CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF GUILFORD
  • Home
    • Our History
  • Calendar
  • Who We Are
    • What We Believe
    • Who Belongs Here
    • Clergy & Staff
    • Church Vestry
    • Annual Meeting Reports >
      • 2024 Annual Report
      • Christ Church By-laws
  • What We Do
    • Christ Church Livestreams
    • Services & Liturgy
    • Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals
    • Children & Youth Ministry >
      • Vacation Bible School
    • Music Ministry >
      • Choirs >
        • Annunciation Evensong singers page
      • Organ Music
    • Parish Ministry Committees
    • Outreach
    • Fellowship >
      • Episcopal Church Women's Group
  • Stewardship & Giving
  • Visit Us
    • Contact Us

Christ Church Weekly Announcements

Fr. Harrison's Letter for December 4, 2016

12/3/2016

1 Comment

 
Picture
Dear Hearts,

Today, December 2, the Town of Guilford gathers on the Green for the Tree-Lighting on the Green! Together with our neighbors of other faith traditions, and none, we celebrate light in the midst of darkness. Our events provide an occasion to extend the hospitality of Christ Church to our neighbors and friends, as we add to the evening’s brightness: 
 
Chili-Supper -- Warm yourselves against the evening chill with delicious chili prepared to your preferred degree of hotness – con carne and vegetarian.  Please remember your promised cornbread and help with the evening's tasks.

Cookie Sale –  Chili Supper patrons may purchase dessert from the bounty of cookies and other holiday treats at the ECW’s sale table; and you'll also be able to purchase favorites to take home and enjoy later.  Please remember to drop off your homemade favorites when you can today.

Wreath Sale –  as of this writing, the Middle School youth have four beautiful wreaths to sell, in addition to the 46 that were  pre-sold!  Check out their handiwork in the rectory garage, and get a cup of hot chocolate while you browse!

sFOURzando Piano Extravaganza – Be delighted as two to four people, four-to-eight hands, perform favorites from this entertaining repertoire on the nave’s Steinway.  Before radio and television, before vinyl and digital recordings, folks entertained at home by gathering around the piano.  We’ll gather with Vicky Reeve and three friends for a lot of fun!

Proceeds from the Chili Supper and Concert will support Guilford Interfaith Volunteers’ Meals-on-Wheels, making sure our neighbors have a daily hot meal. 
 
In looking for an appropriate topic for the Rectory Forum during Advent, I also wanted a subject as engaging as Andrew Doss's play.  How about Advent with Scrooge!?  

In 1843 Charles Dickens created some of his most unforgettable characters in his novella, A Christmas Carol.  Its full title is A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas.  Perhaps better known from its adaptations for the screen, stage, television and cartoon animation, the brief text rewards reading.  So, on Sundays in Advent and early Epiphany, we will read portions of the text during the Rectory Forum, and discuss what we think Dickens may have been trying to say.  All are welcome to join the conversation over coffee and tea in the rectory living room at 10a.m.-ish.

I found this delightfully illustrated text for A Christmas Carol online HERE.  I'll have some printed copies available for the Forum.  Here's the passage I quoted in last Sunday's sermon.  Scrooge has just told the ghost of his deceased partner, Jacob Marley, that "you were always a good man of business, ...."
 
'Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. 'Mankind was my business.
The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'

.
A December issue of Glad Tidings Online is newly available HERE.  Check it out for News from the Sunday School, Greetings from the ECW, Thanks for Consecration Sunday, an Update on the Evening ECW's Parish Hall Project Fundraising, a Report from an Adventure in Christ Church's historical records, and Vestry Meeting Highlights.  There are some great pictures from parish events, and an early 20th century photograph of the church structure.  Can anyone date it by the automobiles on the street?

In the meantime, I look forward to sharing in the Tree-Lighting events later today!

In faith and hope,

Harrison+
YFNR



1 Comment
Jane Ferrall link
12/3/2016 08:23:05 am

The blog image is the well-loved Peacable Kingdom (c. 1834) by Edward Hicks, the primitive American painter, and is on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The Facebook image comes from Jesus MAFA, a Christian community in Cameroon, that produced dramatic interpretations of New Testament readings, which were then photographed and turned into paintings!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    We feature various authors from around our parish, commenting on topics of interest to our community.  Enjoy!  Comment if you are so moved!

    Archives

    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

We Would Love to Have Yo​u Visit Soon!
11 Park street, guilford ct 06437


Hours

Office Hours
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm

Telephone

203-453-2279

Email

[email protected]
  • Home
    • Our History
  • Calendar
  • Who We Are
    • What We Believe
    • Who Belongs Here
    • Clergy & Staff
    • Church Vestry
    • Annual Meeting Reports >
      • 2024 Annual Report
      • Christ Church By-laws
  • What We Do
    • Christ Church Livestreams
    • Services & Liturgy
    • Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals
    • Children & Youth Ministry >
      • Vacation Bible School
    • Music Ministry >
      • Choirs >
        • Annunciation Evensong singers page
      • Organ Music
    • Parish Ministry Committees
    • Outreach
    • Fellowship >
      • Episcopal Church Women's Group
  • Stewardship & Giving
  • Visit Us
    • Contact Us