The Herald January 31, 2010
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
From the Rector Of Knowing and Doing
To know what love is one must be about loving; to know what good is, one must do goodness. I learned about that again this morning. I just served as a panelist along with several L'Arche core and team members in a conversation with some Birmingham Southern students who have chosen for their January term project observing and learning about intentional communities; what they have termed neomonastic communities. They first visited a Benedictine community in north Alabama; then the Koinonia community in Americus, Georgia, and now L'Arche, Mobile their last stop. L'Arche, for those of you who don't yet know about it, is a residential community that serves people with mental disabilities; people, if it weren't for L'Arche, who would be institutionalized. They reside together, take their meals together, share household chores, worship together, share sorrow and joy and the stuff of life, just like the rest of us.
On the Calendar: Tuesday, January 26 3:30pm Training choir rehearsal Wednesday, January 27 12N Holy Eucharist (Chapel) 4pm Girls’ Choir rehearsal 7:30pm Parish Choir rehearsal Thursday, January 28 12N Al-Anon (Smith Rm) 5:30pm AA (Smith Rm) Saturday, January 30 9am Recovery 2-day (Smith Rm) Sunday, January 31 8am Holy Eucharist 9am Breakfast 9:25am Christian Education 10:30 am Holy Eucharist Reception following
Each team member (the paid staff) of L'Arche without exception said that they stay at L'Arche for far different reasons from those for which they came. One woman said she came because she simply needed a job, but that now she stays Tuesday, February 2 because through her caring for these "least" souls, these who are considered 11:30am All Saints serves @ 15 Place marginal in our world, she is learning not only how to love unconditionally her 3:30pm Training Choir friends and family through an acquired new perspective; but she is learning also how to love herself. She said that once she almost left because of the deaths of two core residents whom she'd grown to adore, but that she stayed because she had learned that love was in truth stronger than death. Another team member informed the students that living in this community is not all sweetness and pious hymn-singing, but that there are flashing moments of anger and resentment, just like with the rest of us. But she said that those moments don't last long because they work hard at communicating their differences with the goal of reconciliation. A student asked, "And you pull that off consistently?" "We have to," she said, "or else we wouldn't last as a community." She said that she came to L'Arche because of a vague calling that she wanted to serve something larger than herself. Now she says that she stays because she is learning that love is real; that God is not invisible, but alive in all of us created in God's image. These weren't canned phrases...but words learned and spoken from experience. Over my years here, I've been learning from L'Arche, too. I've learned that seeing to the good of our neighbor is the highest form of love, love that brings joy and love that transforms. The L'Arche community is a model, with all its flaws and messiness, for all to see that we can't live with integrity and dignity except in community, a community that cares first for the other, that the needs of each matter equally.... a community that forgives as vital necessity; a community that, in spite of its fragility, becomes invincible through love...That is who God is...and that is who we all are...creatures both human and divine, made to give only...to love only for the world's transformation and renewal....and to live such a life is to know joy that is visible...to do love is to know love....to know God alive among us, ...Let us get about the work of enlightened loving, for there we will surely see the God of Love.... see and know in our own time and own place....We have to, else we won't last.
Lenten chefs wanted!
Calling all supper clubs, choirs, breakfast teams, youth groups, ushers, altar guild, Sunday School or just plain folks! We need people to cook 5 suppers during Lent: February 24, March 3, March 10, March 17 or March 24 for this year’s Lenten Program (see next page for details). Nothing needs to be fancy— quick and easy does just fine. Please call the church office to reserve your date now (438-2492).
Three Cups of Tea is our Lenten study book this year. The title comes from a mountain village chief in Pakistan who said, “Here (in Pakistan and Afghanistan), we drink three cups of tea to do business: the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything—even die.” Twenty-five copies have been ordered and will be here at the end of the week. Copies are $10 each. (We advertised $8 each but Amazon would not let us order more than 3 at a time, so we ordered from Barnes & Noble at the slightly higher price.) If you would like to reserve a copy, please call the office at 438-2492.
