This Week at the Advent

  November 18-24 , 2018

 

In This Issue
Entr'acte this Sunday
Evensong & Benediction
Parish Survey Reminder
"One Warm Coat"
Coming Up: Advent Sunday
Stewardship Update
Entr'acte this Sunday
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Beginning this Sunday morning, Fr Warren will conclude Entr'acte for the year with a three-part examination of the various sects within what is called Christianity: what they believe, what they practice, how they differ from Classical Christianity. That's after the 9:00 Mass in the Library. The sessions conclude on November 25 and December 9.

Evensong & Benediction
Maurice Durufle
This Sunday Afternoon - Evensong & Benediction & Organ Recital - On Sunday afternoon at 4:30 organist Caroline Robinson, doctoral candidate from the Eastman School of Music, offers a half-hour prelude recital of works by Max Reger, Leo Sowerby, Maurice Duruflé, and our own John Cook. At 5 pm, the Advent Choir will sing Evensong, featuring all-American composers: Davison, Hogan, Hoiby and Halley. Following the service, a light supper will be served, and Mark Dwyer will offer a brief talk on "The Americans," discussing the music and composers featured in the program.

Parish Survey - Final Call!
Advent Seal
Responses to the questionnaire are due by Monday, November 19, 2018.

If you have questions about completing the questionnaire or have any difficulties, please contact the Advent Questionnaire Administrator, Kyle Pilares, at adventboston.parishsearch@gmail.com or, if necessary, by phone at 860-977-3384.

"One Warm Coat" Drive
The Coat Drive Continues -Please help us reach our goal of 100 coats, or make a dollar donation. All tax deductible, of course. Deacon Noyes has details.

Coming Up: Advent Sunday
The Rev. Dr. Fleming Rutledge
Sunday, December 2 is Advent Sunday, our Feast of Title & Dedication. We will celebrate this auspicious day with a joyful Procession to mark our founding and a Solemn Mass for the First Sunday of Advent. We are very fortunate and we will be blessed by having the Rev'd Dr Fleming Rutledge with us as our preacher that morning. She is a celebrated preacher, lecturer, and the author of numerous books.

In the afternoon, Professor Damin Spritzer, of the American Organ Institute at the University of Oklahoma, will offer a half-hour program of Advent organ music at 4:30 pm. At 5:00 pm, the Advent Choir will sing the beloved service of Advent Lessons & Carols, including music by Byrd, Dove, Ferguson, Jackson, Lehman, Lukaszewski, McDowall, Moyer & Vaughan Williams. The evening concludes with a gala reception in Moseley Hall.

Copies of Dr Rutledge's most recent book,  Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ, a collection of sermons appropriate to and also about the Season, are available in the Book Store. In a brief review of the book, Fr Warren wrote: "For Fleming Rutledge, the proper celebration of Advent is crucial for the exposition of the faith of the church and the practice of the individual Christian. She argues passionately for a return to the original twofold focus of the season-a looking back to the Incarnation and a looking forward to the second coming of Christ and the consummation of all things... The sermons in this volume demand more than one reading. They are born out of an intimate knowledge of Scripture, prodigious learning, and Rutledge's own experience as a Christian believer, parish priest, and teacher. They are written with clarity and conviction and, occasionally, as almost heartbreaking honesty."

Copies of her magnum opus,  The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ, are also available. This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to delve deeply into the Mystery of our Salvation by the death and rising of Jesus. It is lengthy but very accessible, written not for scholars but for people in the pews.

Stewardship Update
Returns for the 2019 Canvass continue to arrive. Thanks to everyone who pledged so promptly!

As of this past Thursday we have received 77 pledges, pledging a total of $236,122. 31 have increased their pledges by 20%, and there are 8 new pledges. We have still to hear from 137 parishioners who pledged a total of $300,409 last year.

The Stewardship Committee thanks all who have made a pledge so far . If you have not yet pledged, please do so soon. The Committee encourages all parishioners to get their pledges submitted on or before our Feast of Title & Dedication on December 2.

You can pledge on line by going to the parish website www.theadventboston.org and clicking the "Pledge Online" button.
 
This email highlights just a few of the items in this week's announcements. For much more, go to http://www.theadventboston.org/announcements/.

Parish Office
Church of the Advent
Sunday's Collect
Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that, by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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