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CLC was hopping last Saturday morning! Tom Berryman and Joan Ellersick were practicing for Bach Sunday; Lisa Chan, Nate Pearson, Judy Precious, Michelle Dalzell, and Ruth and Audrey Colson were making final preparations for our Family Promise guests. (Thanks, too, to Mary Rosen, who was there cleaning on Friday); and Pamela Witcher, Joyce Simon, Gail Weston-Roberts, Dennis Ortelli, and Russell Pollard joined Pastor Bourret for a prayer-writing workshop. Meanwhile, others spent the day in Holliston, working with friends from Christ the King, Holliston, and The Lutheran Church of Framingham, as work got underway on the Habitat for Humanity build.
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Music Notes
Tom Berryman, Music Director
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Many thanks to the CLC Choir and guest singers for helping to celebrate Lutheran composer J.S. Bach this past Sunday. Particular appreciation to Kim Petot for her beautiful aria
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Komm, Leite mich
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during communion and to Kim, John Whitlock, Jeff Pearson and Charlotte Russell for singing as a solo quartet for part of the
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Erschallet, ihr Lieder
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chorus with the CLC Choir.
For Sunday, August 6, violist Joan Ellersick will be playing excerpts from
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Come Thou Fount: Hymns for Viola and Piano
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by an American Lutheran composer, Lee Burswold (1933-2017). Burswold was a professor at North Park University in Chicago and a well known solo jazz artist.
Following the service and coffee hour, Joan will play
selections from Czech composer Hans Stitt
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s (1850-1922)
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Album Leaves.
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Here
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s a performance by one of Joan
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s colleagues:
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| Hans Sitt: Album Leaves, Op. 39. Scott Woolweaver, viola |
Tom Berryman, Music Director
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CLC Book Group
Book group meets Monday, August 7, at 7:30 pm to discuss Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower.
Join us even though you may not have read the book and help us select our next book.
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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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On Wednesday, August 23, at 6:00 pm, Christ Lutheran Church will host a small delegation of leaders from one of our companion synods, The Lutheran Christian Church in Honduras, along with a number of persons who have traveled to Honduras in connection with that relationship and others who are interested in it. Might that be you? We'll prepare a summer meal to share, and share stories of ministries and challenges in our very different contexts. Contact Pastor Bourret if you can help with preparations for the dinner, or if you'd just like to come!
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Believe it or not, our next host week for Family Promise begins Sunday, September 10. If you were out of town, or otherwise unable to volunteer this week, good news: your chance is coming soon! Need to be trained? Check the Family Promise website for dates, times, and locations:
http://www.familypromisemetrowest.org/
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On Sunday, August 6th, we celebrate the
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
. 9:30 a.m. Worship, Pastor Russell Norris preaching and presiding.
Watch your mailbox
for those helpful yellow cards, and if you can't fulfill your assignment, please be extra diligent about securing a trade. Don't leave our guest pastor, The Rev. Russell Norris, in the lurch!
This week, Pr. Tom Maehl (First Lutheran Church, Waltham): 781-572-9272 will be on call during Pastor Bourret's
vacation (July 31st - August 13th); the following week, Pr. Don Larsen (St. John's, Sudbury): 860-573-2531.
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READINGS FOR THIS WEEK
August 6, 2017, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
In the gospel reading for this coming Sunday, Jesus feeds the multitude with only a little bread. He is still doing this: come to worship, to hear this blessing and to eat the food that our Savior gives to us.
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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