The CATHEDRAL TIMES
The weekly newsletter of the Cathedral of St. Philip · Serving Atlanta and the World · December 18, 2022
WORSHIP SERVICES FOR THE 2022 CHRISTMAS SEASON
Sunday, December 18 – The Fourth Sunday of Advent
The 7:45, 8:45, and 11:15 a.m. services will take place as usual.
4 p.m. A Christmas Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols * Officiant: The Rev. Canon Julia Mitchener The Cathedral Schola
Saturday, December 24 – Christmas Eve
11 a.m. Christmas Eucharist (Labyrinth) Celebrant and Preacher: The Very Rev. Sam Candler
4 p.m. The Christmas Pageant *(Cathedral) Celebrant: The Very Rev. Sam Candler with the children of the Cathedral parish Cathedral Choristers and Cathedral Singers
8 p.m. Choral Prelude and Carols * 8:30 p.m. Festival Holy Eucharist * (Cathedral) Celebrant: The Right Rev. Robert Wright Preacher: The Very Rev. Sam Candler
The Cathedral Choir with timpani and members of the Atlanta Symphony Brass
11 p.m. Choral Prelude and Carols 11:30 p.m. Festival Holy Eucharist * (Cathedral) Celebrant: The Rev. Canon Cathy Zappa Preacher: The Very Rev. Sam Candler
The Cathedral Choir with timpani and members of the Atlanta Symphony Brass Worship with the Cathedral on WSB-TV, Channel 2, starting at 11:35 p.m.
Sunday, December 25 – Christmas Day
10 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Cathedral) Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Canon George Maxwell Cathedral Singers Quartet and Organ
* Services are broadcast on the Cathedral website, app, Facebook, and YouTube. cathedralATL.org/Christmas
This SUNDAY
DECEMBER 18, 2022 · The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A
Isaiah 7:10-16 • Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 • Romans 1:1-7 • Matthew 1:18-25
8:45 A.M. AND 11:15 A.M.: IN-PERSON AND ONLINE CATHEDRALATL.ORG / THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. PHILIP APP / FACEBOOK / YOUTUBE
7:45 A.M. HOLY EUCHARIST, MIKELL CHAPEL
Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Canon Lauren Holder
8:45 A.M. HOLY EUCHARIST, CATHEDRAL
Celebrant: The Rev. Canon Julia Mitchener
Preacher: The Very Rev. Sam Candler
Cathedral Choristers: Patrick Hadley (1899-1973), I sing of a maiden Martin How (1931-2022), Advent Message
11:15 A.M. HOLY EUCHARIST, CATHEDRAL
Celebrant: The Rev. Canon Julia Mitchener
Preacher: The Very Rev. Sam Candler
Cathedral Choir: English carol, arr. John Scott (1956-2015), The Cherry Tree Carol Robert Parsons (1535-1572), Ave Maria
11:15 A.M. LA SANTA EUCARISTÍA, MIKELL CHAPEL
Officiant and Preacher: The Rev. Deacon Juan Sandoval
4 P.M. CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS , CATHEDRAL
Officiant: The Rev. Canon Julia Mitchener
Cathedral Schola: “Once in royal David’s city” Irby Frank Boles, Adam lay ybounden Eric Whitacre, Lux Arumque
arr. John Rutter, Sans Day Carol “Prepare the way, O Zion” Bereden väg för Herran Robert Parsons, Ave Maria “On this day earth shall ring” Personent hodie Richard Runciman Terry, Myn lyking Francis Pott, Balulalow
arr. Stephen Jackson, Noël nouvelet
arr. David Willcocks, “God rest you merry, gentlemen”
arr. Simon Preston, I saw three ships come sailing in
arr. Dale Adelmann, “Of the Father’s love begotten” Divinum mysterium John Tavener, God is with us “O come, all ye faithful” Adeste fideles
MUSIC
A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2022 AT 4:00 P.M.
CATHEDRAL NAVE
Cathedral Schola Dale Adelmann, conductor
Modeled on the beloved carol service broadcast each Christmas Eve from King’s College, Cambridge, this is our most popular choral service of the year. Ancient prophecies foretelling the coming of a Messiah and the Gospel accounts of the birth of Jesus are illumined by extra-biblical texts, anthems and Christmas carols that have inspired composers, choirs, and worshippers throughout the world and across time. For those who are traveling at Christmas and wish first to celebrate with loved ones here at home, and for all who hold the music and message of Christmas dear, this service is a meaningful and joyous way to celebrate the season. All are welcome! Invite a friend: it may be the best gift you give.
