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The "soundtrack" was the same: the inimitable Rob Humphreville, the screen set-up was new (Thanks, Tam!), and so (to us) was the silent film: The Gold Rush, starring everyone's favorite tramp, Charlie Chaplin. A sizeable crowd enjoyed the evening last Saturday at CLC. If you missed it, wait 'til next year!
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It's here
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this weekend twenty adults and nine youth will retreat to beautiful Camp Calumet for our annual mid-winter retreat. Our theme is "Pray, Plan, Act, Repeat," exploring the ways that our faith can help us act responsibly and helpfully, rather than reactively--or not at all--in the current divisive political environment. We will also, of course, have ample opportunity to relax, play, eat, and generally enjoy one another and the splendor of God's creation.
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Music Notes
Tom Berryman, Music Director
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For Sunday, February 11 the organ Prelude and Postlude will include sections of James Boeringer
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The Promised Land: Organ Settings from the Sacred Harp.
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The Sacred Harp, dating from 1844, is
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the best collection of [over 500] sacred songs, hymns, odes and anthems ever offered the singing public for general use,
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in the words of the publishers. Boeringer makes use of eight of the tunes from the 1860 edition of the Sacred Harp: Jefferson, Leander, New Britain (Amazing Grace), Lenox, The Hebrew Children, The Promised Land, The Saints
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Delight and The Spiritual Sailor.
The CLC Choir will be singing
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O Lord of Light,
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by Daniel Schwandt, and especially appropriate for Transfiguration Sunday, the Last Sunday of Epiphany. Schwandt is the Cantor at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Chicago.
Tom Berryman
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Youth News
Nate Pearson, Youth Director
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Hello, Church!
We have a really exciting event coming up in the middle of the month! On February 20th we will be visiting Nuevo Amanecer in East Boston! They are a Lutheran church dedicated to ministering the needs of the homeless population in the area.
They hold their services on Tuesdays around lunch so here is the plan: we will gather at 9 am at Christ Lutheran. We will get to Nuevo Amanecer at ten, help prepare the meal, worship, then eat with the folks who come. All youth gathering folks pay special attention! I would like this outing to be part of the spiritual formation curriculum! We will be done by 2 p.m. Anyone in the church is welcome to join us! We will need folks to make casseroles we can bring and heat up when we get there.They have told us they can't predict how many people will come. They have asked for 4 to 6 large pans of food. This means two 9 by 13 sized casseroles per pan. So, that's 8 to 12 casseroles. For instance: 2 prepared lasagna from the store could count as one large pan. We will be able to heat them up in their ovens so please preassemble the casseroles to make things easier when we get there. We might have some room in the Church fridge and freezer, please contact me to coordinate how to get your food to church. If you can bring it that morning that's great. If you need to have it stored elsewhere please contact me at youthdirector@christnatick.org is my email to RSVP. Please do so soon so I can tell the church how many of us are coming.
Peace.
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Adult Forum
There will be no adult forum this week. We'll return on Sunday, February 18, resuming our exploration of the Psalms in Christian worship.
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CLC at the Movies:
Next Sunday, February 18, gather at 4:00 for Southside with You, a romantic comedy based on Barak Obama's and Michelle Robinson's first date. A Chicago-themed pot-luck follows. Deep-dish pizza, Polish hot dogs, or Eli's cheesecake, anyone?
Watch the trailer below:
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Southside with You Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Parker Sawyers, Tika Sumpter Movie HD
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CLC Book Group
Pick up a copy of Go, Went, Gone
in time for the CLC Book Group on Monday, February 26, 7:00 pm. From a New Yorker review: Jenny Erpenbeck's magnificent novel...is about "the central moral question of our time," and among its many virtues is that it is not only alive to the suffering of people who are very different from us but alive to the false consolations of telling "moving" stories about people who are very different from us. Erpenbeck writes about Richard, a retired German academic, whose privileged, orderly life is transformed by his growing involvement in the lives of a number of African refugees--utterly powerless, unaccommodated men, who have ended up, via the most arduous routes, in wealthy Germany.
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Bible Study
Led by Pastor Richard Hurst, the Bible study group meets each Thursday at the church. We invite you to join with us as we gather for coffee and refreshments at 9:45 a.m. in the Memorial Room so that the hour discussion/study can begin promptly at 10:00 a.m.
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Tomorrow evening at 7:00, Community United Methodist Church in Wayland offers a showing of Traces of the Trade, which looks at a New England family's (and New England Institutions') connection to the slave trade. A discussion follows.
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Plan now to begin your Lenten pilgrimage on Ash Wednesday. Services will be held on February 14th at 11:00 am and 7:30 pm. Both will include Holy Communion and imposition of ashes. The morning service will be a spoken liturgy, and the evening sung.
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There will be a special congregational meeting on Sunday, February 25, concerning the parsonage. The Council and Resource Commission will bring a joint recommendation for the congregation to consider.
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Mark your calendars for Lenten Wednesdays; February 21 and 28, and March 7, 14, and 21, and plan to join your sisters and brothers at CLC for a simple supper and Evening Prayer. We'll start at 6:30 and wrap up by 8:15. Consider fasting each of these Wednesdays, and breaking your fast with this shared meal.
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A number of people have inquired about services for Sue Gilbert. There will be a memorial service planned when winter weather is behind us, and son Donald can come from California. In the meantime, we keep Harland and family in prayer.
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Spring is coming, and that means it's time to plan for the 9th Annual Walk to End Homelessness:
SATURDAY, April 7, 2018 at the Natick Community Senior Center, 117 E. Central Street at 9:00 am; registration opens at 8:00 am.
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On Sunday, February 11th, we celebrate the Transfiguration of Our Lord. 9:00 a.m. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Worship, Pastor Richard Hurst preaching and presiding.
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READINGS FOR THIS WEEK
February
11, 2018, Transfiguration of Our Lord
Over the Sundays after Epiphany, we have seen Jesus show himself to be Christ, the one anointed by God to be our Savior. This Sunday, the Transfiguration, concludes the time after Epiphany, as Jesus appears on a mountain in divine glory. Keep in mind that in three days, on Ash Wednesday, we begin the climb to the mountain of Jesus' crucifixion. The church holds side by side the glory of God and the cross of Jesus.
First Reading Psalm Second Reading Gospel
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Sing For Joy
Enhance your understanding of the weekly scripture readings by listening to Sing For Joy
http://www.stolaf.edu/singforjoy/
from St. Olaf College. The Sing For Joy radio program, produced by
St. Olaf College
, has a simple mission: to explore the weekly themes of Christian worship by providing the best in sacred choral music and thoughtful commentary. The musical performances eloquently "do the talking," while the concise remarks from host
Pastor Bruce Benson
illuminate the meaning of the texts.
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