FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE Volume 64 Number 4
APRIL 2014
The Episcopal Church of Saint Michael Pacific View Drive at Marguerite
Corona del Mar
BELOVEDS IN CHRIST,
California 92625
949.644.0463
www.stmikescdm.org
...From the Desk of the Rector
We all have experiences that are so formative, so altering, so transformational that they change fundamental ways we think and live. For some of us it may be a series of events that has shaped us. Others know the day and hour of a single event and can travel there mindfully at any given moment. It might be a first date, first kiss, first love or... first heartbreak. It could be the day of baptism or confirmation, a graduation, first job, first home of your own. It could be an accident, illness, death of a beloved. Such events in our lives shape us and form us into who we are today. My “big 3” in chronological order are ordinations, marriage, and birth of Frances’ and my son, Don. What are yours? For Christians, our pivotal event is Easter. Easter changed everything! Yes, we have nothing to show for it except an empty tomb. And that’s exactly the point because the empty tomb gives us hope. Is there anything we need now more than hope? Change happens at such a rapid pace, we get lost trying to keep up. Time and again we find ourselves asking: How did that happen? When did that change? Who made those rules? Why? A sense of discombobulation and discomfort hangs in the air and we can’t discern where it’s coming from, but we feel it grieving our souls. So, we ask deeper questions: Can we still trust God? Can we still hope in Easter? Will God make something holy and good and beautiful out of a world filled with drug wars, child abuse, wars and natural disasters? Can we trust God to do something great and wonderful with people who claim to love God, then do despicable things? “Yes!” is Easter’s message. Come, into the glow and the warmth and the challenge and the holiness and the hope of the empty tomb. Gather in the name of someone higher and holier that we are, someone who has conquered the darkness, someone who can give us hope. Experience the presence of the risen Christ once again. Rejoice with others who struggle with the same challenges we have. Pray and praise and sing with those who lift our spirits and whose spirits we have lifted. Together, celebrate God who, through Jesus’ empty tomb gives us hope for today and hope for the future. Easter reminds us of God’s love opening life beyond our imaginations to each of us. It is personal! It’s not symbolic or esoteric or for someone else. It is for us! Easter is the song God is singing to the world. Another pastor didn’t sing much because, like me, he didn’t have much of a singing voice and couldn’t read music. But one year his daughter persuaded him to sing along with the choir on Easter Day when they concluded worship with Handel’s “Hallelujah chorus” as was their tradition. That pastor really got caught up in singing all those “Hallelujahs” when, all of a sudden, the director stopped, the organ stopped, and the choir stopped. He said, “They stopped too soon! I’ve been going around with a couple of ‘Hallelujahs’ inside me just waiting to get out.” That’s what Easter does for us. We all walk around with “a couple of ‘Hallelujahs’ inside just waiting to get out” because Easter fills us with hope!
In Christ,
& All Angels HOLY WEEK 2014 WORSHIP SCHEDULE Palm Sunday, April 13 Holy Eucharist at 8am and 10am with Blessing of Palms and Procession • Evening Prayer (said) at 5:30pm Monday in Holy Week, April 14 Evening Prayer at 5:30pm Tuesday in Holy Week, April 15 Holy Eucharist at 7:30am • Evening Prayer at 5:30pm • Tenebrae at 7:30pm Wednesday in Holy Week, April 16 Holy Eucharist with Healing 12 noon • Evening Prayer at 5:30pm Maundy Thursday, April 17 Evening Prayer at 5:30pm • The Washing of Feet & Holy Eucharist at 7:30pm in the Sanctuary • The Stripping of the Altar* • The All Night Watch at the Altar of Repose, 9pm to 9am Good Friday, April 18 Morning Prayer at 9am •Stations of the Cross on the patio at noon • Stations of the Cross for children & families on the patio at 4pm • Evening Prayer at 5:30pm • Stations of the Cross on the patio at 7pm • Good Friday Liturgy with Music at 7:30pm* (See note on page 2 for availability of Rite of Reconciliation of a Penitent) Holy Saturday, April 19 Morning Prayer 9am • Evening Prayer 5:30 pm • The Great Vigil of Easter at 7:30pm with the Lighting of the Paschal Candle, Holy Eucharist and Holy Baptism* Festive Reception following, MR Easter Day, April 20 Festival Choral Eucharist with Choir, and Organ and Instruments at 8am and 10am (Nursery Care provided from 8am through Easter worship)
* Childcare provided for this service
BUILDING OUR F AITH: L OVING CHRIST AND SER VING OUR COMMUNITY FAITH: LO SERVING
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A CONTRIBUTION WAS MADE TO THE RECTOR’S DISCRETIONARY FUND most recently by Bruce and his family in thanksgiving for the life of Lynn Langlois Nye. These funds extend our Parish’s mission of outreach, providing for such needs as can be helped by financial assistance.
