Grace Church  
in Salem
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Rector
385 Essex Street
Salem, Massachusetts 01970

31 May 2023

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Calendar for the Week

 

Wednesday

 

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Office Hours

 

12:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Boys and Girls Club

 

6:00 Bible Study

 

7:30 pm

Choir Rehearsal

 

 

Thursday

 

Office Closed

 

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Boys and Girls Club

 

 

Friday

 

12 noon

Planning Meeting

 

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Boys and Girls Club

 

 

Saturday

 

10:00 am

Music Together


10:30 am

Funeral for Harriet Rose Tarr Kilroy


 

Sunday

 

10:00 am

Holy Eucharist

 

4:00 pm

Choral Evensong for Trinity Sunday

 

 

Monday

 

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Office Hours

 

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Boys and Girls Club 



Tuesday

 

Office Closed

 

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Boys and Girls Club

 

7:00 -8:30 pm

Knitting Group

 

 

Wednesday

 

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Office Hours

 

6:00 pm

Bible Study

 


Leadership

 

The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Rector



Assisting Clergy

The Reverend E. Clifford Cutler

The Reverend Manny Faria

The Reverend Ann Perrott

 


Vestry

Ryan Patten,

Sr. Warden

Peggy Carter,

Jr. Warden

Barbara Layne, Clerk

Katie Scott, Treasurer


Melissa Barnes

Andrew Bishop

Marianne Cannon

Lisa Duffy

Joanna Troy

Matt VanHamersveld



Staff

Tom and Karen Tucker, Sextons

 

Cheryl Robinson, Bookkeeper

  

 

Anti-racism Team

Maureen Bingham

Marianne Cannon

Cliff Cutler

Ryan Patten

Jane Thompson

Angela Williams

Debbie Phillips

Ann Perrott



Technical Support for Worship

Jason Stonehouse

The Reverend Debbie Phillips



Vergers

Hugh MacKay

Joanne Moar

Barbara Layne



Acolyte

Gavin Watson-Bertrand 



Altar Guild

Laura Beasley-Topliffe,

Directress

Lisa Duffy

Caroline Ogah


  

Flower Committee

Deb Papps, Chair

Jane Thompson

Maureen Joyce

 


Celtic Meditations Team

Ryan Patten, musician

Eric Wagner

Jane Stewart

Paul Massari

Christine Reichert

Joanne Moar

Kathleen Tone


 

Director of Church School

Melissa Barnes



Stewardship 

Ministry Team

Tom Gaither

Debbie Papps



Ad Hoc Fundraising

Peggy Carter

Melissa Barnes

Joanne Moar



Real Asset Management/

Property

Eric Wagner

Mike Ouellette

Tom Tucker

Bob Cole

Ryan Quinlivan



 Creation Care

Laura Beasley-Topliffe

Tom Gaither

Jane Stewart



Garden of Life

Jason Stonehouse

  


Convention Delegates

Laura Beasley-Topliffe

Joanne Moar

Eric Wagner, Alternate



Deanery Delegates

Laura Beasley-Topliffe

Joanne Moar

Walter Weizenauer

Eric Wagner

Thought for the Week

Dear Friends,


Thomas Cahill, when describing certain moments in history, refers to "hinge" moments. These are events in time that usher out the old and inaugurate something new. Today, the Church celebrates such a moment in time.


Two months after Mary's invitation from Gabriel to bear and raise Jesus, she travels to her cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth, at a very old age, is also pregnant and near birthing her son, John the Baptist. We are told that even John the Baptist, still unborn, leaped for joy in his mother's womb when Mary arrived. Thus we are shown, side by side, the two women, one seemingly too old to have a child, but destined to bear the last prophet of the Old Covenant, of the age that was passing away; and the other woman, seemingly not ready to have a child, but destined to bear the One Who was Himself the beginning of the New Covenant, the age that would not pass away. A hinge moment in our tradition.


