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.

 

Prepare Meals to Feed 20,000 in Two Hours - this Sunday, March 26 1:00 pm, Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston Street  

You are invited to join our neighbors at Arlington Street Church for the annual meal packaging event with Rise Against Hunger. Volunteers from Emmanuel Church, Bethel Tabernacle Pentecostal Church, and Arlington Street are coming together to form an all-ages, interfaith assembly line. We will package 20,088 highly-nutritious, dehydrated meals that will be shipped across the globe to feed hungry people in dire circumstances. 

Sign up to join the assembly line and contribute to hunger relief in this fun afternoon of hands-on service. Bring coworkers, friends, family, and neighbors of all ages! Donations are also welcome - a gift of $29 covers the cost of 100 meals. Give $100 and feed 345. To register for the event or make a contribution, please visit http://events.stophungernow.org/ArlingtonSt2017  

Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday! Thank you for your support!

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The current discussion of U.S. policy on immigration raises issues of justice and values in the church and society.  In response, Bishop Alan M. Gates and Bishop Gayle E. Harris are convening a special event for education and strategizing about the church's response and responsibility in ministry with immigrants.

"Immigration and The Church 101: The Lord's Song in a Foreign Land" will be held on Sunday, March 26, 4-8 p.m., at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (138 Tremont Street) in Boston.  Guest speakers will share expertise in legal and other aspects of the issues at hand. All clergy and lay leaders in the congregations of the diocese are invited to participate. Refreshments will be served.  To ensure that there will be enough food, seats and materials for everyone, RSVP by March 22 to Marsha Searle at msearle@diomass.org or 617-482-4826, ext. 445. Please also let Pam know if you plan to attend. 

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ST. MATTHEW PASSION - page down for detailed information in newsletter article below.

Special note for this Sunday: 

tickets on sale at COFFEE HOUR THIS SUNDAY!

SPECIAL FOR EMMANUEL FAMILY - 20% discount on all tickets!  

YaleWomen Boston and Yale Black Alumni Association Boston are pleased to co-sponsor:

Women's History Month: A Night of Honor

Pauli Murray and Grace Murray Hopper

Thursday, March 30, 2017

6:30pm doors open / 7pm start

Emmanuel Church

15 Newbury Street, Boston

Open to Public

YaleWomen Boston warmly invites you to join us, in collaboration with Yale Black Alumni Association Boston and AYA, to celebrate the work and lives of Pauli Murray and Grace Hopper. The event is being held in the Emmanuel Church of Boston -- the church Pauli Murray considered to be her "home parish church" and launching pad of her Episcopalian career.

Our goal for this event is two-fold: to celebrate Murray and Hopper, and to provide an opportunity for members of the Boston alumni community to come together with others to learn about these two influential women and how their work connects to us today.

Please RSVP for the event by clicking this link: Register here. 

Suggested donation of $5-10 cash at door will help defray event costs.

 

EMMANUEL MUSIC ANNOUNCES ~ BACH ST. MATTHEW PASSION

Two orchestras; two choruses; one great work by a composer at the pinnacle of his creative power. Emmanuel Music presents its first performance of Bach's Great Passion under the baton of Ryan Turner.

ST. MATTHEW PASSION SOLOISTS:

Evangelist      Charles Blandy, tenor

Jesus               Paul Max Tipton, baritone

Pilate             David Kravitz, baritone

 

Aria Soloists:

    Soprano: Kendra Colton, Susan Consoli, Jessica Petrus,

      Teresa Wakim

 

    Alto : Pamela Dellal, Margaret Lias, Emily Marvosh,

      Deborah Rentz-Moore, Krista River

 

    Tenor: Matthew Anderson, Jonas Budris

 

    Bass: David Kravitz, Mark McSweeney, David Tinervia,

      Dana Whiteside

 

ON SALE AT COFFEE HOUR SUNDAY March 26!

SPECIAL FOR EMMANUEL FAMILY - 20% discount on all tickets! 