Stewardship Report
Most of the pledges for 2010 are in now. So far, 68 pledging units have increased their amount pledged, and there are 12 new pledging units. There are 121 units pledging so far, which is down from last year’s 135 units, but the total pledged is only $1026.84 less than 2009. Finals calls are being made this week and the Vestry and Finance Committee expect this to be a great year. Thanks to all of you who have responded!
Garage Sale Fundraiser The Girls’ Choir is hoping to travel to Florence, Italy this summer to sing at the Episcopal Church of St. James, where the Rev. Mark Dunnam is the rector. One of the ways they will raise funds is with a garage sale, to be held March 13 in Stirling Hall. Your donations to the sale are requested (think ‘Spring Cleaning!’) Almost any item is acceptable except, please, NO clothing other than children’s clothes! Donations may be stored in the youth office of the Parish Hall beginning immediately. More details will be posted, including the time of the event, as we get closer to March. Remember: one person’s trash is another’s treasure!
Haiti Response
Several people have asked to have the form for sending contributions to Episcopal Relief & Development for Haiti disaster relief printed. They are now available at the back of the church and on the volunteer’s desk outside the church office. A new tax relief law allows people who contrib. -.ted in 2010 to charities providing earthquake relief in Haiti to take a tax deduction for the contribution on their 2009 tax return instead of their 2010 return. This means you can receive an immediate tax benefit, rather than having to wait until you file next year’s return. Please check with the IRS as certain restrictions apply, using the following link: http://www.irs. gov/newsroom/ article/0,,id=218645,00.html?portlet=7
Congratulations, Basenbergs!
Joe and Jean Alice Basenberg are the proud grandparents of Jensen Austin Butterworth, born on Jan 25 to daughter Anne Katherine and husband Jeff in Boulder, CO. Uncle Jensen and great-grandfather, Harold Hensen are also thrilled. Here is baby Jensen at only 9 hours old!
Lenten Program begins February 24 “Wednesdays in Lent” — February 24, March 3, March 10, March 17 and March 24 — begin at 6:00pm with Evensong in the chapel followed by supper and book discussion in Stirling Hall from 6:30-7:30pm Nursery will be available Study Book:
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
Books will be available in the church office at the end of this week for $10 each To reserve one, please call or email the office as soon as possible (438-2492 or asstrector@allsaintsmobile.org) [There is also a young reader’s edition of the book, intended for readers 8 years and up, available on line or at local bookstores] It is often worth reading something that is very familiar to us using different words; it makes us think. The following is a contemporary version of 1Corinthians 13:1-13, ‘the love passage’ often used at weddings, which will be the second lesson for this Sunday. It is taken from The Message, a scholarly translation which is true to the Greek in which it was originally written.
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. Scripture taken from THE MESSAGE. Copyright © by Eugene H. Peterson, 1993, 1994, 1995. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.
