March/April 2015 . TheGraceThe newsletter for the parish community BrieflySt of Paul’s Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 2331EPISCOPAL E. Adams • Tucson, AZ 85719 CHURCH 520-327-6857 • www.gsptucson.org

INSIDE THIS ISSUE... Schedule Rector’s Letter eing the new kid on the block (pg 3) is often a difficult experience. Spring Equinox Service Sometimes however, there are Badvantages to being a rookie. I noticed (pg 2) this at spring training in Sarasota, Clean & ’Cue Fla., where my beloved Orioles find (pg 5) themselves in an oddly new position this spring. Bishop’s Visit After years of being doormats for the (pg 6) likes of the Red Sox and the Yankees, my Birds not only finished in first Senior Focus: Carol McBride place last year, but they blew away their (pg 7) competition, finishing a full 12 games ahead of New York and a whopping 25 over Boston. What this means is that You, too, will be moved unlike in recent years past, when the to tears and then utter greenest rookie had a chance to make the team, this year’s roster is almost set joy as we connect in a before a single pitch is thrown. deeper way to God and Of the 25 players that will make the to each other... final team, only four, a reserve infielder and outfielder and two relief pitchers, are in‘ question. You might think that this would cause the minor leaguers in camp to be a bit despondent about their future. But in reality, the opposite occurred. All those baby birds were out there playing with reckless abandon, figuring they had nothing to lose. You could just see the look of idealistic hope and wonder in their eyes. They Mardis Gras partiers on Shrove Tuesday were treated to some were relishing every moment they had to play with the big boys. They were Dixieland Jazz. To end the evening, last year’s palms were taking in every crack of the bat, every warm breeze in their face. They wanted burned to provide ashes for Ash Wednesday. to experience every single thing that happened, because they did not know when, or if, they would ever see it again. A similar phenomena is occurring here at Grace St. Paul’s. We too, have moved into first place in our strides to create the most beautiful and moving worship experience possible. We have also been able to bring comfort and care to so many more people who have been damaged by the complicated and difficult world in which we live. Those experiences come to an apex each Continued on Page 2 Rector’s Letter we do together this month. Submissions Continued from Page 1 I am not suggesting that the church of to The Briefly year during Holy Week. This is the week that what’s happening now has it right and we Submit articles changes people here more than any other. We don’t. Anybody can turn a church service into to Joyce Henderson, never get through a or Good an entertainment spectacle. But that is not BrieflyEditor@grace- worship or prayer, it is diversion. By the same stpauls.org. Friday service without people experiencing John Banks receives the event so deeply that they openly weep. But token, anyone can read a service out of a book. photos, charts, and what I’ve also noticed is that it is our rookies But if that is what we are going to do in the graphics at jdbanks@ who are often weeping first, the people who world in which we live today, we should not gmail.com. have recently returned to church, or have be a bit surprised when no one shows up. The The deadline for key to good liturgy is to carry our 2000-year the May 2015 issue never experienced the power of these liturgies will be Tuesday, April first hand before. They are the ones who are tradition into every worship service, while at 14. feeling the intensity and magnitude of what the same time making that liturgy speak to is happening deep in their souls. They are the each of us in the place we are now. ones who notice every tiny moment in those That is what I believe you will find in all powerful worship experiences. of our incredible Holy Week services at GSP, Those of us who have grown up in a whether it be the symbolism of Maundy liturgical church and not strayed too far Thursday when we capture the heart and away during our lives, are like the veterans at soul of the Jesus message, or the utter beauty spring training. We’ve seen it all and heard it of the sights and sounds of our beautiful all before. That’s why we may have the most . Of course, we won’t difficult time of all with Holy Week and . stop there. Our brand new service It is not that we do not realize the intense is simultaneously the most ancient thing we do significance of our actions. We get that part. and the newest. The danger is that because the momentous Whether you are a veteran or a rookie, events of these days are so deeply etched in we believe you, too, will be moved to tears our brains, we will not be able to feel their and then utter joy as we are all connected in enormous power anymore. It is no help that a deeper way to God and to each other. We our post-modern culture encourages a “been- simply believe Holy Week will change your life, there-done-that” thought process. But I would if you give it that chance. also suggest that part of the blame rests on the wider church. Often, we have misinterpreted tradition as sameness, making it very difficult for people to hear anew the immensity of what Steve+ n each of the equinox and solstice our lives and in the Spring days of the seasonal calendar, Grace world. The service St. Paul’s has a special service to mark is creation oriented, Equinox Othe day. Our autumnal equinox service marked connecting us the day when light and dark are equal. Our with what is going Liturgy winter solstice service was a celebration of the on in the natural By The Rev. Steve longest night of the year. On Thursday, March world. The service Keplinger 19, at 5:30 p.m., we will celebrate the vernal will last about 40 During the Spring Equinox service, equinox, as light returns. minutes. After, we attendees will be invited to light a The liturgy will be an outside service and will continue our candle, and place it in the same half includes a walk on the Labyrinth. The Spring celebration with a bowl, representing the even split between light and dark in the world Equinox is saturated with rebirth imagery a potluck meal in on this day. and emotional connection to the season of McBride Hall. hope and joy. It is a light, beautiful liturgy to We hope you can connect us body and soul with the new life join us March 19 for this beautiful connection that is beginning within us and around us. to the earth and to God as we move from It is a celebration of the wonder of spring in winter to spring! 