A Christmas Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols
December 18, 4 p.m.
REGISTER FOR WINTER/SPRING ALLEGRO MUSIC CLASSES!
CLASSES ARE JANUARY 4 – MAY 3, 2023
Open to children from birth through age 8. All class costs are $125 for the first child, $100 for each additional child.
"All Together" Musikgarten for babies and toddlers to age 3 (caregiver attends with child/children) Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Cherubs (ages 3-5) Wednesdays, 4:00 – 4:45 p.m.
Allegro Choir (Kindergarten through Grade 2) Wednesdays, 5:00 – 5:45 p.m.
LEARN MORE AND SIGN UP AT CATHEDRALATL.ORG/ALLEGRO.
The CATHEDRAL of ST. PHILIP
The Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler, Dean
Dale Adelmann, Ph.D., Canon for Music
The Rev. Lauren R. Holder, Canon for Community and Education
The Rev. George M. Maxwell, Jr., Vicar
The Rev. Canon Julia B. Mitchener, Canon for Mission
The Rev. Catherine Zappa, Canon for Liturgy and Pastoral Care
The Rev. Deacon Juan Sandoval, Deacon for Hispanic Ministries
The Rev. Theophus “Thee” Smith, Ph.D., Priest Associate
Ward Bondurant, Senior Warden
Samuel T. Wilmoth, Junior Warden
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SPIRITUALITY
THIRD MONDAY LABYRINTH & TAIZÉ WITH HOLIDAY RECEPTION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19,
2022
The labyrinth gives us a unique walking meditative practice during this special season of the year. By releasing our thoughts, receiving peace, and returning with a fresh spirit, we calm our minds and focus on the new beginnings of Advent.
Carlisle Dent, Labyrinth Facilitator
We are happy to welcome back this year, Nella Rigell and her gorgeous playing of the celtic harp. Harpist Nella Rigell has enjoyed an active career as an orchestral harpist, chamber musician, therapeutic musician, recording artist and teacher, performing in concert halls from Carnegie Hall to the Grand Ole Opry. She is principal harpist with the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra and has played second harp with the Atlanta Symphony and principal with the Atlanta Opera. The candlelight service of Taizé is a form of Christian prayer originating from the Christian community in France. You are invited to rest in God through the singing of simple chants with live accompaniment, alternating with silent reflection. Please stay after the service for a Holiday Reception to thank our musicians!
Sandra Carey and Barbara Bazzel, Taizé Coordinators
Schedule: 6:45 p.m. – Brief orientation for those new to the labyrinth (Child Hall) 7-8 p.m. – Labyrinth Walk 8-9 p.m. – Taizé (Mikell Chapel) 9-9:30 p.m. – Reception (Court of Gratitude)
PRAYER List
FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL OR RECOVERING:
IMMEDIATE NEEDS: Bill Brockman • Mika Chorey
LONG TERM PRAYERS: R. Huntley Allen • Randy Allen • Virginia Bicksler • The Bryant Family • Connie Chapman • Geraldine Charles • Heather Clark • Robert F. Clayton • Paula Cowart • Sharon Crews • The Crossley Family • Rita Daly • Debbie Dewees • Terry Dornbush • Sarah duBignon • Deborah Ellington • Paul Fekete • Joyce Egan Ferris • Phoebe Forio • John Foxworth • Ken Griffiths • Jenny Ham • Karen Howard • Jane Jones • Louise Kan • Lisa Krysiak • Bonnie Lamberth • Jill Mahaffey • Tommy Mason • Carol McDonald • Glenn Miller • Lee Moran • Susan Myers • Jim Myrick • Charlie Neal • Marian Palmore • Gene Paradise • Robert Proctor • Charles Puckett • Rubye and Wayne Reid • Lorraine Reynolds • Karen Richardson • Agnes Elizabeth Robertson • Nora Robillard • Betty Roper • Louis "Skip" Schueddig • Julie Sutton • Tommy Truesdale • Ron Wallace
FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Elizabeth Alexander • Jean Amick • Bettina Bass • Charlotte Eloise Bell • Isabella Bond and Joshua Mims • Ray and Pat Bell • Lila Jo Callaway • Marie Corrigan • Ava Corroon • Bob Crawford • Judy Crosby • Jean DeSante • Redell DuBose • Dan Elson • The Ewell Family • Jack Flanigan • The Giles Family • Don Harp III • Michael Hale • Vivian Hartz • Martha Heinze • Gayle Higley • Jackie Hoder • Jay Horton • Beth Ingle • The Kelly Family • Robin Kemp • Herb Larrabee • Rachel Laurin • Pete Livezey • Carolyn R. Lusk • Lisa Madera • Lauren Makhlouf • Pat Martin • Susan Mendivil • Katie McRae • Vannie B. Melton • Elaine Metcalf • Ruth Ann Metcalf • Denise Mims • Betsy Moore • Nan Nettleman • Linus Nickel • Mary Catherine Ogilvie • Steve Reece • Nick Rey • Carl Rudolph • Einar Sagstuen • James Sands • Betty Shelton • Don Smith • Michael and Kathryn Snider • Will Sutton • John and Cleary Tanner • Aleatris Tate • Pierson Thames • Donnie Waller • Cheryl Waybright • Tre Weicker • Christie Woodfin • Whit A. Wright • Hollis Youngner
