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This Joyful Eastertide by The Reverend Paige Blair, Rector Easter is 50 days! As this Spirit and Times is arriving, we still have a good 28 or so days of Easter ahead of us. During these 50 days we remember the 40 days after the resurrection when Jesus appeared to his disciples, and then on the 40th day, remember the Ascension, when Jesus ascended “to your Father and my Father, your God and my God” (John 20:17). Remembering how the theme of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) is God’s yearning to be our God, yearning for us to be God’s people… finally, in Jesus’ ascension, God makes
complete the reconciliation that was the purpose of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection… “your Father and my Father, your God and my God…”
When Bishop Mathes is with us on May 26 and 27, we will have the opportunity to renew our Baptismal Covenant, and to reaffirm that God is our God, and we are God’s people, to reaffirm our discipleship, and to promise anew to follow Jesus, and to work with him for the unfolding of the kingdom of God, in our lives and in our world.
Our Spring Membership Classes continue with the Sunday forums at 10 a.m. and I encourage everyone to join us for these opportunities to prayerfully consider the promises we made (or that were made for us) in our Baptism, so that when we make these promises again with the Bishop, we may experience a new sense of purpose, of discipleship, of grace. If you have missed the forums so far, they are available on our website, via the Sermon Player (http:www.stpetersdelmar.net/sermonplayer). Simply search for Episcopal 101 for the first series, and I Will, With God’s Help for the series focusing in particular on our baptismal promises.
As we glory in this joyful Eastertide, I look forward to renewing these promises with you, and to our continued journey together as we live, we love and we serve in Jesus’ name, and seek to deepen in discipleship along the way.
In Christ,
SPIRIT AND TIMES THE NEWSLETTER OF ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, DEL MAR May 2012
I Will with God’s Help Sunday Forums
Join us at 10:00 am in the Parish Hall as our Sunday Forums in Eastertide continue. Presented by members and clergy of St. Peter’s, this series will serve as adult formation for those preparing for baptism, confirmation, and reception during the bishop's visit on May 27 and will also allow us all to more deeply discover our baptismal covenant. Remaining forums include:
Week 4 - May 6 - Ms. Fran Friesen will present: Seeking and Serving Christ Week 5 - May 20 - Dr. Joyce Justus will present: Proclaiming the Good News by Word and Example Week 6 - May 27 - Bishop James Mathes will present: Striving for Justice and Peace
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Lillian and Tally Jarrett Legacy Society Membership Growing!
The Endowment Commission of St. Peter’s is pleased to announce the Jarrett Legacy Society now has 35 Charter Members and is growing. The purpose of the society, revived in January, is to honor those who are remembering the church by leaving a bequest or making a planned gift in their financial or estate planning arrangements. Donors making current gifts to the church’s endow-ment fund will also be honored.
Members of the legacy society for St. Peter’s are included as members in The Bishop’s Legacy Society, newly cre-ated by the diocese. Members will be welcomed to a Choral Evensong followed by a reception hosted by the Bishop on Sunday, May 6 at 5:00 pm at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Charter members of the Jarrett Legacy Society will be honored at St. Peter’s at a Choral Evensong and reception on Sunday, July 1, the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, at 5:00 pm. If you have already named the church in your planning, we would like to hear from you so that we can honor you (please email the Rector at [email protected] or call 858-755-1616 x101). For those who wish to remember the church by making a bequest, arranging a planned gift or giving to the endowment fund, you will be recognized as Charter members during the early stages of the legacy society.
For more information or to discuss the various ways you can thoughtfully include the church in your planning, please contact a member of our clergy, or a member of the Endowment Commission through the church office at 858-755-1616 or [email protected]. The Jarrett Legacy Society brochure is available in the back of the church, or you can request that one be sent to you. Endowment Commission: Gina McBride (Chair), Susie Hayes, David Inns, Peter Iverson, Tom Murch, K.C.Thompson.
Messages from Mother Paige to our Youth and Young Adults:
Thank you to everyone who participated in interviewing candidates for our Youth & Young Adults Minister in March and April. Our search continues as we prayerfully con-sider how each candidate might be called to serve at St. Peter’s.
Confirm not Conform continues to meet in the Library with Betty and Pat, to prepare for their possible confirmation when the Bishop is here on May 26th and 27th. A banquet is
being planned for the class and their entourage (families and mentors) after the Confirm not Conform service at 11:00 am on the 27th.
