October 2018 St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 82 Kimberly Drive, Durham, NC 27707

From the Rector

Dear Parish Family and Friends,

Last month I began my little note to you with a typically amusing quote from that great philosopher-of-the- people Yogi Berra about his difficultly starting a conversation. On the other hand, talking about our faith can actually be surprisingly easy. I see it every Sunday morning at about 9:30 as I walk by the Davis Room, the Youth/Activity Room, and the Associate Clergy Office. In the Davis Room, Jeremy is convening a diverse group of adults around the large table. In the Youth/Activity Room, Stephanie is sitting around with some of our youth in a circle of beanbag armchairs. In the Associate Clergy Office, Fr. Justin is in the midst of conver- sation with a group of a dozen younger adults and parents of young families. All are exploring the theme of Love, perhaps the most basic element of our faith. Those conversations seem enjoyable, energetic, thoughtful, and people keep coming back week after week.

We have another sort of conversation going on around the parish at the moment, as well. It is the Spiritual Life Inventory. The SLI is part of our RenewalWorks project, designed to help us get started in thinking about where we have been, where we are, where we want to go, and how we are going to get there. Have you com- pleted the Inventory yet? My own effort turned out to be both easy and interesting. I found that some of the questions actually made me think a bit before answering, and in the end, I finished in about 20 minutes – more quickly than I had expected. Then I discovered something more: as I told members of the Vestry and others about what it was like, I discovered that they (a) had a similar experience, (b) had a different experience, (c) wanted to tell me what they thought about it, (d) asked me other questions about what I thought, or (e) all of the above. People have had some really interesting things to say!

The opportunity to complete the inventory ends at midnight on Sunday, October 7. Your participation is really important, so please give it a go. If you prefer to use a paper form, contact the parish office, our project facili- tator Claire Doerschuk, or me. There are boxes for returning completed forms on the Reception Desk and on the table in the church narthex. All responses, whether on-line or in paper form, are anonymous. You are also invited to submit your own comment sheet using the return boxes for the paper forms. These can be helpful both to us and to RenewalWorks. Just remember, the inventory responses may be anonymous, but that doesn’t mean you can’t talk about them with others – and you may find that’s really the best part!

I was also surprised and gratified by all the people and many conversations taking place at my “Birthday Bash” – seeing so many of you representing so many ages and backgrounds having such a good time together was the best birthday present! I am also so very grateful for your generosity in supporting my “wish list” of things for the parish. It means a lot that people would show their appreciation and care for St. Stephen’s in this way. Being a warm, welcoming, and enriching environment is a reflection of our spiritual health and sense of purpose, and I look forward to learning about this more deeply through the RenewalWorks project, too. Thank you! Keep the faith. Share the joy. See you in church.

Faithfully,

Stephen’s Window October 2018 From the Priest-in-Residence Lay Pastoral Care

Dear Friends, If you have a prayer request for a loved one or yourself and The sun has come out. The waters have receded. Fortunate- would like to be included in the ly for many of us, Hurricane Florence is already a distant Prayer Network’s daily pray- memory. ers, please contact Holly Latty-

For many others, of course, the memory is not so distant. Mann, Martina Gardner- The reality continues. Their homes, their businesses, even Woods, Claire their families, have been abruptly destroyed by forces be- ([email protected]) or the yond their control. They face the bewildering and daunting Church Office. For prayers in prospect of trying to put their lives back together again. the Sunday service’s Intercessions (Prayers of the That dynamic, that some of us prosper and others of us are People), please contact Claire, dragged down by difficult circumstances, is not limited to Father Bob or the Church Of- the recent colossal hurricane that so ravaged our state. This fice. To request a Eucharistic catastrophic storm has been but the most recent and dra- visit or other needs for yourself matic example of that reality. Florence has vividly rein- or loved one, please contact forced for us realities that daily life can easily obscure. Claire or Father Bob.

We are not self-made people. Even if we have worked very Restorative Justice in Durham hard to be where we are – studied and sacrificed and perse- vered in disciplined decisions, we have been graciously What comes to mind when you hear the word “justice”? given the resources and the capabilities and the support to Do you immediately think of courtrooms and punishment? do that. And we have not (thus far) had the rewards of our This is retributive justice and it focuses on punishment for efforts arbitrarily wiped out by financial or social or actual laws that are broken. But there is another way to think storms. about justice---restorative justice. Restorative justice views crime as a violation of people and relationships. The re- We are stewards, not owners, of all that we have. God is the storative justice process brings together the person harmed, only one who created out of nothing; we did not. God en- the person who caused the harm, along with supporters, trusts various small parts of that creation to us, asking us to family and community members, to talk about the incident be fruitful stewards with it. Whether that be our land, our and to come to an agreement for how the person who buildings, our money, our children, our employment or oth- caused the harm can take responsibility for the actions. er positions of responsibility, or our talents, we have in Sound interesting? Well, there is a group right here in some real sense been given them by God for a time. We Durham that is taking this approach. Restorative Justice will give it all back to God at one point or another, along Durham (RJD) is a collaboration of Religious Coalition for with an accounting of our stewardship. a Nonviolent Durham (RCND) volunteers, community partners and criminal justice practitioners. Our responses are gratitude and generosity. Once we grasp these deeper realities, our genuine response is one of joyful RJD is working with Durham’s Criminal Justice Resource gratitude. Like the one leper out of the ten who were Center’s Misdemeanor Diversion Program which serves healed, we fall down and worship God and give thanks for young people ages 16-24. This is a pre-charge program all that God has lavished upon us. We do so “not only with that gives young people the opportunity to take part in a our lips but with our lives.” We acknowledge that “all restorative justice process through taking responsibility for things come of thee, O Lord, and of thine own have we giv- their actions in a Circle setting. If they complete the pro- en thee.” We share freely and gladly what we have been gram in 90 days, the charge will disappear and they will not given with God and with others, especially through the have a record. Church and especially with those in need. You can be part of this process! Learn how to facilitate and As we move ahead with our lives, let this be our common support RJ Circles by attending a monthly training Circle at prayer: Calvary United Methodist Church (304 E. Trinity Ave., Durham). Circles meet the third Wednesday and Thursday Almighty God, whose loving hand has given us all that we pos- of each month: the Wednesday meeting is 10am-11:30am sess: Grant us grace that we may honor you with our substance, and the Thursday meeting is 7pm-8:30pm. Come to either and, remembering the account that we must one day give, may be Circle. For more information, visit RCND’s website: faithful stewards of your bounty, through Jesus Christ our Lord. https://nonviolentdurham.org/ or contact Martha Brimm Amen. (BCP, p. 827) ([email protected]). For more on restorative justice, see Howard Zehr’s book, The Little Book of Restorative Jus- tice. The Rev. Martha Brimm

