This Sunday+
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164: St. Jerome (Lion)
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, July 6
8 AM — Indoor Holy Eucharist Rite I
9 AM — Outdoor Holy Eucharist Rite II
9-11 AM — Child Care
10 AM — Indoor Holy Eucharist Rite II & Live Stream (with choir)
10 AM — Church School
11 AM — World’s Greatest Coffee Hour
Special Announcements
Throughout the summer months, we will have childcare and informal activities for children ages 8 and under during the 10AM service.
Our “second sacred meal” – the World’s Greatest Coffee Hour – is key to building our community. We need your help to make it happen for the next several Sundays. Hands to plate, serve, and clean up will make a huge difference – no experience necessary! If you are moved to plan a whole Sunday menu that’s great fun too! Register online to pick a slot, sign up outside Morrill Hall, or just call the church office. Don’t wait – pick your Sunday today! Thank you!
138: Dialogue between Faith and Science (Maltese Cross and Atom)
Sunday’s Music
Sunday, July 6
Our Opening Hymn, “Morning has broken,” is a text penned by the English author Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965), and is her most widely-published work, made popular in 1971 by the English singer-composer formerly known as Cat Stevens. The hymn-tune BUNESSAN, to which we sing Morning has broken, is named after a Scottish village located on the Isle of Mull, off the Western coast of Scotland. The composer of BUNESSAN is unknown. Both text and tune of our Closing Hymn, O beautiful for spacious skies, were inspired by voyages: Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929, and author of the text), during a train trip from Wellesley, MA to Colorado Springs, was moved to write the poem by views of the Great Plains from atop Pikes’s Peak. The hymn-tune MATERNA, by Samuel Augustus Ward (1848-1903) came to the composer during a summer boat trip from Coney Island back to his home in NYC. The wedding of text and tune was so popular that O beautiful for spacious skies was even considered as a candidate to become our national anthem. “The Star-spangled banner”/O say, can you see received that official status on March 3, 1931. Later administrations proposed that O beautiful for spacious skies be considered either equal to or a replacement for O say can you see (the latter being more difficult to sing because of its wide vocal range), but so far this effort has not been successful.
