CELEBRATING 125 YEARS THE ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS

No. 384 CALL Fall 2019 So What?

capital campaign, with the plans my vision and hope for our parish for a gala party at the Wellesley which I hope are reflected in my Country Club on November 2, leadership and preaching. and our St. Andrew’s Day Festi- My underlying belief is that val Eucharist on November 24, I God is dynamically in action in the have found myself asking the “so world inviting us to be partners in what?” question in relation to what realizing the divine vision of love we are celebrating. Clearly, we are for the world. It is in participat- not just celebrating the passage of ing in this work with God, using 125 years. our time and talents, that we find I have found the answer to the meaning and purpose in our lives. question of what we are celebrating I believe that the Holy Spirit is con- in the snippets from our church stantly knocking at the door of our The Rev. Adrian Robbins-Cole archives featured on the front page souls asking to be allowed to enter of our weekly bulletin. They paint our lives filling us with divine love. o what?” That was the a rich picture of a parish bound The trouble is that our lives can “ question we were asked together by a deep sense of com- be so distracting that we lose sight again and again about munity and care for one another, a of this reality or invite other idols ourS sermons by Mark Jefferson, church focused on the importance to fill our lives. The central part of the Preaching Professor at Vir- of worship, a community commit- my vision for St. Andrew’s is that ginia Theological Seminary at the ted to passing on the faith to our the role of the church is to remind preaching course I attended in children, a parish which is also out- us of this reality and to provide June. We were told to ask our- ward-looking in its outreach and space and spiritual practices to selves, Does this sermon matter? care for those in need, and, under- help us have eyes and ears to rec- Why are you preaching it? Why lying all of these things, a parish ognize in our daily lives how God will this sermon matter to the peo- motivated by the love of God. is reaching out to us and calling us. ple you are preaching it to? My prayer is that St. Andrew’s Professor Jefferson emphasized Our Future, So What? can help us learn that, with the aid that a sermon should always point But as we look towards the future of the Holy Spirit, each of us can towards the vision and mission of of our parish, it is critical that be more loving, more forgiving, your church. He challenged us by we continue to ask afresh the “so and have a sense of being more asking: if we don’t know where what?” question. In a world where loved and forgiven by God that we our church is going, how can we church-going is one among many realize now. I have a deep sense of form people through our preach- options on a Sunday morning, we hope that God is always waiting ing? If we don’t have a sense of need to have a compelling vision around the corner to deepen our direction, our preaching will be of why the spiritual practice of relationship with God and with scattered and reactive. coming to church can make all each other. the difference in people having a 125th Anniversary, So What? meaningful and fulfilled life. When Yours in Christ, As we have been celebrating our I consider why God sent me to be 125th anniversary of St. Andrew’s the rector of St. Andrew’s, there Church with a very successful are a number of key elements in In This Issue Warden’s Message Welcome Back!

Rector’s Letter the service and Paige Manning at- So What? tended as a representative of the Rev. Adrian Robbins-Cole 1 vestry. I hope you will read Mia’s profile in this edition of The Call. Welcome, Mia! Warden’s Message In June, the second Indaba Welcome Back! Encounter Weekend was hosted by David Hamlin 2 St. David’s Church in South Yar- mouth. (Indaba is an African-style method of purposeful conversation Keeping the Faith from and relationship building used throughout the Anglican Commu- Generation to Generation nion.) The weather was perfect, Rev. Margaret Schwarzer 3 David Hamlin, warden and it was a meaningful weekend of learning, sharing, worshiping, elcome back! I hope and socializing. Among the activ- From Catholic to Episcopalian you each had a restful ities was attendance at Pride Day A Thoughtful Conversion and enjoyable summer. in Hyannis. Adrian, Cynthia Scott, Betsy Millane 4 WPerhaps you stayed local and Michael Vanin, and I represented enjoyed our lovely towns, the St. Andrew’s. lack of traffic, and a bit slower Our capital campaign Grateful Getting to Know Mia Kano pace. Perhaps you spent time at for Our Past, Giving for Our Future Dan Dent 5 a summer home or on a special while officially over, continues to trip. Becky and I were lucky to do receive generous contributions. As a bit of all of the above. We have you know we successfully exceed- Images from El Hogar Mission Trip a summer cottage on the eastern ed our goal of $2 million, and we Rev. Adrian Robbins-Cole 6 shore of the upper Chesapeake are really pleased to see additional Bay. We both grew up spending families participate. summers on the bay; sailing, Finally, preparations for cele- Save the Date for Our 125th water skiing, and eating lots of brating St. Andrew’s 125th anniver- blue crab. We also enjoyed being sary continued during the summer. Anniversary Gala, 11/2/2019 home in Dover, as well as a trip There are two specific dates related Page 7 to London to see the Red Sox play to the 125th I want to make sure the Yankees. Regardless of where you have marked on your calen- we were, St. Andrew’s was not far dars: Fall 2019 Calendar from our thoughts, particularly • First, on Saturday, November 2, Insert in this exciting 125th anniversa- we have our 125th Anniversa- ry year. It was a busy summer at ry Gala Party at the Wellesley St. Andrew’s, but both Adrian and Country Club. There will be mu- Margaret were able to take some sic, delicious food, and plenty of ST. ANDREW'S THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS well-deserved vacation time. libations. Additionally, we have Happily, our new assistant invited several special guests to CALL rector, Mia Kano, started in July. join us. Please be on the lookout A publication of Mia and her husband Aaron, who for more information regarding St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church hails from Wayland, have settled what I am sure will be a terrif- into the apartment at 7 Denton ically festive and memorable Parish Office: 79 Denton Road, Road. Mia has been busy meeting event. Wellesley, MA 02482-6404 parishioners, getting to know her • Second, on Sunday, November 24, 781.235.7310 | fax: 781.235.0067 colleagues, and gearing up for at 10am, we have St. Andrew’s standrewswellesley.org the youth formation school year. 125th Anniversary Festival Eu- She was ordained in early June at charist. Our guest celebrant and Publisher: Dan Dent the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, preacher will be The Reverend Editor: Katharine Clark, Parish Administrator Boston. Adrian participated in Dr. Laura Ahrens, the current [email protected]

