All Souls Memorial Episcopal Church Volume 63, Issue 3 June/July/August 2012

From the Rector: Summer Reading at All SoulsGoing to the Beach with Sara Miles and C. S. Lewis

ummer is the perfect time to throwthose books into your luggage that

you’ve meant to read. You know thekind—the sort of book that peoplealways mention but you’ve neverquite gotten around to reading. Orperhaps you’ve read the book, but it’sbeen a while. This summer, I inviteyou to join me in reading two books.

Both are written by converts to Chris-tianity. They are not converts from an-other faith but rather feel drawn toChrist from the point of no faith. Wecan learn a lot from such people: theones who write books and the oneswho find their way into our church.Someone who chooses Christianity orwho chooses the Episcopal “way” ofChristianity brings a freshness thatcan challenge our basic assumptions.A newcomer brings questions thatcause us to think more deeply aboutwhat we believe. Finally—and per-haps most risky for those of us whoappreciate tradition—newcomerssometimes bring their own interpre-tations and applications of beliefs,practices, and rituals that have beenhanded down through the ages. Allof this happens through the grace ofthe Holy Spirit; and even as it rattlesus, it strengthens and empowers.

During the month of June, I’ll be re-reading C.S. Lewis’s little classic, MereChristianity. Each Sunday morning at10 a.m., we’ll then have a discussionof a different section of the book aswe revisit some of the basics of our

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faith and notice how Lewis applied asecular, literary, and intellectual mindto the teachings of Jesus Christ.

We’ll read the second book in July.Although it may be less familiar, insome circles it has become an almostmodern classic as it describes how abusy, secular, liberal intellectualmight be drawn to Christ. Sara Miles’book, Take This Bread: A Radical Con-version, is a book I had heard aboutsince it came out but had never read.A friend finally gave me the book thisChristmas; and since reading it, I haveoften thought about her conversionand how I (and we) might become

more hospitable to those seekingGod. Miles writes that, to her greatsurprise and alarm,

“[Christianity] could speak even tome: not in the sappy, Jesus-and-cookies tone of mild-mannered lib-eral Christianity, or the blustering,blaming hellfire of the religiousright. What I heard, and continueto hear, is a voice that can crackreligious and political convictionsopen, that advocates for the leastqualified, least official, least likely;that upsets the established orderand makes a joke of certainty”(p. xvii).

As in the past, there will be copies ofboth books for loan in the church li-brary (the fireplace room just off themain church) in the administrativewing of the building.

During the month of August, havingfinished thes two books, we’ll use the10 a.m. hour for a discussion of thelectionary readings appointed foreach Sunday morning. When you can,please join us this summer. Or, readalong as you travel and keep us inyour prayers.

John Beddingfield

Our authorsare not converts

from another faith,but rather feel

drawn to Christfrom the point

of no faith.We can learn

a lot fromsuch people.

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From the Senior WardenWhys and Wherefores

t the end of her interview withBishop of Washington Mariann

Edgar Budde, published December10, Washington Post columnist LisaMiller asked just who exactly “reallycares if the Episcopal Church isheaded for extinction.” Coming as itdid at the end of the interview, thequestion was a bit of an ambush—butit really is a good question: particu-larly if we rephrase it just a bit morepositively.

Department of Defense organizationstend to fall madly in love with theleadership/management guru of theweek. My current organization is noexception. They’ve fallen for SimonSinek—author of Start with Why: HowGreat Leaders Inspire Everyone to TakeAction—who spoke there back inMarch. Sinek points out that it is easyfor companies to identify WHAT theydo, even HOW they do so in a way thatsets them apart. WHY is often left un-defined. “But not [for] the inspiredcompanies,” Sinek goes on to say.“Not the inspired leaders. Everysingle one of them, regardless of theirsize or their industry, thinks, acts andcommunicates from the inside out”—starting with WHY.

When you think about it, Sinek’s ar-gument of the importance of startingwith WHY versus WHAT and HOW doesmake a good deal of sense.

That said, we might recast LisaMiller’s question: “What is the WHY

behind what the Episcopal Church isdoing?” I’ll leave it to the people withmitres to answer that question for thebroader Episcopal Church; they’d bestget hopping, or extinction might justbe an option. So what is the WHY be-hind All Souls? WHY should I be thereon Sunday? WHY should you be thereon Sunday? WHY should we make anyeffort to bring more people in? Wehave lots of activity going on at AllSouls: WHY?

