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God is calling the community of Saint Peter's Parish to live, worship and serve according to Christ's word and example.
SUNDAY AT ST. PETER'S
Today is Brookhaven Home Sunday! The Brookhaven Children and Family Services offer a safe, nurturing, multi-disciplinary residential treatment environment for boys, ages 6 through 14, with severe conduct disorders. Located in Chelsea, it is licensed by the State of Vermont and has its own private school and a Family Learning Center. The Brookhaven Home is a ministry of the Diocese of Vermont and welcomes your support. You are invited to use the envelopes to make a contribution to this vital ministry. Mother Anita
As is our custom, a Service of Laying on of Hands for healing for yourselves or others immediately follows both morning services in the Lady Chapel.
"Discovering Jesus in Sunday's Scriptures”: Gather with the Rector on Sunday mornings at 9:05 at St. Peter's to learn more about who Jesus was and is.
The Pastoral Care Committee, led by Nancy Bower, meets at 11:30 am in the Guild Room.
THIS WEEK AT ST. PETER'S
Morning Prayer is read every Monday - Friday morning at 8 am in the Lady Chapel.
Monday, July 21st – Vestry meets at 7 pm in the Parish Hall. All are welcome.
Tuesday, July 22nd – Bone Builders meets from 10:15–11:30 am in the Parish Hall.
Wednesday, July 23rd – Meditation is led by Michelle Peattie at 7 am and 6:30 pm in the Guild Room. All are welcome.
Thursday, July 24th – The Faithful Folders gather at 9 am in the Parish Hall.
Thursday, July 24th - Holy Eucharist is celebrated at 10 am in the Lady Chapel. We remember Thomas a Kempis, medieval writer and priest, perhaps best known for his work, “The Imitation of Christ,” a treasure book on the life of Christian discipleship.
Thursday, July 24th – Bone Builders meets from 10:15–11:30 am in the Parish Hall.
Thursday, July 24th - New Summer Course at Congregation Beth El – “The History of Jewish Poetry: Forever Seeking Something Lost” from 4 – 5:15 at 225 North Street. Join Rabbi Joshua Boettiger for a class exploring the terrain of Jewish poetry and how it’s manifested throughout the ages. We will be reading and studying poetry ranging from the psalms of the Hebrew Bible, to the Yiddish poets and their navigation between old and new world, to Bialik, Tsernokovsky and the other great modernists, and finally to Yehuda Amichai, and the Jewish poets writing in Israel and America today. All are welcome.
Saturday, July 26th –Whether you attend St. Peter’s or not, you and your children are warmly invited to a camp out at Woodford State Park and enjoy nature activities. Please call Colleen Gates 518-423-2485 or Mary Gerisch 802-379-6311 by July 16th for reservations or for more information.
COMING EVENTS
Wednesday, July 30th - St. Peter’s Reading Group at 7 pm – From Christianbook.com - Putting on the Mind of Christ by Jim Marion and Ken Wilber "Let this mind be in you, which also was in Christ Jesus." How do we get the mind of Christ? Hunt explains how God works within you, continually renewing and reshaping your mind to reflect his. Plenty of practical ideas apply 'mind-renewal' to everyday life: work, family, relationships. If you long for Christ likeness in your thought life, this book is for you." Discussion will be led by Peter Bulterman.
Wednesday July 30th at 7pm Caring for the Green Earth: A Family Concert with the award winning husband and wife duo, Two of a Kind, Lake Paran, North Bennington - $7.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Canterbury welcomes Lambeth visitors; plans for future pilgrims
By Matthew Davies
Canterbury Cathedral has served as a place of prayer, worship and pilgrimage for 1,400 years. The rich heritage of this historic landmark in southeast England is a reminder of the countless Christians who have passed the flame throughout the centuries to ensure that the cathedral’s legacy is never forgotten.
“So many people come here because of its historical roots, and over the years a rich history of this community has encouraged Christianity throughout the world,” says the Very Rev. Robert Willis, cathedral dean.
The mother church of the Anglican Communion and indeed of English-speaking Christianity, Canterbury Cathedral’s story began in 597 AD when St. Augustine reintroduced Christianity to this region of southeast England. (A Christian church had been located here when Britain was controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410). While proud of the cathedral’s heritage, Willis says, he also knows it’s essential to preserve the building and its foundation for generations to come.
“Canterbury is still a place where pilgrims love to come, and pilgrimage right across the world is on the increase, so we see more and more official pilgrims who want to be blessed as they set off or congratulated on their arrival,” says Willis, who came to Canterbury in 2001 after serving as dean of Hereford Cathedral. “That as a focus for the cathedral’s ministry is a good one because cathedrals are places where people come and worship and then take the welcome they get away with them to enrich the lives of their own communities.”
The community that serves Canterbury Cathedral plays a vital role in continuing the worshipping traditions and welcoming the more than 1 million visitors each year. Those who work to keep the cathedral running on a day-to-day basis include clergy, vergers, stone masons, carpenters, stewards and many more.
The cathedral is more than just a beautiful old building, its website boasts. “It is a place of worship, a place to meet, a sanctuary, a haven, a celebration, a place of joy and occasionally sadness, but most of all it is alive with the people that make the cathedral what it is today.”
Canterbury welcomes Lambeth visitors; plans for future pilgrims: By Matthew Davies
On July 20th, Canterbury Cathedral is hosting several hundred pilgrims representing 164 countries around the world as the bishops of the Anglican Communion travel to the “garden of England”—as the southeastern county of Kent is affectionately known—to attend the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference.
The bishops, Willis says, are not visiting Canterbury as guests. Rather, he says, “they come here as those who possess this mother church as their own as surely as I do.”
“They’re also joining a community which is already here, which has been historically for 1,400 years saying its prayers and celebrating the sacraments daily,” he adds. “So they [are] part of that extended community while they’re here, as the Anglican Communion is part of that extended community right across the world.”
But for Canterbury Cathedral to be preserved for generations to come, it must raise 50 million pounds (US$100 million) to finance an extensive conservation and development program.
“Always in a heritage site like this, you’re going to find the day-to-day income, which normally pays the bills, is not going to be enough for massive projects, and from time to time in its history—about every 30 years—Canterbury has had to raise money for a major project,” Willis says.
The appeal is required to replace the long lead roof, which has stretched over the years, fund stone and glass refurbishment, and secure the choral foundation and ministry to children and adults in education “and to pilgrims who come and want to learn something while they’re here and receive a good welcome from the facilities that are here,” says Willis. “A place where people have prayed in their millions over the years and is still held precious, which is the home to a creative community set there to carry on both the tradition of prayer and daily life, becomes something so wholesome within this world that one wants to hand it on for the benefit of humankind.”
Matthew Davies is editor of Episcopal Life Online and Episcopal Life Media correspondent for the Anglican Communion.
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