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Join Us For Worship This Sunday (Feb 21, 2021)
Posted on February 19, 2021 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship
Join us once again for our on-line worship service for this First Sunday of Lent. As we entered into Lent last year we were just beginning to hear about the virus and knew little about the wilderness of quarantine that we’d all be facing. This Lent the pandemic continues but vaccinations are beginning to spread […]

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Music Notes for Lent
Posted on March 4, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship
Each week, the FCCW Choir will provide a movement of Haydn’s dramatic and moving oratorio, Die sieben letzen Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze (The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross), Hob.XX:2. Originally composed as an orchestral work in 1786, Haydn subsequently made a string quartet arrangement, solo keyboard version and, finally, an […]

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Tuesdays with Jesus…and One Another
Posted on February 13, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Spiritual Practice, Worship
Each Lent we have a series of Tuesday night gatherings that begin with Centering Prayer at 6:30. This year we’ll be praying in Ripley Chapel. Then we’ll adjourn to the Tucker Room for a simple supper of soup and bread. This year we will adopt the practice that many monasteries use. One voice will […]

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Lenten Worship Series: 7 Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
Posted on February 13, 2020 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship
During the 6 Sundays of Lent this year leading up to Holy Week and Easter, our worship services will be centered upon the 7 Last Words of Jesus from the cross. Our tradition, from the very forming of the Gospels, has always held these last “words” (phrases or sayings) he spoke before his death as […]

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