The High School Youth continue to meet in the Youth Room with Martha and David, and are engaging an in-tentional conversation about the Baptismal Covenant over the next few weeks. Those who have been confirmed are talking about what the Covenant means to them one or two years later. Those who are to be confirmed (who have also been participating in the Episcopal 101 forums) are reflecting on what it will mean for them to reaf-firm these promises when they are confirmed May 27th.
Young Adults! Want to get together soon for fun and fellowship? Let me know at [email protected]!
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The Value of a Seed by Fran Friesen
Last year a seed was planted. Part of our tour of Israel included a visit to the Arab Evangelical Episcopal School located in Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine. The school is a part of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and is providing an education for Christian and Arab students from pre-school through high school with an enrollment of 865 students. We were invited to return to “help the students practice conversational English.” How could I refuse such an offer!
From the minute we arrived in February, I was over whelmed by the generosity and hospitality of everyone I met. I was impressed with how much the students were learning, especially in English classes. Their use of English was far superior to my Arabic but they were all very patient with me. I was especially touched by their spirit of patriotism. They do not want to be an occupied country! But kids are kids and I found I was making the same paper airplanes and boats there as I did in my kin-dergarten classes here.
I felt very safe in Ramallah. In fact we saw money changers walking around the streets with bags of money. No one bothered them. If we got lost, and we did several times, we always found someone who was willing to help us find our des-tination. We were treated to special Palestinian foods cooked especially for us so we would get the flavor of the country. I truly believe that the message of love Christ delivered more than two thousand years ago is still being practiced today. Everyone treated us with respect and kindness.
Our third week was spent in Jerusalem. While there we toured other facilities run by the Episcopal Diocese. One facility was The Princess Basma Center for Disabled Children. Early diagnosis is the key to helping children overcome a handicap to function successfully in today’s world. I was impressed with the spe-cial areas for children with speech, hearing, and autism problems. They have a state of the art sensory perception room to deal with autism in preschool age
children. It was so rewarding to see Christians and Muslims working side by side for a better world.
While in Jerusalem, we were able to take a day trip to Hebron. We toured the mosque that houses the tombs of the Patriarchs. Unfortunately we also saw the destruction caused by the settlers and the situation that many Palestinians must endure as an occupied country.
I have spoken to Mtr. Paige about a trip to the Holy Land next year, and she is enthusiastic. If you have not been, what a marvelous spiritual experience! We walked the Via Dolorosa and saw the Stations of the Cross. We toured many of the biblical sites and spent time in churches of many religions. But for me, I realized that sometimes there are two sides to the Middle East story and that maybe, just maybe, both sides have important points to make. I appreciate my freedoms more than ever and I pray that I will not take them for granted.
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Words of Worship Robert W. Lehman
(as published in The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians (Vol 20, No. 9, 2011)
This Fall, I seem to have found myself talking quite a bit about the language that we use in the worship of God and how these “words of worship” shape us as church leaders, as individuals, and as Christians. I wish to consid-er our liturgical texts in the context of the 400th anniversary of the King James translation of the Bible. It is now almost fifteen years since the advent of Enriching Our Worship and we have long been urged to use “inclusive language” and, more recently, “expansive language.” While the arguments for and against these changes all have validity, the fact that English does not possess a gender-neutral personal pronoun has caused our language to be-come stilted, awkward, and clumsy: “God said to God’s people,” or worse still, “And blessed be God’s king-dom….” Now there’s an inconsistency! I don’t pretend to have the answer, although I often have fun with this issue. At one recent meeting that had been somewhat long and tedious, I suggested beginning the Eucharistic liturgy thus:
Celebrant: Highly favored, though not in any one particular degree of specificity, is the omnipresent and omnis-cient Being: Parent, Offspring, and Presence, being of three parts yet unified as One.
People: Sanctified also are the Supreme Being’s sovereign dominions, regardless of their location on earth or otherwise, until all eternity is consummated as measured in eschatological terms.
