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Mar 11, 2008, 4:55:00 PM3/11/08
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Greetings Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
As Holy Week draws near, there re a number of things we'd like to share with you:
Schedule for the coming week:
In the Neighborhood
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Feast Incarnate Tonight
Tonight from 4pm onward your help is always useful with Feast Incarnate, which begins with a Bible Study, with the meal (Christ Lutheran ) served at 5PM, followed by Evening Prayer at 6PM.
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Wednesday, March 12, at 6:30PM, Mid-week Lenten worship centers around Nourishing the Soul, beginning with a soup-supper eaten in Holy Silence, followed by readings from Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner, Everyday Simplicity: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Growth by Robert Wicks, The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer followed by celebration of eucharist.
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Thursday, March 13, Mid-day Eucharist commemorating Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604
Born into wealth and power, Gregory was for a time the chief administrator of the city of Rome. Giving this up for a life in the church, he was elected pope in 590. He influenced public worship through the establishment of a lectionary and prayers to correlate with the readings. Gregorian chant is named in his honor.
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Saturday,March 15, Holy Week Clean-Up/Work Day 9am until finished.
Janah Szewczyk, Czarina of Property at UniLu, encourages you all to come to church on Saturday, March 15, to help with the preparations for Holy Week. Come for an hour, or more. Exciting projects include:
Pick up litter around church, International House, & broken glass in courtyard
Clean up leaves on parking lot & Courtyard
Wipe down all horizontal surfaces in Narthex.
Polish Brass Plates on door to sanctuary
Fold Bulletins for Sunday-
Polish Silver Communion Vessels
Replace burned out light bulbs in Sanctuary, Narthex, Exit Lights, 2nd floor hall
Clean out kitchen refrigerator
Clean Pascal Candle Holder
Change Processional Banners, Hosanna Banner and Altar Paraments
Clean up votives and candlesticks.
Check that flyers in hallways are up to date
Clean bottoms of windows in narthex.
Remove old wax from torch standards and reinstall (Saturday 3-26)
Clean Baptismal Font (Anita's in charge of)
Fix broken kneelers
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The Passion of our Lord (and the Cry of the Whole Congregation) March 16th (Incense Alert) 9AM Choir Rehearsal, 9:30 Adult Forum, 10:30 AM Procession with (Ecco) Palms and Celebration of Holy Eucharist.
We will begin with a procession with Palms out on 37th street Walk near the steps to International House's courtyard. (Remember to wear warm clothes-we will be outside 10-15 minutes that morning. We will then process into church for the rest of the liturgy.
" Liturgy means 'the work of the people.' Worship in the Lutheran tradition implies participation and effort on the part of the worshipping community. Walter Wangerin, Jr. has captured the essence of such participation in The Cry of the Whole Congregation"
Many congregations have experienced the Passion of Christ in a vivid and palpable way through the use of this participatory drama. Its movement and its simplicity draw the worshipper into the very midst of the Passion of Christ. There is no audience. All are participants in the Passion Event. "
The drama's "purpose is to allow each worshipper suddenly to discover (pitifully, intensely, truly to discover) his own rootedness in the drama which is Christ's-so that the Passion Story may no longer be mere story for observance, analysis, learning, or history; so that it embrace the worshipper, name him, and become his own story indeed: the shape of his being."
In addition to readers, the drama will also involve a drummer, and a dancer. The dancer will be Sister Ramona Cecille of the Deaconess Community .
Other Worship Assistants scheduled to serve Sunday: Presider: The Rev. Eugene Root; Music Director & Organist: Andrew Hauze; Cantor: Sara Posey; Verger: Charlie Horn; Deacon: Bobbie Burnett; Sub-deacon: Carl Ostermann; Thurifer: Gary Bronson; Crucifer: Steve Mann; Torchbearers: Carl Beck, Sue Schmitthenner; Lector: Lisa Shoemaker; Prayer Leader: Steve Mann: Communion Assistant: Fred Quivik; Usher: Bruce McCullough; Greeter: Kristen Myer; Coffee Hour: Dick and Dorothy Linderman; Dancer: Sr. Ramona Cecille; Drummer: Rebekah McCullough; Readers: Alexa Epstein, Fred Quivik, Ray Kvande, Michelle Eckert, Soloist: Drew Cardinale.
