Leaflet May Volume LXXXV, No. 5

Wherever you are in your journey with God or toward God, you are welcome here.

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Table of Contents

4 From The Rector

6 From The Associate Rector 7 From The Director of Music and Organist

9 Pastoral Care / St. Stephen's Youth Programs 12 Announcements

Leaflet

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Christ Church CambridgeMission Statement

Christ Church Cambridge is the Episcopal Church’s presence in Harvard Square—a community of God’s people; baptized in Christ, varied in gifts, united in mission,

seeking to become more inclusive as we minister to children, youth, and adults from all parts of the city and beyond.

Our church home is a place of affirming sanctuary, where many find hospitality and hope, even redemption and peace. Worship here is always about thanksgiving and overflowing with themes of God’s grace, God’s call to justice, and our responsibility to one another as God’s children. We expe-rience joy, laughter, and delight in moments of shared liturgical celebration, as we experience the awe of God’s presence among us in moments of ministry that include healing prayers, outreach, and pastoral care with the people around us. We continue to discern our ministry, as our hearts

are continually tuned to sing God’s praise.

From The recTor: easTer eve 2017 sermon

The ReveRend Joseph o. Robinson

Now comes the night for feasting and for song.Now, the cosmic Passover for which the nations long.For in the morning all Earth’s clouds and shadows disappear As women find a borrowed tomb all empty, clean, and clear.

These will run and tell the others what they’ve seen and heard and feltAnd their apostolic brothers’ manly hearts will finally melt,When Jesus visits them and bids them touch his wounded hands,“He is alive!” and “He is with us!” and “Though crucified, He stands!”

And speaking to this band, He turns dark end to bright beginning.What He has done, they now must do. A whole world waits for win-ning,And not just these, but every age, no matter time nor place,Each generation tells again, its story of God’s grace.

It’s not enough to worship God, God’s truly faithful follow.For words can come so cheaply, while our works are seldom hollow.This Jesus gave a sinless self, to die so we may live,

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Yet, it’s not in our pain and dying, but in our living that we give.This, then, is the night in which we celebrate new life,An ending to the dark of sin and separating strife.God’s own life once for all is spent, this life of His dear Son.And now begins the kingdom that His sacrifice has won,

So here in darkness pray we for the strength to persevereIn reconciling all things; people, nations, far and near,In tomorrow’s Easter brightness may we join our friends to findThat none are halt, none hurting, none are deaf, and none are blind,

None Jew none Greek, none slave, none free, none ruled by yet another.No one less than you and I are, all this purchased by our brotherWho, of his own volition, gives himself that we be free,And God imprisons death to honor death upon a tree.

We kindle new beginnings here. We start an Easter fire,We spread the flame among us and we listen as the choirTells stories of how God has carried us through ages past.And we shout our “Alleluias!” loud and long, so they may last

Till all the world has known His glory, all creation shared His worth,Till all mountains and all streams resound in telling of His birth, And all the things He taught us, humble, kind, and ever-wise,The heaven that He bought us and a world that never dies.

A Kingdom God would give us; you, new Daughter, me, new Son,For we are reconciled and though were many, now are one.This, then, is New Creation, this is heaven’s open door, This is “Now and ever shall be” this “Jerusalem” and more,

This, Communion. This, Baptism. This the arc and depth of Heaven.This, the very feast we’re made for—wine and bread and bubbling leaven. This is Alpha and Omega, our beginning and our end,Yet, the gift is not for us alone and we must not pretend.

We are bought at stunning price, yet bought for higher purpose,Held up by sacred story, lest anxiety usurp us.We the hands and feet God needs —we take God’s story forward.We’re all the hope there is for this old Earth to journey toward

A place where all are welcome, blessed, invited to succeed,A place without our rancor, hatred, bitterness, and greed,A world where justice reigns, where violence ne’er will raise a hand, We, all of us, are God’s high hope, God’s prayer, God’s greatest plan.

For you see, this is the reason for that death upon the tree,This the reason for His teaching and His deep humility,This the reason God would come in peace to dwell among us lowly,This the reason Jesus saves us, turning common into holy.

