Join us for the 4th Sunday of Easter
The Holy Eucharist
in the Sanctuary
Sunday, April 22, 10:00 am
Bach cantata series continues with
BWV 38- "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu Dir"
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SUNDAY PARKING at the Back Bay Garage (entrance located at
199 Clarendon Street Boston, MA 02116
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Vouchers are available during coffee hour. Your ticket is good for a 3 hour period on Sunday beginning at 8:00am. The price for 3 hours is $5. Beyond that the regular rate applies.
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Gather with us at 8:00 am on Tuesdays this month for Morning Prayer Rite II in the Lindsey Chapel. Join us in deepening our connection to God and one another through common prayer. Services will continue throughout the year on even numbered months.
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You may have heard about a mobile application for your smartphone called CashApp. This is a secure platform designed to allow you to make donations or payments, transferring money quickly and easily to friends, organizations, and businesses. With CashApp you can link your debit card or bank account. This app makes it easy to choose a recipient and send money with a click. Our CashApp cashtag is $EmmanuelChurchBoston. You can still give to Emmanuel with cash, checks, or online. CashApp is simply an additional way to help us make being generous easy and accessible to all who support our mission! Please be sure to indicate if your gift should go towards your annual pledge or another special designation. If you have questions, please contact Sarah Brock in the parish office:
parishassist@emmanuelboston.org
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Save the date: Thursday, April 26
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Meet staff, youth and each other while we enjoy a delicious dessert buffet! Tour our space with one of our young people. Learn about how you might get involved, including volunteering with students from 5-25 years old, from once a year to twice a week and lots in between!
Join us and bring a friend!
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Liturgy in Pentecost - Why we do what we do
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Please join members of Emmanuel's Worship Commission and the Rector for a conversation about the upcoming Season after Pentecost (also known as Ordinary Time) on
Sunday, April 29 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm
in the Emmanuel Room (adjacent to the Parish Hall). We'll explore the meanings of Pentecost, its roots in the Jewish festival of Shavuot, broader Church's traditions during this season, and how Emmanuel might interpret the broader Church's traditions. Light refreshments provided.
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Rally and March on Tuesday, May 1
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On Tuesday, May 1st and 5pm on the Boston Common, Boston May Day Coalition is organizing a rally with speakers at the Parkman Bandstand and a march to Copley Square in support of immigrant and worker rights.
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Making Sandwiches for BostonWarm
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Reflection from Jaylyn Olivo
In retirement, I try to keep myself sane and busy with volunteer projects. I lead – with other volunteers – a weekly ESL conversation group at the Brookline Public Library. I work on Fridays when we’re in town at the Appleton Farm cheese stall at the Boston Public Market, where I’m effectively a cheese shill – although they call us Cheese Ambassadors. And once a week I make sandwiches for the Monday gathering of BostonWarm at Emmanuel. It seems like cheating not to actually work at BostonWarm, just to cruise in and deposit a couple of loaves of bread’s worth of sandwiches and cruise out. But it’s a contribution I’m happy to make, and it’s satisfying to know that the folks who visit us every Monday can leave with some sustenance for the rest of the day. I hear from the staff that the sandwiches are greatly appreciated. And, after all, it’s a more direct way to feed the hungry among us than donating money to a food bank. It’s the very least we can do.
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2018 B-SAFE - B
ishop’s
S
ummer
A
cademic,
F
un
&
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nrichment
P
rogram
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It is time to put together our B-SAFE team for this year. Pam, Margaret Lias, and I are busy organizing, and Pam has already gotten us off to a great start preparing for our commitment to the day camp at St. Mary’s of Dorchester. We will been serving about 40 or more elementary age children lunch for four days in July from Monday the 9th to Thursday the 12th. Then on Friday the 13th we are planning to take them to the Stoneham Zoo and provide a picnic lunch. There are opportunities to read with the children as well as to help with preparing and serving food.
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Raffle tickets for the hand-knitted afghan will be on sale! Purchase a $10 ticket or 3 for $25 to benefit B-SAFE. Make checks payable to Emmanuel Church.
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Third, we have already arranged to have the Three Sopranos – Gail Abbey, Margaret Johnson and Shannon L perform a benefit for us on June 17 for Chapel Camp that day. The marvelous news is that they will be joined again by Kevin Rhein and the young women’s chorus.
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Fourth, we are looking for volunteers to fill out our obligation (delight) to help provide lunches, etc. Lunch help includes preparation at home, assisting at St. Mary’s at noontime for one or more days, and/or putting together picnic lunches for the field trip. The “etc.” includes helping us with the coffee hour appeal for funds to “Put a kid on the bus” to the zoo, and to spend some time with the kids at the zoo or during the week at St. Mary’s Church. Many hands make light work.
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Musicians of the Old Post Road presents:
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Mozart and His Spheres of Influence
Saturday, April 21, 2018
$35 priority seating/ $30 general admission / $10 students
Children ages 7-17 are admitted FREE when accompanied by an adult
Musicians of the Old Post Road concludes its “Circles and Spheres of Inspiration and Influence” season with Mozart and His Spheres of Influence at Emmanuel Church on Saturday, April 21 at 8pm. This program gives listeners a vivid view into the life and music of Mozart through readings from his colorful letters and performances of his works and those of his musical colleagues. Radio host Laura Carlo from WCRB will provide the readings of excerpts from the Mozart family letters.
