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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1973
Page
3
A dense listing covers worship services, sermons, choir and Sunday School plans, and church activities across Bennington and surrounding towns. It notes specific times for Bennington area churches including Redeemer Lutheran St Peters Episcopal First Congregational Old Bennington and many others, with pastors names, nursery details, holiday events, and various Class schedules.
Church notices list worship times and events for Quakers, Zion Episcopal, Our Lady of Fatima, East Dorset, All Saints Chapel at Vermont Veterans Home, and United Methodist groups. Activities include Masses, Holy Communion, sermons by named pastors, Sunday School, choir rehearsals, youth programs, confession times, and midweek study sessions. Nursery services are noted, with locations in Bennington, Manchester Center, East Dorset, and associated venues.
In Troy New York the Rev Stanley Smolinski of Montreal will preach a Triduum in honor of Our Lady of Loreto December 8 9 and 10 at St Joseph Church The schedule includes Mass sermons and prayers each evening with a relic veneration and a Blessed Sacrament procession at the final service The event is hosted by the House of Loreto Marian Center Albany and the Apostolate of the Suffering The piece recounts Loreto legends and notes scientific and historical discussions surrounding the Holy House tradition and references Pope John XXIII’s pilgrimage before the Second Vatican Council.
Local Seventh-day Adventists begin door-to-door fundraising to raise 1375 dollars as their share of the 1973 World Service Appeal total of 11 million. Pastor George C. Mills notes the devaluation of the dollar necessitates higher gifts to offset overseas losses, with no cutbacks in services. The 2.2 million-member church runs extensive foreign missions and medical and educational programs in 193 countries, employing 523 languages. Door solicitors will wear identification buttons and can be checked with the Bennington Police or Chamber of Commerce.
A color documentary To Russia With Love showing at 7 tonight at the Church of God on Chapel Road examines Bible smuggling behind the Iron Curtain. Underground Evangelism produced the film with scenes from Russia and Western Europe and narration by Stephan Bankov. Rev. Leslie Wright urges attendance, and a freewill offering for Bibles will be received at the close.
Two programs planned at St. Peter's Episcopal Church Advent season include an organ recital by John Riddle Jr. at 3 30 p m featuring Advent and Christmas hymns from multiple European composers and a Festival of Lessons and Carols at 10 a m on Dec 16 patterned after King's College Cambridge with scripture readings, choral selections and congregational hymns. An offering will be received at the festival service with no admission charge. A separate Advent sermon series by Rev. Jerome J Hevey Jr. at First beginning Dec 2 and continuing weekly through Dec 23 will cover themes of God Comes To Us with verse cites in Isaiah and Romans.
The film TV and Thee will be shown at 3 p.m. Sunday at Missionary Alliance Church on Crescent Boulevard, with Pastor Franklyn J. Klein Jr. describing its aim to help families view television to God’s glory. It uses vignettes to explore how TV shapes viewers, urging patterns of wholesome use and turning off harmful content.
The First Congregational Church in Manchester hosts its annual Advent Workshop on Sunday. Activities include trimming the vestry tree greening the Sanctuary and creating decorations for homes and shut-ins. Participants are asked to bring sack lunches and contributions of recycled materials for making ornaments.
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