This
Week at Christ Church
August 17 - 24
Summer
Weekday Worship Schedule
Morning
Prayer: Monday-Frday at 8:00am (Sat, 8:45am)
Weekday
Masses will resume on Wednesdays and Thursdays of Summer on August
27.
Confessions
& Spiritual Counsel: by appointment
with the clergy
Welcome
to Christ Church ,
New Haven .
We are glad that you are here and hope that you will find in the
readings, in the music, in the prayers and in this long-prayed
in place a sense of God's presence and strength for your life.
We would be grateful if you gave us your name and contact information
in the guest book at the rear of the church so we could include
you in the parish's communications. Christ Church is part of the
Episcopal Church and the world-wide Anglican Communion. Our faith
is grounded in the creeds, expressed in a traditional and rich
liturgical and spiritual life and leads to an active involvement
in the life of the world and a welcome for all who would seek
to join us in service to God and the world around us through Jesus
Christ .
Feel
free to participate
fully in the liturgy—singing the hymns and making the responses,
or to simply sit quietly. The various customs such as kneeling
for prayer, making the sign of the cross and other traditions
are not required.
Coffee
Hour
follows the liturgy,
we encourage you to join us for refreshments and conversation
after the liturgy. If you are visiting from out of town, we wish
you godspeed on your journey; if you live in the area, we would
be delighted to have you worship with us again and find a place
within this community.
Childcare
is provided in the undercroft during the 9am and 11am liturgies.
Fr
Cobb is on vacation
and will be back in his office to pick up messages on Friday,
August 22 . Many Thanks to The Rev'd Robert Deming for
celebrating while Fr David is away.
The
Parish office
will be closed August 15 – August 25.
Please
welcome The Rev'd Kathryn Reinhard
as she takes up residence in St. Hilda's House and begins
her curacy at Christ Church .
To
anyone who is interested in joining
the acolytes, altar guild, flower guild, or ushers, now
is a good time as we begin planning and scheduling for the Fall.
Please contact the office via Email or Phone if you are interested
in participating in any of the various groups.
Thank
you to everyone who has responded
to the questionnaire sent out a couple of weeks
ago. If you have not returned a copy yet please don't forget to
do so. Your reply is very important to helping maintain office
records which are used for Intercessions and various communications
throughout the year. If you didn't receive a questionnaire please
pick up a copy at the back of the church or contact the office
directly. Phone: 203/865-6354 Email: ccmail@christchurchnh.org
Sundays
at 9:15 ,
Professor Murray will be delighted to meet with any and all to
sing through the psalm for the day so that experienced voices
can help the congregation carry it forward. Gather in the choir
stalls.
The
Monday Night Mysticism Group
meets
from 5:30 - 6:30 pm, in the parish lounge. Visitors and new members
are always welcome. Please enter by the Elm Street gate. The group
reads texts aloud and discusses them without any homework preparation.
No prior knowledge or experience is required.
The
Gay Christian Reading Group
meets monthly to discuss a range of readings concerning Gay spirituality
and to support each other in prayer.
The July 31st
meeting of the Gay
Christian Reading Group
has been rescheduled to Thursday
August 21st 6:30pm
in the parish lounge. We
will be reading and discussing excerpts from John Boswell's
"Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality:
Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian
Era to the Fourteenth Century" Everyone is
most welcome! Please join the conversation! Copies
of the readings will be made available in the back of the nave.
The
group also meets for brunch at nearby restaurants on the last
Sunday of the month following the Solemn Mass. Everyone is most
welcome! Please contact Rev'd Archer for further information.
Email: nebula@snet.net
; Phone: 203-907-9504.
The
20s 30s Group Book Sale September 20
A
collection of mysteries & the Undercroft Bookstore Clearance
Plan
on picking up a bargain!!!! More Details Coming Soon . . .