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UNILU HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
From Thursday of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday) through the Great Easter Vigil is known as the Triduum, or Three Days. Our liturgy is one continuous "work of the people," culminating in the Feast of the Resurrection celebrated as the climax of the Easter Vigil, when the tomb is found empty and our joyous response is limitless.
Maundy Thursday, March 20, 7PM Joint Service with the parish of St. Marys, Hamilton Village. (Incense Alert)
Our celebration of our Lord's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday begins at University Lutheran at 7PM, with Confession and Forgiveness at the Font, after which we move in to the sanctuary for the service of the Word, including the response to the readings of Jesus's new commandment (mandatum,from which Maundy comes) As a sign of our calling to follow Jesus' example of humility and service, we wash one another's feet as Jesus washed the disciple's feet.
After the prayer of the people, we will form a procession outside the church and move across campus to St. Marys to gather around the table for Lord's Supper. After the liturgy concludes, we will process back to UniLu.
(Incense Alert)
The outdoor portion of our worship that evening will include the use of incense.
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Good Friday, 10 past Noon:Stations of the Cross Procession on Campus
Each year on Good Friday we process to several spots on campus and offer prayers for justice, wholeness, advocacy, assistance, and finally for peace. We sing verses of the STABAT MATER (At the Cross, her Station Keeping) the hymn which is universally used a part of Stations of the Cross Liturgies. The procession takes approximately 40 minutes, and covers roughly 1/2 mile through campus. It is an incredibly powerful public witness of the church's remembrance of Christ's suffering and our redemption through the cross.
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Good Friday, Evening Service, 7PM when the church gathers to hear again the Passion story of Jesus' suffering and death. We pray for the life of the world, and we recite again the familiar Psalms of the suffering servant. We meditate on the life-giving cross, and offer thanksgiving for the wood of tree on which our Salvation suffered and died. It is a very personal service, one of quiet meditation in a darkened church. By UniLu tradition, the organ is silent from Thursday night until the Easter Vigil, so all chants and songs are sung without accompaniment.
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Great Vigil of Easter, March 22, 10PM, followed by champagne reception (Incense Alert)
The Easter Vigil Celebration on Saturday night is the very foundation of our Christian faith, the crowning moment of the church's year. The liturgy's Easter proclamation announces in words written more than 1500 years ago, "This is the night in which all who believe in Christ are rescued from evil and the gloom of sin, are renewed in grace, and are restored to holiness."
The service begins beside a small fire outside the church, where we hear the familiar, historic stories of creation and, moving to the baptismal font, of Noah and the flood. By the light of the Paschal candle, we move into the dark sanctuary to hear the other stories of God's love and salvation.
Returning to the font, we renew our baptismal promises, receive new members into the church, and baptize candidates who have been preparing to become Christians throughout the Lenten season.
Then, as the pastor knocks on the door of the tomb/sanctuary, proclaiming "Christ is Risen," we celebrate the first Mass of the Resurrection. Singing a hymn of praise, once again we enter God's temple, hear the story of the Resurrection, and celebrate the Eucharist. We rejoice and celebrate once more, for the fast is over; Christ is risen from the dead.
(Incense Alert)
Both the outdoor portion and indoor portion of the of the Easter Vigil will include the use of incense.
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Easter Sunday, March 23, 9AM Easter Breakfast, 10:30am Festival Mass of the Resurrection of our Lord (Incense Alert)
The celebration continues with the Festival of the Resurrection the next morning, with special music, choirs and instruments of praise, lilies and hyacinths, and much rejoicing.
A breakfast has traditionally been served beginning at 9AM. There is no Adult Forum that morning. The service includes singing G.F. Handel's "Halleluia" from The Messiah as part of the postlude. All are invited to join in singing the work.
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Palm Sunday/Easter Memorials and Honorariums
This Easter we expanded the way in which you can honor or memorialize someone at Holy Week and Easter. You may make a donation to a fund for Palms for Palm Sunday; for flowers for the church at the Vigil/Feast of the Resurrection; or, you may make a donation to the UniLu Triduum Music Fund. Donations may be in any amount. We will no longer "sell" specific flower memorials (in the past, the office has had to guess 6 weeks in advance how many of what size and color folks want) This year all memorials/ honorariums will be listed in the bulletin at those two worship services. All money designated toward music will help defray the costs of instrumentalists and soloists over the Triduum. All money designated for flowers will be used to purchase potted spring flowers for the Sanctuary and Narthex. To be listed in the bulletins, donations (or pledges) must be received in the office no later than Tuesday, March 18. (Contributions to the Eco Palm Fund should be received by 3-12)
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In the Neighborhood
3-13, 8PM: Free Jazz Concert at Drexel
The Spelman College Jazz Ensemble will appear in concert with the Drexel University Jazz Orchestra on Thursday, March 13, 2008, at 8:00pm in the Mandell Theater, 33rd and Chestnut. The concert is free and open to the public.
