The View from Bolton Street
The Color of Covid-19 in Maryland
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On Thursday, April 30th at 7:30 pm EST we will host a community conversation with Maryland elected officials, public health experts and people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data is highlighting our nation's racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities and exposing the most vulnerable communities among us. Let's come together to discuss the collective action that is needed to save the lives of all Marylanders.
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Omar Neal, former Mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama and host of the "You Got the Power" radio show will moderate the conversation hosted by Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, director of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity and professor of health policy and management in the School of Public Health.
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Delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk (District 21)
Delegate Gabriel Acevero (District 39)
Senator Clarence K. Lam (District 12)
Senator Charles Sydnor (District 44)
Dr. Noel Brathwaite from the Maryland Department of Health
Dr. Deidra Crews from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Sandra Quinn from the University of Maryland School of Public Health UMD School of Public Health
Citizens for Charles Sydnor
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E-Memorial Worship 4/26, Third Sunday of Easter
To join us, all you need to do is click on the link below. We will have the order of service up on the screen to follow along. We recognize that all of us have different levels of comfort with technology - we will do our best to help everyone do what they need to feel comfortable and participate!
Two tips for Zoom worship:
1) Let us see your face! If at all possible, please start a video feed so we can see each other face to face, even across distance.
2) Please mute yourself unless you have a speaking role in the service. And if you find you are muted, please don’t unmute. And please do respond to the prayers and readings even if you are muted, as we are all worshipping together.
Topic: Sunday worship
Time: Apr 26, 2020 10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Audio Bible Study: Lectio Divina
In response to the continuation of our shelter-in-place lives, we recognize that some people are a little “Zoomed-out.” As such, we’ve adapted our Bible Study structure to be less screen-heavy and more flexible for you! We are now offering short reflections with Lectio Divina on scripture passages of the day. These will be posted every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, but you can listen to them at any time!
E-Friendship Hour: April 16, 2020
One thing we really miss not being in community are our youth. And one thing parents all need right now is a break. So have your kids join for a digital “Friendship Hour” Thursdays at 3 pm on zoom. Follow the link below to join us!
Topic: Friendship hour
Time: Apr 16, 2020 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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E-Memorial Second Sunday of Easter, 4/19/2020
What about Communion?
At the request of the worship committee, and because Holy Week begins some of the most sacred time in the Church Calendar, this Sunday I will celebrate a small altar to consecrate the bread and wine. I am sad that I cannot share the wine and the host with you, and so we will not consume the host but leave it on the altar as a reminder.
I DO invite you to bring a piece of bread with you to “break” and share together immediately after the service. We will remember Jesus’ last supper even as we are unable to consecrate it together in this time of quarantine.
General Instructions
To join us, all you need to do is follow the link below. We will have the order of service up on the screen, but if you’d like to print one out a copy will be provided ahead of time.
I recognize we all have different levels of comfort with technology - there is a helpful explainer below for those for who, this is new.
two things:
1) let us see your face! If at all possible please start a video feed so we can see each other face to face, even across distance.
2) please mute your feed unless you are speaking. And if you find you are muted, please don’t unmute. And please do respond to the prayers and readings even if you are muted, as we are all doing this together.
Topic: Sunday worship
Time: Apr 19, 2020 10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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E-aster Sunday at Memorial!
Grey Maggiano is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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Hol-E (Holy) Week at Memorial
Holy week is looking different for all of us this year, but social distancing does not mean social isolation! Join us online for Maundy Thursday, Easter Vigil on Saturday, and Easter Sunday services. All services will happen via Zoom, and you can follow the links below to join the worship services.
Easter Vigil
Saturday, April 11, 2020 08:00 PM Eastern Time
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E-aster Sunday
Sunday April 12, 2020 10:00 AM Eastern Time
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A D-I-Y Stations of the Cross this Lent
The Stations of the Cross represent fourteen episodes in the last day of Jesus' life. Traditionally eight of the stations are based on events recorded in the Gospels and the remaining six stations are traditional, historic embellishments of the Passion narrtive. When walked as a physical pilgrimage the Stations of the Cross represent the Via Dolorosa, the historic processional route through Jerusalem which Jesus is believed to have taken from the Preatorium to Golgatha. The processional route itself was well established in Jerusalem by the third century and has been maintined by the Franciscan Order on behalf of the Holy See since the twelfth Century.
Through out the centuries Christians have been encouraged to undertake pilgrimages to the Holy Land and specifically to make pilgrimage to Jerusalem. It has also long been recognised that not everyone is capable of undertaking such a journey. The historic compromise was that because every church stands as the physical representation of the Heavenly Jerusalem, every church can also physically represent the Earthly Jerusalem. In many churches fourteen markers around the building represent the fourteen stations of the cross. In some churches the stations are identified with simple crosses or plaques bearing Roman numerals I – XIV. In other churches the stations are indicated by icons, paintings, wood or stone bas-reliefs or sculptures depicting the events of historic narrative.
