Grace Episcopal Cathedral Topeka, Kansas

April 2017 Vol. 91, No. 4

It’s About Time

Dear Friends,

The Church has a

different way of

talking about time.

Clock time—the

passing of one day

after another—is chronos. Chronos is

“it’s just another day” kind of time.

But there is a different kind of time—

a time when we know something

significant is happening. We call that

Kairos. Kairos is when a baby is born,

or when a couple gets married, or

when somehow the world stops for a

moment and you are out of the

everydayness of life into a different

realm. Kairos is the “fullness” of

time—the sense of being fully alive

and not just marking time.

Holy Week is all about Kairos.

“Holy” means “to be set apart”—holy

time is different from profane /

secular time. Christians have always

had a different sense of time.

Although we are certainly influenced

by our culture, we don’t mark the year

by the television season nor—hard to

believe—even by sports seasons. No,

we are on a different calendar, a

liturgical calendar that guides us

through a pattern of prayer and

celebration.

So, Holy Week is a time for us to

immerse ourselves in Kairos, to

experience the awesome drama

embodied in the services. It’s all

there: the drama of Palm Sunday; the

intimacy of washing each other’s feet

and eating bread and drinking wine;

From the Dean. . .

continued on page 2

Make the journey through Holy Week

at Grace Cathedral

Palm Sunday, April 9—Easter Day, April 16

See our Holy Week Service Schedule on page 3

DOK March meeting, April 1 The Grace Chapter of Daughters of the King

will meet at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, April 1, in

the Bubb Room of the Cathedral. Following

our worship, Deacon Anne Flynn will instruct

us in using the Book of Common Prayer for

daily use. All women of the church are welcome to join this meeting to learn

more about Daughters of the King.

Graduates anyone? We want to recognize Cathedral members who will be high school or

college graduates in May. Please call (235-3457) or send an e-mail to us

(info@GraceCathedralTopeka.org) with their name, school and future plans

by April 15 so we can profile them in the May issue of The Chimes.

Lay Weeders Needed It’s spring again and time to start taking care of the Bethany Place gardens.

If you would consider volunteering to take a small section of the gardens,

please call Steve at the church office. Your main duty is to keep the weeds

pulled in your section throughout the summer, but if you would like to add

some plantings, you can do that too. The initial weed pulling might take a

couple of hours but once that’s done, you can maintain your area in less than

an hour each week or two. All areas have been treated with Preen Weed

Preventer, so that should help. Unfortunately, this is a pre-emergent and

some of the weeds were poking their little heads out in February before we

could get to them. Nevertheless, the gardens aren’t in bad shape now and

starting early will make your job easier.

Sign up now for summer softball! Planning for the Grace Cathedral Summer Softball team is already

underway. This team is for adults 16-80 (no that’s not a typo) and plays a 12

game season in the Shawnee County Co-Recreational League on Friday

evenings beginning May 5. We are looking for both regular players and

substitutes. If you don’t want to play, but would be willing to help with

childcare so parents can play, we need you, too. This league is just for fun,

so don’t worry if you’re not a star! Please contact Michael Massey at the

church office, 785-235-3457 or mjmassey@gracecathedraltopeka.org.

May Classes at Bishop Kemper School for Ministry BKSM is offering four classes during its May session, which meets May 13-

14 in Topeka: Anglican Identity, Diversity and Inclusion, Parish

Administration, and Introduction to the New Testament (Saturday only

class). Tuition begins at $100, which includes meals and overnight

accommodations at Upton Hall. Registration deadline is April 10. You can

find complete course details and register here:

www.bishopkemperschool.org/may-2017-courses.html SYMPATHIES

Sympathies of the parish go to Don Grimes on the death of his sister, Helen;

and to the family and friends of long-time Cathedral member Ron Cooke

who died March 16. May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful

departed, rest in peace.

the staying awake with Jesus in the

garden from Thursday night to noon

on Good Friday; the starkness of the

Good Friday liturgy; the wonderful

celebrations of Easter Sunday.