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED: John Hildenberger • Virginia T. Maxwell
GIVING
The Cathedral needs to receive over $1,400,000 in contributions in December in order to have our income meet our expenses. Here’s how you can help:
• Cash and check contributions can be mailed, placed in the plate at any service, or hand-delivered to the Cathedral stewardship or finance offices. A contribution must be received at the Cathedral by Saturday, December 31 or postmarked by Saturday, December 31 in order to be considered a 2022 tax-deduction.
• Online contributions can be made via cathedralATL.org/contribute. Contributions can be processed through Saturday, December 31 in order to be considered for a 2022 tax-deduction.
• Credit card donations may be processed at the Atrium kiosk any time the building is open.
• Consider your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) from an IRA: If you are 70½ or older, you may choose to direct funds from your IRA payable directly to the Cathedral of St. Philip. Amounts distributed as a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) can be counted toward satisfying your RMD for the year, up to $100,000. The QCD is excluded from your taxable income. Contact your financial advisor or retirement plan to arrange the QCD.
• If you are interested in transferring securities to the Cathedral, the certificates must be delivered to our office by Saturday, December 31 or be received by our broker by Saturday, December 31. Shares can be transferred electronically to Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (DTC #0015), Account #308-130762. Our contact is Cathy Lamb at 404-266-6315. Please notify David Rocchio, drocchio@cathedralATL.org or 404-365-1033, of the transfer.
Giving history can be checked anytime by logging into your TouchPoint record: cathedralATL.org/touchpoint
Year-end statements of contributions will be mailed in late January 2023 accounting for all of your contributions in the 2022 calendar year. Please contact David Rocchio, drocchio@cathedralATL.org or 404-365-1033, with any questions.
HISPANIC Ministry
LA POSADA
The celebration of the Posada has been a tradition in Mexico for 400 years. Many Mexican holidays include dramatizations of original events, a tradition which has its roots in the ritual of Bible plays used to teach religious doctrine to a largely illiterate population in Europe as early as the 10th and 11th centuries. The Posada is a novena, a service of nine consecutive evenings leading up to Christmas to celebrate the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem and not finding lodging. The tradition is for two groups of people singing responsively on either side of the door in the church or at someone’s home. One group, playing Mary and Joseph, asks for “Posada,” or a place to stay each day. Once the innkeepers let them in, the Mary and Joseph group come into the home or church and kneel around the Nativity scene to pray. Latin American countries have continued to celebrate this holiday to this day, with very few changes to the tradition. The people asking for posada travel to one house each night for nine nights.
The Posada is typically celebrated with prayers, several songs, and then food and piñatas. It is very much a family oriented event of the expectation of the Christ. It is a celebration of great joy. At the Cathedral, we will celebrate a single night of the Posada on Saturday, December 17 at 6:30 p.m. in Child Hall. All are welcome!
MISSION
JUST SAY NO TO FRUITCAKE!
Looking for the perfect present for friends and family this season? Something that won’t grow moldy in the back of the fridge or get re-gifted? Choose something that will make a difference in the lives of those in need. Cathedral Christmas Cards are available in the Cathedral Book Store and online throughout the week and in the Atrium on Sunday mornings. Sold in boxes of 10, each card represents a donation from you to the Discretionary Fund for the Needy in honor of a recipient whom you specify. Boxes are $100, which buys you gifts for 10 individuals at $10 each—a good deal and one that will help provide basics such as shelter, food, and clothing for some of our most vulnerable neighbors.
