FALL 2019 Calendar of Events & Services

1 SFIRST-YEAR EP T. SUNDAY 1-4 MorningO Prayers C T. 1 MorningNOV. Prayers 1 FIRST SUNDAYDEC. OF ADVENT 8:30–8:45am • Appleton 8:30–8:45am • Appleton Sunday Worship • 11am Sunday Worship • 11am MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Interim 2 3 FIRST-YEAR FAMILY WEEK- Professor Stephanie Paulsell. Student Oasis Pusey Minister, The Memorial Church; END & ALL SAINTS' DAY Anthem: Plainsong, Mass XVII Lunchtime Organ Recital ♫ Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am 2-6 Morning Prayers 12:15–12:45pm of the Practice of Christian Studies, David von Behren Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) 8:30–8:45am • Appleton Harvard Divinity School. Anthems: Compline 9pm • Appleton MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am William Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis & 3 Sunday Worship • 11am 4 Student Oasis Praise Our Lord, All Ye Gentiles 6 Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am Professor Stephanie Paulsell. Anthem: First-Year Student Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) John Ireland, Communion Service in C Lunchtime Organ Recital ♫ Coffee Hour 12:15–12:45pm Sunday Worship • 11am Church School for Children Carson Cooman 12:30–2pm • Student Oasis 11:15am–12:15pm Jim Wallis, President and Founder, 5 Compline 9pm • Appleton 3-6 Morning Prayers Music of C.P.E. Bach, Sojourners. Anthem: Thomas Tallis, 8 SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT 8:30–8:45am • Appleton Mass for Four Voices Mozart, and Haydn ♫ 4pm 5 Compline 9pm • Appleton Church School for Children Harvard University Choir and Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am 11:15am–12:15pm Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) 8 FIRST SUNDAY OF TERM 7-11 Morning Prayers 4-8 Morning Prayers Sunday Worship • 11am 8:30–8:45am • Appleton Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am 8:30–8:45am • Appleton Professor Stephanie Paulsell. Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) 9 MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am 6 MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am Anthems: Anthony Piccolo, The Key; Sunday Worship • 11am Student Oasis Student Oasis James MacMillan, O Radiant Dawn Church School for Children Professor Stephanie Paulsell. Lunchtime Organ Recital ♫ 13 Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am 11:15am–12:15pm Anthems: Josef Haydn, The Heavens Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) 12:15–12:45pm Edward E. Jones The 110th Annual Christmas Are Telling from The Creation; Compline 9pm • Appleton Carson Cooman, What is Good Sunday Worship • 11am 7 Carol Service ♫ 5pm Student Welcome Back Professor Stephanie Paulsell. 10 COMMEMORATION OF BENE- Morning Prayers Coffee Hour Anthem: J. S. Bach, Der Geist hilft unser 9 8:30–8:45am • Appleton 12:30–2pm • Student Oasis Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 FACTORS & THE WAR DEAD Church School for Children Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am Last Morning Prayers service of term Morning Prayers 9-13 11:15am–12:15pm Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) The 110th Annual Christmas 8:30–8:45am • Appleton 10 Carol Service ♫ 8pm Morning Prayers Sunday Worship • 11am Choir of Emmanuel College, 15-18 10 8:30–8:45am • Appleton Cambridge ♫ 12:15pm The Rev. Dr. Matthew Potts, Associate 15 THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am Professor of Religion and Literature and of Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am 16 Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am 15 Student Oasis Ministry Studies, Harvard Divinity School; Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) Veteran, U.S. Navy. Anthems: Ned Rorem, William Belden Noble Lecture Sunday Worship • 11am Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love; Herbert Sunday Worship • 11am Series: Lecture 1 • 7pm The Rev. Alanna C. Sullivan; Howells, Te Deum (“Collegium Regale”) The Rev. Alanna C. Sullivan, Associate The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, Associate Minister, The Memorial Church School for Children Minister, The Memorial Church Senior Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church Church. Anthems: David Hurd, 11:15am–12:15pm Church School for Children Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am I Was Glad; Gwyneth Walker, 20 Morning Prayers 11:15am–12:15pm Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) 11-15 Sounding Joy 8:30–8:45am • Appleton Christian Education programs Church School for Children Sunday Worship • 11am MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am 11:15am–12:15pm 13 end for term The Rev. Dr. Gerald “Jay” Williams, Student Oasis 19 Choir Concert ♫ 6pm Morning Prayers Lead Pastor, Union Church, Boston. 16-20 Pilgrimage Book Group • 7pm 8:30–8:45am • Appleton Anthems: Grayston Ives, There Is a Land Lessons and Carols, Choir of St. Paul’s Seminar Room of Pure Delight; Patricia Van Ness, Joy School, Concord, New Hampshire MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am 18 Flows Down Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am 22 FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT Student Oasis 17 Church School for Children Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) Sunday Worship • 11am Lunchtime Organ Recital 11:15am–12:15pm ♫ Sunday Worship • 11am 12:15–12:45pm Preacher to be announced Carson Cooman Evensong 6pm • Appleton ♫ The Rev. Cornell William Brooks, Pilgrimage Book Group • 7pm 24 CHRISTMAS EVE with guest director Barry Rose Professor of the Practice of Public Lead- Seminar Room Worship Service • 5pm 21-25 Morning Prayers ership and Social Justice and Director of 22 Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am 8:30–8:45am • Appleton The William Monroe Trotter Collab- Professor Stephanie Paulsell Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) orative for Social Justice, Harvard MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am 23 Kennedy School. Anthems: Orlando THE 2019-2020 Sunday Worship • 11am Student Oasis Gibbons, Great Lord of Lords; Alice WILLIAM BELDEN NOBLE The Rev. Dr. Braxton D. Shelley, Pilgrimage Book Group • 7pm Parker, Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal LECTURER IN RESIDENCE Stanley A. Marks and William H. Seminar Room Church School for Children Marks Assistant Professor at the 11:15am–12:15pm Radcliffe Institute; Assistant Profes- 27 Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am sor of Music in the Harvard Faculty Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) 18-22 Morning Prayers of Arts and Sciences. Anthem: Felix Sunday Worship • 11am 8:30–8:45am • Appleton Mendelssohn, Richte mich, Gott The Rev. Kaji Douša, Senior Pastor, 20 MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am Church School for Children Park Avenue Christian Church, New Student Oasis 11:15am–12:15pm York City. Anthems: W. A. Mozart, William Belden Noble Lecture 23-27 Morning Prayers Dixit and Beatus vir from Vesperae Series: Lecture 2 • 7pm 8:30–8:45am • Appleton solennes de confessore, K. 339 The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, Church School for Children MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am Senior Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock 25 11:15am–12:15pm Student Oasis 24 Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am Morning Prayers Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Bap- Faith & Life Forum • 9:30am 28-31 Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) 29 8:30–8:45am • Appleton tist Church in Atlanta, the spiritu- Buttrick Room (Coffee 9am) Sunday Worship • 11am al home of the Rev. Dr. Martin MemCafé • 8:45–9:45am Sunday Worship • 11am 30 The Rev. Westley P. Conn, Ministry Luther King, Jr. Student Oasis Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Muslim Fellow, The Memorial Church. Anthems: A national voice on social justice Chaplain to Harvard University. Events are subject to change. Keith Hampton, True Light; Undine Anthems: Edgar Bainton, And I Visit our website for the latest Smith Moore, I Believe This Is Jesus issues such as voting rights and Church School for Children Saw a New Heaven; Calvin Hamp- schedule. Unless otherwise criminal justice, Rev. Warnock 11:15am–12:15pm ton, Jacob’s Ladder noted, all events and services will deliver four lectures over the Church School for Children take place in the Memorial 25-26 Morning Prayers course of the academic year on 11:15am–12:15pm Church Sanctuary and are free 8: 30–8:45am • Appleton Oct. 16, Nov. 20, March 11, and April 22. All lectures will 30 Morning Prayers and open to the public. 25 Flute & Organ Recital ♫ 7:30pm 8:30–8:45am • Appleton take place at 7pm in the Memo- Anna Meyer, flute and Erik Meyer, organ rial Church Sanctuary and are 27-30 THANKSGIVING BREAK free and open to the public.

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From the Interim Pusey Minister STEPHANIE PAULSELL On Pilgrimage One of the great gifts of Professor Jonathan L. Walton’s ministry in the Memorial Church was the welcome he offered to all at Har- vard. As an Affiliated Minister, I was grateful for his invitation to me and other ministers across campus to practice our vocation here — to preach and teach, pray and study, protest and lament in the company of this community. Professor Walton loved to say that the Memorial Church was a “space of grace” at Harvard. His generous invitation to serve as a minister here was part of what made it so for me. As Professor Walton goes on to enlarge the boundaries of his own vocation as Dean of Wake Forest University Divinity School, I Blackwell Jeffrey Photos: am grateful for the opportunity to serve as the Interim Pusey Min- ister. My first job in ministry was in a university church, and I love Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A national voice on social justice the reach of these places, the connections they can create between issues such as voting rights and criminal justice, Rev. Warnock is their universities and the world around them, and the unique forms also the author of The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, of learning they offer. Piety, and Public Witness. Rev. Warnock will deliver lectures on Oct. Just as we are challenged in university classrooms to discover 16, Nov. 20, March 11, and April 22. what we can learn through disciplines like history or anthropology As always, Edward Jones and the Harvard University Choir or mathematics, university churches offer opportunities to find out will deepen our attention to the sacred on Sunday mornings as well what we can learn through faith, service, community and prayer. as in their Nov. 3 concert of music by C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, and As the Memorial Church begins its journey toward a new era of Haydn and the 110th Annual Christmas Carol Services on Dec. 8 leadership, I’m particularly excited to find out what we might learn and Dec. 10, among others. We are also welcoming a new musician through a practice that is common to many religious traditions: the to the Memorial Church this summer. David von Behren joins us practice of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage sends us out beyond the bound- as Assistant University Organist and Choirmaster. aries of our institutions, opening us to new relationships; bringing Lastly, I am pleased to announce that the Rev. Alanna C. Sullivan us into communion with those who have gone before us; removing will assume new administrative responsibilities for the church. In addi- us