This is, quite obviously (I hope), a ridiculous extreme, but I must say that sometimes I think we are headed in exactly that direction. In our consumer-driven “me” church where liturgy is crafted around our own feelings and sensitivities, there is inherent danger in imposing our own interpretation of language, reflective of our political and social sensibilities, upon the historical texts of the church. Sometimes I wonder: would we really need inclu-sive or expansive language if we concerned ourselves only with God’s hearing and not with how we perceive what we are saying? All too often we forget—or ignore—the simple primary fact that worship is not about us! While I think it is fair to say that planners of liturgy make an effort to ensure that it reflects thoughtfulness, intellect, ex-cellence, beauty, and fidelity to our Anglican heritage, the beauty of language seems all too often sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”(1) Do we routinely and habitually sacrifice language and, thus, the Christian story, for the sake of a perceived comfort level of ourselves and others?
Christian worship is a multi-sensory holistic experience. No matter the preference regarding churchmanship—whether high church, low church, or broad church—the liturgical offerings of the Church engage the senses inti-mately in an interconnectedness explicable only by reference to the whole of the liturgy. High church ethos in-volves fragrant columns of incense rising (smell and sight) as music and the spoken word (hearing) prepare us for the reception of the Holy Eucharist (touch and taste.) At the other extreme, even the strictest Puritan practices of King James’ England engaged three of the senses: congregants sat solemnly on inhospitable, hard plank benches (touch) while gazing ahead at the preacher (sight) as he droned on, probably for hours (sound), ironically, about the evils of engaging the senses. There is no way around it, try as the Puritans may have; Christian worship is a sensory and holistic experience, and, at the heart of it all, is the language that is employed.
I believe that the organic nature of our faith is enough to carry us past the hurdles of trying to solve what many perceive as the masculine language barrier. I serve in a parish where the principal Sunday Holy Eucharist is cele-brated according to Rite I. It is an extremely healthy parish where giving is generous and youth and young
(cont. on p. 10)
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We Live... A LOOK AT MAY
5 Children & Young Families Fiesta Night (All Welcome!)
5:30 pm in Parish Hall
Episcopal Refugee Network Gala
6:30 pm Victorian Steamship Berkeley
6 Children’s Church
9:00 am in Parish Hall
Adult Forum—Seeking and Serving Christ
(Ms. Fran Friesen)
10:00 am in Parish Hall
Evensong
5:00 pm in Church
8 Seniors’ Lunch—The Value of a Seed
(Ms. Fran Friesen)
12:00 pm in the Parish Hall
13 Faithful Families—Mothers Day
10:00 am on Patio
17 Seniors-on-the-Go - Trip to Cordiano Winery
Depart St. Peter’s 10:30 am
20 EfM (Education For Ministry) Sunday
All services Saturday (19th) and Sunday (20th)
Children’s Church
9:00 am in Parish Hall
Diocesan Camp Stevens Day
All Day at Camp Stevens, Julian
Adult Forum—Proclaiming the Good News by Word
and Example (Dr. Joyce Justus)
10:00 am in Parish Hall
27 Bishop Mathes Visitation
All services Saturday (26th) and Sunday (27th)
Adult Forum—Striving for Peace and Justice
(Bishop Mathes)
10:00 am in Parish Hall
28 Memorial Day Service
11:00 am in Church
SERVICE TIMES
SUNDAY
Holy Eucharist Rite I 7:45 am
Family Eucharist Rite II 9:00 am
Choral Eucharist Rite II 11:00 am
FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH
Choral Evensong 5:00 pm
TUESDAY
Holy Eucharist Rite II 7:00 am
WEDNESDAY
Holy Eucharist Rite II 9:30 am
(A Public Service of Healing)
SATURDAY
Holy Eucharist Rite II 5:00 pm
Memorial Day
The annual Community Memorial Day Service will be held here at St. Peter's on Monday, May 28, at 11:00am. At the end of this service of hymns and prayer, there will be a Memorial Roll
Call, during which names of deceased members of the armed services will be read. The service will conclude with Taps. As soon as possible, please give the church office or the clergy the names of deceased military members, so that they may be remembered and prayed for during this important service. For further infor-mation, call Fr. Tom Bond at 858-279-5458.
The featured speaker for this year's Memorial Day Ser-vice is Lt. Col. Larry G. Brown, USMC. He is current-ly assigned to Third Marine Air Wing, MCAS Miramar. Larry, his wife, and two daughters are active members of St. Peter's.