* * * PLEASE CHECK THE DISPLAY RACK ON THE WALL IN MICHAEL'S ROOM. Pick up a pamphlet or two to share with family and friends. A donation box is provided.The pamphlet HOLY WEEK is a wonderful summary of the meaning of the events beginning with Palm Sunday and culminating in the Easter celebration. As the author states: "Easter is the greatest celebration of the Christian community, the climax of the church year, and the focal point of our faith. But to enter fully into Christ's Resurrection, we must first follow him in his passion. Observing Holy Week-the week preceding Easter Sunday -- is an invitation to do so." Do you know the meaning of TENEBRAE, of MAUNDY THURSDAY, of the VIGIL? HOLY WEEK is a valuable guide.
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PARISH NEWS AND NOTES SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS’ FINANCIAL UPDATE:
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e have been presented a wonderful opportunity. Two generous members ofour Parish have offered to write checks for $15,000 each ($30,000) with the challenge for the rest of us to match their donations. You may add to your current Pledge, give a one-time gift, or make a Pledge if you have not previously done so. (We have over 75 families or members who have not pledged.) Please mark your checks “Budget Challenge”, or notate the same on a new Pledge card. If we can raise $30,000, they will match the funds, and we will be able to meet our expenses for the 2014 Program & Budget. The Challenge started on Sunday, March 2 and will go through Easter Day, April 20. As of March 17, we have raised $9,713 --almost a third of the way. We do need your help and donations. We can’t let this opportunity just go away! Please consider giving what you can.
* * * LENTEN SERIES 2014 “Lent Then and Now” How Lent has changed through the years from a “taking away” to a more “taking on” approach
April 2 The Rev’d Barbara Stewart, Ph.D.
April 9
FOLLOWING THE GOOD FRIDAY EVENING LITURGY, The Rev’d Canon Haynes will be available in the Sanctuary for the rite of Reconciliation of a Penitent, pages 447-448 or 449-452 in the Book of Common Prayer, or at other times by appointment.
The Very Rev’d Canon Peter D. Haynes Evening Prayer at 5:30pm; Supper at 6pm followed by the program and Compline.
* * * DO YOU HAVE A NEW EMAIL ADDRESS? Please contact sbeechner@stmikescdm.org with changes or additions.
APRIL Anniversaries Birthdays 1st - Linda Moorman Desmond Stevens 4th - Barbara Paulson 7th - Bill Yost 8th - Sondra Valentine 12th - Chace Warmington 25th - Susan Caldwell 26th - Bob Hine Baptisms 3rd - Bill Yost 8th - Sharon Perry Weddings 2nd - Michael & Linda Robertson 11th - Bob & Dottie Cole 17th - Bill & Judy Brady Norm & Sue Ewers 20th - Bill & Kate Yost 21st - Matthew & Danielle Shaw 25th - David & Constance Davidson
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LOAVES AND FISHES: In April we will collect full-size hygiene items, such as bars of soap, lotions, tooth paste and tooth brushes, deodorant, shampoo and conditioner, and specialty items like perfume and bath salts. These will be used to fill Mother’s Day baskets. Monetary donations are always welcome, too. Checks should be made payable to Saint Michael & All Angels, with Loaves and Fishes on the memo line. (Tax ID #95-2123746) FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE is a publication of Saint Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church, Corona del Mar, CA. Copy deadline is the second Wednesday of the month. We welcome letters and articles. Editor: Susan Beechner 949.644.0463
THE 2014 VESTRY Senior Warden.............................Myrna Ireland mireland6@sbcglobal.net....................949.759.1509 Junior Warden.............................Donald Sheets donald.sheetz@gmail.com..................949.720.0700 Christian Education.....................Barbara Black bbblack56@sroadrunner.com...............949.640.7989 Clerk of the Vestry........................Karlene Miller karlenemiller@gmail.com...................949.336.6215
Building and Grounds...............Tom Nicholson tqnicholson@aol.com......................949.872.9067 Communications...........................Clyde Dodge [clydedodge@cox.net.......................949.375.1530 Evangelism.................................Melinda Rader melinda.rader@roadrunner.com..........949.230.3644 Fellowship......................................Teri Corbet hbangel49@msn.com.....................714.932.6979
Finance......................................Julie Jenkins jdfritz@aol.com.............................949.640.0134 Mission...............................Barbara Stewart+ barbarastewart001@gmail.com.........714.979.7449 Stewardship..............................Matthew Shaw mattjshaw@yahoo.com..................949.645.4942 Worship...The Very Rev’d Canon Peter D. Haynes phaynes@stmikescdm.org...........949.644.0463x11
