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The Keystone
Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church
200 Pleasant Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201
Phone 802-442-2911
Web site: www.stpetersvt.org
“God is calling the community of Saint Peter’s Parish to live, worship
and serve according to Christ’s word and example.”
March, 2015
A Note from our Treasurer
At the Annual Meeting in February, I presented a budget projecting a deficit over
$48,000, based on our current level of pledges and the operating expenses we expect to incur in
the coming year.
At the February Vestry meeting, the new Vestry reviewed the financials, and came to the
conclusion that unless we all dig deep in our pockets and substantially increase our pledges in the
next month, the Parish will be forced to draw additional funds from the endowment to cover the
projected deficit.
From a fiduciary standpoint, this is not a position which makes your treasurer feel
comfortable, but I was heartened that the Vestry recognized that our decreased pledge base is
symptomatic of the state of our Parish and its role in our community, and agreed to hold a special
meeting in two weeks to begin planning a strategy for St. Peter’s to become more “missional”,
and really focus on evangelism in this coming year.
St. Peter’s Church is clearly entering a period of renewal. What a pleasure it is to see
young families and small children in church again! Renewed growth of the Parish (and pledge
base) will not happen all at once and the church’s finances may be strained for a while.
There are many people in Bennington who just don’t know how important a spiritual
community such as St. Peter’s Church can be in their lives. I hope that every member of the
Parish will join with the Vestry this year in spreading this good news.
Ned Perkins
An Important Note About Sunday Services
Because we exceeded our annual oil budget at the end of January, we are trying to save
on heating. For the next three Sundays (March 1, March 8 and March 15) we will be following
this schedule:
8:00 am Liturgy will take place in the Lady Chapel
10:00 am Liturgy will take place in the Parish Hall
The front door entrance will be cordoned off in the upcoming weeks, until there is no
longer a danger of snow and ice falling from the roof over the front steps. Please enter through
the cloister entrance.“Christ have mercy.”
This is part of the small prayer called the “Kyrie” which is rendered in English, “Lord
have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy.”
During Lent we hear this prayer quite often, perhaps even every day. Forty days of
Christe eleison, “Christ have mercy”. The translation of Mercy conjures up for me battlefield
images - having mercy on your adversary who surrenders, or the celebration of the ruthless hero
that has no mercy on his enemies. But this is the corrupted image of Mercy. “Eleison” is not a
battlefield expression; it is “the bond of loving compassion” that God has with us in Christ. Each
time we pray this prayer, we are returning our awareness to that bond of compassion that Christ
eternally has with us, even as unperceived as it may be most often times.
The image of our wretched self, deserving of a destruction that would be so if it weren’t
for Christ’s mercy, has its place perhaps. But over the course of time, I have found that Christ’s
bond of love and compassion has less to do with my own abject state of moral corruption, and
more to do with Christ. It is less about my issues and more about God’s central connection in and
with the soul of every person that comes into the world.
“Christe eleison” is Christ alive and loving me…I don’t mean simply the wonderful story
of Christ’s passion and death on the cross which we remember and proclaim in Lent and in
particular Good Friday. I actually mean right now in our life; Christ present in us, empowering
all we do. And yet I do find myself doing things that do not resound with this Love and
Compassion.
It is not simply the sinful and evil things we might perpetrate - and I certainly have my
own fair share of those. It is also those things done forgetful of that open hearted presence that
we are called to live in – forgetful of the bond and connection of love that God is doing in us. It
is not always clear to me when I am doing something from an egoic place, but soon enough those
chicks come home to roost and I get a good view of my own sinful actions. But forgetful things,
they don’t seem to come or go – they just hang around hiding, invisible to the peripheral vision,
but when looked at directly, are terrible blockages in my life. How long do I go on in my day
before touching in with this openness in my heart, this abyss in my gut, this light in my mind?
During Lent, when I come upon the “Christe eleison” chant almost daily, I touch in again
and again with that loving compassion that is the bond Christ has established with me, with US,
with all creation. And by touching in again and again, I seem to see those forgetful things more
easily. I seem to realize that I’m not living as a receiver of that Love, but just blasting through
life numb to the great bond, this central connection to the reality of God’s presence and care. So
during this Lenten season, let us take up the bond of Christ and hum our “Christe eleison”,
reconnecting again and again to a love that is closer to us than we are to ourselves.
