The CATHEDRAL TIMESThe weekly newsletter of the Cathedral of St. Philip · Serving Atlanta and the World · November 19, 2017

“THANKS-CHRIST-NEW YEAR’S!” A SEASON OF LOVE

If there is any Greek word that Christians are most familiar with, it is probably the Greek word for “love,” which is agapé. Agapé, we say, is that love which is self-giving, divine, and which puts us in touch with something holy. It is agapé which is used in the beautiful description of love which St. Paul writes about in First Corinthians: “Love is patient; love is kind; …It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful” (1 Corinthians 13:4-5).

But there are other strong words for love in the Bible, and in other ancient civilizations. In Hebrew, the word for divine love is hesed, which includes divine mercy and loving kindness. Hesed is the love that emanates from a true relationship with God. Hebrew also uses the word aheb for love, which is commonly between two persons; it might be referred to as “secular” love.

Sometimes it is handy to note the four different words for love that the ancient Greeks used. First, there was certainly agapé, divine love. But there was also eros, from which we get the word erotic, and which meant romantic or even carnal love. There was also philia, which describes the love between friends. Fourthly, the Greek word storgé referred to love within a family.

Most of us consider springtime as the season for love, don’t we? We think of the birds and the bees, and romantic love, and the season for weddings. But we are probably thinking only of eros love when we make spring its season. As wonderful as romantic love is, there are other loves, even loves that can be more satisfying and lasting.

Consider that beautiful song from the musical, Rent, written by Jonathan Larson, “Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.” The lines include “Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear / How do you measure, Measure a year? / How about love? Seasons of love.”

The seasons of love are every season of the year, if we have eyes and ears to see and hear. And this next season of seven weeks, from around Thanksgiving to just after New Year’s Day, can include all the various types and words for love we can imagine. I realize that sometimes this long holiday season seems forced upon us. Perhaps we will be in homes and at parties and with people and wish we were not with them! Perhaps we will know loneliness in dreadful ways.

But this seven week season can also be a way to explore and deepen our various loving relationships: the familial ones, the friendly ones, the romantic ones. It may be that we learn ultimately about divine love through all these other loves.

In the final analysis, I wonder where there is any real difference between these various loves. A family love teaches us about personal history and commitment. Love between friends teaches us about loyalty and recreation. Romantic love teaches us about tenderness and care. All of our loves teach us something about forgiveness and mercy. All of our loves, whatever they might be called, teach us about God, teach us about divine love, teach us about self-giving. They teach us about losing ourselves—even if just for a moment—on behalf of another person. All of our loves can be agapé. All true love is giving; love gives our self away on behalf of another. Miraculously, as we give ourselves away in love, we actually become stronger, not weaker; and we actually become more ourselves. In giving ourselves away, we find our true selves. And we find God.

Perhaps during these next seven weeks—during this Season of “Thanks-Christ-New Year’s”—we will meet all these various types of love. Maybe we will give ourselves away to them. Maybe God will enter those places where we have given away. Maybe we will know agapé.

This SUNDAYNOVEMBER 19, 2017 · The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 28, Year A

Judges 4:1-7 · Psalm 123 · 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 · Matthew 25:14-30

7:45 A.M. HOLY EUCHARIST, MIKELL CHAPEL Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Thee Smith

8:45 A.M. HOLY EUCHARIST, CATHEDRAL Celebrant: Canon George Maxwell Preacher: Canon Wallace Marsh Cathedral Staff Singers and Choristers: Richard Shepherd, O for a thousand tongues to sing Herbert Howells, Jubilate Deo (Collegium Regale)

9 A.M. HOLY EUCHARIST, MIKELL CHAPEL Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Thee Smith

11:15 A.M. HOLY EUCHARIST, CATHEDRAL Celebrant: Canon George Maxwell Preacher: Canon Wallace Marsh Cathedral Choir: Craig Phillips, The Risen Sun William Byrd, Sing joyfully unto God

11:15 A.M. LA SANTA EUCARISTÍA, MIKELL CHAPEL Celebrant: The Rev. Dr. Bill Harkins Preacher: Deacon Nora Cruz-Diaz