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Beloveds in Christ – I've had a lot on my mind during Lent as I look forward to Easter, particularly about the reality of the Resurrection for modern day Christians, so I offer you a second column this month, about a question by the theologian Han Kung that has been gnawing at me for quite a while now. Easter's a good time for us all to think about these ideas. --p.d.h. “How did a community emerge in the name of a crucified man? How did a new beginning come out of such a disastrous end? Where did his followers gain their strength after such a disastrous end? How did the condemned heretical teacher come to be exalted as Israel’s Messiah, the Christ? How did the unmasked seducer of the people become ‘Savior,’ this rejected blasphemer the ‘Son of God?’ How did they come to proclaim, not only the Gospel of Jesus, but Jesus himself as the Gospel, unintentionally turning the proclaimer himself into the content of the proclamation, the message of the kingdom of God into the message of Jesus as the Christ?” What I think Hans Kung is asking in “On Being A Christian” is “How did Christianity continue after the ups and downs of Holy Week and the complete breakdown of Good Friday?” And my answer is “because Jesus, our leader and Lord, arose from the grave, alive in love for the world that had forsaken and killed him.” Alleluia. Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia. According to the evangelist John, Mary Magdalene had stayed at the foot of the cross with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Mary, the wife of Clopas, and the beloved disciple. Such courageous devotion to Jesus had come from a profound experience of his love. Jesus had set her free from seven demons (Luke 8:2) and, in her gratitude, she had laid down her life in love for Jesus, personally and financially. There was no question in her mind about the source of her deliverance, the origin of the exodus of her spirit from all that oppressed her. She knew the truth of Jesus, and his truth had set her free. Nothing else would do for her. No other presence of power would suffice. At the empty tomb it was only when Jesus allowed himself to be known that Mary re-experienced that for which there was no equal: the personal presence of the Lord who called her by name, “Mary” (John 20:16). “Rabboni!” she exclaimed before she sought to embrace him. The Easter encounter stands at the heart of our Christian faith and is the watershed experience of believers. The Risen Christ is real! He was not resuscitated but resurrected, alive for those who had the eyes of faith. Mary represents all who seek to believe; if she does not experience the risen Lord then Christianity for her, and for us, collapses into pious delusion, a false dream, a bad joke. No empty tomb nor angelic visions, no reading from scripture nor eloquence of preachers, no succession of “Alleluias” nor stately anthems can replace the personal experience of encountering the Risen Lord. No amount of “creating Easter” can substitute for personally experiencing the Risen Jesus in our midst, any more than a sailor shouting “Land!” can create terra firma; the land must be reached before the joy of finding becomes authentic and then the ecstasy is grounded in reality. Jesus is risen and alive as the then seen-but-now-unseen power of God, victorious over sin and death. The love of God has won! It is this reality which gives birth to the “Alleluias,” not vice versa. It is in this experience of Jesus, raised and thereby vindicated, that we know his way and truth and life to be authoritative. Easter is God’s “Amen!” to the love of his only begotten. Alleluia! Alleluia!
EASTER FLOWER REQUEST FORM (Please Print) Name:__________________________________________________________ Phone Number:_________________________________________________ In Memory of:__________________________________________________ In Thanksgiving for:______________________________________________ Please make your check payable to Saint Michael & All Angels and write “Easter Flowers” on the memo line. You may place it in the collection plate or mail it to Saint Michael & All Angels Church, 3233 Pacific View Drive, Corona del Mar, CA 92625. Deadline for Bulletin inclusion is Monday, April 14th.
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CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Susan Caldwell
A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION
Our mission is to seek and share Jesus Christ as spiritual food for life’s journey.
