This
Week at Christ Church
July 20 - 27
Summer
Weekday Worship Schedule
Morning
Prayer: Monday-Frday at 8:00am (Sat, 8:45am)
Weekday
Eucharist: Wed at 12:15 (Rite II Mass)
Thurs at 5:30pm (Rite I Mass)
(w/ Annointing & Prayers
for Healing on Thurs}
Evening
Prayer: Thurs at 5:15pm
Confessions
& Spiritual Counsel: by appointment
with the clergy
Welcome
to Christ Church ,
New Haven .
We are glad that you are here and hope that you will find in the
readings, in the music, in the prayers and in this long-prayed
in place a sense of God's presence and strength for your life.
We would be grateful if you gave us your name and contact information
in the guest book at the rear of the church so we could include
you in the parish's communications. Christ Church is part of the
Episcopal Church and the world-wide Anglican Communion. Our faith
is grounded in the creeds, expressed in a traditional and rich
liturgical and spiritual life and leads to an active involvement
in the life of the world and a welcome for all who would seek
to join us in service to God and the world around us through Jesus
Christ .
Feel
free to participate
fully in the liturgy—singing the hymns and making the responses,
or to simply sit quietly. The various customs such as kneeling
for prayer, making the sign of the cross and other traditions
are not required.
Coffee
Hour
follows the liturgy, and we hope you will join us for light refreshments
and conversation. The parish house is off the garden in the rear
of the Church and may be reached through the door at the back
of the church—feel free to ask for directions, we're glad you're
here.
Childcare
is provided in the undercroft during the 9am and 11am liturgies.
Sundays
at 9:15 ,
Professor Murray will be delighted to meet with any and all to
sing through the psalm for the day so that experienced voices
can help the congregation carry it forward. Gather in the choir
stalls.
The
Monday Night Mysticism Group
meets
from 5:30 to 6:30 on Mondays in the Parish House lounge. Access
is through the gate on Elm St . We read and discuss texts. No
preparation or homework is required and visitors are welcome.
For further information call 457-1643.
The
Gay Christian Reading Group
meets monthly to discuss a range of readings concerning Gay spirituality
and to support each other in prayer. The
next meeting of the Gay Christian Reading Group's spirituality/theology series
is Thurs., July 31st 6:30pm
in the parish lounge. We will be discussing excerpts from
Boswell's "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality:
Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian
Era to the Fourteenth Century." Copies of the readings will
be made available in the back of the nave. Please join us!
All are welcome! The
group also meets for brunch at nearby restaurants on the last
Sunday of the month following the Solemn Mass. Everyone is most
welcome! Please contact Rev'd Archer for further information.
Email: nebula@snet.net
; Phone: 203-907-9504.
The
20s 30s Group is
a gathering of people in their 20s and 30s (with some leeway and
not too many questions asked…) offering companionship and a way
of contributing to the larger parish community. For more information,
contact Laura Miles , Email: Laura.Miles@gmail.com
Phone: 508-4686 or ccmail@christchurchnh.org
.
There
are copies of the latest Christ Church Directory
at the back of the church. The directory has a life of
its own and is ever-changing. Please let the office know if you
have noted any errors or omissions. If you have noted an omission
it may simply be that the office was unable to attain your information.
Please contact the office at ccmail@christchurchnh.org or call
203/865-6354 with updates.
“RUN”
to Help the Homeless The
‘Midnight Run' is an ongoing ecumenical mission program supported
solely by volunteers from several parishes, civic and student
groups in and around the New Haven area that strives to serve
the needs of the homeless poor in New Haven by distributing donated
food and clothing throughout the year. The Rev. Carol Archer ,
parish deacon has scheduled Christ Church to join the “Run” on
the first Monday of each month ~ year ‘round .
Volunteers meet at 8pm Center Church on the New
Haven green. If you have any questions please contact Deacon Carol
or Alfred Tisdale
Healing
Shawl Ministry:
In response to a request from the Ct. Mental Health Center's coordinator
of Spiritual Services
I would like to invite members of Christ Church to engage in a
Healing/Prayer Shawl ministry. This ministry provides hand-made,
knitted or crocheted shawls to people in treatment & recovery.
