Weekly HigHligHts of ParisH life December 9 - 16, 2018

This Week AT ChrisT ChurCh

SUNDAY, DEC. 9 8 am Holy Eucharist (N) 9 am Holy Eucharist (N)** 10:10 am Rector's Forum (U)** 10:10 am Sunday School (Ed. Wing)** 1:30 pm Pre-Concert Lecture (U) 3 pm Concert: Christmas Oratorio (N)**

MONDAY, DEC. 10 Offices Closed

TUESDAY, DEC. 11 8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC) 9:30 am Staff Meeting (B217) 4 pm Holy Eucharist @ The Rivers (Offsite) 4 pm Buildings & Grounds (B213) 5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC) 5:30 pm Daughters of the King (FR) 6:30 pm Annual Giving Committee (B213) 6:30 pm DA (MH) 7:30 pm Sacred Practices (B217)

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12 8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC) 5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC) 5:30 pm Holy Eucharist (SMC)** 6 pm Community Dinner (U)** 6:30 pm Catechumenate (BL)** 6:30 pm Emmaus (U)** 6:30 pm 1st through 5th Gr. (B213)** 6:30 pm Confirmation (B217)** 8:30 pm AA (LL)

THURSDAY, DEC. 13 8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC) 10:30 am High School Pizza Lunch (LL) 5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

FRIDAY, DEC. 14 8:30 am Morning Prayer (SMC) 5 pm Evening Prayer (SMC)

SATURDAY, DEC. 15 Offices Closed 7:30 am Mariner’s Inn Service Day (Offsite) 10:30 am Funeral: Colin Wilkinson (N) 8:30 pm AA (LL)

SUNDAY, DEC. 16 8 am Holy Eucharist (N) 9 am Holy Eucharist (N)** 10:10 am Rector’s Forum (U)** 10:10 am Sunday School (Ed. Wing)** 3 pm Evensong (N)**

**Childcare is provided in B113/Nursery

Location Abbreviations: BL - Bicknell Library CC - Children’s ChapelEdW - 2nd fl. Ed. Wing FL - Front LawnFR - Family Room LL - Lower Level MH - Miller Hall N - Nave RG - Rose Garden SMC - ChapelU - Undercroft

All Children are Welcome! Children gather at the Children’s Cross for the Collect of the Day and Dismissal to Children’s Chapel to hear the story of Jesus and engage in a meaningful reflection of the lessons for that Sunday, before returning to join in our Prayers and to share in the Peace and Holy Communion.

Church School for children follows (from 10:10 am to 11:00 am) the service in the education wing as follows: pre-K to 1st – Godly Play (Room B216), 2nd Grade Communion Enrichment (Room B217), 3rd to 5th Grade (Room B213), and 6th-7th Grade (Lower Level). We look forward to learning with your saint!

Rector’s ForumSundays in the Undercroft, 10:10 –11 am

Sunday, December 9 - Wrestling with Faith, Part 3: What is Christianity?Join Fr. Drew and Fr. Walter as we continue this series of forums that wrestle with fundamental questions of faith. Participants may prepare by reading Rowan Williams’ “Little Book of Guidance” entitled: What is Christianity?

WeLCOMeW elcome to all! We come together on today to worship God and to discover what it means to

be a person of faith in this world. We encourage you to participate fully in this service of Word and Sacrament. If you are new to Christ Church, please know that you have a place among us. If you are looking for a spiritual home, we hope that you will consider making Christ Church that home. We are better together and hope you will join us on our common journey to the heart of Christ.

Tickets $25 at www.christchurchgp.org/concerts

Depicting the birth of Jesus, the annunciation to the shepherds, the adoration of the shepherds, and the adoration of the Magi, Bach’s exquisite writing will lift your spirits from the opening chorus to the final chorale. This performance will feature the Christ Church Chorale with the Michigan Bach Collective, the region’s new period instrument orchestra.