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If you are waiting for me to answerthose WHYs in the remainder of thispiece, you are about to be sorely dis-appointed. What I am going to do isto ask you to participate with me overthe next months in spending sometime looking at those WHYs. I intendto give the new vestry a portion ofSinek’s book to stimulate discuss—wemight decide that we want to read thebook or we might look at other re-sources. I’d be very interested to hearyour ideas about where to start withdefining the WHY for All Souls.

Let me do a bit of sketching about myfirst notions of where our WHYs mightlie.

An element of WHY is in our church’sname, All Souls. In naming our acces-sibility project “All Souls Forward:Living Up to our Name,” I think thatwe “nailed” the WHY for that effort inthe words “Living Up to our Name.”We’ve done a good job of ensuringthat the WHAT and the HOW of the ac-cessibility project flow from that WHY.That’s WHY I have confidence in thesuccess of that project.

More broadly, we do still live in aworld that excludes some people.Things have gotten better, in this

country and some others, but I’m notso sure that we don’t still value soulsin Potomac or Chevy Chase a bit morethan souls in Anacostia. The valuesystem that underpins the Lord’swords in Ezekiel, “All souls aremine,” remains something that theworld still needs more fully to em-brace.

The Gospel of Luke records that Jesuswas given the scroll of Isaiah fromwhich he read (Luke 4: 18-19):

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, be-cause he has anointed me to bring goodnews to the poor. He has sent me to pro-claim release to the captives and recov-ery of sight to the blind, to let theoppressed go free, to proclaim the yearof the Lord’s favor.

Jesus ended his reading with ratherstunning words: “Today this scrip-ture has been fulfilled in your hear-ing” (Luke 4:21). It’s not hard to hearthe reverberations of “All souls aremine” in that reading. I think that partof our WHY lies in the fact that not oneof the key points of that reading canbe checked off as complete or nolonger relevant in our day and age.

Another element of our WHY probablylies in the fact that we human beingsneed to be taught what is right andto be reminded of it continuously.“He has told you, O mortal what isgood,” we read in Micah, “and whatdoes the Lord require of you but todo justice, and to love kindness, andto walk humbly with your God?”(6:8) A newspaper not long ago in-cluded photos of men who have been,are, or allegedly should be taken tothe Hague Tribunal for crimes againsthumanity along with summaries ofthe horrific things that they werecharged with having done. Whocould have taught them what wasgood and just and kind? Where andwhen were they reminded? At itsbest, the Church teaches us and re-

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At its best,the Church teachesus and reminds usabout what is right

and what is not:this is a crucial why.

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minds us about what is right andwhat is not: this is a crucial WHY.

Getting to our WHY is going to takesome work, prayer, and reflection.We’ll need to look at the work of So-

From the Senior WardenWhys and Wherefores—Continued

From the Junior WardenIt’s Never Too Late

everal years ago, while writing fora now defunct local arts magazine,

I wrote a series of articles on activi-ties that, even having turned fifty, itwas not too late to do; never too lateto windsurf, play polo, or even takeup golf.

So there I was, one very calm after-noon, windsurfing: trying to balancemyself on a board in the middle ofthe Potomac River. Balance has neverbeen a strong point with me—I can’teven balance my check book. But Ipersevered, hoping that a gentlebreeze would waft me along likesome power-driven naiad.

Polo is the sport of kings, along withcricket and horse racing, so, being aBrit, I thought that this would also bea fun thing to do before I became tooold to even climb onto a horse. So one,crisp early spring morning, under thewatchful eye of local polo player JoeMuldoon, I found myself canteringdown a frost-hardened field. Onehand was on the reins, the otherwielding the polo mallet. The pony

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had been cooped up all winter andwondered how fast he could do.

Golf: presidents do it, comedians doit—it’s the “royal and ancient game,”but do the Royals really do it?—andthis fifty year old was going to do it. Ichose an appropriate wardrobe (ofsome pale blue, green and yellowplaid that had never seen a Scottishmoor)—but soon enough, there I was:in a sand trap. There is a club espe-cially for this, it has an ’S’ on it, butthere is no club for scooping a tinylittle ball from the depths of a murkypond, home to frogs and the like.Once I was free, I saw what this gameof golf is all about: walking around a

park in an effort to find the clubhouseagain, while hitting little balls!

While I still believe that it is never toolate to windsurf, play golf, or playpolo, and so on…when it comes tokeeping up with our friends and ac-quaintances, we find, as we get older,that it IS too late. How often do werationalize that there is plenty of timeto see that old school friend, whetherin good health or not? That relative?That mentor?