2 Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church f you are new to a liturgical church, Holy This is a gigantic opportunity for all of us to Week is something you may have never learn and take part in the event celebrating Holy experienced previously. Not only is it an Jewish liberty and freedom. Don’t miss out! Iancient tradition marking the events leading Seats are very limited. If you would like to Week, up to the death of Jesus, it is also the most attend, please contact our Director of Children important week of the year in our worship and Youth Ministries, Rosalind Garcia. Call experience. Nothing says more about who we the main office number, 327-6857 or her email, 2015 are than the services of Holy Week. [email protected]. The event is By The Rev. Steve Holy Week at GSP is both old and new. It scheduled for 6 p.m. Keplinger is steeped in the ancient worship tradition of April 2, Maundy Thursday: 7 p.m. the church. But we have also created liturgies aundy comes from the latin word that we believe highlight what Jesus wanted us Mmandatum, where we get the word to remember the most about his last week on mandate. It refers to Jesus’s mandate to follow earth. Our goal is to create liturgies that will be the “new commandment,” that we love one so profoundly moving that it will change you another. On this night we commemorate deep in your heart and bring each of you into a Jesus’s last night on earth, where I believe he closer relationship with one another and with put into one evening the essence of his entire God. earthly ministry. We commemorate the last Here is the breakdown of services: supper as well as Jesus’s act of foot washing, March 29, : 8 & 10 a.m. reminding each of us how we are to be servants e will begin the service of Palm to one another. Our Maundy Thursday service WSunday outside, waving our palms concludes with the stripping of the altar, and commemorating the day when Jesus is symbolizing what happens the following day. jubilantly honored as he enters Jerusalem. At Our special service at GSP will include the 10 a.m. service, those who are able will more symbols to capture the essence of our process around the block. After processing faith. This service is in my mind the most into the church and continuing the celebration, important worship experience of the year. I the liturgy will very suddenly turn to a have seen it totally change people’s lives. If you narrative of the Passion Gospel. It is a stunning must choose only one service to attend in Holy juxtaposition and a very emotional service. Week, this is the one I would personally pick. March 30, 31, April 1, , Maundy Thursday night until Good Friday Noon, Tuesday & Wednesday All-Night Gospel Reading & Keeping Watch ach day leading up to the Triduum nother ancient tradition is for individuals E(the three days), we will have a special Ato “stay awake” in the stripped church in communion service. Each service will build a contemplative fashion as Jesus asked of his upon the one before, leading us into the beauty disciples the night before he was killed. We and completeness of our Maundy Thursday honor this tradition at GSP with an all night service and what is to come on Good Friday. Gospel reading. This year the readings will be Monday’s service will be at noon, outdoors in of the Gospel of Mark and Luke. The dramatic the Memorial Garden. Tuesday’s service will readings will include silence and soft music. be at 5 p.m. in the Julian Chapel in the church. You may come for any period of time during After Tuesday evening’s communion service, tha night. there will be a special meditation service for If you would like to take part in the silent Holy Week. Wednesday’s service will be at vigil in Julian Chapel, there will be sign up 7 a.m. in the Julian Chapel. sheets in the office, at the Welcome Table, or March 31, Tuesday of Holy Week— on the wall next to Julian Chapel. The goal is Jewish Passover Seder: 6 p.m. to have at least one individual in the Chapel during the entire watch. The Watch will end his year, we will have our third annual when the elements are consumed at the first Passover Seder with our friends from T service at Noon on Good Friday. Temple or Chadash. They will preside for us Continued on Page 8 and be our guests at a complete Seder dinner. The Briefly • March/April 2015 3 Liturgy & Music easons. Sometimes we acknowledge and we can share. and celebrate them, sometimes we fail Juggling values and needs is an ongoing Notes to notice them as they drift by while process. The choir likes challenging music from the Swe scamper around dragging stuff from one (yay) but with our limited rehearsal time, we place to another. I read a financial advice need to internalize it with some degree of Choir column recently suggesting that spending sanity. Two good ways to manage the super- money on experiences is better than spending heated rehearsal schedule of , Holy Stalls it on things. At the end of the day, cherished Week and Easter are to extend choir practice By Christina Jarvis, memories can be held up to the light of our by half an hour and to have soloists for Director of Music hearts long after things have cracked or frayed. communion anthems. We will also reuse the One notable exception is