cathedral times The Weekly Newsletter of the Cathedral of St. Philip, Serving Atlanta and the World
July 24, 2016
CAN ONE GO HOME AGAIN? By the Rev. Todd Smelser Canon Associate for Pastoral Care In the middle of June I flew to Dayton, Ohio and then on to Liberty, Indiana, where the class of 1966 was celebrating our fiftieth high school graduation. Although I was rather ambivalent about returning to my roots, I made the travel plans and returned. It was my first trip back to Indiana since my mother moved to Atlanta in 2009, so it had been many years since I’d seen any of my classmates. After all of this time, most of us had grey hair (or very little at all) and had added a few pounds. Some friends I recognized right away—others
I had to strain to read their name tags. But since I had known many of these folks since kindergarten days, there were lots of nostalgic memories passed around. The following evening I attended the high school alumni dinner. Served by the Lions Club, our class was honored along with many others. Since my mother had also graduated from this school in 1939, and had taught there for over thirty years, it was also a wonderful opportunity for them to share with me what a great English teacher my mother had been. Person after person told me how influential she had been, and I brought back many wonderful greetings and shared stories. It was the best gift anyone could have given my mom. While there I made my own pilgrimage of sorts. After living in cities most of my life, I enjoyed driving down familiar roads surrounded by acres of corn and cattle grazing in the fields. I also drove by the house I grew up in, toured my parent’s farm, where we moved when I was fourteen, and visited the cemetery where my dad is buried. I also drove by the Methodist Church where so many of my classmates were members, and where I got my first church job as the organist when I was thirteen. Then it was on to Richmond, only fourteen miles away. I drove by the home where mom moved after she sold the farm, toured the new fine arts building at Earlham College where I attended (as did my parents) and then St. Paul’s Church, where I was baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal Church. All in all, I was very thankful to return and to remember all the nurturing that I experienced there.
“He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread...’” From this week’s lectionary Luke 11:2-3
Recently I read a survey in England in which the largest religious group was identified as the “nones”—which means no religious affiliation at all. Perhaps the English people have decided not only to abandon the European Union, but their own religious heritage as well. Closer to home, my own home parish, St. Paul’s, now shares a priest with another parish, and both seminaries I either attended or on whose board I served have sold their campuses and are trying to “re-invent” themselves. Clearly the religious landscape is changing, but what does the future hold in store? Perhaps it is a good spiritual practice for all of us to “go home again”—literally and metaphorically. What relationships and institutions that shaped our earlier years are still important in how we see the world and live out our commitments and faith? How can we connect with them without falling into a nostalgic reverie? How can this Cathedral parish be a beacon on the hill, in a very crowded and sometimes confused world? Finally, in an increasingly violent and polarized society, how can we proclaim in even bolder terms, the gospel of the Prince of Peace?”
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2016 CH APTER Rob Adams (Junior Warden), Mary Bondurant (Executive Committee At-Large), Josh Borden, Kate Brewer, Matt Caine, Mary Caroline Cravens (Senior Warden), Joan Gilbert, Austin Hall (Secretary), Jason Hultgren, Lindsey Hardegree, Wade Hooper, Eric Mininberg, Doug O’Bryan (Treasurer), Brad Reeves, Julie Rief, Ruth Russ, Susan Troutman, George Watson, Anne Young
Solvitur ambulando: It is solved by walking. Much of my prayer life these days happens while I am running or walking. The rhythmic pattern of my feet touching the ground and the movement of my body through space carries me from external awareness to an inner place of quiet. In the quiet I am able to listen not to my own thoughts but to those that God brings forth through my heart. I believe that God plants our prayers deep within us, and when we can find a place of stillness, we are able to hear that prayer as it unfolds in us and pray it back to God as our heart’s deepest desire. Often, as I begin my walk or run, I start with a practice of gratitude in which I give thanks for the ordinary things like breath and mobility and sight and life itself. This opens my heart to God in a way that I am able to see more clearly the gifts and graces of everyday life that I so often take for granted. Other times, I begin with something on my heart that needs attention: a sorrow, a thanksgiving, a fear, a worry. When I start this way, I try to name what I carry and then let it go to be carried by the rhythm of the walk. It is when I can become unattached to the outcome that a sense of peace, or at the very least, some internal shift might occur. It is when I stop trying to “solve” that God can work in me and help me to know that God walks with me though all of it. It is this deeper remembering that gives meaning to the phrase, “Solvitur ambulando,” it is solved by walking. When we walk with God we are not walking alone. —Barbara Pendergrast If you missed previous issues, check out the Prayer Corner archive at stphilipscathedral.org/prayercorner.