With prayer and fasting,
fr. justin
Baptismal Notice: If you would feel called to sacramental Baptism or would like to
prepare your child for Baptism at Easter, please talk to Fr. Justin or call the Church Office
(802-442-2911).Notes from the 2015 Annual Meeting
The 2015 Annual Meeting of St. Peter’s Church opened on February 1, 2015, with a
prayer for loved ones and good health. About 50 parishioners attended this important meeting.
After the minutes of the January 26, 2014 meeting were accepted as written, the
Nominating Committee presented their candidates for three Vestry positions, Delegates and
Alternate Delegates to the 2015 Diocesan Convention. There were no further nominations from
the floor and voted in were Cathy Perkins, Doug Bradshaw and Betsey Walton for three year
terms on the Vestry, Kay Trafton, Phyllis Bird and Colleen Gates as Convention Delegates and
Nancy Bower and Debby Dutcher as Alternate Delegates.
Father Justin expressed the need for us to focus on evangilization during the coming
months and years. We will all need to concentrate on sharing our spiritual lives with others by
inviting others into our community and intentionally connecting with people who might choose
to grow in this environment.
The budget for 2015 was presented. It is anticipated that growing expenses and a
decreased pledge base will necessitate more dependence on our endowment in the upcoming
year. In addition to our ordinary operating expenses, we are also facing some major costs in
connection with the necessary repairs to the roof and our stained glass windows. The Vestry is
pursuing grants that would help manage some of these costs. It was noted that we must
evangelize within our church also. People who are able to do so are encouraged to increase their
pledges and to look for ways they might be able to give additional financial support. One way
that everyone can help is to attend and support the numerous fund raising activities that will be
held throughout the year.
Father Justin commissioned the new Vestry members with a “prayer for all sorts and
conditions of men”.
Cathy Perkins and all her helpers were thanked for the delicious lunch of quiches, salad
and lovely desserts. Fr. Justin also expressed his thanks to Stan, our Sexton, Phyllis, our Clerk
and to outgoing Vestry members Terry Granger, Donna Maroney and Debby Dutcher for their
service. The meeting was adjourned with a prayer at 12:55 pm.
Organizational Meeting Followed Annual Meeting
At the organizational meeting of the new Vestry on February 1, following the Annual
Meeting, Colleen Gates was appointed by Father Justin to be Senior Warden. Bill Harrington
was again elected to serve as Junior Warden and Phyllis Bird was re-elected as Clerk. Also re-
elected were Ned Perkins as Parish Treasurer and Rick Howe as Assistant Treasurer.
“Housekeeping” resolutions regarding the authorization for the Parish Treasurer to
borrow in anticipation of pledges in 2015 from internal sources only and the payment of budget
items such as insurances and payments to the Diocese which are paid on periodic schedules were
approved. An additional resolution dealt with the portion of Father Lanier’s compensation that
may be designated as his housing allowance. In 2015, Father Justin’s total compensation shall be
$57,083.04 with $13,173 of that amount designated as a housing allowance.
Financial Agents consult with the Vestry regarding fund usage of the church, deciding if
and when draws are to be made from the endowments. Jordan Lambert, Doug Bradshaw, Scott
Trafton and Betsey Walton were appointed as Financial Agents for the coming year.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:30 pm with a prayer.
Let’s do lunch! The Lunch Bunch will be meeting on Thursday, March 12 following
the 10:00 am Eucharist. Ask a friend to join you at the Eucharist and for lunch. We will be
having soup, sandwiches and dessert. We try to wait to eat until about 11:15 am. It is a great
time to enjoy a meal and visit with friends! If you are shopping downtown, stop in for lunch. If
you need a ride, call the Office (442-2911) and arrange for transportation.Have You Noticed the Bulletin Board?
Take a few moments and check out the bulletin board across
from the Church Office! During Lent this year, we are asking you to
consider observing Lent in some way. Traditionally, you can do this
through prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
Here are some modern ways to make this happen:
Prayer – Start a prayer journal, pray for a different person each
day, go to Centering Prayer on Wednesdays at 5:30 pm in the Sanctuary.
Fasting – Give up social media, give up gossiping/negative
attitude, give up a modern convenience.
Almsgiving – Skip buying lunch/coffee out and give that money
to your favorite charity, donate 10% of your time each week to a local
charity, send mail to soldiers, shut-ins and others who need cards of
hope and encouragement.