October 2018 2 Stephen’s Window Parish News Cameron Hayward is now officially an Eagle Scout! Many thanks to everyone who supported him in so many ways; digging holes, cooking spaghetti, helping to fund the signs. His Court of Honor ceremony will be on October 20, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be served in the Parish Hall following the ceremony in the nave. RSVP [email protected] by October 12. Everyone is welcome. St. Stephen’s Stitchers will meet Wednesday, October A Holy Eucharist for All Hallows’ Eve: Wednesday, 24 at 3:00 p.m. in the Davis Room. Needle crafters of all October 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel, with a candlelit types are invited to join us. Still learning? The Stitchers procession to the Memorial Garden and Reading of Names. will be glad to assist you. Questions, please contact Bob- If you would like a deceased relative to be remembered, bie Nielsen (919-452-4751, [email protected]). submit the name to Angelica at [email protected]. From the Deacon

The Holy Spirit: God at Work in the World that St. John’s words “God is love” refer to Godhead as a whole, Augustine suggests that it also represents a particu- In his 2008 address to young people at World Youth Day, lar characteristic of the Holy Spirit. In his study of 1 John Pope Benedict XVI suggested that the Holy Spirit is “in 4:16 (“whoever abides in love remains in God and God in some ways the neglected person of the Blessed Trinity,” him”), he further expounds on this pneumatological de- adding that a clear understanding of the Spirit “almost light: It is the Spirit that makes us “remain in God and God seems beyond our grasp.” One can certainly understand the in us; yet it is love that effects this. The Spirit therefore is reasoning behind the pontiff’s theological “hot take”: Fa- God as love!” ther and Son are relational terms that are easily understood; the language that Sacred Scripture ascribes to the Spirit’s Another way in which the person of the Spirit spills over person and work varies considerably (wind, breath, fire, into, and is intimately connected with, the work of the Spir- water, tongues, etc.); and it remains difficult to sketch a it is notion of the Spirit as unity. His reasoning goes some- systematic account of that which is called “Spirit”. It’s easy thing like this: The two words “holy” and “spirit” denote to see how one could get lost in the theological weeds with the divinity of God, which is shared by the Father and the discussions on the Spirit. Son, i.e. their communion. Since, therefore, the distinctive characteristic of the Holy Spirit is to be what But the Church has not been silent on this topic. Indeed, the is shared between the Father and the Son, it can be said that Christian archive is replete with substantial reflections on the Spirit’s particular quality is unity. It is this “Spirit as the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, some of the more significant unity” about which St. Paul speaks in 1 Corinthians 12: contributions being St. Basil’s De Spiritu Sancto, St. Au- “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— gustine’s De Trinitae, and of course the Athanasian Creed. Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink Our own Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer, 1979 of one Spirit.” It is by the Spirit that Christians are united to answers the question—“Who is the Holy Spirit?”—with the one another and to Christ. concise but wonderfully dense answer: “The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Trinity, God at work in the world Finally, Augustine suggests that the Gospel of John reveals and in the Church even now” (p. 852). This succinct defini- the Holy Spirit as “God’s gift” in Jesus’ interaction with tion summarizes what the Church has said about the the Samaritan woman. Jesus tells the woman that he will Spirit’s work ad intra and ad extra, i.e. how the Spirit re- give living water which will result in eternal life. Several lates to the Father and the Son within the LORD’s self, and chapters later, the Gospel tells us that this living water is how the Spirit relates to creation. First, it’s important to actually the Spirit, whom Jesus was to send after his ascen- note that the Spirit is not called “third” in order to designate sion. Augustine therefore concludes that the Holy Spirit is a lesser status within the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is the LORD sharing the LORD’s Self with us as gift.

“consubstantial, coequal, and coeternal with the Father and These characteristics of the Spirit, elucidated by Augus- the Son, and in the fullest sense God.” The Spirit is the tine—Spirit as love, Spirit as unity, Spirit as gift—remind Lord, just as the Father is the Lord and the Son is the us that God is at work in the world, so that the world would Lord. Rather, the Spirit is called ‘third’ with respect to the be reconciled to God, and that we might be, in the words of Spirit’s procession from both the Father and the Son, as St. Paul, “knit together in love” (Colossians 2:2). well as the order of God’s self-revelation to us over time. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev. ed.), ed. F. Second, the Catechism’s definition helpfully associates L. Cross and E. A. Livingston, Oxford University Press, 2005. who the Spirit is with what the Spirit does—“God at work De Trinitate, 15.17.31 in the world.” The Catechism is thoroughly Augustinian in Ibid. this regard, as Augustine highlighted several key insights Ibid.; De Trinitate, 15, 18, 32 regarding the connection between the Spirit’s person and John 4:4-26 work. In both his study on the First Epistle of John and the John 7:39. Trinity (De Trinitate), Augustine contends that the Holy Colossians 2:2 Spirit is abiding love itself. While it is certainly the case The Rev. Justin Groth