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church bishop suffragan of the Episcopal • September 8 is Homecoming packing event. The goal is to Diocese of Connecticut. You may Sunday, which is the start of our pack 12,500 meals in one hour! remember Laura, as she grew up church school year. in Wellesley and was a member • September 15 our annual parish In closing, I hope you were able of St. Andrew’s. She has accom- picnic returns to the front lawn of to follow my fellow warden, Paige plished a great deal since then, the home of our gracious host- Manning, whose advice in the sum- and we are fortunate to have her ess Mrs. Walter Hunnewell, 845 mer edition of The Call suggested participate in this special service. Washington Street, Wellesley. the many ways to stay connected • October 19 is our day of service. to God and our faith, even when Also, this fall, keep in mind This year, we are partnering we are away from St. Andrew’s. three additional dates: with End Hunger NE for a meal Welcome home, all!

Keeping the Faith from Generation to Generation moved from generation to genera- This fall, we continue our tion within our walls. tradition of investing in our own From the beginning of intellectual and spiritual growth. St. Andrew’s, educating adults Our 9am Christian Learning series and children in Christian theol- classes will include the study of ogy and Christian history has some of Leonardo da Vinci’s art also been an important part of in honor of the 500th anniversary our keeping the faith. Bible study of his death, history of the early has been with us from the earli- church during St. Paul’s lifetime, est days of our church. It is also the music of the Pilgrims, and the worth noting that our current study of Islam. Bible Circle Tuesday morning Our Faith & Practice series, community, which meets once a which focuses on how we can each month to study scripture together, grow in our daily modern faith, The Rev. Margaret K. Schwarzer has been meeting continuously begins in October with “What does for over 65 years. Four years ago, God think of suicide?” Our fall e are celebrating our when I was your new associate term will also include our fourth 125th anniversary, and rector holding my first Bible annual Turkey Trot, our Advent we have a lot to cele- Circle, a member of the circle Taizé-style Service, and our Decem- Wbrate. For one thing, our church has said, “We’ve been meeting every ber Blue Christmas Service. been thriving for more than a sin- month for over 61 years—longer In our Bible Circles, we will gle generation. No one who started than you have been alive!” And begin studying the Gospel of Mat- the church is still alive to tell us she was right on both counts. thew, and our monthly book club, about our beginning, but we have What a remarkable part of our Book Circle, will be going strong records, a cornerstone, and the St. Andrew’s story. with an alternating series of fiction beauty of the building itself, which Looking through our old and non-fiction books. speak to our forebearers’ creativity records, I found a beautiful de- You are invited to be a part of and faithfulness. scription of adult formation at our all of these events. Come for one The Christian faith and the church: “The purpose of Christian class or come for them all. Attend Episcopal expression of our faith Education at St. Andrew’s is to help four Faith & Practice classes or have been passed on in an unbro- people be aware of their rootedness come try on just one and see if you ken chain for 125 years. We have in God, to grow in their discovery like it. Join us for the 9am Chris- a significant number of families in of His presence in the world, to tian Learning class or the Turkey our parish who have grandparents, realize His loving concern for every Trot, or one of our special liturgies. parents, and children with spiri- person as revealed in Jesus Christ, You are invited to grow in Christ tual ties to St. Andrew’s. Knowing and to respond in faith and love to and build the next chapter of your that three—in some cases, four the end that they know who they own spiritual journey as we learn, or more—generations of a single are, and what their human situa- reflect, pray, and worship together. family have worshiped here is a tion means.” (Christian Education sacred fact. Love and prayers have Pamphlet, 1978-1979)

