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This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday
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We hope that everyone will be able to attend one of the two liturgies at CLC: a spoken service at 11:00 a.m., or a sung liturgy at 7:30 p.m. (Thanks to Karin Gustafson and Jeff Pearson, who are filling in for Tom Wednesday evening.) We will also be offering "ashes to Go" at the Natick Center Commuter Rail from 7:15 - 8:30 a.m. Thanks to Joyce Simon and Gail Weston-Roberts, who will accompany Pr. Bourret.
Ash Wednesday and Lent in Two Minutes by Busted Halo:
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About thirty members and friends of CLC enjoyed at weekend at Calumet
for our (any guesses how many??) annual mid-winter retreat. During the program time Saturday morning adults explored how we might "pray, plan, act and repeat" in the current polarized political climate, while youths watched "Inequality for All," and followed with a discussion about economic disparity. Thanks to all who assisted with planning and executing the weekend: Russell Pollard, Joyce Simon, Gail Weston-Roberts, and Patricia Bianco, as well as Dave Ripp, who served as male youth chaperone.
 
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Music Notes
Tom Berryman, Music Director
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Karin Gustafson (organist), Jeff Pearson (choir director) and the CLC Choir will be leading the music for worship on Ash Wednesday and Sunday, February 18 (Lent I) while I am in Chicago at the American Choral Directors Association Conference. This biennial conference features workshops on a wide variety of topics and concerts with invited and auditioned church, community, school, college and professional choral groups. St. James Cathedral (Episcopal) will be offering a seminar on Evening Prayer and a Service of Evening Prayer. Choral directors will also have a chance to attend reading sessions of new music.
Choral music for Ash Wednesday includes American composer Ned Rorem
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s setting of
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Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
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and Canadian composer Welford Russell
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Who is at my window,
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a dialogue between Christ and the sinner.
On Sunday, February 18, the CLC Choir will be singing Derek Healey
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Lord Jesus, think on me.
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Tom Berryman, Music Director
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Youth News
Nate Pearson, Youth Director
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Sign up this week to provide 8-12 casseroles for our visit to Nuevo Amanecer, a mission to the homeless located at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, East Boston on Tuesday, February 20. Youth and adults will meet at the church at 9 am to drive to East Boston. We will heat the casseroles in their kitchen, then serve and eat with the guests. Invite your friends and families to join us.
Children and youth who attend Ash Wednesday services and/or worship this Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, will receive "Lent in a Bag," a bag filled with items for family observance of this holy season, along with a brochure for suggested ways to use them. Parents, don't miss this opportunity to introduce your children to the significance of these forty days.
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Adult Forum
Gather at
9 am
Sunday morning to learn more about the psalms used in
Sunday worship.
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CLC Book Group
Pick up a copy of Go, Went, Gone
by Jenny Erpenbeck in time for the CLC Book Group on Monday, February 26, 7:00 pm. 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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CLC at the Movies:
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Southside with You Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Parker Sawyers, Tika Sumpter Movie HD
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Southside with You, a romantic comedy based on Barak Obama's and Michelle Robinson's first date. A Chicago-themed pot-luck follows. Chicago deep dish pizza and Polish franks will be provided. Bring a side dish, salad, or dessert. Don't have time to prepare food? Come anyway. See you Sunday, February 18, 4 pm.
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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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Mark your calendars for an important congregational meeting on Sunday, February 25, to discuss and act on a resolution from the Congregation Council and Resource Commission. All voting members are urged to attend.
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It's not too early to begin inviting friends and family and classmates to Trivia Night on Saturday, March 10
, a fundraiser for the youth trip to the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston. Cost is $20/person, or $100/table for up to six participants. Refreshments will be served, and prizes awarded.
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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 18th, we celebrate the First Sunday in Lent. 9:00 a.m. Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. Worship, Pastor Rebecca Bourret preaching and presiding.
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READINGS FOR THIS WEEK
February
18, 2018, First Sunday in Lent
Each year on the first Sunday in Lent we hear about Jesus being tested in the wilderness. In this way Jesus joined with us, who are also, one way or another, tested in some wilderness. We say Sundays "in" Lent, since when counting the forty days of Lent, we omit the six Sundays, because Sunday is always a celebration of Christ's resurrection. So this Sunday we are both in Lent and beyond Lent.
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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