The Bulletin: Easter 2013

Christ Church Cathedral An Episcopal Community in the Heart of Houston, Texas

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The empty tomb

Holy Week and Easter

Palm Sunday, March 24

The Way of the Cross for Children 10 a.m. in the McGehee Conference Room Palm Sunday Evensong 5 p.m. in the Cathedral

Maundy Thursday, March 28 Morning Prayer 7:30 a.m. in the Golding Chapel

Easter Eve, Saturday, March 30 The Great Vigil of Easter At sundown, the first Eucharist of Easter, 8 p.m. in the Cathedral

Easter Day, March 31

Eucharist, Rite I, with Hymns 7 a.m. in the Cathedral Festival Eucharist, Rite II 9 a.m. in the Cathedral Bishop Doyle presiding

Holy Eucharist and Foot Washing 12:05 p.m. in the Cathedral Chancel 6:30 p.m. in Spanish in the Golding Chapel

Flowering of the Cross 10 a.m. in the Bishop’s Courtyard

Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar 7:30 p.m. in the Cathedral

Festival Eucharist, Rite I 11 a.m. in the Cathedral Bishop Doyle presiding

The Night Watch 8:30 p.m. in the Golding Chapel

Good Friday, March 29

Morning Prayer 7:30 a.m. in the Golding Chapel Liturgy for Good Friday 12:05 p.m. in the Cathedral Bilingual Way of the Cross/Via Crucis 6:30 p.m. in the Cathedral

Eucharist, Rite II, in Spanish 1 p.m. in the Cathedral Eucharist, Rite II 5 p.m. in the Golding Chapel

On Easter morning my children will rise with sleepy-eyed excitement to investigate what a superheroic rabbit has left in their baskets. But we should also remember that the first Easter morning had no baskets with plastic green grass.

It had no colorfully dyed eggs, no chocolate Very Rev. bunnies with ears bitten TheBarkley off, no cheery parishThompson ioners dressed in white bonnets and linen blazers for church. The first Easter morning began not in ebullient happiness but in desperate sorrow.

Jesus had died on the Friday before. In a rare act of mercy, Pontius Pilate had allowed his body to be removed from the cross, but this had occurred as the sun set and the Sabbath was beginning. Because work was prohibited on the Sabbath, Jesus’ body was quickly placed in a tomb without the proper anointing that would prepare him for burial.

That’s why Mary Magdalene, Salome, and Mary, the mother of James, go to the tomb when the Sabbath ends at dawn on Sunday morning. Theirs is a grim task: properly preparing the body of their beloved teacher after it has lain decomposing in the tomb. Their sorrow becomes desperation when they find the tomb open and the body gone. “Grave robbers!” they assume. Jesus, the embodiment of all their hope, had been executed, and now they were prevented even from carrying out this last act of love.

Could their despair be more consuming?

In Mark’s Gospel, it is only then that the women see a young man dressed in white sitting in the tomb. He has news for the women that changes everything, news that — in an instant — banishes sorrow in favor of resurrected hope. “Jesus has been raised,” the young man says, “He is not here… he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him!”

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Flowers a Flowers and Lilies

Flowers in the Cathedral are given to the glory of God...

On the Cathedral Altar In loving memory of Robert Cummins Stuart and Frances Wells Stuart, Rosa Allen Williams, Philip Carleton Koelsch, Rosalie Bosworth Ulmer, and Laurence Sautelle Bosworth Jr. and Eliose Shipper Bosworth

by Mr. and Mrs. James Gary Ulmer

In thanksgiving for Easter In Memory of Her, the meditation and musical performance by members of the Houston Chamber Choir in memory of the women who followed Jesus to Jerusalem and stood beside him at the cross, burial, and resurrection by Kathy Welch and John Unger In loving memory of Jim and Margaret Elkins at Easter by their family In loving memory of Edgar and Margot Hagstette by their sons, Guy and Eric In loving memory of Mack Goble by his wife, Dolores Goble In loving memory of her husband, Thomas Woodward Houghton; her mother, Dorothy Trone Howe Dupree; and her father, Knox Briscoe Howe; by Dorothy Knox Houghton In memory of their parents, Jean and George C. Morris Jr., and their grandparents, Mary and George C. Morris Sr., by Nan Morris, Penny Morris, Susie Morris, George C. Morris III and Marion Morris Landers In memory of Stephanie Mackie by David, Carlotta, Ava and Shepherd Mackie In loving memory of Leila Landers Vickery by her family On the choir stalls In loving memory of Henrietta Cargill Adkins and Esme Jones Holland by Antha and Bill Holland; their grandchildren, Meme, Will and Mariann; and their great grandchildren, Grace, Camille and Lillian Holland and Ann Greathouse

