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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1966
Page
6
A dense parish bulletin outlines worship services Sunday school starts Sept 25 for kindergarten to Grade 8, and changes to senior high youth focus. It lists multiple services, sermons, choir rehearsals, and youth activities across Bennington area churches, including ministers and hosts, with contacts for donations, auctions, and rummage sales.
United Press International outlines a major church controversy as Vatican Council reforms allow some marriages for deacons but not for priests. Priests seeking marriage face papal dispensation or automatic excommunication, with no solid counts on how many leave the priesthood, though estimates exceed four thousand.
Shaftsbury The first fall WSCS meeting at First Methodist began with a covered dish supper. Mrs Mary Stevens led a self study on membership meaning and motivation. Groups discussed topics. funds were allocated for memorials and mission work. plans for a Chicken Pie Supper and a fall workshop were announced.
A two day retreat for all Methodist ministers wives in the Lake George area will be held at the Lake George Inn on September 28 and 29. Mrs. George Teague of Glens Falls announced the event. The program will be led by Mrs. John Oliver Nelson. Activities include fellowship groups seminars social events and worship services under the theme Many Faces One Person.
The Vermont Fellowship of Women of the United Church of Christ announces its annual meeting in St. Johnsbury with Rev. Dr. Everett A. Babcock of New York City as main speaker on Churchmanship in Our Contemporary World. The program includes a panel, a Lord’s Prayer drama, and officer elections.
Vermont Catholic Charities announces staff changes and promotions across its two offices. Catherine Derby becomes casework supervisor in Burlington. Rev. Paul Bresnehan moves to diocesan director duties and Rutland office leadership. Rev. Raymond Lovett named Rutland director. John P. Kane leaves to teach sociology at Trinity College while remaining as consultant. Margaret Cain named administrative assistant and clerk of the board.
The Boys Town Choir from Boys Town Nebraska was chosen among seven choirs nationwide for the Fifth International Church Music Congress in Milwaukee Wisconsin last month. The 21st national concert tour begins next month under director Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt. The event reflects the church's new sound in sacred music aimed to convey a person to person spirit and ties to the Vatican II liturgy constitution.
Shaftsbury area prepares for the eighth annual Sacred Variety Concert Sunday Oct 16 at 7 30 p m at the First Methodist Church. The program features Gregorian chant religious folk songs works by Bach Handel Haydn Franck Mendelssohn Gounod O Hara and others plus selections from a Folk Mass by Father Taddeo and Psalm 22 My Shepherd Is The Lord by Father Gelineau. The augmented Senior Choir Holy Cross Novitiate Choir from Bennington under Dennis Duncan and Bennington College students join vocal and instrumental solos including harp organ violin cello and clarinet with outside soloists Miss Alice Seagroatt harpist and Rev and Mrs Henderson of St Peters Episcopal Church Bennington. First rehearsal Sunday at 7 30 p m. Free-will offering. Everyone is invited.
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