Bishop Visitation May 26 - 27
Bishop James Mathes
will be with us on
May 26th and 27th to
confirm and receive
new members into
the Episcopal Church
and baptize new
members into the
Body of Christ. He
will meet with the Vestry on the 26th,
and will also lead the Forum at 10 a.m.
on the 27th, discussing the I Will, With
God's Help topic of “Striving for Justice
and Peace…”
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Revenues and expenses were both below plan in March:
Expenses were below plan primarily because we are still budgeting for the salary and benefits of a Youth & Young Adults Minister. Our water/sewer expenses were also $1,038 below plan. Pledge offerings were $5,518 below plan in March—please ensure that your donations reflect 1/3 of your annual plan by the end of April. If you’d like a statement of your offerings so far in 2012, please email Dave Clemons at [email protected] or call at 858-755-1616 x115.
TREASURER’S CORNER by Dave Clemons
Year-to-date we are in good shape:
actuals plan delta
Revenues $276,162 $274,880 + $1,282
Expenses $239,445 $248,106 - $8,661
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actuals plan delta
Revenues $57,752 $59,925 -- $2,174
Expenses $74,882 $81,885 -- $7.003
Vestry Highlights - April 2012
In April, we reviewed attendance numbers for Holy Week: Maundy Thursday was down, Easter Vigil was up; 9:00 am services were down, 11:00 am was way up. All-in- all attendance rose to 805, up from 785 last year. Dave Clemons’ Treasurer’s Report included news that we have met our first year’s commitment to the Diocese Apostles Program and have a decent start on this year’s commitment. The Vestry discussed how best to proceed with raising awareness and funds to meet the remainder of that commitment. Richard Carr will look into and report back on what kind of newcomer’s brochure/literature we are currently using. Several Vestry members agreed to meet (and have actually now met) with a local Eagle Scout candidate who wishes to replace our pew card holders (hooray!) for his project. The search for the Youth & Youth Adults Minister is proceeding well. Several candidates have been interviewed and others are being screened. Dave’s Herculean preparation for the audit continues; he received 12 pages of questions to address and 60 artifacts to locate (ye-ouch!). Keep
him in your prayers as he is prepping this for both St. Peter’s and the Senior Services Corporation! Episcopal community Services will be celebrating it’s 85th year of service with an event featuring Pastor Chefs—unfortunately, our clergy will all be at the Vestry Retreat that weekend., but we’re hoping for good participa-tion from St. Peter’s. This year’s Vestry Retreat will be held June 1-3. Please remember that Vestry meetings are open to parishioners and that Vestry minutes are available by emailing [email protected].
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by Anne Page
Mark your new calendars for the Children & Young
Families Fiesta and Vacation Bible School!
Thank you to all who donated eggs and goodies for our Easter Egg
Hunt, and a special thank you to our Easter bunnies who helped “lay”
the eggs (over a 1,000!).
CHILDREN & YOUNG FAMILIES MINISTRY INVITES EVERYONE TO
A MEXICAN FIESTA FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
SATURDAY, May 5, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
ST. PETER’S PARISH HALL
TACO BAR, REFRESHMENTS, PINÃTA, GAMES, DANCING, MUSIC
SIGN UP ON THE PATIO OR EMAIL [email protected]
FRIENDS WELCOME TOO!
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL 2012
Our theme this year for Vacation Bible School (VBS) is the
SKY so our parish hall and classrooms will be transformed to
magical sky scenes! Every morning our crews (VBS children)
will have fun growing stronger in their faith as they discover
through the different VBS stations (bible stories, crafts, sci-
ence, games, music) that everything is possible when you trust
God! Our crews will spend four afternoons playing on the beach and another on a science or
aerospace museum field trip.
WHEN: Monday-Friday, June 25-29
WHO: 4 years—Grade 6
COST: $60 mornings only (9am-1pm) $110 all day (9am-4pm)
Registration is available online at www.stpetersdelmar.net/VBSregistration
or at the SKY table on the patio on Sundays.
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Sunday school student, Bob Parrotte and his family want to
share with you this very special letter they received from
Dahlia, a single mother with three children living in the Philip-
pines who were the recipients of Bob’s family Operation
Christmas Child shoe box.
“……the gift that you’ve given is very precious to my
kids because this is the first time they received a gift
such like that. When I saw in their eyes that they are
very happy with your gift I feel very thankful, really I
am. .…I just hope you will not stop helping people like
us. May God bless you always and a lot and more.
