CROSSROADS EPIPHANY /LENT 2019 I am bringing you good news of great joy for all people. - Luke 2:10 LENT, HOLY WEEK & EASTERTIDE 2019 March 6, ASH WEDNESDAY: 7 p.m. The Imposition of Ashes and Holy Eucharist March 12, Tuesday: Soup & Luke Mar. 12- Apr. 9: 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. (soup) 7 p.m. -8 p.m. (Luke). More info on pg. 3. March 16, Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Noon, Lenten Quiet Morning. Join us for a morning of reflection and prayer and the opportunity to walk a labyrinth. There will be a brief introduction to labyrinth walking, opening and closing prayers, and plenty of open time for you to spend with God in prayer. More info on pg. 2. March 24, Sunday: 9:30 a.m., Godly Play Come hear the story of Noah & the Great Flood. More info on pg. 3. April 13, Saturday: 9 a.m. Noon, Labor of Love/Soup-er Saturday. The Maundy Thursday soup will be cooking in kitchen while all the cleaning is going on inside and out. Soon a list of ingredients will be posted in the hall, please donate what you can to help make these delicious soups. A portion of the soup goes to the Branford Soup Kitchen. Also look for the list of cleaning jobs that need to be completed. There are jobs for all ages and skill levels. If you want to get something done before this day, contact Debbie Anderson or Diane Iglesias to gain access. April 14, PALM SUNDAY: 8 & 10 a.m. The Liturgy of the Palms, dramatic reading of the Passion Gospel, and a celebration of the Holy Eucharist at both services. Child care at latter service. Please consider taking a part in reading the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. April 17, HOLY WEDNESDAY: 7:00 p.m. Service of Tenebrae: Through scripture and the gradual extinguishing of candles, we recreate the betrayal, abandonment, and agony of the events of Holy Week. April 18, MAUNDY THURSDAY: Lord s Supper - 6 p.m. A simple meal of soup, salad and bread followed by foot washing and the Holy Eucharist in the parish hall. Afterwards we process into the church in silence for the solemn Stripping of the Altar and quiet prayer at the Altar of Repose (Reserved Sacrament.) Childcare provided. Please make reservations by signing up on the list posted in the hall or by calling the parish office. Bring foodstuffs to share with our neighbors through the local food pantry. Maundy Thursday Prayer Vigil at the Altar of Repose - 8 p.m. Midnight and 5 a.m. - 9 a.m. Keep watch with our Lord on the night during which he was betrayed. The Church is open for prayer and meditation before the Reserved Sacrament representing Christ s Sacrifice for us. Please sign up in the hall or call the parish office at 203-488-7395. April 19: GOOD FRIDAY - 9:00 a.m. Stations of the Cross with communion from Reserved Sacrament. - 7:00 p.m. Silent Reflection & Passion Hymns - 7:30 p.m. The Proper Liturgy for Good Friday April 20: HOLY SATURDAY - 9:00 a.m. Proper liturgy for Holy Saturday - 9:30 a.m. Church Decorating. April 21: The Day of the Resurrection of Our Lord: EASTER - 8 & 10 a.m. A festive celebration of the Holy Eucharist, with Easter music at both services. The Sundays of Easter: April 28, May 5, 12, 19, 26 & June 2. - 8 & 10 a.m. Celebrate new life in Christ in Word and Sacrament, with Easter hymns at the latter service. June 9: Pentecost - 8 & 10 a.m. The birthday of the Church. Wear red!
LENTEN QUIET MORNING 2 Join us on Saturday, March 16 th from 9:30 until noon in Zion s parish hall for a morning of reflection and prayer and the opportunity to walk a labyrinth. There will be a brief introduction to labyrinth walking, opening and closing prayers, and plenty of open time for you to spend with God in prayer. Refreshments and other meditative resources will be available. Celebrating the Zion Community! On Saturday, May 25th we will have a Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone for the Zion building. A festival and tag sale are being planned for that day. Please speak with Lisa Latham if you have ideas and can help plan this celebration. For several years now, the Zion Vestry has participated in the ECCT Annual Spring Training in lieu of our vestry retreat. But this day is open to ALL Episcopalians in CT. Join with your vestry and 500+ other Episcopalians from around Connecticut for worship and interesting workshops to attend on many subjects. We car pool from Zion to the venue.
