September 16, 2021
St. Paul's Weekly Happenings
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Masks and social distancing are required in the Sanctuary.
Our livestream is available and will continue indefinitely on www.facebook.com/stpaulschatham and on our YouTube channel St. Paul's Episcopal Church Chatham, NJ - YouTube
Sunday School Begins this Week!
Sunday School will begin in person this Sunday at 10:10 am. The kids will leave the service before the Gospel with their teachers and return in time for communion.Our new Director of Christian Education, Elyssa Claudio, will teach class for our older children and Mary Foster is returning to teach the younger children.
The class schedule will be in person classes on the first and third Sundays, a virtual offering on Facebook live the second Sunday and either Children's chapel or a special event on the fourth Sunday.
Please register your children online at the link below.
https://www.stpaulschatham.org/sunday-school-registration
Save the Date!
Blessing of the Animals
11:30 a.m.
Sunday, October 3rd
Bishop John Shelby Spong
Retired Diocese of Newark Bishop John Shelby Spong passed away peacefully on September 12th, at the age of 90. Bishop Spong served as the bishop of the Diocese of Newark for than two decades, where he ordained the first openly gay male priest in the Episcopal Church in 1989. He also supported women clergy, insisting that any parish interview at least one woman for the position while engaged in the search for a priest. He was the author of more than a dozen books, always challenging traditional thought. For a full obituary please see the Episcopal News Service.
Welcome to Elyssa Claudio, our new Director of Christian Education!
Elyssa Claudio holds a degree in Media Studies & Production from Temple University and has over half a decade of experience working with children, ages newborn - 14. Her passion and purpose in life is working with children. She is a teacher at Sprout House focusing on early childhood development. Outside of the classroom she enjoys reading and walking in nature.
Music Notes
The prelude this week is based on a familiar tune "Going Home" which was borrowed from the largo from Antonin Dvorak's 9th Symphony. There is an iconic photo of a man singing the song with tears streaming down his face as FDR's casket was being drawn through the town of Warm Springs after his death. The work, transcribed for organ, takes around 9 minutes, so we'll begin streaming the service this week at 9:50.
The postlude is "March upon a theme by Handel", by Alexandre Guilmant (1833-1911). It has many majestic moments, is great fun to play, even toward the end where Guilmant wrote two parts together for the pedals. I pray my ankles will stay loose for that part! Two anthems this week - "Dear Lord and Father" by C. Hubert H. Parry, British composer and organist, and a short motet at the end of Communion - Create in me a clean heart, by Healey Willan.
Service music and the Psalm will be sung from the balcony for the near future.
Jim
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College Care Packages
We are looking for volunteers to create "care packages" to send to our St. Paul's college students. This is a wonderful ministry to support our students who are away from home. Please email Rev. Ellen
Ministry Volunteers Needed!
St. Paul's has ministries from serving on Sundays to outreach. Please contact Rev. Ellen for more information.
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