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High school-age kids: Want to come help with convention?This group of youth volunteers from the 2015 convention is typical of the 50-some high school-age youth who work every year to keep the convention running smoothly, even as they learn about how they can take their own places in the Episcopal Church. To learn more about volunteering as a youth worker or a deanery youth delegate, see the story at right.

Nominations are open for diocesan officesNominations are now open for diocesan

officers and for deputies to General Convention (to be held in Austin, Texas, July 5 – 13, 2018).

For a list of open offices, nomination forms and submission instructions, visit www.ladio-cese.org/convention/nominations.html. Nomina-

tions must be made by a clergy person of the diocese or a lay delegate to the convention. For a candidate to be included on the printed tally sheet, nomination forms are due Nov. 10 (extended from the previously announced deadline). Nominations submitted by Nov. 21 will be listed on the diocesan website. ?

The Program Group on Youth and Young Adult Ministries invites young people in high school (grades 9 – 12) to volunteer

as workers at Diocesan Convention Dec. 2 – 3 at the Ontario Convention Center. The youth fulfill a number of essential roles, including se-curity at the doors, staffing the microphones, distributing and collecting ballots, and gener-ally keeping the meeting running.

Generations of young people of the diocese have discovered the workings of the church by participating in the official youth presence at the annual meeting of Diocesan Conven-tion. They meet bishops, clergy and lay lead-ers, work with young people from all over the diocese and learn how they can begin to take their own places in the wider church.

Young people who will take part in con-vention must attend a training meeting on Saturday, Nov. 18, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul, 840 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles 90026. Transportation help is available for those living at a distance from the Cathedral Center.

A $125 charge for each youth volunteer helps to cover the cost of hotel rooms for Dec. 1 and 2, and meals and snacks during the convention. Limited scholarship assis-tance is available. Youth volunteers will be supervised and chaperoned throughout the convention. For complete information, in-structions, rules about expected behavior and attire, and registration forms, visit visit www.pgym.la/diocon. Direct any additional ques-tions to Chris Tumilty, diocesan youth min-istry coordinator, at ctumilty@ladiocese.org or 213.482.2040, ext. 211. Youth registration forms are due by Nov. 4.

In addition, each year Diocesan Convention provides seat, voice, and vote to one youth delegate from each of the 10 deaneries of the Diocese of Los Angeles. A delegate from each deanery is also needed. The convention offers young people a unique opportunity to address the diocese’s current issues and to advocate for the needs of their peers. For more infor-mation, visit www.pgym.la/diocon ?

Youth invited to volunteer for Dec. 2 – 3 convention

No need to travel or turn to the tube to get an imaginative taste of the revelry

of Merrie Old England. The Brass Rubbing Medieval Arts Center at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Long Beach, provides replicas each year of historic brass European burial mark-ers, and for a materials fee ($7 and up), visi-tors to St. Luke’s “Castle Cassidy” can cap-ture history and make art by rubbing gold, silver or copper wax sticks onto paper taped over the metal etchings.

The center, open from Oct. 19 through Nov. 12, is at St. Luke’s Church, 525 E. Sev-

enth Street in downtown Long Beach. Hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for adult and youth groups and on Saturdays, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., for indi-viduals. A multi-cultural area of the center includes Mayan plaques, Chinese and Celtic brasses, Indian and Indonesian woodblocks, interfaith symbol tiles and more.

Teas are available for groups by reservation or on Oct. 22, 29 and Nov. 6 for individuals. For reservations and information contact Gail Mutke, 562.439.9496 or brass.rubbing.lb@gmail.com. ?

Brass Rubbing Center returns to Long Beach for 30th year

Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise,

make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Following the path of JesusF r o m T h E b i s h o p s

— sunday, october 23 —4 p.m. music for trombone, organ and piano Grace Episcopal Church 555 E. Mountain View Avenue, Glendora 91741Information: 626.335.3171

4 p.m. concert: shakespeare – muse to musicians Trinity Episcopal Church 419 South Fourth Street, Redlands Information: 909.793.2014

5 p.m. tesserae: anecdotes and innuendos All Saints’ Episcopal Church 504 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills 90210 Information: www.allsaintsbh.org

7 p.m. taizé worship service St. Francis Episcopal Church 2200 Via Rosa, Palos Verdes Estates Informaton: www.stfrancispalosverdes.org

— wednesday, october 26 —7:15 p.m. east san gabriel valley collation for the homeless homeless memorial service Sacred Heart Catholic Church 344 Workman Street, Covina Information: www.esgvch.org

— thursday, october 27 —10 a.m. health legacy fair for clergy / lay leaders St. John’s Episcopal Church 4745 Wheeler Avenue, La Verne 91750 Information: 909.596.1321

— saturday, october 29 —8 a.m. gooden center ride 4 recovery Centennial Square 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Pasadena Information: www.goodencenter.org/donations/r4r

— sunday, november 6 —5 p.m. choral evensong All Saints’ Episcopal Church 504 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills 90210 Information: www.allsaintsbh.org

For more events and program details, visit www.ladiocese.org and select “Calendar.”

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Episcopal News WeeklyEditor: Janet Kawamoto, editor@ladiocese.org Advertising: bob Williams, media@ladiocese.org

THE VolumE 5, NumbEr 36

by diane Jardine bruce

I find this collect, assigned to be read with the Gospel according to Luke on this Sun-day, to be a beautiful pairing. In the Gospel

for today Jesus compares two men who were praying. One was self-righteous, the other, a tax collector, felt shame, apparently because of his work. Jesus ends with this line: All who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.

The gifts of faith, hope and charity are great gifts indeed. They open us up to see-ing beyond ourselves to the needs around us. They also offer us the opportunity to not take ourselves so seriously or think so well of our-selves that we cannot see our own sins and shortcomings. When we love ourselves more

than we love God, we can’t possibly follow God’s commandments, and especially the one Jesus left us with: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12).

The kind of love Jesus left us with is chock-full of the gifts of faith, hope and charity — indeed I would say they are byproducts of that great love. Is it easy to follow — to love — the commandments? No, it’s not. It can be a daily struggle. Yet we are all called to self examination and repentance, returning to the path we have strayed from, the path Jesus in-vites us to follow him on. That path leads to humility, kindness, and love. May we all con-tinue to strive to walk on that path. ?

The H. Belfield Hannibal Chapter of Union of Black Episcopalians along with Holy Faith Church will sponsor a

meet-and-greet with five of the six candidates for bishop coadjutor at 4 p.m. today, Sunday, October 23, at Holy Faith, 260 N. Locust Av-enue in Inglewood.

Candidates attending will be the Paul Fromborg, the Rev. Rachel Nyback, the Rev. Anna Olson, the Rev. John Taylor, and the Rev. Mauricio Wilson. The sixth candidate, the Rt. Rev. Pierre Whalon, who is based in Paris, France, will be unable to attend.

All members of the diocesan community, especially those who could not attend the Oct.

7 -9 regional forums with the candidates, are invited to attend this informal gathering, at which a meal featuring soul food and a taco bar will be served. ?

The Episcopal Newsdownload the nomination report 2016 (English) and reporte de nominación 2016 (spanish) issues of The Episcopal news at www.ladiocese.org.

Another chance today to meet the nominees