Stephen’s Window 3 October 2018 Library News

Prisoner for God family and friends by letters and scraps of paper. But com- munications came to an abrupt halt in July 1944 when there Prisoner for God was the original title of the was an assassination attempt on Hitler, a plot in which Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic that’s better Bonhoeffer and other high-profile resisters were implicat- known as Letters and Papers from Prison. The ed. On April 8, 1945, he had barely finished leading a pray- paperback copy we have in the Parish Library er service for prisoners of all nationalities when he was tak- is so old that the price on the cover is $1.45. en away by two men in civilian clothes. An English officer It’s hard to appreciate the significance of this who was there wrote later that Bonhoeffer “always seemed small book without a brief review of the facts to me to diffuse an atmosphere of happiness, of joy in eve- of Bonhoeffer’s life and times. ry smallest event in life, and of deep gratitude for the mere fact he was alive.” He was a 24-year old Lutheran student from Germany when he arrived in New York for graduate study at Union Bonhoeffer was hanged on April 9, 1945, Theological Seminary in 1930. His experience in America one of the last days of the war. He was 39 was life changing. He heard Adam Clayton Powell preach years old. In 1953, one of the friends who the Gospel of Social Justice, he embraced Gospel Music in had received letters from him in prison pub- the Black church, and he taught Sunday School in Harlem. lished Letters and Papers from Prison. We Overlaid on the teachings of Christ, these influences also have a copy of perhaps Bonhoeffer’s strengthened him when he returned to Germany to a society most famous book, The Cost of Disciple- increasingly subject to discrimination and oppression. ship, which was written in 1937. A more recent book is called Seize the Day with He became internationally known as a Christian scholar, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It’s by Dr. Charles Ringma, retired pastor, author and teacher. After working for two years in professor of Missions and Evangelism at Regent College in

London for the German Lutheran Church, he had an oppor- Vancouver. He offers tunity to study with Gandhi in 1935. But he turned it down one-page daily meditations inspired by quotations from to return to Germany in spite of its growing hostility to Bonhoeffer’s writings, like this one: Christianity and freedom. Even later, it would have been easy for him to escape, to sound the alarm about Hitler The important thing is to make the best of one’s posses- from safe places like England and America where he had sions and capabilities—there are still plenty left—and to friends and admirers. In fact, he was on a lecture tour in accept the limits of the situation, by which I mean not giv- America in 1939 when he decided to take the last ship ing way to feelings of resentment and discontent. scheduled to sail back to Germany as war approached. This would be good advice from anyone anywhere, but Continuing his protests, he was arrested in 1943 for his anti coming from someone in a prison cell in Nazi Germany, -Nazi activities. it’s extraordinary.

During the first six months of his confinement he found Ellen Baer favor with the guards and was allowed to correspond with

Book Club News

Better Read Than Dead invites you to join us in discussing "Educated, A Memoir" by Tara Westov- er. Raised by survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Westover did not enter a classroom until she was sev- enteen. It was only after one of her brothers returned from college that she was exposed to a world outside of her family. Subsequently, she decided to forge her own path, one that would bring her to Brigham Young University then to Harvard and then to Cambridge University. We will continue to discuss this book over the course of the next several months and invite anyone to join us! The Better Read Than Dead book club has been an amazing opportunity for me to better get to know the parishioners that I see every Sunday. Our conversations may begin with a book, but really transcend topics and afford us occasions to explore our interests, beliefs, and faith practices. Even if you do not have time to finish the assigned chap- ters, you are more than welcome to join our lively discussions and debates. If you are not sure you are prepared for a commitment, it is not a problem. Come join us for one meeting (or a couple!) and you can decide if it is something you are interested in pursuing. We meet every fourth Tuesday at 6:30 at Dulce Cafe (5826 Fayetteville Rd, Ste 106, Durham, NC 27713) so stop by anytime. Additionally, we are always looking for book suggestions so please feel free to reach out if you think you have a great title waiting to be read!

Submitted by: Stephanie Metzen

October 2018 4 Stephen’s Window Christian Education and Programming

To the St. Stephen’s family:

Our new program year is well under way. First, I want to say thank you to all who have come out to Sunday School. We have had a tremendously successful start, and it has been wonderful to see so many of our parishioners of all ages en- gaged in talking and learning about love of God and neighbor. Even if you haven’t been able to join us yet, it is not too late to join one of our classes.

On the first Sunday with the adult class, I bemoaned the fact that I had to leave so much behind in putting together a plan for the fall. There is no shortage of writings about love. Over the next few months, I’ll be sharing some thoughts and in- sights that got left behind when I made the final selections at the end of the summer. One of the recurring ideas about love in the Christian tradition—especially found in the mystics—is what I call the “slipperiness” of love, the inability to capture love and its meaning for more than a moment. Some writers have given voice to this idea throughout the centu- ries, though much of it is implied. You even get glimpses of it in the Scriptures. The writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us: “Neither hatred nor love does man know. All before them is mere breath” (vv. 1b-2a, Robert Alter’s translation in The Wisdom Books, p. 377). Alter’s commentary on this verse suggests that “every person is of course acquainted with hatred and love but is not able to fathom the meaning or the sources of these powerful emotions” (p. 377). Paul, in 1 Corinthians 13 (the “Love” chapter), captures a similar sense of our fleeting understanding: “For as yet we see by way of a mirror, in an enigma, but then face to face; as yet I know partially, but then I shall know fully, just as I am fully known” (v. 12, David Bentley Hart’s translation, p. 343). Both of these passages reflect the idea that there is an incomplete or fleeting quality, a partiality, to our understanding of love.

Centuries later, in a collection of essays, Christian Wiman writes:

Though we may be moved by nature to thoughts of grace, though art can tease our minds toward eternity and love’s abundance make us dream a love that does not end, these intuitions come only through the earth, and the earth we know only in passing, and only by passing. […] Reality, be it of this world or another, is not something one finds and then retains for good. It must be newly discovered daily, and newly lost (“Love Bade Me Welcome” in Ambi- tion and Survival, 2007, p. 244).

