Bistro 64: Greek Easter Luncheon
This Sunday | 12:15 pm
Parish House
Eat, Discover and Celebrate!
After Morning Prayer on Palm Sunday, venture up to the Parish House for a festive luncheon featuring the rich and distinctive cuisine of Greece. Enjoy such beloved favorites as spanakopita, moussaka and baklava. Four King's Chapel members will briefly preview the upcoming Holy Week services, including the moving Easter Vigil service, based on Greek Orthodox traditions and created in the 1970's especially for our church. Food and beverages will be provided. If you'd like to contribute an item, please contact Hospitality Chair Gregg Sorensen at
gds1960@yahoo.com.
Also, meet special guest Rali Weaver, who has generously agreed to serve as Sabbatical Minister this summer, while Joy is away on her sabbatical.
We look forward to welcoming you to this event. Opa!
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(Re)Introducing the Rev. Rali Weaver as Sabbatical Minister | Greet Her on Palm Sunday after Worship |April 14, 12:30 PM | Parish House
As we announced in late January, we are blessed that the Rev. Rali Weaver has agreed to serve as our Sabbatical Minister for June-August this summer while Joy is away on her Sabbatical in Europe. Many of you know Rali from her service here at King's Chapel as our Assistant Minister from 2005-2007.
Read more.
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Do you remember the odd detail in the Palm Sunday story, about the borrowed donkey on
which Jesus rides into Jerusalem? Jesus sends a few folks ahead to a village, where they're told
they'll see a donkey tied up. "Get it, and if anyone tries to stop you, tell them, 'the Lord needs
it.'" You don't need to ask the owner's permission, don't need to leave a security deposit, don't
need to promise to return it by 4 PM. Just say four words: "The Lord needs it."
What does the Lord need today? Are four words enough to get my acquiescence: "The Lord
needs it"?
Joy
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UUUM Event: The Ties That Bind | Sunday, April 14 | 3 PM | 10 Putnam St., Roxbury
Join the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministries for The Ties That Bind. There is a $10 donation to Opera unMet at the door. You won't want to miss this event, described as "a different kind of MLK celebration". Under the direction of UUUM board member Marshall Hughes, the ensemble presents a thought-provoking look at social justice and civil morality through words, song, music and interactive response. This year, we honor Sam Cornish, Howard L Resnikoff, Elizabeth Donaldson and Joanne Lowry as great leaders in social and civic justice.
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Easter Crafts | Saturday, April 20 |1-3 PM Parish House
Please join the King's Chapel Church School for Easter Crafts. Celebrate this joyful time of year with crafts including Easter egg dyeing, mosaic work, hot cross bun decorating, and other assorted activities. Additionally, enjoy an Easter egg hunt in the beautiful garden. Children of all ages are welcome to attend accompanied by a parent or guardian. Join us for an afternoon full of fun and art!
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Two Minns Lectures Upcoming: First to Honor Charles Perry by Carl Scovel | Friday, April 26 |
Second on American Populism and Unitarianism | Saturday April 27
You are cordially invited to the 2019 Minns Lectures by Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen, with a special guest lecture by Rev. Carl Scovel.
"American Populism and Unitarian Universalism"
How can Unitarian Universalists respond to populism? Right-wing populism is on the rise, threatening Unitarian Universalist values with its apocalyptic worldview. But left-wing populism has also helped build democratic societies. Rev. Dr. Bossen will challenge us to ask how Unitarian Universalists can respond to populism and white supremacy in the age of Trump.
Special Event with Rev. Carl Scovel, A Tale of Two Kingdoms
Lecture in Memory of Charles Perry, member of King's Chapel and the Minns Lectureship Steering Committee
April 26 | 6:30 p.m. King's Chapel Parish House, Boston, MA
Lecture One: The Populist Imagination: A White Man's Republic?
April 27 | 6:30 p.m. First Church in Boston, MA. Response by Rev. Danielle DiBona and Dr. Wendy Salkin
Register at no cost here.
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New Members Information Dinner | Thursday May 2 | Parish House
The Membership Committee welcomes newcomers into the life of the King's Chapel community. Anyone wanting to learn more about King's Chapel are invited to an informative discussion and dinner on Thursday May 2nd at the Parish House. For those interested in attending please contact Joy, Amelia, or the Membership Chair, Cathy Price, at
cmmp48@comcast.net
. We look forward to hearing from you.
The next service to Welcome New Members will be on Sunday May 5th followed by a Brunch at the Parish House.
