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Prayer Service and Bell Ringing to Commemorate 400 Years of African American History and Culture | August 25 |2:30 PM
On Sunday, August 25, 2019, at 3pm, bells around the nation will ring for four minutes to honor the first enslaved Africans who landed in English North America in 1619. One minute for each 100 years. King's Chapel will join in commemorating the 400th anniversary of that landing by ringing our own bell at the appointed time, preceded at 2:30 by a short prayer service led by David Waters, Minister for Education and Worship. All are invited to attend and welcome to join, if they wish, in ringing the bell themselves.
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From the Sabbatical Minister
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Mark 12:30-31
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. '
The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
My summers generally consist of sitting lakeside in Vermont and visiting with neighbors I only see during this season. This summer has only afforded me one week to sit lakeside and it reminded me of the 'Wednesday's at Wissahickon" that started several years back and deepened our friendships with our neighbors all around the lake.
This initiative was started by the Methodist Church in town that encouraged our neighbors to the left to invite all their neighbors of any denomination to join them for dinner once a week and deepen friendships. It was their Minister's idea that our world has become too isolationist and that sitting together over a meal would bring us closer. It has worked. While we are generally non-church goers in the summer I do know this initiative has brought a considerable number to the Methodist Church in Wells, Vermont.
I offer this suggestion to you because I think invitation and communion are the only ways to bring new members to church these days. To increase face to face communion is antithetical to our isolationist world. I wonder what it would be like for each of you to deepen friendships with those in your neighborhood or building mates and then tell them about King's Chapel, or invite them to a King's Chapel event. Weekly or monthly gatherings may or may not help grow your congregation, but it will definitely improve the quality of your positive connections with your neighbors.
As I move to my penultimate Sunday with you this week, I encourage you all to work together with Joy and David to grow in depth and membership. I love King's Chapel as I know all of you do, and I know there is know better gift you could give the world than to invite them into communion with your historic and beloved church.
Rali
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Interfaith Vigil to Support Detainees | August 25 | 2 PM
On the last Sunday of every month at 2PM, the detainees held in Suffolk County Jail in South Boston gather at the north-facing windows. They look out at a pedestrian overpass, and place hand-drawn signs between the prison bars and the glass.
They are waiting to see a monthly delegation of faith communities who gather on the overpass to stand in solidarity, and remind them that they are not alone.
We know this for sure. We know because lawyers and aid workers who conduct prison visitations mention, over and over, how much it means to those imprisoned to see those gathered on the walkway to witness their solidarity. We know it, too, because one man who was released on a Friday went to the overpass that Sunday, and waited for the vigil to meet him there so he could join, and let them know how much it meant to see people gathered, faithfully and consistently, on the last Sunday of every month.
On August 25th, the last Sunday of this month, Kings' Chapel in partnership with Massachusetts Communities in Action, will lead a delegation of faith communities in this vigil. We will meet at 2PM at 20 Bradston Street.
As we walk together to the overpass where we will show our support for those in detention, we may walk past a group of individuals in active addiction. We ask that you do not ignore them as much of the world does. Instead, reach out hands of kindness and support. Those suffering from addiction are also part of our community, and God's beloved community.
We will walk, chanting and singing, beneath the Suffolk County Jail to the pedestrian overpass and hold a vigil of readings, songs, and prayers. The detainees can't hear us, but they will see us through the prison windows.
When they look outside, will they see you there?
If you wish to join us, please contact:
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Saturday, September 14
1-5 PM |
UUUM Makanda Jazz Project
Sunday, September 15
9 AM
| Morning Light service resumes
10 AM
| Church School Kickoff
12:15 PM | Homecoming luncheon
Wednesday, September 18
5:30 PM
| Contemplative Communion service resumes
Sunday, September 22
2 PM
| Piano Concert at the Parish House to benefit UUUM
Sunday, September 29
12:30 - 2 PM | Boston Athenaeum
Special tour for King's Chapel of the King's Chapel Library Exhibition
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Sandwich-making and worship with common cathedral
Support and relationships are crucial for any human to keep going. Breaking bread and worshiping with
common cathedral this past Sunday 8/18 was an opportunity to offer and receive that support as well as foster those very relationships, the sort that feed and sustain us on our journey.
common cathedral, one of our community action partners, is a church for housed and unhoused folks that gathers every Sunday on the Boston Common. After making sandwiches in the morning, members of King's Chapel had lunch together with
common cathedral members and friends at 12:30. The 1PM worship service that followed was, as it always is, a space for sharing cares and concerns, to witness and comfort each other, to put a hand on someone's shoulder. From making and transporting sandwiches to worshiping with our unhoused neighbors, it was a day of coming together in the spirit of fellowship and the reality of human need. Please join us to volunteer again on 10/6 and 12/22. Contact Community Action Committee Chair, Amanda Pickett with any questions:
amanda.e.pickett@gmail.com
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September 22
Piano Action Special Event
: King's Chapel Parish House,
64 Beacon Street
, at 2 PM
(Please note location and early start time. Free admission, all donations will go to UUUM)
Zina Schiff, violin and Heinrich Christensen, piano - Copland, Still, and more
October 27
Mortal Musings
King's Chapel Choir, Jeremy Bruns, organ
Desenclos: Requiem
Parry: Songs of Farewell, 1-3
Schuman: Carols of Death
December 1
Advent Baroque
King's Chapel Choir, Soloists and Orchestra
J.S.
