Climate Solutions Speaker Series presents:
Sunrise Movement is a youth led grassroots organization mobilizing millions to stop climate change and transform the economy.
Climate Solutions Speaker Series presents:
Varshini Prakash
Co-founder & Executive Director
Sunrise Movement
7:30 pm Tuesday, January 21
The Willard Elementary School
185 Powder Mill Road Concord
MLK Breakfast
at Congregation Beth Elohim, 133 Prospect Street, Acton
Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, founder and preacher of New Roots AME Church, Boston, is the featured speaker. Breakfast begins at 8:30 am. Event is free but donations are encouraged. Don't miss this special community event.
Save the Date - February 1
Eat our favorite Salvadoran food - Pupusas!!
Join the Good Shepherd community. Eat our favorite Salvadoran food - Pupusas!! Support the El Salvador scholarship fund with a free will offering and view a slideshow of our trips to beautiful El Ocotillo. Details to follow!
All are welcome at the Rectory on Sunday January 12
Please join us….
You are cordially invited to drop by the Rectory for
John and Pastor Melissa Buono's
Epiphany Open House
Sunday, January 12 between 3:00 and 5:30 pm
Please bring a wee bite of something sweet or savory to share.
Winter Clothing for San Lucas Church
Reaching out to our sisters and brothers to fill a need
On December 18th we delivered over 50 bags of winter clothing to San Lucas Episcopal Church in Chelsea. Fr. Edgar Gutierrez was delighted and sends heartfelt thanks from his congregation for responding to this important need.
Sunday Adult Formation
Adult Formation class will start again on Sunday January 12. We will be discussing the chapter on Imagination Prayer and looking at engaging Ignatius' five senses of the Imagination.
Christmas Week Services
Christmas Week Schedule
Sunday December 22 ADVENT 4
8:00 am: Holy Eucharist
10:00 am: Holy Eucharist with Nativity Pageant
No Church School; Nursery Available
Tuesday December 24
4:00 pm: Family Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist
9:00 pm: Choir and Candlelight Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist
Nursery Available at 4:00 pm Service
Wednesday December 25
9:00 am: Holy Eucharist with Carols
Sunday December 29
9:00 am: Holy Eucharist: The Rev. Jorge Gutierrez Presiding
NOTE ONE SERVICE ONLY
No Church School or Nursery
"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome it,"
"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome it," Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry said in his Christmas Message 2019.
The video of the Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry’s Christmas Message 2019 is found here. The text of the message follows:
In the first chapter of John's Gospel, sometimes referred to as the prologue to the Gospel, sometimes spoken of as the whole Gospel in miniature the Gospel writer says this. As he reflects on the coming of God into the world in the person of Jesus. As he reflects on Christmas. He says, the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome it.
I don't think it's an accident that long ago, followers of Jesus began to commemorate his coming into the world when the world seemed to be at its darkest.
It's probably not an accident that we observe Christmas soon after December 21, the winter solstice. The winter solstice being in the Northern Hemisphere the darkest time of the year.
Undoubtedly, these ancient Christians who began to celebrate the coming of God into the world, they knew very well that this Jesus, his teachings, his message, his spirit, his example, his life points us to the way of life itself, a way of life, where we take care of each other. A way of life, where we care for God's world. A way of life, where we are in a loving relationship with our God, and with each other as children of the one God, who has created us all.
They also knew John's Gospel and John's Christmas story. Now there are no angels in John's Christmas story. There are no wise men coming from afar. There's no baby lying in a manger. There's no angel choir singing Gloria in excelsis Deo in the highest of the heavens. There are no shepherds tending their flocks by night. Matthew and Luke tell those stories. In John, it is the poetry of new possibility, born of the reality of God when God breaks into the world.
It's not an accident that long ago, followers of Jesus began to commemorate his birth, his coming into the world. When the world seemed darkest. When hope seemed to be dashed on the altar of reality. It is not an accident that we too, commemorate his coming, when things do not always look right in this world.
But there is a God. And there is Jesus. And even in the darkest night. That light once shined and will shine still. His way of love is the way of life. It is the light of the world. And the light of that love shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not, cannot, and will not overcome it.
God love you. God bless you and may you have a Merry Christmas and may this world be blessed. Amen.
The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal Church
Merry Christmas from El Ocotillo
May the Lord Bless You!!
Elvin David Argueta Nolasco, one of our university students in El Ocotillo sent this Christmas message. David is majoring in English.
We always have a lovely reception following the service, and we rely on those attending to bring food to share. Please consider bringing a finger food (savory or sweet) to share with others. And feel free to bring beverages – cider, wine, seltzer – as well! This festive afternoon always brings joy to those who attend and fills us with the Christmas spirit in lessons, carols, and fellowship.