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Mother's Day Walk For Peace | May 12
Walkers Get Ready! Mother's Day Walk for Peace: May 12, 2019
This year King's Chapel has pledged to be a Peace Advocate, and donate $5,000 to the Louis D Brown Peace Institute. The Community Action Committee will match all donations made, up to a $2,000 total. This is the main fundraiser for the Peace Institute, who works with
families and communities impacted by murder, trauma, grief and loss to support
healing, teaching, and learning.
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Piano Action - May 12 and June 2
Now that the official Sunday concert season is over for the spring, we are launching a pilot initiative to see if any of you would have interest in attending benefit recitals featuring our lovely new Parish House Steinway piano, given to us by Louise Perkins and her family.
The first of these events will take place on Mother's Day, May 12, from 2-3 pm. It will be a benefit for the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute so an extension, if you will, of the Mother's Day March for Peace that many parishioners are joining earlier that morning. The program will feature a handful of our choir members showing off their more secular side. Heinrich will do his utmost to keep up with them from the piano bench.
On June 2, also at 2 pm, we will have a 4-hand piano recital featuring Robert Winkley from First Church Boston, our friends on the other side of the Common. Once again, Heinrich will do his best to keep up with Robert. This recital will happen in conjunction with the common art show happening at the Parish House that day, featuring art from common cathedral, and all proceeds will benefit their wonderful work.
We hope you will join us for these two events to hear some lovely music and support King's Chapel's social action partners. Donations are entirely free-will, come as you are, give what you can.
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Habitat Build Out
King's Chapel is looking for a group of volunteers to help build a house with Habitat for Humanity. The build will take place in the Boston area (likely Dorchester) on Saturday, June 29th from 9:30 AM to 3 PM. There is a suggested $40 donation to Habitat, but anyone is welcome. Contact Emmanuel Genovese for more information or to sign up- (617) 738-6367 or emanuelg1@verizon.net.
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Save the Dates: Life at King's Chapel after Easter
Saturday, May 4 | 10 AM
Memorial Service for Leo Johnson at the Little Chapel
Sunday, May 5 | 11 AM
Final Sunday for the Rev. Amelia Edson,
New Members Join,
Confirmation Sunday, with luncheon following
Thursday, May 9 | 6 PM
The Search for Meaning: John Bowman on The Science and Promise of Meditation
Sunday, May 12
Mother's Day Walk for Peace, Joint service with Chestnut Hill
2 PM: Benefit Concert at Parish House
Sunday, May 19 | 12:15 PM
Annual Meeting
Sunday, May 25
Memorial Day Sunday
Sunday, June 2
First Sunday for Sabbatical Minister Rev. Rali Weaver
9 AM | Blessing of the Pets, Parish House
10 -2 PM |Art Show by artists from common art
2 PM| Benefit concert for common cathedral
Saturday, June 8
Pride Parade
Sunday, June 9
10-11 AM | Sandwich making for common cathedral
12:30 PM
| Worship with common cathedral
Sunday, June 16
333rd Birthday of King's Chapel
Sat. June 22
11 AM
| Labyrinth Walk at Perkins' Home in Stowe
Saturday, June 29
Habitat Build
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Lenten Book Group
This week the Lenten book group concluded, after reading the powerful book by Union Seminary theologian James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree. Cone exhaustively describes the culture of lynching between 1865 and 1930, following the Civil War: a brutal, lawless way to terrorize black Americans back into submission. Any man, woman or child could be hung from a tree, burned or butchered, for any reason or no reason, with law enforcement often participating in, rather than preventing the illegal murders. Our group confessed what we had not known and discussed lessons for today. We confronted the fear we all have of standing up to angry mobs; admitted the complicity of silence; were inspired by African Americans who fearlessly called out wrong; and saw the power of a faith-filled people who persevered through suffering, aligned with Jesus who also had been powerless and terrorized, hung on a tree, but then rose! We have much to learn from the black Christians. Now, how are we called to act for justice? For more information, contact Rev. Fallon or any of the participants.
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Reaffirmation of Baptism
This past Sunday Chelsea Lawson reaffirmed her baptismal vows, and gave what the Prayerbook calls her
Profession of Faith.
Reverend Amelia preached on the ways our faith changes over time and invited the congregation to think about where their faith is, today
. She also invited the congregation to take part in the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday, when all can come up to the chancel rail and reaffirm their baptismal vows (no Profession of Faith required!). It is a beautiful way to celebrate Easter, and honor the way our faith is ever evolving.
