What’s Happening at All Souls Braintree
Calendar Highlights
All our meetings, connection circles, and groups are gathering online at this time on Zoom. The link is https://zoom.us/j/96571006038
Sunday Service at 10:30 am is in-person at the church, and is also live-streamed on Zoom.
On Sundays when we hold Food for the Soul Potluck Brunch, we begin at 10:30 am in the Parish Hall, this is not live-streamed.
Writing Group: Wednesday, May 31 at 4 pm
Connection Circles: Thursday, June 1, June 8 and June 15
June 4 is Food for the Soul Potluck Brunch in the Parish Hall from 10:30 am to 12 noon. Please bring a dish to share; an ingredient list is helpful in case of allergies.
Music Recital: Sunday, June 4, at 12 noon in the Sanctuary
Book Group: Tuesday, June 6, at 7 pm – The Crossing Places, by Elly Griffiths (2010)
Service and Music Committee: Wednesday, June 7 at 6:30 pm
Annual Meeting: Sunday, June 11 at 12 noon following service and coffee hour
Social Action and Environment Committee: Tuesday, June 13, at 7:15 pm
Board of Trustees: Wednesday, June 14 at 7 pm
Potluck Supper: Sunday, June 17 at 6 pm - last potluck until September
Flower Communion Sunday Service: Sunday, June 18 at 10:30 am
Writing Group : Wednesday, June 28, at 4 pm -
our writing prompt will be: My life as a superhero or what’s my superpower?
Alcoholics Anonymous AA meetings are held at All Souls Church on Mondays at 7 pm and on Tuesdays at 8 pm. These meetings are run by AA and AWOL and are not affiliated with All Souls Church which provides the space. Please contact them directly for information.
Connection Circles
Connection Circles provide a time to check in with old friends and welcome new friends in conversation. During the regular church year, meetings on Zoom are held weekly on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 – 5:00 PM ET. Each meeting usually incorporates equal time for open conversation and a set topic for discussion. Regular meetings in June, as described above, will be held on: Thursday, June 1, June 8 and June 15 Topics have not yet been determined. Topic suggestions from participants are welcome. Once established, they will be announced in the weekly emails if possible. After June 15, we will begin a summer schedule, meeting every two weeks at 3:30 for one hour of open conversation. Summer meetings will be held on: June 29, July 13, July 27, August 10, and August 24 Regular weekly meetings will resume on September 7. Thank you to all who have become regular attendees throughout the year, providing program content, input, wit and wisdom. We welcome new attendees who would like to forge some new connections. Outside Community
Coming Up: Pride month in June Details to come The Social Action and Environment Committee The Social Action and Environment Committee is discussing Climate Change/Climate Justice as an issue that involves fundamental aspects of our values that we, along with allies, can effect. The Fair Share initiative was and is an issue affecting educational equality we could and can work with Raise Up Mass. to produce governmental action on. That may be hard to repeat. There are certainly organizations working on dealing with climate change and climate, environmental justice. Finding meaningful work we can offer the All Souls community to take up is not impossible, just hard. We have begun reading a book to help with our discussion: Climate Justice Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN Special Envoy on Climate Change. Everyone interested in reading and joining the discussion at our next meeting is welcome. We will be meeting Tuesday, June 13, at 7:15 pm on the All Souls zoom. 
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Writing Group Spiritual Writing Group meets the last Wednesday of every month at 4 pm. This June 28, 2023 our writing prompt will be: My life as a superhero or what’s my superpower? Here is the schedule writing prompts for our summer sessions July 26 2023 - Where is your “happy place”, where is your “safe space”. Why? August 30, 2023 - Aging and Parents All are welcome to please come and join us. If you like to write and you want your stories written in your own words this is the group you have been looking for! We are a small but powerful set of individuals with words as our Armor as we share and record our lives together. We start with check ins -- everyone discusses their lives for a couple of minutes. We light a chalice to bring the group together. Quotes that are chosen for the writing topic are read to the group. Everyone reads their amazing written pieces to the group Group gets to give their praise or constructive criticism about the written pieces that have been read. Close out together with a group writing exercise about prompts that are chosen for next month’s writing topic. Book Discussion Group Tuesday, June 6, 7 pm – The Crossing Places, by Elly Griffiths (2010) The first in a series of mystery novels featuring forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway. The author writes, “The Crossing Places is set on desolate marshland in Norfolk. It is thought that prehistoric people saw marshland as sacred. Because it is neither land nor sea but a mixture of both, they saw it as a kind of bridge to the afterlife--neither land nor sea, neither life nor death. This is why they often buried treasure, or even bodies, at the edge of marshland.” “The first-rate characters and chilling story are entrancing from start to finish.” (Kirkus Reviews) All are welcome to join the conversation. Plan to attend on Zoom on Tuesday, June 6. |
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