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Weekly news & announcements
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Sunday, September 28, 2025
Ordinary Time
The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost
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8:15 a.m. Spoken Rite I Eucharist (Chapel)
10 a.m. Choral Rite II Eucharist with Music & Hymns
(Main Church & streaming online)
11:15 a.m. Coffee Hour
7 p.m. AA Needham On Time (UPH)
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Thanks to those who are serving this weekend!
Volunteer online here..
Usher: Brian Mukherjee & Ann MacFate
Lector: Volunteer online
Chalice: Volunteer online
Intercessor: Volunteer online
Crucifer: Volunteer online
Digital Verger: Volunteer online
Altar Guild: Dorothy Rifai, Bea Dagdigian, & Dottie Hagar
Coffee Hour Hosts: Ushers
Co-Warden: Tedi Eaton
Designated Vestry Person for August, September & October: Ellie Wainwright
Volunteer for Fall Services
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Sunday's Music
Hymn numbers are for the Hymnal 1982 unless noted. Some of the hymns can be found at Hymnary.org: Hymnal 1982 here and Wonder Love and Praise (WLP) here.
Prelude: A Thought Like Music, Johannes Brahms, arr. Lily Wadhams Moline
Opening Hymn: 423, Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise,
Gloria: S-278, Glory to God
Gradual Hymn: 552, Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might
Offertory Anthem: Ach, arme Welt, from Drei Mottets, Op. 110, Johannes Brahms
Sanctus: S-128
Fraction: S-154 Christ our Passover (Hurd)
Communion Music: How Can I Keep from Singing, arr. Mark Schweizer
Closing Hymn: 494, Crown Him with Many Crowns
Postlude: Introduction and Trumpet Tune in D, David Lasky
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September 25, 2025
Our Pastoral Response Ministry begins our Tuesday meetings with the Collect of the Day from the previous Sunday. We reflect on how the prayer touches us, and where we experience God in it.This week, the Collect resonated particularly strongly with us:
Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer, p. 234)
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I bet many of us are currently anxious about “earthly” things--a sick loved one, a struggling relationship, the toxic state of our civic and political culture, a looming government shut-down--something is causing us anxiety. I’m also betting that we yearn for security anchored in sturdier stuff, beyond our current state of affairs, something “heavenly.”
The prayer seems to posit a false disconnect between earthly and heavenly. Yet we know heaven is connected to earth–how else are we to experience God (that is heavenly things) except through our human experience, say, through the grace and kindness of another or the beauty and grandeur of creation? And, consummately, we know heaven and earth are joined in Jesus Christ.
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Yet the prayer asks for a transcendent anchor—beyond the noise and churn, through the heartache and injustice. As Paul writes “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.” And elsewhere, “Test everything; hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil.”
In an ever-changing world, may we hold fast to Christ, and walk in love with him, as he loves us, as well as our neighbor.
Faithfully,
Nick+
| Credit for image of Nick: Thomas Gaitley | | |
Refreshing the Prayer List: This Sunday, September 28
This Sunday, September 28 we will begin a new list. To make sure we pray your prayer intention(s) on Sundays going forward, please call or email Kaitlin in the office to let us know the names of the persons you would like the community to pray for on Sundays. The office number is 781-444-1469 x110. Thank you!
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A Very Big “Thank You!”
I’d like to thank everyone who attended and/or supported our fundraiser concert for Ukraine this past Sunday. We had a wonderful crowd, it was a beautiful concert, and best of all, it was a highly successful fundraiser! My initial goal for the concert was to raise $1000, but with your help and incredible generosity, we blew that goal out of the water and raised nearly $1700. So
thank you again for making the start of our fall concert series a success, and I hope you will join us for the musical events coming up in the next few months. Next up: an organ concert on
Sunday, Oct. 26 at 3pm!
Mary-Katherine
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Fall Worship Volunteers Needed!
We are still seeking lay assistants for our worship, including lectors, intercessors, chalice-bearers, and crucifers. Please sign up here. Thank you for helping with this important part of our service!
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Rector's Discretionary Fund Needs Replenishing
Thank you to those who have contributed to the Rector's Discretionary Fund. It is a way to love our neighbor. Expenditures in the past few years include utilities bills, emergency shelter, rent, Needham Youth and Family Services, Needham’s Gift of Warmth Fund, mission work in Cuba, and grocery gift cards. Contributions made out to “Rector’s Discretionary Fund” are tax deductible. Thank you for your consideration.
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Loving your Neighbor with MANNA! Updates...
To volunteer to donate one or more of the requested items or to drive the food ino the Cathedral on Sunday, please sign up online. Thank you!
If you need help signing up or have any questions at all please don't hesitate to reach out to Lindsay Guerriere or Barbara Hurley. THANK YOU for loving our neighbor as Jesus teaches!!!!!
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October 12:
1 driver
1 casseroles
1 vegetarian casserole
1 baked goods
4, 24 oz pre-washed salad greens
1 gallon cut up cucumbers
1 10 oz. container of cherry tomatoes
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November 9:
1 driver
3 casseroles
1 vegetarian casserole
2 baked goods
1 banana
1 bagged lunch
4, 24 oz pre-washed salad greens
1 gallon cut up cucumbers
1 24 oz. bag of pre-shredded carrots
10 oz. container of cherry tomatoes
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Save the Date! Founder's Day Worship Sunday Oct 26 @ 10am
We’ll worship together at a single, special 10am worship service, giving thanks to God for our past and looking to God for the future. We’ll also kick off our Annual Appeal for 2026, whereby we pledge our financial support of our mission and ministry. A sign up genius will be in place soon to ask for volunteers. Don’t miss it!
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TerraCycle wants your empty Snack and Juice Pouches
At CCN, in partnership with the Episcopal Church’s ongoing commitment to stewardship of God’s creation, we are excited to share a recycling project focused on hard-to-recycle waste. Our first step is collecting all brands of plastic snack pouches—like those used for applesauce and baby food (including lids)—and plastic and aluminum juice pouches (including straws).
These items often end up in landfills, but through this initiative, they’ll be sent to TerraCycle, where they’ll be properly processed through a specialized recycling program. You can drop off your empty pouches in the clearly labeled bins in UPH. We hope to include more recycling programs in the near future.
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Community Art Gallery - Echoes of Her Brush
We have a stunning new exhibit in the Upper Parish Hall! Artist Madeline Flynn's paintings will be on display and for sale now through October. 20% of all proceeds go to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
If you would like to display your art, whether it be photos, paintings, printing, drawing, or fiber art, please contact Lucy Nim-LaFleche.
| | If you or someone in your family is in the hospital or in need of pastoral care, please call the church office so that our clergy or the Pastoral Response Ministry team may be notified and tend to the need. The office number is (781) 444-1469, and you can reach Nick at ext. 113. | | | | |