An informal group will meet to share a time of knitting, coffee,
prayer, and conversation the 3 rd Sunday of each
month at 9:15am in the parish lounge or you can create
your shawls at home! If anyone would like to offer to teach knitting
for the willing but craft-challenged among us please consider
joining the group to help guide us along. As shawls are completed
they will be blessed at Sunday Mass prior to being donated. Please
see Deacon Carol Archer with questions, for further details, or
to volunteer to help coordinate this ministry.
Day
by Day,
the
daily devotional guide is available at the back of the church.
Coffee
Hour Volunteers
We are always looking for new hosts and could really use your
help so if you would like to volunteer please contact Chris
McDaniel. Ph: 376-5803 Email: cwmcdaniel2002@yahoo.com
The
Community Soup Kitchen
serves lunch four days a week at Christ Church , works closely
with the Saint Luke's Tuesday and Thursday Lunch Program for Women
and Children and assists four local churches to provide breakfast
five days a week. In just January and February
of this year, Community Soup Kitchen provided 11,290
meals to hungry people in New Haven . This figure represents a
20% increase in the same period in 2007. At this rate the soup
kitchen expects to provide over 67,000 meals in 2008. Contact
information is on the back of the bulletin.
This
Week's Scripture Readings:
The
Sunday readings would have been, and the daily readings at Morning
and Evening Prayer are from Proper 11.
Wisdom
of Solomon 12:13,16-19
There
is no god besides you, whose care is for all people, to whom you
should prove that you have not judged unjustly; for your strength
is the source of righteousness, and your sovereignty over all
causes you to spare all. For you show your strength when people
doubt the completeness of your power, and you rebuke any insolence
among those who know it. Although you are sovereign in strength,
you judge with mildness, and with great forbearance you govern
us; for you have power to act whenever you choose. Through such
works you have taught your people that the righteous must be kind,
and you have filled your children with good hope, because you
give repentance for sins.
Romans
8:18-25
I
consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth
comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation
waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of
God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own
will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that
the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay
and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains
until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have
the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for
adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in hope we were saved.
Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen?
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Matthew
13:24-30,36-43
Another
parable Jesus put before the crowds saying: “The kingdom of heaven
may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but
while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among
the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and
bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. And the slaves of
the householder came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow
good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?'
He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.' The slaves said to him,
‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?' But he replied, ‘No;
for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with
them. Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at
harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first
and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into
my barn.'” Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And
his disciples approached him, saying, “Explain to us the parable
of the weeds of the field.” He answered, “The one who sows the
good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good
seed are the children of the kingdom; the weeds are the children
of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the
harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just
as the weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it
be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels,
and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin and
all evildoers, and they will throw them into the furnace of fire,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous
will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let anyone
with ears listen!”
The
House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church Meeting at
the Camp Allen Conference Center, Navasota, Texas March 12, 2008
Give to your Church, O God, a bold vision and a daring charity,
a refreshed wisdom and a courteous understanding, that the eternal
message of your Son may be acclaimed as the good news of the age;
through him who makes all things new, even Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen. (1) We, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, approaching
the forthcoming Lambeth Conference, are mindful of the hurt that
is being experienced by so many in our own Episcopal Church, in
other Provinces of our global communion, and in the world around
us. While the focus of this hurt seems centered on issues of human
sexuality, beneath it we believe there is a feeling of marginalization
by people of differing points of view. Entering into Holy Week,
our response is to name this hurt and to claim our hope that is
in Christ. As the Lambeth Conference approaches, we believe we
have an enormous opportunity, in the midst of struggle, to be
proud of our heritage, and to use this particular time in a holy
way by affirming our rich diversity. The health of such diversity
is that we are dealing openly with issues that affect the entire
global community. Thus, even as we acknowledge the pain felt by
many, we also affirm its holiness as we seek to be faithful to
our Lord Jesus Christ. Even though we did not all support the
consecration of the Bishop of New Hampshire, we acknowledge that
he is a canonically elected and consecrated bishop in this church.