3233 Pacific View Drive Corona del Mar, CA 92625 949.644.0463 949.644.9247 FAX www.stmikescdm.org The Very Rev’d Canon
Peter D. Haynes, Rector [phaynes@stmikescdm.org] Susan Caldwell Director of Christian Education [scaldwell@stmikescdm.org] Ray Urwin, D.M.A. Minister of Music [rurwin@stmikescdm.org] The Rev’d Fennie Chang, Ph.D., Canterbury Irvine The Rev’d Canon Ray Flemming Assisting Priest The Rev’d Jefferson Hulet Assisting Priest The Rev’d Barbara Stewart, Ph.D., Assisting Priest Susan Beechner, Parish Secretary [sbeechner@stmikescdm.org] Donnie Lewis, Bookkeeper [dlewis@stmikescdm.org]
WORSHIP SCHEDULE Sunday Holy Eucharist 8am Choral Eucharist 10am Nursery Care from 9:30-11:30am Adult Education 9am Sunday School 10am Tuesday HE, MP, alternating Tues. at 7:30am Wednesday Holy Eucharist with Prayers for Peace and Healing-12 noon ABOUT SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS CORONA DEL MAR
We are a Christian Community of the Anglican Communion who come to hear God’s word and receive and share the Lord Jesus Christ. Our purpose is to have Christ live in us in order that in Christ we may live faithful and productive Christian lives. Our commitment to the Gospel is evangelical; our liturgical tradition, catholic; our theology orthodox but open to thought, reflection, and spiritual endeavor. We care about the world and strive to serve Christ in it.
PRAYERS HEALING
Thanks to Louise Stover for this article.
Sundays at 9: Ideas Worth Spreading!
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s we move through Spring and into Summer, Sundays at 9 will view and discuss a variety of TED Talks to foster discussion about a range of faith-related topics. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private, non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading." For believers and skeptics alike, these riveting TED Talks address our most important spiritual questions -about faith and the divine. If you're interested in spirituality, and thinking about bigger issues, these talks truly are enlightening. Here’s the schedule for upcoming Sundays at 9: March 30 TED Talk A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically April 6 General Discussion Beth Bojarski -- Camp Stevens April 13 TED Talk Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion April 20 Easter Sunday -- no class April 27 TED Talk Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news) Get ready for the U2Charist May 4th General Discussion Bishop Bruno Visiting -- confirmations . May 11th General Discussion Reflections on U2charist
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Sally John Noelle Dottie Rosemarie Nancy Pat Norm Bob Mary Betty Craig Andrea Patricia Bill GUIDANCE Sue Esther Leslie John REPOSE Hildy Pehrson Lynn Langlois Nye
THANKSGIVING - with the Caldarone family for Pat Hogue; - in loving memory of Doug Caldwell, James Hamilton Simpson and Marian Emily Simpson; - JOURNEY, Women’s Fellowship, Men’s Group, our Choir and Vestry, and our Christian Education Commission’s Lenten programs; - for John DeWitt Bowman’s birthday; - for Bill Leasure’s mother; - for Bob & Dottie Cole’s anniversary and for Norm & Sue Ewers’ 71st anniversary
Call Esther McNamee for prayer requests 949.640.1749
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Christian Education Continued from Page 4 May 18th TED Talk Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rule May 25th TED Talk Brother David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful June 1 TED Talk James Forbes: Compassion at the dinner table If you have not heard of TED or seen their presentations online (http:// w w w. t e d . c o m / a b o u t / o u r organization), it’s a non-profit organization that believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. TED offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers to let communities of curious souls engage with ideas and each other, with “ideas worth spreading”.
FROM THE EVERY MEMBER EVANGELIST A work friend described her Lenten discipline as follows: “Tonight I’m getting together at home with my parents and inlaws .. Next week, I’m having dinner with two cousins I haven’t seen for a while. “My church encouraged us to ‘do something better during Lent’ and I realized that although we want to get together with family, we seldom do ... and ... I cannot assume the chance will always be there for me.” It was such natural evangelism. We often talk about family and friends, but talking about faith was “new territory.” In the next few weeks I’m looking forward to listening more and sharing thoughts on family and faith with my friend. The ripple effect could be quite large ... for her ... for me ... for anyone.
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(MORE) PARISH NEWS AND NOTES MEN’S GROUP: Each week we discuss a chapter or two of a book, typically on theology, philosophy and science. We meet 7.30-9am each Thursday in the Davis Library. All men are welcome regardless of faith or lack of it.
* * * FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE - ADS NEEDED: Our newsletter is printed by C & M Publications at no cost to St. Mikes, thanks to the support of the local businesses whose ads are found on the back of the calendar each month. If you or someone you know might like to become a sponsor, please call Susan Beechner in the parish office for more information. 949.644.0463 x10.