Lay Ministers for February 2010 Date
Time
Lector
Intercessor
Chalice
Acolytes
Ushers P Mackey H Dodge
Feb 7 5th Sun‐ day after Epiphany
8:00
J Clearman
B Ratcliffe
M Taylor
10:30 1 A Lilly 2 K Winkler
V Mitchell
M Morrison D Williams F Hannum W Kelly B Roach E Doyle
Feb 14 Last Sun‐ day after Epiphany
8:00
J Basenberg
S Willcox
10:30 1 J Hamilton K Montgomery L Wood A Kelly B Hardaway B Ayres L Ayres 2 C Blackwell R Brewster
Feb 17 Ash Wednes‐ day
6:00p 1 V Mitchell 2 B Barrett
S Willcox
Feb 21 1st Sun‐ day of Lent
8:00
S Willcox
Altar Guild B Bentley D Nichols L Raouf P Reeves C Ryan
Breakfast
Reception
C Mackey V Case W Hannum
EYC
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W Hannum R Dillard
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D Mosley C Doyle H Callaway C Blackwell
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D Williams
L Wood
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K Winkler
The Souths
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C Hall A Hamilton K McDonald
10:30 1 M Petithory M Morrison 2 J Rogers
C Tucker M Elledge
M Williams S Williams G Ayres W Kuot
L Wood H Roldan J Hamilton S Robertson
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Feb 28 2nd Sun‐ day of Lent
8:00
B Evatt
B Ratcliffe
The Evatts
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10:30 1 M Nissen 2 E Wilder
D Nichols
B Harris C Ryan
D Moreau B Williams D Greene T Thiel
M Elledge M Morrison R Bradford P Webb
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L Hallett
B Ratcliffe
M Petithory
February Birthdays 2 Danielle Juzan 8 Henry Seawell, IV 10 Kim Gray 11 Margaret Abbott, Ari Moore, Cart Blackwell 12 Brian Montgomery 13 Allan Tucker, Nick Galanos 15 Dick Van Benschoten, Charlotte Hall
Vestry Report
The 2010 Vestry met on Monday night. New officers for 2010 are: Pete Mackey, Senior Warden; Michael Morrison, Junior Warden; Clark Kelly, Treasurer; Diana Nichols, Clerk. The remaining vestry members are: Jim Ayres, Martha Harris, Rob Gray, Darrel Williams, Charlotte Hall, Susan Meztista, Jean Tucker, Chris Conte, Renea Greene, Matt McDonald and Harold Dodge.
16 18 20 21 25 26 28 29
K Flowers K Gray R Greene
C Kelly, C Doyle, W Hester
R Dillard
R Dillard
Flower Guild S Drew B Wilson
R Bradford K McKenzie
K McKenzie F Rouse
Greeters
R Dillard
B Brewster K McDonald
R Dillard
K Flowers
Rob Nichols, Avery Kelly Hank Caddell, Douglas Greene Meg Caldwell, Laura Hampton Greene Gillian Ayres Bill Evatt, Renea Greene Paula Reeves, Laura Chamblee Hayley Praytor, Thomas Praytor Richard Coarsey
Centennial DVD
If you would like to purchase a copy of the DVD prepared for the Centennial Celebration, please call the church office, or Melanie Petithory at 473-1350. The cost is $10 and proceeds will be used for the church archives.
All Saints Window All Saints Episcopal Church
February 2010 Sun
Mon
Tue 1
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7 5th Sunday after Epiphany
8am Holy Eucharist 9am Breakfast 9:25 Christian Ed 10:30am Holy Eucha‐ rist Reception following 14 Last Sunday after Epiphany
8am Holy Eucharist 9am Breakfast 9:25 Christian Ed 10:30am Holy Eucharist Reception following
15 6pm Vestry mtg
21 1st Sunday of Lent
8am Holy Eucharist 9am Breakfast 9:25 Christian Ed 10:30am Holy Eucharist Reception following 6pm Popcorn Theology: “Sunshine Cleaning”
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28 2nd Sunday of Advent
8am Holy Eucharist 9am Breakfast 9:25 Christian Ed 10:30am Holy Eucharist Reception following
2 11:30am All Saints serves lunch at 15 Place 3:30pm Training Choir
Thu
Fri
Sat
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4 12N Al‐Anon, Smith Rm 5:30pm AA, Smith Rm
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6 9am Recovery 2day, Smith Rm
9 12N Golden Circle 3:30pm Training Choir
10 12N Holy Eucharist 4pm Girls Choir 6pm 15 Place Bd Mtg 7:30pm Adult Choir
