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Calendar for the Week
Wednesday 04/01
8:30 am
Morning Prayer
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Office Hours
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Boys & Girls Club
7:00 pm
Choir Rehearsal
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Thursday 04/02
Maundy Thursday
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Boys & Girls Club
7:00 pm
Choral Eucharist w/
Stripping of the Altar
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Friday 04/03
Good Friday
11:00 am -1:00 pm
Office Hours
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Boys & Girls Club
7:00 pm
The Proper Liturgy of Good Friday
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Saturday 04/04
Easter Eve
7:00 pm
Choral Eucharist w/
Holy Baptism
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Sunday 04/05
Easter Day
9:00 am
Choir Rehearsal
10:00 am
Festal Choral Eucharist
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Monday 04/06
8:30 am
Morning Prayer
2:00 pm - 6:00pm
Boys & Girls Club
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Tuesday 04/07
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Office Hours
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Boys & Girls Club
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Knitting Group
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Wednesday 04/08
8:30 am
Morning Prayer
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Office Hours
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Boys & Girls Club
7:00 pm
Choir Rehearsal
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Leadership
Interim Priest
The Reverend Sarah A. Conner
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Assisting Clergy
The Reverend E. Clifford Cutler
The Reverend Manny Faria
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Vestry
Ryan Patten, Senior Warden
Lisa Duffy, Junior
Warden
Joanna Troy, Clerk
Katie Scott, Treasurer
Javy Awan
Kai Freyleue
Christine Reichert
Susan Tweed
Caroline Watson-Felt
Holly Willis
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Staff
Mark N. Peterson, Music Director
Jenny Connors,
Parish Administrator
Tom and Karen Tucker, Sextons
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Anti-racism Team
Kathy Baldwin
Maureen Bingham
Marianne Cannon
Cliff Cutler
Kourtni Patten
Jane Thompson
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Verger
Joanne Moar
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Acolyte
Gavin Watson-Bertrand
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Altar Guild
Laura Beasley-Topliffe,
Directress
Lisa Duffy
Caroline Ogah
Holly Willis
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Flower Committee
Deb Papps, Chair
Maureen Joyce
Jane Thompson
Caroline Watson-Felt
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Celtic Meditations Team
Ryan Patten, musician
Kourtni Patten
Paul Massari
Kathleen Tone
Marianne Cannon
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Director of Church School
Melissa Barnes
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Ad Hoc Fundraising
Peggy Carter
Melissa Barnes
Joanne Moar
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Property
Deb Papps
Tom Tucker
Jason Barnes
Susie Tweed
Jason Sparapani
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Creation Care
Laura Beasley-Topliffe
Louise Faria
Jane Stewart
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Garden of Life
Jason Stonehouse
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Convention Delegates
Laura Beasley-Topliffe
Marianne Cannon
Ryan Patten, Alternate
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Deanery Delegates
Laura Beasley-Topliffe
Marianne Cannon
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A Note from Sarah
Were you there?
Dear friends,
“Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” That’s the title of an old spiritual often sung during Holy Week. Of course, none of us were there two thousand years ago when Jesus was crucified. But like the spiritual, Holy Week calls us to be there in our souls. During Holy Week, we walk the way of the cross with Jesus. The rich services of this week – Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday – allow us to bear witness to his passion and death on the cross. We contemplate the costly offering Jesus made on the cross, expressed in one of our Eucharistic prayers: “he stretched out his arms upon the cross and offered himself…a perfect sacrifice for the
whole world.”
And from this offering, resurrection comes. By a love we cannot fathom, God raised Jesus from the dead and unleashed the power of “new and unending life” in him. We will never understand resurrection. Rather, in the words of the poet Wendell Berry, we’re called to practice resurrection.
I invite you to come to the Holy Week and Easter services at Grace, whether in person or online. The Maundy Thursday and Good Friday liturgies are designed to bring us “there,” to the cross. And our Easter Vigil and Easter Day services will be full of signs and songs of resurrection.
I wish you a blessed Holy Week and a joyous Easter!
May you know God’s peace today.
~Sarah
priest@gracechurchsalem.org
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Sarah Away April 6 through April 12
Like many clergy, my contract includes time off the week after Easter, and so I will be away from April 6th through April 12th . I will remain on call if there is a pastoral emergency. Note that I will not be checking my email during that time. On Sunday, April 12th , I’m grateful that Cliff Cutler will be the celebrant and preacher at our 10:00 a.m. service, and Manny Faria will be the celebrant at our 4:00 p.m. service.
~ Sarah
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Thursday, April 2nd
Maundy Thursday
At our 7:00 pm Choral Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar, the Rev. Sarah A. Conner will preside. Caroline Watson-Felt is our Lector and Katie Scott will act as our Usher.
Friday, April 3rd
Good Friday
At our 7:00 pm Proper Liturgy of the Day, the Rev. Sarah A. Conner will preside. Lisa Duffy is our Lector and Megan Salamida will act as our Usher.
Saturday, April 4th
Easter Eve
At our 7:00 pm Choral Eucharist, the Rev. Sarah A. Conner will preside. Our Lectors will be: Maureen Bingham, Jim Harrison, Deb Papps, Wes Utsler and Gavin Watson-Felt. Lisa Duffy will be our Chalicer and Jim Duffy will act as our Usher.
Sunday, April 5th
Easter Sunday
At our 10:00 pm Festal Choral Eucharist, the Rev. Sarah A. Conner will preside. Jane Thompson is our Lector, Lisa Duffy will be our Chalicer, and Jason Barnes and Jim Duffy will act as our Ushers.
Select services are broadcast live on our Facebook page so you can join us from wherever you are. Leaflets may be found on our website.
Please join us wherever you are
in your search for meaning.
Everyone is welcome at any and all services at
Grace Episcopal Church.
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Parish Prayer List
Please keep the following in your prayers:
Mary Brown, Robert Borden, Linda Abbene, Deven Manthorne, Chuck Manck, Margarette Connor, Barbara Dwyer, Lilyann, John Gilbo, Vance Gilbert, Reny Sparapani, Laurel, Gary Young, Amy, Paul, Heather and Prescott, Ariana, Sheridan, Javy, Faith Aroko and Family, Jesse Hurst and Family, Maureen Joyce, Arthur, Deb Young, Cindy Rhodes, Ron, Allison Mascolo, Melissa Glassman, Max Joyce, Marc Britt, those battling cancer, Mel, Corey MacNeil, Dianne, Jenny, Loretta and Kris, Priscilla Lemons, Deb Papps, Derek Fuller and Family, for the peaceful repose of the soul of Smadar and all victims of war the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and their ministries; the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem, the Salem Public Schools and for an end to racism, war, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, gun violence and oppression. In thanksgiving, we pray for the ministry of The Reverend Debbie Phillips and her husband, Eric Wagner, this community of faith, for God’s grace and forgiveness, for those with the courage to stand up to tyranny, for creation, for the diversity of people, and for all the blessings of this life.
If you have additions or deletions to the prayer list, please email prayerlist@gracechurchsalem.org by Tuesday at noon for publication in that week's e-news.
The Parish Prayer List is read aloud each Wednesday at Morning Prayer.
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