Bach
Church
Cantatas 62 and 140, and J.D. Zelenka: Magnificat in D
January 26
The Big Chill
, Winter Soiree celebrating our new pianos
King's Chapel Choir
This concert will be held at the King's Chapel Parish House,
64 Beacon Street
Because space/seating is limited, we recommend that you reserve tickets in advance
February 23
Sonata
The history of the organ sonata from Scarlatti to the Bach Family to Woodman
Heinrich Christensen plays the C.B. Fisk Organ
March 29,
G.F. Handel:
Alexander's Feast
Presented in memory of Jay R. Schochet
After the end of the "official" concert season, on April 26 the choir will offer
Evensong at Eastertide
(4:30 PM organ recital, 5 PM service, admission free)
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Doctor, inventor, poet, and King's Chapel member Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was born on August 29, 1809. Among his many and varied accomplishments, Holmes designed a simple and affordable stereoscope, which he intentionally did not patent. His design became the basis for the mass influx and popularity of stereoscopes in the United States. People were able to experience the world from their homes by viewing 3-D images from around the globe. 3-D images and movies, augmented reality, and virtual reality continue to capture imaginations of people today. Imagine what looking at a 3-D image for the first time in the 1850s would have been like! This program will help visitors explore the history and science of 3-D images through the hands-on experience of trying various forms of 3-D viewers, including the Holmes stereoscope, View-Master, anaglyph 3-D (red-blue glasses), and Google Cardboard. Drop in programming daily.
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Visit our
Facebook page to learn more about King's Chapel's beautiful chandelier and to see a time-lapse video of it being raised back up after a cleaning.
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Are you traveling this summer? If so, we'd love to travel with you vicariously through photos! Please send us pictures (at laura@kings-chapel.org) of where you're visiting and tell us of your adventures
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Weep/ Rejoice
"We Rejoice with Those Who Rejoice, and Weep with Those Who Weep"
~ Romans 12:15
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We rejoice with Amanda Cegielski and Chris Allen, who welcomed Gideon Edward Allen this Saturday at 1:35 AM, weighing in at a respectable 7lb 15 oz, and a lengthy 21 inches. Amanda and he are healthy and figuring out this whole parenthood / existing thing. Chris is doing well too!
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Morning Prayer | 11 AM
- The Rev. Joy Fallon, Senior Minister
- The Rev. Rali Weaver, Sabbatical Minister
- David Waters, Minister for Education and Membership
- Heinrich Christensen, Music Director
- Carson Cooman, Guest Organist
- Emily Bieber-Harris, Soloist
- Michael Bergeron, Head Usher
- Chris Allen, Usher in Charge
- Amanda Pickett, Dorothy Waldron, Joan Hunt, Ushers
- Clark Aitkins, Verger
The Readings:
The flowers on the chancel are
given in memory of their aunts, Rose Allen Whittier, Geraldine Speight Knight by Allen and Hallie Speight.
At the communion rail following the service, Christopher LaRoche
will greet those interested in learning more about King's Chapel.
After the service, please join us for punch on the bricks, hosted by Joan Hunt.
Each Sunday, 10% of the plate collection will go to our Community Action strategic partners:
common cathedral, the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, and the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministries, to do works of mercy, justice, and healing. All cash and checks not specially designated will be considered a plate offering.
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Guest organist Carson Cooman is back on the bench and will play pieces by Polish composer Marian Sawa and Jacob Weber. Soloist Emily Bieber-Harris will add Slavically to the festivities with three sacred songs by Czech composerAntonín Dvořák.
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12:15 PM, 58 Tremont St.
August 27
Dorisiya Yosifova, violin
Bach & Telemann
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Tuesday Morning Meditation | Tuesdays 7:30 AM| Little Chapel
An early Tuesday Morning Meditation meets in our beautiful Little Chapel at 7:30 to 8:30 AM each Tuesday, including approximately a 20 minute meditation. We explore and experiment a bit, so if you have some ideas or are a little adventurous, this brief coming side by side with others in your church community may bring some welcome fun, joy and/or peace to your day. This is for "drop-in" participation - no long term obligations. Never meditated before? Drop by and give it a try. Feel free to contact Gary Riccio at
gary.riccio@me.com, or Stephen Courtney at scourtney@scixstudio.com for more details.
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Volunteer: Sign up for Hospitality
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Anyone can help!
Enter your email address and select a spot to fill. New volunteers may choose to co-host with a buddy.
Questions? email hospitality@kings-chapel.org
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We are grateful to those who provide for flowers each week, during our Morning Prayer service.
If you would like to give flowers in honor of a loved one, please contact Anne Sexton, chair of our Chancel Committee at annewsexton1@gmail.com . The cost for an arrangement is $85; a check can be mailed to the Parish House, indicating the date you have chosen and the inscription you would like.
We have the following dates open for the remainder of the year:
SEPTEMBER 8TH, 29TH
DECEMBER 1ST, 8TH, 15, 22ND, 29TH
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Contributing to Between Sundays
Our e-newsletter is sent each Thursday afternoon. Want something in Between Sundays? Feel free to email administrative.assistant@kings-chapel.org with a written piece and/or pictures before Wednesday at 5 PM.
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Accessibility Assists
Our beautiful Georgian sanctuary was designed by Peter Harrison and completed in 1754. To make our services and programs more accessible, one of the box pews has been made wheel-chair accessible. Ushers are available to assist those wheelchair users to that pew. Additionally, we have installed an accessible bathroom on our main floor. An usher can direct you to the vestry.
A sound system has been installed in the sanctuary of The Chapel to amplify the sound during worship services. Hearing assistance devices are available for your use. Please see an Usher for assistance.
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