So, go ahead and plan a visit, send aletter, or even an e-mail, or make atelephone call…or, in this day of elec-tronic shopping, order a plant, someflowers, a box of wonderful choco-lates. Do something to let them knowyou are thinking of them.

Life IS short; and, no matter how sin-cere our appreciation of their varioustalents at a memorial service, we al-ways regret the things we did not door the time we did not spend with thedeceased.

Jennifer Crier Johnston

journers and others who are lookingat what the Church should be in thetwenty-first century. I do believe thatclearly defining our WHY will lead tothe WHATs and HOWs that will gener-ate growth—personal and numeric—and increasing relevance in our

community.

What do you think is an importantWHY for All Souls? I invite yourinput!

Dale Lewis

How often werationalize—but, sometimes,

it really is too late.

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In this IssueSummer Reading—From the Rector: 1Whys & Wherefores—From the Senior Warden 2It’s Never Too Late—From the Junior Warden 3My Life and Times at, and Absent from, All Souls 4News from our Mission Partners in South Africa 7

Congratulations to our Seminarians 7Vestry Election Results 8Blessing of the Seersucker 9Next Issue Article Deadline 9The Parish Register 9

June/July/August Calendars 10–12Baptism Dates 13Birthdays 14All Souls Forward—Living Up to our Name 15

The Message is published every two months except for aJune/July/August issue and a single issue in September.

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may be the only parishioner whowas baptized at All Souls as an in-

fant. I was baptized at All Souls bythe Rev. Hatch Dent Sterrett (thechurch’s second rector, son of the Rev.James MacBride Sterrett, on Nov. 9,1945.

My mother, Mary Goddard Zon, thenage 22, was married at All Souls theprevious year in a shotgun weddingthat soon ended in a Reno, Nev., di-vorce. My mother worked as a black-jack dealer in Reno while awaitingher divorce decree, while I stayed athome with my grandparents inCleveland Park. My grandfather wasCol. Calvin H. Goddard, who pio-neered the science of forensic ballis-tics in the 1920s.

In 1947, my mother began workingfor the CIO-PAC, where she met mystepfather. She never left that job, re-tiring as research director in 1977from the merged AFL-CIO Commit-tee on Political Education. She wasthe maverick in the family, bravingthe disapproval of her conservativeparents in joining the then-militantunion movement. Her name is in-scribed on a bronze plaque above theleft side of All Souls’ communion railfor her estate’s gift of the set of eleganthand bells (“elegance” was a centraltheme for my mother), which arebrought out for some of our 11 o’clockservices.

As a pre-teen and later as a teen, I at-tended Sunday school at All Souls. Istill have a couple of drawings I didin Sunday School. As a teen I alsobecame best friends with BlakeBlackwelder, the middle of the Rev.Frank Blackwelder’s three sons. (It’san interesting coincidence that FrankBlackwelder, like most of the rectorsof All Souls—Julian Cave, a finepreacher and former Baptist ministerdeposed in 1992; beloved John DavidVan Doren, who shepherded Sunday

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services from low to high church andfilled up our largely empty pews withnew and more sexually diverse con-gregation; and our present belovedand popular rector, John Bedding-field—all hailed from the state ofNorth Carolina.) Hectored by the rec-tor, Blake and I, then 15, studied acatechism to prepare for confirmationby Bishop Dunn at Washington Na-tional Cathedral. Confirmation forme was little more than an emptyritual. The following year, however,I underwent a conversion experienceI can’t quite explain. After a ratherhappy and carefree childhood, I hadsomehow become an angst-riddenteenager in need of a spiritual anchor,a mental salve, and a moral compass.Blake and I stopped siphoning boozefrom my home liquor cabinet. I be-gan reading the Bible daily. I orga-nized a silent retreat for the SundaySchool teens and an ecumenicalyouth group that included the Cleve-land Park Congregational Churchand the Church of the Pilgrims(Southern Presbyterian), along witha youth revival that included a Bap-tist-style altar-call in the All Soulsundercroft.

My main secular activity was publish-ing a Cleveland Park newspaper, TheMessenger, which included interviewswith prominent residents. In one edi-torial, I advocated home rule for D.C.Frank and his wife EmilyBlackwelder were aghast, complain-ing that home rule would mean ra-cial takeover. They insisted that Iremove Blake’s name from the two-person staff listing.