providing things Ash Wednesday anthems during the first two through charitable spending; some have the weeks of Lent, with two additional anthems, of basic stuff of life that others lack, and helping course. to make another’s life easier is one of the The church seasons acknowledge our greatest goods to which we can varying values and needs as well. aspire. ent is the We had a blowout Shrove Tuesday Lent is the perfect time to celebration, featuring Prof. Jeff contemplate these things, to take perfect time to Haskell from the Fred Fox School of stock of our lives and our closets contemplate... Music at the University of Arizona and our attitudes and adjust as to take stock of our lives and his fellow jazzers, Glendon needed. Where do we need to look Gross, Cory Boone, and Jack Wood. in the mirror instead of criticizing and our closets and We acknowledged our mortality and someone else? I specialize in Lour attitudes and promised to spend a season of prayer bitching about someone when adjust as needed. and reflection on Ash Wednesday. they’re standing right behind me. On the first Sunday in Lent, we It’s instant karma. The sad thing is the issue processed to the Great Litany led by Miriam usually isn’t that big a deal, is it? How much Huber at 8 a.m. and Wendy Pipentacos at 10 more energy we’d have if we didn’t bind it in a.m. perfectionism and the desire to control that Lenten music in March includes an is antithetical to a God-centered life. If you improvisational offering on Lent 2 by the have that figured out, you have my profound Sunday School, directed by Wesley Hunter. admiration. Other anthems include William Byrd’s “Teach I’ve been taking stock of the music library me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes”; Alice again. I’m still finding pieces I hadn’t noticed Parker’s arrangement of “Come, thou fount of before, which is a happy thing. We have a every blessing,” with Barbara Else, flutist; and Chamber Artists at GSP lot of music, and it’s probably time to do Edward Bairstow’s “When Moses lifted up the ucson Chamber another purge, but we won’t make it a Lenten serpent.” TArtists presents practice this year; that’s a summer task. I just Lenten soloists include Richard Rhoads Rachmaninoff's Liturgy found a piece that would have been great for (Lent 3), Daruka Ajang (Lent 4), and Kristina of St. John Chrysostom, Transfiguration Sunday. Dang. Never mind, Maakestad (Lent 5); we are grateful for their Sunday, March 22, at 3 p.m., at Grace St. Paul's. there’s always next year, God willing. Then talents. A companion to his there are the own goals (as in what the rest of The Palm Sunday offertory is “At the "Vespers," Rachmaninoff the world calls football, where you accidentally Name of Jesus” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, said of the former, “Not score against your own team). I got an Easter “arranged with varied settings for a festival for a long time have I medley arranged by a contemporary composer service by the composer.” He wrote the tune written anything with such pleasure.” I respect, but we read through it and decided (King’s Weston), so he’d be the go-to dude for For information there’s just a bit too much cheese in the sauce, setting it. For communion, we will sing “When about tickets: as it were. That’s our value judgment, but there we are tempted to deny your Son” by Sally Ann TucsonChamberArtists.org. are other churches for which it will be perfect, Continued on Page 8 4 Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Children, Youth & Families he youth have recently Sunday school and youth Opportunities for Children, returned from taking the groups, Lent is a period Youth & Families during CY&F Bisbee ghost tour. Twenty of deeper reflection, a Tof us braved the spirit world on time to turn inward and Lent & Holy Week • Sunday, March 1, Children’s at Lent a chilly, dark night in February. deepen our ties to God, Chapel— By Rosalind Garcia, Fortified with a delicious family and community. 10 a.m., Himmel Park Director of CY&F Mexican dinner, we met our Really observing Lent, • Saturday, March 7, Youth Group Ministries guide in front of the old Mining perhaps more than any Lenten Lock-In Museum, ready to face whatever other time in the Church • Sunday, March 8, 4th- and 5th- grade trip to Funtastics after might confront us. year offers young people Sunday School Many of our number hoped a chance to start anew, • Tuesday, March 31, 6 p.m., Family for a ghost sighting, particularly to grow in maturity and Seder in McBride Hall an encounter with the famous service towards family and • Thursday, April 2-3, from 10 p.m., and long deceased cat ghost. community. All-Night Gospel Reading in the Unfortunately, spirit sightings Those of us who Church • Friday, April 3, 5:30 p.m., Children’s were not to be! We did however, minister to young people Way of the Cross, on the have a great time and learned hope that the opportunities Labyrinth some Bisbee history to boot! we offer during this • Saturday, April 4, 7 p.m., Easter Our own history always seems season move each of our Vigil a little closer in Lent. It seems a children and youth a little • Sunday, April 5, 10 a.m., Family Easter service, followed by the good season to ponder our roots, further down the path to best Easter party in Tucson! both family and Christian as we responsible adulthood and a move towards Holy Week. In lot closer to God. Clean & ’Cue SATURDAY, MARCH 28 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. CHURCH-WIDE CLEANING & WORK DAY Bill Moore, GSP’s new Junior Warden, and the Buildings & Grounds Committee invite you to this semi-annual event where we will prepare the church for Holy Week and Easter INSIDE & OUTSIDE PROJECTS