If you do decide to observe Lent this year, tell us about it! Take one of the cards next to
the bulletin board, write down your plan and pin it to the “wooden” cross on the board. Let’s see
how many cards we can get displayed. It is up to you if you want to do this anonymously. Let’s
make this journey to Easter together and deepen our walk with Christ!
Many thanks to Kay Trafton for her suggestions and work on the bulletin board
mentioned above. We hope you were all able to spend some time during the holidays
and the weeks that followed to “drink in” the beautiful, detailed and creative bulletin
boards that were prepared by Rick Howe. Thank you, Rick!
A Note on the Psalms at the 10:00 am Liturgy…
You may have noticed that the psalms we are chanting at the 10:00 am Liturgy are not
the translation from the Book of Common Prayer 1979. These psalms are the translation from the
Anglican religious order of St. Helena. O.S.H. are women religious of the Episcopal Church and
have, after years of working with the psalter, put out an inclusive language translation that is in
the line of the Book of Common Prayer psalters. You may notice that the gendered language for
God is all but absent. There is also a devotional quality to this rendition of the psalms, which
helps direct the language to God, as the sisters have done in their convents since their founding.
We will continue to use this psalter for one year, which at the end of the year we will discuss and
respond to a questionnaire to see if we’d like to continue with this translation or return to the
BCP versions.
Bible Study Will Be Meeting on March 22
After the 10:00 am Liturgy on March 22, there will be a Bible Study. We will look
particularly at the Story of Christ in the Desert, looking at Mark 1:9-15 and Luke 4:1-13. All are
welcome and invited, and we will be meeting in the Parish Hall.Lenten Continuing Formation Meetings!
The Lenten Continuing Formation will meet on Saturday, March 14 and Saturday,
March 21 from 9:30 am to Noon. Fr. Justin will continue with the Contemplative Prayer series
turning to the issues of the False-Self, the Separate-Self sense and the dismantling of the
emotional programs for Happiness (which afflict a person rather than ever make one happy).
These teachings will point out just how we engage in thoughts, words and deeds that keep us in a
sense of alienation from God.
The two sessions will include our continuing practice and teaching of centering prayer as
well as covering these new teachings and practices. These teachings are free and open to the
public. Beginners and more advanced students of prayer will fit right in. If you require childcare,
please contact the Church Office (802-442-2911) with details.
Knitting Ministry will be meeting to knit on the first Sunday in March (March 1) in the
Guild Room following Coffee Hour. We will not be meeting in April since the first Sunday of
the month is Easter Sunday. We can knit with warm shawls on our laps and talk about warm
things. I will be showing you a hat that I finished. Yes! A small miracle! Bring your knitting or
crocheting and we will chat over a cup of tea or coffee and our projects. If you are interested in
joining this group that knits prayer shawls, preemie hats, baby blankets, etc., feel free to join us.
For more information, call Nancy Bower (447-0119) or Louise Philputt (442-2114). If you
know someone in need of a prayer shawl, contact Nancy, Louise or the Church Office (442-
2911).
Looking for a Little Help!!!
The small, but dedicated group of people who are working
in the area of publicity are looking for two or three people who can
give them a little help! They would like to include you in their
group and have you share your ideas and computer skills (no need
to be a computer “genius”). Their work is not terribly time
consuming and there are no lengthy meetings to attend!
If you have a working knowledge of the computer, and are familiar with social media, e-
mail, etc., and would like to know more about this group’s “jobs”, please contact Nancy Bower.
She will be very happy to talk with you and can meet you during Coffee Hour in the Parish Hall,
or in the Nursery on Sunday, March 8. You can also call her at 447-0119 or email her at
rebower@comcast.net with any questions.
New Resource for Personal Reflection Is Available…
Daily Prayer for All Seasons can now be downloaded free on the website of The
Episcopal Church (http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/liturgy-music).
This collection was developed by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music and
authorized by the 77th General Convention of 2012. The prayers are presented according to
liturgical season beginning with Advent and going through Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy
Week and Easter. Two sections are also offered for Ordinary Time: Creation and Rest. Prayers
are grouped using eight themes: praise, discernment, wisdom, perseverance and renewal, love,
forgiveness, trust and watch. The contributions are from a diverse team of people from all over
the United States.Pastoral Care – Anyone Can Do It!!!