Here again, we see an assertion that we can only understand love “in passing” in a way that must be “newly discovered daily.” Each day we face new situations, new questions, new experiences that test our previous understandings of love. Lest we recoil, these encounters seek to push us beyond what we once thought were our limits to love.

But of course, love is more than understanding. In the end, Wiman reminds us, faith or hope or love cannot be under- stood as a “state of mind but an action in the world, a movement toward the world” (p. 244). I think this is why Paul, im- mediately after waxing poetically about the nature of love, reminds us to actively “pursue love” (1 Corinthians 14:1). It is why the writer of Leviticus asserts that loving your neighbor as yourself also means loving the alien as yourself, just in case we seek to put limits on the meaning of neighbor (19:33-34). Given these fleeting understandings and our proclivity to put limits on love, Jesus tells the story of the Great Samaritan to make it clear that loving our neighbor means respond- ing to the needs of the person directly in front of us, regardless of who that person is, regardless of whether or not our prior, incomplete understandings of love would have compelled us to respond. Love is action in the world.

In many ways, this slipperiness of love is what guides our journey together in Christian Education this semester. We gather each Sunday for a brief time to try and capture for a moment a piece of the Christian tradition and what it has to teach us about loving God and neighbor. And yet, that is not the end of the story, just like on Start-up Sunday, when the children went immediately out of Sunday School to share messages of love with the congregation as they entered the church. We are called to love abundantly. For it is through acts of love that we come to know in part, even as we are ful- ly known, fully loved.

Faithfully, Jeremy

Stephen’s Window 5 October 2018 Music Notes

A 1730 Violin Comes to the Aid of Its Ailing Twin Presently, the market value of the great Cremonese violins is such that few violinists can afford to own them. To cite Shortly after the Borromeo String Quartet performed at St. an extreme example, the Guarneri del Gesù once owned by Stephen’s last January, first violinist, Nicholas Kitchen, the violinist-composer Henri Vieuxtemps was sold at auc- was bothered by a buzz when he played on the G string of tion in 2013 for nearly 18 million dollars. his violin, and, in time, the buzz migrated to the other strings. Not good. The violin in question is not the violin The “Twins” and Their Distinguished Owners he owns, a fine modern instrument made by Samuel Zyg- muntowicz, but a violin which belongs to the Library of The legendary Austrian-American violinist, Congress. Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), known for his burnished tone and patrician phrasing, pur- If you think of the only in terms of its chased the Guarneri del Gesù which now huge collection of books, you may be surprised to learn that bears his name in 1926. As a concert artist it has a small but extremely valuable collection of string he enjoyed great popularity here and abroad, instruments — seven violins, two violas, one cello, and five and, as a composer, he enriched the violin bows. These instruments are played by visiting artists at repertoire with cadenzas to the Beethoven and Brahms vio- concerts held in the library, and, except for two of the vio- lin concertos and a number of short charming pieces often lins, they NEVER leave the building. used as encores — Caprice Viennois, Schön Rosmarin, the pair Liebesleid and Liebesfreud, etc. The library’s violins include a French instrument made in 1871 by Jean Baptista Vuellaume, which, in accordance Though he had toured the U.S. when he was not yet 15, he with the donor’s wishes, is on loan to Nurit Bar-Josef, the (and his wife) didn’t settle here until 1939. He became a concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra. The U.S. citizen in 1943. His last concert took place in Carne- other six violins were all made in Cremona, Italy during the gie Hall in 1947, but he was heard for three more years on golden age of violin making. The oldest is the “Brookings” Monday evening broadcasts of The Bell Telephone Hour. Amati, made by Nicolò Amati in 1654. Three of the vio- In 1952 he donated his Guarneri to the Library of Congress. lins were made by Amati’s most famous apprentice, Anto- nio Stradivari: the 1699 “Castelbarco,” the 1700 “Ward,” Szymon Goldberg (1909-1993), Nick’s violin teacher at and the 1704 “Betts.” (The names of violins come from the Curtis, had a remarkable career as violinist, conductor, and names of their one time owners.) Finally, there are the teacher. Born in Poland, he first studied violin in “twin” Gaurneri del Gesùs, made from the same block of with pupils of Ševčik and , before moving to wood in 1730 by Bartolomeo Giuseppe Gaurneri del Gesù: at the tender age of 8 to study with the legendary the “Kreisler” Guarneri and the “Goldberg Baron Vitta” pedagog, . (Kreisler’s early training was simi- Guarneri. lar. At the age of 7 he entered the Vienna Conservatory, despite a rule that students had to be at least 14.) At the Nick has played all six of the Cremonese violins in the Li- age of 12 he presented a debut recital in Warsaw, and three brary’s collection and has made video recordings on five of years later he debuted as concerto soloist with the Berlin them: the twin Gaurneris, the Amati, and two of the Strads, Philharmonic by performing three concertos. At the age of the “Castelbarco” and the "Betts.” During March of 2007 only 16 he became the concertmaster of the Dresden Phil- he spent two days at the library to record the Bach Cha- harmonic, and, three years later, not yet 20, he became con- conne on all five instruments. Then, on May 23, 2009, he certmaster of the at the request of its gave a concert at the library in which he performed all of famous conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Bach’s works for solo violin, the three Sonatas and the three Partitas. In the course of the concert, which was vid- With the rise of the Third Reich, Goldberg resigned his eo taped, he used all five violins. The video recordings are position as concertmaster in 1934, when it became clear part of the library’s archives. that Furtwängler could no longer shield the Jewish mem- bers of his orchestra. Thereafter, he toured Europe with pianist Lili Kraus. He made his American debut in Carne- gie Hall in 1938. While Goldberg and Kraus were on tour in Java, they were interned by the Japanese from 1942 to 1945. Goldberg told Nick some fascinating stories about this period of his life. Hopefully, Nick will someday find the time to put them in book form.

