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This Week at the Church of
the Redeemer |
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Wednesday,
May 2nd
7:00 am Men's Bible Study at the Rectory
8:30 am Morning Prayer Healing Service
Thursday, May 3rd
National Day of Prayer
9:00 am Women's Bible Study at the Rectory
8:30 am Grounds Committee Meeting
Friday, May 4th
11:00 am Memorial Service for Franklin Wyman, Jr.
7:00 pm Celebration Dinner for Confirmands and Parents at the Gangemi's
Saturday, May 5th
9:00 am Service Rehearsal
9:30 am Confirmands' Meeting with Bishop Shaw
10:30 am Deanery Confirmation
Sunday, May 6th
Walk for Hunger
7:30 am Church School Grades 4 - 7: meet at Chestnut Hill T
stop to go into Boston to begin the Walk for Hunger
8:00 am Holy Eucharist (Morning Chapel)
9:00 am Parish Choir Rehearsal
10:30 am Holy Eucharist (Nave)
10:30 am Church School/Childcare Provided
11:30 pm Coffee Hour
6:30 pm Church School Teacher Appreciation Party at the Bullitt's
Monday, May 7th
9:00 am Church Service League
11:30 am Holy Eucharist at Fox Hill
12:00 noon Lunch at Fox Hill
4:00 pm Altar Guild Captains' Meeting
Tuesday, May 8th
9:30 am Church School Committee
11:00 am Staff Calendar Meeting
11:30 am Worship Committee
Please scroll
down for more announcements.
Please see our
website
for more about upcoming events.
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Newton Open Studios
May 19th and May
20th
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Visit Artists Seven at the
Church of the Redeemer
Kate Carleton
Marian Dioguardi
Remmi Franklin
Anne D. Grandin
Will Kirkpatrick
Sandy Mueller-Dick
Nancy Simonds
The Live Music of October
Rose on Saturday at 2:00 pm
10%
of sales are donated to outreach charities |
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Walk for Hunger
The
Church School is hoping to involve all children to raise money for
Project Bread. The younger children will be doing a neighborhood walk
for groceries. The older children, grades 4, 5, 6, and 7, will meet at
the Chestnut Hill T Stop at 7:30 am on Sunday, May 6th to go down to the
Boston Common to begin their walk back to the Church of the Redeemer to
raise money. We will plan to be back by 11:30 am for coffee hour. If
you are interested either in walking or sponsoring a walker, please sign
up in the church school.
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MAY 6, 2007
MINI-WALK FOR HUNGER
SUPPORT THE YOUNGER CHILDREN OF OUR CHURCH SCHOOL IN THEIR
MINI-WALK FOR HUNGER
AND FOOD DRIVE
PLEASE SPONSOR THE CHILDREN BY BRINGING IN TWO BAGS OF GROCERIES ON MAY 6TH.
CHILDREN WHO PARTICIPATE WILL TAKE A SHORT WALK IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD DURING
THE SERVICE ON May 6. EACH CHILD WILL BE HONORED WITH A CERTIFICATE OF
THANKS. |
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Children’s Opera/PALS Concert
May 20th at 6:00 pm
The children are
working on the opera Daniel commissioned by the
Church of the Redeemer and composed by Melissa Carubia. The calendar is
below.
May 13th; Rehearsal
9:00-11:00AM
May 20th;
Rehearsal and Performance during the 6:00 pm PALS
Concert 5:00-7:00PM
The Redeemer Youth Choir will join with
the PALS girls choir to perform a benefit for Bridge Over Troubled Waters on
May 20th at 6:00. The concert will feature sections performed by the PALS
girls choir as well as the second performance of the children's opera
Daniel. The concert will be held in the sanctuary with a reception
following the performance. |
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2007-2008 Church Calendar
If you have any dates to be put on the church's
2007-2008 calendar, please send them to the
office as soon as possible. Many thanks. |
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Service Assistants for next year!
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2007-2008
Service Assistants
If you are
interested in serving as a Lay Eucharistic Minister, Lector, Acolyte,
Server, Usher or Greeter, please contact the
office.
If you have
any questions about the responsibilities of these positions, please feel
free to contact an active service assistant, Dorsey, or Suzy Westcott. |
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 Please
join us for a
Newcomers’
Orientation
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Where:
Church of the Redeemer
379
Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill
When:
Wednesday, May 9th
Time:
7:00 p.m.
