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St. Mary's Episcopal Church the Messenger September 2012 to Rejoice in the Love of God As Revealed in Jesus Christ and Share That Love with All People St St. Mary's Episcopal Church September 2012 Messenger Newsletter Page 1 of 20 St. Mary's Episcopal Church The Messenger September 2012 To rejoice in the love of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and share that love with all people St. Mary's Mission Statement Message from the Rector St. Mary's Episcopal The Rev. Sarah Odderstol Church Service Hours Sundays, 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. in the Church Wednesdays, 9 a.m. in the Chapel For additional service information, please visit our Synchronicity is defined as an apparently meaningful coincidence in time website at www.stmaryspr.org of two or more similar or identical events that are casually related. I had a synchronous summer! While on vacation in Minnesota, we spent a day In This Issue poking around in the cute shops in Ely. A little pad of note paper caught About the Messenger my eye. The message across the top read: What People Need is a Good Message from the Rector Listening To . "Amen, to that!" I said to myself. About The Messenger The next day, I had an appointment to have coffee with my Aunt Carol. She wanted some time alone with me; she wanted me to choose some books from my uncle's library before she donated the books. My Uncle Bill, who had been a Methodist minister, died two years ago. Over coffee, my aunt said to me, "Sarah, I have a question. Why will no one talk to me about Bill? I bring him up and people change the subject. I really want to talk about Bill; it feels good to remember him." I affirmed how good it feels to talk about those we love but see no longer and suggested two reasons people may be hesitant to talk about Bill with her. First, they might be afraid the conversation will upset her and thus make them feel uncomfortable. Second, talking about someone who has died causes people to confront their own mortality... thus making them feel uncomfortable. People avoid topics that make them uncomfortable. We talked for a while about Bill. We talked about how deep Messenger Newsletter conversations with him were. We talked about how funny it was he could Submission be so organized in some areas of his life, but left piles of papers all over the place. (Must run in the family!) I offered that perhaps people would be more comfortable talking about Bill if she told them that she likes to If you are interested in talk about Bill and finds it very helpful to do so. People like to be submitting material for helpful... even if it makes them uncomfortable. What people need is a the October 2012 good listening to... Messenger newsletter, submissions must be made on or https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=11108811... 8/31/2012 St. Mary's Episcopal Church September 2012 Messenger Newsletter Page 2 of 20 before September 23rd. Also this summer, we read three books for the Read and W(h)ine About It Submissions received book club: The Field, The Compassionate Life and Ishmael. Each book, in after this date will be its own way, was about our need to be better listeners. Synchronicity... I placed in the following love it when life reinforces what I am learning! Truth be told, I believe month's newsletter. life is always reinforcing the good stuff we learn... we just have to be Please email submissions listening. to parishadmin@stmaryspr. Because what people need is a good listening to, we worked this summer org to roll out a new pastoral care ministry at St. Mary's. EpiscoPALS is the dream child of Sue Beyer. EpiscoPALS was created in order to provide Messenger Birthday and ongoing support to individuals or families whom could benefit from a Anniversary List long term caring relationship. Recipients of this ministry will be offered spiritual support from an individual or team assigned to them. The If your name is not current EpiscoPALS team members are: Ann Curet, Anne Schiave, Carol located on the birthday Johnson, Dorothy Byrd, Scott Sumner, Trish Morris and Sue Beyer. If you or anniversary list, we or someone you know could benefit from having an EpiscoPAL, please apologize and ask that talk to me or another clergy member. you please contact Christina Rompon at 847- I hope you had a good summer too... I look forward to hearing about it! 823-4126 or send an email to parishadmin@stmaryspr. Blessings, org with your date of birth or anniversary date Sarah+ so that we can place it in all future newsletters and bulletins. Our Website Learn more about