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The Adult Forum is held between morning services every Sunday at 9:15 am in the Fireside Lounge.
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Sunday Schedule and Adult Forum - September 2011 |
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Holy Eucharist 8:00 am and 10:30 am
Adult Forum in the Fireside Room every Sunday at 9:15 am.
For each of the Sundays in September we will be doing a book study of Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves’ book that she co-authored with Bihsop Michael Perham from Gloucester, England: The Hospitality of God. The book is a study of emerging Anglican churches in the United States and in the UK – similar to the format of Diana Butler Bass Book Christianity for the Rest of Us. Bishop Mary’s book will be on sale at the church, cost $18. It is not necessary to have read the book to profit from the discussion.
“First Sunday” September 4th at 10:30 am with blended musical traditions, a cappella singing, and silent meditation as we expand our Anglican liturgy and tradition. Kate Alm is our musician for the service. The congregation is invited to come at 10: 00 am for rehearsal and learning the music.
The 12th Sunday after Pentecost (Ordinary Time), Sunday September 11th: We welcome back the Choral Scholars who join the congregation and choir. The Reverend Peggy Bryan will be preaching and celebrating at these services. At 7:00 pm there will be the U2+2charist preceded by a spaghetti and pasta dinner in the Parish Hall at 5:00 pm.
The 13th Sunday after Pentecost (Ordinary Time) September 18th The spoken liturgy at 8:00 am and the classical Choral Eucharist of Anglican music is our guide as we endeavor to know and experience the sacred and holy.
Taize Service – Third Sunday of the month, September 18th at 7:00 pm. The Taize service is an ecumenical service of prayer, and singing using music written by the Taize community in France. Taize is a Chirstian community that was formed by Roman Catholics and Swiss Protestants at the end of World War II, and has a mobile population of 5,000 pilgrims and visitors on any given day of the year. This Taize service is a wonderfully peaceful way to end a day of Sunday worship and begin a new week.
The 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Ordinary Time), September 25th: the Reverend John Buenz will be preaching at both services of Holy Eucharist and addressing the congregation during a pot-luck dinner following the 10:30 am service. We will be forming groups of 8 people for “house meetings” that will begin in October. All are invited to participate in a “house meeting.” Our goal is to discern and understand our identity as a church and a direction for our future. |
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Christianity for the Rest of Us |
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For the next several Sundays we will be having a book study on Diana Butler Bass' book Christianity for the Rest of Us. Many from Calvary attended a workshop to discuss congregational transformation and vitality. It is not necessary to have read the book to profit from our discussion.
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April 3rd at 9:15 am – Eric Larsen will share his 15 years of experience with nuisance abatement and how churches, businesses and institutions can avoid becoming an attractive nuisance in a downtown urban context. April 3rd is also First Sunday when we join the choir and rehearse the music for the day. Rehearsal with the choir begins at 10:00 am which will mean a shortened Adult Forum.
April 10th at 9:15 am– COPA representatives will interact with Calvary parishioners to discuss our new role as an institutional member of COPA. COPA is an broad based community organization that promotes social justice and strong institutional relationships other churches, synagogues and community organizations..
April 17th is Palm Sunday and there will not be an Adult Forum
April 24th is Easter and there will not be an Adult Forum. |
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With the Adult Forum on Feb. 27th, we have ended the Marcus Borg series, and so, we will move now in a different direction.
Mar. 6th, there will be no Adult Forum, but we will join the Choir at 10:00 a.m. and rehearse with them before the service begins.
Mar. 13th: Bishop Shalita will be with us on to preach and celebrate. We are inviting him to participate in our Adult Forum between services.
March 20th: The Rev. Donald Schell, one of the two founders of St. Gregory’s, San Francisco, will join us. He has faced the challenges of building a congregation in a downtown community affected by poverty, homelessness, and shifting cultural values, much as Calvary has. Perhaps he can give us some valuable insights to our own condition.
March 27th: Joaquin Sanchez from COPA will discuss at the adult forum how we envision our involvement with COPA. |
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This month we will begin with discussions of new ways of thinking about Epiphany and our faith, first with the Rev. John Buenz and followed in the coming weeks by a series of recorded conversations with author and Bible scholar Marcus Borg.
January 2: Discussion of the lections for the Christmas season.
January 9: Father Buenz on The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why. Thirty years ago, Fr. Buenz began to notice underlying changes in North American Christianity; he sensed they could become as radical as the Protestant Reformation. As the changes became more widely described, such as in Historian-Episcopalian Phyllis Tickle’s recent book, The Great Emergence, there appears to be a “rummage sale” of ideas – as she calls it – influencing western culture and driving the changes Father Buenz was noticing. This forum will help us begin to understand these changes and see how the Church might respond to them constructively.
January 16. We will begin the Marcus Borg forum on Embracing an Adult Faith with a discussion of the first of Christianity’s most fundamental questions: Who is God? Following sessions will include: Jesus, Salvation, Community, and Practice of contemporary Christian faith. These sessions will continue through Epiphany as time and schedules of visiting presenters permit.
January 23. No forum: Parish Annual Meeting.
January 30. Embracing an Adult Faith with Marcus Borg continues. |
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