At this greeting, Mary sings a song that is well known and loved in the Church: the Magnificat. The Parish Choir of Grace Church will sing Mark Engelhardt's version of this canticle at Choral Evensong on Sunday at 4:00 pm.


In the Way of Love,

Debbie

This Sunday

This week we observe Trinity Sunday. Trinity Sunday is one of the seven principle feast days of the year and the only one that addresses squarely what we believe as Christians. The tradition of the Sunday following Pentecost marking the Holy Trinity began when Thomas Becket was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury on that day in 1162 and called for the observance of Trinity Sunday on that day ever after.

Rublev’s icon, shown above, painted in the early 15th Century is the most famous attempt to capture the concept of the Trinity in art. It leaves the impression that our God resides in an ongoing conversation of creation, redemption, and sanctification and that we are invited to sit at God’s table and enter into the conversation.We are so fortunate to be able to sit together at Grace Church as we give thanks for God’s abiding presence.

  

Services are offered at 10:00 am and 4:00 pm and are also broadcast on Facebook Live. Leaflets may be found on our website.

 

At 10:00 am, Lisa Duffy will lector and Angela Williams and Faith Aroko are our ushers. The Church School will meet at 10:00 am for a lesson and to work in the Abundant Life Garden before they join us at the Peace.

 

At 4:00 pm the Parish Choir will sing Choral Evensong upon Trinity Sunday. The canticles are by Mark Engelhardt, previous Music Director at Grace Church, the Preces and Responses are by our Rector, Debbie Phillips, and the anthem "A Prayer of St. Patrick" is by another previous Music Director and our current Senior Warden, Ryan Patten. Paul Massari will read the lessons and Christine Reichert will usher.



Please join us wherever you are 

in your search for meaning. 


Everyone is welcome at any and all services at

Grace Episcopal Church


Parish Prayer List


Please keep the following in your prayers:



For Holly Yeo, Mac White, Aku, Jeremy Parker, Deb Young, Cindy Rhodes, Ron, Linda Layne, Daniel Brundige, Gerald Tucker, Allison Mascolo, Melissa Glassman, Max Joyce, Inga, Henry, and Lucas, Mel, Melissa Glassman, Corey MacNeil, Helen Phillips, Dianne, Michael Towey, Jenny, Loretta and Kris, Deb Papps, Derek Fuller and Family, the people of Palestine, and Ukraine; for the earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem, the Salem Public Schools and for an end to racism, war, anti-Semitism, gun violence and oppression. If you have prayer requests, please email regathering@gracechurchsalem.org by Tuesday at noon for publication in that week's e-news.

 

Announcing our New Music Director

On Sunday, June 18th, we will welcome Mark Peterson as our new music director. Mark N. Peterson recently retired as director of music at Barton College in Wilson North Carolina. His primary duty at Barton was the direction of the Barton College/Wilson Symphony, a privately endowed, professional ensemble, presenting several concerts annually. He conducted over one hundred concerts with the BC/WS usually featuring extraordinary, international guest artists.

 

A native of Haverhill Massachusetts, Peterson holds degrees from Boston University and the University of New Hampshire and served for many years on the faculties of Bradford College and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. At Barton College, he also directed the college choir and has served as music director for numerous college musical theater productions. 

 

Peterson also served as director of music at the Parish of St. Therese in Wilson, where he provided his congregation with a “well regulated” music program, which includes a steady diet of Bach organ music. Before moving south, Peterson served at several parishes in the North Shore region, including Clifton Lutheran (Marblehead), First Parish (Wakefield), and Christ Church (Andover).

 

We are so excited to have Mark join us as we continue to lift our voices and instruments in praise of God.

 

Join us as we march in the North Shore Pride Parade on Saturday June 24th beginning at 12 noon. A full events calendar for June may be found at https://northshorepride.org/


More information on our participation will follow in the next few weeks. Please save the date!



The Rector is available Sundays, Mondays, and Wednesdays for regular business.

Please continue to contact her for pastoral emergencies as they arise.

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