With Bulletin for December 5 Service

Dear St. Paul’s Church Family,   Happy Stroll Weekend! We are still celebrating the record turnout for last night’s Christmas Concert & Reception at St. Paul’s Church. Wow! Joe Hammer created another marvelous musical production, incorporating eight choristers with Graeme Lincoln Durovich on violin. Peter & Stacey recruited a new team to beautifully decorate the church, and the Frable family then joyously trimmed our Christmas tree. Olly helped coordinate an enthusiastic Hospitality Committee team of bakers and servers, and Adam Dread’s friend Curtis Chin graciously donated our libations. The response from our guests was effusive! Thank you to all involved and to our many patrons. Next Sunday morning, December 12th, at 9:30 we will host A Service of Advent Lessons & Carols with Holy Eucharist. Please invite your friends and neighbors as we continue to celebrate this holy season together. See you at church! Blessings, Max Dear Fellow Parishioners, While we were meeting on Wednesday to discuss our 2022 stewardship campaign, one member of our committee excused herself — she was needed to help distribute free meals for needy island families under our St. Paul’s Suppers program. Her commitment reminded committee members just how important our campaign goal of $475,000 is for expanding our mission and ministry work. St. Paul’s Suppers is just one program, but it has no dedicated source of funding. Neither do our snacks for island school children, support for the Nantucket Food Pantry and more. Have you been enjoying and been moved by the wonderful concerts and music this season organized by our Music Director, Joe Hammer? Have you received pastoral care from our rector, Father Max? Assisted by our parish administrator, Christine Borneman? All of this is made possible by your financial support. With our campaign theme of "Love, Serve, Thrive,” we are now at $365,000 in pledges, up 23% from this same group of pledgers for 2021. That is 75% of our goal of $475,000 in pledges from 200 parishioners for 2022, thanks to your generous support. As of this week, the average pledge was about $3,000, up 23% from 2021. There are many ways to pledge at St. Paul’s for 2022: You can mail your pledge card back to us, drop it off at the church office, or drop it in the collection plate at any Sunday service. You can also pledge and make pledge payments securely on line at our website here: https://stpaulschurchnantucket.org/give/give-treasure-pledge-donate-or-gift/, where you can also download a pledge card and brochure. Also try our new app — go to your app store and download the free Ministry One app, which is purple with a white cross in it--just follow the instructions to get started.  You may also consider a Christmas gift to the church and make it online or with a plate donation.  If you have any questions about the 2022 campaign, feel free to email the church office or one of this year's co-chairs, Peter Barnes at   or Patsy Wright at  . Praise God from whom all blessings flow!  Thank you!  Peter and Patsy The information to access our daily broadcast offerings is as follows:   Sunday Holy Eucharist at 9:30am in person via Facebook Live at St Paul's Church in Nantucket - Episcopal or via Zoom at click here and then click on Join a Meeting and use the ID code and then the Passcode when prompted with the meeting ID # 983 0366 8882 Passcode: 373740 to phone in 1-301-715-8592 code: 98303668882#   Thursday morning Bible study 11:30-12:30 via Facebook Live or Zoom (with the meeting ID # 957 8383 4554 and Passcode 206515).   Joe Hammer’s Music Monday; Prayers from the Attic & Compline on Wednesdays with Olly & me for Sweet Hour of Prayer via Facebook Live or Zoom (with the meeting ID: 977 4392 2196 and Passcode 834439); all at 8:30pm on Facebook Live. All of our Facebook offerings: are taped for later viewing and also available on St. Paul's- Nantucket - YouTube St. Paul's Church in Nantucket is on AmazonSmile Log on to Amazon Settings Amazon Smile Choose charity St. Pauls' in Nantucket Turn on notifications Amazon will donate .05% of all Smile purchases to St. Paul's. If you have questions please call either Patsy Wright at 617-460-2006 or Peter Barnes at 617-838-4662 A note about our new online giving portal: it is secure, and your personal information will not be shared with any third party. As before, you may sign up to make one-time donations or recurring ones. If you have been making recurring pledge payments or gifts through our old website, please transfer your account information to our new one here: https://stpaulschurchnantucket.org/give/. If you have any questions about this transition, please contact our finance office at  .  