CLERGY A ND SENIOR STA FF The Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler Dean Dale Adelmann, Ph.D. Canon for Music The Rev. George M. Maxwell, Jr. Vicar The Rev. C. Wallace Marsh IV Canon for Pastoral Care and Worship The Rev. Catherine Zappa Canon for Spirituality and Mission The Rev. John William Harkins III, Ph.D. Priest Associate The Rev. Todd D. Smelser Canon Associate for Pastoral Care The Rev. Theophus “Thee” Smith, Ph.D. Priest Associate The Rev. Carolynne G. Williams Canon Associate for Pastoral and Elder Care The Rev. Juan Sandoval Deacon for Hispanic Ministries
WORSHIP SCHEDULE Sunday, July 24, 2016 / Pentecost 10: Proper 12C Liturgy of the Word Lesson: Hosea 1:2-10 Psalm 85 Epistle: Colossians 2:6-19 Gospel: Luke 11:1-13
7:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Mikell Chapel Celebrant and Preacher: Canon Wallace Marsh
8:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Celebrant: The Rev. Dr. Bill Harkins Preacher: Canon George Maxwell 9 a.m.
Holy Eucharist, Mikell Chapel Celebrant and Preacher: Canon Wallace Marsh
11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Celebrant: Canon Cathy Zappa Preacher: Canon Todd Smelser
11:15 a.m. La Santa Eucaristía, Mikell Chapel Celebrant: The Rev. Dr. Bill Harkins Preacher: Deacon Juan Sandoval
MUSIC Sunday, July 24, 2016 / Pentecost 10: Proper 12C
8:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist / Cathedral Choir (Sopranos and Altos) Alan Ridout, Prevent us, O Lord Arthur Wills, Ave verum corpus
MEMBERSHIP BIRTH William Hunt Dozier, son of Katie and Taylor Dozier, grandson of Margaret and Scott Dozier, great-grandson of Marg and Dick Denny, born July 3, 2016 WEDDING Haley Gage and Forrest Champion IV, married July 9, 2016 BAPTISM Brylee Lynn Pavlosky, July 10, 2016 NEW MEMBERS Adesgun Johnson, from Lagos, Nigeria Susannah Jane Morgan, from Atlanta
ADULT EDUCATION DEAN'S WOMEN'S BIBLE STUDY In this summer series, open to all, some of the lights of our Cathedral community teach about saints, historical and contemporary, who have inspired them by the way they lived out the Beatitudes and their faith. This class meets at 10:10 a.m., Sundays in Child Hall. This Sunday, July 24, Greg Cole, director of development and communication at Emmaus House, will talk about Thich Nhat Hanh. Emmaus House, a ministry of the Diocese of Atlanta, provides education, opportunity, assistance, and advocacy in partnerships with their neighbors in Peoplestown. Podcasts of previous classes and the full schedule are available at stphilipscathedral.org/learn.
This summer, the Dean's Women's Bible Study will read Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Amy-Jill Levine. Levine is a professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is an engaging teacher and writer (you might have heard/seen her lecturing here in town or in one of the Great Courses series). The book offers fresh studies of parables we have all heard many times, seeking to show us how to hear these stories “through an imagined set of first-century Jewish ears” (as Jesus’ listeners would have heard them), and how to translate them so that they can be heard still speaking today. All women are invited to join us in this book study. We meet Wednesdays from 10:45-11:45 a.m. in the Chapter Room. Contact Mary Caroline Cravens, marycarolined@cs.com, with any questions.
