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Worship at Grace
Sunday Services at 8:00 am and 10:30 am
Healing Services on the third Sunday of the month
Young and the Restless Chapel at 9:00 am the second Sunday of the month
Morning Prayer is read Monday through Thursday at 9:30 am
All are always welcome to worship and pray with us at all services
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This Week's Calendar
Wednesday
9:30 am Morning Prayer
10 am - 12 noon
Office open
10 am - 12 noon
Art Class in Abbot Hall
4:00 pm Choir School
6:30 pm Stewardship Ministry Team
7:30 pm Parish Choir Rehearsal
Thursday
9:30 am Morning Prayer
10 am to 12 noon
Office open
10:00 am - Elder Services Meeting
12:30 pm Wardens/Rector Meeting
Saturday
8:30 am - "Church's One Foundation" Workshop
Carpool leaving church at 7:00 am
9:00 am - Music Together
Sunday
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
9:30 am Parish Choir Rehearsal
10:30 am Holy Eucharist
10:30 am Church School
12:00 pm - Celtic Worship Committee Meeting
Monday
9:30 am Morning Prayer
10:00 - 12:00 Office Hours
10:00 am Music Staff Meeting
11:00 am Clergy Staff Meeting
7:15 pm Vestry Meeting
Tuesday
9:30 am Morning Prayer
10 am to 12 noon Office Open
11:00 am - Funeral @ Harmony Grove
6:00 pm AA
Wednesday
9:30 am Morning Prayer
10 am - 12 noon Office open
10:00 am Art Class
4:00 pm Choir School
7:30 pm Parish Choir Rehearsal
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Leadership
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Rector
Anne Busteed, Sr. Warden
Joanne Moar, Jr. Warden
Peggy Carter, Clerk
Gary Young, Treasurer
Vestry
David Ashton
Melissa Barnes
Eric Fialho
Tom Lemons
Jacquie Valatka
Caroline Watson-Felt
The Reverend Laurel Deery, Deacon
Ryan Patten,
Director of Music
Tom and Karen Tucker, Sextons
Pauline Grady,
Altar Guild Directress
Deb Papps,
Flower Committee Chair
Eric Wagner,
Member Engagement Chair
Stephen Allen,
Stewardship Chair
Jonathan Davis,
Finance Chair
David Ashton,
Real Asset Management Chair
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The Rector would like to gather a group together as we begin to prepare for our Celtic Services on Sunday evenings. In particular, she is looking for people interested in healing, designing liturgical space and for musicians. The first meeting will take place this Sunday, October 19th at 12 Noon in the church. Please come and share your ideas.
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This week's Gospel reading reminds me of the many times Jesus speaks about money and things. He did not shy away from talking about this, nor did he find it "unseemly."
I have been thinking about the act of putting something in the plate during the service. I don't really have a chance to be a part of this action of the liturgy. This summer, sitting in the pews gave me this chance. What a difference it made to me; it was quite surprising. See, I have my pledge monies mailed monthly to the church, so I never literally put something in the plate. It made me feel like a part of something bigger than me, this token of my love for God being added to the mix of the other gifts of love. It reminded me that we are all significant, that in that action I was stating that I too, was a part of this Body of Christ, that my actions mattered, and that all things, including me, come from God.
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This Sunday we hear Jesus' response to the Pharisees' questioning about authority, particularly the authority for the emperor to collect taxes. Jesus replies that financial responsibilities to civic matter are insignificant to the call to live as the image of God, to whom we belong.
Our stewardship pilgrimage continues this week with Joanne Moar inviting us into the journey.
Healing will be offered at both services. Refreshments are hosted by Caroline Watson-Felt. The first meeting of the Celtic Worship Committee is Sunday at 12 noon.
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8:00 am
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, presider and preacher
Joanne Moar, epistler
Cindy Rhodes, altar guild
Maureen Joyce, flowers
10:30 am
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, presider and preacher
Joanne Moar, verger
Mason Nalipinski, acolyte
Stephen Allen, lector
Joanne Moar, epistler
Jane Thompson, Pat Small, chalicers
Pauline Grady, Marc Hawlena, ushers
Eric Fialho, greeter
Maureen Joyce, flowers
Pauline Grady, altar guild
Tom Lemons, Gerry Cole, counters
Caroline Watson- Felt, Coffee Hour Host
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Bowditch/Grace Church in Salem News
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The following letter to the editor appeared in the Salem News Wednesday. Letter: Churches reach out to Salem schools
To the editor:
As the volunteer coordinator for the Salem Public Schools, I get to see a lot of smiles. I spend my days with amazing men and women who give their time and energy to support education. I hear from teachers who express their gratitude for the classroom help that volunteers provide, and I see the ear-to-ear smiles of the children who delight in the extra attention that volunteers bring into their day. Volunteers perform tasks that include helping in the school office, tutoring students and providing an extra set of hands to classroom teachers. There are currently 60 community volunteers involved in the schools. A huge thank you goes out to all school volunteers.
Kudos also to Remix Church of Beverly for its generous involvement at Bentley School. Guy Miller and Remix Church organize, fund and run family events for the Bentley School Community. The next exciting event will be a Halloween celebration, The Boo Bash, complete with food, face painting, games, dancing and a safe alternative to trick-or-treating. During "Trunk or Treat," members of Remix Church will decorate their cars and line up outside the school. Children will walk from car to car to collect treats, and a few gentle shrieks.