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From The associaTe recTor

The ReveRend JonaThan eden

As it was in the beginning, it is now and shall be ever.It’s not enough to simply listen. We must live God’s great endeavor.For all the Gospel that goes forward is the Gospel that we sendAnd, “Your will be done on earth” becomes “World (truly) without end.”

May the joy of this Easter season set your hearts on fire for loving God and loving the world in God’s name. May the reconciliation we find in this empty tomb move us to action as God’s hands and feet among those in need, andMay we spend our lives, our hopes, our dreams on telling the good news for which Jesus the Christ and Son of God was willing to die. Amen.

The Boy Jesus in the Temple

“Now every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Pass-over. And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the fes-tival. When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Assuming that he was in the group of travelers, they went a day’s journey. Then they started to look for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his under-standing and his answers. When his parents saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, ‘Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety.’ He said to them, ‘Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ But they did not understand what he said to them. Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them.

His mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor.”

Luke 2:41–52

This passage from Luke’s gospel is really the only glimpse we have of Jesus as a boy. In many ways, it is a classic adolescent moment, with Jesus maturing and breaking free from his parents in ways that are both frustrating and powerful for them. It is, perhaps, a moment when they have the first glimpse of the man Jesus is becoming. This is one of the guiding pieces of scripture for the Rite 13 program, and we’ll be hearing it “out of order” (that is, not according to the lectionary) on May 22, which is Rite 13 Sunday. Rite 13 is our middle school curriculum. It culminates in the Rite 13 ceremony, which is a way of recognizing the beginning of their journey to adulthood. Our candidates this year have grown up together at Christ Church, and we will get to hear them preach at the 10:15 a.m. service on May 22. To get ready, they will spend two weeks in writing workshops with me. Also, on the preceding Friday night we will feed them at a festive dinner, where

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they will be toasted by their parents and teachers. It is always a powerful weekend for everyone involved. This is a wonderful group of young adults, and I know that they have important things to say. I also know that they have the potential to continue to grow as important parts of this community, and that to do that they will need all our support.

In these moments, when we see our children maturing in surprising and powerful ways, we can be flooded with memories of their younger years, with other important moments in their lives. Baptism, our rite of initiation into the church, is one of these moments for me. It will be amazing to see someone whom I baptized as a young child preaching from the pulpit this year. Our next Baptismal Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit comes to us in tongues of fire and we hear the cacophony of languages reading scripture in the church. This year, Pentecost is on June 4, and if you or someone whom you love is considering baptism, please be in touch with me soon: jeden@cccambridge.org.

Sunday, May 21 Rite 13 Sunday, with preaching from Rite 13 Candidates at the 10:15 a.m. service

Sunday, June 4 Feast of Pentecost with Holy Baptism

Yours in Christ,

-Jon+

From The DirecTor oF music anD organisT Dr. Stuart Forster

Music ProgramA reflection before the final Choral Evensong for the season: Sunday, May 7, at 4:00 p.m.

I was fortunate to attend the wonderful concert at Old South Church a few weeks ago, when the choir of Queen’s College, from the other Cam-bridge, sang. The program was full of favorites from the English choral repertoire spanning the last five centuries, with one new (and beauti-ful) piece by Cecilia McDowall to remind us that the repertory is still growing. Afterwards, I managed to have lunch with their music director, Ralph Allwood, who directed the choirs at Eton College for decades before moving on to this next generation. Conversation was almost entirely about choirs, choir tours, and church. There were many fascinat-ing tales, and a plethora of helpful insights. But the statement that stood out was that in the midst of declining church attendance throughout Britain, Choral Evensong has been growing. We brainstormed all man-

ner of reasons why this might be. It seems to boil down to people having the option to participate as much or as little as they like. No one is called to do much more than listen, meditate, and sing a couple of stirring hymns. In many ways, this service is the ideal entry into the great world of liturgy of which we are the current stewards. It is shorter than the Eucharist, and requires no commitment or public action. Yet it is intimately prayerful, a taste of community, and atmospheric beyond reproach.

