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Christian Science Society, Marlborough, Mass.
The Christian Science Society, Marlborough, has been an active member of Marlborough's religious community since 1898, with the first informal services dating to 1891. Our society is affiliated with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston.
Sunday Service
We hold Sunday services each week from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, constitute our dual pastor. The Sunday service includes hymns, selected readings from the Bible, and the healing word found in each week's Bible Lesson-Sermon. Care for children under the age of three is provided during all of our services.
The subject and content for each week's Bible Lesson-Sermon are the same for Christian Science Churches, Societies, and Informal Groups throughout the world. You can read the introduction to the current week's Bible Lesson-Sermon here.
Sunday School
We hold Sunday School for young people up to the age of 20. Classes are held at the same time as our Sunday service. Students focus initially on the Ten Commandments, Christ Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, and on the Lord's Prayer and its spiritual interpretation found in "Science and Health." As students' understanding of God and their relationship to Him grows, they also delve deeply into each week's Lesson-Sermon to discover its practical, healing application to their lives.
Wednesday Evening Service
We hold a mid-week service for an hour on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, beginning at 7:00 p.m. Topical readings from the Bible and from "Science and Health" anchor these services. But the congregation plays a key role as well. Members and visitors have an opportunity to share their gratitude for the practical effect of their deepening understanding of God, through testimonies of healing and sharing experiences where they have witnessed the power of God active in their lives.
Return to topThanksgiving Day Service
We hold a service each Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November. The one-hour service includes a special Thanksgiving Lesson-Sermon and sets aside time for members and visitors to share their gratitude for God's blessings. The service begins at 10:00 a.m.
Return to topChristian Science Reading Room
Our Reading Room is a healing place for spiritual refreshment, for quiet prayer and study. You will find Bibles, copies of "Science and Health" and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy. We carry the Christian Science periodicals, which include testimonies of healing, copies of The Christian Science Monitor Magazine, and CDs of the Sentinel Radio series. All of these are available for purchase. We also have Bible study guides, bound volumes of Christian Science periodicals from past years, tapes of Bible workshops, children’s books, inspirational CDs, as well as each week's Bible Lesson Sermon for study. Our Reading Room is located inside our church on the second floor. For more information, please send an email to info_@_csmarlborough.org. (Remove the underscores before sending.)
Return to topDirections
Our church and Reading Room are located at 85 West Main Street, Marlborough, Mass. Email: info_@_csmarlborough.org. (Remove the underscores before sending.) Use the map below to help you find your way!
Return to topThe Tenets of Christian Science
These six cardinal points of Christian Science are found in "Science and Health," as well as in the "Church Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston," by Mary Baker Eddy. The Manual contains provisions that govern the conduct of officers and members of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston.
1. As adherents of Truth, we take
the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal life.
2. We acknowledge and adore one
supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy
Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.
3. We acknowledge God's
forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual
understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is
punished so long as the belief lasts.
4. We acknowledge Jesus'
atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's
unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge
that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as
demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming
sin and death.
5. We acknowledge that the
crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to
understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the
nothingness of matter.
6. And we solemnly promise to
watch and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ
Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be
merciful, just, and pure.