Thank you. Dahlia Domondon”
After receiving this letter, Bob has challenged his family to
send 52 boxes this year, one for each week of the year! Let’s
help with this challenge and provide donations to help with the
postage of these boxes and many more. (Each box costs $7 to
send). Checks can be made out to St. Peter’s with Operation
Christmas Child in the memo line. And ….. “May God bless
you always and a lot more. Thank you.”
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Holy Smoke! Guess who’s celebrating 85 years…. Episcopal Community Services
Please join us for an evening of delicious fare prepared by our Pastor Chefs to commemorate eighty-five years of serving those in need. The celebration will take place on Friday, June 1st, at Good Samari-tan Episcopal Church located at 4321 Eastgate mall in San Diego. The festivities begin at 5:30 pm with a patio reception, and dinner follows at 6:30 pm in Roetter Hall. Enjoy great food, great compa-ny and fun games—-all to benefit the good work of Episcopal Community Services.
Seating is limited, so reserve your seats today. Tickets are $27 per person. Register online at www.ecscalifornia.org. For more information, please call ECS’s Office of Development at 619-228-2800 or email Alyssa Osian at [email protected].
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Words of Worship continued from p. 5
couples are everywhere. The building is swarming with energetic toddlers and teens, all wearing dresses and ties and jackets. Members of both genders serve at the altar together, the church is filled, children and adults receive Holy Communion kneeling together at the altar rail, baptisms occur frequently, and several newcomers join the parish’s membership rolls every week. In an age when we are told that the Episcopal Church is in self-destruct
mode, it would be very, very hard to find any evidence of that in this parish. And this is a Rite I parish! We spend no time apologizing for the traditional language of the Book of Common Prayer and our people are fed spiritually.
As the Church marks the 400th anniversary of the King James translation of the Bible, it seems to be an appro-priate time to consider the words we hear and say and sing in our worship and to reflect on the depth of mean-ing that the Jacobean English contributes to our liturgy and devotion. The work of many companies of men, the King James Bible is the fruit of an extraordinary bureaucratic process stretching over almost ten years, yet it is probably the most beautiful compendium of prose ever assembled. What many do not realize is that this transla-tion was not written in the English vernacular of the day. Rather, the translators carefully drew from the depths of the English language to select the most musical, beautiful, and colorful words in the English vocabulary. The King James Bible is a book that wants to be heard and, as such, the grueling selection of words was paramount to the process. One particularly time-consuming step in the lengthy process of preparation of the King James Bible involved the act of listening carefully to the individual words of the prose. Senior divines, who headed the vari-ous companies of translators, convened regularly and read every passage to one another before making final text selections based upon the pure descriptiveness and musicality of the words. Their charge was to retain as much of the Catholic Bishop’s Bible (2) as possible while leaving room for Protestant interpretation and, at the same time, employing a vocabulary of great descriptive and picturesque opulence. The finished product was intended to be nothing less than “godly.”
In his book, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, author Adam Nicolson writes: “Everything you find in the great translation of the Bible prepared for James I [invokes] immediacy, dignity, a sense of deep, musical rhythm, an intuitive and poetic understanding of the connection between the present and the past, a tangible empathy, a precision, a careful elaboration of arrangement and structure.” (3) As Bishop John Buckeridge of Ely wrote in his preface to the publication of Ninty-Six Sermons by his colleague and friend, Bishop Lancelot Andrewes: “True religion is in no way a gargalisme only, to wash the tongue and mouth, to speak good words; it must root in the heart, and then fructifie it in the hand; els it will not clense the whole man.” The words of the King James Bible accomplish exactly this.