Pilgrimages are always personal journeys, but they are taken in community, in public. How can one practice the Stations of the Cross pilgrimage at a time when travel to Jerusalem is not possible, and when local churches are closed? We invite you to create your own Stations of the Cross. We also invite you to share your works with us.
What to do?
Gather art materials that you have at home: pencils and paper, crayons, ink what ever you have at hand will work. Draw with coffee on a napkin, if that is all you have on hand.
The first two stations are posted below
Sit quietly.
Say a prayer or two.
Read the text of the station. (Each day we will post the text of the Station for the day and some visual examples of the station. The visual examples will be provided to help establish the mood, but you are not being asked to copy the presented artworks, but rather to engage with and respond to the narrative.)
Respond to the text from your heart using the materials you have gathered.
When you have finished, sit quietly with the station and say another set of prayers to bring you back to the present.
Jesus is condemNed to death
Station 1
Jesus is condemned to death
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you:
Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
let us pray:
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.
As soon as it was morning, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation; and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate. And they all condemned him and said, “He deserves to die.” When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. Then he handed Jesus over to them to be crucified.
Jesus takes up his cross
Station 2
Jesus takes up his Cross
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you:
Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
Let us pray.
Almighty God, whose beloved Son willingly endured the agony and shame of the cross for our redemption: Give us courage to take up our cross and follow him; who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Jesus went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. Like a lamb he was led to the slaughter; and like a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he opened not his mouth. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.
Jesus falls the first time
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you:
Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
Let us pray.
O God, you know us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright: Grant us such strength and protection as may support us in all dangers, and carry us through all temptations; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped; but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, and was born in human likeness. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name which is above every name. Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, and kneel before the Lord our Maker, for he is the Lord our God.
Jesus meets his afflicted mother
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you:
Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.
Let us pray.
O God, who willed that in the passion of your Son a sword of grief should pierce the soul of the Blessed Virgin Mary his mother: Mercifully grant that your Church, having shared with her in his passion, may be made worthy to share in the joys of his resurrection; who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
To what can I liken you, to what can I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What likeness can I use to comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. The Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.
The View From Bolton Street
Holy Week has always been special for me. Especially, when I joined a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, which included a visit to the Mount of Olives. My fellow pilgrims included Nancy Kelso and Louise Miller. The Garden of Gethsemane is just down the hill from the Mount of Olives. Huge olive trees grow here. This is where Jesus prayed after his entrance into Jerusalem. I could imagine Jesus traveling the route to Jerusalem as people spread their cloaks on the ground and waved branches of olives and palms. Even as the people acknowledged him, perhaps in the Garden, Jesus is pondering the inevitable journey to Golgotha. He makes a promise—not my will but your will be done. This journey begins with Palm Sunday, as does my reflection.
As the palms were distributed, the crucifer, thurifer, acolytes, and priest began a procession down the center aisle and outside. Ms. Daisy struck up “All Glory, Laud, and Honor” the refrain sung by those outside. We sang the verses—by the end of the hymn there was silence. Then there were 3 knocks. The doors of the church/Jerusalem were opened and we broke forth with ‘Ride on, Ride on in Majesty” while waving out branches of palm as the procession moved up the center aisle.
“Hosanna in the highest. Blest be the king who cometh was our chant.”
Sixty years later those memories are so vivid yet so far away. This year, there will not be palm branches handed out in community, there will be no processions, and there will no community singing of “All Glory, Laud, and Honor.”
Yet, there will be community in Zoom broadcasts, live streaming, and connection in ways we never though possible. In our mind’s eye, we can and will see that triumphal entrance into Jerusalem with cloaks, palms, or olive branches. For just a moment, we will give glory, laud, and honor to the Lord, Jesus Christ.
This is just a beginning to a week of betrayal, acceptance, humility and of ‘thy will be done,” and forgiveness.
It ends with the crucifixion as foretold by our Lord Jesus Christ and the resurrection witnessed by Mary Magdalene.
All Glory, Laud, and Honor,
Amen.
Deacon Natalie
E-Memorial Second Sunday of Easter
What about Communion?
At the request of the worship committee, and because Holy Week begins some of the most sacred time in the Church Calendar, this Sunday I will celebrate a small altar to consecrate the bread and wine. I am sad that I cannot share the wine and the host with you, and so we will not consume the host but leave it on the altar as a reminder.
I DO invite you to bring a piece of bread with you to “break” and share together immediately after the service. We will remember Jesus’ last supper even as we are unable to consecrate it together in this time of quarantine.
General Instructions
To join us, all you need to do is follow the link below. We will have the order of service up on the screen, but if you’d like to print one out a copy will be provided ahead of time.
I recognize we all have different levels of comfort with technology - there is a helpful explainer below for those for who, this is new.
two things:
1) let us see your face! If at all possible please start a video feed so we can see each other face to face, even across distance.
2) please mute your feed unless you are speaking. And if you find you are muted, please don’t unmute. And please do respond to the prayers and readings even if you are muted, as we are all doing this together.
Click Here For the Bulletin
Topic: Sunday worship
Time: Apr 19, 2020 10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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