PLAN TO STAY FOR A BARBECUE COOK-OUT (HAMBURGERS & HOTDOGS) Families, Couples and Singles all welcome! We’ll find a place where everyone can help. Everything provided. Just bring your work gloves & be ready to have fun as we work and share a meal together. Questions? Contact Bill Moore or Sue Pierce through the Parish office. The Briefly • March/April 2015 5 Parish Life n the Episcopal tradition, it is a right and you discern whether GSP a joyful thing, as we say, to welcome our you would like Diocesan Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Kirk Stevan to take this step, Welcomes ISmith, for an official visit each year. These we are having our visits are the times when individuals have popular Episcopal Bishop the opportunity to be confirmed, received or 101 class that began reaffirm their baptismal vows. in February and on April 19 While all who receive communion here continues through By The Rev. Steve three times a year and are pledges of record are Sunday, March 22. Keplinger technically members of the church, the Bishop This 90-minute is the one, since the very earliest days of the class is taught by church, who makes this official through the the Rector. It spans laying on of hands. the wide breadth of We have been preparing for the Bishop’s Christian history, visit in a number of ways, including our the Prayer Book, Inquirer’s class for adults. This year, the the liturgy, the Sacramental tradition, how we Bishop’s visit is scheduled for Sunday, April 19. govern ourselves as a church, comparison of Everyone in the congregation who has never Christian denominations, the present issues been officially received into the church by the facing the Episcopal Church, and a discussion laying on of hands by a Bishop, is asked to of what it means to be Episcopalian in what prayerfully consider being received this April. may be a post-religious age. In addition, this is the perfect opportunity The class is recommended for those of you for those who would like to reaffirm their who have come to this tradition for the first commitment to this church to step forward. time, as well as anyone who wants to learn To prepare all of you for that and to help more about the church. Green Church Report By Spencer Hunter ebruary was a busy time for us. Concurrent with Global Divestment Day (Feb.13-14, facebook.com/FossilFree) was the National Preach-In on Global Warming weekend (Feb.13-15, Fpreachin.org). We distributed the climate prayer (on Page 28 of the Feb. 8 Sunday bulletin) to be said in prayer with more than a hundred thousand others across the world on Feb. 14 at noon. We set up a table after the 10 a.m. service on Feb. 15 to show Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s video on climate change and divestment, to distribute the “Paris Pledge” of individual carbon reduction commitments, and to collect “Valentine” postcards to our senators urging them to support EPA carbon regulations for power plants. Holly Shinn and Spenser Hunter spreading the Green Gospel. We are presenting many ways for parishioners at GSP to get involved in preserving our environment as God’s creation, which is rapidly approaching a tipping point beyond which further efforts will only mitigate but not prevent catastrophic climate change. While there is much to be concerned about, there is also a great deal of optimism, excitement, and hope about our potential for change on local, national, and global levels.

6 Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Parish Life Senior Focus Carol H. McBride: Lifelong Episcopalian By Ann Schlumberger cradle moved to New York City, where Bob wrote movie music. In 1957, they moved to Tucson where he was on the music faculty at the AEpiscopalian, University of Arizona. They had two children, 94-year-old Carol and four grandchildren, and now four great McBride, has been a grandchildren. Bob has passed away, but the member of Grace- rest of the family, which lives abroad or on St. Paul’s for over the East Coast, came to Tucson to celebrate fifty years, having Christmas with Carol this year. She especially served on the vestry enjoyed being with the little ones. several times. Carol has had two major hobbies—playing When she golf in the past and currently collecting stamps. first began She has always enjoyed learning—her father attending Grace was in the financial department of the NYC Church in 1957, Public Library—and both hobbies promote she appreciated mental sharpness. She remarks that “I must its convenient location and its spirit—even have passed my genes on to my son who though at that point the physical structure specializes in collecting postmarks. He has one of at the church was not completed and of the larger collections of canceled envelopes the congregation met in the parish hall for and postcards in the country, some 605,000 of services. them.” A previous pastime—that of making At that time, the church women were lists of the freebies offered in newspapers and divided into three groups, and she was the through the mail—resulted in Carol’s being chaplain for the group she belonged to. Later, featured in a Washington, D.C., newspaper, with a friend, she also helped established which then led to radio interviews. a sizable parish library, and served as its Carol is a woman who exudes self- librarian for many years. When Rev. Bill Weeks assurance. This was definitely exhibited a wanted to have a monthly newsletter, Carol couple years ago when a drunk driver thought volunteered, winding up as the editor of Words he was turning into his own driveway and of Grace, the forerunner of The Briefly. She ended up driving into Carol’s yard, knocking says, “Preparing Words was quite a production down an ocotillo and a crashing into the front as we had to cut stencils and run them on a of her house. Awakened from a deep sleep, mimeograph.” Today Carol helps collate The another person would have panicked. Instead Briefly as well as the Sunday bulletins and of becoming hysterical at being awakened by bulletins for special services. headlights shining into her bedroom, Carol Carol grew up in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., a suburb handled