the Call Fall 2019 3 From Catholic to Episcopalian A Thoughtful Conversion

lic health from Harvard University, Pope John Paul II, appealing for the a master’s degree in nursing from removal of Cardinal Law. MGH School of Health Professions, Scanlon describes her decision and a post graduate specialty to leave the as nursing training in mental health “anguish.” For several years, she from Boston College. She works at tried to work for reform within the a residential facility for adolescents church. Although she had profound with major mental illness or unsta- appreciation for priests of integrity ble home environments: Wayside and her fellow lay Catholics, the Youth and Family Support network Catholic hierarchy, she said, was in Framingham. resistant to renewal. In her view, the With such a strong Catholic bishops’ stranglehold on decision background and tradition, what making, resulted in a culture of Betsy Millane led Mary to the Episcopal Church? repression, intolerance, and lack of ary Scanlon is one of In 2002, after revelations of clerical respect for gay people and women. the many visible of our abuse and cover up by Cardinal In 2004, as the Massachusetts SJC parishioners. Her scholar- Bernard Law, she started working was considering whether the Con- Mship, altar work, and volunteerism with a group, Voice of the Faithful, stitution afforded the right of civil are well known, her face and name which is committed to support- marriage to same sex couples, the familiar to many. She volunteers on ing survivors of those abused bishops promulgated a letter across several St. Andrew’s committees, by clergy, supporting the many the Commonwealth, urging Cath- including outreach, adult forma- priests of integrity, and advancing olics to sign in opposition to same tion, deanery, LEM, and Bargain accountability by the clergy. Her sex marriage. Scanlon attempted to Haul. Confirmed in the church two main efforts were spent on advo- circulate a different letter in her par- years ago, Mary is passionate, com- cating for survivors. She hoped to ish, affirming that same sex couples mitted, and contributes much to St be able to work with Cardinal Law have the civil right to marriage, but Andrew’s. Yet she hasn’t always to acknowledge the grievances per- the priest would not allow it. been a member of St. Andrew’s, or petrated and to make amends; and At this time, Mary decided to an Episcopalian. to change the power structure in look around for another parish, Scanlon was born in Cambridge, the Church, so as to guard against and for a while attended a won- Massachusetts to Catholic parents. future violations. The group derful parish, led by one of the 58 Both were first generation immi- stressed to the leadership that the brave priests who spoke truth to grants, her father’s parents were “ has a wisdom and should be power. However, after realizing from Ireland and her mother’s more involved in the governance of the entrenchment of clericalism in parents were from Ireland by way the church.” They were dismissed, the Catholic Church, she decid- of New Brunswick, Canada. As with the proclamation by an aux- ed reluctantly to look into other was expected, she was confirmed iliary bishop, “Revelation is given denominations. Once she visited in the Catholic faith in the seventh to the hierarchy, not the laity.” It St. Andrew’s, she immediately grade. She attended Catholic school was a time of great upheaval in the liked the spirit and the community. through college, getting her bach- Church, including the courageous From the onset, she said, she ad- elor’s degree from Regis College. initiative of 58 priests in the Boston mired and appreciated the leader- Mary has a master’s degree in pub- Archdiocese who sent a letter to ship of St. Andrew’s.

Join Us for the 4th Annual Turkey Trot, Thursday, November 28

Please sign-up as a member of Team St. Andrew’s for were thankful for our warm red St. Andrew’s runner’s the 5K Wellesley Turkey Trot. Parishioners age 7 to 95 are caps, and for each other’s company. More members welcome. In 2018, 72 of us signed up to run the Turkey staffed the water table across from the church parking Trot, and most of us pounded down the pavement lot. Thank you, water table team. We all had a great together even though the weather was a record-break- time, and we won the “Biggest Team” trophy. With your ing seven degrees (plus wind chill). Those of us who ran help, we can do it again.