At the baptismal font In loving memory of James Walker Cain, Lella Dixon Cain, James Walker Cain Jr. and Dixon Hill Cain by the Cain family

At the Bryan window In loving memory of Lee and Joe Pieringer, Steve Pieringer, and Walter Heffler by the Pieringer family

At the pulpit In loving memory of Lois Cleveland Kirkland, William Alexander Kirkland, and Mr. and Mrs. A.S. Cleveland by their family

At the Gray-Gray window In loving memory of Scott Cawley by his family

At the lectern In thanksgiving for the music of the Church

by Roy and Evelyn Nolen

At the World War I memorial In loving memory of Myra W. Johnson by Mr. A. Clark Johnson and his daughter, Elyse Lyons On the Processional Crosses In loving memory of Dorothy Swope, Flora Baggett Cox and James Reed Cox At the World War II memorial In loving memory of Trude and Bernhard Ufer, Margaret B. Bradford and F. Keith Bradford by their family At the Cargill window In loving memory of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ennis, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cargill, and Mr. and Mrs. Ennis Cargill by their family At the Cleveland window In loving memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis Cleveland Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Dudley C. Sharp by their family At the Fox window In loving memory of Phyllis Webb and Kelley Maddox by the Harry Webb family At the Watson window In thanksgiving for her family and in loving memory of her husband, Harvey M. Shepherd; their parents and grandparents; her brothers, John F. Scott Jr. and Parker H. Scott; and her great aunt and uncle, Bettie Scott Watson and William V. R. Watson, by Emily Scott Shepherd

At the Botts-Clemens window In loving memory of Henry Kendall Hamilton, James Leonard Dougherty, Jewel Kendall Hamilton, William Brooke Hamilton, Newton Gilbert Dougherty and Maribel Kendall Daffan by Ann and Jim Dougherty Jr. At the Rice and Ennis windows In memory of Hugo Victor Neuhaus Jr. At the Kirkland window In loving memory of the Kirkland family At the Palmer window In loving memory of Elizabeth P. Hitson, Mr. and Mrs. M. Kirtley Harriss and Mrs. Betty Actkinson by their family At the Beckwith window In loving memory of her parents, Mary Erom and H. Marion Lewis, by Dr. Mary R. Lewis At the Ashe window In loving memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Guy Murray by George L. Murray At the Macon window In loving memory of Joe Viktorin Jr.

At the Fitch window In loving memory of her parents, Henry and Neva Donelson; her grandparents, Earl and Ellen Thrift; and her beloved Ada Mouton Chandler by Donna Donelson Between the Ashe and the Fitch windows By the Vestry in memory of Mary Louis Fitch Soule and in loving memory of her grandmother, Sally Anderson Ashe, and her parents, Charles Louis and Sally Ashe Fitch

and Lilies The pots of lilies in the Columbarium In memory of Anne T. Ruhl, Larry V. Ruhl and Joseph M. Shockler by Daniel Ruhl

In the Chapel of the Christ Child In loving memory of James Walker Cain, Lella Dixon Cain Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Northrop Peck, and Dixon Hill Cain by the Cain family

Lilies at the rood screen are given to the glory of God...

In loving memory of her parents, Nellie Ferrin Ely and James E. Ely, and of Ira Ely and Jean Houlouse by Bonnie Ely Hibbert In memory of Norma Jones and Bonnie Flowers by Burton Jones In loving remembrance of his paternal grandmother, Thelma Joyner Parsons (1906–1998), of Joyner, Virginia, by her eldest grandson, George Thomas Parsons III In memory of Don Hornbeck and of Jay Goodhart by Barb Hornbeck In memory of James and Gilda Dadura by Anne Dadura In memory of her husband, William F. Woods III, by Anne Woods In loving memory of her beloved mom, Phyllis Webb; of her uncles, Alex, Pete and Philip; of her Webb and Keese grandparents; of her niece, Kelley Maddox; of her dear friends, Stu and Cynthia Hellmann; of beloved father, “Don Roberto;” and in honor of her dearest father, Harry Webb, and Diane Webb by Adrienne Webb Braden In memory of his parents, Elliott and Lucilla Harris, by James E. Harris In memory of her father, Jack Moore, and of her grandparents, William A. and Roxie