the situation with the aplomb that of New York City. She played the French horn she always exhibits and just simply called the and met her native Tucsonan husband Bob police. at Bennington College in Vermont, where Despite hearing and minor memory losses, he was her music professor. She managed Carol is grateful that she can still drive, attend to graduate in three years so that they could church services, and live independently in her be married early. From Vermont, the couple own home. The Briefly • March/April 2015 7 Parish Life Holy Week, 2015 is an ancient tradition, but one not bursting into the grandeur and wonder Continued from Page 3 utilized often. We will move from of Easter. The Vigil captures the length April 3, Good Friday light to darkness, both metaphorically and breadth of and is a Noon, Stations of the Cross and physically as we travel through service everyone should experience We will have a contemporary short Gospel readings describing the sometime. In addition to the fire and Stations of the Cross experience on events of this fateful day, followed with some beautiful narration, we will the labyrinth beginning at Noon. The a musical response to each reading. have baptisms just like in the ancient practice of the stations is another It is in my mind the most emotional church. This year our liturgical team ancient tradition. At GSP, we reflect service of the year and one that also has come up with even more wonder on the events of Good Friday from a changes people. in this incredible worship event. It is liberation perspective. The service will the most memorable service in the April 4, Christian calendar. include walking for those who are able n the morning we gather to April 5, Easter Sunday: 8 & 10 a.m. and will last about 30 minutes. Iphysically prepare the church for 5:30 p.m., The Way of the Cross the big day. Those who wish to assist he day arrives. The full wonder, beauty and magnificence of the This service is a form of Stations the liturgical arts committee and altar T resurrection experience are captured of the Cross designed specifically guild in preparation are welcome to in one service. An explosion of light for children. It will also be outside, join us. and exquisite music at both services weather permitting and will be less 7 p.m., The Great Easter Vigil completes our journey to the ultimate than 30 minutes. This is the premier service in joy of resurrection and celebration. 7 p.m., Tenebrae Service the Christian tradition. We begin in Following the worship, GSP Our main Good Friday service will the darkness of the world, lighting a hosts one of Tucson’s most fantastic be one of the most moving you might primordial fire and working our way celebratory parties. You won’t want to ever experience. A service of Tenebrae through salvation history, suddenly miss any of it. Notes from the Choir Stalls will be simpler and more traditional choir takes the following Thursday Continued from Page 4 this year. We will intersperse hymns and Sunday off, although I won’t be Morris. and chants with the readings, and the resting—Nuevo Mundo, the Cochise Music for Holy Week draws upon St. Zeno’s Zombie Choir, accompanied College early music ensemble, which resources old and new. For Maundy by Jane Click, will sing “Didn’t my I codirect with former GSP choir Thursday, we will sing a setting of “Ave Lord deliver Daniel,” a traditional director Dr. Lori Keyne, will be verum corpus” by Camille Saint-Saëns spiritual adapted and arranged by performing concerts in Sierra Vista and a version of “Wondrous Love” Glenda E. Franklin. The offertory and on the border between Douglas arranged by Robert Benson. Both anthem will be “Halle, halle, halle,” a and Agua Prieta. The choir will be pieces are from the choral library. traditional Caribbean hymn arranged back the following week to prepare for The Good Friday Tenebrae service by Marty Haugen, John L. Bell and the Bishop’s visitation on April 19. will include works gleaned from last Graham Maule. The communion May God give us a contemplative summer’s Choral Director’s Workshop, anthem will be “When Mary thro’ Lent and a blessed Easter. Let us including “Vere Languores” by Tomás the garden went,” by Charles Villiers note the seasons in their passing, Luis de Victoria and “Vi Adoro,” based Stanford. give away the stuff that weighs us upon an ancient Venetian processional Easter Sunday will ring with down, and rejoice. To all of you who hymn, by Manolo Da Rold, as well as the sound of the trumpet—Adam will be engaged in preparing for and the fruits of the Choral Public Domain Ackerman joins us again this year. leading the services throughout Lent, Library, including a setting of “Popule With Rick Hanson (percussion), Holy Week and Easter, I pass on meus” by Giovanni Pierluigi da Wesley Hunter (viola), and Bruce the immortal advice of my Scottish Palestrina. From our library, we’ll sing Anderson (cello), we will have much mother-in-law: “Keep the heid, dinna “That Virgin’s Child” by Thomas Tallis. instrumental rejoicing. Choir anthems panic, and remember who you are.” Finally, we throw off the darkness include “In thy resurrection, Jesus Peace, of the tomb. Although there will still Christ” by Jacob Handl and “Easter be youth participation, the Easter Vigil Rejoicing” by James Biery. The Christina 8 Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Classes & Courses, March-April 2015 Adult Spiritual Formation CLASSES Episcopal 101—for Everyone makes it possible for us to engage this extraordinary Sundays, March 1, 8, 15 & 22, 11:45 a.m., Bloom man through the wonderful book The Credible Jesus: CONTINUING Education Center Fragments of a Vision. Join us for four Sunday mornings ll inquirers and current members wanting a of exploration and encounter with the parables, FROM “refresher” are invited to learn more of the joy dialogues and aphorisms that have challenged readers Aand highlights of the Episcopal path and