IF YOU W OULD LIKE TO SPONSOR the Sanctuary Light or Altar Flowers in memory of a loved one or in thanksgiving for a birthday, anniversary, or other special event, please sign up on the board in the Parish Center and indicate the person or occasion to be remembered. The suggested donation for flowers is $35, the Sanctuary Light is $15. Please mark your check for the Altar Guild.
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HELP FOR HUNGRY PEOPLE: We are once again in need of donations for replenishing our food cupboard. Please call Murry McClaren with any questions; and THANK YOU ALL for your help!
* * * WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP continues to meet monthly at the home of Beth Bianchi at 7:00 p.m. and has been very well attended. Contact the parish office for details. This month they will be meeting twice: April 1 and April 29 .
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LEST WE FORGET: There have been 4,489 American military casualties in Iraq and 2,176 in Afghanistan. "Lord hear our prayers for those who are dead and for those who mourn."
* * * LOOKING AHEAD: THE SUMMER WORSHIP SCHEDULE begins May 25: Worship at 9am, classes at 10am. through August 31.
* * * PLEASE REMEMBER . . . Saint Michael & All Angels has a Parish Emergency Fund funded by parishioners and available to parishioners facing financial emergencies and needing economic assistance. Requests should be directed to our rector or any member of our Vestry. Currently there is $5000 in this Fund. At one time there was more than $20,000 in the Parish Emergency Fund; so, if you are able to contribute, all gifts are welcome!
TIME AND TALENT If you are thinking about volunteering with one of our commissions at St. Mike’s, please review the “Parish Life” booklet on the back rail of the sanctuary, which describes these activities. We need greeters, acolytes, coffee hosts, and ushers, and have other interesting assignments as well. Volunteering is a wonderful way to meet new people at St. Mike’s. Please call Melinda Rader with questions at 949.230.3644.
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HOLY WOMEN HOLY MEN
Norm Ewers
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pastor and Theologian, born 1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born February 4, 1906. He studied at the Universities of Tuebingen and Berlin, receiving his Doctor of Theology degree from the latter in1927, graduating summa cum laude. His doctoral thesis was published in 1930 as Communio Sanctorum. Still too young to be ordained, the 24year-old Bonhoeffer went to the United States in 1930 for post graduate study and a teaching fellowship at New York City's Union Theological Seminary. Although he found the American seminary not up to his exacting German standards, he had lifechanging experiences and friendships. He studied under Reinhold Niebuhr and met Frank Fisher, a black fellow seminarian who introduced him to Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where Bonhoeffer taught Sunday school and formed a lifelong love for African-American spirituals. He heard Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., preach the Gospel of Social Justice and became sensitive to not only social injustices experienced by minorities, but also the ineptitude of the church to bring about integration. Bonhoeffer began to see things "from below"-- from the perspective of those who suffer oppression. Later Bonhoeffer was to refer to his impressions abroad as the point at which "I turned from phraseology to reality." After his return to Germany from America in 1931, Bonhoeffer became a lecturer in systematic theology at the University of Berlin. He seems to have undergone something of a personal conversion from being a theologian primarily attracted to the intellectual side of Christianity to being a dedicated man of faith, resolved to carry out the teaching of Christ as he found it revealed in the gospels. On November 15, 1931--at the age of 25--he was ordained at the oldPrussian United St. Matthew's Church in Berlin. From the first days of the Nazi accession to power in 1933, Bonhoeffer was involved in protests against the regime. From 1933 to 1935 he was the pastor of two small congregations in London, but nonetheless was a leading spokesman for the Confessing Church, the center of Protestant resistance to the Nazis. Continued on page 7
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U2CHARIST COMES TO ST. MIKE’S By Clyde Dodge
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n May 10, at 7:30 PM in All Angels’ Court, Saint Michael & All Angels will host its first ever U2charist. This is a celebration of Holy Eucharist accompanied by the music of the Irish rock band U2. The Right Reverend Diane Jardine Bruce will be celebrant, and returning to Saint Michael & All Angels for one night to preach will be our former Assistant Priest, the Reverend Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton. All offerings collected at the U2charist will be donated to the African Well Fund, contributing to their 2014 campaign to “Build a Well for Bono.” Bono is the lead singer and frequent spokesman for the band, and he is also a powerful voice of the campaign to eliminate extreme poverty, one of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The 12 songs to be used before, during, and after worship will be performed live by the local group The Joshua Tree, a