Christmas Oratorio | J. S. bachToday, Sunday, December 9 | 3 pm

Pre-concert lecture at 1:30 pmChrist Church Chorale with the Michigan Bach Collective

61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313-885-4841 • christchurchgp.org

Parish & Community Events

Deadline is Noon Sunday, December 16 Names Needed!! Thank you to all who have taken a wish list from the boards in the Undercroft for the Christmas Gift Project. When you take a list please put your name on the list so we know who has each list. We are missing names for the following numbers: #20, 21, 46, 47, 57, 58, 117, 127. If you have one of these please let Joseph know at rectorsoffice@christchurchgp.org. Remember, wrapped gifts must be dropped off under the Christmas tree in the lobby alcove by Noon on Sunday December 16. Thank you!

Wednesdays at Christ Church, December 12Living lives of faith together5:30 pm - Holy Eucharist6:00 pm - Community Dinner (Suggested donation $20/family)6:30 pm - The Catechumenate: Session 1 - The Emmaus Journey: The Comm. of the Beloved Disciple - CCKids (Room B-213) – Joseph & His Brothers: Conclusion - Confirmation (Room B-217) – God the Redeemer

(Nursery care available 5:30-8:30 pm)

For more information contact Fr. Brownridge at wbrownridge@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4841, ext. 116.

Christmas CD Available

On Christmas Night Christmas CD Available

22 songs featuring the Christ Church Choirs. Proceeds to benefit the Christ Church Grosse Pointe Music Program. $15 at Church Office. Also available on iTunes and Amazon.

For more information contact Scott Hanoian at shanoian@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4841, ext. 102.

Parish Marketplace, Sunday, Dec. 9, 8 am – 1 pm

Go to www.christchurchgp.org/gghome for all the details

For more information contact Diane Ward at dward@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4841, ext. 107.

Saturday & Sunday, December 8 & 9Our parish has a tradition of delivering red poinsettias for those who are unable to make it to church or have suffered a loss during the year. You are invited to take a plant this weekend, Dec. 8-9 and deliver it to a special parishioner. Names and addresses are provided for you.

Deliver Poinsettias

Sunday, December 23, 2018, 4:30 pmPre-service organ recital at 4 pmOur Service of Nine Lessons and Carols foretells the birth of our Lord through story and song. As beautiful as the service may be, it serves only to shine a light and direct our gaze upon the Nativity itself, a birth for which we still wait and long. On that Holy Night of Christmas, I encourage you to make your way to your Church home to celebrate again the in-breaking of God’s love and light.

Candlelight Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

Sunday, January 20, 2019Mark your calendars! The Right Rev’d Robert C. Wright, Bishop of Atlanta visits Christ Church on January 20 in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Bishop Wright will preach and speak at the Rector’s Forum.

The Right Rev’d Robert C. Wright, Bishop of Atlanta

Tuesday, December 11, 5:30 pm in The Family RoomOptional pre-meeting prayer at Evening Prayer in St. Margaret’s Chapel from 5 - 5:30 pm

Welcome to all women of the parish! During Tuesday’s meeting, we will be continuing our discussion of women of The Book of Exodus. Our focus will be on the words of Zipporah, found in Chapter Four of Bible Women: Their Words and Why They Matter.

For more information contact Karen Davenport at kmd.63@comcast.net

61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313-885-4841 • christchurchgp.org

We Pray together:Please leave your written prayer request at our Reception Desk or contact Fr. Drew at dvanculin@christchurchgp.org. In order to keep all our prayers for healing meaningful and current, we will keep names on the Prayer List for two weeks.

Assisting at Services:

In the Diocese of Michigan Cycle of Prayer: Christ Church, Detroit; Saint John the Evangelist, Peidra Blanca and Good Shepherd, San Pedro, DR; and Church of the Messiah, Detroit.

In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer we pray for: Falkland Islands; The Rt. Rev’d Timothy Thornton.

In our Parish Cycle of Prayer this week we pray for: Pete and Sidney King; Robert Kingscott and Susan Mara, and daughter Mara; Judy Kling; Vicky Kling; James and Jane Knaus.

