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How is your Lenten journey going? Don't go it alone! Instead, join your siblings in Christ in setting aside some time each Wednesday for prayer, reflection, and a simple meal. We begin at 6:15 with soup and bread, and at 7:00 pray Vespers. This week we'll share in some conversation about the life and work of Dorothy Day in the context of our prayers. Come for soup at 6:15, and soul substance at 7:00. You'll be on your way home by 8:00.

Music Notes
Tom Berryman, Music Director
For Sunday, March 24, Lent III, the CLC Choir will be singing Emma Lou Diemer's setting of the hymn text "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" for the Offertory Music. Anne Weaver will join the Choir playing the flute obligatto line.
 
The Organ Prelude on Sunday is Olivier Messiaen's "Desseins Eternele" ("Eternal Purposes"). See the video below
for a performance of this evocative work. 

Olivier Messiaen - Desseins Eternels (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)
Olivier Messiaen - Desseins Eternels (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)


Bach arranged a number of orchestral concertos for organ performance. The Postlude is the first movement of his arrangement for organ of Vivaldi's Concerto in A Minor. Listen and watch this engaging work below:

J. S. Bach - Organ Concerto in A Minor BWV 593 after Vivaldi RV 522.
J. S. Bach - Organ Concerto in A Minor BWV 593 after Vivaldi RV 522.

Youth & Family
Gail Weston-Roberts,  Interim Youth & Family Ministries Coordinator
Hello, CLC Youth & Families! Happy Tuesday!
 
So the votes are tallied and the group the Youth are going to lift up this Lent is...Hoops & Homework of Framingham!
 
Starting this Sunday, as some of us are up at Calumet and others remain here, Youthful Members of the congregation will be asking us all to donate toward this wonderful after-school, academic-enrichment program for children ages 5 to 14 who live in public housing communities in Framingham. Here's a link to their webpage where you'll see why we want to volunteer there and support their work: https://www.hoopsandhomeworkinc.com

In particular, Hoops needs more financial support to offer better summer activities to the kids this year, when they're open 1:00 to 6:00 pm while parents are at work. It will be a long, hot summer and it will be wonderful if our congregation can raise enough money to support some cool, fun alternatives to "don't-have-much-to-do" for the kids.
 
More details will be coming along, especially thru our resident Seminarian Sharon as she used to work at Hoops & Homework! In the meantime, thank you, Youth, and thank you future donors of CLC. We greatly appreciate your generosity toward our neighbors in need this Lent.

--Most Sincerely, Gail W-R, your Y&F Coord.
Adult Formation
Adult Forum

This week many of us will retreat to Camp Calumet, so there will be no adult forum on Sunday.

CLC Book Group

The Peabody Sisters  provides a wonderful look into 19th-century American life and the influence of the three Peabody sisters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia on the thinking of the day. Elizabeth influenced Emerson's Transcendentalist ideas; Mary found a soulmate in the educator Horace Mann, and Sophia, a painter, married Nathaniel Hawthorne. This biography twenty years in the making recounts their central role in shaping the intellectual discourse of their day. Meet with the book group on Monday, April 1 at 7:30 for a lively discussion.
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. 
Call to Action
The annual  Walk to End Homelessness is Saturday, April 6. The CLC team is still looking for both walkers and donors. How about you?
 
Our youth are leading the way in our Lenten alms-giving. Please give as generously as you are able to Hoops & Homework.
Looking Ahead


On Saturday, March 30 at 11:00 am we will give thanks for the life of Harland Gilbert, and entrust him to our Creator and Redeemer. All are urged to come and join the Gilbert family in both their grief and hope in the promise of eternal life in Christ. If you are able to provide a salad or dessert for the luncheon, please let Pastor Bourret know.


One week from Sunday (March 31) will be our third offering of Wonder and Wisdom, a cross-generational worship-in -the context of supper and faith-formation. We start at 5:00, and usually end by 7:00--but will be having so much fun this time that are planning to end at 7:30. Don't make a peep, but we will take a creative turn with some of the Easter Vigil readings. Whom will you invite?

Karin Gustafson created this week's quilt.
On Sunday, March 24th , we celebrate the Third Sunday in Lent ,  10:00 a.m. worship. Pastor Richard Hurst preaching and presiding.
READINGS FOR THIS WEEK
March 17, 2019   Second Sunday in Lent

Some Christians imagine either themselves or other people to be no more than barren trees that might as well be uprooted and discarded. Come to worship this Sunday, and hear what the gardener says about barren trees.

First Reading        Psalm                    Second Reading             Gospel
Isaiah 55:1-9         Psalm 63:1-8        1 Corinthians 10:1-13      Luke 13:1-9 
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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