Tickets: General $30; 2nd Tier $60; 1st Tier $95; Patron $150

An invitation from Emmanuelite Marian Ellwood  - Sixteen mosques across Massachusetts will open their doors for an "open mosque day" on Sunday, April 2 to provide an opportunity for people to meet their Muslim neighbors and learn more about Islam. Sponsored by the Massachusetts chapter of the Council for American-Islamic Relations, this event will include a mosque tour, a brief introduction of Islam, and attendees will be invited to witness a Muslim prayer service. Marian plans to participate and is offering to accompany others who are interested. Please contact her at marian@northstarregulatory.com .

A Call to Solidarity with Muslims

With recent and pending Presidential Executive Orders, our Muslim neighbors face unprecedented challenges against a new form of McCarthyism. A second round of Presidential Executive Orders or Memoranda targeting American-Muslims could isolate our neighbors, threaten civil liberties and attack human dignity. However, we are not without recourse. Please take action.

Knit together as one  It's time to make our annual knitted afghan for the B-SAFE raffle.  The knitting group that usually produces this beauty is taking a well-earned sabbatical from the project.  So instead, the project is being coordinated by Pam Werntz with help from Peggy Bradley.  If you are willing to knit a 12" square, can follow a pattern and knit to gauge, please get in touch with Pam right away.  She'll give you the yarn and you can choose the design for your square. The due date for completed squares is Easter Sunday, April 16. Thanks!

Altar Guild is seeking new volunteers to train for the coming year. If you are interested in learning about what goes on "backstage" before and after services, and are able to volunteer one or two Sundays a month, please contact Ivanna at  iyi@fas.harvard.edu . 

Holy Week at Emmanuel Church

 

 

April 9, 10:00 am Palm Sunday with Blessing of the Palms in the garden, weather permitting, followed by Holy Eucharist in the Sanctuary. Emmanuel Music will offer Mozart's Litanie Lauretanae, KV 109

April 12, 7:30 pm in Lindsey Chapel: Holy Wednesday Service of Tenebrae.  Emmanuel Music will offer Gregorio Allegri's Miserere mei, Deus.

April 13, 7:30 pm beginning in the Parish Hall (location of BostonWarm) and moving to Lindsey Chapel: Maundy Thursday Ecumenical Service with Old West Church (United Methodist) and Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian and United Church of Christ) and common cathedral (ecumenical).  The service will include footwashing, Holy Communion, and stripping of the altar. 

April 14, Noon in Lindsey Chapel: Good Friday Liturgy with Knut Nystedt's Stabat Mater offered by Emmanuel Music

April 16, at 10:00 am in the Sanctuary: Feast of the Resurrection Holy Eucharist. Emmanuel Music will offer BWV 4: Christ lag in Todes Banden. The Newtowne Morris Men Dancers performing on Newbury Street immediately after the service.

Name Tags for All

Emmanuel Church Photography and Social Media

Communicating through social media helps our efforts to build community and expand our reach to people who are new to Emmanuel, as well as to Emmanuelites around the world. Volunteers help spread the Word by taking photos before, during and after services, posting and sharing online. We value the sanctity of our worship and aim to strike a balance between sharing life at Emmanuel and creating a sacred space for all, filled with wonder, love, thanksgiving and praise. No one will be tagged or identified by name in a photo without their permission and other privacy wishes will be respected on request. If you are interested in helping in these efforts or have concerns please see a vestry member after the service. Please check out Emmanuel's online venues and follow us to help grow our global presence!

Website: www.emmanuelboston.org

Facebook page: Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston

Twitter feed: twitter.com/EmmanuelBoston

This Week @ Emmanuel is linked from our website's homepage and Twitter.

Care Commission 

If you can write notes or make visits, we would love to have your help. Do you know someone who is in the hospital, or confined at home? Know someone who needs a ride to or from a medical appointment, or would just appreciate a visit? The Care Commission wants to help. Contact Pauline Ratta (617-469-2232) or Walter Jonas (617-696-8020) and we will see that a pastoral response is provided.

Musings from the Margins...

- Kate Solow

Reminder of Sanctuary

In a typical week, Emmanuel Church provides sanctuary and hospitality for as many as 1500 people who are living on the various margins of our society because of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability, addiction, immigration status, religion, and so on.  Coming together to help lift heavy hearts and carry heavy burdens is what we do, and many hands make light work.  Every single one of us has some capacity to join in this vital mission, thanks to Love. - plw