and Christmas hymns, a “putz” and greenry decorations, and the chance to eat traditional Moravian food.