St. Paul’s Church in Nantucket (Episcopal) December 5, 2021 Second Sunday of Advent Holy Eucharist                               Prelude   Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659                                                    (Saviour of the nations, come!)                                                    J.S. Bach (1685-1750)   Lighting of the Advent Wreath Celebrant: You, O Lord, are my lamp; my God, you make my darkness bright. People: The Lord is my light and my salvation. The Lord is the strength of my life. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirt. The Lord is my light and my salvation.   Please continue to wear your mask when singing. Hymn724                             People, look East                                          Besançon Carol (Green hymnal; Wonder Love and Praise)   Opening Acclamation Collect for Purity Collect of the Day The Lessons   A Reading from Baruch 5:1-9                                                                                                                                              Canticle 16                             The Song of Zechariah                                   Joe Hammer                                     Benedictus Dominus Deus                Deborah Beale, piano A Reading from the Gospel according to Luke.                         (Luke 3:1-6)    Sermon                                                         The Rev. Max Wolf Music Meditation       Savior of the nations, come!    Andrew Cromartie, Ian Robertson                                           (Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland)                                          arr. Arlen Clarke (b. 1954) Savior of the nations, come! Virgin’s Son, make here your home. Marvel now, both heaven and earth, that the Lord chose such a birth. ♦ Wondrous birth! Oh, wondrous child of the Virgin undefiled! Mighty God and Mary’s son, eager now his race to run! ♦ Thus on earth the Word appears, gracing his created spheres; hence to death and hell descends, then the heavenly throne ascends. ♦ Come, O Father’s saving Son, who o’er sin the victory won. Boundless shall your kingdom be; grant that we its glories see. Words: Martin Luther (1483-1546) after Ambrose of Milan (340-397); tr. William M. Reynolds (1812-1876) and James Waring McCrady (b. 1938) Prayers of the People Form IV (BCP 388)   Concluding Collect The Peace The Peace of the Lord be always with you. And also with you. Announcements At the Offertory        Psalm 42; Chorale and Duo                                                 (Comfort, comfort ye my people)                                                  arr. Alfred Fedak (b. 1953) Doxology                                                                                                            Old 100th Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.   The Holy Communion The Breaking of the Bread                                               At the Communion Pastoral-Präludium                                                   Robert Fuhrer (1807-1861)   Postcommunion Prayer (BCP 365)   Blessing   Please continue to wear your mask when singing   Hymn 72                     Hark! The glad sound! the Savior comes           Richmond Dismissal   Voluntary              Partita on “From Heaven Above” (Vom Himmel Hoch):                                                 Chorale, Variation 7, Final Chorale                                                  arr. David Schack (b. 1947)    All the beautiful wreaths on the Church doors are given in memory of Sam Daume who loved St. Paul’s and Christmas. Upcoming Events Dec. 12 ~ 9:30am    Advent Lessons & Carols with Eucharist   Dec. 24   4:30pm    Family Service and Christmas Pageant Holy Eucharist                 6:30pm    Prelude of Christmas Choral and Instrumental Music                 7:00pm    Christmas Eve Service and Holy Eucharist   Christmas Day Dec. 25   9:30am    Holy Eucharist with Organ and Selected Carols                  Verger                                            Curtis Barnes Reader                                           Marshall Keys  Crucifer                                         Ian Robertson Ushers                                           Lou Gennaro, Trish Anderson  Altar Guild                                    Jay Riggs, Trish Anderson, Ann Smith  Live-Stream Technician              Andrew Cromartie Ministers of the Parish                All Members of St. Paul’s Church Visit our website