You are invited to Come hear the story of Noah & the Great Flood 3 Soup & Luke When: Tuesday evenings from March 12 th to April 9 th Time: 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. (soup) 7 p.m. -8 p.m. (Luke) Where: Zion Episcopal Church Notch Hill Road North Branford, CT Please join us for a five-week Lenten program that focuses on the Gospel of Luke, using Nancy Koester s Journeying Through Lent with Luke. This program includes daily meditations that reflect a different theme each week. Praying, Teaching, Healing, Forgiving, Believing and Daring are the themes that we will discuss each Tuesday evening, following a light soup and bread supper. You are not committed to all five weeks come to one, two or all five, depending on your schedule. If you cannot make it for supper, you are very welcome to join us at 7:00 for discussion. Journeying Through Lent with Luke by Nancy Koester is available for purchase on Amazon. The cost is around $7.00. Please contact Jane Chick, ctycampboss@yahoo.com or 203-988-4401 if you are planning to join us. If you need assistance with obtaining a copy of the text, please let Jane know by March 1 st. We look forward to dwelling in the word with you! *Please note: Orders for books will be placed by March 4 th. When: Sunday, March 24 th, 2019 Where: Zion Episcopal Church Notch Hill Road North Branford, CT Time: 9:30 a.m. Please join us as we tell the story of Noah and the Great Flood from the program Godly Play. Godly Play is an imaginative approach to working with children, an approach that supports, challenges, nourishes and guides their spiritual quest. Godly Play assumes that children have some experience of the mystery of the presence of God in their lives. * The story will take about 15 minutes, after which the children may continue to explore the story using the materials used in telling the story. *From the complete guide to Godly Play, by Jerome W. Berryman
Zion s New Kitchen- Blessed and re-dedicated to the Glory of God On Saturday, February 16 th, we had a celebration and blessing of Zion s newly renovated kitchen. After years of dreaming, writing a grant to the Foote Family Trust and months of design work, the demolition of the old and building the new, our kitchen is now up to health department standards for commercial kitchens. The Rt. Rev. Laura Ahrens blessed the kitchen with prayer and the sprinkling of holy water. Rev. Lucy thanked all who contributed to the project including the trustee of the Foote Family Trust, Regina Collins, Probate Judge Frank Forgione; architect Duo Dickenson who met with us and whose company made architectural drawings for us of the old space free of charge; the Rev. Sharon Gracen from Trinity, Branford, who made sure that Zion received the lion s share of grant money in 2018; Tom Cowell, the North Branford Building Official who met with us prior to the design phase; and the Zion parishioners involved in the project- Diane Iglesias and the Buildings & Grounds Committee, Lisa Latham, Ann Harriman, Debbie Anderson, Carol Esposito, Pat Lovelace, and Diane Pierpont. A new plaque was then unveiled by Diane Iglesias, Zion s Junior Warden and kitchen project coordinator. The plaque reads, 2018 Kitchen Renovation, Through the continued generosity of the Wallace F. Foote Family Charitable Trust and with God s Grace for the Service of Others. 4 After the blessing we enjoyed a delicious meal of pasta, meatballs, and salads prepared by Ann Harriman and Lisa Latham. The dessert table was overflowing with offerings from attendees. Thank you to all who made the evening so special. MILESTONES Baptism Joseph Scott Longo, January 13th. Joseph is the greatgrandson of Lynne and Joseph Caprio Memorial Services Richard Dick Whitney, February 9th Peter Murphy, February 12 th Thank you note excerpt Whoever said you can t go home again never walked through the doors of Zion Episcopal Church! Robin Caprio Longo
MUSIC NEWS The very dedicated choir continues to help lead us in worship on Sundays. The singers & instrumentalists meet before church, and sometimes stay after the service, to practice for worship and to prepare upcoming music. We have begun rehearsing music for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. We will begin the Lenten season with singing the Great Litany. We will be singing some beautiful music throughout Lent. The choir will be leading us in hymns and reflective anthems before and during the Good Friday service. Easter Sunday will be full with wonderful and joyful music that celebrates the day! As always, new members who sing or play instruments are welcome to join the choir. Blessings, Ralene Goff ralenegoff@gmail.com Calling All Textile Lovers! To anyone and everyone who knits, crochets, or quilts: we are running low on prayer shawls. Prayer shawls are given to anyone need someone facing surgery, chemotherapy, a death in the family, other catastrophic illness, the stress of caring for aging parents or chronically ill or disabled family, etc. We have received many heartfelt thanks for the comfort the shawls have brought to so many and we would like to have more on hand, so when the need arises, a shawl is there. If you knit or crochet and need yarn or needles, there is a supply in the sliding door closet in the parish hall; please help yourself. If you need patterns or want more information, please contact Jane Chick, ctycampboss@yahoo.com or 203-988-4401. 5 ADVENT DIAPER DRIVE THANK YOU Thank you to everyone who donated to the diaper drive, it was a huge success and close to two thousand diapers were collected. Three hundred and fifty of those diapers were donated to a local Coast Guard family who were struggling during the government shutdown. The rest of the diapers were donated to the Community Diaper Bank in Branford and will be distributed to local families in need. Thank you to Ann Harriman and Carol Archer for bringing the diapers to the diaper bank. Change for Change During Lent, we look to intentionally give up something (chocolate, soda, etc.), or take on something (reading scripture daily, donating time to a cause, etc.), to help bring us closer in our relationship with God. One way to do this would be to participate in Change for Change. Each day we put whatever change we may have in a container and bring that container to church on Palm Sunday. All of the money collected will then be donated to the Food Pantry of North Branford. Please consider taking on this challenge; it will help our struggling neighbors and also remind us of how blessed we are in our own lives. Containers will be available on Sunday, March 3 rd. Thank you! Author and Zion parishioner, Mary Anne Hardy will discuss her book, 50 Hikes in Connecticut which will be released March 5, on Sunday, March 24th at 11:30 a.m. in the parish hall. Books will be available for purchase and to be signed by the author. A portion of the sales will be donated to Zion. Refreshments will be served.