4 St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Adrian, she says, is a terrific people and enlarge our circle of pastor whose faith in action is friends.” Her first visit wasn’t an inspiration. He cultivates an without its challenges, though. “alive” community where people She came in November and was can connect with their faith and struck by the fact that everyone other worshipers, and can become was wearing plaid. “What is involved in outreach to the wider this?” she thought, “a cult?” It community. was St. Andrew’s Day. When she first attended What does she miss from the St. Andrew’s, Margaret and Cat Catholic Church? “The outreach, had just started in their ministries a church having a global identity, at the parish. What an inclusive a visible reach means something and inviting atmosphere! She to me. There are good priests and finds St. Andrew’s to be “won- good people within the Catholic Mary Scanlon derfully open” and a “church that Church, who are ardent in their listens.” When she first joined, faith and committed to doing good Scanlon has been on a journey she and her husband, Victor Cal- work.” But they are led, she knows, few of us have taken. How fortunate caterra, were working full time by a hierarchal structure that is not we are that it has brought her, and and “found it a good way to meet open to reform. her many talents, to St. Andrew’s.

Getting to Know Mia Kano

I was fascinated by church and the spaces in our society and culture differences between the communi- where people of all ages and gener- ties from an early age. By the time ations can come together to sup- I was in middle school, I already port, teach, and love one another. knew I wanted to be my mother’s It’s a delight to be welcomed into a minister, the Rev. Alida Ward, community that treasures tradition, when I grew up. Ward embodied embraces creativity, and celebrates unconditional love for each person God’s children of every age. I am she met, although it always seemed excited to hear your stories of how to me that she devoted extra St. Andrew’s has transformed over energy and love to the teens in the the decades and I feel very fortu- community. Although I struggled nate to have arrived in time for the with my faith in college, God found 125th celebration. The Rev. Maria (Mia) Kano and called me back to my original dream through a military chaplain Tell us something about yourself that n this article, The Call con- in Amman, Jordan. In the Episco- makes you, you. tinues its series of conversations pal Church, I discovered a new I come from a very crafty family! with St. Andrew’s clergy and path to deeper connection to God, My twin sister loves to quilt and Istaff to give the parish an oppor- Christ, and the Holy Spirit through my older sister weaves, but I have tunity to learn a little more about incarnational spirituality and sac- found a special joy in knitting our church leaders. In this eighth ramental worship. But it was truly stuffed animals for the children in article, we meet Maria “Mia” Kano, that the parishioners and clergy of my life. Over the last few of years who joined St. Andrew’s as our Grace Church, Medford that taught I’ve knitted and given away close new assistant rector for youth and me to recognize the specific gifts to 50 animals, including a purple family this past July. —Dan Dent God was calling me to use for the cow, a unicorn, and a mini-version service of the Body of Christ. of my dog that my husband keeps What prompted you to become a at his desk at work. I find that each minister? What about St. Andrew’s most of my creations develops its own Throughout my early childhood, excites you? personality and I love to receive my family alternated between my I am most drawn to St. Andrew’s pictures of their various adventures father’s Catholic parish and my commitment to intergeneration- from their new friends. mother’s Congregationalist church. al community. There are so few

the Call Fall 2019 5 Images from the El Hogar Mission Trip Honduras, August 3–10, 2019

Playing games with the El Hogar boys after dinner Photos: Courtesy Rev. Adrian Robbins-Cole Photos: Courtesy Rev. At the chapel of the El Hogar High School outside Tegucigalpa The chapel of the El Hogar agricultural school and farm

Our group with El Hogar girls outside their dorm

The boys at the El Hogar High School Lunch on our way to visit the agricultural school

6 St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Save the Date for Our 125th Anniversary Gala 6:30pm at the Wellesley Country Club, Saturday, November 2, 2019 Look for your invitation to this ticketed event in early September

CELEBR ATING 125 YEARS OF ST. ANDREW’S MINISTRY

Photo: Peter Lull St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Officers, and Staff Warden David Hamlin [email protected] Pastoral Associate Rev. Karen Vickers Budney [email protected] Warden Paige Manning [email protected] Parish Administrator Katharine Clark [email protected] Treasurer Arnout Eikeboom [email protected] Music Minister Helen Ward Mannix [email protected] Clerk Sarah Harris [email protected] Financial Secretary Ruth Hubert [email protected] Rector Rev. Adrian Robbins-Cole [email protected] Christian Learning Coordinator Associate Rector for Adult Formation and Membership Susan Jackson [email protected] Rev. Margaret Schwarzer [email protected] Director of Youth Choirs Amanda Kern [email protected] Assistant Rector for Youth and Family Sexton Stephen F. Killeen [email protected] Rev. Maria (Mia) Kano [email protected] Assistant Sextons William Clover and Matthew Killeen

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