Yes, we all lead hectic lives but

HOLY WEEK is a time to step out

of chronos and enter the world of

Kairos. These moments are not

something you can just talk about;

you have to experience them—be a

part of them. So amid all your

business and busyness, set aside the

time to make the second week in

April truly holy. You have a whole

week to plan it on your calendar.

Come and see, come and share, come

and be in Kairos. I hope you’ll be at

as many services as you can.

—I’ll see you in church!

Steve+

From the Dean

Agnus Dei

This image is

known as the

Agnus Dei,

Latin for

“Lamb of

God.” When

pictured

standing and

with a banner,

it represents the

risen Christ,

victorious over death. You can see a

beautiful rendition of the image in a

stained glass window in the

Cathedral’s Common Room.

John the Baptist, seeing Jesus

approach, famously declared,

“Look, the Lamb of God, who takes

away the sin of the world!” (John

1:29, NIV). In Revelation, too, Jesus

is portrayed as a lamb who was slain

but now reigns triumphant.

PALM SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 8:30 & 10:30 A.M. On Palm Sunday, we’ll celebrate the first day of Holy Week

focusing on Jesus’ triumphal entry in to Jerusalem. Services

are at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. There will be no Sunday school on

Palm Sunday or Easter Day. Childcare at 10:30.

MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK, APRIL 10, 5:30 P.M. On Monday, we will gather in the choir for Evening Prayer at

5:30. The service will include a homily.

TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK, APRIL 11, 5:30 P.M. On Tuesday, we will celebrate our only weekday Eucharist in Holy Week. The service is at 5:30 in the Cathedral and

includes a homily.

WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK, APRIL 12, 7 P.M. Wednesday in Holy Week is Tenebrae (the service of shadows). This service is made up of scripture readings and

music. Its most conspicuous feature is the gradual extinguishing of candles and other lights in the church until only a

single candle (the light of Christ) remains. The service is at 7 p.m. Childcare available.

MAUNDY THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 6:30 P.M. Maundy Thursday will be a little different for us this year. With no parish hall, we won’t have our usual Agape meal

before the service. Instead, tables will be set up in the Cathedral and our service for the evening will be composed of a

simple table liturgy, along with foot-washing and the stripping of the altar. The Choristers will provide music. Start

time is 6:30 p.m. Childcare available.

Prayer Watch: From 8 p.m. Maundy Thursday through noon on Good Friday, persons are asked to sit vigil in the

garden in one hour shifts. There is a sign-up sheet in the Cathedral by the baptismal font.

GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 12:10 & 7 P.M. On Good Friday, we’ll have two distinctly different services. At 12:10 p.m., we’ll do the Proper Liturgy for Good

Friday followed by the Stations of the Cross.

At 7 p.m., a dramatic reading, titled “Women of the Passion” will be offered by members of the Cathedral. We did

this last year on Wednesday of Holy Week, and many who were in attendance, as well as many who weren’t but heard

about the service, have requested that we do it again. The readings are the author’s created testimonies from women

biblical characters who, at one time or another during Jesus’ ministry, had an encounter with him and became

followers. The women watch from the crowd as Jesus carries his cross through the Jerusalem streets to Golgotha, each

recounting their initial meeting with the Lord. It is a very moving service. You won’t want to miss it. The dramatic

reading was authored by Katie Sherrod, an Episcopal layperson. (Because of the content of this reading, it is most

appropriately suited for Wednesday or Friday of Holy Week.) Childcare available at 7 p.m.

HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 9 A.M. Holy Saturday is a day we rest and reflect on Christ’s sacrifice and saving work, even as he rests in the tomb. We

gather in the garden at 9 a.m., where the blessed sacrament (the body of Christ) has been placed until his resurrection

on Easter Sunday morning. This brief service (about 15 minutes) is symbolic of the Jewish tradition of mourning

called sitting Shiva, or sitting with the dead.

The Cathedral will not have an Easter Vigil service this year, however you are invited to take part in the Easter Vigil at

St. David’s Episcopal Church, 17th & Gage, at 7 p.m.

