Interchurch Cooperation Marks 1961 Religious News
A year of church state debate and ecumenical advances across 1961 highlights include World Council of Churches activities expanding to missionary work and Russian Orthodox ties, with Vatican observers noting proceedings. Philadelphia assembly sees Congregational Christian and Evangelical and Reformed churches merge into United Church of Christ, exploring further union with the Disciples of Christ. The Blake proposal signals willingness to explore unification among Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists, and UCC. March brings a new English Bible translation by 70 scholars for Protestant churches, aiming to render scripture in accessible language without displacing the King James Version.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World Council of Churches
Vatican
Secretariat For Christian Unity
Philadelphia
Congregational Christian Churches
Evangelical and Reformed Church
United Church of Christ
Disciples of Christ
Blake
Eugene Carson Blake
Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
New United Church of Christ
British Isles
New Year's Eve Service Planned at St Peter's Church
St Peter's Episcopal Church resumes its three Sunday services this week with festive hymns and Christmas settings. The New Year begins with a 11 45 p m Holy Communion on New Year's Eve and a 9 15 a m service on New Year's Day. The Epiphany feast adds a 5 30 p m Festival Parish Eucharist, ending with the Feast of Lights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
St. Peter’s
Jesus Christ
Christ
Jerusalem
Second Congregational Church
Sisters Helped Found St. Michael’s College in Vermont
Rev. Joseph N. Couture uncovers that the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph advised the Edmundites to open St. Michael’s College at Winooski Park. The sisters at Fanny Allen Hospital aided in introducing the Edmundites for the Vermont project amid exiled French clergy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sisters of Religious Hospitallers
St. Michael’s
Winooski Park
Society of St. Edmund
St. Michael’s College
Joseph N. Couture
S.S.E
Fanny Allen Hospital
Edmundites
Vermont
Fathers of St
Tal
Michael Kelly
Burlington
McClelland
Burlington Hospital
Kellys
Renaud
Theophile Aubin
Swanton
St. Michael’s Institute
State of
Religious Hospitallers
Hotel Dieu
Fr. Couture
Hospital
Hospitallers of St
Watchnight Service at Alliance Tabernacle Tonight
Alliance Tabernacle will hold a Watchnight Service from 9 p.m. to midnight with 9 p.m. informal program 10 p.m. fellowship and refreshments and 11 p.m. devotional. Communion will close out old and new years. World Day of Prayer observances outlined by Dr. Nathan Bailey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Alliance Tabernacle
Nathan Bailey
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Area Church Services Across Town This Sunday
The schedule lists Holy Communion and sermons at St James St Columban’s Federated Church West Arlington Dorset First Congregational First Baptist St Paul’s Our Lady Of Lourdes North Pownal East Dorset Union Chapel with times for worship services Sunday School and youth activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Chapel
Congregational
Bennington Area Church Services Listings
A consolidated listing of worship times and church officials for Bennington area churches including Bennington Church at 106 Burgess Road with Ronald Seeley as pastor and various services. Sacred Heart Church with Rev Joseph Wiseman mass schedule. First Church of God on North Bennington Road with Rev W Earle Forman. Unitarian Fellowship at Bennington Free Library. Jehovahs Witnesses Kingdom Hall at 413 Main Street. Old Bennington School house with Rev H Glenn Payne. Second Congregational Hillside Street services. North Bennington Baptist Church led by Rev Alfred Scott. St Peters Episcopal at Pleasant and School Streets. St Francis de Sales with Msgr Francis B Flanagan. Vermont Soldiers Home services with Rev Earle W Forman. St John the Baptist with Rev Walter F Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis B. Flanagan
Vermont
Earle W. Forman
William Peck
St. John the Baptist
Walter F. Miller
Academy Children Sing Mass at St Francis de Sales
The 9 15 a m mass on Christmas Day at St Francis de Sales Church will be sung by St Francis de Sales Academy children under Sister Cecelia Marie. The program features carols and choral chants including O Holy Night The First Noel and Adeste Fideles with traditional Latin Mass parts and Communion music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Cecelia Marie
Gregorian
Little Town of
Bethlehem
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Interchurch Cooperation
Interchurch
Main St
Bennington
F. C. Eagles
Eve
Eagles
Fienberg
Mobilheat
Mobil At
Henry M. Tuttle CO
ING
Winooski
Fr. Aubin
St. Michael’s Collge
Area Church Services
Arlington
St. James
St. Columban’s
Gerald T. Buckley
East Arlington
Federated Church
Charles W. Grande
West Arlington
Dorset
United Church
William A. Chace Jr
First Assembly of God Church
W. C. Nelson
South
Shaftsbury
A. J. MacDonald
Sandgate
Manchester
First Congregational
E. H. Nickerson
First Baptist Church
Edgar W. Johnson
St. Paul’s
Donald C. Kelly
Pownal
Our Lady of Lourdes
North Pownal
Pownal Center
Isabelle King
James Bagsey
First Baptist Church of
John C. Hatch
East Dorset
Woodford Hoollow
Christian Advent Faith Bible Church
R. E. Smith
A. E. Center
Bennington Church Services
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Burgess Road
Ronald Seeley
Sacred Heart Church
Joseph Wiseman
First Church of God
North Bennington Road
Hicks Avenue
W. Earle Forman
Unitarian Fellowship
Free Library
Union and
Silver Streets
First Church of Christ Scientist
Frank W. Grippin
Ellen J. Gird
MYF
David Montague
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Kingdom Hall
Friends Meeting
Religious Society of Friends
Old Bennington School
Rev. H. Glenn Payne
R. P. Bell
Bell
WBTN
Ladies Aid Society
Second Congregational
Hillside Street
S. C. Greene
Eden
Bennington Church of Christ
South St
G. W. Kieffer
River St
Cornelius W. Clarke
St. Peter’s Episcopal
Pleasant
School Streets
Frederick B. Wolf
Donald A. Webster
North Bennington Baptist Church
Alfred Scott
Congregational Church
Charles J. Parsley
VT. Bank
Jo Grand
Triple “S
Grand Union Empire
Academy Children To Sing Mass
Waterbury
Waterbury, Vermont
F.d.lc
S. G. Shultz
Jeweler
Crescent Boulevard
Bennington, Vt
Noveck’s
Walbridge Ins
Salem’s
Biscayne
Belair
Corvair
Eddington
Chevrolet
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