We regret that he alone among bishops ministering within the territorial
boundaries of their dioceses and provinces, did not receive an
invitation to attend the Lambeth Conference. We appeal to the
faithful of the Episcopal Church and the faithful in the wider,
global Anglican family, to focus and celebrate our unity in the
comprehensiveness of diversity. In union with Christian tradition
through the centuries, we are willing to face challenges that
precipitate struggle as a means towards reconciliation. During
our meeting we have been praying for a "daring charity and
courteous understanding." With this intent and guided by
the Holy Spirit, we go to the Lambeth Conference spiritually united
and praying that God will sanctify our struggles and unify us
for Christ's mission to a hurting world. (1) This Franciscan-inspired
prayer was offered by our chaplains during this meeting of the
House of Bishops.
House
of Bishops resolution on 'waterboarding'
March 12, 2008
The
House of Bishops, during its business session on Wednesday afternoon,
March 12, approved a resolution calling for an end to waterboarding
torture. The full resolution follows. Resolved, that the House
of Bishops expresses its dismay at President George W. Bush's
veto of the bill banning torturous interrogation techniques such
as "waterboarding." As followers of the One who said,
"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless
those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you...do to others
as you would have them do to you." (Luke 6:27-28, 31) we
find this method of interrogation morally unacceptable and call
upon members of Congress to override this veto. Submitted
by: Bishop Christopher Epting - Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations
Bishop George Packard - Bishop Suffragan for Chaplaincies
The
Chronicle Newsletter is
available at the rear of the nave- and if you'd like to be on
our email or regular mailing list, there is a guest book there
also.
The
Undercroft Bookstore
".And
the Angels Held their Breath", the newest
book
by our guest preacher, Elaine Farmer, is
available,
in limited numbers, at the Undercroft
Bookstore
after mass.James (203-865-6354)
Or,
email anytime: jamesmcg@hotmail.com
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The
Center for the Arts
*New* Adult Piano Keyboard Class-
6 week session, for beginners or seasoned players. Dust off your
old favorites and bring them to class! For more information. please
visit www.centerarts.net
, contact Deb C. at the church office, or email info@centerarts.net
. Scholarships are available for all lessons-- motivationally
based music instruction.
If
you would like to give altar flowers as
a memorial or thankoffering, please use the calendar at the rear
of the nave.
The
Address to the 2006 Diocesan Convention by
The
Rt. Rev'd Andrew Smith, Bishop of Connecticut
The
Flower Guild Welcomes
the participation of all those at Christ Church . If you would
like to provide flowers one Sunday to honor a loved one, special
occasion, or as a memorial, please sign up on the chart at the
back of the church and send your check to the church office by
Wednesday of the preceding week, with the Altar Flower Form found
on the table at the back of the church or on a separate sheet
of paper with details to be listed in the bulletin. You can also
email or call the church office with your requested date! Flowers
for the High Altar are $60 -75 and $25 for the Chapel or Mary
Shrine. Also, if you would like to learn to arrange flowers, those
who currently do so are more than happy to show you the materials
and a few ideas. Flower Guild members do this on a rotating schedule
which is very flexible and accommodating. Please contact Ruth
Cobb.
The
Minutes of the Monthly Vestry Meeting are
available each month for anyone to read. Contact Bruce Graham
for a copy.
CHURCH
USE CALENDAR
: In an effort to avoid double scheduling and to keep everyone
better informed, we have begun keeping a master calendar
for building use and activities , the calendar can be
found at http://freecal.brownbearsw.com/ccnh
. Feel free to keep it bookmarked and to visit
it to know what is going on at Christ Church .
available
in the Undercroft Bookstore
Rex
Cadwallader
Simple
Gifts
Jazz
Improvisations on Anglican Hymns
All
proceeds go to the Christ Church Organ Fund
Visit
: The
Center for the Arts at Christ Church