SPIR ITUALIT Y FALL CLASS ON “THE WAY OF PR AYER” If you are interested in going deeper in prayer, with the support of a spiritual community, consider participating in our fall offering, “The Way of Prayer.” This 11-week course, facilitated by Cathedral member and long-time church educator Bonnie Lamberth, will combine the study and practice of prayer with group spiritual direction. The group will meet Wednesday mornings, 9:30–11:30 a.m., from September 7 – November 16. For more information, email lamberthb@bellsouth.net.
PR AYER S FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL OR RECOVERING: Julia Alston, Steve Auerbach, Priscilla Beale, Rodger Beatty, Karen Bellaire,
George Bird, John Blair, Marcia Block, David Boone, Josh Borden, Joan Brooks, Keith Brooks, Neal Brown and family, Meredith, Adam and Leo Bugenske, Denise Carlson, Josie Carlyle, Jan Childers, Andrew Clark, Joann Claypoole, David Collins, Lawrence
Cowart, Jackson Culbreth, Terry Dornbush, Sarah duBignon, Kitty Dukehart, Angela Ellis, Mary Elrod, Amy Feuss, Jessica Flores, Robert L. Foreman, Jr., Mary Ann Frazier, Carleton Fuller, Susan Gill, Rebecca Gorman, Peggy Govan, Eudelle Lanier Graham, Dianne Griner, D. Louis Gruver, Jr., Ellen Gunn, Stan Haines, Jane Hannah, Caroline Hatcher, Shirley Heermann, Patricia
Hentz, Debanhi Hernandez, Richard Hill, Connie Hoar, Annemarie and Ante Jazic, Jon, Dorothy Lanier Kenerly, Kelly Kolak,
Lisa Krysiak, Margaret Winders Kuhn, Tommy Lanier, Karen League, Jack Lyle, Robert Maddox, Herb Matthews, Janie Mathis, Michelle Maxwell, Reilly McClain, Bonnie Shields McCormack, Carol McDonald, Lorraine McKnight, Jan McPherson, Dick
Miller, Lucius Morton, Julia and William Moye, Andy Nelson, Stuart Peebles, Libby Powell, Garry Pryor, Jennifer Rankin, Jonna Rankine, Whitney Kemble Robbins, Coleen Schoen, Logan Shannep, Michelle Simmons, Lara Smith Sitton, Bill Smith, Lyda
Sorgini, Joe K. Steele, Mack Stevenson, Roy Unkefer, Martir Valesquez, Ed Vogel, Meredith Wallace, Chandra Westafer, Caroline and John Westerhoff, Stephen Williamson, Dick Wilson, Marion Wilson, Lu Worrell, Patricia Young, Hollis Youngner FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED: Doris Boswell Chambless
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POSTMASTER: Dated Material. Please deliver by July 23, 2016 POSTMASTER Send address changes to: The Cathedral of St Philip 2744 Peachtree Road, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30305-2920 404.365.1000
C ATHEDR AL THRIF T HOUSE Treasure of the Week A wonderful collection of beautiful children's clothes, including many brand new! Plus a great and unique Stokke Tripp Trapp red high chair.
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PILGR IM AGE You are invited to consider joining a Roots of Anglicanism pilgrimage, April 21 – May 4, 2017. Each day will include a visit to one of England’s great, historic cathedrals or collegiate foundations—including Canterbury, Cambridge University (King's, St. John's, and Trinity Colleges), Oxford University (Christ Church Cathedral and New College), Durham, Fountains Abbey, Salisbury, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Winchester, and York Minster. We will also have an opportunity to join each institution’s worshipping community for Choral Evensong or Eucharist sung by its own resident choir.
The pilgrimage will be led by Canons Dale Adelmann and Wallace Marsh. Group size is anticipated to be 25, and priority will be given to persons closely affiliated with the Cathedral. For more information, contact Canon Adelmann, dadelmann@ stphilipscathedral.org or 404-365-1051.
HOMECOMING! Sunday, August 14 Minsitry Fair at 10:10 a.m. in Child Hall Celebrate the beginning of a new program year with old friends, or find a new ministry of the parish to join.