At Christ Church, we are fortunate to have a fantastic musical community in the Evensong Choir. This group was founded 17 years ago to enable expansion of our liturgical musical offerings without driving the Adult Choir

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schedule to the point that no one could manage it. About a dozen people make the commitment to both choirs. The choir and the service have drawn people from many different traditions in the area. Among the traditions in the current ensemble are Jewish, Mormon, Catholic, Methodist, Adventist, and even a few Anglicans. We invite everyone to be part of what we do, provided the musical needs can be met. With the welcoming receptions organized each month by Janet Ghattas and John Hand, the community gathering for our 50 minutes of sung Evening Prayer each month provides opportunity to experience the two Great Commandments, translated to Worship and Hospitality. We welcome many new people into the Christ Church community here, and we extend that invitation to you to bring someone new.

Our final service for this program year falls on Good Shepherd Sunday. We are all familiar with the opening hymn at the morning Eucharist, “All people that on earth do dwell,” sung to the tune “Old Hundredth.” This tune is so named because it was matched with this paraphrase of Psalm 100 in the Scottish Psalter. Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose greatest contribution to the church was editing “The English Hymnal,” is a name synonymous with the great hymnody of the Christian Church, as we know it. His tunes and arrangements outnumber those of any other composer in most contemporary hymnals. When planning the coronation ceremony of Elizabeth II in 1953, he proposed that the congregation be allowed to sing a hymn, and he accordingly arranged The Old Hundredth for “all available trumpets” in what is now one of the most famous hymn arrangements of all time. Vaughan Williams used musical material from his earlier motet on the Hundredth Psalm. It is this original ver-sion that will be the anthem at our final Evensong for this season.

As if that weren’t enough, we will also be singing my favorite setting of the evening canticles: those composed by Herbert Howells for St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Howells composed 23 settings of the evening canticles, mostly for specific buildings, organs, and choirs. The St. Paul’s Service, as the building’s 11-second acoustic demands, is one of the grander of those magnificent settings. We will complement these with Howells’ setting of the Preces and Responses, one of the more challenging pieces in our repertoire. The introit, which begins the ser-vice, will be my own setting of the “Phos hilaron” from The Book of Common Prayer: “O gracious light.” Organ music will be by César Franck and Alexandre Guilmant. Please join us at 3:50 p.m., with an invited guest of your choosing, for the full experience.

Invitation for Summer Music

Offerings of sacred vocal or instrumental music are invited for the 10:15 a.m. services during the summer months. Please check your personal calendar and sign up by Sunday, June 11 in the main lobby for an instru-mental prelude and/or postlude on any one Sunday from June 25 through August 27. If you would like to provide vocal or choral music during the Offertory, please contact Stuart Forster directly at stuartforster@cccambridge.org, well before the June 11 deadline, to discuss options and requirements. If you are interested in providing music more than once, please ask to be added to the reserve list; we would like to offer this opportunity to as many people as possible, hence we are offering only one date per person initially. Whether your offering is vocal or instrumental, Stuart will need final details from you (titles, composers, composers’ dates, names of players, instruments) by June 11 in order to keep your date. Thank you for contributing to the worship and community life of Christ Church in this valuable way. We look forward to your offering!

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Pastoral Care ProgramPastoral care for members of our church family embodies an important and integral aspect of the various min-istries serving our community at Christ Church. The mission of the Pastoral Care Program is to provide for lay members to partner with the clergy in offering pastoral care to fellow parishioners. It is an in-reach program to comfort and aid parishioners in times of emergency or short-term need by communicating God’s love through active engagement in serving our family of faith.

Our committee currently includes nineteen lay members and three clergy. We meet regularly to review pastoral needs and requests, assign team members to offer care, and support each other as we minister to our sisters and brothers in need.

The pastoral care offerings are gathered under four broad categories:

◆ prayer

◆ communication (telephone greetings, correspondence, e-mail greetings)

◆ personal service (transportation, meals)

◆ visiting (home and medical facility fellowship, as well as visits by clergy and lay Eucharistic Ministers)

If you have a pastoral emergency, please contact the Parish Office to speak to a member of the clergy. If you have questions or referrals, please contact either a clergy member or Webb Brown, co-chair of the Pastoral Care Team: webb40@juno.com or 617-923-0957. Confidentiality is, of course, respected throughout our program.