11 12N Al‐Anon, Smith Rm 5:30pm AA, Smith Rm
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13 9am Recovery 2day, Saad Rm 10:30am PFLAG, Smith Rm
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17 Ash Wednesday 12N Holy Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes, church 6pm Holy Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes, Church 7:30pm Adult Choir
18 12N Al‐Anon, Smith Rm 5:30pm AA, Smith Rm
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20 9am Recovery 2day, Smith Rm
24 12N Holy Eucharist 4pm Girls Choir 6pm Lenten program 7:30pm Adult Choir
25 12N Al‐Anon, Smith Rm 5:30pm AA, Smith Rm
26 Diocesan Con‐ vention, Christ Church, Pensa‐ cola 5:30pm Food Share
27 8:00am Food Share distribution 9am Recovery 2day, Smith Rm
Mardi Gras day OFFICE CLOSED
23 3:30pm Training Choir
Wed 7:30am Race Rela‐ tions Committee 12N Holy Eucharist 4pm Girls Choir 7:30pm Adult Choir
EYC PAGE “Believe nothing, no matter who said it, or where you read it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” ---Buddha Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. ---Thomas Jefferson JANUARY 31st GAMES , FUN and DINNER with the KELLYS Both Junior and Senior EYC meet at the home of Clark and Kim Kelly, 1656 Dauphin St 5:30 - 7:00 FEBRUARY 7th BIG GAME PARTY AND FOOTBALL THE SAINTS AND THE COLTS ARE PLAYING FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP!!! GAME STARTS AT 6:30, SO START ARRIVING AROUND 6:15 at the Contes’ house, 300 Park Ave We will have chili and snacks but I need volunteers to bring drinks and chips. FEBRUARY 14th JOE CAIN DAY EYC is going to the parades after Church We will have lunch after Church as well as games and then walk down to the Joe Cain Parade. Bring friends as the parade is going to be lots of fun. EYC MISSION TRIP Anyone 14 and over is eligible to go on the EYC Mission Trip to New Orleans, which will take place from July 18th to July 25th. We need to know by February 10th who is going, and we must have a $50 deposit to reserve your spot. Karen McDonald has forms and most of you should have received them by e-mail. If you are going and need a form, let Karen or me know ASAP. The February 10th deadline is FIRM; we MUST know if you are going by then. CHRIS CONTE CONTACT INFO: (251)604-2073 e-mail: ctc@helmsinglaw.com EMILY CONTE CONTACT INFO: (251)455-1056 e-mail: emilyconte@hotmail.com
Sunday Lectionary: 4th Sunday after Epiphany Jeremiah 1:4-10 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Psalm 71:1-6 Luke 4:21-30
Lay Ministers for Sunday
Altar Guild: Melanie Petithory, Kim Gray, Laura Williams Flower Guild: Carol Mackey, Diana Nichols Breakfast: Jean Tucker, Wylly Stirling, J Wiley Reception: Diana Nichols, Elyzabeth Wilder 8:00 Lector: Joe Basenberg Intercessor: Serena Willcox Chalice bearer: Henry Callaway Ushers: Joe Basenberg, Preston Bolt Greeter: Renee Dillard 10:30 Lectors: 1) Beth Hardaway 2) Diana Nichols Intercessor: Cart Blackwell Chalice bearers: Lister Thomas, Bruce Barrett Acolytes: Catherine Tucker, Liam Gray, Trevor Thiel, Sarah Frances Greene Ushers: Andy Mitchell, Mark Williams, Doug Greene, Henry Brewster
Music for Sunday, Jan. 24 Voluntary William Boyce Voluntary in A minor Processional Hymn 448 Deus tuorum militum William Mathias S-278 Gloria in Excelsis Deo Ivor Algernon Atkins Psalm 71:1-6 Sequence Hymn 612 Troen Offertory Anthem Thomas Attwood Walmisley From All That Dwell Below the Skies Presentation Hymn 302 Rendez รก Dieu William Mathias S-128 Sanctus and Benedictus qui venit William Mathias S-165 Agnus Dei Communion Hymn 581 Cheshire Motet Christopher Tye O God, Be Merciful Post Communion Hymn 598 Mit Freuden zart Processional Dom Andrew Moore Dignitate
The Thursday night supper club will meet at the home of Martha and Ben Harris on January 28 at 6:30. The Harrises live at 123 Provident Lane; phone 342-4458. All are welcome.
