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Winter 2020 “Shopmas,” Advent & Christmas an Advent/Christmas Interview with Bishop Mark Lawrence The Anglican Diocese of S.C. • P.O. Box 20127 • Charleston, SC 29413-0127 • Phone: (843) 722-4075 • Email: [email protected] • www.adosc.org The Anglican Diocese of South Carolina Winter 2020 “Shopmas,” Advent & Christmas An Advent/Christmas Interview with Bishop Mark Lawrence In late November, I had an opportunity Some cler- to chat with Bishop Lawrence about gy rage against it, Advent and Christmas. What but I actually like follows is a condensed version of our Shopmas. I’m nos- conversation. talgic about it. I love going through Joy Hunter, Editor the stores hearing DAVIS GOULDEN “Chestnuts roast- Bishop, how do you observe Intergenerational diversity always means creating space for the single, ing on an open fire,” Advent? widowed, or solitary. “We depend on every parishioner in every age and or “The weather life-stage to make our parish what it is,” says Myers, “so, we want to keep the outside is frightful.” It’s different now from how I groups odd numbered so nobody in the group feels odd.” I like the songs. I observed it as a parish priest. As enjoy them. a priest I lived through it with a My problem is congregation. We’d begin by mak- right in the middle ing Advent wreaths. Sometimes Dinners for Nine of that secular, nos- we’d put lights on trees and bushes talgic season: the around the church. We put out the Urban Church Fosters church pulls out Christmas crèche and each Sunday of the mothballs add one more figurine. Intergenerational Community John the Baptist. During Advent I’d begin the He’s raging like a By Hunter Myers, Student Ministry Director services saying: “One candle light- furnace, calling The Cathedral Church of St. Luke & St. Paul, Charleston ed.” I’d look at the crèche, “No baby us to repentance. Jesus in the manger! It’s the First He kind of ruins hen was the last time you new practice designed to create in- Sunday of Advent! Good morning!” the whole thing, shared a meal with some- tergenerational space around dinner Then the next Sunday it would be: but he’s there in one of a different genera- tables. We call it “Dinners for Nine.” “Two candles lighted. No baby Jesus JUDY WETMORE LOGAN Wtion, someone who is not a member This is what Dinners for Nine a good way. He’s in the manger. It’s the Second Sun- kind of the spiritual of your family? At the Cathedral looks like in practice: Parishioners day of Advent.” And so on. Then on What do you think of the Scrooge. He works against the secu- Church of St. Luke & St. Paul we are register to either attend or host a Christmas Eve or Day I’d say: “Five secularization of the season, all larism of the culture. realizing that who we share meals Dinners for Nine group. We compile candles lighted. Baby Jesus in the the commercialism? with matters —whether that meal all the registrations, create groups manger. Must be Christmas. Merry So two warring factions? is shared at your dining room table no larger than nine (based on age Christmas!” I like to call the season between or a booth at McDonald’s. Yet, the and life-stage diversity), then we Those were things we did as a Thanksgiving and Christmas the Advent is filled with para- very form and structure of our lives task the hosts with coordinating a community. They build the sense “Shopmas” season. Santa Claus is doxes. There’s the paradox of the often relegates intergenerational time and location for their group that this is a season of expectation. everywhere. The lights are spar- works of darkness and the armor of relationships to a nice bonus rather to meet twice for dinner over the But as a Bishop I’m in a different kling. Christmas trees are aglow. light; mortal life and immortality; than consistent inter-dependence. course of the next few months. Some church every Sunday. So I don’t go Everything’s out for Christmas. But humility and the glorious majesty; The truth is, we need spaces for all groups opt for a potluck, others for through the season with a commu- it’s really focused on and driven by the second coming of Christ in generations to gather and depend on a meal out, and some brave hosts nity. I look forward to getting back shopping and nostalgia. glory and his coming in humility at each other, and the world is less and take on the whole meal themselves! to it someday! less willing to provide that. So, in the To make this more accessible for Continued on Page 2 summer of 2018 our parish began a Continued on Page 5 Advent Legal Update: Where Are We? Loving Our Neighbors: By The Rev. Canon Jim Lewis, Canon