The Pastoral Care Committee partners with the Worship Committee and the Director of Music, Dr. Stuart For-ster, to offer a prayer service for healing on the last Sunday of each month at the altar rail immediately after the 10:15 a.m. service. All are welcome to come forward for healing prayer.

Our team is grateful for the opportunity to serve our fellow parishioners in God’s name and we are thankful for the many loving offerings of pastoral care given by so many in our parish family who are not formally engaged with the committee. If you would like more information or would like to offer meals or other support to folks in need of care, please let Webb Brown know.

Respectfully submitted with joy and thanksgiving,

Webb Brown

Christ Church Cambridge Partners with St. Stephen’s Youth ProgramsOn Maundy Thursday CCC hosted its second annual Easter celebration with the B-READY after-school program at St. Stephen’s Youth Programs in the South End. The after-school programs serve approximately 230 K–8th grade students at two sites in Boston.The program provides academic support, as well as enrichment and oppor-tunities for art and physical fitness. After a feast of pizza and Easter cookies, close to 100 elementary and middle school students made a variety of Easter crafts and participated in a foot washing ceremony. Thank you to Lind-say Greimann for creating five festive craft activities and preparing all of our supplies so that we could engage the students to the full. Many thanks also to our volunteers who provided energy and useful hands: Leslie Bliss, Max and Oliver DiCerbo, Nancy Sinsabaugh, and Martha Weston. We hope that you enjoy a few pictures of the event.   

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Save the date for B-SAFE 2017, the Bishop’s Summer Academic and Fun Enrichment Program, Monday July 17 – Friday July 21. This program serves over 625 children in the Boston area during six weeks of academic activities, field trips, athletics, and the arts. Christ Church will again be a partner, celebrating its eleventh year of participa-tion. We will host lunches for 180 elementary and middle school children and their counselors at the Epiphany School in Dorchester. Volunteers will also have opportunities to read with the children during DEAR time (Drop Everything and Read). On Friday, we will participate in an all-day celebration by hosting games and lunch at Carson’s Beach. Mark your summer calendars and consider joining us for a day or more of volunteering in this rewarding, fun, and much appreciated work. For more information about how to get involved, please contact Susan Root (susanroot89@gmail.com or 617-953-6958).

We want to take this opportunity to thank the CCC Grants Management Committee and the entire Christ Church community for their continued—and generous—financial support of our partnership with St. Stephen’s Youth Programs.  

To obtain more information about St. Stephen’s Youth Programs, visit their website at: www.ssypboston.org

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announcemenTs

Walking in Love: what are we willing to do?

Walking in Love, the social action committee at Christ Church, recently presented programs on racial injustice and problems with incarceration and re-entry. Many read and discussed The New Jim Crow, saw and talked about the documentaries 13th and I Am Not Your Negro, and listened to SPAN director, Kevin Davis, discuss the obstacles that people released from prison face. It is time for a second step. We must decide what action we are will-ing to take to reform our criminal justice system and help create success for those released from prison. At dinner at Christ Church on Monday May 15, 6:00 p.m., a Massachusetts State Senator, Will Brownsburger, will speak about legislation coming up and how we can help progressive reform. Come with ideas and questions and bring friends. An RSVP to the office will help the catering.

Choral Evensong, May 7, at 4:00 p.m.:

Please join us for our final service of Evening Prayer this season, led by the 50-voice Evensong Choir. The service includes two readings, two hymns, prayers, and a lot of choral music. The choir will sing “O Gracious Light” by our own Stuart Forster, Preces and Responses and the rousing “St. Paul’s Service” by Herbert Howells, and “The Hun-dredth Psalm” by Ralph Vaughan Williams. A reception will follow in the Library.

Webb Brown ◆ 617-923-0057 ◆ webb40@juno.comSummer Akimoto ◆ 781-391-9891 ◆ summerted@aol.com

From the Altar Guild

First, our thanks go to Ruth Crocker and Meade Fasciano, whose team prepared the altar and the whole church for the celebration of Holy Week and filled the sanctuary with glorious flowers for Easter. In addition to Meade and Ruth, we want to thank Lindsay Greimann, Lissa Hodder, Cricket Lewis, Anne Lowell, Sandy Sherwood, and Susie White. Our flower fund was generously subscribed, and a long list of me-morials and honors was published in the Easter bulletins.

