Greetings!
With glad hearts we warmly welcome you on into the month of October, and to the enclosed opportunities, possibilities and events at Marsh Chapel Boston University, prepared for this season.
We are surely, happily grateful for the student and staff leadership in music, in hospitality and in ministry, on which these events, and others coming in the rest of the year, do fully depend.
Especially we welcome you to worship this Sunday, October 2, 2022, 11am, Marsh Chapel, which is World Communion Sunday. It is a time to give thanks, as the word eucharist itself does mean. In a world of many hurts, needs, and challenges, we nonetheless, we nevertheless give thanks for true sentiments, good deeds, and beautiful moments. Come and join us for this singular hour of gratitude!
This is a time when we hold onto, and hold dear, the good things we have known. The New England poet, Robert Frost, in a remarkable poem, put it this way:
To Time it never seems that he is brave
To set himself against the peaks of snow
To lay them level with the running wave,
Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
But only grave, contemplative and grave.
What now is inland shall be ocean isle,
Then eddies playing round a sunken reef
Like the curl at the corner of a smile;
And I could share Time’s lack of joy or grief
At such a planetary change of style.
I could give all to Time except – except
What I myself have held. But why declare
The things forbidden that while the Customs slept
I have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,
And what I would not part with I have kept.
I look forward to greeting you on Sunday!
Grace and peace
Bob
