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This Week's Announcements
If you are visiting or new to the Advent, we hope that you will feel welcome and at home. Please join us after Mass for Coffee Hour downstairs in Moseley Hall, and, if you will, fill out a visitor’s/newcomer’s card so that we can keep in touch. Infant & Toddler Nursery. Located within the parish office complex, this space is for infants during the 9 am service (and for infants and toddlers during the 11:15 am service). 9:00 am Toddler Nursery. Located in Moseley Hall, this space is for toddlers during the 9 am service. Special thanks to Boston's Best Babysitters for providing us with our professional caregivers. For more information, visit www.bbbabysitters.com. Child care for children who do not require one-on-one supervision and are potty-trained is available on the third floor during the 9 AM and 11:15 AM Mass. Check in with Ms Sharon Knox-Hutchinson, the Church School Nursery supervisor.
If you have a cell phone on your person please be certain that it is turned off. If you need to make or receive a call, go outside or into the Parish House.
The Summer Choir Returns! We are so grateful for the return of the Summer Choir this morning at the Solemn Mass. The choir will sing through the month of September, with both full Choirs returning on Sunday September 28. A special thanks is due our summer soloists and many thanks to congregational singers for the rendering of Hymns, Mass settings, and responses. We are very grateful to those friends of the music program who have made donations toward summer music. We are particularly grateful to one anonymous donor who has made the 10 “Summer Sundays” of a reduced choir possible. This is not in our budget for the year, which provides for choral music only from the end of September through the beginning of June. Attention singers! The fall season is rapidly approaching, with the first rehearsal of the Advent’s famed Parish Choir taking place one month from now—Wednesday evening September 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM in the Choir Room. This ensemble provides music for the 9:00 Sung Mass on a regular basis and for several evening services throughout the year. If you wish to join them to sing masterworks of the Renaissance and Anglican traditions, please contact Mark Dwyer or Ross Wood after Mass, or call Mark Dwyer at 523-2377 extension 41 for an informal audition. We are excited to offer a Children’s Choir experience for boys and girls ages 7-11. Rehearsals would take place for 1 hour on Wednesday afternoons from 4:30-5:30 PM weekly; the young people would sing once a month at the 9:00 Mass. A minimum of 10 children and parents who can make a firm and regular commitment to the program is required. There was much enthusiasm for this idea last spring, but family schedules did not permit beginning rehearsals. Participants need not be parishioners, bring your friends! Contact Mark Dwyer, Choirmaster for encouraging words! “For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out.” The next game of the Advent Swingers will be against the Trinity Church Par-a-Cletes at 12:00 NOON on August 23. The complete schedule can be found at www.bostonchurchsoftball.org/index_files/schedule.htm. Discount Parking Vouchers for the Boston Common Garage are available for $5.50 each from Nola Sheffer. You can find her between Masses at the Coffee Hour. The vouchers can be used after 4 PM weekdays, and all day Saturday and Sunday. The current batch is valid through late April, 2009; more will be purchased when these have all been sold. Questions? . 9:00 Coffee Hour: The hosts this morning are Maggie Dunbar and Angie Corbet. The hosts next week will be Barbara Boles and Frank Van Halsema. 11:15 Coffee Hour: Many thanks to all our Coffee Hour hosts, past, present, and future. We always welcome new volunteers, and we promise never to schedule hosts more than three times each year. We have now nearly completed the Summer rota (May through August), and are beginning to take signups for the Fall (September through December). From now through the second Sunday in September, I will be signing up just three volunteers for each Sunday, and will go back up to teams of four from the 21st of September onward. We urgently need one additional volunteer for next Sunday, the 24th of August. Please contact me by Tuesday morning, or we will have to cancel next Sunday's coffee hour. The rest of our faithful volunteers are asked to begin picking dates in the Fall. Sign up now and get the date you want! Please go to http://coffee.theadvent.org to view the coffee hour schedule. You may sign up at the web site, or you may call John Covert at 978-263-5433 or talk to him at coffee hour. Today, Kris & Tony Polito and Jackie Martindale are the coffee hour hosts. Next week the hosts will be Nan Ritenour, Eston Woodard and another volunteer.
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