All Saints Parish Notes

The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, 20 September 2020

ONLINE THIS WEEK WEEKLY ONLINE PRAYERS MANNA CASSEROLE SUPPLIES Use this link to pray with us online during the week. Saturday, 19 September, 10:00 am Households preparing MANNA casseroles should come to All Saints to pick Said Morning Prayer up ingredients on Saturday, 19 September, at 10:00 am. We are continuing Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, 7:00 am our safe practices with this monthly household MANNA meal Said Compline preparation. MANNA casserole dropoff will be Sunday, 27 September, at Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 8:00 pm 12:30 pm. Centering Prayer Thanks to all our volunteers. You can still sign up to help here. Thursday, 6:30 pm Contact: Ginny Adams.

SUNDAY LIVESTREAM Use this link to access Sunday’s WELCOME BACK SUNDAY, BACK TO SCHOOL BLESSINGS livestream service. Sunday, 20 September, 2:30 pm and 4:00 pm While we are unable to have our traditional parish picnic, we are planning FAMILY CHECK-IN a lively Welcome Back Worship Service on the lawn. Join us for the blessing No Family Check-in this week. Join us for of backpacks and devices and for our inaugural “Boomwhacker worship” Welcome Back Sunday at 2:30 pm or 4:00 service. (We may not be as accomplished as the group on this video but we pm are enthusiastic.) Children and young people can also collect the care All Saints Facebook Support and packages we are creating for use in church school classes throughout the Encouragement Group is a private group fall. for All Saints parishioners to share Space is limited to 25 people. Pre-registration is required. The 4:00 pm support and encouragement during the service is FULL. There are still a few spots available at the 2:30 service. COVID-19 emergency. It is not a public group. Request access and one of the All Contact: Tammy Saints Facebook Administrators will admit parishioners. UPCOMING COMMUNION SERVICES We continue to experiment with short, in-person Communion services on the lawn at All Saints. Following Commonwealth and diocesan guidelines, THANK YOU each service is limited to 25 people. Attendance is first-come, first-served, We are grateful for everyone who and you must sign up at this link. We are not now able to create a waiting contributes to our Ministry with the list. If one service is full, please sign up for another service. During MANNA Community. This week, we inclement weather, the service is held in the church. This week’s are particularly grateful for Ginny opportunities for in-person worship with Communion are: Adams, Kathleen O’Connor, Sharon • Sunday, 20 September, 8:30 am Siwiec, Mary Urban Keary, and Laura • Sunday, 20 September, 2:30 pm Vennard, who plan and coordinate this • Sunday, 20 September, 4:00 pm—FULL mission outreach • Wednesday, 23 September, 6:00 pm We will contact registrants with procedures for the required health and wellness screening. Contact: Richard

MISSION STATEMENT. The mission of All Saints is to be a Community—searching to know and accept God’s purpose for us, uplifted by worship together, sustained by a sense of Christ being in our midst, and inspired by the Holy Spirit to become more than we are, here and in the world. CONNECT SEPTEMBER VESTRY UPDATE At the 16 September 2020 Vestry meeting, held via WHAT DOES LOVE LOOK LIKE AT ALL SAINTS? Zoom conferencing, the Vestry: Deadline: 21 September • Unanimously endorsed The Rev. Tammy Hobbs Love is the rug in the Langdon Chapel. The rug, the Miracky for ordination to the priesthood. furniture, the books, the puzzles, the art supplies—all given in love for the families of our parish, curated by • Reflected on the past six months of pandemic naming and tended with love by our staff and parents, and blessings and challenges. enjoyed (when we are and WILL be there again) by our • Approved the 2019 Audit. children. I see love in the smiling faces of parishioners and choir members as they walk by, glance down at the • Provided the Rector with input on fall programs as rug, and see the quiet buzz of activity, and the outlined by staff. purposeful, engaged, happily involved smaller members • Appointed a subcommittee of Dave Harrison, Ken of our community "being at church." —Meg Bridge Coleman, and Rusty Fenton to assist the Wardens and Please share your response to What does love look like at Rector in planning for an online Annual Meeting. All Saints via this online form. • Reviewed the timeline for the fall stewardship Contact: Wendy Wheeler campaign to begin 1 October.

Please contact any member of the Vestry if you would FEAST OF ST. FRANCIS like more information. Sunday, 4 October, 12:00, Hammond Woods Please bring your four-footed friends and join us for a hike in Hammond Woods, including a brief worship service and Blessing of the Animals. Alternatively, you LEARN may bring your pet to the 8:30 am Eucharist on the lawn CHURCH SCHOOL REGISTRATION for a blessing, bring a picture of your pet to the hike or Thank you to the families who have registered for the the 8:30 Eucharist, or join us for the 10:30 livestream 2020-21 Church School program! Church School details worship, which will include a prayer for all of God’s and plans for in-person family activities are available on creation. Pre-registration is required. our website on the updated and refreshed Children and Contact: Tammy Youth information pages. We are excited about the plans for this fall, and we look forward to seeing you and UPDATING OUR WEBSITE your children soon. If you have not already done so, We are currently in the process of doing updates on the please register your children here. website. If there is a page or post that you would like Contact: Tammy updated, please tell us about that here. You can also use this form to let us know about any issues that you may FAMILY PRAYER AND CHECK-IN CHANGE find on the website. Please note that there will be no Zoom Family Check-in Thank you! this Sunday. Instead, please join us in the afternoon for Contact: Ruby Gage, Webmaster Welcome Back Sunday at 2:30 pm or 4:00 pm. Our Fall Family Program begins on Sunday, 27 September. Contact: Tammy