Ann Hays and F. I. and Laura Moore, by Andrea Moore

In honor of former organist/choirmaster, Dr. Clyde Holloway, and in memory of previous organist/choirmasters, Jack Ossewaarde and William Barnard, by Bruce Power

In honor of Irene Leslie and in memory of C. E. Leslie, Walter and Agnes Mae Visinsky, Walter Visinsky Jr., and Catherine Visinsky Carr by William and Janice Visinsky In memory of her father, Morris Henry Bachmann, and in honor of her older son, Michael Kander, and daughter-inlaw, Claudia, and her younger son, James Klander, by Dayle Klander In loving memory of Robert Pulley by Donna K. Donelson In memory of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hurt Sr. and Dr. and Mrs. B. R. Parrish, by Patty and Jack Hurt In loving memory of Diane Tobola by Erin and Toby McMillin In loving memory of Edward B. Mayo

by Donna K. Donelson and William F. Lassiter In loving memory of Lester and Virginia Bille, Molly Bille, and Catherine Close by Dolly Bille In loving memory of Jane and Walter Sorensen by Pam, Walter and Joseph Sorensen In loving memory of Jane N. Hafner and Joseph A. Hafner by their daughter, Jane Hafner Anderson, and their grandson, Peter Hafner Squire In loving honor of Jane Hafner Anderson and Frank “Rusty” Anderson by their son, Peter Hafner Squire

By Marian and Harry Tindall

The Resurrection E A S T N AV E N O . 9 “After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, ...suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. For fear of him the guards shook and became like dead men.”

MATTHEW 28:1–4

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Mark’s Gospel (in its original version) abruptly ends here. At first this reads strangely, but upon closer reflection it makes all the sense in the world, both then and now. Even the resurrected Jesus does not appear to us as something we can hug and hold, like the stuffed animals children find in their Easter baskets. He is a Savior that beckons us forward to follow him into Galilee, into the world, into the dark corners where sorrow needs to hear the promise of joy, into new life.

This Easter morning, we will again find the tomb empty. Our sorrows will again be banished in favor of resurrected hope.

We will be comforted and also challenged with the sure knowledge that Jesus has defeated death and gone ahead of us in to the world. There he will wait for us to spread his love far and wide. We need only follow!

Help fold palm crosses

In the ancient Near East, when someone worthy of the highest honor passed by, palm branches were placed on his path. As Christ entered Jerusalem, on what was to become the first Palm Sunday, this honor was bestowed upon him.

On Palm Sunday we wear a cross made of palm leaves symbolizing Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem and his crucifixion on Good Friday. The Altar Guild invites you to participate in making these crosses Saturday, March 23, from 9–11 a.m. in Reynolds Hall. The cross is made in a simple folding process which volunteers can demonstrate and is an activity for adults as well as older children.

Deliver Easter Day lilies for those in our prayers Following each of the services on Easter Day, members of the Cathedral family who are unable to attend will be given lily plants as a token of their inclusion in our thoughts and prayers. If you would like to participate in this ministry, please come to

the vestibule of the Golding Chapel, where cards addressed to recipients and lilies will be available. If it is inconvenient to make the delivery on Easter Day, they may be picked up following a service and delivered later in the week.

Way of the Cross for Children

All children and parents are invited to come and hear the story of the Stations of the Cross in language and pictures appropriate for children.

On Palm Sunday, March 24, the Way of the Cross for Children will be presented following the 9 o’clock service in the McGehee Conference Room. This year our children will be reading the story that accompanies the beautiful stations.

Flowering of the Cross

On Easter Day, children of all ages are invited to bring their mite boxes and flowers from their gardens to church for the “Flowering of the Cross.” The cross will be in the Bishop’s Courtyard, ready to be decorated with fresh flowers and our Lenten offerings.

The proceeds from the mite boxes will go to SEARCH’s House of Tiny Treasures, an accredited preschool for homeless children.

The blooming alleluias that we planted on the Sunday before Lent will also be on display.