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News and Notes: May 2013

By Lisa | Published: May 14, 2013

May 2013 News and Notes   The red doors return!     Tailgate Coffee Hour follows the morning liturgy again May 12    Sunday, May 5 at the Unity Center of Peace, 8800 Seawell School Rd. 8:45 AM Holy Eucharist followed by tailgate coffee in the parking lot 5 PM Holy Eucharist followed by dinner (provided) Sunday, May [...]

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Yard Sale! At the Homestead Site, May 18

By Lisa | Published: May 13, 2013

The Church of the Advocate Yard Sale is May 18th! 10 AM – 5 PM (AS THE STORMS GATHER, WE MAY END EARLIER) Homestead at Merin Road, north Chapel Hill Come to the site of our new church at Homestead and Merin Road to shop our yard sale and buy our delicious baked treats!  See the [...]

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Advocate Participates in AME-Episcopal Habitat Build

By Lisa | Published: May 12, 2013

For the third time, in 2013 the Church of the Advocate will join with the three other Episcopal churches and the 8 AME church of Orange County to help build a home for a family through Orange County Habitat for Humanity. As with all Habitiat builds, the volunteers will be working side by side with [...]

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Raising the Steeple, May 1, 2013 and on….

By Lisa | Published: May 11, 2013
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Memorization and Formation — Psalm 23

By Lisa | Published: May 11, 2013

People and Friends of the Advocate are invited to participate in a discipline of memorization and formation. At 5:30 each day, wherever we are, we will pause to pray, and will therefore pray together. Gadgets — phones, watches, computers — can be set to remind us. This daily prayer will combine with a discipline of [...]

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Sharing Our Journeys in Eastertide

By Lisa | Published: May 3, 2013

Sharing our Journeys You are invited to share your story. You have one–we all do–and we at the Advocate cherish who you’ve become on your path so far.Sharing our Journeys is special opportunity for people of the Advocate, new and here-for-a-long-time, to get to know other Advocate folks through compassionate, attentive listening, and story-sharing. We [...]

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Beating the Bounds

By Lisa | Published: April 28, 2013

On Saturday, April 27, we gathered on the Advocate land to Beat the Bounds. To learn more about this custom, read our earlier post. Here is our liturgy (prayers written by our Priest Associate, The Rev. Dr. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams).: The people gather at the pond. Priest lights the thurible and blesses a bucket [...]

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Good Shepherd Sunday: A Call to Common Prayer and Formation

By Lisa | Published: April 22, 2013

A sermon offered by the Vicar, Lisa Fischbeck for Good Shepherd Sunday, 2013. The Advocate @ Unity   The year after I graduated from college,I worked for a marketing research firm in Dallas, Texas. And there I befriended Pat, a woman who worked in the firm and whose husband was in the final stages of his [...]

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Beat the Bounds, Saturday, April 27 at 3 PM

By Lisa | Published: April 19, 2013

beat the bounds Definitions (British) (formerly) to define the boundaries of a parish by making a procession around them and hitting the ground with rods   Come and join the people of the Advocate on Saturday, April 27 at 3 PM as we carry on the old British tradition for Ascension Day/Rogation Day walk the boundaries [...]

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News and Notes April 2013

By Lisa | Published: April 14, 2013

  April 2013 News and Notes   The Season of Easter     Easter Baptism Boys Share the Bubbles  Sundays   (April 7, 14, 21, and 28) at the Unity Center of Peace, 8800 Seawell School Rd. 8:45 AM Holy Eucharist followed by tailgate coffee in the parking lot 5 PM Holy Eucharist followed by dinner (provided) Wednesdays [...]

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