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$2.50 Help your parish prepare for the Word Illuminationshelps your congregation prepare their hearts for the Word they are about to hear each Sunday. When lectors and lay readers preface the lessons with a concise Illuminations meditation, worshipers are better able to put the scriptures in context, and focus more clearly on the sermon. For even more impact, Illuminations can be reprinted in your weekly service leaflet. Help your parishioners make a stronger connection between the scriptures and their everyday lives with Illuminations meditations. Call 1-877-822-8228 to order now. Or visit THE LIVING CHURCHwebsite at www.livingchurch.org to preview a sample meditation and subscribe. Illuminations A publication of The Living Church Foundation The objective of THELIVING CHURCH magazine is to build up the body of Christ, by describing how God is moving in his Church; by reporting news of the Church in an unbiased manner; and by presenting diverse points of view. THIS WEEK The Rt. Rev. John Bryson Chane, Bishop of Washington, with the Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd Ill, newly installed ninth dean of Washington National Cathedral [p.7]. Features Opinion 9 Colorado Congregation 11 Editor's Column United at One Altar Discourtesy Abounds BY STEVEWARING 12 Editorials Prayers for Benedict XVI 10 Tongues of Praise and Thanksgiving 13 Reader's Viewpoint BY GERALDA. SKILLICORN Soldiers of Reconciliation BYFREDERICK C. HARRISON OtherDepartments 14 Letters 4 Sunday's Readings Deep-Driven Racism 5 Books News 17 People & Places 6 Tension Grows Through Letters Onthe Cover Toe Grass Valley, Calif., church that Greta Scirpo, 11, serves as crucifer celebrates its roots in the California Gold Rush. Emmanuel Episcopal Church was organized in 1855 and the following year was deeded land by the Gold Hill Mining Co. on the condition that a church be built within 18 months to serve miners and prospectors. The Rev. James Sigler, Emmanuel's rector, has served the parish longer than any of his predecessors in more than a century. Louise Caulfield/TheUnum photo MAY 15. 2005 · THE LIVING CHURCH 3 "Speak Lord, for your servant SUNDAY'SREADINGS is listening" / ~~ \ f.,(" ~~ ~~ "'' ✓ ':;~' TheLord, the Giver of Life Helping Individuals and Groups 'You renew the face of the earth' (Psalm 104:31b) to Hear Cod's Call Pentecost(Year A), May 15, 2005 In each of our lives, crossroads BCP: Acts 2:1-11 or Ezek. 11 :17-20; Psalm 104:25-37 or 104:25-32 or 33:12- are approached: The choices may seem 15, 18-22; 1 Cor. 12:4-13 or Acts 2: 1-11; John 20: 19-23 or John 14:8-17 to be many, yet the best direction RCL: Acts 2: 1-21 or Num. 11 :24-30; Psalm 104:25-35, 37b; 1 Cor. 12:3b-13 or to cake is unclear. Acts 2: 1-21 ; John 20: 19-23 or John 7:37 -39 In carrying out their responsibilities, groups Pentecost , the Feast of the Holy fonnless and empty, darkness was over are laced with the need co make choices: Spirit, is the 50th and last day of the the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Too licrle time seems to be devoted liturgical season of Easter, the Great God was hovering over the waters" to seeking God's guidan ce in the process. Fifty Days. It is the season 's exclama­ (Gen. 1:2). The in1age is one ofprinleval Our nationally recognized workshops tion point. The season that began with darkness and chaos brooded over by help both individuals and groups open the proclamation that Christ has been the Holy Spirit as a mother bird nurtur­ their hearts and mind s - their whole selves - raised from the dead culminates with ing newly hatched chicks in a nest . All to the guiding presence of God . the proclamation that those who the other readings for today expand on Please contact our Program Office. believe in him are made new - radi­ and extend this image of the One We look forward to the opportunity cally, incredibly new, as if also raised described in the Nicene Creed as "the to see how we can help. from the dead . Lord, the Giver of Life." Paul taught , "For anyone who is in In the beginning of creation, this Lord LISTENING HEARTS MINISTRIES Christ, ther e is a new creation: the old brings life into existence. When the Phone: 4 10-366- 1851 order is gone and a new being is there world had fallen into sin, the same Lord Email: [email protected] to see" (2 Cor. 5:17), and "You must see brings new life to those who are Website: www.listeningheans.org yourselves as being dead to sin but alive redeemed by the Son. Jesus , who tells for God in Christ Jesus " (Rom. 6:11). Philip , "I am in the Father and the The Sistersof St. Margaret This is the crowning, clin1actic work of Father is in me," says further , "I shall God the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, by ask the Fath er, and he will give you whose power all that lives came to be, another Paraclete to be with you for As part of our on-going acts mightily again on the Feast of Pen­ ever, the Spirit of truth " (John 14:ll ,16- vocations program , we tecost. 