Goldberg toured for three months in 1946 before In the photo you see the five violins on a table and on the going to the U.S., where he became a U.S. citizen in 1953. screen you see a facsimile of a page of manuscript by Bach. From 1951 to 1965 he taught at the Aspen Music School, which he helped found. Concurrently, he began his con-

October 2018 6 Stephen’s Window Music Notes Cont’d ducting career. In 1955 he formed the Netherlands Cham- Restoration of the Goldberg Guarneri del Gesu. ber Orchestra in and conducted it for 22 years. From 1977 to 1979 he conducted the Manchester Orchestra. After the Goldberg Guarneri became his to use, Nick has He taught at Yale from 1978 until 1982, Juilliard from entrusted its care to Marco Coppiardi, a luthier who was 1778, Curtis from 1980, and the Manhattan Music School born and trained in Cremona. In fact, Marco has looked from 1981. From 1990 until his death in 1993 he conduct- after all of the instruments of the Borromeo String Quartet. ed the New Japan Philharmonic in . Truly a citizen of In the photo you see Marco in his shop on Newbury Street the world, Goldberg lived an incredibly productive life. In in Boston with all four of the quartet's instruments. On 1958 Goldberg purchased the Baron Vitta Guarneri del Marco’s web site the photo has this caption: “Our instru- Gesù to which his name has now been added. ments went 2 the spa during our break — here they r w/ Marco Coppiardi. Thx 4 taking such gr8 care of them.” When Goldberg died in 1993, his wife, pianist Miyoko Ya- mane, decided that Goldberg’s violin should not be played and made the decision to loan it to the Smithsonian Muse- um in Washington, where it would be seen, but not heard. Later, however, she changed her mind. Following a con- cert by the Borromeo String Quartet in Tokyo, she invited Nick to dinner and asked whether he would be interested in performing on her husband’s Guarneri. Do I need to tell Marco not only repairs string instruments, but he makes you how Nick responded? violins and cellos. Here is a photo where you see him ap-

From that time forward Mrs. Goldberg plying gold leaf to a copy which he is making of an Amati sought to donate her husband’s violin to cello. the Library of Congress on the condition that Nick be allowed to use it for the du- ration of his career. This required the assistance of the Goldbergs’ close friend, Anne-Marie Souilliere, but eventually

Mr. Goldberg and the legal issues were resolved. So it hap- Miyoko Yamane pened that on April 24, 2006 Nick and Mrs. Goldberg, accompanied by a Japa- Nick took the Goldberg Guarneri to Marco in early Febru- nese TV crew, picked up the violin from the Smithsonian ary, hoping the buzz could be fixed quickly. But it soon Museum and took it to the Coolidge Auditorium in the Li- became clear that the repair would not be a simple one and brary of Congress, where it was united with its twin, the that the violin would have to be taken apart. Removing the Kreisler Guarneri. Nick and Mrs. Goldberg then played the top plate of a violin is a risky procedure, since wood could slow movement of the Brahms D minor violin sonata. crack in the process. In this case, the procedure went They played it several times, using the two violins, while smoothly. In the next photo you see the violin in two piec- the the TV crew filmed their performances for use in a doc- es. umentary about the career of Mr. Goldberg.

Five months after the visit to the Library, Nick and Mrs. Goldberg traveled with the “Goldberg Baron Vitta” to To- yama, Japan to give a joint recital inaugurating the Szymon Goldberg Memorial Chamber Music Festival. They played in the very same hall where Mr. Goldberg played his last recital with Mrs. Goldberg. Sadly, the recital turned out to Mrs. Goldberg’s last concert. She died one month later. With the top removed it is easy to see the violin’s label. (Usually, you can only get a glimpse of a violin’s label by When the Borromeo String Quartet pre- peering through the holes in the top side of the violin — the sented a concert at the Library on May 18, f holes.) Note the Roman cross and IHS. That tells you 2007 with pianist Wu Han, a little ceremo- that the violin is a del Gesù, which translates “of Jesus.” ny took place before the concert in which IHS is a monogram for Jesus Christ derived from the Greek Goldberg’s Guarneri was officially re- word for Jesus. ceived by the Library, and, once again, Nick and Wu Han played the slow move- The “twins” side by ment from the Brahms D minor violin side at The Library sonata, playing it twice, once on each of of Congress. the “twins.”

Stephen’s Window 7 October 2018 Music Notes Cont’d

The repair of the violin proved to involve a major restora- The solution to the problem consisted of replacing the tion requiring three months time — all of March, April, block in the Goldberg Guarneri by a block having the same and May. When the restoration was finished, I asked Nick size as the block in the Kreisler Guarneri. This was made whether it would be possible for Marco to send me a pic- possible by a CT scan of the Kreisler Guarneri. In the pic- ture or two of the violin during the repair. What I received ture below you see side-by-side CT scans of the two violins was fifty plus pages of text and photos titled “The Gold- and a picture of the new block. berg Guarneri del Gesù, 2018 Restoration by Marco Coppi- ardi.” A bound copy of this will eventually be placed on the hall table of the church library.

On the first page of text Marco wrote,

“My objective has been to repair several cracks that had opened, and restore multiple edge gaps that had either been filled with wood fiber, or surprisingly left open. … I have taken particular care that none of the original wood would Nick visited Marco’s shop frequently while work was done be removed, as it is usually the case in edge work repairs. on the violin. That must have taken a certain amount of … To do so I have perfected a cast and mold technique that courage. When the restoration was finished, Nick showed I was shown previously by a fellow restorer. This tech- the violin to our longtime friend, John Montgomery, a nique allows for uneven edge gaps to be filled in a way that luthier whose shop is in Raleigh. Since John supervises the is organic and respectfully of the original shape.” care of the string instruments at the Library of Congress,