U2 tribute band. The idea of using the music of U2 during worship was first developed in the Episcopal Church. Sarah Dylan Breuer, an Episcopal theologian, is a fan of U2, and designed the first U2charist. The first time a U2charist was presented was in the Diocese of Maryland at a conference for Diocesan clergy in October, 2004. The first church to present a U2charist was Saint George’s Episcopal Church in York Harbor, Maine, under the leadership of the Rev’d Paige Blair. Since then the U2charist has been celebrated in many denominations and countries around the world. Since the early years of U2, this rock band has been recognized for the intense spiritual content of much of its music. One of its biggest early hits, “Pride (In the Name of Love)” is a dual anthem of praise to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jesus. Here are parts of the lyrics from that song:
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One man caught on a barbed wire fence One man he resist One man washed on an empty beach One man betrayed with a kiss In the name of love! What more in the name of love? Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride Through the three plus decades that U2 has been a major force in popular music, they have continued to include themes rooted in Christian religion in their songs. This is what makes their music so suitable as a setting for Holy Eucharist. Individually, Bono has become one of the strongest voices in our culture for the Millennium Development Goals, in particular eliminating extreme poverty. He also is a leader of the movement to forgive the debt of third world nations, which falls under the 8th goal of a Global Partnership for Development. Among his many friends, Bono counts both George W. Bush and Nelson Mandela. Bush called Bono “the real deal.” They have worked together to promote humanitarian efforts in Africa. Mandela and the members of U2 were good friends, which makes the U2’s writing of the Oscar-nominated song “Ordinary Love” for the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom a perfect match of artist and message. The African Well Fund conducts a campaign every year at this time to raise money to build a well in Africa. It is called “Build a Well for Bono” because it happens around the time of Bono’s birthday…May 10th. This year they are engaged in a $30,000 campaign to build a well in Angola. It is our goal to raise a sizable chunk of that at our U2charist. You can learn more about U2, Bono, and the connection between the U2charist and Millennium Development Goals, on April 27th at Sundays at Nine, when I will present a complete overview of all this and more. And, of course, you can enjoy a particularly uplifting experience at our U2charist on Saturday, May 10th at 7:30 pm.. The Joshua Tree will perform “Pride (In the Name of Love)” and “Ordinary Love”, as well as 10 other songs. Song lyrics will be projected on screens, and you will be encouraged to sing along.
Calendar of Ev ents At Saint Mic hael & All Ang els Events Michael Angels
Holy Eucharist, Morning Prayer, alternating on Tuesdays, 7:30 a.m. Whiz Kids, 9:15 -5:00 p.m., AAC (not 4/8) JOURNEY , 7:00-9:00 p.m., NW Basketball, 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., AAC (not 4/15)
AA meeting, 7:00-8:00 a.m., SW Yoga class, 9:00-10:00 a.m., NW Holy Eucharist with Prayers for Peace and Healing, 12:00 Noon Whiz Kids, 1:45-5:00 p.m., AAC (not 4/9) Confirmation Class, 4:00-5:30 p.m., CR Basketball, 5:00-10:00 p.m., AAC (not 4/2, 4/9, 4/16) Lenten Evening Programs, 6:00-7:30 p.m., MR (4/2, 4/9 )
Men’s Group, 7:30-9:00 a.m., DL AA Big Book Study, noon-1:00 p.m., SW Whiz Kids, 1:45-5:00 p.m., AAC (not 4/10) Basketball, 5:00-8:00 p.m., AAC (not 4/17) Children’s Choir Rehearsal, 5:00 p.m., NW (not 4/17) Parish Choir Rehearsal, 7:00-8:30 p.m. (not 4/17)
Yoga class, 9:00-10:00 a.m., NW Whiz Kids, 9:15-11:30 a.m. AAC (not 4/11) Basketball, 3:00-4:00 p.m., 5:00-8:00 p.m., AAC (not 4/18) AA meeting, 7:00-10:00 p.m., SW (not 4/18)
Basketball, 8-10:00 a.m., 10 a.m.-5:00 p.m., AAC (not 4/5, 4/19)
Tuesday
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Saturday
Meeting Rooms: AAC - All Angels’ Court DL - Davis Library MR - Michael’s Room NW - North Wing CR - Conference Room 5Basketball BR - Blue Room, AAC
Basketball, 3:00-4:00 p.m., 4:00-5:00 p.m., AAC House of Speed, 5:00-6:30 p.m., AAC St. Mike’s Basketball, 7:00-9:00 p.m., AAC
Monday
SW - South Wing PC - Parish Center RR - Red Room, AAC
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Holy Eucharist at 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Nursery care from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Sundays-at-Nine, 9:00 a.m., DL Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. Godly Play, children 4-11, Yellow Room Formation, 5th-8th grade, Green Room Basketball, 3:30-5:30 p.m., AAC (not 4/20)
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Sun., Apr. 20th Mon., Apr. 21st Tues., Apr. 22nd Sun., Apr. 27th Mon., Apr. 28th Tues., Apr. 29th
Sat., Apr. 19th
Fri., Apr. 18th
Thurs., Apr. 17th
Wed., Apr. 16th
Mon., Apr. 14th Tues., Apr. 15th
Tues., Apr. 1st Thurs., Apr. 3rd Sat., Apr. 5th Sun., Apr. 6th Tues., Apr. 8th Wed., Apr. 9th Sun., Apr. 13th
Bishop Bruno here - Confirmation U2charist, with Jaime Edwards-Acton+ and Bishop Bruce Bishop Bruce here UTO Spring Ingathering Jazz Vespers, 4:00 p.m. Polling Place here at Saint Michael’s --Vote!