17a). In words that echo the image in invite women ages 21- The many options for readings given Genesis, in Ezekiel the Lord says, "I 45 who are interested in for this great feast of Pente cost are evi­ shall remove the heart of stone from the religious life to dence of the complexity of the person their bodies and give them a heart of come and experience of the Holy Spirit and his action in the flesh" (Ezek. 11:19). In all the lessons life of the world and the lives of the for Pentecost we see the theme that our life. faithful, but all have to do with giving "things which were cast down are being life. He is first mentioned in the Bible in raised up, and things which had grown An Invitation to Explore its second verse: "Now the earth was old are being made new." October 7 - 9, 2005 LookIt Up Read the lessons appointed for the early or vigil service and see how each supports For more information and a the theme of "the Lord, the Giver of Life." brochure please contact us: ThinkAbout It Society of St. Margaret Christians contin ue to sin. How does this lamentable but indisputable reality square 17 Highland Park Street with the assurance that we are "dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus "? Boston, MA 02119 617-445-8961 NextSunday TrinitySunday (Year A), May 22, 2005 BCP: Gen. 1 :1-2:3; Psalm 150 or Canticle 2 or 13; 2 Cor. 13:(5-10)11-14 ; Matt. [email protected] 28:16-20 www.ssmbos.com RCL: Gen. 1:1-2:4a; Psalm 8 or Canticle 2 or 13; 2 Cor. 13:11-13; Matt. 28:16-20 4 THE LIV IN G CH URCH · MAY 15. 2005 BOOKS ______________________ _ Buildingthe 'Goodly small in numbers and only independent and its consequences tormenting peo­ since the early 1970s - is as colorful and ple with some of the cruelest misfor­ Fellowshipof Faith' remarkable as any in the nation. tunes of their lives." A Historyof the EpiscopalChurch Gary Freeman In Love That Works, Bruce Brander Beverly, Mass. has given a perspective useful for the in utah,1867-1996 By FrederickQuinn. Utah State University ministry of parish nurses; that is, he has Press. Pp. 324. $24.95. ISBN 0-87421-593-5. LoveThat Works set forth the connections among body, TheArt andScience of Giving mind, and spirit. Other pastoral leaders Parts of Utah are so desolate that the will find opportunities for augmenting moon looks more hospitable, yet it was­ By Bruce Brander. Templeton Foundation. Pp.162. $14.95. ISBN 1-932031-77-4. the author's ideas with soteriology. In n't totally infertile for a blooming Epis­ addition, it seems to these reviewers Bruce Brander has presented a trea­ copal Church. Frederick Quinn tells a that lack of love can be as deadly as the tise on love stemming from his experi­ story beginning with Daniel Tuttle's diseases which plague us. When ence as social philosopher, arrival by stagecoach from the East, we are not nurtured and, simi­ professor, and human being. shortly after the end of the Civil War to larly, when we do not nurture Thus he reveals with expert­ the death of George Bates in 1996, each other, our spirits die. We ise: "Anyone today embark­ whose move to sell St. Mark's Hospital are empty emotionally, our ing upon the perilous course brought the diocese from poverty to physical health suffers. To love of love feeling certain of hap­ affluence overnight. Bates' successor is others and to allow ourselves to pily-ever-after would seem the current bishop, Carolyn Tanner be loved is worth the risk set either reckless or naive. Old­ Irish, wife of the author. before us by Prof. Brander, who tin1e hopes of life-long, lov­ Quinn presents chronological his­ has given us a fine book. ing bliss have turned tory, save for some incidental flash­ Edward F. Ambrose, Jr. unrealistic. Instead, we are guarded, backs, and displays a love and respect Jo Ambrose suspicious, made so by what we see for his many sources that easily endears Plwenix, Ariz. Quinn's efforts to the reader. He begins and experience of love ..
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