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December 24, 2020

Collect for the Week

Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word: Grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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Thursday 12/24 9am-12pm

Friday12/25 Closed

Monday 12/28 9am-2pm

Tuesday 12/29 Closed

Wednesday 12/30 Closed

Thursday 12/31 9am-2pm

Friday 1/1 Closed

MANNA Needs

LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS: MANNA Monday Lunch Program

Thanks to the MANY of you who have cooked casseroles, baked cookies, made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and packed lunch bags, bought bananas and helped in so many other ways to provide for to our brothers and sisters in Boston. We have finished the first 6 months of this new way of serving the MANNA community, and realistically, we need to plan for 6 more months before we can all be together cooking again. Please join us in 2021.

The dates we will be preparing lunch for Manna in 2021 will be 1/10, 2/14, 3/14, 4/11, 5/9 and 6/13. Some of you have already committed to contributing in January—- many thanks. We are looking for a few Superheroes folks willing to commit to contributing in some way every month for the next 6 months. We are also looking for ordinary heroes— those of you who can commit to contributing something for one or two months.

Here’s what we need:

5 families to make American Chop Suey Casseroles (pans and recipe will be provided)
4 families to bake 25 nut free, individually wrapped cookies
3 families to buy 25 bananas each
3 families to each prepare 25 lunch bags including a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, juice box and perhaps a small treat
Driver- easy breezy and we will give you precise directions.

Specifically for January 10, we need:

2 casseroles
2 cookie bakers to back 25 nut free, individually wrapped cookies
3 people to buy 25 bananas each
3 families to each prepare 25 lunch bags including a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, juice box and perhaps a small treat
a driver

Please contact any of us below if you have questions or would like to help.

Emilie Hitron, Joanna Starr, and Ingrid Melvin. Thank you for loving our neighbors in this way.

Christmas Services Reminder Emails

You will receive an email prior to each service with the Zoom information, bulletin, and links to alternative ways to watch the videos in case of Zoom outages.

Service reminder emails will be sent:

Christmas Pageant was sent 2pm today

Christmas Eve at 5pm today

Christmas Day at 8 am tomorrow

Vestry Minutes

Here are the Vestry minutes from the December 15 meeting.

Click here to view minutes from 2018-2020.

Annual Meeting 2021 - Ministry Leader Reports due 1/11/21

The Annual Meeting is Sunday, February 7, 2021. The Ministry Reports are due Monday, January 11 via email to the office. An email was sent to all ministry leaders on Tuesday. If you are a ministry leader and did not receive this email, please email Ali. Thank you!

Beyond the Parish

"How to light gets in": A Christmas Message from Bishop Gates. Click the video to watch the video and read the message here.

A Christmas Message from Bishop Alan M. Gates

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Join our "How Firm a Foundation" Appeal for 2021

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.