4 P.M. CHORAL EVENSONG, CATHEDRAL THE FEAST OF WILLIAM BYRD AND THOMAS TALLIS, OBSERVED

Celebrant and Preacher: Canon George Maxwell Cathedral Schola: William Byrd, Preces and Responses Thomas Tallis, Short Service William Byrd, Sing joyfully unto God Thomas Tallis, Salvator mundi I

The CATHEDRAL of ST. PHILIPThe Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler, DeanDale Adelmann, Ph.D., Canon for Music

The Rev. C. Wallace Marsh IV, Canon for Pastoral Care and WorshipThe Rev. George M. Maxwell, Jr., Vicar

The Rev. Catherine Zappa, Canon for Spirituality and MissionThe Rev. John William Harkins III, Ph.D., Priest Associate

The Rev. Deacon Juan Sandoval, Deacon for Hispanic MinistriesThe Rev. Theophus “Thee” Smith, Ph.D., Priest Associate

The Rev. Carolynne G. Williams, Canon Associate for Pastoral Care and Elder Ministry

Mary Caroline Cravens, Senior WardenDoug O’Bryan, Junior Warden

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Sunday ADULT EDUCATION

LIVING FAITH

Room 120 Join Canon Wallace Marsh and Canon Cathy Zappa as we explore what it means to live out our faith through conversation with scripture and tradition, contemporary books, and, most important, one another.

This week, Canon Wallace Marsh will lead our continuing discussion of Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly.

SMALL GROUP BIBLE STUDY

Room 122Jim Bingham and Gordon Mathis lead an ongoing small group Bible Study focusing on a particular book of the Bible for several months at a time. This year, we are reading the book of Genesis. For more information, please contact Jim Bingham at 404-373-3273 or binghamjim@bellsouth.net.

OLD FASHIONED SUNDAY SCHOOL

Child HallCanon George Maxwell leads this series of discussions during the fall term about the Christian Vision of C. S. Lewis. As always, you will find those things that we think matter most: a light heart, a broad welcome, and good coffee.

This week, Canon Maxwell will lead a discussion about friendship. Lewis did not live or work in isolation. He needed friends for support, encouragement, and inspiration. Lewis had a lot to say about real friendship.

BIBLICAL GREEK

Room 356Beginning Biblical Greek is offered on a drop-in basis most Sunday mornings at 10:10 a.m. Continuing Biblical Greek classes are offered on Sundays from 1:15–2:45 p.m., including this Sunday, for anyone who wants to learn the basics of translation using grammar aids, lexicons, and commentaries. For more information, contact the Rev. Dr. Thee Smith at thee.smith@emory.edu.

Unless otherwise noted, these adult Sunday School classes meet from 10:10–11 a.m.

United Thank OFFERINGUTO INGATHERING THIS SUNDAY

Don’t forget your Blue Box when preparing for Sunday services this week. Every day we have so many blessings that come our way. Thank you for joining the ECW in counting those blessings this fall and participating in our Cathedral’s United Thank Offering (UTO). Having spent time adding daily offerings of thanks to your UTO Blue Box, you can open it on Saturday and count your offerings. Write a check for your total amount, payable to the Cathedral of St. Philip (with UTO in the memo line), and bring it to church Sunday. You will receive a UTO envelope for the offering plate. Or, you can make a contribution at the Atrium kiosk or online at stphilipscathedral.org/contribution. Then, take your empty Blue Box and keep the tradition alive at home until the spring ingathering day!

UTO has been a tradition since 1889 and supports the missions and ministries of the Episcopal Church. Every cent collected fulfills diocesan grant requests, and each year over $2.5 million dollars is received through UTO offerings. In 2012 our own Holy Comforter Episcopal Church received $26,400 to support the good works of its Friendship Center. Atlanta’s Rainbow Village, whose mission is to transform lives of homeless families, received a grant in 2015 for $75,000. Each year the Diocese of Atlanta may make applications for up to two grants.

Dear Cathedral Community,The Cathedral Preschool Director Search Committee is excited

to share an update on the progress in the search for a new director in time for the 2018-19 school year.

The Preschool’s Board and the Dean of the Cathedral of St. Philip appointed church member and Preschool parent, Teddi Bair, to chair the Search Committee. Teddi began the process by assembling a Search Committee representing a variety of perspectives and areas of expertise from inside the Preschool community and one consultant from outside the Preschool community.

