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Worship at Grace
Year-round Schedule
Sunday Services at 10:30 am Celtic Meditations at 5:00 pm Healing Services every week at 5:00 pm Young and the Restless Chapel at 9:00 am the second Sunday of the month All are always welcome to worship and pray with us at all services
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This Week's Calendar
Wednesday
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Art Class
6:30 pm
Choir Party
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Thursday
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Office Hours
11:00 - 1:00 pm
Bowditch Event at Grace Church
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Saturday
9:00 am
Music Together
7:00 pm
AA
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Sunday
10:30 am
Holy Eucharist
Church School
10:30 am
Abundant Life Garden
11:30 am
Punch on the Patio
5:00 pm
Celtic Service
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Monday
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10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Office Hours
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Rector at Cathedral Chapter
6:00 pm
AA meeting
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Leadership
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Rector
Vestry
Joanne Moar,
Sr. Warden
David Ashton,
Jr. Warden
Peggy Carter, Clerk
Jesse Angeley,
Treasurer
Jonathan Bailly
Jane Eskelund
Tom Gaither
Christopher Patzke
Jason Stonehouse
Caroline Watson-Felt
Staff
Ryan Patten,
Director of Music
Tom and Karen Tucker, Sextons
Christopher Simon, Intern
Worship
The Reverend
Debbie Phillips,
Chair
Ryan Patten,
Music
Hugh MacKay
Joanne Moar,
Vergers
Pauline Grady,
Altar Guild Directress
Deb Papps,
Flower Committee Chair
Celtic Meditations Team
Christopher Simon
Ryan Patten
Eric Wagner
Jane Stewart
Joanne Moar
Kathleen Tone
Director of Church School
Melissa Barnes
Finance
Jonathan Davis
Jesse Angeley
Tom Lemons
Angela Williams
Anne Busteed
Real Asset Management/Property
David Ashton
Eric Wagner
Mike Ouellette
Tom Tucker
Bob Cole
Jon Papps
Stewardship
Ministry Team
Joanne Moar, Chair
Priscilla Lemons, Clerk
Caroline Watson-Felt
Jonathan Bailly
Tom Gaither
Nathaniel Bowditch School Partnership
Paige Nalipinski,
Team Leader
David Ashton
Ingrid Fox
Pam Myrie
Deb Papps
Debbie Phillips
Eric Wagner
Representatives to the North Shore Mission Hub
Paige Nalipinski
Convention Delegates
Laura Beasley-Topliffe
Joanne Moar
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Over the summer, our Celtic Evensong and Communion Service is focusing on rest. Our culture has a problem with rest. We don't take all our vacation time lest we be considered a slacker. We have forgotten how to simply be still. God created us to work and play, reveling in creation. Our bodies need rest to function, as do our minds and spirits. Rest is holy, sacred and divinely inspired.
Every Sunday at 5:00 pm we will hear meditations and poems pertaining to the importance of rest. Our prayers will have a homecoming feel to them. As we prepare for the week ahead, we will rest in the knowledge that God created us to enjoy life, and share this joy with others, particularly those in need who find little rest. |
As we continue our stories from the Book of Genesis, we hear this heartbreaking, yet hopeful story of the exile of Hagar and Ismael. In the Gospel, we hear of the sacrifices one must make to live this rewarding life in Christ.
All children of any faith (or none) are invited to join us at 10:30 am for the Abundant Life Garden Project. In its fifth year, this program teaches the children how to work together to grow vegetables which they then give to various food pantries.
This week, we begin Punch on the Patio following the 10:30 am service. Come and enjoy some light refreshments as we share conversation.
At 5:00 pm, Paige Nalipinski will offer the reflection. The music will come from the Celtic tradition, as well as the prayers and poetry. All are welcome to come to this quiet and reflective time with God and one another.
Please join us wherever you are
in your search for meaning.
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Third Sunday after Pentecost
10:30 am
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Presiding and Preaching
Ryan Patten, Organist and Choir Director
Hugh MacKay, Joanne Moar, Vergers
Avery and Charlotte Ross, Acolytes
Stephen Allen, Lector
Jane Thompson, Patti Young, Chalicers
Peggy Carter, Gary Young, Ushers
Beth Brown, Altar Guild
Jane Thompson, Flowers
Angela Williams, Tom Gaither, Counters
Celtic Service
5:00 pm
The Reverend Debbie Phillips, Presiding
Debbie Phillips,
Eric Wagner, Musicians
Debbie Phillips, Opening and Lesson
Paige Nalipinski, Reflection
Eric Wagner, Prayers
Priscilla Lemons, Chalice
Joanne Moar, Greeter
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Bowditch Talent Show at Grace Church
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This highly anticipated event will happen
tomorrow
! On Thursday, 22 June, the 6th grade scholars of the Nathaniel Bowditch School will walk down to Grace Church to join us for lunch in Abbot Hall. While with us, they will read their notebooks one last time before summer, receive their summer penpal envelopes, and then conclude their visit with their Talent Show.
We would love to have as many members of Grace Church as possible attend any portion of this event. Here are some ways you can show these kids that they matter to us:
11:00 am
- Meet at the Bowditch and walk down with the scholars and their teachers OR
- Meet at Grace Church to prepare to welcome them when they arrive
11:20 am
- Help serve the catered food
- Sit with the kids and eat with them, engaging in conversation
11:45 am
- Help clean up after the lunch
12:00 pm
- Be the audience for the Talent Show
- Perform in the Talent Show
12:45 pm
- Walk the scholars back to the Bowditch School OR
- Final clean-up
You can also just show up to show them that you care about them. This is a wonderful event that is a part of our partnership with them. If you are available during any time between 11-1 on Thursday, we'd love to see you at Grace Church.
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People will often ask me what I do during the week. I usually tell than that almost all my work as a priest is about being prepared. Those of us with long standing and deepening relationships with God know that planning for the future is often folly; preparing the groundwork for God to do the Divine Thing is our call. While we prepare for the future, we are mindful of the present.
We do this corporately too. As a worshiping community, we both prepare for our future as we are mindful of the current need. We tend to one another as we prepare to welcome whoever God may send. We trim the hedges as we consider the future design of the Quinlan Garden. We give money for today's technological, building and salary needs as our pledge, as we put money aside in other ways for future endeavors.
We have a name for the funding of these future endeavors that God will call us to do: The Garden of Life. Right now, we are preparing for future endeavors, like a new ministry, by paying off a past debt. After that has been accomplished, God will call in us new directions, and we will be prepared for wherever that path may lead.
Twenty members of this parish have committed over $10,000 already to the Garden of Life, of which $9,200 has been paid. Once we reach $10,000 paid, every dollar given will be matched by the Diocesan Budget.
Want to be prepared for this exciting future? Take a paper bag "seed packet" from the flower pot or basket and learn more about this life giving project. Then, give what you can to prepare for the future gifts of grace. Be a part of the joyful Garden of Life.
- Debbie
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