In 1968, the tables were turned. I hada weekly interview program on theupstart WAMU-AM public radio atAmerican University, where I was agrad student. Blackwelder asked thatI interview him as “the most conser-vative clergyman in Washington.” Asmy program was reserved forprogressives, I declined his offer).About that time, All Souls stoppedgiving money to the Diocese of Wash-ington because of its liberal stand oncivil rights and other issues. Thechurch, by the way, was nearly fullon Sunday mornings. I can’t recall anydissention from Blackwelder’s poli-tics.

Blackwelder was not regarded as anespecially inspired preacher, al-though I was told he aspired to beone. My mother rarely attended AllSouls because she did not care muchfor Blackwelder. Instead of preaching,his forte was tending to the personalneeds of parishioners—especially hishome visits to the old and the infirm,for which he was much admired andappreciated.

As a teen with increasingly troubledrelations with my parents, I foundtwo successive mentors—both teach-ers of the All Souls teenage SundaySchool. Yes there were teenagers atAll Souls back in the day, at least 10boys and girls. The first teacher, whenI was ages 15 and 16, often took Blakeand me to lunch and sometimes to amovie. He and I would argue about

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politics, as he was somewhat conser-vative, but our discussions were in-teresting. The important thing wasthat he listened to me and took meseriously.

As it happened, however, this manwas a pedophile—as I learned by ac-cident several years after he movedto Los Angeles in late 1960s. On achance meeting, one of his victimstold me that he “got every one of us.”He added, “at least I got a free mi-croscope out of it.” This explainswhat the man meant in a letter to mefrom Los Angeles, in which he saidhe hadn’t been able to convince AllSouls folks about the validity of suchrelationships (which also implies thathe was found out; but if so, the scan-dal was covered up). Certainly henever approached Blake or me in asexual way. As such I feel little angertoward him, perhaps for the selfishreasons that he never approached meand was a good mentor. My last con-tact with him was in Los Angelesduring the summer of 1962 whenthree friends and I—just graduatedfrom the Maret School—took an11,000-mile road trip around the U.S.and Mexico. He treated the four of usat a fine Greek restaurant with a sul-try belly dancer.

As I reached high school age, my nextSunday School teacher was DickTaliaferro, Jr., a high school teacherwho became my second mentor. Dickand I are friends to this day. Ironicallyenough our friendship was not appre-ciated by my parents, who felt jeal-ous and suspicious of Dick’sintentions, and forbade me from see-ing him for about a year. They hireda private detective to investigate him,and he came out clean as a whistle.

In 1962 I enrolled in Davidson Col-lege, founded by Scottish Presbyteri-ans, with the aim of becoming aclergyman of either of the Presbyte-

rian or Episcopal denomination. InMarch 1964, Joe Howell and I wereprincipal organizers of a controver-sial petition drive involving ninemainly white and mainly black col-leges in Piedmont North Carolina forpassage of what became the CivilRights Act of 1964. The drive culmi-nated in a massive march in the rainthrough Charlotte, N.C, in March1964. That remains my proudest mo-ment (my happiest moments being thebirth of my daughter and son)—evenmore so that my participation in theAug. 28, 1963 March on Washingtonfor Jobs and Freedom, where I was apeacekeeping marshal with a whitehat and a walkie-talkie.

After graduation from Davidson, Iabandoned All Souls for the Churchof the Pilgrims. No longer interestedin the ministry, I taught high schoolhistory and English at the MaretSchool, my alma mater, and a year laterbecame a graduate student of FarEastern Studies at AmericanUniversity’s School of InternationalService. In the meantime, the VietnamWar was raging—and my anger aboutthis needless atrocity made me aban-don plans to work for the govern-ment, becoming instead an antiwaractivist and a radical. Along with myfellow congregants, the minister at

Church of the Pilgrims (Herb Meza)was unsympathetic to my new causeand radical views. So I left the churchand did not return to organized reli-gion for 20 years. I felt I was runningtoo fast for Jesus to catch up, and that,if the Kingdom of God were to be at-tained, it would not come aboutthrough a church mired in politicalconformity and the status quo.

