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The Second Sunday of Easter
April 19, 2020 at 10 a.m.
Join us on Facebook Live. Nick will start the live around 9:45 a.m. and the service at 10 a.m.
You can watch on our website as well.
Zoom Coffee Hour to follow. Details below.
Missed last Sunday's sermon, or just want to hear it again?
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COLLECT FOR THE SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
Almighty and everlasting God, who in the Paschal mystery established the new covenant of reconciliation: Grant that all who have been reborn into the fellowship of Christ's Body may show forth in their lives what they profess by their faith; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Please
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week's readings.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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BEAUTIFUL EASTER OFFERINGS FROM AROUND THE CHURCH
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Easter bonnets coffee hour
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Thank you to all near and far who joined in our virtual Holy Week and Easter services. Below are links to more Easter services. Easter is a season; Resurrection, a way of life.
See if you can find Grant, Lisa, and Myra...
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VIRTUAL COFFEE HOUR THIS SUNDAY
This Sunday we invite you to a virtual Zoom coffee hour following the 10 a.m. service. Though conversation has been lively and well-distributed, we still offer a topic of the week: This week the question is: Which comfort foods have you found yourself craving, and perhaps eating more of, during this time?
You will receive the Zoom link the Friday service access email.
You can join online on your computer or mobile device, or dial-in on your cell phone or landline.
Click here
to view a pdf on how to access and use Zoom.
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CREATE CONNECTIONS WITH YOUR REALM ACCOUNT
 You should have received an invitation to Realm in your inbox last week. Please create an account, update your contact information (including BIRTHDAYS, please), and, mostly importantly, opt in to the online directory.
Please check your junk/spam mail if you don't see an invite. If it is not in there, please reply to this email.
In this time of physical separation, we invite you to take part in this plan to nurture real connections that will serve us into the future. Thank you.
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for instructions and more information about Realm.
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ORGAN NOTES: Bach Travels to Lubeck and Outer Space
By Linnea Wren
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| Buxtehude's organ at St. Mary's on Lubeck, Germany installed in 1477 and recently restored. |
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Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.
- Frederic Chopin
And Bach has indeed found the stars. In 1977 NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft into deep space. Onboard is the Voyager Golden Record, a phonograph record that NASA created in case intelligent extraterrestrial beings intercepted the space vehicles. The record includes animal and natural sounds, greetings in 59 different languages and 27 pieces of music-three by Johann Sebastian Bach.
While many others have attributed his extraordinary musical ability to genius, Bach himself attributed it solely to his industriousness. This is clear in his determination, as a young organist, to study with the much older Dietrich Buxtehude, who Bach respected as a master organist and composer. In autumn of 1705, the young Bach walked 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lubeck where he attended Buxtehude's Advent concerts.
Buxtehude's music sometimes required large ensembles. A performance might use multiple organs and choirs, as well as drums, brass instruments and sections.. Bach may have participated on the violin or organ. In organ compositions, such as the Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne (BuxWV 137), Buxtehude creates harmonic shapes through grand chordal passages. These organ pieces, which include improvisation as well as attentiveness to their structural formality, require virtuosic playing.
Bach returned to his position as church organist in Arnstadt three months late. Not only was he reprimanded for neglecting his job, but his employers also criticized his music. Too many "strange variations" and too many "mixed foreign tones" for their taste.
Today, our tastes are different. We will hear Bach played at Christ Church on our virtual pipe organ in its Bach era setting. We might even agree with the eminent biologist Lewis Thomas who initially suggested that the Voyager message to extraterrestials should include the complete works of Bach. "But," he added, "that would be boasting."
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COMMUNITY ART GALLERY CURRENT EXHIBIT
 The Community Art Gallery's Spring 2020 exhibit is "A Year of Skies (2019-2020) by Brigdet Kelty Kendall. This show is a collection of views of the sky that Bridget's been painting over the last year. Many of the paintings are of locations around Needham and the Cape. Bridget currently lives and works in Needham. Please click
here visit her website.
Click
here to check out the Community Art Gallery page on our website, which includes a virtual tour and a link to an online photo album of paintings (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
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MUSIC FROM THE CHRIST CHURCH CHOIR
Click
here to listen "You Raise Me Up (with "Be Still My Soul") recorded by the Christ Church
Choir recorded a while back. It's on the right side titled "Music Highlights".
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NEXT SUNDAY, APRIL 26: GUEST PREACHER -
THE REV. LAURIE ROFINOT
Laurie has been a priest in our diocese since 1987 and has had a rich and  varied "career," serving a dozen congregations as a rector, priest-in-charge, assistant, interim, college chaplain, and hospital chaplain - even as an interim Lutheran pastor. Now she is a dedicated supply and sabbatical priest, filling in where needed, and greatly enjoying leading worship with good people like you! With roots in the Pacific Northwest (Spokane and Seattle, WA), Laurie met her husband Pat Michaels in Minneapolis and they moved to the Boston area in the early 1980s. (Pat is the long-time Music Director at St. James's, Cambridge, having out-lasted at least 10 rectors and interim priests!) They've lived in the same old house in Davis Square, Somerville, for over 25 years, and
they visit their adult daughter, who now herself lives in Minneapolis, whenever possible.
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GUN SAFETY
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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THE WEEK AHEAD
Monday, April 20
Office closed in honor of Patriot's Day
Tuesday, April 21
8:00 a.m. Men's Prayer (via Zoom,
email Stan Hitron for the invite)
9:30 a.m. PRM (via Zoom, members will receive an invite in their email)
Wednesday, April 22
10:00
a.m.
Morning Bible Study (via Zoom,
email Tracy Rubin for the invite)
7:00 p.m. Morning Bible Study (via Zoom, email Tracy Rubin for the invite)
Sunday, April 26
10:00
a.m.
Live stream service via Facebook, with guest preacher The Rev. Laurie Rofinot
(check your inbox the Friday before service for the Zoom invite)
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