Do you have time to take some soup to someone who just came home from the
hospital or nursing home? That is pastoral care!
Do you have time to visit a very lonesome lady who lives in a community care
home? That is pastoral care!
Do you have time to take care of a small child so a young mother can go to the
library for an hour by herself? That is pastoral care!
Pastoral care is not just a few folks who meet once a month to review the prayer
chain and plan for Lunch Bunch. It is all of us. If you are happy to spend a little time with
someone or make a little soup, there is a stack of ideas for you at the back of the
church. Check it out! Place your responses in the offering plate or leave them in the
Church Office. Now is a wonderful time to get involved%just do it!
The regular meeting this month, for those interested, is on Palm Sunday, March
29 following Coffee Hour. If you have questions or ideas, please call Nancy Bower
(447-0119).
2015 Safe Church Training Dates Are Set
Certification – Wednesday, March 18, 9 am-3pm, St. John’s, Randolph
Re-Certification – Saturday, June 6, 9 am-12:30 pm, Christ Church, Montpelier
Certification – Saturday, September 26, 9 am-3 pm, Trinity Church, Shelburne
Certification – Saturday, December 5, 9 am-3 pm, St. Mark’s, Springfield
For more information, go to http://www.diovermont.org/en-GB/Christian-Formation-and-
Education/newsflash-2.html or speak with Fr. Justin if you’re wondering if you need to take the
course.
Rock Point Summer Camp Reminder…
If you ask around St. Peter’s you’ll probably be able to find someone who has experienced
summer camp at Rock Point in some form – either a child who has attended a camp session, the
parent of a child who has attended or a member of a family who attended Family Camp. All will
agree that the time they spent there was very special.
Each camp day at Rock Point includes worship, community meal time, morning program,
interest groups and evening programs. There are sports to enjoy and, of course, swimming in
Eagle Bay, as well as other fun offerings. The overnight camp sessions offered this year are:
Work Week – June 21 - June 26 Must be 16 years of age to attend. There’s no charge.
Senior High Camp (grades 9-12): June 28 – July 3 $410 per camper
Elementary Camp (grades 1-4): July 5 – July 10 $410 per camper
Intermediate Camp (grades 4-7): July 12 – July 17 $410 per camper
Junior High Camp (grades 6-8): July 19 – July 24 $410 per camper
To register, send a $100 non-refundable deposit to the address on the registration form found
on-line at www.rockpointcenter.org. Before April 1, you will receive 5% off registration fees. If
there’s a need for financial assistance, please speak with Father Justin.Fund Raising Events That Are Too Much Fun To Miss!
St. Peter’s First Bowling Event will be held at the Bennington Bowling Lanes on
Saturday, April 18 at 3:00 pm. Everyone is invited to take part in this fun activity! Brooke
(Thomson) Drew assures us that there will be plenty of bumpers, guards, aids, etc. to see that the
bowling balls get down the alleys to their intended targets…so anyone – young, not so young,
users of walkers, canes, etc. – will be able to take part. Brooke is also providing free shoes and
the bowling (2 games) will be free as well.
Teams of four people are being formed and they will be looking for people to sponsor them.
To sponsor one person it will be $10, so if you’d like to sponsor a team, it would be $40. This
should be a fun-filled event, so do plan to become involved. What a great way to get together as
a church “family”, have a couple of hours of fun together and also raise money in support of our
church!
St. Peter’s Rummage Sale…Tired of winter, snow and ice…looking forward to spring
flowers and robins? It is now time to start your own spring cleaning.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 16, for St. Peter’s Rummage Sale. It will be held
from 9:00 am – 12:00 noon with a Bag Sale from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm. Donations will gladly be
accepted at the Church Office from Monday thru Thursday from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm starting on
Monday, April 6. Co-Chairpersons for this Fund Raising event are Debby Dutcher and Colleen
Gates.
Many willing hands will be needed for this event for publicity, sorting, setting up and
manning the Rummage Sale. We look forward to this being a church-wide fund raising event, so
please consider joining us for this fun-filled activity. If you are interested in helping out with this
event, please contact either Debby or Colleen at the Church Office (802-442-2911). Along with
the Rummage Sale activity, we will be holding a Food Sale at the St. Peter’s Café for those
customers and participants at the Rummage Sale.
Happy spring cleaning to all!
