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VT Faith Community's
Online News -December 2011
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Faith Common is the email
newsletter of the Vermont Ecumenical Council & Bible
Society (VEC). PLEASE POST IT in your house of worship.
To be added to this newsletter mailing list or to submit
news, please send an email to the VEC office at info@vecbs.org.
In This Newsletter
- Week of Prayer for Christian Unity services in VT
- Advent Meditations
- Festival of Gregorian Chant, Seasonal & Organ Music
- Taize service at St. Paul's Cathedral
- King James Bible 400th Anniversary Events
- Tending the Fire retreats
- Disaster Relief – Volunteer Opportunities
- Kotzschmar Organ Festival
PRAYER
Kept for Thee
Ah, dearest Jesus,
holy child,
make thee a bed,
soft, undefiled,
within my heart,
that it may be
a quiet chamber
kept for thee.
By Martin Luther, 16th Century
WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY SERVICES
PLEASE CONTACT US
Let the VT Ecumenical Council
(info@vecbs.org) know if your congregation hosts or participates
in a Week of Prayer for Christian Unity service in January (or
at another time) – or if you know of Week of Prayer services
happening around the state. A list of the services that we've
been notified about will be in the next VEC newsletter.
ADVENT MEDITATIONS
The Rev. Frank Wade of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington
has provided/will provide a meditation for each day throughout
Advent. To read the meditations
His meditation for today is a quote by William James, a teacher
and philosopher of the late 19th and early 20th centuries:
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions
and big success and am for those tiny invisible molecular moral
forces that work from individual to individual through the
crannies of the world, like so many rootlets, or like the capillary
oozing of water, yet which, if you give them time will rend the
hardest moments of men's pride.
FESTIVAL OF GREGORIAN CHANT, SEASONAL and
ORGAN MUSIC
Saint Michael's College Chapel is the site of this festival on
Sunday, Dec. 18 at 3 pm. It is free and open to the public.
The 20-member Vermont Gregorian Chant Schola, directed
by Dr. William Tortolano, will perform. Guests are asked to
bring a free will offering for the Food Shelf.
TAIZE SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
This service of meditation, silence, candlelight and music will
be on Sunday, January 15 at 7:30 pm at St. Paul's Cathedral,
2 Cherry Street, Burlington. It is free and open to all. Contact
Mark Howe: 802-864-0471 x 15, mhowe@stpaulscathedralvt.org
for more information.
KING JAMES BIBLE 400th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Saint Michael's College will be hosting an exhibit on the King
James Version of the Bible (KJV) from Apr. 11 - May 11, 2012.
The exhibit, which will be displayed in the library at the college,
will be free and open to the public. In conjunction with this
exhibit, several events will be happening at St. Michael's and at
the University of Vermont including lectures, panel discussion,
and a musical performance which the VT Ecumenical Council
and Bible Society will sponsor.
SAVE THE DATE
APRIL 19th
for the lecture at Saint Michael's on the KJV by Ellie Bagley,
Middlebury College Professor of Religion; it will be followed
by a reception. More information about the KJV Anniversary
celebration events will be in this newsletter in coming months.
TENDING THE FIRE
This series of 3 retreats offers clergy a new understanding of
their church's emotional dynamics and new energy for ministry.
The process is based on Bowen Family Systems Theory as
applied to the church. Th Rev. Barbara Lemmel leads. She has
been leading Tending the Fire retreats since 2003. The retreats
will be in January, March, and May 2012. To find out more,
contact Barb Lemmel at 802-881-3267, barblemmel@mac.com
or go to: www.tending-the-fire.com
DISASTER RELIEF – OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER
A workday will be happening in the Mad River Valley on
Tuesday, 12/20. The group will meet at the Williston Federated
Church parking lot at 8:30 am and carpool to Mad River Valley.
Contact: Charlie Magill – CMagillVT@aol.com
-The Mad River Long Term Recovery Team is looking for 8-10
workers daily in Moretown and Waitsfield. They will provide
supervision and equipment. Contact: asahrowles@gmail.com
KOTZSCHMAR CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL CELEBRATION
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for your church organist.
It is the Centennial celebration of the Kotzschmar Organ in the
Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine. The festival will run
from Aug. 17 – 22, 2012. Topics will include improvisations,
creating your own transcriptions at the console, organ registra-
tions, education programs, service playing, and more. Master
classes will demonstrate technical skills to improve organ
performance. A pre-paid registration would be a wonderful
way to thank your church organist. For more information,
contact Elsa Geskus at 207-571-9859 or egeskus@foko.org
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL from the
Vermont Ecumenical Council and Bible Society
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