This will be the ninth joint concert featuring the Spelman and Drexel groups. The young women from Spelman and the young people from Drexel always present a great evening of music. The program will include works by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Billy Strayhorn, Charles Mingus and more.
3-14, 8PM, Bach Festival Opens at Philadelphia Cathedral
Have you ever heard and seen four grand pianos on stage? At the Bach Festival's Opening Night, experience exactly that with the ensemble. The Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza (from Italy) conducted by the Bach Festival's Artistic Director Jonathan Sternberg and Philadelphia's own PIANO4 ensemble performs Bach's famous transcription of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Pianos. Later that evening, Roberto Plano (Italy) presents Bach's well-known Piano Concerto in D Minor. This event is a part of the International Bach Festival of Philadelphia 2008. For full festival information please visit www.bach-fest.org . or call (215) 247- BACH. (tickets range for this event from a low of $10 to a high of $40.00
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Thanks so much if you've persevered and made it this far,
Shalom, salaam, peace,
Fred
Fred Wolfe
Interim Coordinator for Campus Ministry
University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation
Chestnut Street at 37th Street Walk
215.387.2885
admini...@uniluphila.org www.uniluphila.org
messageboard http://uniluphila.informe.com
Look for us on Facebook
As Holy Week draws near, there re a number of things we'd like to share with you:
Schedule for the coming week:
- Tonight from 4pm onward your help is always useful with
Feast Incarnate, which begins with a Bible Study, with the meal (prepared
by Christ Lutheran, who will drop off and set up, but then leave)
served at 5PM, followed by Evening Prayer at 6PM and church council at
6:30.
- Wednesday, March 12, at 6:30PM, Mid-week Lenten worship centers around Nourishing the Soul
- Thursday, March 13, Mid-day Eucharist commemorating Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604
- Saturday,March 15, Holy Week Clean-Up/Work Day 9am until finished.
- Sunday, March 16, The Passion of our Lord: 10:30 Procession with Palms
- Monday, March 17, Celebrate St. Patrick and dye Easter Eggs (Pysanki-style)
In the Neighborhood
- 3-13, 8PM: Free Jazz Concert at Drexel
- 3-14, 8PM, Bach Festival Opens at Philadelphia Cathedral
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Feast Incarnate Tonight
Tonight from 4pm onward your help is always useful with Feast Incarnate, which begins with a Bible Study, with the meal (Christ Lutheran ) served at 5PM, followed by Evening Prayer at 6PM.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Wednesday, March 12, at 6:30PM, Mid-week Lenten worship centers around Nourishing the Soul, beginning with a soup-supper eaten in Holy Silence, followed by readings from Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner, Everyday Simplicity: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Growth by Robert Wicks, The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer followed by celebration of eucharist.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Thursday, March 13, Mid-day Eucharist commemorating Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604
Born into wealth and power, Gregory was for a time the chief administrator of the city of Rome. Giving this up for a life in the church, he was elected pope in 590. He influenced public worship through the establishment of a lectionary and prayers to correlate with the readings. Gregorian chant is named in his honor.
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Saturday,March 15, Holy Week Clean-Up/Work Day 9am until finished.
Janah Szewczyk, Czarina of Property at UniLu, encourages you all to come to church on Saturday, March 15, to help with the preparations for Holy Week. Come for an hour, or more. Exciting projects include:
Pick up litter around church, International House, & broken glass in courtyard
Clean up leaves on parking lot & Courtyard
Wipe down all horizontal surfaces in Narthex.
Polish Brass Plates on door to sanctuary
Fold Bulletins for Sunday-
Polish Silver Communion Vessels
Replace burned out light bulbs in Sanctuary, Narthex, Exit Lights, 2nd floor hall
Clean out kitchen refrigerator
Clean Pascal Candle Holder
Change Processional Banners, Hosanna Banner and Altar Paraments
Clean up votives and candlesticks.