Year-end
OUTREACH
CAMELS HERALD ST. VERONICA’S GUILD EPIPHANY DRIVE
ST. MONICA'S GUILD TOY DRIVE
Please join St. Monica’s Guild in a toy drive to assist Emmaus House in providing a cheerful Christmas to all in their neighborhood. Santa and Mrs. Claus come to Emmaus House and give presents to more than 550 children from all over Atlanta.
Here's how you can help:
• Donate gifts: Bring new, unwrapped gifts to the bins in the Atrium through December 18. The Emmaus House Holiday Guide document, with suggested gifts by age and gender, is available at cathedralATL.org/toydrive.
• Write a check or give online: $35 will sponsor a child but any donation amount is helpful and appreciated. Make checks payable to “The Cathedral of St. Philip” and write Toy Drive in the memo line. Checks can be handed to a guild member on Sunday mornings at the table in the Atrium or mailed to the Cathedral – Attention St. Monica’s Guild. Donations can also be made online at cathedralATL. org/toydrive or at the kiosk in the Atrium. Reach out to Lauren Giles at gileslauren@gmail.com or Leslie Ogburn at logburn17@gmail.com with any questions.
St. Veronica’s Guild is bringing camels to the Cathedral Atrium in Epiphany! Since the Wise Men reportedly rode their camels as they brought gifts to the Christ Child, the wise women of St. Veronica’s Guild use the camel as their symbol in their fundraising Epiphany Drive. The drive helps underwrite costs for the toiletries gifts they bring to four community ministries through the year.
Watch the Cathedral Times, the January Outreach e-newsletter, and look for the Guild Epiphany Drive display table in the Atrium on Sundays in January. You will learn more about the Guild toiletries ministry and the four amazing organizations (Emmaus House, Crossroads Community Ministries, Church of the Common Ground, and Holy Comforter Episcopal Church) that benefit. Please offer your monetary gifts in the Epiphany Drive to support St. Veronica’s Guild's ongoing toiletries ministry by visiting cathedralATL.org/epiphany.
SERVE AND WORSHIP WITH CHURCH OF THE COMMON GROUND
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24
Join in the celebration of Christ’s nativity in Woodruff Park at 12:30 p.m. on December 24. A group from the Cathedral plans to carpool to the service, deliver lunches, and enjoy worship together. Please contact Canon Julia Mitchener, julia.mitchener@cathedralATL.org for more information.
BLUE CHRISTMAS SERVICE
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21
6:00 P.M., ST. MARY'S CHAPEL
A service of comfort provides refuge when joy and suffering comingle.
As we prepare for the joyful arrival of the Christ child, we hold space for all the other feelings we may carry with us. This service is a refuge for all who are bereaved or bewildered. Come experience the peace of Christ.
Christmas ALTAR FLOWERS
We will once again have beautiful floral arrangements and decorations in our sacred spaces this Christmas, with your help! Donations are appreciated throughout the Christmas season. Those received on or before December 19 will be listed in the Christmas service leaflet. Those received after that date will be listed online. Your donation can be made in memory of or thanksgiving for a loved one using the form below or online at cathedralATL.org/flowers.
If you use the form below, please include a check with your request, made payable to The Cathedral of St. Philip. While any gift is appreciated, a minimum of $125 per printed line is suggested. Checks and forms should be sent to: The Cathedral of St. Philip, Attn.: Hillary Jones, 2744 Peachtree Rd., NW, Atlanta, GA 30305. You may also make arrangements by contacting Liz Aull, 404-365-1034, or laull@cathedralATL.org.
Please list the name (or names) as you want them to appear:
In Memory of: In Thanksgiving for: name(s):
In Memory of: In Thanksgiving for: name(s):
Please complete the following information about you: your name(s): phone: date:
In Memory of: In Thanksgiving for: name(s):
In Memory of: In Thanksgiving for: name(s):
This sunday at a glance
DECEMBER 18, 2022
7:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Mikell Chapel
8:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist Cathedral
10:00 a.m. Living Nativity Child Hall
11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist Cathedral
11:15 a.m. La Santa Eucaristía
Mikell Chapel
1:15 p.m. Enjoy Biblical Greek Room 239 and online
4:00 p.m. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Cathedral
5:30 p.m. EYSeedlings Room 380
5:30 p.m. Newcomers Advent and Appetizers Child Hall
6:30 p.m. Sunday Evening EYC Room 382
POSTMASTER: Dated Material. Please deliver by December 17, 2022
POSTMASTER
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LIVING NATIVITY!
Join us for the Living Nativity from 10–11 a.m. this Sunday, December 18 in Child Hall. All are welcome!
