Stranger Finds Reassurance in Old First Church Service
A visiting note describes a quiet Thanksgiving Sunday at Old First Church in Bennington. The author recalls the subdued organ, simple interior, traditional attire, and contemplative sermon, reflecting on freedom, heritage, and building bridges between generations, ending with a homeowner profile of Miss Heuss preparing to move to Pownal Center next spring.
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Stranger
First Congregational Church of
Bennington
America
United States
Heuss
Yorktown Heights
N.Y
Pownal Center
Christmas is a holiday but no longer a holy day
Louis Cassels argues Christmas is a folk festival rather than a holy day. He notes the season's economic focus and urges readers to examine spending on gifts and decorations versus charitable giving. He concludes his family will stop wasteful buying to show love.
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Louis Cassels
UPI
Christ
Jesus Christ
America
Jesus
Bennington Area Churches Schedule Local Services
A roundup of worship times across Bennington and area parishes. Listings include Methodist West Arlington Federated East Arlington Unitarian North Bennington St. Margaret Mary Arlington and many others with service times, masses, confessions, nursery care, and upcoming choir and study sessions.
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Federated Church East
Church OF Christ
Indian minister Varghese to preach at Manchester church
The Rev. Clery P. V. Varghese from Kirala Malabar India will deliver the 11 a.m. sermon at First Congregational Church in Manchester during a seven week U S visit. He holds B A and M A degrees from Bombay University and a BD from London with an M S T from Drew University. He works in Kirala on social and educational projects and has preached in several churches during his stay. He will also speak at the Senior Pilgrim Fellowship at 6 p.m. and is hosted by Col. and Mrs. Bennington Banner note: more church notes on page 8.
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Congregational Church
North Bennington
Max H. Webster
Prospect Nursing Home
L.D. Sanborn
South Shaftsbury
Old Bennington
Church Barn
Barn
Arvel M. Steece
Judith Reichert
Lehmann
Mendelssohn
Pilgrim Fellowship
Bam
Green Mountain Madrigal Singers
Green Mountain College
Robert English
Manchester
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Esau
Clery P.V. Varghese
Kirala
Malabar
India
Gounod
First Congregational Church
Mr. Varghese
United States
General Theological Seminary
New York City
Bombay University
University of London
England
Drew University
Madison
N.J
Col. and
Jackson Matthews
Matthews
International Student Committee
Manhattan Church Women
Varghese
Brother Michael Speech At Saint Peter's Breakfast
Brother Michael of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross will speak at the 8 am Advent corporate Communion and breakfast for St. Peter's Episcopal men and boys. He is known for youth work, with Holy Cross houses and schools across New York, Tennessee, California, Texas, and Sierra Leone listed.
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Advent
Michael
Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross
Roy E. Green
Zion Episcopal Church
Manchester Center
Robert L. Clayton
Guild of St. Margaret
George Osborne
Brother Michael
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Holy Cross
West Park
N.Y
Order
St. Andrew’s School
St. Michael’s Monastery
Tennessee
Mt. Calvary
Santa Barbara
Calif
Whitby House
Grapevine
Texas
St. Arthanasius’s Monastery
Kailahun
Sierra Leone
West Africa
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Readsboro
Daniel
Vincent Cassatti
St. Michael's College
Winooski
St. Michael's
Trinity College
Burlington
Sean Moran
Bruce Fisher
Denise Cloutier
Cassatti
Jack Carr
Susan Murray
Anthony Staffiery
Barry Bossa
Donald Rathgeb
William Tortolano
By Charlotte A. Heuss
Methodist Church
West Arlington
John Geer
Unitarian
John Bischof
ST. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Arlington
Gerald T. Buckley
ST. Mary’s IN the Mountains
Wilmington
Russell Gale
OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Edwin M. Ellis
Henry A. Peck
Our Lady OF Fatima Catholic Church
Baptist Church
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints
Mormons
Masonic Temple
ST. Francis DE Sales Catholic Church
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
ST. John the Baptist Catholic Church
Society OF Friends
Quakers
Kkuingdom Hall
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Watch Tower
Congregational Bible Dads
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
George C. Mills
First United Methodist Church
Shaftsbury
ST. James Episcopal Church
Lawrence A. Sherwin
Church OF Christ West
United Methodist Church
Pownal
David Hubbard
ST. Peter’s Episcopal
Community Church
Leonard Perrault
First Baptist Church
Floyd I. LaBombard
Woman’s Society
YMCA
Association For Retired Persons
Second Congregational Church
Melvin R. McGaughey
New Life Mission
United Methodist Churches
Pat Flaherty
Danville
Ill
Flaherty
Circle IV
Shirkshire Restaurant
Alfred Scott
Mary
Joseph D. Huse
Joseph Saunders
United Church
Dorset—East Rupert
Hal. C. Miller III
East Dorset
First Congregational
First Church OF Christ Scientist
North Pownal
Missionary Alliance Church
Calvary
Richard Lenehan
Wilma Hill
Ten Thousand Angels
Good News Bible Club
Dorothy Harrington
North Branch Street
Edward Bronson
Sycamore Lane
Bible School
Kenneth Schwebel
Bennington Banner
Main St
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times News Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
Vermont
U.S
ALL Faith’s Chapel
M. Everett Corbett
Swifts
Walker
Cosco
Haynes & Kane, Inc
Suliette
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