Marc Lousteau will be preaching at the Morning Prayer service, this Sunday.  

Marc Roscoe Loustau is a former ministerial intern at King's Chapel (2003-05). He received a Doctor of Theology from Harvard Divinity School (2015). For his dissertation, he lived in Transylvania (Romania) for three years. He speaks Hungarian and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in this language at a Catholic pilgrimage site and shrine. He is now Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA).

King's Chapel team ready to depart for Kolozsvár



At the King's Chapel 11:00 AM service on Sunday, June 25 members of the King's Chapel team leaving for Kolozsvár will be recognized during the service. Marc Loustau, a former seminarian at King's Chapel will deliver the sermon. Marc was a member of the 2008 KC team that went to Kolozsvár.

The team will be departing on June 29 and will arrive in Kolozsvár in time to be at the joint Confirmation Service of First and Third Unitarian Churches. The 2008 KC team experienced this. A photo of the service is shown. Presiding are Rev.  Ferenc Bálint Benczédi, currently the Unitarian Bishop, and Rev. Tibor Rusz of Third Unitarian.

When in Kolozsvár the team will be building with Habitat for Humanity Cluj (The city name is Cluj in Romanian and Kolozsvár in Hungarian.) and engaging with our partner church, First Unitarian. In addition, part of this activity is a Unitarian pilgrimage which in addition to our partner church engagement, we shall visit the site of the Edict of Torda, Torda Unitarian Church (partnered with Weston), Torockó Unitarian Church (partnered with Wellesley Hills.

The building activity will last for 8 days. We shall work alongside local volunteers including possibly some from our partner church and local youths who are apprenticing to obtain licenses in various building skills. The photo shows the state of construction on approximately June 1.

The homeowners have been selected for the home the KC team will be working on. The description of their situation is:

Erika and Istvan Bertalan have been married for 12 years. They live with their daughter and her grandmother in an old home near the Cluj historical center. It's an old brick building, without insulation. It has a small kitchen and a smaller bathroom, and one room they all share, with a bed and desk, wardrobes and a table, and one heating stove on wood. The three of them orbit around each other with love and care. Istvan has been through two work accidents in the last six years. After the first one on a worksite, he lost his right leg below his knee. After the second one, he's been in and out of hospitals. He's been on the mend for the last six months.

Noemi, their 10-year- old daughter, is his support and her mother's helper. She makes handmade decorations for family and school friends, including a collection of bear figurines for herself. And Erika, the mother, organizes everything around them, from her work, to Noemi's school activities, to Istvan's treatments. They've always looked at their lives with clear eyes, reaching for something better, but also preparing for the worst. Since they've been selected for a Habitat home, they've started planning volunteer hours and what being in a safe home would mean for them. There is hope in their voice now, blooming tentatively, when they talk about their future.

The final activity will be a comprehensive tour of Budapest including the Béla Bartók Unitarian Church of Budapest which is partnered with First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto.

On Sunday, June 11, King's Chapel welcomed two new members to its congregation during the Morning Prayer service, Dorothy Waldron and Lucyanna Burke. 

Summer Services

For the month of July the Wednesday Communion service will be held at the Little Chapel at 64 Beacon Street at 6 PM each week. 

During August, there will be no Morning Light or Wednesday Communion services.  Morning Prayer services will continue each Sunday at 11 AM.  

We welcome everyone to join us back to our full schedule beginning again in September. 

Enjoy the summer!

The main course and drinks will be provided, but we'd love you to bring a side dish or dessert. If it rains, we'll eat indoors.

July picnics are held after our Wednesday Communion services in The Little Chapel at 64 Beacon Street. Services are at 6 PM.

To RSVP, contact Gretchen Horton,  Parish Administrator,  Gretchen@kings-chapel.org , 

Habitat Build

We are grateful for the good turnout of our members and friends, representing King's Chapel at the recent Habitat for Humanity - Boston Build. Thank you for helping a family in Roxbury with their new home!

If you did not receive a pledge card, contact Gretchen Horton at the Parish House offices at 617-227-2155 x 108, who will be happy to send one to you!

We rejoice that John Appleton is recuperating nicely since his fall ten days ago; he even made it to church on Sunday!  We continue with prayers for John for a healthy recovery. 

We rejoice that Ray Hardin's surgery went splendidly well.  Ray had knee replacement surgery yesterday at New England Baptist Hospital, and will remain there until Saturday when he will be moved to a rehab facility.  Ray would love to hear from you!