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We gather for worship and conversation every Wednesday @5:15pm in the MIT Chapel. After worship we eat dinner together, usually a home cooked meal served in the dining room in W11. For more information, contact the Rev. Andrew Heisen. (See contact information below.)
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News and Events
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Taize prayer returns, Sundays 8pm in the chapel
Please join us this Sunday, September 17 in the MIT Chapel at 8pm as we celebrate the beginning of a new year with prayer, silence, and contemplative singing in the Taizé tradition. We will be led by Raphaela Mueller, who is a great friend of Taizé at MIT…
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Dinner and Communion are back on The Table
Come join us Wed. 8/30 as we kick off the school year with music, communion, and a home-cooked dinner. We're talking about a different symbol of Christian faith each week this fall; this week's theme is Light.
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Coming Out Faithful: Stories from LGBTQ Religious Leaders
Friday, October 21 / 12-1:30pm in Building 4-231 Join us for great conversation with 4 diverse LGBTQ religious leaders about their experiences of living "out" in the world and within their faith communities. A kosher vegetarian lunch will be provided. Panelists: The Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge is an…
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what’s on…The Table
We are now hosting The Table every Wednesday. We'll still offer worship and dinner in the LEM tradition. Changing the name helps us communicate with new students who may not feel any connection to the words "Lutheran" or "Episcopal". The new name also makes it easier to partner…
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Taize takes a break for the summer
Sunday, May 8 was our last service of Song + Stillness: Taize at MIT for the academic year. This contemplative time of chant, prayer and silence will return on Sunday nights in September.
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Good Friday service
Good Friday, March 25, 12:00 to 12:50 pm in the MIT chapel Join us for a quiet remembrace of Christ's suffering and death through readings, prayers and hymns.
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Merry Christmas! We return 1/6
We will not hold services during the MIT winter break. The Lutheran Episcopal Ministry's weekly service will return on Wednesday, January 6 for the Feast of the Epiphany. Song + Stillness: Taize at MIT returns Sunday night, January 10. A blessed Christmas to you all!
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Join us for Song + Stillness: Taize at MIT
Ecumenical Contemplative Evening Prayer Sunday evenings at 8 beginning September 20, 2015 in the MIT Chapel Catch your breath and calm your spirit at this simple evening prayer service. Using the music of the Taizé community in France, this 35-minute service includes short readings from Christian scripture, candlelight, meditative singing,…
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Summer concert on August 26
Give yourself an end-of-summer treat with Songs of Our Forebears, a concert of American sacred songs with The Polyphony Project on Wednesday, August 26 at 7:00 pm in the MIT Chapel. Religious music has long shaped the soundscape of our country, from the singing schools of New England to…
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Sad and grateful goodbyes
Please join LEM in body and/or spirit (whichever parts of yourself are available) tomorrow (Wednesday June 3rd) at 5:15 in the MIT Chapel, where we will bless our graduates and give thanks for Isaac Everett's presence among us this year. We'll continue the celebrating/weeping next door in W11 over a…
Support Our Ministry
We are grateful for the support of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and the New England Synod of the ELCA. We also rely on alumni and friends for a great deal of our funding. Do you want to help provide spiritual formation, a strong community, and healthy meals to students at MIT?
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Lutheran Chaplin
Rev. Andrew C. Heisen
617-999-9796
heisen@mit.edu
Pastor Andrew Heisen (he/him) has been serving as the Lutheran (ELCA) chaplain at MIT since 2019. He grew up in New York and New England, spending six summers working on staff at Calumet Lutheran Camp in Ossippee, NH. He attended Dartmouth College, graduating with degrees in music composition and computer sciennce. This led to four years of working in Johnson & Johnson’s IT “Advanced Technology Research” division and two years as a bartender before attending the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and then Andover Newton Theological School, from which he received a Master’s Degree in Divinity. Before becoming a chaplain at MIT, Pastor Heisen served for seven years as pastor in Shrewsbury, MA, where he now lives with his wife and two children. His interests include ecumenical and interfaith cooperation, creativity in fostering communities of faith, teaching, spiritual discernment, music, and social justice.
Episcopal Chaplain
Rev. Kevin Vetiac
kvet246@mit.edu
Kevin Vetiac (he/they) is a Boston native with years of ministerial and higher education experience. Kevin graduated from the Boston University School of Theology with a Master of Divinity degree. Recently ordained a transitional deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, Kevin has a big heart for ecumenical ministry and college chaplaincy. Kevin also has a deep love for music and served as the Music Director of The Crossing at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Downtown Boston for six years. Kevin also served as the Cathedral Administrator for three years. Kevin is thrilled to join the Lutheran Episcopal Ministry at MIT and looks forward to continuing the work of creating inclusive and liberating Christian spaces for college students.
Life Together Intern
Hazel-Grace Strong
hazel580@mit.edu
Hazel-Grace Strong (they/them/theirs) hails from the Great Plains of southwest Kansas. They received their BA in Theology and Catechesis at Franciscan University of Steubenville. A member of the Life Together Community, Hazel-Grace is honored to be an intern at their placement site, the Office of Religious, Spiritual and Ethical Life (ORSEL) at MIT and to be a part of Lutheran and Episcopal Ministry.