The search firm Carney, Sandoe & Associates (CS&A) was selected to assist the committee in the search. CS&A is a nationally recognized educational search firm that will help us identify the next leader of the Preschool. CS&A brings a deep knowledge of schools from their nearly 40 years of experience placing school leaders, administrators, and educators across the country.

Insights will be gathered from the community to inform the selection criteria for the initial candidate vetting process and will help guide the search committee’s interviews of top candidates in the coming months. Once all interviews have been completed, the search committee, in collaboration with CS&A, will recommend their top candidates to the Preschool Board and the Dean, who will then identify our next director.

We are deeply grateful to our consultants at CS&A and the entire Cathedral community for supporting this important transition. If you have questions or thoughts about the search that you would like to share with the committee, please email us at searchcommittee@cpsatl.org.

Thank you all for your support and devotion to the Preschool.Best,The Cathedral Preschool Search Committee

Cathedral PRESCHOOL

CATHEDRAL PRESCHOOL SEARCH COMMITTEETeddi Bair 1 Committee Chair

Mary Bondurant 2

The Very Rev. Sam Candler 1 2 Dean of the CathedralMary Caroline Cravens 1 2 Senior Warden of the Cathedral

Mary Holmes 1 2

Kathryn Howell 1 2

Joe Iarocci 2 Chairman of the Cathedral Preschool Board

David James 1 2

Mary Kibler 1 2 Assistant Director of the Cathedral PreschoolThe Rev. George Maxwell 2 Vicar of Cathedral

Jane Montgomery Consulting on Preschool Directorship, Director of Peachtree Presbyterian Preschool

Mallory Stone 1

Tiffany Walton 1 Cathedral Preschool teacher1 Denotes current and/or former parent or grandparent of a Cathedral Preschool student

2 Denotes current member of Cathedral Preschool Board of Directors

ADVENT WREATH MAKINGSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26 — 5:30–7 P.M.

BRING YOUR OWN GREENS!

WREATH KITS: $14

SPAGHETTI SUPPER: $6/CHILD; $8/ADULT

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MUSICWORSHIP

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS AND VISITORS

Would you like to meet other Cathedral parishioners? Do you feel called to give back to your faith community? Do you love Holy Eucharist and want to share it with others? Please consider serving as a Eucharistic Minister or Eucharistic Visitor.

Eucharistic Ministers administer the chalice of wine at our Eucharistic services, while Eucharistic Visitors take the Holy Communion from the Sunday services to those who are homebound.

Contact Hillary Jones, 404-365-1038, hjones@stphilipscathedral.org, for more information.

ORGANIST JASON KLEIN-MENDOZA TO PERFORM

This Sunday, November 19 at 3:15 p.m., organist Jason Klein-Mendoza will perform a recital on our marvelous Aeolian-Skinner organ. Jason is a is a graduate of the University of Southern California and Northwestern University, and currently serves as the assistant organist and choral director at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, California. His program will include works by Howells, Bach, and Duruflé, among others. We are thrilled to welcome Jason as a first-time performer at the Cathedral of St. Philip!

Jason Klein-Mendoza, organ All Saints’ Episcopal Church (Beverly Hills, California)

Herbert Howells, Allegro impetuoso from Six Short Pieces for Organ

Johann Sebastian Bach, Alein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 662

Robert Elmore, Movements from Rhythmic SuiteMaurice Duruflé, Toccata from Suite pour orgue, Op. 5

stphilipscathedral.org/concerts

Presented by Friends oF Cathedral MusiC

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s brass section has been venerated as one of the finest in the country for the last twenty-five years. These

musicians have worked tirelessly as a team to maintain the highest standards of brass playing throughout their careers and to unify their

sounds into a beautiful array of colors.

At this holiday concert, they will bring to you some of the best arrangements of holiday and symphonic music written specifically for brass ensemble and percussion. Program highlights will include

selections from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Bruckner’s Ave Maria, traditional holiday chorales, and several standards from the symphony orchestra repertoire. It will be an evening of delightful

music and great brass playing, not to be missed!

The Atlanta Symphony Brass Holiday Brass Concert

— noveMber 28 —7:30 P.M.

Thanksgiving Day EucharistThursday, November 23

10 a.m.