Debby Dutcher and Colleen Gates, Event Co-Chairs
St. Peter’s Golf Tournament…This year’s tournament will be held on Saturday, October
10th. It is a long time away, but like everything else, it will creep up on us! What can YOU do
for this Fund Raising event?
1) Tell any would-be golfers in your life to put it on their calendar.
2) Think about sponsoring a golf hole as a way to contribute (your name will be
prominently displayed on a placard on a golf hole as a supporter of the event).
3) Volunteer to help out at the registration table, or to help out in getting and giving out
door prizes and prizes for winning activities like “Longest Drive”, etc.
4) PRAY for good weather!
More information will follow at a later date.
Dick Bower/Doug Bradshaw/Wes Baker/Holly Schmitz, Golf Event Committee
The Fund Raising Committee meets on the first Sunday of each month and everyone is
encouraged to become involved in this group. If you have some ideas for some possible future
activities to raise money for St. Peter’s, do come to the next meeting and share them with the
committee. They are always looking for fresh new ideas!
It is particularly important this year for all of us to support, in any way possible, the events
and activities that are put on throughout the year. Our operating budget for 2015 shows a
possibility of a large deficit at year’s end and every attempt is being made to control our
expenses. These fund raising events are one way that every parishioner can help reduce the
anticipated deficit. Twenty percent of the total fund raising amount for the year goes to outreach,
while eighty percent goes to support the operating budget. Your help is greatly appreciated!On a Bead and Prayer
I have had a long fascination with prayer beads, which show up in a number of different
cultures and religions. The ones most of us may be familiar with are the Rosary beads regularly
used by Roman Catholics. But I only discovered recently that Episcopalians use prayer beads as
well, in ways that are specific to the sorts of prayers and devotions common in our tradition.
The revelation came while reading A Bead and a Prayer, a wonderful little book by
Kristen E. Vincent that Fr. Justin bought for our Parish library. Vincent explains in clear, simple
language, how prayer beads can channel and focus our thoughts and prayers. She also provides a
series of readings, meditations and exercises to help develop the practice of using these beads
every day.
I’m reminded nearly every day of how scattered my prayer life can be. Sometimes I
forget where I am and, too often when praying at bedtime, I’ll fall asleep before I’ve finished my
prayers. After reading A Bead and a Prayer, and using Vincent’s readings and meditations as a
test, I decided to give Anglican prayer beads a real-world try.
I ordered a set of beads online, finding a particularly pleasing set made from Holy Land
olive wood by Anne Madison, a craftsperson in Baltimore, MD. I’m still waiting for my beads,
because Madison has had to deal with a number of challenges recently. On my most recent
phone call, I asked her to tell me a little about herself, and how she got into making and selling
prayer beads through her website, Atelier Beads.
Madison’s husband of 37 years, who died in 2011, had been raised Roman Catholic, and
so she had become used to seeing Rosary beads when visiting his family. Madison herself has
had a longstanding love of jewelry and beads, which she says she has been collecting all her life.
“I enjoyed making necklaces as a hobby,” she says. Her day job was as a computer systems
engineer for the man who now owns the Baltimore Ravens.
Then came the dot-com bust of 2001, and Madison was laid off. She started an online
business to market jewelry and crafts. Then, in the gruesome wake of Sept. 11, she decided to
assemble seven Rosaries – one for each of the Beatitudes. “Each one was dedicated to someone
who had been affected by that awful day,” Madison recalls. “It’s how I comforted myself.”
The owner of the store where Madison was buying beads suggested she join a local
Rosary group, and, shortly after that, discovered that there were Anglican beads as well. That
was particularly interesting to Madison, who is a practicing Episcopalian. “I’m not fond of the
term ‘cradle Episcopalian’” she says, “But that’s what I am. It’s a framework of faith that lets me
think for myself, and I prize that very highly.”
Madison has not looked back, and gets daily sustenance not just from her own prayers,
but in making beads for others. “When people use my beads, I view them as going into God’s
presence and taking my Rosary with them,” she says.
She has just had a request from a local Imam to make her first set of Muslim prayer
beads, and she is thrilled. “The beads are used to contemplate the 99 names of God; it’s such a
very lyrical meditation,” she explains. She adds that the prayer bead tradition goes back all the
way to early Hindu traditions in India, and how travels by merchants along the spice and silk
routes helped propagate the practice far afield.