IN THE COMING MONTHS
Women’s Fellowship, 7:00 p.m., Bianchi’s Home Staff Meeting, 9:30-11:00 a.m., DL; Vestry Meeting, 5:00-7:00 p.m., CR Canterbury Fundraiser, 2:00-4:30 p.m., All Campus 5th Sunday in Lent Hutchins Consort, 5:00 p.m., CR Final Wednesday Evening Lenten Program, MR Palm Sunday - Blessing of Palms, Procession Christian Education Commission, 11:30 a.m., CR Evening Prayer (said), 5:30 p.m., Sanctuary Monday in Holy Week - Evening Prayer, 5:30 p.m., Sanctuary Tuesday in Holy Week - Holy Eucharist, 7:30 a.m. Evening Prayer, 5:30 p.m., Sanctuary 7:30 p.m. Tenebrae, Sanctuary Wednesday in Holy Week - Evening Prayer, 5:30 p.m., Sanctuary Deadline for May 2014 For the Love of Mike Choir Rehearsal, 7:00 p.m. Maundy Thursday - Evening Prayer 5:30 p.m., Sanctuary 7:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist, Sanctuary (child care) The Washing of the Feet, Sanctuary The Stripping of the Altar, Sanctuary 9:00 p.m.-9:00 a.m. The All-Night Watch at the Altar of Repose Good Friday - 9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer Noon Stations of the Cross, Parish Patio 4:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross for Children & Families 5:30 p.m. Evening Prayer, Sanctuary 7:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross, Parish Patio 7:30 p.m. Good Friday Liturgy with music (child care) Holy Saturday - 9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer; 5:30 p.m. Evening Prayer 7:30 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter (child care) Lighting of the Paschal Candle, Holy Eucharist Festive Reception following, MR Easter Day! - 8:00 & 10:00 a.m., Festival Choral Eucharist Office closed Spyglass Hill Homeowners Board, 6:00-9:00 p.m., CR The Bible Challenge, 11:30 a.m., DL Deanery X Council Meeting, 7:00 p.m., St. John Chrysostom Women’s Fellowship, 7:00 p.m., Bianchi’s Home
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A SPRING GARDEN PARTY To benefit our mission of ministry with higher education at UC-Irvine Here at Saint Michael & All Angels 3:00-5:00 p.m. Saturday, April 5th. There will be a catered buffet a silent auction and a thoughtful reflection by The Very Rev’d W. Mark Richardson, Ph.D., President and Dean of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) Please let Canterbury (canterburyirvine@gmail.com) know that you will come ...and bring friends!
* * * PHONE TREE MINISTRY: NEW MEMBERS NEEDED. Our goal is to contact every parishioner by phone once a month.This is a great opportunity to get to know others better and to share information, needs and suggestions about Saint Mike's. Please contact Ruth Poole at 949.644.9263.
* * * NEW ACOLYTES WANTED: Do you have one hour to offer this parish each month? Would you like to participate in the worship service on Sundays by carrying the Cross or lighting the candles? Acolyting is a valuable ministry in the life of Saint Michael & All Angels. We especially need Acolytes for the 8am worship service. Please contact Susan Caldwell if you are interested in learning more about this ministry, or to volunteer! 949.644.0463 Ext. 12.