Please keep in your prayers: Shirley Roberds Larry Hall Judy McKee Dick Baade Diane Petersen Muriel Cherney Tim Holston the White family Bill & Lida Bowman Royce Ladnier Linda Irby David Reeves Laura
Serving in the military:
Spencer Abbot Matt Abbot Sean Paul Naylor Joseph Willcox Christopher Hume Steven DeWeese William Wesley Pollard Daniel Robert The policy of this church is to keep people on the prayer list for one month. After a month, they will be removed. If you want someone to be on the list longer, please call the office; the request will be updated and s/he will be kept on for another month.
Pantry Items The Refugee pantry has been depleted of many items that cannot be bought with food stamps. Instead of listing only two, below are many of those items; please bring in any of them that you can to the office or the basket in the narthex of the church. And thanks for your help! Bar soap Dish soap Laundry soap Dryer sheets Kitchen / bathroom cleaner Sponges Paper towels Large garbage bags Toothbrushes Toothpaste Toilet paper
All Saints Church 151 SOUTH ANN STREET MOBILE, AL 36604 www.allsaintsmobile.org Return Service Requested
Clergy
The Rt. Rev. Philip M. Duncan II, Bishop Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast The Rev. James B. Flowers, Jr., Rector rector@allsaintsmobile.org Office: 438-2492 Home: 436-8932 The Rev. Mary C. Robert, Assistant Rector asstrector@allsaintsmobile.org Office: 438-2492 Home: 479-5084
All Saints Church Staff
Jeff Clearman, Principal Parish Musician jeff@allsaintsmobile.org Mary Holbrook, Financial Administrator mary@allsaintsmobile.org Parish Administrator office@allsaintsmobile.org Irene Raymond, Parish Sexton Lila Higdon, Jennifer Brownlee, Elizabeth Dunnam, Nursery Workers
All Saints 2010 Vestry
Jim Ayres Chris Conte Harold Dodge Rob Gray Renea Greene Charlotte Hall Martha Harris Clark Kelly, Treasurer Pete Mackey, Senior Warden Matt McDonald Susan Meztista Michael Morrison, Junior Warden Diana Nichols, Clerk Jean Tucker Darrel Williams
All Saints Committee Chairs
Acolytes: The Rev. Mary Robert Addiction & Recovery: Becky Wilson Adult Christian Education: The Rev. Jim Flowers Altar Guild: Melanie Petithory Choirs: Jeff Clearman Communications: The Rev. Mary Robert Community Ministries: Matt McDonald Constitution & By Laws: Pete Mackey Episcopal Youth (EYC): Chris & Emily Conte Finance Committee: Clark Kelly, treasurer Flower Guild: Katharine Flowers Food Share: Susan Meztista, Mark Taylor, Burl Ratcliffe Golden Circle: Laura Rutherford, Wylly Stirling Hospitality & Events: TBA IHN/Family Promise: Henry Brewster Lectors & Chalice Ministers: The Rev. Mary C. Robert Long-Range Planning: Curt Doyle Nursery: Elizabeth Doyle, Amy Hunter, Jim Ayres Parish Development: Clark Kelly Property: Curt Doyle Refugees: Martha Harris Ushers: Bill Evatt, Louie Wood Stewardship: Joe Basenberg, All Saints Vestry Youth Christian Education: Renea Greene
All Saints Episcopal Church
151 South Ann Street, Mobile, AL 36604 www.allsaintsmobile.org
Service Schedule Sundays
Wednesdays
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist 9:00 am Breakfast 9:20 a.m. Christian Education Classes (during school year) 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist 12 Noon Holy Eucharist (Chapel)