No matter what your religion, beads are “just a really practical way to keep track of your
prayers,” says Madison, who worships at St. Mark’s-on-the-Hill in the Baltimore suburb of
Pikesville. It’s a handsome stone church with gorgeous windows – not unlike St. Peter’s.
(You can ask Fr. Justin for a copy of A Bead and a Prayer. You can visit a related
website at abeadnaprayer.com – and you can check out Madison’s beautiful handiwork at atelier-
beads.com.)
John Terauds
Remember to change your clocks! Daylight Savings Time begins on March 8!!Welcome to St. Peter’s Choir School!
A lively lunch discussion with Cathy and Ned Perkins on the day of the Bishop’s visit in
January led to a fascinating idea: Why not combine the need for creative after-school activities
for the children at Bennington Elementary with our Parish’s need to reach out into the
community?
After some serious thought, meetings with Mary Chambers, the new music teacher at
Bennington Elementary, and Vice-Principal Jerry O’Connor, I’m excited to announce St. Peter’s
Choir School.
We’re going to start modestly, and for a short time only, this school year: All 80 children
currently in Grades 1 and 2 at Benn El will be invited to come to St. Peter’s for after-school choir
practice, for an hour every Tuesday and Thursday. The inaugural session will start April 21 and
end Thursday, June 18.
These nine weeks will give everyone involved a chance to see what’s working, what
isn’t, and what can be done to make this an especially enriching experience for the children.
I am expecting only a small fraction of the 80 youngsters to become choristers at St.
Peter’s – something like eight to a dozen. But I hope they will be the kernel of something that
can grow gradually and intelligently as time goes on.
I thought of inviting only the youngest kids so that everyone in the choir school can start
more or less at the same level. With each passing year, a new class of Grade Ones will be added,
with the older kids becoming mentors for the younger ones.
The children will not be expected to sing on Sundays, but if they choose to do so, they
will get paid a nominal stipend ($1 per week), so that they can call themselves professional
singers.
Mary Chambers has very kindly agreed to shepherd the information and sign-up process
at the school. Cathy Perkins has already volunteered to help get the children from the school to
church twice a week. Father Justin will meet with the kids and parents before everything starts.
And I’ll be laying out a teaching plan in the coming weeks.
But we will need further help, including supervising the kids while they’re in our care,
and preparing nutritious snacks, such as apple slices and granola bars. I’m hoping that perhaps a
couple of parents might get involved, but am not counting on it – at least not initially.
I think it would also be great to set up a little steering committee of four or five people to
help guide this little choir school as intelligently as possible.
This is the sort of project that, undertaken with care and planning, could be a wonderful
source of new energy at St. Peter’s, while also providing something that our wider community
desperately needs: a source of creative enrichment for our children.
I hope I can get you as excited about it as I am.
John Terauds
February Vestry Meeting Highlights
Minutes of the 2015 organizational meeting were amended to accommodate new rental
rates in 2015. The total compensation to be paid in 2015 to Father Justin Lanier remains
unchanged at $57,083.04. The revised amount of the housing allowance will be $16,200.
Treasurer Ned Perkins reported that a cash flow projection report shows that we will need
to take an extra $10,000 from the endowments by June to meet our operational needs. This is in
addition to the quarterly dividends from our endowment earnings that we usually receive.
The Vestry will be having a special meeting on March 1, which will focus on evangelism
and how to become more “missional”.
Fr. Justin suggested that in an attempt to reach out to the community more effectively, we
might coordinate our fund raising events with those events occurring in town…i.e. Mayfest,
Midnight Madness, etc.Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church ____________
200 Pleasant Street Non-Profit Org.
Bennington, Vt. 05201 U.S. Postage
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Schedule of Services for Holy Week
(Monday, March 30 – Sunday, April 5)
Monday: Evening Prayer (Chanted), 5:00-5:45 pm
Tuesday: Morning Prayer (Chanted), 9:30–10:15 am
Wednesday: Contemplative Prayer/Teaching, 5:30-6:30 pm
Maundy Thursday: Eucharist, 10:00 am
The Maundy Thursday Liturgy, 6:00 pm
Good Friday: 3 Hours, ending with Stations of the Cross,
12:00-3:00 pm
The Good Friday Liturgy, 6:00 pm
Holy Saturday: Noonday Prayer, 12:00 noon
Easter Sunday: EASTER VIGIL, 5:30 am – 7:00 am
Easter Sunday Eucharist, 8:00 am
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