to the Ordinary St. John’s Chapel Purchasing s I write, it’s a crisp, clear winter day that is cause for both hope and confidence in in Charleston – the kind of beautiful the midst of all that would distract us from Neighborhood Security Cameras day we all long for in August. And these truths. Afrom countless steeples across the “holy city,” This is the essential backdrop for viewing By The Rev. Matthew Rivers, Vicar, St. John’s Chapel, Charleston church bells ring out the noon hour. This goes where we are in our litigation as a Diocese. on for some time and there’s simply no excuse There have been significant events this fall that am writing to ask Why we are taking a stand? for not knowing where you are in the day, clamor for our attention. In July, state Judge for your support and Over the past month, we have attended despite all the many distractions that clamor Edgar Dickson ordered a further attempt at prayers for the com- several community meetings where residents Imunity we serve in and cry out for help to simply live in safety and for our attention. mediation (which the mediator declared an In similar fashion, the Church each year impasse on Sept. 26). On August 28, Judge labor among. Because unity. St. John’s family and my wife and I have reminds us of the hour with the Advent sea- Dickson denied TEC’s petition to dismiss our of current and past gun heard the cry from our church community, son. It’s an annual call to remember, whatever possible claims under the state Betterments violence, fear and emo- and we are willing to put a stake in the ground our circumstances, good, bad or indifferent, Statute. Then on Sept. 20, Federal District tional trauma continues to answer the crisis. where we are in the progress of God’s time. Judge Richard Gergel released his ruling in to plague the residents After meeting with many of the local The same Jesus whose birth we prepare the trademarks complaint against the Diocese, and business owners in leaders including the Mayor’s office and to celebrate at Christmas, the One whose Res- issuing an injunction against our use of the the Eastside communi- the Charleston police department, we are urrection is the source of all hope, will return historic names and seal of the Diocese. He ty. We here at St. John’s mounting an effort to purchase Ring security to judge and reign as King. The fulfillment of did, however, affirm the continued use of all believe this is our time to make a mark in cameras for residences in the community. that promise is not here yet, but like a ringing parish names and made no requirement for our community and help lead not only in a We have committed to a five-year plan to steeple bell, Advent reminds us, that’s where the removal of the seal from these historic spiritual way, but also by providing help for raise funds through community functions the whole community. Safety and security we are heading. Its closer now than ever. And Continued on Page 3 Continued on Page 2 belong to all of us! Our Diocesan Vision: Making Biblical Anglicans for a Global Age Jubilate Deo, Winter 2020, Page 2 St. Timothy’s Shares Christmas Spirit and Legal Update Continued from Page 1 Backpacks with North Charleston Elementary properties. While the Standing Committee acted immediately to change our operating By Rita Conley-Pitts, St. Timothy’s, Cane Bay name to “The Anglican Diocese of South Car- olina” (which you now see in all our commu- ometime before pressed the joy she enough money to provide 10 fully equipped nications), an appeal of this decision was filed Thanksgiving 2018, had as she watched backpacks. Although the school year is now in October in the Federal 4th Circuit Court. a young teacher her students hang well underway, they continue to gather money Since that time, the local TEC diocese Sfrom North Charleston Christmas balls for additional backpacks and needed clothing has filed a further petition with Judge Gergel Elementary School, Van- and garlands on for new students who arrive mid-year, as a asserting, among other similar complaints, nessa Oldland, made a the donated trees result of foster home placement or family that the name “The Anglican Diocese of South request during a St. Tim- St. Timothy’s had relocation. Carolina” also infringes upon their identity. othy’s church service. provided. When St. Timothy’s saw a need and acted to This comes despite this naming pattern going She suggested anyone asked, she shared meet it—and a new ministry, “Vannessa’s unquestioned with any of the other departing thinking of replacing an her wish for the Locker,” was born.
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