This Week of July 7

" To you I lift up my eyes, to you enthroned in the heavens."

Psalm 123

Ad te levavi oculos meos

This is Father Michael's First Weekend Presiding !

We hope you will all attend and help welcome Rev. Michael and Charles to our community. Please remember to wear your buttons. This is also a Taize Weekend. If you haven't attended Taize before this may be the perfect time to try something new. There is a lovely reception held following the Taize service each month. As always, all are welcome!

Weekly Calendar

Quick Links for Online Worship and Fellowship

Prayer Requests

If you have additions to our Parish Prayer List, please fill out this,

Online Prayer Request Form There are also always paper forms available in the rear of the church or our parish office.

Wednesday Spirituality Discussion Group

Meets every Wednesday morning at 10:00 AM in the carpeted section of Walden Hall. The group is currently discussing the Gospel of Mark. If you would like to join this group, please reach out to Deacon Elizabeth Whitmore. All are warmly welcomed!

Meet and Greets with Father Michael:

We have added more opportunities to meet with Father Michael Horvath. If you have not signed up for a slot yet please take another look at the updated sign-up. We know have opportunities for meet and greets and parishioners homes as well in Walden Hall. Click here for the online sign-ups.

Update from the Gardens

We had a lot of help from the professionals this week and the grounds are really looking great. The landscapers from Princi and Brothers, Detailed Landscaping were here in this heat working very hard. They cut-back and weeded and mulched all of our perennial beds. Vetorino's came in and re-graded our parking lot with fresh stone.



Garden Work Day

Our next Garden Work Day is scheduled for July 13th at 9:00 AM.

We could really use help keeping the gardens looking their best.

We also have a Garden Committee Meeting Scheduled for Monday July 15th

at 4:00 PM.

All are ALWAYS welcome!

Ice Cream Social

We hope you will join us on the patio on this Sunday, July 7th following the 10:00 AM worship service. We will be celebrating the arrival of summer and our new Rector. Exciting times!

All are warmly welcomed!

All Parish Barbecue

Date: Wednesday July 24

Time: 5pm till dark, rain or shine

We hope you will join us in celebrating Summer, our new rector, and Saint Mary's beautiful gardens. This is an opportunity for the entire parish to gather and mingle with friends from all three services.

Barbecue and drinks will be provided. We are asking for everyone to bring their favorite Summer salad or dessert to share.

See you on the patio!

INREACH

Volunteer opportunities at Saint Mary’s:

Lemonade on The Lawn Season is Here

Yahoo! It has warmed up enough to switch from indoor coffee to having lemonade and treats on the patio instead. Lemonade on the Lawn is always weather dependent. IF it is truly nasty out, we will set up inside Walden Hall. We do not provide coffee in the summertime so please be sure to get your needed caffeine before you come to church.

Hosting the fellowship hour after our worship services is a great gift to our community. As host or hostess you and a companion provide store-bought or home-made finger food goodies for all to enjoy after the 10:00 AM service. There is also a Fellowship Hour scheduled after the 8:00 AM service on the first Sunday of each month.

It's all with the help of our wonderful Sexton, Lanny who assists with set-up and clean-up.

There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in the sunroom. Click here for more information.

Contact person: Hub Mathewson, 774-994-158 or at hubmathewson@comcast.net

OUTREACH

Calling all local singers and performers!

We are looking for local talent to perform in a concert, to benefit Amazing Grace Camp!

We have some talent in our congregation at St Peter’s, but we would love to expand and add some new voices in our cause! The Amazing Grace Camp is a program started at St Mary’s Episcopal to provide free camperships to kids with one or more parents incarcerated.

It’s a great cause and we hope to make enough money to pay for a campership: ($1000)

Come sing with us! Tentative date: Saturday late in Sept. or in Oct.

For more info call Linda Martin: 508 364 5437.

Featured Finds of the Week

The store has all kinds of red, white and blue Americana items good for the 4th as well as a Cape Cod Summer. Great picnic plates, platters and look at this sweet little teddy bear!

Angels' Treasures thrift shop is open from 10 to 3 Wednesday - Saturday.

We are trying to spread the word about our shop into the community. If you haven't already

liked, FOLLOWED and SHARED our facebook page please take a minute to do so, Thank you so much for your support! Remember the proceeds from AT Thrift go to support our church's outreach.

Thank you!

An Invitation From The Unitarian Church of Barnstable

Announcing the Cobb’s Hill Concert Series

The Unitarian Church is celebrating its new Steinway Model B Grand Piano

by offering 6 concerts of classical music starting in July and running through December 2024. Click here for a complete list of all the concert performers.

The first concert is July 6 at 5:00 PM featuring:

James Rosenblum, piano; Tim Paek, cello; Jean Huang, violin; Sam Kelder, viola: E. Dohnanyi String Serenade op. 10; J. Brahms Piano Quartet, op.25

Tickets are $25 each or $125 for the 6 concerts in the series

tickets are available here or at the door.

Book Signing and Read Aloud

Please join our parishioner, Jean Ciborowski Fahey PhD on July 27 at 1:00 PM at the Hyannis Barnes and Noble. Please click here for more information.

Diocese of Massachusetts notified of successful consent process for Bishop-elect Julia E. Whitworth

The Diocese of Massachusetts has received notification from the Presiding Bishop's Office and shares with joy today that the election of the Rev. Julia E. Whitworth to become the diocese's next bishop has received the required majority of consents from diocesan standing committees and bishops exercising jurisdiction in The Episcopal Church. Read the announcement here.

"We are delighted and gratified that the wider church has affirmed the election of the Rev. Julia Whitworth as our bishop-elect, and we look forward with joy and gratitude in this time of transition in our diocesan life together," the Rev. Dr. Karen Coleman, president of the Diocese of Massachusetts Standing Committee, said.

Bishop-elect Whitworth's ordination and consecration is to take place on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 11 a.m. at Trinity Church in Boston, with The Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, the Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, as chief consecrator. She will be seated as the 17th bishop diocesan of the Diocese of Massachusetts the following day, Sunday, Oct. 20 at 5 p.m. at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston.

1891 Society News

The 1891 Society is an honorary group of church members and friends who have made a financial commitment to leave behind a gift to the Church upon their passing. You can become a member by stating

you have made a commitment to include the Church. No minimum gift is required and you will not be asked the amount. All members will receive equal recognition in appreciation of their universal “Spirit of Giving.” Members will be acknowledged on a plaque and a small tree on their name tags.

• Weekly E-News deadline: Wednesday at noon.
• In an effort to keep it brief we will only highlight happenings of the next 10 days in our E-News.
• The deadline for submissions for our Monthly E-Newsletter is the 25th of the prior month.
• For your convenience, the Monthly Newsletter (printed out) will be available in the sunroom and the back of the church for those who would like a paper copy. If you know of someone who would enjoy receiving a paper copy in the regular mail please let Allison know.

     Saint Mary's Episcopal Church

P.O. Box 395

3055 Main Street

Barnstable, MA 02630

508-362-3977

www.stmarys-church.org