I was drawn to the Socialist WorkersParty (SWP) because it was highlyeffective in organizing the massive,peaceful, and legal demonstrationsthat were instrumental in ending theVietnam War. The party became mynew church; the teachings of Marx,Lenin and Trotsky, my new gospel;and the Internationale, my favoritehymn. I also aspired to be a journal-ist and got a job as a dictationist atthe Washington Star; I soon workedmy way into the position of reporter-trainee. The day after my promotion,I got a call from the right-wing PinkSheet on the Left, asking if I was a mem-ber of the SWP. I declined to partici-pate in their “witch-hunt” as Idescribed it. The Pink Sheet soon ranseveral articles about my subversiveactivities, like selling the SWP news-paper on the street and writing for theparty newspaper under a semi-alias.Human Events magazine’s front pagestory was headlined “Trotskyist Re-porter Infiltrates Washington Star”—and it demanded that I be fired. I wascalled into the office of the Star’s edi-tor, Newbald Noyes, who said itwould be best for me to resign fromthe SWP. I argued that it was my con-stitutional right to belong to an orga-nization which had broken nolaws—but that I would do nothingthat would embarrass the Star. I des-perately wanted to be a reporter andhad worked like hell to get the posi-tion, so this was the most agonizingdecision of my life. I was told the next

My PerspectiveMy Life and Times at, and Absent from, All Souls–Continued

Instead of preaching,Blackwelder’s forte was

tending to thepersonal needs ofparishioners—

especially his home visits tothe old and the infirm.

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day that I could keep my job as ametropolitan beat reporter, a job Iheld for the next eight years.

But by the late 1970s, the Party hadbecome the God that failed; it hadabandoned its democratic organiza-tional principles and had become anirrelevant personality cult of dimin-ishing numbers. I was expelled forlack of devotion, along with manyothers who didn’t relish the notion ofgetting a job in a factory to convertthe proletariat to socialism. My hopefor a socialist transformation of soci-ety was a dream that died. My beliefin the socialist doctrine of man as anoble savage whose nature must befreed from the shackles of patriarchyand sexual repression was shattered.I reconsidered the doctrine of origi-nal sin. (The surprising Occupy WallStreet movement has revived myhope for fundamental societalchange.)

In early 1980, I was purged from theWashington Star by its new owners:Time, Inc. Many others also werepurged because the new ownerswanted to bring in their own people.The following month, I met my sec-ond and current wife, Laurel Blaydes,at a group-house party cosponsoredby Maureen Dowd (Star reporter andnow New York Times columnist) andmyself. We were married in 1985 af-ter four years of domestic partnering.By the late 1980s, Laurel, raised aMethodist, determined to find achurch home. Part of the reason wasour desire to have children: and we’rethe proud parents of Cary, 20, andChapman, 19.

We tried churches here and there, andthen one Sunday in 1990 I was sur-prised to see my old compatriot JoeHowell sitting in a pew up front(where still he sits) with his wifeEmbry in the choir (I knew her fromDavidson, where she was the daugh-

ter of the college president). I tookthis as a sign from on high that thiswas the place for me, and Laurel as-sented. “Who would have imaginedthat we would end up in the samechurch?” Joe asked me. “It must bemiddle age. You’ll probably get meinto trouble here like you did atDavidson with civil rights,” headded.

In returning to the Christian faith af-ter a long absence, I’m glad that Ifound a spiritual home at All Souls.The high-church transformation un-der John David—the incense, chant-ing, and such—took some timegetting used to, but I “got with theprogram” as fellow low-churchmanJoe advised. As a favor to my Protes-tant inclinations, John David madesure that every year on ReformationSunday “A Mighty Fortress” was onthe list of hymns. After all, ourchurch’s cornerstone reads that weare “All Souls Protestant EpiscopalChurch.”

Soon after my re-joining All Souls,B.J. Warren persuaded me to run forthe vestry and I was elected. I got mymother to attend frequently despitethe growing pain of arthritis, whichleft her bedridden for the last fiveyears of her life. I shall always appre-ciate John David’s visits to her apart-

ment during that difficult period. Ithink we were all moved as well bythe eloquent preaching of RectorJulian Cave. In our newly renovatedundercroft, I organized a swing (jit-terbug) dance series. My wife’s band,which I managed for several years,was among the featured entertainers.At intermission, John David or Iwould invite the dancers up to thesanctuary to view the “beauty of ho-liness” in our upside-down arc andhopefully be inspired to worship withus. When the dance series had tocease—the dancers were scarring ournewly renovated floor—I decided toorganize a coffeehouse folk musicseries, for which I recruited somechurch volunteers to serve the coffeeand pastries, collect the admissionfee, etc. This continued for two yearsand included a New Year’s Eve folkmusic party.

I was proud to present my book, TheGood Fight That Didn’t End: Henry P.Goddard’s Accounts of Civil War andPeace, based on the writings of myCivil War great-grandfather, a heroicUnion officer and journalist, and anEpiscopalian, at an Episcopal Men’sFellowship some months ago. A sonof Connecticut, Goddard later movedto Baltimore—and attended the con-secration of Washington National Ca-thedral in 1907.