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Jimmy Tingle Humor for Humanity
Benefit for Boston's Homeless
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Rector's Bible Study will resume in May
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Morning Bible Study
will continue on Tuesdays in May. Come whenever you are able to join us for this lively conversation in the Emmanuel Room with the Rector. Bible Study is held on Tuesdays in odd numbered months.
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Gratitude from Ecclesia Ministries
Thank you for all the ways that you are supporting
common cathedral!
We are so grateful. We hope that in 2018 you come and see first hand the work Emmanuel is supporting for those who call the streets of Boston Home - We would love to see you and offer you a cup of coffee! This year we are still in need of your yummy sandwiches to distribute and the generous donations from our wish list. Also, if you are able, we would love some volunteers to come to our Feed Your Spirit (FYS) program. At FYS we have a guest presenter who shares about how God has worked in their life and about what they do to feed their spirit. This sharing can be an activity, a practice or experience that connects them to God. FYS takes place every Thursday at 10:00 am at Old South Church. Interested in this or other opportunities to be involved? Contact Amanda Grant Rose at
amanda@commoncathedral.org
Support Ecclesia Ministries and common cathedral’s programs
: Click on the link below that will take you to a new way to support the programs. Please consider checking out our wish list by clicking the green button below. Click on an item and help out!
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Thank you!
Amanda Grant-Rose
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Episcopal Relief & Development
urges prayers and financial contributions for all who are dealing with the impact of the recent hurricanes, earthquake, and fire. Please visit the organization's website for more information about relief and recovery efforts and donate at
www.episcopalrelief.org
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Becoming Beloved Community:
the Episcopal Church’s Long-Term Commitment
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Becoming Beloved Community
: the Episcopal Church’s Long-Term Commitment to Racial Healing, Reconciliation and Justice. Churchwide discussion and webinars have begun. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and House of Deputies President the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings and officers of the House of Bishops and House of Deputies are inviting Episcopalians to study and commit to using Becoming Beloved Community: The Episcopal Church’s Long-term Commitment to Racial Healing, Reconciliation and Justice. Leaders say
Becoming Beloved Community
is designed as a strategic path through distinct phases that lead to personal and structural change.
- Telling the Truth about the Church and Race, via a census to determine church demographics and a Racial Justice Audit to study the impact of racism on the Church’s leadership, organizations and bodies
- Proclaiming the Dream of Beloved Community, via a series of regional public listening and learning engagements, starting with a partnership at Washington National Cathedral
- Practicing the Way of Love, via a churchwide Beloved Community story-sharing campaign, multilingual and multigenerational formation and training, pilgrimages and liturgical resources
- Repairing the Breach in Institutions and Society, via advocacy for criminal justice reform, re-entry collaboratives shaped by people moving from prison back to community, and partnership with Saint Augustine’s University and Voorhees College (the historically black university and college associated with the Episcopal Church)
For more information go to www.episcopalchurch.org.
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At Emmanuel -
Name Tags for All
- Because it's always nice to be able to attach a name to a face, we encourage you to wear a name tag. You may find them along the wall in the Parish Hall, alphabetized by FIRST name. We encourage you to put your pronouns (he/him, she/her, etc.) on your name tag. By doing this, we help make Emmanuel Church a more welcoming place for transgender worshippers. If you don't see a name tag along the wall in the Parish Hall, and would like to have one, please find Penny Lane at church or email her at
penelopelane77@gmail.com
with your name and pronouns.
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.
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.
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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
Emmanuel Church
supports the mission of religious, social service, and artistic organizations by providing space and some staff support for meetings, concerts, events and functions. As our mission states, Emmanuel Church strives for justice and peace. Your financial contributions help us continue to support these organizations vital to the health and spiritual wellness of the City of Boston. We are proud to support the mission of:
- AA and Al-Anon Meetings
- Artists-in-Residence: Sara Peattie, Puppeteer & Ted Southwick, Woodcarver
- Back Alley Puppet Theater & Free Lending Library
- Back Bay Chorale: weekly rehearsals
- Boston Gay Men’s Chorus: weekly rehearsals
- Boston Early Music Festival
- BostonWarm (see Ecclesia Ministries below)
- Calliope: weekly rehearsals
- Central Reform Temple
- Ecclesia Ministries: BostonWarm day center for people without shelter; and the common art studio program for unhoused and marginally housed people
- Eliot Center: Safe Haven, a shelter for women
- Emmanuel Music, Inc.
- Ethos: weekly GLBT Senior luncheon
- Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
- Onnuri I:um Chapel Korean Presbyterian Campus Ministry
- Universal Worship in Boston: A Celebration of One Human Family
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The Episcopal Church welcomes you! Come and see...
watch the video below and learn more.
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Contact: The Rev. Amanda March,
Parish Operations Manager
Learn more by clicking the links below.
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15 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
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