Please
RSVP to the Church Office at 617-566-7679.
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Members of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Keisuke Wakao
Thomas Martin
Oboe Clarinet
Elizabeth
Ostling Richard Ranti
Flute Bassoon
RECITAL
Monday, May 14,
2007
7:30 pm
Hugh Hinton
Piano
A Night Piece for Flute and Piano
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
Oboe Sonata
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Polonaise Brilliante for Bassoon and Piano, Op. 3 in C
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
and more
Suggested Donation: Adults - $20, Seniors - $15, Students - $10,
Children - free |
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Christmas Market 2007
The
sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and naturally our thoughts turn
to Christmas! Join in the spirit of comradarie! We need volunteers to
help out with all aspects of this year’s Market and Auction. We have
different roles that can fit different schedules -- from an hour free
here and there to a more substantial involvement. If you’re interested
in helping out, please join us for a meeting of interested volunteers
on Tuesday, May 15 at 9:30, or contact the co-chairs, Amy Weed (aweed01@yahoo.com,
617- 879-0123) or Julia Woodard (jebillo@aol.com,
617-522-5021).
Committees include: Food , Greens, Consignors,
Auction, Baked Goods, Crafts. Visit our new web site:
www.redeemerchestnuthill.org/cmarket for photos, details, and more!
It’s never too early to donate to the Christmas
Market Auction! If you have an auction item to donate, please contact
Mary Crown (mecrown@lotsoc.com)
or Amy Weed. If you are interested in participating in the Auction
committee, please come to a meeting on Wednesday, May 23 at 9:30, or
contact Mary Crown.
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Yard Sale
Save the Date
Please consider donating your treasures
to this year’s Yard Sale, which will take place on
Saturday, June 2nd from
9:00 am – 2:00 pm and
Sunday, June 3rd following
the 10:30 am service.
All funds will go towards our pledge to
the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference
Center.
If you are interested in helping with
this project, please call the office at 617-566-7679.
All donations are tax-deductible.
Pick up of large items is available if
needed.
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A Message
from Chris Eastburn
Dear
friends,
Below is
information about 3 exciting upcoming
performances.
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On Sunday
May 6th "Consent to Gravity" will be
performed on a concert called "Voices of
the Spirit- Voices of New England" at
Grace Episcopal Church in Newton,
MA under the direction of Vivian
Montgomery & Linda Clark. Even if
you've already heard "Consent on
Gravity" live in L.A., N.Y.C, Boston,
Providence or on CD this promises to be
a very unique and exciting performance
as it will also include the lush and
lovely voices of a choir in addition to
soloists and string quartet. (See below
for a complete listing of the many
excellent works and living composers
featured on the concert)
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for
those of you in Maine- Also on
Sunday May 6th, "Castles in the
Air" will be performed by the Southern
Maine Children's Chorus directed by Lise
Dunn. "Castles in the Air", written by
Eliza Moore and myself, was originally
commissioned and performed by the PALS
Children's Chorus as an energetic finale
to their performance at the American
Choral Directors Association conference
in Boston. The Southern Maine
Children's Chorus is doing a terrific
job with it. (I heard them in rehearsal
last week.) Also on the program is
music by Mozart, Hungarian Folk Songs, a
"My Favorite Things" etc... (see below
for complete info)
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On Saturday
May 12th a bluegrass inspired musical
setting I did of the "For the Beauty of
the Earth" text is being performed by
the Treble Chorus of New England at
Merrimack College in North Andover, MA
directed by Darren Dailey. This will
be the premiere of a new arrangement of
the piece which I originally composed in
2002. (I was pleased to realize in the
rearranging that it's possible to infuse
the energy of a bluegrass band into the
10 fingers of a pianist!) The song has
a very joyous, celebratory spirit. Also
on the program are works by Alice
Parker, Nick Page and many American
standards. (see below for complete
info)
“Voices of the Spirit - Voices of New
England,” a Collaborative Concert
Presented by Grace Episcopal Church
Newton and First Parish Unitarian
Needham, on Sunday, May 6, 4:00 p.m.,
Grace Episcopal Church, Newton
Contact: Vivian Montgomery (Music
Director, First Parish Needham),
617-969-5806/
vmontgomery@verizon.net; Linda Clark
(Music Director, Grace Episcopal
Church), 508-668-5055/
Clarkpease2@cs.com
On Sunday, May 6, the music program of
First Parish Unitarian Universalist
Needham will be collaborating with the
music program of Grace Episcopal Church
in Newton on a program entitled "Voices
of the Spirit - Voices of New England:
Recent Works by Regional
Composers." The concert will take place
at Grace Episcopal Church at 76 Eldredge
Street in Newton Corner at 4:00 p.m.