I haven’t been very active at All Soulsin recent years. Yet at the urging ofthe indomitable Nancy Suggs for pa-rishioners to step up to the plate, Ibecame a lector—a task for which astint in Toastmasters prepared me. Ilook forward to many more years atAll Souls as I continue my pilgrim-age.

Calvin Goddard Zon

My PerspectiveMy Life and Times at, and Absent from, All Souls–Continued

In returningto the Christian faithafter a long absence,

I’m glad thatI found a spiritual home

at All Souls.

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n Wednesday, April 25, about 25parishioners and friends of All

Souls gathered to welcome back theVen. Rev. Sharron Dinnie, rector of theChurch of St. Peter and St. Paul inSprings, South Africa. It is this par-ish that has given birth to the KwasaCentre, a ministry that has been sup-ported and visited by All Souls overthe last few years. With MotherSharron were Mrs. Felicity Abbot, aparishioner and a volunteer at theKwasa after-school program, and twoeight-year-old students at Kwasa:Miss Shaylyn Moos and MissMandisa Mohobeledi. MotherSharron thanked All Soulsfor its generosity with mis-sion grants made possiblethrough our Endowment,for the visits by our mis-sion team in 2010 and byother parishioners in 2011,and especially for the 100scarves knitted for the chil-dren and donated in cel-ebration of the All SoulsCentennial.

Those who have followedthe story of Kwasa knowthat the buildings used forthe pre-primary school

Update from KwasaNews from our Mission Partners in South Africa

O classrooms, tutoring program, andmeal program are on an abandonedmine, just outside Johannesburg. Forthe last few years, Kwasa has tried toensure the future safety of the land,as developers sought to buy up theland around the little cluster of rail-way container classrooms and smallbuildings. Through what can only beunderstood as the movement of theHoly Spirit, Kwasa was able to pur-chase the entire area at public auction.Now Mother Sharron and the Boardof Kwasa are faced with new bless-ings and new challenges. There ismore room and there is the potential

of establishing a real schoolon the property.

All Souls does not yet haveanother date on the calen-dar for a visit to South Af-rica, but a number of us arevery hopeful that we mightvisit soon, perhaps in Lentof 2013. Look and listen formore information as weseek to find a time that thelargest number of All Soulsfriends and parishionersmight go.

John Beddingfield

Through what canonly be understoodas the movement

of the Holy Spirit,Kwasa has survived.

Now it faces new blessingsand challenges.

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Congratulations to our seminarians who are to be ordainedn Saturday, June 2, at 10 a.m. at theNational Cathedral, Shawn Strout,

a parishioner of All Souls, will be or-dained to the Sacred Order of Dea-cons. He will be a transitional deacon,to be ordained a priest after approxi-mately six months, and will serve asassistant rector at Christ Church,Kensington, MD..

O O n Wednesday, August 1, the Rev.Brenda Sol will be ordained to the

Sacred Order of Priests at TrinityEpiscopal Church in Seattle, WA. Shewill be serving as an assistant priestat the Church of St. Michael and AllAngels in Dallas, Texas.

Kwasa children modeling their scarves.

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Casting Our VotesElection Results from the Annual Parish Meeting—May 20, 2012

NEW GENERAL MEMBERS OF THE VESTRY

CONTINUING GENERAL MEMBERS OF THE VESTRY(with term until May of the listed year)

Martha Domenico (2013)Katherine Nordal (2014)Robert Publicover (2013)

Larry Sturgeon (2014)

CONTINUING SENIOR WARDENDale Lewis (2013)

DIOCESAN CONVENTION DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES(One-year term)

Delegates: Will Coley, Heidi RascinerAlternates: Dale Lewis, Jeff Wells

JUNIOR WARDEN

Jeff Wells(2-year term until 2014)

Daniel Callis(3-year term

until May 2015)

Jen Catena Davis(3-year term

until May 2015)

Greg Lebel(2-year term

until May 2014)

Jennifer Crier Johnston(1-year term

until May 2013)

Melissa Barrett(3-year term

until May 2015)

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From the Membership DatabaseThe Parish Register (as of May 4, 2012)

BaptismsMay 27, 2012Anthony Martin Beltran-Ward

ConfirmationsMay 12, 2012Claudia Jean DumasJulia Catherine PrestonNancy Gretchen Ulrich