EASTER DAY, 8 & 10:30 A.M. On Easter Day, our early service will be at 8 a.m. The service will be similar to a sunrise service, celebrating the

Resurrection of Christ. Donuts, juice and coffee will be served in the Common Room from 8:50-10:10 a.m., and,

weather permitting, there will be an Easter Egg hunt for children (time TBD). The 10:30 a.m. service will be a Festal

Celebration of Easter Day. The Cathedral choirs, organ and brass will provide music and incense will be used.

Childcare available at 10:30

New memorial gifts at Grace In addition to our building project, we have a number of new memorial

gifts that have been or will be completed over the next few months. There are

two new stained glass windows in the Common Room, a new portico over the

St. Nicholas Door will be erected soon, and a rood beam is being constructed to

be placed high above the steps leading to the choir. We’ll do dedications for

these new additions once all are complete.

Memorial gifts are wonderful ways to help the church gain needed items

and to remember a loved one. Special gifts are also ways to honor living loved

ones. In addition, there are items that might not be appropriate as memorial or

honorary gifts, but are needed nonetheless. A few of these items include:

Memorials or Honorary Gifts replacement of the cross between the towers

new Stations of the Cross set for the Cathedral

a piano for the new choir room

Special unbudgeted needs

replacement tables / chairs for classrooms

furnishings for Common Room / offices

electronic message board for the outdoor sign

Contact Dean Lipscomb for more information or a complete list.

Thank you, Kathy Smith! After eight years as Grace

Cathedral’s director of Children’s

Ministries, Kathy Smith has resigned

from that position. Kathy and her paid

nursery staff and volunteer Sunday

School staff have done a great job in

teaching and caring for our children

from infant to sixth grade. We will

miss Kathy in this position but will

continue to see her as a volunteer

teacher and at our 10:30 worship

service.

Mary Howell has assumed the role of interim director while we search for

a new director of children’s ministries. A search committee will be led by

Dominique Shannon, the Vestry Representative for Children’s Ministries. We

plan to have a new director in place by the start of the new school year next

fall.

Kitty Fapp to represent Cathedral on Campus Ministry Council

Kitty Fapp has agreed to serve as Grace Cathedral’s representative on the

Diocesan Campus Ministry Council. The CMC is responsible for approving

parish campus ministry grants, campus interns and peer ministers, and sets a

general vision for the campus ministry program in the Diocese.

Kitty has been very active in the Diocesan youth program, serving at Camp

Wood, MIQRA, Happenings and other events. She is on the Bishop’s Council

for Canterbury House at Kansas State University and has served Grace

Cathedral at worship as a Chalice Bearer. She is also a recipient of the Bishop’s

Chair Award.

In place of the regular anthem,

the Cathedral Choir will

combine with the Baker

University Choir , Cathy

Crispino, director, to sing

Mozart's "Solemn Vespers."

The combined choirs and

soloists will be conducted by

University of Missouri 's

Director of Choral Studies and

Mozart scholar Dr. Paul Crabb,

and the group will be

accompanied by a professional

15-piece chamber orchestra.

The entire service should last

about one hour and a freewill

offering will be received to

support the Cathedral Music

Program.

A cancelled fishing trip started a chain of events that led Konnie Kyle to Grace

Cathedral. To say that Konnie loves to fish is an understatement – she calls it her passion.

“I fish anywhere I can, any time I can,” she said. “I mainly fish trout, but also crappie

and bass.” But when a trip last year during the week before Easter didn’t work out, she and

Debbie Sesler decided to check out the Women of the Passion Holy Week program at the

Cathedral.

“I was touched by this event,” Konnie said. “I appreciated the beauty of the church as

well as the hearts and beauty of the people I met. I wasn't looking for a new church home

when I attended Grace Cathedral. But, as God works in mysterious ways, my heart was

drawn to the music, teaching and love.”

Hailing from Wellsville, Kansas, where she was raised in the Methodist Church, Konnie

went to Newman School of Nursing in Emporia. After graduation, she moved to Topeka to

work as a Registered Nurse at St. Francis Health Center. She also obtained a Masters

Degree in Nursing from the University of Kansas in 1996. Now retired, she specialized in

neurology, orthopedics, and general surgery during her 36-year career in nursing. Now she

enjoys spending time with friends and family and, of course, fishing.

