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This Week at
Emmanuel Church
April 6 - 13
Read below about some of the things that are important to us...
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Join us this Sunday for
Holy Eucharist at 10:00 am
SUNDAY PARKING
- the Back Bay Garage on Clarendon Street - address: 500 Boylston St., Boston 02116. Pink tickets are available during coffee hour. Your ticket is good for a 3 hour period on Sunday between 8:00am to 8:00pm. The price for 3 hours is $5. Beyond that the regular rate applies.
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New development from the Boston-Cambridge Mission Hub project funded by TogetherNow
The
Boston/Cambridge Mission Hub will launch a network of long-term intentional communities committed to engaging a congregation and a neighborhood. These communities will serve as resources to the church and witnesses to their neighborhoods through their commitments to social change, sustainable living, and spiritual practice.
Partners: Emmanuel Church, Boston; St. Bartholomew's Church, Cambridge; The Crossing, Boston; Boston University Episcopal Chaplaincy; MIT Episcopal Chaplaincy; Trinity Church, Boston.
- A job description for the Mission Hub's Community Development Manager has now been approved and is ready to be posted. This person will be responsible for oversight of the creation of 3-4 intentional communities across Boston. The responsibilities include administration of the Hub, providing support and accountability for each community's leadership team (the House Steering Wheel), and relationship building.
The Community Development Manager position is full-time with an annual salary of $60,000 plus benefits (health and dental insurance, retirement plan, four weeks vacation, paid holidays, short and long term disability and life insurance). Diocesan funding for the Boston/Cambridge Mission Hub, including this position, is subject to annual approval. The overall grant is scheduled to end December 31, 2019. The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
To apply, please submit resumes and letters of application to the Executive Committee of the Boston/Cambridge Mission Hub at: [email protected].
Visit the following links for complete job description information:
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B-SAFE latest update
Emmanuel has been supporting and sending volunteers to B-SAFE for the last eight years at St. Mary's in Dorchester. Kids from elementary and middle schools in six Boston neighborhoods and in Chelsea enjoy a five-week, full-day academic and enrichment program. This year we are returning to St. Mary's to provide lunches and snacks on July 5 & 6, and to partner with St. Paul's Bedford to send the kids and counselors to the Stoneham Zoo on July 8. A $20 donation will support entry fees and a tent for their academic activities. Any donation will be accepted in support of the program, or ask about volunteer possibilities - help make lunches, be a "breakfast angel", join us at the Zoo, or help with the coffee hour table to share the news and ask for support. Don't forget the afghan raffle coming up soon! Our Emmanuel knitters are hard at work finishing up their always-stunning handiwork. Raffle tickets will go on sale as soon as it is finished, and the proceeds will benefit our B-SAFE program. For more information contact Peggy Bradley ([email protected]).
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musiConnects Benefit Concert
Thursday, April 28 * 7pm
Emmanuel Church Parish Hall
Join us for a benefit concert to support musiConnects, a nonprofit organization in which professional resident musicians provide equitable access to high-quality music education and performances, in and around Boston. Seating is limited! Reserve your tickets and make a voluntary donation at www.musiconnects.org
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For Emmanuel Music's final evening concert of the season, Urbanity Dance turns all of Emmanuel Church into a stage.
April 9, 2016, Emmanuel Church, Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Emmanuel Music's acclaimed orchestra, chorus and soloists, under the direction of Ryan Turner, in partnership with Urbanity Dance will present BACH REINVENTED The concert features Bach's own take on the eternal "pop music versus 'learned' music" debate in his secular cantata, "The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan." Kurt Weill's acrid commentary on greed and alienation, "The Seven Deadly Sins," shows how the composer acknowledged his debt to Bach and then ran with it. Chorales in praise of money and a baroque parody aria rub up against foxtrots and cabaret numbers in this "sung ballet" score. Emmanuel Music's presentation of "The Seven Deadly Sins" will be sung in an English translation by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.
Tickets and further information at www.emmanuelmusic.org.
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Mission strategy initial report now available
The diocesan mission strategy listening team has issued its initial report and invites the diocesan community's response-in person, online or by phone. The initial report is posted at www.diomass.org/new-mission strategy. Four open forums have been scheduled at locations around the diocese, at which the team will present its initial findings and invite further conversation. Online and phone response options will also be available during the two-week response period, April 10-24. The link and toll-free number will be posted at
www.diomass.org/new-mission-strategy.
The four open forums will take place on:
* Sunday, April 10, 2:30-4 p.m., at Trinity Church (124 River Road)
in Topsfield;
* Saturday, April 16, 10-11:30 a.m., at Trinity Church (parish house
entrance at 206 Clarendon Street) in Boston;
* Sunday, April 17, 3-4:30 p.m., at St. Christopher's Church
(625 Main Street) in Chatham; and
* Saturday, April 23, 1-2:30 p.m., at the Church of Our Saviour
(120 Center Street) in Middleborough.
After the public response period in April, the team will make any necessary revisions to the initial report. It will then hand off its revised report to the team that will actually draft the new mission strategy.