Suggested donation is $10/ $5 for
students, youth, & senior citizens. To
contact the church, please call
617-244-3221 or go the website at
Gracenewton.org.
The program involves performances by the
adult AND children's choirs from both
congregations as well as soloists Eva
Kendrick (soprano), Diane Droste
(mezzo), Daniel Molkentin (tenor), and
Bradford Gleim (baritone). The
performers also include a string quartet
of the most prized graduate students
from the Longy School of Music.The
repertoire includes Christopher
Eastburn's "Consent to Gravity"
(settings of texts by painter Frederick
Sommer), Christopher Montgomery's
setting of Robert Blake's "The Mental
Traveller," and the world premiere of
Eva Kendrick's treatment of Naomi Shihab
Nye's poem "Famous," commissioned for
the occasion. Other compositions will be
by Daniel Pinkham, Frank Pesci, Elena
Ruehr and John Howell Morrison. Such
cooperation as has developed between
music directors Vivian Montgomery (First
Parish) and Linda Clark (Grace Episcopal
Church) is a great demonstration of the
nourishing exchange of artistic
resources that can take place among
religious institutions in the Boston
area. And the music is full of fresh and
amazing sounds, along with moving,
challenging texts.
Sunday, May 6, 3:00 P.M Immanuel Baptist
Church, Portland.
SOUTHERN MAINE CHILDREN’S CHORUS
Come listen to the beautiful voices of
the Southern Maine Children's Chorus as
they usher in the season. The 100 voice
Southern Maine Children's Chorus will be
performing a spring concert on Sunday
afternoon, May 6 at 3:00 p.m. at the
Immanuel Baptist Church in Portland,
Maine. The chorus, which includes a
training choir and concert choir, will
perform a varied repertoire including
Laudate Dominum by Mozart, Matyas
Seiber's Three Hungarian Folk Songs, a
jazz arrangement of My Favorite Things
and Castles In the Air by Chris Eastburn
and Eliza Moore. Donations accepted at
the door.
Saturday, May 12, 7:30 p.m. -
Rogers Center, Merrimack College, North
Andover, MA
Director, Darren Dailey
Associate Director, Valerie Becker
With featured guests, Back Bay Ringers,
and the Treble Chorus of New England
will perform classics from patriotic
American standards and showcase musical
gems from New England composers Alice
Parker, Nick Page, and Chris Eastburn.
Tickets: $14.00
Seniors and Students: $8.00
Reservations and Information:
978-837-5461 or www.treblechorus.com
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This Week's Service Assistants
Deanery Confirmation
Saturday, May 5th at 10:30 am
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P. Burnham |
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Acolytes: |
P. Sampson, J.
Gangemi |
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Lector: |
V. Perry |
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LEM's: |
L. Doran Stern, S. Westcott, M. Finley,
TBD |
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Ushers: |
D. Tucker (Head Usher), P. Coffin, J. Metcalf, TBD |
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M. Gangemi, M.
Gangemi |
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Sunday, May 6th
at 10:30 am
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Server: |
D. Cho |
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Acolytes: |
E. Brewster, B. Mills |
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Lector: |
D. Brewster, L. Doran Stern |
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LEM's: |
K. Murphy, M. Finley |
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Ushers: |
F. Lloyd (Head Usher), C. Cooney, E.
Maynard, C. Sampson |
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Greeters: |
D. Mills, G. Mills |
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If you are
available to serve in any of the positions marked ‘TBD’,
please contact the office!! |
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If you have recently moved, changed phone numbers or any other contact
information, please call or e-mail the church
office so that we may update the Parish
Directory |
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