Later, in a section titled, “Linings, glue spill, missing his approval was needed for the restoration to be paid for wood, and worm holes,” Marco wrote, by insurance. (Wouldn’t you like to know how much it cost? I’m afraid to ask.) “In a desperate effort to quiet the buzz some previous re- Organ Recital on October 7 pair person may have poured in an unholy amount of glue. The glossy residue rests on the top interior surface.” The audience will join in the singing of two hymns at the annual Frank H. Kenan Memorial Organ Recital on Sunday afternoon, October 7, at 4:00 pm. Titled “Laudate Domi- mum in organo et choro,” the program will consist of five organ works based on hymn tunes: Organ Sonatas I and III by Mendelssohn, Johann Walther's Chorale-Partita on Jesu, meine Freude, a chorale-prelude by Brahms, and De Grigny’s five movement setting of the Latin hymn Veni

One of the more interesting parts of the restoration in- Creator. The organist will be Dr. Timothy Olsen, Kenan volved a block of wood inside the violin which lies below Professor of organ at UNCSA and Cantor at Augsberg Lu- the chin rest. It turned out to be too small and the pressure theran Church in Winston-Salem. Assisting him will be exerted by violinists on the chin rest was causing the top of last year’s recitalist, Raymond Hawkins, who will chant Veni Creator and serve as Dr. Olsen’s stop assistant. the violin to deform. This is where the Kreisler violin came to the aid of its “twin.” Marco wrote, “… the arching A screen at the front of the nave and a TV of the top appeared deformed in the lower region of the camera will allow the audience to watch Dr. violin. It … became apparent that the lower block was too Olsen and Mr. Hawkins in action. The re- small and failed to support the pressure on the chin rest. … cital is the first event of the 2018-2019 sea- I used a straight edge to better gather the amount of defor- son of the St. Stephen’s Concert Series. A mation the top had suffered in the chin rest area. This unu- reception will follow the concert, but there sual depression was exacerbated by a non-original smaller will be no Pre-Concert Discussion. Tickets block possibly implemented fifty years prior. Such blocks ($25) will be available at the door with free were often exchanged for the original one in major repair admission for people 18 or under. shops in England and Germany.” Dr. Timothy Olsen

J. Kitchen

October 2018 8 Stephen’s Window Thursday Saint: October 4 – Francis of Assisi, Friar and Deacon, 1226

This year, the feast day of St. Francis falls on a Thursday. Francis of Assisi perhaps needs very little introduction, as he is often regarded as the most beloved and well-known of saints. Lesser Feasts and Fasts (2018) gives the following over- view of his life:

Francis, the son of a prosperous merchant of Assisi, was born in 1182. His early youth was spent in harmless revelry and fruitless attempts to win military glory. Various encounters with beggars and lepers pricked the young man’s conscience, however, and he decided to embrace a life devoted to Lady Poverty. Despite his father’s intense opposi- tion, Francis totally renounced all material values and devoted himself to serve the poor. In 1210, Pope Innocent III confirmed the simple Rule for the Order of Friars Minor, a name Francis chose to emphasize his desire to be num- bered among the “least” of God’s servants.

The order grew rapidly all over Europe. But, by 1221, Francis had lost control of it, since his ideal of strict and abso- lute poverty, both for the individual friars and for the order as a whole, was found to be too difficult to maintain. His last years were spent in much suffering of body and spirit, but his unconquerable joy never failed. In his later years he was ordained as a deacon, but he resisted all efforts to persuade him to become a priest.

Not long before his death, during a retreat on Mount La Verna, Francis received, on September 14th, Holy Cross Day, the marks of the Lord’s wounds, the stigmata, in his own hands and feet and side. Pope Gregory IX, a former patron of the Franciscans, canonized Francis in 1228 and began the erection of the great basilica in Assisi where Francis is buried (p. 511).

Bruce Gordon, a professor of Church history at Yale Divinity School, remarked in a lecture on Francis: “A significant thing about Francis is the way he is viewed. There are plenty of miracle stories, but in some ways he represents a change in that what is most admired are not these miracles, but he becomes a saint because the whole of his life is exemplary, not just particular moments. He is an example of the Christian life and the imitation of Christ” (October 3, 2012).

Francis left very little in the way of writings behind, but he certainly left his life as a remarkable witness. Francis lived in a world of exclusion, and in the midst of that, he proclaimed extravagant love to all fellow humans. He went even further though, in asserting the divine presence in all animals and creatures, thereby making them equally deserving of that love. In the end, he and his followers throughout the century asserted that salvation is not an individual matter but a communal one, involving all of humanity and creation.

Many churches, in recognition of the expansive love and care that Francis demonstrated for all creation, hold a Blessing of the Animals service on or around his feast day. Though we will have our normal commemoration at the midweek Eu- charist on October 4, we will also have a Blessing of the Animals service at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 21 on the Ter- race. Animals, stuffed animals, their owners, and pet lovers of all kinds are welcome to join us. Please make sure that pets are on leashes or otherwise properly restrained. There will be treats following for everyone.

From the Sexton

Start-up Saturday: Allen and Wendy Fuller, Dick Boyd, Tim Balleau, and Stephanie Metz joined Junior Warden Michael Brewer to clean up the area around the Gazebo, replenish the Labrynth, and re-mount the directional signs on the Meditation Trail. Great effort was sustained with food arranged and served by Martina Woods and Cindi Easterling.

HVAC: There have been some cool Sunday mornings in the Nave. A pump failure and a sensor failure along with persistent high humidity have contributed to balancing issues. The pump has been replaced and a sensor assembly or- dered.

Hurricane Florence: As Sunday faded into nightfall it appeared that SSEC had escaped unscathed. Then the sky opened up early Monday morning. New Hope Creek ran over Hope Valley Road and Rugby flooded north of Kimberly. The parking lot storm drain at Kimberly had to be cleared three times. Previously heavy rains had resulted in several roof leaks in the Narthex and Nave. Repairs executed two weeks ago seem to have plugged those leaks. The Acolyte Room, however, flooded. It appears that a drain line that runs above the ceiling leaks. Approximately twenty gallons of water was vacuumed out of the carpet. Investigation and repairs to ensue. Some large branches fell to the ground Monday morning. Monday evening a 45 tall pine fell into the west end of the parking lot causing no damage.