St. Mary's, our worship services, events and activities, and parishioners at our website! St. Mary's Episcopal Message from the Assistant Rector Church The Rev. Ed Bird WORSHIP NOTES Altar Flowers LOGO & LOPE WIRE / Abandon With the exception of Advent and Lent, flowers This was a note I had written to myself in seminary. My shorthand is an are used to amalgam of letters, drawings, symbols, shortened sentences, at times dress the altar area each written so rapidly it is only scribble. But sometimes they make me work Sunday as we partake in harder, not smarter. I stared at my notes, trying to make sense out of our feast at the Lord's this phrase. It was circled three times and underlined. One of my table. Following the seminary Bible professors had really impressed this on me such that it 10:00am service, the was the only thing I wrote in huge letters on a single page, with arrows flowers are delivered to pointing to the lectionary readings (that we have again this week) on home-bound, another page. (Song of Solomon 2:8-13; Psalm 45:1-2, 7-10; James hospitalized, or 1:17-27; and Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23). What in creation had I written rehabbing parishioners in here? " LOGO & LOPE WIRE/ Abandon." the area. You are welcome I had no idea but it clearly was crucial to figure out what I meant. So I to memorialize a trolled through the lectionary readings for this week, doing the opposite deceased loved one or of what my notes were intended to do: point to a larger point or group https://ui.constantcontact.com/visualeditor/visual_editor_preview.jsp?agent.uid=11108811... 8/31/2012 St. Mary's Episcopal Church September 2012 Messenger Newsletter Page 3 of 20 offer thanksgiving for a of writings, rather than having to go to those writings to figure out what blessing by using one of I wrote in my shorthand. But I was determined. I started with Mark: the yellow envelopes in Jesus is having a field day with (and his fill of) the religious leaders of the narthex. Simply his day. They are inquiring about the religiously unclean ways the complete the disciples are conducting themselves. I suspect in the reading of Mark up information on to this point that his band of followers may have been a motley crew. the outside and enclose His feeding of five thousand people and healings have sparked a either cash or a check following of God fearing people who might not be seen as good enough made payable to St. to be present in a house of worship. Jesus asks the religious leaders Mary's Altar Guild. The what is more important, that new members of the community follow cost of the altar flowers customs we impose, or that they love God in a community from which range from $40 to $60 they have felt excluded? Love God, of course, is more important. Love depending on the God. Hmm, LO ve GO d. AHA! " LOGO" in my notes meant "LOVE GOD.' occasion or feast. Your offering will be And what else? "& LOPE". LO -ve ..... Pencils? Peaches? Perrier? appreciated by those of Eureka! LOVE PEOPLE. Mark shows Jesus building community with us able to attend church many outcasted folks (not just smiling at them but building community). and those of us who can The Letter of James today reminds us that any good act, any act of only be here in spirit! If kindness, comes from God. Being kind, loving people, is a spiritual act, you have any questions, no matter what we think about it. So my notes now read " LOVE GOD & contact Trish Morris at LOVE PEOPLE...." (847) 698-1014. I read the Psalms and the Song of Solomon for this week. Wow. As a bit Greeters of a poet I value the love-laden language and the metaphors. I am Each Sunday morning as reminded of the love of newlyweds, and of St. Theresa's love for God. parishioners and visitors These all love with .....Oh, Wow! WiRe / Abandon = WITH RECKLESS enter the church, they ABANDON. are greeted by a parishioner assigned as LOVE GOD AND LOVE PEOPLE WITH RECKLESS ABANDON. the official greeter. As What kind of world would we re-create on the days we let go just a bit? well, the greeter makes If I allowed God's love to change me ever so slightly? What if my sense of sure newcomers are propriety was overruled even briefly by feeling and sharing this gracious, introduced to others and self - giving presence of God? I was overjoyed at the gem I had found in invited to coffee hour. my notes, as if I had just heard the lecture for the first time. I wonder Believe it or not, some if I can keep it alive, or is it just a clever point from notes I likely won't parishes do not have a read again? The choice is mine.
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