Funeral & BurialApril 20, 2012Suzanne (Sue) Eyman

MarriagesApril 13, 2012Kristen Jean Reed &

Peter Jonathan WalkerMay 4, 2012Mimi Janian &

Robert LawlessMay 5, 2012Zachary Thomas Warrender &

Anthony Christopher WoodsJune 23, 2012Sarah Hope Anderson &

Thomas Francis CakulsJuly 14, 2012Ryan Joseph Fanning &

Jessica Seitz

Reaffirmations*April 5, 2012Marco Antonio BeltramPeter J. Walker

Transfers InApril 1, 2012William R. Stewart

April 3, 2012Lee Rijn Tate

Transfers OutApril 19, 2012George D. Barnum

* This category includes new memberswho join by providing the requiredinformation and existing memberswho provide missing information, pri-marily a baptism date. The nameslisted are from March through May ofthis year.

any may be familiar with thetradition of the “Kirking of the

Tartans” held in Presbyterian andEpiscopal Churches. “Kirk” is the oldScottish Gaelic word for church, andso the Kirking of the Tartans is a bless-ing of the fabric and colors that somuch represent various clans, fami-lies, and cultures contributing to it.

But we don’t wear much tartan, es-pecially not during the summer. Be-

Highlights of Summer WorshipBlessing the Seersucker

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Second AnnualSecond AnnualSecond AnnualSecond AnnualSecond AnnualBlessing of the Seersucker:Blessing of the Seersucker:Blessing of the Seersucker:Blessing of the Seersucker:Blessing of the Seersucker:

Sunday, June 3Sunday, June 3Sunday, June 3Sunday, June 3Sunday, June 3at the conclusion of the 11 a.m.at the conclusion of the 11 a.m.at the conclusion of the 11 a.m.at the conclusion of the 11 a.m.at the conclusion of the 11 a.m. MassMassMassMassMass

cause seersucker often seems to bethe unofficial fabric of our clans andtribes, struggling through the sum-mer humidity, All Souls is offeringthe Second Annual Blessing of theSeersucker after the 11 a.m. Mass onSunday, June 3. Wear an item of seer-sucker if you wish and join in thefun.

John Beddingfield

Copy deadline for articlesfor the September 2012 issue

of The Message is July 29, 2012

This issue will contain informationabout Ingathering Sunday, September 9and activities after the summer hiatus.

Please have your articles in the editor’s hands by July 29, or earlier if pos-sible. Electronic submission preferred to message.allsoulsdc@gmail.com.Contact the editor with story ideas, questions, and comments.

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From the Membership DatabaseBaptism Dates (as of April 26, 2012)

July 1 Scout Bowman

JoAnn LaFonCynthia PowellSenta SpeightLisa Watson

5 Daiva Kasteckaite 8 Roy Woodall 9 Mitch Mitchell13 Ian Bailey14 Edgar Russell, III15 Landis Vance16 Ron Carsell

Jerry FathEmbry Howell

17 Larry AmonKelly Vielmo

20 Ronald Ross22 Jessie Barnes23 Monica Barreto25 Lee Kadrich

Scott Minos

Honoring the Great Sacrament of Baptism. If your name is missing from thislist and you would like to be included, or if there is a mistake, please call theparish office at 202-232-4244 and ask for the membership secretary.

August 1 Ike Brannon

Will ColeyDavid DawsonJamie FinchJulia GutierrezStef Vestal

3 Daniel Krepps 4 Robin Jones 5 Brigitte Adams 6 Clark Ball 8 Geno Sexton 9 Harriet Curry10 Jan Clayberg15 Tim Owens

Kathy RuffingJulian Saenz

16 Tommy Mottur17 Randy Beardsworth

Phil MartiOscar Prado

19 Clay Doherty20 Ken Hines21 Gregg Buckley22 Jim Solomon24 Joe Croman

Fred Jordan25 Beth Parr

Stephen Preston27 Greg DuRoss28 Marco Beltran29 Jim Gasser31 Stefan Lopatkiewicz

June 1 James Bailey

Roi BernardHeidi ClarkBryan PowellMichele RemillardHenry SheaJoseph ThreadgillB. J. Warren

2 John HallElizabeth MotturLarry Suggs

3 Colin BarnesMichael Heinl

4 Chuck HunterSharon NuskeyAudrey SaenzArlin Winefordner

5 Travis Reuther 6 Lena Thornell 7 Leigh Harrison 8 Betty Ann Beardsworth

Mark Hoffman10 Anton Haines

Sally MacDonaldSteve Merrill

11 Tony DomenicoLes Smith

12 Owen BasilAlli BowmenPaul CarterTodd Crawford

14 John Maxwell15 Elizabeth McKee

Katherine Nordal16 Erik Melchers17 Michael Menne18 Scott Hecker19 John Wiecking20 Shawn Strout

Nolie Thornell24 Rick Seale28 Terry O’Bryan29 Terry Horan30 James Brady

Vicki DrellBrad MooreSandra Welch

W e thank thee, Father, for the water of Baptism. In it we are buried with Christ in his death.By it we share in his Resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy Spirit.