Memorial Gardens: The new railing is installed and the broken stones have been replaced.

Special Projects: 1) The Administration and Education Buildings have been pressure washed. The Church is next. 2) Lawn fertilizing is in the near future pending our next round of rain.

Stephen’s Window 9 October 2018 The Spiritual Life Inventory is open for only one more week!

Through RenewalWorks, St. Stephen’s is joining with more than 200 other Episco- pal churches nationwide to participate in an exploration of spiritual life that will provide us with valuable insight into our journey in faith as individuals and as a church. An important part of this is the Spiritual Life Inventory. This inventory is now open online at a site specific to our church, St. Stephen's link. We hope that this inventory accurately reflects our church by including responses from all who attend St. Stephen’s. Although re- sponses are identified as from our church, it is completely anonymous by person.

The inventory has proven thought- provoking for those who have completed it to date. Please keep track of your thoughts, as they will be an important part of discussions to follow. And please feel free to talk with others and with the members of the RenewalWorks Commit- tee—this is neither secret nor a test! And initiating discussions is good.

Please know that if needed, you can al- ways start again from the beginning, since incomplete responses will not be included in the compilation process. Just close the window and open the link again. The deadline for online submission is October 7.

If you need help in completing the inventory online, you may arrange to use a computer in the church office (919-493-5451). Please contact Angelica or Catherine in the office for information. For those not comfortable with computers, paper copies are available from Claire Doerschuk ([email protected]) or the church office. These are also anonymous, and please return them without identifiers to a labeled box in the narthex or the re- ception area. They can also be mailed to St. Stephen’s. Please return these by October 4 at the latest.

Please enjoy thinking about this and let us know your thoughts. Thank you.

October 2018 10 Stephen’s Window gather

SAVE THE DATE: November 17, 2018 for the Annual Auction and Dinner. Admission: $35/person Cash bar, silent and live auction…and dinner. Baby sitting service available at SSEC. To donate items for the auction, please contact: Cindi Easterling at [email protected] or 919-489-6221 Cathy Lavin at [email protected] or 919-493-7625 Donations accepted beginning Sunday, October 21 through November 4. The articles must be in original condition or bought new to donate. Delivery/donation details will be provided via SSEC online weekly updates and as an insert in the Sunday bulletins.

If you do not know what to donate, here are some ideas….

  Purchase gift cards for the movie theater or local restaurants   Tickets to sporting events at Duke or UNC   A selection of good wines   Gift certificate to Southern Season—just in time for the holidays   Put together a gift basket for him/her/a child/or a family   “Biscotti of the Month” – a different recipe every month   Bake cookies or cakes for Thanksgiving or Christmas   Offer to babysit during the day to enable parents to go Christmas shopping, or an evening to enable a “date night”.   Cater a 3-course dinner party for a certain number of people at the purchaser’s home   Gift certificates to local spas   Tickets to a DPAC show   Home de cor items: holiday decorations, china items, decanters, crystal vases, candle holders, holi- day serving dishes, pottery items, small original artwork   Gift basket for the bath   Specialty baked goods – deliciously homemade   A week/weekend at your house at the beach/mountains We will be tithing from the profit of this event. The money will be donated to the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina for Hurricane Florence Relief & Recovery.

Stephen’s Window 11 October 2018 Prayer Requests Dates to Remember

For restoration of body and spirit: Araba Dorothy Megan Benji Harry Milton Charles Hudspeth 10/1 Betty M. Hazel Orlando Isaac Godwin 10/1 Bob Howard Pamela Ginny Banks 10/3 Bruce JoeAnne Ron Barbara Veasey 10/4 Carol John Susan Betsy Elkins-Williams 10/4 Carter Mae June Sylvia The Rev. Martha Brimm 10/7 Jack Pless, Jr. 10/7 Charles Lois Tom Harry Tiller 10/7 Cis Louise Allen Fuller, Jr, 10/11 Doc Lyn Michelle Roughton 10/11 Allen Killam 10/13 and also for friends and family members of St. Becky Bonchick 10/13 Stephen’s parishioners: Tilo Alt 10/14 Allison, daughter of Cis Betty Hawkins 10/14 Alton, friend of Alice and Jeanne Nancy Ciaffone 10/14 Anna and family, niece of Kathy Page Littlewood 10/15 Betsy, step-daughter of Scott Bryan Jones 10/18 Cerue, mother of Paula Benson Mangum 10/19 Dutch, sister-in-law of Cis Ack Thompson 10/19 Edwin, brother of Clyde Cindi Easterling 10/19 Fagan-Solis family, relatives of Kate Christian Keedy 10/19 Gwendoline, mother of Wendy Clyde Stephens 10/20 Iris, mother of Jeanna Agnes Janoshazi 10/21 Jane, niece of Scott Carolyn London 10/22 Jim, friend of Sue & Bob Andy Miller 10/22 Jon, grandson of Scott Thomas Preston 10/23 Kathleen, friend of Priscilla & Derek Carol McFadyen 10/24 Leslie, great-niece of Derek Pat Serafin 10/24 Marc, son of Lucy Michele Hayward 10/24 Mary, friend of Penny Daniel Hudspeth 10/25 Meghan, niece/goddaughter of Nancy Merritt Masella 10/25 Nicholas, friend of Sue Martha Kennon 10/26 Owen, step-brother of Tom Katharine Thomas 10/26 Pieter, friend of Wendy Ki Caldwell 10/27 Ray, son-in-law of Mary Ann Morgan Freel 10/31 Ruth, friend of Ginger and Sally Walt, father of Julie