A new and very exciting partnership has developed this year between Grace Church in Salem and Nathaniel Bowditch School. Pastors Phillips and Deery are former educators who have reached out, with their congregation, to support the entire Bowditch fourth grade. Members of Grace Church met several times with school staff to identify the best ways to support the teachers and students. In September, Grace Church donated educational supplies for all of the fourth-grade classrooms. These supplies included electric pencil sharpeners, construction paper, tape and markers. Grace Church also provided 60 seat-back organizers that will help students to neatly store their books and papers. On Sept. 25, Grace Church decorated its hall and invited Bowditch families for a spaghetti dinner. It was a lovely and welcoming event.
Thank you to Remix and Grace Church for your ongoing support of Salem's schools. Thank you to all of the volunteers who encourage Salem's students and help them along the road to academic success. If you value education and have an interest in joining our volunteer corps, please contact me at 781-584-2146 or send an email to [email protected]. There are Salem teachers and students eager to meet you!
Yvonne van Bodengraven
Coordinator
Salem Public Schools Community Volunteer Program
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The Church's One Foundation:
A Training on Property
This Saturday at St. Peter's, Weston
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The Diocese of Massachusetts offers many training opportunities for parish development. 
"The Church's One Foundation." This half-day, free workshop will cover a range of building issues, from "greening" your church for both environmental and financial benefits, to the basics of buildings and grounds upkeep, building safety and accessibility. The keynoter will be our new bishop, The Rt. Rev. Alan Gates. It will run from 8:30 am until 12 noon at St. Peter's Church, Weston. For more information click here or contact Eric Wagner here. Eric will be leaving from the church at 7:00 am if you wish to carpool.
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Halloween Service and Party
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If you would like to help out with the party,
please email the Office at [email protected] |
This reflection is the third in the series of our "Walking the Way" pilgrimage to generous hearts
Give to the emperor the things that are the
emperor's, and to God the things that are God's.
To many, taxes are simply an instrument of oppression. The founding narrative of the United States centers on tax burdens the British placed on the American colonies. In the nineteenth century, a foreign miners' license tax was levied on gold miners in California, requiring a monthly payment of every foreign miner who did not desire to become a citizen. The burden of the tax fell mainly on Chinese miners, as a federal law of 1790 restricted naturalization to white persons.
But taxes can also pool the resources of the many to address common problems too big for the charitable giving of individuals. They can express our shared participation in society, in a community where we look out for one another. So it is with our stewardship of giving. Jesus' response to his opponents carried religious implications. Roman coins were stamped with the emperor's likeness and inscribed "Tiberius Caesar, august son of the divine Augustus, high priest." So the coins constituted blasphemy both to Jews and to the Christians in Matthew's church - the blasphemy of idolatry in the form of money.
But what if we followed the logic that we owe back to someone a thing that bears that someone's image? What is Jesus telling us that we owe to God? Quite simply, everything that bears God's image - that is, everything given to us in creation. God's greatness is stamped everywhere in the created world: air, water, and sunlight, our food, our very existence, and our hope. Because God's image is everywhere, we owe to God our thanks for the earth's abundance, and we owe to God the right and just stewardship of this abundance. And the image of God, made flesh in Jesus Christ, is also stamped on the face of every human being with whom we share God's creation, every other child of God, especially our brothers and sisters in need.
In rendering back to God what was God's own to begin with, we are stepping away from idolizing and hoarding the things that God has given us and directing our worship to where it belongs: to God. We are simply walking the disciple's way with the gratitude for life that we owe as God's children.
Reflection Questions:
How do you experience the generosity of hospitality in
your congregation?
How do you find joy in being generous?
Do you give from a sense of God's abundance in your life?
- The Rev. Deon K. Johnson
Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan
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Our Prayers are offered for:
Joe Doherty, David, Giffy Ruseell, Marilyn Russell, George and Sue Erickson, Kathleen Hoff, M. Thomas Shaw, Pauline Grady, Pauline Zwicker, Vivien Forbes, Colin, Todd Cheney, Corey and Suzanne MacNeil, Karen Tucker, David,the Ryan family, Dorette Jodoin, Sally Coleman, Don, Jeanne Parler, Jeff Bowie, Nancy Dolan, Gary Young, Jr., Elisabeth Thomas, Cindy Carr, Ross Dolloff, Fran Nalipinski, The Tache Family, Alison, Blair and family, Bernice Conway, Jeff and family, John Mason, Karen, Susan Warren, Camilo Notario, Jr., Esmunda Notario, Tom D., Robert Duff, Stephen Duff, Rick Rizoli, Ian J. Surabian, Ashley Galvin, Gerry M., Mary K., Megan O'Connell and the family of Peter Brown, the Castiello Children, Eric Rielly, Maureen Joyce, Linda and Patrick Grant, the soul of Carol Sczerba Rielly, Glenn Murer, Carpenter Family, Karin O'Brien, Judy Rao, Kathy Christopher, Marge Bastos, Paul Williams, Patricia McDuffe, the Clancys, Beatrice Jideofor, Rachel Davis, Dr. Elizabeth Prout, Albert Engelken, Mary Carter, Harry Davis, Fatima Pinto, Kori Rodriguez, Mary Manning, Pat Carr, Love, Tiffanie Surabian, Nate, Phoebe and family, Jannett, Marcie, Andrew Rossi, Norman Belanger, Joanna Morse, Virginia Steadman, Soiesette Robinson, Lisa J., Nancy Moore, Sarah Fialho, Bertram Furrowh, Jeannie and Harry W, Hank and Ann Cook, Do�a Yoya, Patrick O'Donoghue, Kathleen Hoff, George and Sue Erickson, the Diocese of Jerusalem and the Salem Public Schools, especially the Nathaniel Bowditch School.
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