We pray for those in active military service for our country: Nathan Gaggin, Ryan Worrell, George H. Zinn IV.

We offer prayers for: Ann, Constance, Elizabeth, George, Herb, Jake, Jane, Joe, Joyce, Kate, Kathy, Nancy, Otto, Rob, Sandy, Tom.

We pray for the repose of the souls of: Ben Paddock III, Colin Wilkinson.

In celebration for the birthdays and anniversaries of: Nancy Kominiarek, Sidonie Brown, Karl Baumgarten, Jodi Burton-Thompson, Gerhard Heinen, Jocelyn Padden, Elizabeth Felix, Karl Koto, Charles Exley, Edward Turner, George & Lynn Detwiler; Ron & Linda Solterisch.

Altar Guild: 8 am Christine Wardwell, Mary Bamford 9 am Cathy Dawson, Sue Chaklos

Eucharistic Ministers: 8 am Ed White 9 am Al Torp, Margaret Torp, Miranda Ferrara

Lector: 9 am Lynnette Iannace

Prayers: 9 am Thom Nealssohn

Verger: 9 am John Van Osdol

Acolytes: 9 am Graham Romer, Emma Reich, Betsy Oliver,

Ashlyn Johnson, Lorelei Carr, Sam Van Culin

Ushers: 9 am George Sutton, Tim Whims, Richard Best, Eric Ash 3 pm John Snyder, Geri Touscany, Ian Jones,

Richard Best, Dick Trost

Flowers: Libby Candler, Sarah Ollison, Candy Sweeny, Polly Ledyard,

Nancy Osborn, Blair Osborn, Mary Trost, Dawn Brown

Advent Quiet NightWednesday,

December 196:30 - 8 pm

Christ Church NaveJoin us for a quiet gathering to reflect on divine disruption in our lives. Youth (6th grade and

upwards) are welcome. We will gather at 6:30 pm in the Nave and we will close our time

together at 8 pm.

Please join us for

If you have any questions, please contact Susanna Muzzin at

smuzzin@christchurchgp.org or 313-885-4841, ext. 104.

Christmas at Christ Church

Please Join Us to Celebrate the Messiah’s BirthThe Eve of the Nativity of Our Lord

MONDAY, DECEMBER 24 4 pm – Crèche Procession & Festival Eucharist* 8 pm – Festival Eucharist 11 pm – Festival Eucharist Choral Prelude at 10:30 pm (Incense used)

The Nativity of Our LordTUESDAY, DECEMBER 25

10 am – Festival Eucharist*

* Childcare provided.

Christ Church Grosse Pointe61 Grosse Pointe Boulevard • Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 • 313.885.4841 • christchurchgp.org

LessOns fOr The seCOnd sundAy Of AdvenT

Malachi 3:1-4

See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears?

For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap; he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.

Canticle 16

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; *he has come to his people and set them free.

He has raised up for us a mighty savior, *born of the house of his servant David.

Through his holy prophets he promised of old, that he would save us from our enemies, *

from the hands of all who hate us.

He promised to show mercy to our fathers *and to remember his holy covenant.

This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham, *to set us free from the hands of our enemies,

Free to worship him without fear, *holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.

You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, *for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,

To give his people knowledge of salvation *by the forgiveness of their sins.

In the tender compassion of our God *the dawn from on high shall break upon us,

To shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, *

and to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Philippians 1:3-11

I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart, for all of you share in God’s grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

Luke 3:1-6

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

Lessons for next week: The Third Sunday of Advent

Zephaniah 3:14-20Canticle 9 Philippians 4:4-7Luke 3:7-18

The Rev. Andrew Van Culin, Rector • The Rev. Canon Ron Spann, Director, Spirituality Center The Rev. Walter Brownridge, Associate for Parish Life and Christian Formation • Scott Hanoian, Director of Music and Organist

Dexter Kennedy, Assistant Organist • Susanna Muzzin, Director of Children and Family MinistriesDiane Ward, Associate for Finance and Administration