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(Episcopal News, Los Angeles) Recently, Bishop Michael Curry of North Carolina and I had the privilege of joining the people of St. Philip’s Church, Los Angeles, in blessing their new room for parish archives and history. This collection of resources, assembled by parish archivist and historian Charlene Diggs, spans more than a century and reflect deep and meaningful insights into both the congregation and wider Los Angeles — highlighting especially the experiences of the city’s AfricanAmerican community. Charlene Diggs, together with Canon Roy Salmon and the Rev. Glenn Libby and everyone at St. Philips, is to be commended for preserving and sharing these important resources — and I encourage all congregations in our diocese to make similar strides in documenting and preserving and recording local history. One of the best ways to do so is video or audio taping of oral histories with senior parishioners willing to offer their reflections. Another best practice is creating digital scans of irreplaceable parish records. Across the diocese, we have another important reason for documenting our history with a forward-looking view to future ministry: this coming December we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first service of Southern California’s oldest continuing parish, the Congregation of St. Athanasius, located at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul. That service was led by the Rev. Elias Birdsall on Christmas Day 1864, and we will mark this milestone at our next meeting of Diocesan Convention, Dec. 5 - 6. We will meet under the theme “Horizons & Heritage,” and I have asked our diocesan archivist-historiographer, Canon Robert Williams, to guide this observance, starting with assembling online pages of photos and text — both historical notes and current ministry priorities — for each congregation of the Diocese of Los Angeles. This wonderful collection will be available in time for Convention, where we will share and celebrate significant highlights as we look forward together into the future. Ours is a shared history, each congregation branching off at different times within our family tree and from the common roots dating from the
planting, 150 years ago, of the Congregation of St. Athanasius. I look forward to sharing this celebration with you, and I encourage you to direct any questions or comments to Canon Williams at 213.482.2040, ext. 240, or email rwilliams@ladiocese.org. Together, let us give thanks to God for our horizons and heritage!
Bonhoeffer from page 6 In 1935 Bonhoeffer was appointed to organize and head a new seminary for the Confessing Church at Finkenwald. He described the community in “Life Together” and later wrote “The Cost of Discipleship.” Bonhoeffer became increasingly involved in the political struggle after 1939, when he was introduced to the group seeking Hitler's overthrow. Bonhoeffer considered refuge in the United States, but he returned to Germany where he was able to continue his resistance. In May, 1942, he flew to Sweden to meet Bishop Bell and convey through him to the British government proposals for a negotiated peace. The offer was rejected by the Allies who insisted upon unconditional surrender. Bonhoeffer was arrested April 5, 1943, and imprisoned in Berlin. After an attempt on Hitler's life failed April 9, 1944, documents were discovered linking Bonhoeffer to the conspiracy. He was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, then to Schoenberg Prison. On Sunday, April 8, 1945, just as he concluded a service in a school building in Schoenberg, two men came in with the chilling summons, "Prisoner Bonhoeffer. . . come with us." He said to another prisoner, "This is the end. For me, the beginning of life." Bonhoeffer was hanged the next day, April 9, at Flossenburg Prison. There is in Bonhoeffer's life a remarkable unity of faith, prayer, writing and action. The pacifist theologian came to accept the guilt of plotting the death of Hitler because he was convinced that not to do so would be a greater evil. Discipleship was to be had only at great cost. (With thanks to Susan Beechner) REMINDER Please wear you name badge on Sundays!
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APRIL 2014 8
POET’S CORNER
Easter
I got me flowers to straw thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree: But thou wast up by break of day, And brought’st thy sweets along with thee.
by The Rev’d George Herbert (1593-1663) Easter is Herbert’s personal reworking of Psalm 57 and is an act of emotional confession.
The Sunne arising in the East, Though he give light, & th’East perfume; If they should offer to contest With thy arising, they presume.
Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delayes, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him mayst rise: That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more, just. Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part With all thy art. The crosse taught all wood to resound his name, Who bore the same. His stretched sinews taught all strings, what key Is best to celebrate this most high day. Consort both heart and lute, and twist a song Pleasant and long: Or, since all music is but three parts vied And multiplied; O let thy blessed Spirit bear a part, And make up our defects with his sweet art.
Can there be any day but this, Though many sunnes to shine endeavour? We count three hundred, but we misse: There is but one, and that one ever. Easter is from “The Temple,”(1663) a collection of over one hundred and fifty devotional lyrics by The Rev’d George Herbert, a Welch-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest. Lyric poems are written as if spoken (or sung) by one voice. Readers are often encouraged to feel as if the poem is addressed directly to them or, in other cases, that they are overhearing the poet’s private meditations. This gives an impression of great intimacy. It also produces a sense of authenticity. Because of this, lyrics have always been popular forms for love poetry. For the very same reason they have also been a natural choice for writing about religious belief. -Notes from The Spectator, March, 2012
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