The Nursery on Notch Hill Newsletter 6 Hello Everyone! Open registration has started for the 2019/2020 school year! To guarantee your child a spot in Ms. Donna s class for next year please hand in the registration form along with your $50 registration fee. Ms Donna still has available space on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I am happy to announce that Ms. Betsy s 3-year-old class is full. Please help us spread the word that we are having open registration and tell your family and friends with young children about our wonderful school. Word of mouth has always been our biggest form of advertising. We appreciate your kind words and support of our school. This month, Ms. Donna, from the Atwater Memorial Library, will be visiting each class with her fun filled music and story time. The children enjoy her visit and she knows many of them by name from your family visits to the library. I encourage you all to continue to support our local library and the programs they provide to our community. We also will be updating the children s artwork on display at the library this month. Our classes will be busy this month celebrating Valentine s Day. We will be talking about love for our families, friends and self. We also will continue our unit on winter. Each class will be celebrating Valentine s Day and exchanging Valentines with their class. Thank you, Ms. Sue, Ms. Donna, Ms. Betsy, Ms. Rita, Ms. Debbie & Ms. Raelene Dates to Remember Ms. Donna s Valentine s Day Party Wednesday, February 13th Ms. Betsy s Valentine s Day Party Thursday, February 14th Movie Night TBA No School -Winter Break Monday, February 18 th & Tuesday, February 19 th Ms. Donna s class field trip to Big- Y in North Branford TBA Snack Helpers for February Please bring a snack and juice for two school days Week 1 (2/4) Constantinople/Surprenant Week 2 (2/11) no snack helpers Week 3 (2/18) Gambardella Week 4 (2/25) Vongher Reminders Also, if your child has had a temperature or stomach bug please keep them home. They may return twenty-four hours after their temperature ends. We follow the North Branford school district for closings and delayed openings. Delays start at 8:00am. We close at 1:00pm for an early dismissal. Our tax ID number is 06-0863457 Food for Thought The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart. Website: nurseryonnotchhill.com Visit us on Facebook!
March/April 2019 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Last Sunday after the Epiphany Yoga ASH WEDNESDAY Yoga HE 8& 10 a.m. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 First Sunday in Lent 11:30 Vestry meeting Yoga Soup n Luke (soup 6:30-7 Yoga Quiet Morning see pg. 2 HE 8& 10 a.m. Luke 7-8) see pg. 3 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Second Sunday in Lent HE 8& 10 a.m. Yoga Soup n Luke Yoga Labyrinth Third Sunday in Lent HE 8& 10 a.m. 9:30 Godly Play Noah and the great flood 11:30 Book talk & signing w/ Mary Anne Hardy 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Yoga Soup n Luke Yoga 31 APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fourth Sunday in Lent Yoga Soup n Luke Yoga HE 8& 10 a.m. Fifth Sunday in Lent HE 8& 10 a.m. PALM SUNDAY HE 8& 10 a.m. Easter Sunday HE 8& 10 a.m. Second Sunday of Easter HE 8& 10 a.m. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Yoga Soup n Luke Yoga Soup-er Saturday Clean Up Day 9-til noon. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Yoga Holy Wednesday Maundy Good Friday 9 a.m. Proper Liturgy for 7 p.m. Tenebrae Thursday 6 p.m. Supper begins 9 a.m. Stations of the Cross 7 p.m. Silent reflection, Holy Saturday Foot washing hymns followed by Proper 9:30 Church decorating Stripping of the altar liturgy for Good Friday 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
ZION EPISCOPAL CHURCH www.zionepiscopalchurch.org Vicar: The Rev. Lucy LaRocca email: zionvicar@att.net Parish Office: 203-488-7395 Administrator: Debbie Anderson: zion_office@att.net Music Director: Ralene Goff: ralenegoff@gmail.com Officers Senior Warden: Lisa Latham Junior Warden: Diane Iglesias Treasurer: Phil Bujalski - ziontreas@att.net Clerk: Jane Chick Pledge Clerk: Susan LeGeyt Vestry: Mary Lou Clark, Ann Harriman, Andrew Parfitt, Rita Smith, Tracy Sadlon & Ann McGloin *Soup n Luke (see page 3.) *Book signing (see page 5.) Zion Episcopal Church 326 Notch Hill Road North Branford, CT 06471 zionepiscopalchurch.org