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School Vacation Week at the King's Chapel History Program
National Literature and Poetry Month - included with $4 suggested donation
During April School Vacation Week, our National Literature and Poetry Month programming will focus on literary works related to King's Chapel and the
American Revolution. Selections will include patriotic poetry, Dr. Joseph Warren's eulogy, letters of John and Abigail Adams, and more -- all connected to King's Chapel!
'Revolutionary King's Chapel'
On the half hour during hours of operation - included with $4 suggested donation
In this special presentation, discover the true stories of the people who attended King's Chapel at the time of the American Revolution, including:
-A minister who fled Boston as a Loyalist and took the church silver with him
-A famous Patriot whose funeral sparked an impassioned eulogy here
-Members of Boston's black community fighting for the end of slavery at the time of America's founding
Activity Booklets and Scavenger Hunts available daily at the front desk
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This week in the Church School, Skip led a session of Joyful Noise. Thanks to Skip and Michelle for facilitating this session!
Confirmation students worked with George to define what Confirmation means to them. Both Will and George have formally decided to pursue the Confirmation process! Thanks George, for your work guiding the young men.
Upcoming:
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Palm Sunday
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Easter Crafts will be held from 1:00 - 3:00 pm on Saturday, April 20th. Come join us for an afternoon of crafts and an egg hunt!
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Confirmation participants will dye red eggs for Easter service: 3:00 - 3:30 on Saturday, April 20th. This will be followed by a brief check-in about confirmation statements.
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Easter Sunday
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Church School + Confirmation classes are cancelled due to special programming and location
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Nursery/ Child care will be available in the Parish House during the Easter morning service. Child care is available from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm.
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Confirmation Sunday. Please consider joining at Morning Prayer for Confirmation on Sunday, May 5th.
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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 our members Amanda Cegielski and Chris Allen, who are expecting a baby due in August!
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We give thanks that Anne Sexton had a successful hip surgery this week and is now recovering at home.
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We rejoice with Cliff Allen that he is feeling much better after his procedures, and hopes to join
us again soon at the church.
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Morning Light | 9 AM
- Rev. Joy Fallon, preaching
- Skip Lewan, piano
- The Rev. Joy Fallon, Senior Minister
- The Rev. Amelia Edson, Assistant Minister
- Heinrich Christensen, Music Director
- Betsy Peterson, Lector
- Stephen Courtney, Usher in Charge
- Julie Hyde, Timothy Nelson-Hoy, Pamela Bergeron, Ushers
- Clark Aitkins, Verger
The Readings:
- Psalm 118: 1-2, 19-28
- Old Testament, Isaiah 50: 4-9a
- New Testament, Luke 19: 28-40
There are no flowers on the chancel during Lent.
At the communion rail following the service, Jim Power will greet those interested in learning more about King's Chapel.
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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Our Palm Sunday opens with Bach's Prelude and Fugue in a minor, triumphant but with a sense of foreboding at times. The choir will greet the entrance into Jerusalem with Thomas Weelkes' 6-part Hosanna.
The motet is a world premiere: Tevan Goldberg's new setting of Christina Rossetti's poignant poem The Lowest Place:
Give me the lowest place: not that I dare
Ask for that lowest place, but Thou hast died
That I might live and share
Thy glory by Thy side.
Give me the lowest place: or if for me
That lowest place too high, make one more low
Where I may sit and see
My God and love Thee so.
The offertory is Last Words by Minnesota composer Kyle Pederson. It falls in a long tradition of composers like Schütz, Haydn, Dubois and others who set Jesus' final words to music. Pederson alternates between having the full choir sing the words in English and an octet coming out of the texture to echo the words in Latin.
The postlude is Reger's setting of our opening hymn, known in German as Valet will ich dir geben.
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Tuesday Recitals
April 16 | 12:15 PM
Emily Bieber-Harris, soprano
Alison LaRosa Montez, flute
Heinrich Christensen, organ
Music for Holy Week
By Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart
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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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Upcoming Meetings
Tuesdays, 6 PM
April 16- Ad Hoc Committee
April 23- Vestry
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Update: Work at the Parsonage
Through the end of this month you may notice work being completed at the parsonage. The Fallon family is temporarily living nearby, at 90 Pinckney Street during a process of lead paint abatement. Joy's hours and activities continue to be the same during this time.
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Volunteer: Sign up for Hospitality
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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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 designed by Peter Harrison and completed in 1754, has been lovingly maintained by the congregation since its completion. One of the box pews has been made wheel-chair accessible. Ushers are available to assist those who are wheelchair-bound to that pew.
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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