Yet, even though linguistic perfection has virtually been achieved in this Bible, persistent modernization of biblical texts continues to take place. I, for one, cannot embrace the neutralization and dilution of the language. My baby Jesus will forever be wrapped in “swaddling clothes” and never in “bands of cloth!” When the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible was first introduced, I sat one Sunday morning in one of our nation’s most prominent churches with incredulity and listened to a priest extol the virtues of the new translation from the pulpit, waxing on of his own love affair with the new Bible. The culmination of his list of the new Bible’s attributes was his euphoric statement that, “It is even more generic!” (As if we needed that!) I’m sorry, but as one who has devoted his life to the beauty of liturgical expression and worship, I cannot share that particular priest’s point of view nor relish his excitement over the ruination of beautiful language or the stripping away of the church’s parlance. To quote Nicholson again:
The flattening of language which is not taut with a sense of its own significance, which is apologetic in its desire to be acceptable to a modern consciousness, language in other words which submits to its audience, rather than instructing, informing, moving, challenging and even entertaining them, is no longer a language which can carry the freight the Bible requires. It has, in short, lost all authority. (4)
This is why we use the language of Rite I from the Book of Common Prayer at the parish where I serve. It vivifies
(cont. on p. 12)
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Episcopal Refugee Network of San Diego
Please join our
Amazing Journey Gala
Saturday, May 5, 2012 5:00 0 9:00 p
Onboard The Berkeley At the San Diego Maritime Museum
For details and tickets:
www.episcopalrefugeenetwork.org
Seniors Lunch and Program Tuesday May 8
12:00 Noon in the Parish Hall
“The Value of a Seed” Fran Friesen will be our guest speaker as she describes her experiences while teaching Christian and Arab children
at the Arab Evangelical Episcopal School located in Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine. Fran’s teach-ing activities are just part of an inspiring and spiritual journey in the Middle East, including visits to Jerusalem and Hebron in addition to Ramallah.
Please sign up a the Seniors’ Table on Sunday or in the Church office.
Please bring one item of non-perishable food for donation to the community Resource Center.
Thank You, Thank You, and Thank You!
A heart-felt thank you to all who helped to make Holy Week Music at St Peter's extra special. From the hard work of the Parish Choir, ReSound, and St Nicholas Choristers to the generosity and support from the Rector, Vestry, Staff, and congregation. I am humbled, and blessed to serve as your Director of Music & Organist. Best,
Ruben Valenzuela
EfM Sunday
May 19th/20th
Please join us on Saturday, May 19th,
and Sunday, May 20th, as this year’s
graduates from our Education for
Ministry class share their experiences
and participate in our worship services.
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CLERGY
RECTOR The Reverend Paige Blair, ext. 101
ASSOCIATE The Reverend Joe Dirbas, ext. 116
ASSOCIATE FOR SENIORS & PASTORAL CARE
The Reverend Tom Bond, ext. 103 [email protected]
PASTORAL EMERGENCIES Dial 858.755.1616. If prompted, please
then dial 858-248-7247 or 858-334-5670.
SPIRIT AND TIMES Please send submissions to [email protected]
or bring to the office during business hours.
Deadline for submissions is the 15th of the month.
SPIRIT AND TIMES can be viewed on our website: www.stpetersdelmar.net
STAFF Reception Secretary Anne-Marie Valenzuela, ext. 100
Treasurer Dave Clemons, ext. 115
Facilities Molly Stone, ext. 102
Communications Pat and Geoff Carson, ext. 118
Volunteer Receptionists:
Holly Teetzel, Venesse Koll, Rick Holly, Kathy Aiau, Carlene
Johnson, Barbara McCardle, Fran Friesen, Gloria ElGhoroury,
Nancy Iverson, Linda Thompson , Gail Carr
Music Director & Organist Ruben Valenzuela, ext. 106
Children & Young Families Anne Page, ext. 107
Youth and Young Adults Betty Collins, Pat McCardle, Martha and Dave King
Thrift Shop Chris Miller, ext. 109
Sexton Paul Wolf, ext. 100
Sunday Sexton Chris Braden/Jim Munger, ext. 100
OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday, 9 am - 4 pm
our liturgy with a vocabulary set apart for sacred and godly things. It is at once descriptive, solemn, weighty, full of gravitas and humor, colorful, majestic, and very beautiful. It instructs, informs, and enlightens. As Anglicans, these are our words: words that speak to the Christian heart and mind and embrace the expansive imagery of all creation as they move us to a more wor-thy offering up of our sacrificial praises.