Celebrant: Canon Wallace Marsh

Preacher: Clayton Harrington

Cathedral Choir:

Herbert Howells, Jubilate Deo (Collegium Regale)

Dear Anna,Your pilgrimage to the Holy Island of

Lindisfarne sounds like a wonderful experience.I can still remember walking barefoot through

the mud at low tide to get to the island. The line of poles marking the way made me think of Saints Aiden and Cuthbert, and all of the other pilgrims who have traveled that path over time. The northeastern coast of England is a special place on its own, but the island—with its history of evangelizing monks, illuminated manuscripts, and Viking raids—does feel like holy ground.

It’s interesting to me that there are places where people seem to find God more easily.

To borrow a phrase from C. S. Lewis, it’s as if you are more likely to be “surprised by joy” there. You are more likely to lose yourself in them and desire God more. The Irish call these places “thin places,” as if just being there puts you closer to heaven and more within God’s reach.

I recently found myself in an unexpectedly thin place.I had gone to the funeral of the father of a friend of mine.

The death was a merciful one in many respects. My friend’s father had been suffering from illness for a long time. Still, as you know, actual loss is often more painful than you think it is going to be.

The service was in a Protestant church, so it lacked the

structure and trappings of liturgical worship that I identify as signaling that you are on holy ground. There were no soaring arches or stained glass windows, no vestments or candles or altar linens. There would be no Eucharist or even any familiar prayers.

Yet, as we sang Amazing Grace and How Great Thou Art, as we listened to stories about my friend’s father—how much he loved other people and how much they

loved him—and as I thought about all of the homemade food that would appear for the feast in the fellowship hall after the service, I realized that I was indeed on holy ground.

This community loved and cared for each other in a way that made Christ’s presence unmistakable. I forgot about all of my observations of their space and liturgy, and started paying attention to what they were paying attention to – their celebration of their communion with God and through God with each other.

I shouldn’t have been surprised. The presence of Christ is the ultimate thin place.I guess that I just had to experience it to know that it was

true!Your affectionate uncle, Ames

Episcopal Church WOMENBACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Mark your calendars! St. Veronica’s Guild will hold another jewelry sale in September 2018 at the Cathedral. In preparation for the sale, please consider donating previously loved jewelry that you no longer wear. The guild is happy to have costume jewelry; inherited vintage pieces that languish in a box in the back of a closet; or 14K or 18K gold and sterling silver pieces, even if they are broken - including that one earring you’ve been saving hoping to find the mate. Bring your jewelry donations to the Information Desk in the Atrium. Contact St. Veronica’s jewelry sale co-chairs Barbara Frolik, barbarafrolik@gmail.com, or Patti Parker, patticparker@gmail.com, for more information.

HABITAT CHRISTMAS BASKETS

Come be part of the annual and joyful experience of creating Christmas baskets for our Cathedral Habitat families. We are building an amazing 22 this year and need your help! This has become a very popular event for us each year and you can help in several ways, including contributing food or monetary support, building baskets (beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, December 15), or delivering baskets (meeting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, December 16). This is something for kids and adults alike; make it a family event. Sign up in the Atrium beginning Sunday, November 19 or contact John Champion at 404-307-0817 or jchampion@bellsouth.net for more details.

OUTREACH

FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL OR RECOVERING: IMMEDIATE NEEDS

Anne Willingham

LONG TERM PRAYERS

Virginia Bicksler • Cornelia Bird • George Bird • John Blair • David W. Boone • Josh Borden • Pat Brinson • Kaye Cairney • Heather Clark • Jamie Coleman • Ginny Collins • Joan Couch • Lawrence Cowart • Terry Dornbush • Sarah duBignon • Kitty Dukehart • Susan Dunn • Angela Ellis • Randy Farmer • Amy Feuss • Patty Gifford • Jennifer Ham • Jane Hannah • Caroline Hatcher • Shirley Heermann • Richard Hill • Elaine Lyon • Robert and Aggie Maddox • David McCarthy • Carol McDonald • Elaine McEachern • Georgia Meagher • Dick Miller • Carrick Mollenkamp • Mary Elizabeth Morgan • Charlie Neal • Marian Palmore • Walter Perrin • Brenda Pruitt • Garry Pryor • Jennifer Rankin • Pamela Reid • Agnes Elizabeth Robertson • Martin Ruegsegger • Louis “Skip” Schueddig • Jim Segars • Jeanne M. Smith • Julie Sutton • Tommy Truesdale • Cindy West • Chandra Westafer • Hollis Youngner

FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Brenda Alonso • Gayle Ball • Bettina Bass • Rodger Beatty • David Boyd • Darrell Boyette • Joan Brooks • Keith Brooks  • Meredith, Adam, and Leo Bugenske  • Jake Cantrell  • Denise Carlson  • Andrew Clark  • Faye Comer • Timothy Paul Condrey • Floyd Childs Cooper III • Bea Cowan • Lonieze Cranshaw • Gabe Crieger • Jackson Culbreth • Ashley Debelbot and Brenda Jones • Brenda Dickerson • Joshua Felder • Ann Carol Followill • Carleton Fuller • Tom Gardner • Susan Gill • Peggy Govan • Eudelle Lanier Graham • Darrell and Gail Grimmett • D. Louis Gruver, Jr. • Doyce Gunter • Dottie Gwynn • William Ham • Helen Hammond • Debbie Hardegree • Chris Hardy • Bobby Hearn • Greg Hentz • Liz Grant Hilton • Annemarie and Ante Jazic • Sun Ja Kim • Kelly Kolak • Lisa Krysiak • Margaret Winders Kuhn • Betty C. Lyons • Michael Majeski family  • Pat Martin  • Janie Mathis  • Michelle Maxwell  • Michael McClelland  • Bonnie Shields McCormack • Anne McMullan • Darel Moe • Lyn Moore • Andy Nelson • Barrett Nichols • Jay Orr • Betty and Bill Poole • Libby Powell • Margaret Robinson • James Sands • Donald Schooley • Patricia Schooley • Logan Shannep • Michelle Simmons • Lara Smith Sitton • Gwendolyn Slack • Lyda Sorgini • Tina Susco • Carla Sweetwood • Hubert Tate, Sr. • John Titus • Janiece Townshend • Christi Vasquez • Peter Veverka • Nina Vila • Frank Villa • Ed Vogel • Meredith Wallace • Ron M. Wallace • Jacqueline Watkins • Caroline and John Westerhoff • Coralie Severn Wilson • Marion Wilson • Althea Wolf • Whit A. Wright • Patricia Young

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIEDCatherine Carson Sarah Gwynn Anne Groves Morris Dolores Fiola Mary Monroe Fred McGranahan Joe K. Steele

PRAYER List

NEW MEMBER

Josh Roper, from Savannah, Georgia

BIRTH

Knox Blalock Berbert, son of Tayloe and Isabel Berbert,

born on October 26, 2017

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SPIRITUALITY

PREPARING THE HEART IN ADVENT

Come spend time preparing your heart for the birth of Wisdom at an Advent Quiet Day, Saturday, December 9. The heart is a doorway that can be prepared to welcome the Christ, born in the poorest corner, in the most unlikely place. This day will include opportunities for wisdom practices that prepare and open the heart for transformation: chant, extended silence for individual reflection with readings, the labyrinth, creative expression, and body prayer.

The Quiet Day will be led by Lisa Persons, M.Div., who is a spiritual director and coordinator at Amerson House Spirituality Center behind St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church. She studied intensively with the Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault for several years and has been an active associate of Green Bough House of Prayer since 1996. She has organized monthly Taizé prayers in the Atlanta area since 1992.

The Quiet Day will take place in the Lanier House on the Cathedral campus, 9:30 a.m. – 2 p.m., Saturday, December 9. The cost is $20 and includes lunch. Please register before December 4 online at stphilipscathedral.org/quietday or by contacting Jeannie Mahood, jmahood@stphilipscathedral.org or 404-365-1031.

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CHRISTMAS PAGEANT SIGN-UPS

It is time to sign up for the Christmas Pageant, held every year at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve. All children registered in Sunday School, from the 4-year-olds through fifth grade, are welcome to participate. If your child is not registered for Sunday School, please contact Lisa McNamara, lmcnamara@stphilipscathedral.org, or register online at stphilipscathedral.org/children. A pageant sign-up table will be in the Atrium on Sundays, November 19 and December 3. All casting will be complete by December 10. Dress rehearsal will be Sunday, December 17 at 12:45 p.m. If you have any questions, contact Sara Chapman, sarachapman@westminster.net. The Christmas Pageant is a tradition not to be missed!

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