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2016 Pledges - Please make a pledge! - To date we have received 108 pledges, including 22 pledges from new members of the Emmanuel community. We are most grateful for the generosity and timeliness of so many individuals and families. Last year we received a total of 111 pledges (the last of which was made in November, so it's never too late). We are thankful that the large majority of pledges were received by mid-January so that the vestry could approve the budget for 2016 with as much information about income as possible. That budget anticipates that more pledges of support will be made. Your pledge may be made via email to Amanda March at [email protected].
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Exploring Faith Matters
Education for Ministry (EfM) provides the opportunity for scriptural and theological exploration in small groups with a trained mentor. EfM also teaches a model of reflection that can help us discern where and how God is at work in everyday life, enabling us to further our understanding of the ways God is working in and through us. The program was developed and is sponsored by the Sewanee School of Theology with thousands of participants across the globe.
Wednesdays, 6:15 to 8:45 pm, September through May
At Trinity Church in Copley Square
Cost: $350 (Some scholarship available)
Interested? [email protected]
or call Susan Butler, 617-232-4135
Open Session: April 27. Please RSVP for specifics and to attend.
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Fruit of the Vine at Communion
- Our trial use of adding grape
juice at communion has been declared a success! Both grape juice
and wine will be served at the communion station in front of the baptismal font. The grape juice will be in the ceramic chalice. Only wine is available at the rail. Our offering of non-alcoholic fruit of the vine is in response to recent calls within the Episcopal Church for Episcopalians to re-examine our relationship with alcohol, and because of our heritage of the Emmanuel Movement (forebear of AA). As a matter of theology, the Episcopal Church teaches that receiving only bread or only wine constitutes full communion. However, just as we began to offer gluten-free bread, we add non-fermented grape juice to our sacramental offering to extend the hospitality of the sacrament.
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Divine Majesty
An Encore Performance of 19th Century Synagogue Music
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Name Tags for All -
Because it's always nice to be able to attach a name to a face, we encourage you to wear a name tag. You may find them along the wall in the Parish Hall, alphabetized by FIRST name. And in our efforts to make Emmanuel Church a more welcoming and inclusive community for all, we invite you to put your pronouns (he/him, she/her, etc.) on your name tag. By doing this, we help make Emmanuel Church a more welcoming place for transgender worshippers. If you don't see a name tag along the wall in the Parish Hall, and would like to have one, please find Penny Lane at coffee hour or email her at [email protected] with your name and pronouns.
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Have you ever wondered about the stories behind Emmanuel's beautiful building? Today, it is home to thriving communities from Emmanuel Church and Central Reform Temple, to Twelve-Step programs and ministries to the homeless, and to dozens of music and performing arts events from Emmanuel Music and others every year. We are excited to announce that Emmanuel Church is starting to offer free, guided tours of its historic Sanctuary and Leslie Lindsey Chapel. For a taste of Boston's 19th century history and an eyeful of Boston's best architecture in the oldest building on Newbury Street, call Christen Mills at (617) 536-3355 x21 or email at
[email protected] to schedule a tour.
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"This Week at Emmanuel"
E-News & Updates
"This Week at Emmanuel" is a weekly e-mail digest of announcements and upcoming events at Emmanuel. If you'd like to receive these, simply e-mail Amanda March at [email protected].
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Musings from the Margins...
In my group therapy class, we just started to talk about dealing with the ending phase of a group when the individuals that comprise a particular group inevitably shift or disperse. The groups that I am part of through Emmanuel will continue on without me when I leave this internship, but that doesn't mean that the groups will remain the same; in fact, they will have changed because my co-intern and I will be gone. I've written posts before about how I try not to overestimating the attachment community members may have to me or overestimate the possible sense of loss they might feel when I leave this internship, but I've given little thought to how leaving the group will effect me. I've also given little thought to the possibility that some community members may miss me and/or my co-intern Brianna deeply. I think I'm afraid of how vain I think that sounds, but it is a possibility that our presence may be missed to some degree. I know I'll miss the people at this internship, some deeply.
What do I do with this newfound perspective? What do I do with the idea that there may be a great sense of loss - if only from my own end - in parting? At first, I was overwhelmed by all of it. I found myself suddenly and profoundly saddened by the idea of moving on from the different groups, especially the common art group. I began to realized that going to common art every week is a cherished and integral part of my schedule, and it will be a big change to not be in that setting and to no longer see the people I currently see more than my own family. Try as one might, it is impossible to escape unfavorable feelings in life, and I have to remind myself that it is okay to feel out the sense of loss that may come up for me when I leave this internship. It is okay to be mournful of change. However, it is not my goal to become mired in feelings of loss and sadness once I move on to a post-Emmanuel life, and, while I want to give the necessary space for unfavorable feelings to exist, I also also don't want community members to become mired in their own sadness. While I cannot control how others will react to changing group dynamics, I can do all I can to assist in the process by employing openness and tact to address my departure in May.
Sometimes it seems like the easiest and safest choice to not fully engage with goodbyes, but I believe that approach tends to sweep unfavorable feelings like loss under the rug instead of bringing them to closure. With change comes loss, and I wonder if there are changes you've experienced in your life that you have yet to take the time to fully feel out both the relief and the sadness, the good and the bad.
- Briana Heller
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Amanda March,
Parish Operations Manager
617-536-3355, x 10
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