Konnie attends the 8:30 a.m. service and adult Sunday School.

KONNIE KYLE

GREAT SPACES Music &

Arts Series

presents

Sunday, April 30, 3 p.m. Grace Cathedral

Mormon Tabernacle Organist Richard Elliott

Sponsored in part by the Topeka

and Kansas City Chapters of the

American Guild of Organists

Tickets: $10/General Admission, $5/Students, 12 and younger free More information is available at

www.GreatSpaces.org.

A year ago, on the first Sunday in Lent, over 100 people took on the

“Worship Challenge.” They signed an agreement to make an effort to attend

church every Sunday for an entire year. Lots of people didn’t make it. Some

missed due to sickness, some reported that they didn’t achieve perfect atten-

dance, but they were more conscious and disciplined about attending church

while on vacation or out of town. One person simply confessed, “I failed mis-

erably, but I did make progress toward regular church attendance.”

For those who made the effort, good for you! Let that be a constant goal

for you. For those who didn’t make an attempt, maybe that’s something you

will consider taking on another time. Below are the “graduates” of the perfect

attendance challenge. If you successfully completed the challenge and we don’t

have your name listed, please contact the Cathedral office.

Ken Alexander

Pam Alexander

Jan Buckley

Sally Burk

Steve Burk

Anne Flynn

Ed Larson

Gabriel Lightcap

Jacquie Lightcap

Bill Ohlemeier

Janet Ohlemeier

Lance Royer

Frank Saiya

Ruthellen Saiya

Martha Smith

Paul Smith

Bob Sommers

Justin Vawter

Amanda Weikel

Melissa Weikel

Worship Challenge results

New member spotlight

The following article was run a little over a year ago. We think it bears

repeating as a reminder. Thank you for your cooperation!

Now that we have a nice, new space for greetings, conversation and

coffee before the service, there is no longer a reason for too much of that

kind of “busyness” in the worship space just before service time. By all

means, speak to one another and be friendly, but just prior to worship,

we ask that you hold conversations in the Cathedral to a minimum.

To assist you in this effort (and to remind you to watch the clock),

you will now hear a Chime toll three times at five minutes before

worship begins. This “Call to Worship” is a signal, if you are in the

Common Room, to cease conversation, put your coffee cups away and

start moving toward the Cathedral to prepare for worship. Be respectful

of God and all those around you by quieting yourself and your soul.

Listen to the Prelude, take a moment for prayer, prepare your hymnal for

the opening hymn, give thanks to God for a new opportunity to worship in God’s house with your brothers and sisters in

Christ. Look around to see if there is anyone new you don’t know and make a mental note to speak to them after the

service. If you have older children (7 and older), help them find their place and remind them to participate in worship.

Doing these things will enhance your worship experience and your neighbor’s as well, so please help us with respecting

these “first five minutes” of silence and quiet reflection.

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee!

Cathedral Verger, Kent Wingerson, rings the Chime, signaling the “Call to Worship.”

If you love me

do not look away

use your gifted eyes

to welcome the world

through tear

In beauty. In pain.

If you love me

do not hide your face

from need. from pain.

from me.

use your face to know

and be known

If you love me

do not close your lips

but use your mouth and

loose your tongue

to encourage

to shape love loudly

If you love me

do not remain with

folded hands

but apply your hands to work

that heals

that lifts

the one who has fallen,

Pull the listing boat ashore

If you love me

do not walk away

but plant your feet and stand

against injustice

and walk

to where you’re needed

If you love me

you will meet me

when you do these things

and loving your neighbor

you love me

Do not look away

If you love me

Reprinted from The Anglican Digest

IF YOU LOVE ME THE REV., JOSEPH B. HOWARD

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FOOD SUNDAY

April 2

FEBRUARY ATTENDANCE

2017 2016 2015

1st Sunday 251 276 229

2nd Sunday 234 332 244

3rd Sunday 244 286 287

4th Sunday 292 280 285

Total 1,021 1,174 1,045

Treasurer’s Report

February 28, 2017

For the month of February,

operating income was $102,863, and

operating expense was $65,035,

resulting in a positive balance of

$37,828.