In light of this argument, however, it is important also to make the assertion that the NRSV Bible does indeed have an important role to play. Ever-changing scholar-ship has been made available since 1611 and shifts in the meaning of individual words that come about as a normal part of societal change over time make the NRSV (along with other modern translations) indispen-sable for individual or small group Bible study. In point of fact, more than one modern rendering of the scriptures is useful in such a setting as various transla-tions and paraphrases have idiosyncrasies of their own and comparisons at the level of the word or phrase can be enlightening.(5)
As church musicians we often end up being stewards of this language, something that comes with a weighty responsibility. While our liturgical texts are ever grow-ing and richly fed by a variety of sources, we must not lose the beauty of this language! We must strive to preserve this element of beauty in a church torn apart by narcissistic commercialism and the feel-good mentality. Our high calling demands nothing less. Endnotes: 1 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. 2 An English translation of the bible, commissioned in 1568 (rev. 1572) by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. It was designed to replace the Great Bible of 1539, since many of the translations in that volume were considered inaccurate. 3 Adam Nicholson, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (New York: Harper Collins, 2003), p. 207. 4 Ibid., p. 154. 5 One recent and interesting example (Proper 24A) is the NRSV’s translation “Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21). The NRSV translation completely removes the personification of Caesar – the human god-embodiment of the Roman govern-ment – and, I believe, a key point that Jesus is making.
Robert Lehman is the Organist and Choirmaster of the Church of St. Michael & St. George in St. Louis, Missouri. He served in the same capacity for fourteen years at Christ Church, New Haven, Connecticut, and, previous to that, served as Assistant Organist and Choirmaster of the Washing-ton National Cathedral.
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Excerpts from letters of thanks…….
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To: The Rev. Paige Blair and The Wardens of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church From: The Rt. Rev. James R. Mathes
“Last week when I was at the first service in the new location of Holy Cross, I couldn’t help but think how many people had helped to make this move possible. The generous support of St. Peter’s to our Apostles work spearheaded this growing congregation to realize their dream of a new building in a more visible location……..I am grateful for your commitment to the Apostles program in the diocese. Your leadership is an example to other churches in rebuilding and expanding the kingdom in the Diocese of San Diego.”
To: The Rev. Paige M. Blair, Rector From: The Rt. Rev. J. Zache Duracin, Bishop of Haiti, The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop Bonnie Anderson, President, House of Deputies
“Thus, your church’s generous gift of $2,010 on March 27, 2012 toward rebuilding Holy Trinity Cathedral will do more than raise up bricks and cement. It will raise the hopes of a people who have lost so much of their earthly habitation. It will raise the spirit of a community made weary, and it will inspire the minds and hearts of the young men and women who knew Holy Trinity as their intellectual and artistic home. As we rebuild Holy Trinity Cathedral, brick by brick and stone by stone, it will serve as a beacon and a shelter for literally thousands who are rebuilding their lives with little more than hope and prayers……..May God grant that the good work you have begun will bear much fruit in his service.”
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Save the Date! Icon Workshop: August 6—10 9:00 am—4:00 pm
The Rector, the Rev. Paige Blair, will offer our second annual iconography workshop from August 6-10 at St. Peter’s. Participants will prayerfully write an icon based on the Christ Pantocrator from the ceiling mosaic in the Cathedral-Basilica of Cefalù, Italy. The cost for participation is $200 for parishioners and $375 for non-parishioners (the price of gold has risen). Checks may be made out to St. Peter’s with “icon workshop” in the memo. Class size is limited to 10 and participants will be enrolled on a first-come, first-enrolled basis. A deposit of $150 will secure your place.
(N.B. The Icon Workshop is very demanding, and students must be prepared to commit to partici-pation from 9-4 each day. While emergencies may
happen, non-emergency absences, even for a brief time, will compromise the ability to learn the icon, and allowances made for one participant will, by the nature of the workshop, be unfair to the other participants. We under-stand that this may sound harsh, but experience has shown that this level of clarity is necessary, and most fair, to all involved.)
Welcome!
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b. April 16, 2012
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In This Issue . . .
Letters of Thanks Page 12
Dirbas Twins Arrive! Page 15
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church 334 Fourteenth St. (Street Address) PO Box 336 (Mailing Address) Del Mar CA 92014 TEL. 858 755.1616 FAX 858 755.1552 WEBSITE: www.stpetersdelmar.net
Choral Evensong
6 May at 5 pm
Ferial Responses: Plainsong Canticles: Plainsong Anthem: O Christ, who art the Light an Day Robert Whyte Including the appointed Psalm and Hymns
A Festive Sherry Reception to follow in the Parish Hall.
Youth and Kids Pages 3, 8 and 9
A Message from our Rector Page 1