from the hierarchies that structure our lives at home; deepening tion to her excellent work attending to the pastoral aspects of Memorial our attention to the sacred; and generating new thoughts and ideas. Church, including liturgical planning and leading worship, student What do we learn on a pilgrimage? We learn that our lives, and the programming, and overseeing the seminarian program, she will also life of the world, could be different. As the Rev. Professor Peter J. oversee finance and operations, facilities, and events management. Gomes loved to say: “we do not have to be as we are.” With human dignity under attack from the White House to the There will be opportunities throughout the year to participate border, we need practices that can help us move through the world in intergenerational pilgrimages. We hope you will also consider more consciously, attentive to the sacred within and around us, awake joining our monthly book group, where we’ll discuss works by Ker- to the claims that the journeys of others make on our lives. We need ry Egan, Toni Morrison, Matsuo Bashō, Valeria Luiselli and the practices that can help us shake free of the debilitating formation of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to help shape our thinking about oppressive structures and hateful ideologies. We need practices that the practice of pilgrimage and its relation to the life of the world. remind us that the world can change, and so can we. We’ll welcome preachers and teachers this semester who can I look forward to being on pilgrimage with you this year— help us think more deeply about the journey we are on as individ- uals, as a church, as a university, and as a nation, including the Rev. Sincerely, Gerald “Jay” Williams of Boston’s historic Union Church, a former stop on the Underground Railroad, and the Rev. Kaji Douša of Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City, whose ministry on the border has placed her on a government watch list. We will have the opportunity to engage these preachers, and many others, in the Faith & Life Forum as well. Professor Stephanie Paulsell We are especially excited to welcome the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Interim Pusey Minister, The Memorial Church of Harvard University Warnock as our William Belden Noble Lecturer in Residence for Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies, the 2019-2020 academic year. Rev. Warnock is the Senior Pastor of Harvard Divinity School the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the spiritual home of the FALL 2019 Calendar of Events & Services Memorial Church Services & Programs WORSHIP CHRISTIAN EDUCATION STUDENT PROGRAMS Sunday Worship • Sundays, 11am Faith & Life Forum • Sundays, 9:30am The Memorial Church is a unique and welcoming A multi-denominational Protestant worship service The Faith & Life Forum explores matters of faith community in the center of Harvard Yard. From open to all regardless of faith, serving the Harvard and public life. Come for coffee at 9am. For the the Harvard University Choir to our student ad- University community and beyond. Services are full list of readings and speakers, visit visory board and fellowship events, to work-study broadcast live on Harvard’s radio station, WHRB memorialchurch.harvard.edu/faith-life-forum. and volunteer positions, we offer many opportu- 95.3 FM and online at whrb.org. Church School • Sundays, 11:15am nities for students to get involved, connect, and Morning Prayers • Weekdays, 8:30–8:45am The Church School offers Christian education make life-long friendships. Held Monday through Friday during the academ- classes for children ages three through sixteen. All Our clergy are also available for ongoing pastoral care ic year, this historic service, held continuously classes are held during Sunday services in the Fall and support for all students, including a bereavement since Harvard’s founding in 1636, consists of mu- and Spring Terms. Learn more: memorialchurch. group. Visit our website or contact Lara Glass at sic, prayer, and a brief address given by a member harvard.edu/churchschool. [email protected] for more information. or friend of the University. MemCafé is held each Student Oasis Wednesday following the service, with coffee, MUSIC snacks, and conversation for all. The Student Oasis is available to current Harvard Music in the Memorial Church is performed by students as a place to relax, study, cook in our full the Harvard University Choir, which provides service kitchen, and connect with friends. We in- CHORAL SERVICES the music for weekly and daily services, as well Compline • 1st Thursday of the month, 9pm vite all Harvard students to enjoy our welcoming as special concerts throughout the year. Home student space, located in the ground level of the This twenty-minute candlelit evening service to two world-class instruments, the Fisk Organ church. (Entrance across from Canaday Hall). is sung by the Harvard University Choir, based Opus 139 and the Skinner Opus 793, the music upon the traditional evening liturgy of scripture, department also offers organ recitals and other Hours: Monday–Friday, 8am–11pm; Saturday, music, prayers, and silence. music events. All concerts and recitals are free 9am–9pm; Sunday, 1pm–9pm. Evensong • Oct. 20, 6pm and open to the public and take place in the Me- Want to book space for a student group event? The sung evening prayer service of the Anglican morial Church Sanctuary unless otherwise noted. Visit memorialchurch.harvard.edu/studentoasis. Check our website calendar for the full schedule daily prayer tradition also includes organ music, ♫ congregational singing and spoken prayer. of events. The Memorial Church of Harvard University • One Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 • 617-495-5508 • memorialchurch.harvard.edu