Operating income for the year to

date was $175,150, and operating

expense for the year to date was

$146,080, resulting in a positive

balance of $29,070.

Cash in the bank checking

account, per books, as of February

28, 2017, was $46,885.

— Paul Smith,

Treasurer

April Flower Memorials

1 Annie Blower Patten

John C. Harmon

Margaret P. Smith

2 William Goodson Reed

3 Heather Kristen Jaynes

4 John S. Hopkins, Sr.

5 Virginia Meade Cave

Elizabeth Dorsey Jones

6 Howel Jones

Herbert Bolyard

Ada A. Bolyard

8 Doris Everada Clarke Starr

9 Stacy G. Carkhuff, Jr.

11 Jessie Swan Sinel

13 Louis Frank Dougan

16 Frank C. Thompson

William A.L. Thompson

17 Meliora H. Abrahams

Ralph Abbott Covey

18 Wilamina Marie Gordon Starr

19 William Joseph Batten

Hilda Ingalls Burrow

Cora Hoefner Holloway

Olive Amanda Robinson

Lucie Gibbs Vernon

20 Charles H. Everett

22 William Thomas Crosby

23 Ray Price McClintock

24 William Randolph Carpenter

Martha Jo Nicol

26 Rebecca U. Bellamy

Otto Austin Nance, Jr.

28 E. Lloyd Sugg

Bowman Russell

29 Mary B. George

April

1 Jeff Morgan

4 Clem Gibbs

5 Ingrid Garrison

7 Kay Hemmingway

Susan Raby

8 Margaret La Rue

9 Shantini Gunasegaram

Doug Sheafor

Bennett Smith

11 Kiera Garrison

Daniel Richter

12 David Williams

13 Melinda Schneider

15 Betsy McGuire

17 Jack Vogelsberg

19 Carol Gilliam Green

20 Andrea Evans

21 Diane Harrington

25 Garth Hulse

26 Erma Runnels

27 Jon Routh

We apologize if we have missed your birthday or have incorrect information. Please call the office at 235-3457 with any corrections.

About the window… Each month, we feature a small portion of a Cathedral stained glass window on the front cover of The Chimes. Although identified in Scrip-ture as the betrayer of Christ, Judas Iscariot is included in the chancel win-dows because he was one of the first 12 Disciples (Matthew 10:4). He is shown downcast, and in his hands is the money bag, symbolic of his pay-ment for betrayal.

Weekly Schedule Sunday

8:30 a.m.—Holy Communion, Rite I

9:30 a.m.—Sunday School (Sept.-May)

10:30 a.m.—Children’s Chapel

10:30 a.m.—Holy Communion, Rite II

Grace Cathedral, Topeka, Kansas — A House of Prayer for all People and a National Jubilee Ministry Center of the Episcopal Church

GRACE CATHEDRAL CLERGY

The Very Reverend Steve Lipscomb, Dean

The Reverend George Pejakovich, Assistant to the Dean

The Reverend Casey Rohleder, Priest Associate

Deacon Donald Chubb

Deacon Anne Flynn

CATHEDRAL STAFF

Kent Wingerson, Cathedral Verger/Finance Manager

Connie Vosburgh, Office Administrator

Steve Burk, Organist/Choirmaster

Sylvia Hamilton, Maggie Burk, Assistant Organists

Alan Martin, Music Assistant

Michael Massey, Ministry Coordinator

Mary Howell, Interim Director of Children’s Ministries

Chris Escalante, Youth Director

Michael Godfrey, Sexton

John Barber, Security

VESTRY OF GRACE CATHEDRAL

Paul Smith, Treasurer; Phil Elwood, Chancellor

Ed Carter, Dominique Shannon, Marilyn Trubey (Junior Warden)

Keith McKibben (Senior Warden), Norman Nellis, Nicole Nielsen

Phil Dittmer, Sharon Highberger, Jackie Sommers

701 SW Eighth Avenue

Topeka, Kansas 66603-3219

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