sharing over the centuries. Here is a good Lenten study for FEBRUARY your journey in the 21st Century. In this five-session everyone… and you don’t even have to read the book. introduction to the Episcopal Church, we’ll discuss basic Just come and share in the conversation! Episcopal liturgical practice, the idea of liturgy, and the Facilitated by Roger Pierce. Roger is the Senior Book of Common Prayer; offer a history of the Episcopal Warden and a frequent contributor to Adult Spiritual Church, its roots and sense of tradition--including where Formation at GSP. things stand in the church’s most recent controversy; and explain the structure and organization of the Episcopal Forgiveness: What It Is and What It Isn’t Church; and what does it mean to be a member of Wednesday evenings, March 4, 11, 18 & 25, 6:30- Grace St. Paul’s Church? What do bishops do? What is 8:30 p.m., Bloom Education Center Apostolic Succession? Why do we need priests? What oin us for five Wednesday evenings in Lent as we direction does authority flow? Bring your questions to Jexplore the topic of Forgiveness with noted Episcopal all the sessions! Participants may wish to buy the book priest and writer, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton. Each Jesus Was an Episcopalian: a Newcomers Guide to the study will begin with a DVD presentation by Crafton Episcopal Church by Chris Yaw to supplement the class followed by a guest lecturer interacting with a small experience but it’s not required. group. After each DVD presentation, we will have Facilitated by Fr. Steve Keplinger, Rector of Grace St group discussions around the act of forgiveness, ways to Paul’s. forgive, and how to even begin when we find the very process to be impossible. Our study will conclude by A Credible Jesus: Fragments of a Vision answering the question, “why do we need to forgive?” Sundays, March 1, 8 & 15, 9 a.m., Bloom Education With each person bringing their own experience of Center forgiving and of being forgiven, the hope will be to esus was an extraordinary man! What a statement! emerge from Lent with a deeper understanding of the But what is more extraordinary is the way Jesus saw power of forgiveness in our own lives and those of Jthe world, commented on the ordinary, challenged and others. stunned his listeners in random insights embedded Facilitated by Margaret Moore and Catherine Penn in everyday language. This is a Jesus we really need Williams, co-chairs of Adult Spiritual Formation. to know. Robert Funk, founder of The Jesus Seminar, Lila by Marilynne Robinson (GSP Readers Group) The Labyrinth: Deepening Our Spiritual Selves NEW Friday, March 13, 11:30 a.m., Bloom Education Saturday, March 21, 9:30 a.m.-12 noon, Bloom OFFERINGS Center Education Center & the Labyrinth arilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists his half-day sacred retreat focuses on the use of the of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an labyrinth as a way of deepening our compassion, Munforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of Tboth for ourselves and for others. The labyrinth society in fear, awe, and wonder. experience helps us distinguish between superficial Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the extraneous thoughts from the “knowing” that comes countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church- from our soul level. While we must make this journey the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a on our own, it can be helpful to have guides and fellow romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She participants to enrich the experience. becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a Labyrinth educator Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress, new existence while trying to make sense of the life that Episcopal priest and Honorary Canon at Grace Cathedral preceded her newfound security. in San Francisco, notes that, quite often, as we connect Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of to the deep intuitive level within ourselves, nurtured by Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Home, the practice of labyrinth walking, we embrace what is a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving unfolding as sacred; we allow the winding path of the expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined labyrinth to take us where it will in our interior world, to become an American classic. and open to the mystery within us. GSP Readers Group meets on the second Friday of Please register by Wednesday, March 18, via email to each month at 11:30 am. All are welcome! Contact the [email protected] or by calling the church office church office at 520-327-6857 for more information about at 327-6857; group size will be limited to 12. the group. Continued on Page 10 The Briefly • March/April 2015 9 Adult Spiritual Formation Classes & Courses, March-April 2015 NEW Facilitated by Chloe Becca. Chloe has been Film Series: Living Fully, Living Consciously an educator—both in the classroom and as an 2 Saturdays, April 11 & 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Bloom OFFERINGS administrator—a counselor and a social worker. She holds Education Center three master’s degrees (Education, Counseling Psychology oin us for two Saturday evenings of documentary films and Social Work). Chloe has actively studied world exploring what it means to live as fully and consciously religions for more than a decade, and is an ordained Jas possible, no matter what our circumstances might be. interfaith minister. She is a certified spiritual counselor, We will watch the films together and share a discussion a trained SoulCollage© facilitator, a trained labyrinth about the implications for our own lives. facilitator and the owner of Exploring Spiritual Paths, April 11: “Alive Inside: A Story of Memory and LLC. Music” (100 min; 2014). “Alive Inside” is a joyous exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls The Vernal Equinox: Why Bother With It? and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. This Sunday, March 22, 9 a.m., Bloom Education Center stirring documentary follows social worker Dan Cohen, oin us for a multimedia presentation that answers founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, Jthese questions: as he fights against a broken healthcare system to Why is the church so interested in astronomy? demonstrate music’s ability to combat memory loss and What are meridian lines found in major European restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. An churches? uplifting cinematic exploration of music and the mind, What does Lent have to do with spring? This inspirational and emotional story left audiences What do Passover and Easter have to do with the humming, clapping and cheering at the 2014 Sundance vernal equinox? Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. “A life What do rams have to do with the vernal equinox? changing film”—Toronto Film Scene. What does the Roman goddess Cybele’s young lover April 25: “Griefwalker” (70 min; 2008). Filmed over have to do with the vernal equinox? a twelve-year period, “Griefwalker” is a lyrical, poetic What does the March equinox have to do with the portrait of Stephen Jenkinson’s work with dying people. New Year? Once the leader of a palliative care counseling team at What is Lady Day? Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, Jenkinson has been at Presented by Chuck Dickson, retired history professor the deathbed of well over 1,000 people. What he sees and a frequent contributor to Adult Spiritual Formation over and over, he says, is “a wretched anxiety and an at GSP. existential terror” even when there is no pain. Jenkinson The Bush Was Blazing But Not Consumed: has made it his life’s mission to change the way we die— Developing a Multicultural Community Through to turn the act of dying from denial and resistance into an essential part of life. “Astonishing… at once visually Dialogue & Liturgy by Eric Law (GSP Readers lush and scripturally poetic”—The Globe and Mail Group) Facilitated by Steve & Catherine Penn Williams. Film Friday, April 10, 11:30 a.m., Bloom Education Center buffs and longtime members of GSP, Catherine & Steve est-selling author Eric Law shows how to work with appreciate the way contemporary film can provide a the dynamics of diverse cultures to create a truly mirror for the things that matter most. Binclusive community. In his widely acclaimed The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb, Eric H. F. Law explores the Exploring Today’s Lectionary dynamics of multicultural misunderstandings and Sunday, April 12, 9 a.m., Bloom Education Center how different cultures perceive and use power. Here he oes it all just seem like Greek to you? One Sunday shows how to work with those dynamics to create a truly Da month we provide an opportunity to discuss the inclusive community. Using Exodus 3 as a theological Bible readings for that day in more depth in a small starting point, Law explains in detail how leaders can: group setting. Come join us for a thoughtful but always understand and resolve difference in communication lively conversation about scripture. styles; recognize and avoid the “Golden Calf Syndrome”; Facilitated by Catherine Penn Williams, co-chair of reconcile high-context and low-content elements in the Adult Spiritual Formation. group; use mutual invitation; build dialogue through Bishop Smith’s Visit liturgy. Following Law’s practical guidelines, we can, in Sunday, April 19, 9 & 11:45 a.m., McBride Hall the end, build multicultural structures everyone can live ishop Kirk Smith will present a class for all GSP and thrive in. members during coffee hour. GSP Readers Group meets on the second Friday of B each month at 11:30 a.m. All are welcome! Contact the Continued on Page 11 church office at 520-327-6857 for more information about the group. 10 Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Classes & Courses, March-April 2015 Adult Spiritual Formation All Are Welcome: Developing a Blazing But Not Consumed: Multicultural Church Community Developing a Multicultural Sunday, April 26, 9 a.m., Bloom Education Center Community Through art of our mission at GSP is to “strive to be a diverse Dialogue & Liturgy by Eric and supportive community.” But what does a truly Law, will begin to explore Pmulticultural community look like? How do we as the complexities involved human beings block genuine multiculturalism even as in building a genuinely we are trying to build and support it? What is our own multicultural community. cultural context, and how does that affect those from Facilitated by Kathy other cultural contexts who come to us? What can we do Conway, GSP member, as individuals, as a church community, and as a presence psychotherapist, and a long- in the world, to welcome and support the “stranger” term survivor of the joys among us more effectively? and struggles of growing up This class, based on the book The Bush Was between cultures.

ONGOING Following the Way of Jesus: For Men: Coffee, Bagels & B.S. Reconsidering Our Christian Journeys Every Thursday, 7:30-8:30 a.m., McBride Hall CLASSES Every Monday, 10 a.m.-12 noon, Bloom Education ome join our Men’s BS Center C(Bible Stuff) group! We e believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, engage different books of maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen the Bible—beginning with ‘Wand unseen...” the Book of Acts—in a What makes someone a Christian? What do you relaxed and non-judgmental believe? For many, our understanding of what it means atmosphere, examining to be a Christian has been shaped not only by church the text from a historical teachings but also by time and experience over the perspective and applying it course of our own unique spiritual journeys. to our current lives. All men are welcome! In this ongoing class, each week we undertake a Facilitated by Bill Moore. Bill has been a member of shared conversation about what matters most to us GSP since 2012. He has facilitated men’s classes in other as followers of Jesus. We utilize a variety of media churches and participated in men’s bible study groups resources and each class focuses on a different aspect of for decades. An Episcopalian for more than 30 years, Bill Christian faith, allowing for plenty of time for questions, enjoys having discussions about faith journeys with other discussion and sharing. Each session stands alone and all men. are welcome. No registration is necessary. Co-facilitated by Catherine Penn Williams and Brian Arthur. Brian is a longtime EFM mentor at GSP and Catherine is the co-chair of Adult Spiritual Formation.