In the diocesan cycle of prayer: Jennifer & Michael Brewer 10/1 Liz & Dan Gunselman 10/2 Week of October 7: St. Mark’s, St. Timothy’s, and La Reba & Jim Huckabee, III 10/3 Iglesia De La Guadalupana, all in Wilson. Cathy & Peter Bressler 10/8 Liz & Jeremy Godwin 10/10 Week of October 14: Christ’s Beloved Community, St. Susan & Bill Aldridge, Jr. 10/16 Anne’s, and St. Paul’s, all in Winston-Salem. Heather Whitson & Ben Maynor 10/16 Sydney & David Culp 10/17 Week of October 21: St. Stephen’s and St. Timothy’s, Martina Gardner-Woods & Norm Woods 10/20 both in Winston-Salem. Katharine & John Thomas 10/22 Week of October 28: Penick Village; Thompson Child Connie & Douglas Guild 10/25 & Family Focus; and Episcopal Farmworkers Ministry. Louane & Robert Frey 10/25 Melrose & Rob Fisher 10/27

October 2018 12 Stephen’s Window The Twentieth Sunday The Twenty-First The Twenty-Second The Twenty Third Ministers of Pentecost Sunday of Pentecost Sunday of Pentecost Sunday of Pentecost October 7 October 14 October 21 October 28

8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Rite I Holy Eucharist: Rite I Holy Eucharist: Rite I Holy Eucharist: Rite I

Celebrant Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams

Preacher Justin Groth Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams

Eucharistic Claire Doerschuk Nancy Ciaffone Claire Doerschuk Nancy Ciaffone Minister Reader Matt Breuer Sally Markham Ack Thompson Jack Graham

Intercessor Mal Watlington Jack Graham Mary Kay Gobris Bill McPherson

Louise Pannill Usher(s) Linda & Chuck Cushman J. Page Wilson Debbie & Matt Breuer Nancy Yount

10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II Holy Eucharist, Rite II Holy Eucharist, Rite II Holy Eucharist, Rite II

Celebrant/ Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Officiant

Preacher Justin Groth Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Stephen Elkins-Williams

Assisting — — Martha Brimm — Priest

Deacon Justin Groth Justin Groth Justin Groth Justin Groth Subdeacon Jeremy Godwin Kate Fagan-Solis Jeremy Godwin Lizzie Almasy (Server) Eucharistic Pat Serafin Sue Kaynor Sue Kaynor Pat Serafin Ministers Priscilla Shows Norm Woods TBD Norm Woods

Cameron Hayward Will Culp Cameron Hayward Acolytes Elizabeth Hayward Elizabeth Hayward Elizabeth Hayward Anna Preston

Lector Lori Hawkins Priscilla Shows Jack Watson Frank Goodwin (1st Lesson) Lector Maya Almasy Lucy Petruccelli Kathy McPherson Drayton Virkler (Psalm) Lector Cameron Hayward Will Culp Anna Preston Elizabeth Hayward (Epistle)

Intercessor John Haywood Bob Stevens Tony Hawkins Katherine Bick Dick Boyd Dick Boyd Kate Fagan-Solis Gary Bressler Ushers Jackie Pollard Ian Shearer Jackie Pollard Sumner & Henry Virkler Carolyn London Leigh Ballou Leigh Ballou Margaret Rouse Altar Guild Leigh Ballou Nancy Ciaffone Nancy Ciaffone Trina Orgain Judy White Judy White Judy White Carolyn London

Greeter(s) Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods

Stephen’s Window 13 October 2018 Non-Profit Organization US Postage PAID Return Service Requested Durham, NC 27705 Permit No. 59

St. Stephen's is a parish within the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, part of the world-wide Anglican Communion. www.dionc.org

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman Bishop Diocesan

The Rt. Rev. Anne Hodge-Copple Bishop Suffragen

St. Stephen’s Staff

The Rev. Robert K. Kaynor Rector St. Stephen's will be hosting a free Save-A-Life [email protected] CPR training, sponsored by the Duke Heart

The Rev. Stephen J. Elkins-Williams Center, on Saturday, October 27 at 10:00 a.m. in Priest-in-Residence the Parish Hall. This training has been carefully [email protected] designed, based on the American Heart Associa- The Rev. Dr. Derek Shows Priest Associate tion’s standards for chest compression-only, for the lay rescuer. To participate please register at The Rev. Justin Groth Curate https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form SV_2f1Yro9AcccnlfT. [email protected] For help or questions contact Kate Fagan-Solis ([email protected]). Dr. Joseph Kitchen Music Director and Organist [email protected]

Dr. Daniel Monek Choir Director [email protected]

Jihyun Park Children’s Music Director

[email protected]

Jeremy Godwin Director of Christian Education Ladies’ English Afternoon Tea [email protected] On Saturday, October 20 we will be hosting an English Afternoon Tea Stephanie Metzen Youth Director from 2 to 4 pm in the parish hall. Tickets are $10 per person, $5 aged 14 [email protected] and under. There will be tea sandwiches, English scones and clotted

Burke Raper cream, cakes and fancies along with tea, coffee, and a glass of cham- Business Manager [email protected] pagne. There will also be a children’s menu. We are looking for ladies who like to share their decorating skills and invite you to design and dec- Susan Steel Membership & Stewardship Coordinator orate your own table. Those attending will then vote for their favorite. [email protected] Tickets will be on sale from October 7. We hope you can join us. Tamiko Sanders Preschool Director Even though this is an event for ladies of all ages, gentlemen are also [email protected] welcome! Catherine Oakley Parish Administrator [email protected] th The 59 Vestry and Officers of St. Stephen’s Angelica Jackson Parish Secretary Kate Fagan-Solis, Bob Bullock, Matt Breuer [email protected] Senior Warden Assistant Treasurer Sally Bugg Kevin Kelly Michael Brewer, Lizzie Almasy, Wendy John Sexton [email protected] Junior Warden Clerk Ben Maynor Jim Stewart, Ellen Baer Drayton Virkler Clyde Stephens Parish Life and Staff Assistant Treasurer Dick Boyd Norm Woods

October 2018 14 Stephen’s Window