2 SPIRITUALITY BOOK GROUP baby wipes. Other needed products are toothpaste and 13 October, 7:00 to 8:00 pm (via Zoom) toilet paper. Safe physical distancing times to drop off The selection for October’s discussion is Merton’s Palace food at 15 St. Paul Street are Wednesday from 11:30 am of Nowhere by James Finley. At age eighteen, Finley to 1:30 pm and Friday from 9:30 am to 12 noon. joined the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist community, The Pantry is particularly grateful for monetary where, for six years, Thomas Merton was his teacher and donations. With sufficient cash, the Pantry can purchase spiritual director. This book, a record of Merton’s food in bulk at greatly reduced prices through the teachings, is a spiritual resource for many. According to Greater Boston Food Bank. These large purchases allow one reviewer, “This is one of those books that you keep the Pantry to serve more families. Donate online at the FOREVER to re-read at least once a year.” For more Food Pantry website or by mail (15 St. Paul Street, information and the Zoom link, contact Jonas. Brookline 02446). Contact: Jonas Barciauskas Contact: Tom Nutt-Powell

NEW FORWARD DAY BY DAY PLEDGES AND DONATIONS Copies of the November-December-January issue of the Mail pledges and donations to: daily devotional, Forward Day by Day, have arrived All Saints Parish at the church. Please contact the office if you would like 1773 Beacon Street a copy mailed to you. Forward Day by Day devotions are Brookline, Massachusetts 02445 available online as well. Or donate online at allsaintsbrookline.org Contact: Office

SERVE GIVE ZOOM SOCIAL HOUR HOSTS NEEDED PLEASE HELP OUR NEIGHBORS Serve as the Zoom host for our social hour each week. One in five children in Massachusetts now live in food- We would love to create a rota of several people who can insecure households, an increase of 81 percent over pre- serve as hosts for our weekly Zoom social hour. If you COVID-19 food-insecurity levels, according to the non- are interested, please contact Richard or Monica. profit Feeding America. We urge all of our members to Training is provided. support one of the many feeding and food donation Contact: Monica Burden programs in the area. Below, we offer two nearby programs so that you can help today. OUR CHRISTIAN OBLIGATION TO VOTE We continues to work with Church of the Redeemer in Our Presiding Bishop, Michael Curry, implores us: “It is Chestnut Hill on the FUEL Program, which provides bags a Christian obligation to vote, and more than that, it is of groceries to needy Boston/Newton students and their the church’s responsibility to help get souls to the polls.” families. This food partially replaces school food Here are a few helpful resources ahead of the US General programs such as school breakfast and lunch. Shop for a Election on 3 November. full bag of groceries, or buy as many of the items as you can. Redeemer’s website provides a list of needed • Learn more about applying to vote by mail here. groceries. Deliver your contributions to the side door of • Find and track the status of your mail-in ballot here. Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill, 02467, at any time. • View your ballot and polling location (for voting in Contact: Wendy Wheeler person) here. The Brookline Food Pantry reports that, during the last • Sign up to be a poll worker here. two weeks of August, the number of clients requesting emergency food assistance doubled. The Pantry is particularly in need of baby formula, baby food, and

3 MUSIC NOTE In his essay, Hymnody in the United States from the Civil War to World War I (1860-1916), Paul Westermeyer describes Come, labor on, today’s Sequence Hymn, as “heady with optimism.” The text, based on the Gospels of Matthew 9:37-38 and John 4:35-37, is often called a "hymn for church workers." The Scottish hymn writer, Jane Borthwick, published the first version of this hymn as “Labour for Christ” in her Thoughts for Thoughtful Hours (1859). Our present fourth stanza was the second stanza in earlier versions and was followed by: Come labour on! The labourers are few, the field is wide, New stations must be filled, and blanks supplied; From voices distant far, or near at home, The call is, “Come!” The final stanza read: Come, labour on! The toil is pleasant, the reward is sure, Blessed are those who to the end endure;— How full their joy, how deep their rest shall be, O Lord, with thee! The English organist, Thomas Tertius Noble, wrote the tune Ora Labora specifically for this text for its inclusion in The Hymnal 1916, predecessor of The Hymnal 1940. Before moving to the US in 1913, Noble served as the organist and choirmaster at Ely Cathedral (1892-1898) and York Minster (1898-1913). He was then hired by St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue (NYC), where, in 1919, he established the famous Choir School for boys. In style and structure, Ora Labora reflects the unison tunes of Noble’s teacher/co-worker C.V. Stanford (Engelberg) and C.H.H. Parry (Jerusalem, Repton). Musicologist Erik Routley stated “His conservative style of composition did neither him nor American music any harm, because nothing so like the style of Parry and his best tune, Ora Labora had been heard yet in the USA.” Upon his retirement from St. Thomas in 1943, Noble moved to Rockport, Massachussetts, where he continued composing until his death in 1953.

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