Check that flyers in hallways are up to date
Clean bottoms of windows in narthex.
Remove old wax from torch standards and reinstall (Saturday 3-26)
Clean Baptismal Font (Anita's in charge of)
Fix broken kneelers
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Passion of our Lord (and the Cry of the Whole Congregation) March 16th (Incense Alert) 9AM Choir Rehearsal, 9:30 Adult Forum, 10:30 AM Procession with (Ecco) Palms and Celebration of Holy Eucharist.
We will begin with a procession with Palms out on 37th street Walk near the steps to International House's courtyard. (Remember to wear warm clothes-we will be outside 10-15 minutes that morning. We will then process into church for the rest of the liturgy.
" Liturgy means 'the work of the people.' Worship in the Lutheran tradition implies participation and effort on the part of the worshipping community. Walter Wangerin, Jr. has captured the essence of such participation in The Cry of the Whole Congregation"
Many congregations have experienced the Passion of Christ in a vivid and palpable way through the use of this participatory drama. Its movement and its simplicity draw the worshipper into the very midst of the Passion of Christ. There is no audience. All are participants in the Passion Event. "
The drama's "purpose is to allow each worshipper suddenly to discover (pitifully, intensely, truly to discover) his own rootedness in the drama which is Christ's-so that the Passion Story may no longer be mere story for observance, analysis, learning, or history; so that it embrace the worshipper, name him, and become his own story indeed: the shape of his being."
In addition to readers, the drama will also involve a drummer, and a dancer. The dancer will be Sister Ramona Cecille of the Deaconess Community .
Other Worship Assistants scheduled to serve Sunday: Presider: The Rev. Eugene Root; Music Director & Organist: Andrew Hauze; Cantor: Sara Posey; Verger: Charlie Horn; Deacon: Bobbie Burnett; Sub-deacon: Carl Ostermann; Thurifer: Gary Bronson; Crucifer: Steve Mann; Torchbearers: Carl Beck, Sue Schmitthenner; Lector: Lisa Shoemaker; Prayer Leader: Steve Mann: Communion Assistant: Fred Quivik; Usher: Bruce McCullough; Greeter: Kristen Myer; Coffee Hour: Dick and Dorothy Linderman; Dancer: Sr. Ramona Cecille; Drummer: Rebekah McCullough; Readers: Alexa Epstein, Fred Quivik, Ray Kvande, Michelle Eckert, Soloist: Drew Cardinale.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
UNILU HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
From Thursday of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday) through the Great Easter Vigil is known as the Triduum, or Three Days. Our liturgy is one continuous "work of the people," culminating in the Feast of the Resurrection celebrated as the climax of the Easter Vigil, when the tomb is found empty and our joyous response is limitless.
Maundy Thursday, March 20, 7PM Joint Service with the parish of St. Marys, Hamilton Village. (Incense Alert)
Our celebration of our Lord's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday begins at University Lutheran at 7PM, with Confession and Forgiveness at the Font, after which we move in to the sanctuary for the service of the Word, including the response to the readings of Jesus's new commandment (mandatum,from which Maundy comes) As a sign of our calling to follow Jesus' example of humility and service, we wash one another's feet as Jesus washed the disciple's feet.
After the prayer of the people, we will form a procession outside the church and move across campus to St. Marys to gather around the table for Lord's Supper. After the liturgy concludes, we will process back to UniLu.
(Incense Alert)
The outdoor portion of our worship that evening will include the use of incense.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Good Friday, 10 past Noon:Stations of the Cross Procession on Campus
Each year on Good Friday we process to several spots on campus and offer prayers for justice, wholeness, advocacy, assistance, and finally for peace. We sing verses of the STABAT MATER (At the Cross, her Station Keeping) the hymn which is universally used a part of Stations of the Cross Liturgies. The procession takes approximately 40 minutes, and covers roughly 1/2 mile through campus. It is an incredibly powerful public witness of the church's remembrance of Christ's suffering and our redemption through the cross.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Good Friday, Evening Service, 7PM when the church gathers to hear again the Passion story of Jesus' suffering and death. We pray for the life of the world, and we recite again the familiar Psalms of the suffering servant. We meditate on the life-giving cross, and offer thanksgiving for the wood of tree on which our Salvation suffered and died. It is a very personal service, one of quiet meditation in a darkened church. By UniLu tradition, the organ is silent from Thursday night until the Easter Vigil, so all chants and songs are sung without accompaniment.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Great Vigil of Easter, March 22, 10PM, followed by champagne reception (Incense Alert)
The Easter Vigil Celebration on Saturday night is the very foundation of our Christian faith, the crowning moment of the church's year. The liturgy's Easter proclamation announces in words written more than 1500 years ago, "This is the night in which all who believe in Christ are rescued from evil and the gloom of sin, are renewed in grace, and are restored to holiness."