The
20s 30s Group is
a gathering of people in their 20s and 30s (with some leeway and
not too many questions asked…) offering companionship and a way
of contributing to the larger parish community. For more information,
contact Laura Miles , Email: Laura.Miles@gmail.com
Phone: 508-4686 or ccmail@christchurchnh.org
.
The
Community Services Network's
SPIRITUAL
ROUNDTABLE
Invites
you to Walk a Labyrinth
Hosted
by CHRIST CHURCH
On
Tuesday, August 19 from 1:00-3:00
Elm
and Broadway, New Haven , CT
Help
families and individuals enjoy meaningful and satisfying lives
through the coordination of recovery-oriented behavioral health
services.
Community
Services Network's (CSN) mission statement
The
Spiritual Roundtable is composed of representatives from the various
CSN agencies, local religious leaders, and mental health staff
who recognize that spirituality is vitally important in the healing
process. One way in which we hope to make our services more visible
is to let local congregations know who we are and what we do.
Many of our clients are seeking a religious/spiritual home which
will give them support as well as a way to participate in community
during times of illness and wellness.
The
Community Services Network (CSN) is a consortium of eighteen community-based
organizations that provide a variety of behavioral health services
to people throughout the greater New Haven area. Funded by the
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
( DMHAS
) and other public and private sources, the CSN is
an integral part of the Behavioral Health Care System of Greater
New Haven, which serves more than 5,000 individuals annually in
New Haven , Hamden , Bethany and Woodbridge .
The
CSN is coordinated and overseen by the Connecticut
Mental Health Center (CMHC), which is the Lead Mental
Health Authority for the New Haven area. CMHC is a joint endeavor
of DMHAS
and the Yale
University School of Medicine , Department
of Psychiatry.
Across
Time and Traditions
A
labyrinth is a walk-able mandala . ( Mandala
is Sanskrit for circle.) For centuries across cultures and religious
traditions the mandala has been viewed as a form to help center
the body, mind and spirit. The mandala became a labyrinth when
it was discovered that something embedded in the design, when
walked, evokes meditation, reflection and restores a sense of
wholeness and balance to the individual.
There
are copies of the latest Christ Church Directory
at the back of the church. The directory has a life of
its own and is ever-changing. Please let the office know if you
have noted any errors or omissions. If you have noted an omission
it may simply be that the office was unable to attain your information.
Please contact the office at ccmail@christchurchnh.org or call
203/865-6354 with updates.
“RUN”
to Help the Homeless The
‘Midnight Run' is an ongoing ecumenical mission program supported
solely by volunteers from several parishes, civic and student
groups in and around the New Haven area that strives to serve
the needs of the homeless poor in New Haven by distributing donated
food and clothing throughout the year. The Rev. Carol Archer ,
parish deacon has scheduled Christ Church to join the “Run” on
the first Monday of each month ~ year ‘round .
Volunteers meet at 8pm Center Church on the New
Haven green. If you have any questions please contact Deacon Carol
or Alfred Tisdale
Healing
Shawl Ministry:
In response to a request from the Ct. Mental Health Center's coordinator
of Spiritual Services
I would like to invite members of Christ Church to engage in a
Healing/Prayer Shawl ministry. This ministry provides hand-made,
knitted or crocheted shawls to people in treatment & recovery.
An informal group will meet to share a time of knitting, coffee,
prayer, and conversation the 3 rd Sunday of each
month at 9:15am in the parish lounge or you can create
your shawls at home! If anyone would like to offer to teach knitting
for the willing but craft-challenged among us please consider
joining the group to help guide us along. As shawls are completed
they will be blessed at Sunday Mass prior to being donated. Please
see Deacon Carol Archer with questions, for further details, or
to volunteer to help coordinate this ministry.
Day
by Day,
the
daily devotional guide is available at the back of the church.