Many thanks also to Louise Ambler and Diane Nichols for their faithful retrieving of the William and Mary silver. It is so dear to our hearts, and it is lovely for visitors to see this bit of our history.

As summer approaches, we welcome new support and membership in the Altar Guild, including all men, women, and older children who would like to join us in this rewarding and joyous work. Speak or write to either of the co-chairs to arrange for individual training, or just come into the Sacristy after either service and talk to those on duty. Rosters are posted. If you know your summer plans, please sign up accordingly.

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on The rise:

On The Rise, a safe haven for women who are homeless or in crisis, is asking for rain gear: coats, boots, shoes, and umbrellas. Seasonal clothing is always appreciated. OTR also send their thanks for your continued contributions of new and unopened travel-sized toiletries. During the week, you may leave your contributions in the basket behind the reception desk in the Parish Office, where there are bags and labels for you to use. You may also leave them at the back of the church on Sundays in the basket for OTR. For more information, contact Summer Akimoto at 781-391-9891.

Christ Church Thrift Shop

We thank you once again for your numerous wonderful donations to the Thrift Shop. Last year’s sales of over $40,000 were the highest in several years.

We gratefully accept your gently used clothing, as well as useful and decorative household items. (Please: no furniture or electronics!) At the moment, we particularly need men’s clothing and accessories, as well as women’s costume jewelry.

All items may be brought to the shop at 17 Farwell Place, behind the church, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., and on Saturdays, 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., or to the Thrift Shop bin outside the Parish Office. Thank you!

Do you have news to share?The submission date for the Leaflet is the 20th of each month.

Articles received after that date will be published in the following edition.

Please email your submissions to communications@cccambridge.org.

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Choral Evensongat Christ Church Cambridge

All Are Welcome

May 7, 2017 Choral Evensong at 4:00 p.m. Easter 4, Year 1 Pastorale César Franck (1822–1890) O Gracious Light Stuart Forster (b. 1971) Preces and Responses Herbert Howells (1892–1983) Psalm 103 Anglican chants by Edwin Edwards (1830–1907) & John Goss (1800–1880) The St. Paul's Service Herbert Howells (1892–1983) The Hundredth Psalm Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) "Final" from Sonata No. 1 in D minor Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)

Please join us on October 1, 2017,when the series of Choral Evensong services resumes.

We are pleased to offer this 50-minute service on the first Sunday of the month, October through May.

In each service, music articulates the stages of the Rite 1 Office of Evening Prayer, a time-honored

service not offered as regularly by any other church in the Greater Boston area.

Organ Prelude 3:50 p.m.

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Christ Church CambridgeMinistry Contacts:

Resources: Alex Davis & Jeff Brown ◆ resources@cccambridge.orgWorship & Pastoral Care: Sue Hallowell & Joyce Penniston ◆ worship@cccambridge.orgParish Life & Christian Formation: Valerie Shulman & Matt Timmins ◆ parishlife@cccambridge.orgMission: Outreach and Social Justice: Wendy Squires & Ken Reeves ◆ mission@cccambridge.org

Staff

The Rev. Joseph O. Robinson RectorThe Rev. Jonathan T. Eden Associate RectorDr. Stuart Forster Director of Music & OrganistThe Rev. Kevin Sparrow Assistant for Administration &

Coordinator for Children’s Ministries

Bari Weiss ControllerKira Bornemann Communications AssistantSean Glenn Music Program AssistantAdwoa Lewis-Wilson Database Assistant

Jerry Kucera Head SextonHernan Moya Assistant SextonBarry Martinez Sunday Sexton

The Rev. Margery Kennelly Interim EpiscopalChaplain to Harvard University

Officers and Vestry Senior Warden Brent MaherJunior Warden Blanca SilvestriniTreasurer Eric Fossel

Andrew Theobald Clerk Annabel Cellini

Vestry Members:Alex Davis, Ted Hammett, Shelly Hedstrom, Gwendolyn Jensen, Kat Kaufmann, Cara Presseau, Susan Root, Valerie Shulman, Dina Zelleke

Diocesan Delegates Wendy Squires, Celeste Fossel

Church Archivist Louise Ambler

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