What’s Happening in April 2015 Committee 15th 9 a.m., EfM Class Consciously Continued from Page 12 8th 9 a.m., EfM Class 12 Noon, Prayer Shawl Ministry 26th 9 a.m., All Are Welcome: 7 p.m., Maundy Thursday Last 7 p.m., EfM Class 7 p.m., EfM Class Developing a Supper Commemoration 9th 7:30 a.m., For Men: Coffee, 16th 7:30 a.m., For Men: Coffee, Multicultural Church 10 p.m., All-Night Gospel Bagels & B.S. Bagels & B.S. Community Reading 10th 11:30 a.m., GSP Reading Group 17th 9:30 a.m., Community of Hope 1 p.m., Mother’s Kitchen 3rd » 11 a.m., All-Night Gospel 6:30 p.m., Spirit Players: meeting (Primavera cooking team) Reading Monthly Play-Reading 6:30 p.m., Film & Fellowship 27th 10 a.m., Following the Way 12 Noon, Stations of the Cross 7 p.m., Living Fully, Living 19th BISHOP’S VISIT of Jesus: Reconsidering our Christian Journeys 5:30 p.m., Way of the Cross Consciously 9 & 11:45 a.m., Bishop’s Class 28th 9 a.m., Primavera Cooks! 7 p.m., Tenebrae Service 12th 9 a.m., Exploring Today’s 20th 10 a.m., Following the Way 6:30 p.m., Vestry Meeting 4th 7 p.m., Easter Vigil Lectionary of Jesus: Reconsidering our 29th 9 a.m., EfM Class 5th EASTER SUNDAY 6 p.m., SpiritSong: Worship & Christian Journeys 7 p.m., EfM Class 6th 10 a.m., Following the Way Prayer in the style of Taizé 22nd 9 a.m., EfM Class of Jesus: Reconsidering our 13th 10 a.m., Following the Way 7 p.m., EfM Class 30th 7:30 a.m., For Men: Coffee, Christian Journeys of Jesus: Reconsidering our 23rd 7:30 a.m., For Men: Coffee, Bagels & B.S. 10 a.m., EfM Post-Grad Forum Christian Journeys Bagels & B.S. 7 p.m., Green Church 7 p.m., Joseph’s Pantry meeting 25th 7 p.m., Living Fully, Living The Briefly • March/April 2015 11 Grace St. Paul’s NON-PROFIT EPISCOPAL CHURCH U.S. POSTAGE PAID 2331 E. Adams • Tucson, AZ 85719 Tucson, Arizona 520-327-6857 • www.gsptucson.org Permit No. 442 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

Grace St. Paul’s: A Progressive Community—Loving God, Serving Others, Journeying Together 1st 9 a.m., A Credible Jesus 7 p.m., EfM Class Jesus: Reconsidering our Christian What’s Happening 11:45 a.m., Episcopal 101 7 p.m., Forgiveness: What It Is & Journeys in March 2015 2nd 10 a.m., Following the Way of What It Isn’t 24th 9 a.m., Primavera Cooks! WEEKLY SERVICES & ACTIVITIES Jesus: Reconsidering our Christian 12th 7:30 a.m., For Men: Coffee, Bagels 6:30 p.m., Vestry Meeting Journeys & B.S. Sundays 25th 9 a.m., EfM Class 10 a.m., EfM Post-Grad Forum 13th 11:30 a.m., GSP Reading Group 8 a.m., Holy Communion 7 p.m., EfM Class 7 p.m., Green Church Committee 6:30 p.m., Lenten Film Series 8 a.m., Coffee & Conversation 7 p.m., Forgiveness: What It Is & 4th 9 a.m., EfM Class 14th 9:30 a.m., Spiritual Support What It Isn’t 9:45 a.m., Child Care 12 Noon, Prayer Shawl Ministry Group for those with chronic 26th 7:30 a.m., For Men: Coffee, Bagels 10 a.m., Holy Communion 7 p.m., EfM Class physical pain & B.S. 10 a.m., Sunday School 7 p.m., Forgiveness: What It Is & 15th 9 a.m., A Credible Jesus 27th 6:30 p.m., Lenten Film Series 11:15 a.m., Coffee Hour What It Isn’t 11:45 a.m., Episcopal 101 28th 9 a.m., Contemplative 11:30 a.m., Youth Groups 5th 7:30 a.m., For Men: Coffee, Bagels 16th 10 a.m., Following the Way of Photography for Lent Mondays & B.S. Jesus: Reconsidering our Christian 29th PALM SUNDAY 11:30 a.m., Spiritual Direction 6th 7 p.m., Spirit Players present Nicene Journeys 30th 10 a.m., Following the Way of 4 p.m., Spirit Dojo Noir: An Allegory on the Creed 18th 9 a.m., EfM Class Jesus: Reconsidering our Christian 7:30 p.m., Healing Touch Clinic 7th 9 a.m., Contemplative 12 Noon, Prayer Shawl Ministry Journeys Tuesdays Photography for Lent 7 p.m., EfM Class 12 Noon, Holy Week Service in 9 a.m., Spiritual Book Discussion 9:30 a.m., Spiritual Support 7 p.m., Forgiveness: What It Is & the Memorial Garden 6 p.m., Evening Prayer & Group for those with chronic What It Isn’t 31st 5 p.m., Holy Week Service in Communion physical pain 19th 7:30 a.m., For Men: Coffee, Bagels Julian Chapel 7 p.m., Interfaith Meditation 8th 9 a.m., A Credible Jesus & B.S. 6 p.m., Seder Meal Wednesdays 11:45 a.m., Episcopal 101 5:30 p.m., Spirit Now: Spring Looking forward to April 7 a.m., Holy Communion 1 p.m., Pet Food Collection Equinox Service 1st 7 a.m., Holy Week Service in 10 a.m., Desert Angel Quilters 6 p.m., SpiritSong: Worship & 20th 9:30 a.m., Community of Hope Julian Chapel 5 p.m., Spirit Dojo Prayer in the style of Taizé 6:30 p.m., Film & Fellowship 9 a.m., EfM Class Thursdays 9th 10 a.m., Following the Way of 21st 9 a.m., Lenten Labyrinth Retreat 12 Noon, Prayer Shawl Ministry 10 a.m., Bridge Group Jesus: Reconsidering our Christian 22nd 9 a.m., A Credible Jesus 7 p.m., EfM Class 3 p.m., Healing Touch Clinic Journeys 11:45 a.m., Episcopal 101 2nd 7:30 a.m., For Men: Coffee, Bagels 5:30 p.m., Spirit Now—An 1:30 p.m.,Writing Your Spiritual 1 p.m., Mother’s Kitchen & B.S. Emerging Worship Experience Autobiography (Primavera cooking team) 9 a.m., Community Spa Day with Saturdays 7 p.m., Joseph’s Pantry meeting 1 p.m., EfM Class Aveda Institute 9 a.m., Altar Guild 11th 9 a.m., EfM Class 23rd 10 a.m., Following the Way of Continued on Page 11