Coffee
Hour Volunteers
We are always looking for new hosts and could really use your
help so if you would like to volunteer please contact Chris
McDaniel. Ph: 376-5803 Email: cwmcdaniel2002@yahoo.com
The
Community Soup Kitchen
serves lunch four days a week at Christ Church , works closely
with the Saint Luke's Tuesday and Thursday Lunch Program for Women
and Children and assists four local churches to provide breakfast
five days a week. In just January and February
of this year, Community Soup Kitchen provided 11,290
meals to hungry people in New Haven . This figure represents a
20% increase in the same period in 2007. At this rate the soup
kitchen expects to provide over 67,000 meals in 2008. Contact
information is on the back of the bulletin.
This
Week's Scripture Readings:
This
week, the daily readings at Morning and Evening Prayer are from
Proper 15.
Readings
for the Feat of the Blessed Virgin Marry
Isaiah
61:10-11
I
will greatly rejoice in the Lord , my
whole being shall exult in my God; for he has clothed me with
the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of
righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and
as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings
forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to
spring up, so the Lord God will cause
righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Galatians
4:4-7
When
the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman,
born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the
law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because
you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our
hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave but
a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.
Luke
1:46-55
Mary
said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God
my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his
servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his
name. His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud
in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful
from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the
hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. He has
helped his servant Israel , in remembrance of his mercy, according
to the promise he made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his
descendants forever.”
The
House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church Meeting at
the Camp Allen Conference Center, Navasota, Texas March 12, 2008
Give to your Church, O God, a bold vision and a daring charity,
a refreshed wisdom and a courteous understanding, that the eternal
message of your Son may be acclaimed as the good news of the age;
through him who makes all things new, even Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen. (1) We, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, approaching
the forthcoming Lambeth Conference, are mindful of the hurt that
is being experienced by so many in our own Episcopal Church, in
other Provinces of our global communion, and in the world around
us. While the focus of this hurt seems centered on issues of human
sexuality, beneath it we believe there is a feeling of marginalization
by people of differing points of view. Entering into Holy Week,
our response is to name this hurt and to claim our hope that is
in Christ. As the Lambeth Conference approaches, we believe we
have an enormous opportunity, in the midst of struggle, to be
proud of our heritage, and to use this particular time in a holy
way by affirming our rich diversity. The health of such diversity
is that we are dealing openly with issues that affect the entire
global community. Thus, even as we acknowledge the pain felt by
many, we also affirm its holiness as we seek to be faithful to
our Lord Jesus Christ. Even though we did not all support the
consecration of the Bishop of New Hampshire, we acknowledge that
he is a canonically elected and consecrated bishop in this church.
We regret that he alone among bishops ministering within the territorial
boundaries of their dioceses and provinces, did not receive an
invitation to attend the Lambeth Conference. We appeal to the
faithful of the Episcopal Church and the faithful in the wider,
global Anglican family, to focus and celebrate our unity in the
comprehensiveness of diversity. In union with Christian tradition
through the centuries, we are willing to face challenges that
precipitate struggle as a means towards reconciliation. During
our meeting we have been praying for a "daring charity and
courteous understanding." With this intent and guided by
the Holy Spirit, we go to the Lambeth Conference spiritually united
and praying that God will sanctify our struggles and unify us
for Christ's mission to a hurting world. (1) This Franciscan-inspired
prayer was offered by our chaplains during this meeting of the
House of Bishops.
House
of Bishops resolution on 'waterboarding'
March 12, 2008
The
House of Bishops, during its business session on Wednesday afternoon,
March 12, approved a resolution calling for an end to waterboarding
torture. The full resolution follows. Resolved, that the House
of Bishops expresses its dismay at President George W. Bush's
veto of the bill banning torturous interrogation techniques such
as "waterboarding." As followers of the One who said,
"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless
those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you...do to others
as you would have them do to you." (Luke 6:27-28, 31) we
find this method of interrogation morally unacceptable and call
upon members of Congress to override this veto. Submitted
by: Bishop Christopher Epting - Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations
Bishop George Packard - Bishop Suffragan for Chaplaincies