The service begins beside a small fire outside the church, where we hear the familiar, historic stories of creation and, moving to the baptismal font, of Noah and the flood. By the light of the Paschal candle, we move into the dark sanctuary to hear the other stories of God's love and salvation.
Returning to the font, we renew our baptismal promises, receive new members into the church, and baptize candidates who have been preparing to become Christians throughout the Lenten season.
Then, as the pastor knocks on the door of the tomb/sanctuary, proclaiming "Christ is Risen," we celebrate the first Mass of the Resurrection. Singing a hymn of praise, once again we enter God's temple, hear the story of the Resurrection, and celebrate the Eucharist. We rejoice and celebrate once more, for the fast is over; Christ is risen from the dead.
(Incense Alert)
Both the outdoor portion and indoor portion of the of the Easter Vigil will include the use of incense.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Easter Sunday, March 23, 9AM Easter Breakfast, 10:30am Festival Mass of the Resurrection of our Lord (Incense Alert)
The celebration continues with the Festival of the Resurrection the next morning, with special music, choirs and instruments of praise, lilies and hyacinths, and much rejoicing.
A breakfast has traditionally been served beginning at 9AM. There is no Adult Forum that morning. The service includes singing G.F. Handel's "Halleluia" from The Messiah as part of the postlude. All are invited to join in singing the work.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Palm Sunday/Easter Memorials and Honorariums
This Easter we expanded the way in which you can honor or memorialize someone at Holy Week and Easter. You may make a donation to a fund for Palms for Palm Sunday; for flowers for the church at the Vigil/Feast of the Resurrection; or, you may make a donation to the UniLu Triduum Music Fund. Donations may be in any amount. We will no longer "sell" specific flower memorials (in the past, the office has had to guess 6 weeks in advance how many of what size and color folks want) This year all memorials/ honorariums will be listed in the bulletin at those two worship services. All money designated toward music will help defray the costs of instrumentalists and soloists over the Triduum. All money designated for flowers will be used to purchase potted spring flowers for the Sanctuary and Narthex. To be listed in the bulletins, donations (or pledges) must be received in the office no later than Tuesday, March 18. (Contributions to the Eco Palm Fund should be received by 3-12)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
In the Neighborhood
3-13, 8PM: Free Jazz Concert at Drexel
The Spelman College Jazz Ensemble will appear in concert with the Drexel University Jazz Orchestra on Thursday, March 13, 2008, at 8:00pm in the Mandell Theater, 33rd and Chestnut. The concert is free and open to the public.
This will be the ninth joint concert featuring the Spelman and Drexel groups. The young women from Spelman and the young people from Drexel always present a great evening of music. The program will include works by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Billy Strayhorn, Charles Mingus and more.
3-14, 8PM, Bach Festival Opens at Philadelphia Cathedral
Have you ever heard and seen four grand pianos on stage? At the Bach Festival's Opening Night, experience exactly that with the ensemble. The Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza (from Italy) conducted by the Bach Festival's Artistic Director Jonathan Sternberg and Philadelphia's own PIANO4 ensemble performs Bach's famous transcription of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Pianos. Later that evening, Roberto Plano (Italy) presents Bach's well-known Piano Concerto in D Minor. This event is a part of the International Bach Festival of Philadelphia 2008. For full festival information please visit www.bach-fest.org . or call (215) 247- BACH. (tickets range for this event from a low of $10 to a high of $40.00
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Thanks so much if you've persevered and made it this far,
Shalom, salaam, peace,
Fred
Fred Wolfe
Interim Coordinator for Campus Ministry
University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation
Chestnut Street at 37th Street Walk
215.387.2885
admini...@uniluphila.org www.uniluphila.org
messageboard http://uniluphila.informe.com
Look for us on Facebook
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