14 All Souls Memorial Episcopal Church—Celebrating 100 Years: 1911–2011

From the Membership DatabaseBirthdays (as of April 26, 2012)

June 1 Carrie Dolive

Collett PrestonMaggie Tomasello

2 Claire Swain 3 Colin Barnes

Sally MacDonald 6 Rebecca FitzSimons 7 Beth Parr

Kathy Ruffing 8 Evan Anderson

Roi BarnardJohn BeddingfieldRic HainesSteve Merrill

9 Bob Alfandre10 Al Mottur12 Stu Edwards

Artie Roach14 John Maxwell15 Daniel Krepps16 Terry O’Bryan

Bob Publicover17 Scott Cecil19 Susan Morrison

Geno SextonBill SherfeySenta Speight

22 Anton Haines23 Monica Barreto24 Lori Commins25 Lynne Brown

Chris HudginsSharon Nuskey

26 Bill Henry28 Jerry Fath29 Heidi Fritschel

James GasserCaroline Mottur

30 Fred Jordan

July 1 Merry Bruns 2 Kathy Nelson 4 Robin Jones

Melissa MeyersMarko Zlatich

6 Ron Walker 8 Langley Custer

Carlos GuerraRoy Woodall

11 John CoatesLouis von Rago

12 Stef Vestal13 Diana Kunkel17 Floydetta McAfee18 Steve Jacobs20 Harriet Curry

Tony Woods21 Lena Thornell22 Jessie Barnes

Tamara Floyd24 David Cooper26 Emma Saenz27 Jamie Finch

Sarah MooreJulia Preston

31 Joe CromanMark Porter

If your name is missing from this birthday list, and you would like to have itincluded in this newsletter, or if there is a mistake, please call the parish office at202-232-4244 and ask for the membership secretary

August 1 Tim Owens

Landis VanceKristen Walker

2 Claudia Dumas 4 Dirk Peterson 5 Samantha Brady 6 Clark Ball 8 Ian Bailey

Doug GoldRichard Watson

11 Anthony Beltran-Ward12 Jan Clayberg

Greg DuRossAdam Krepps

14 Ruth Anna Stolk16 Scout Bowman17 Oscar Prado19 Nolie Thornell22 Jim Solomon24 Michael Pate26 Dan Davis27 Gary O’Neill30 Ted Field

Stephen LovellMarie Moser

31 Kristin Pomeroy

Prayer for a BirthdayWatch over these persons, O Lord, as their days increase; blessand guide them wherever they may be. Strengthen them when theystand; comfort them when discouraged or sorrowful; raise themup if they fall; and in their heart may thy peace which passethunderstanding abide all the days of their life; through Jesus Christour Lord. Amen.

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The All Souls MessageAll Souls Memorial Episcopal Church2300 Cathedral Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20008-1505Voice: 202-232-4244 FAX: 202-232-8593e–mail the church: allsouls1@aol.come–mail the rector:

jfbeddingfield@yahoo.come–mail the vestry:

allsoulsvestry@gmail.come–mail the membership secretary:

allsoulsdcmembership@gmail.comWebsite: www.allsoulsdc.orgThe VestryDale Lewis, senior wardenJeff Wells, junior wardenMelissa BarrettDaniel CallisJen Catena DavisMartha DomenicoJennifer Crier JohnstonGreg LebelKatherine NordalRobert PublicoverLarry SturgeonTerry Cain, treasurerStephen Jacobs, registrarClergy and StaffThe Rev. John Beddingfield, rectorThe Rev. Christopher Worthley,

adjunct clergyDr. R. Benjamin Hutchens, II,

director of musicIsaac Borocz, parish administratorNatty Dayal, child careMoises Flores, Sunday sextonIvanna Velasquez, child careVolunteer LeadershipFord Chinworth, financial secretaryHarriet Curry, assistant treasurerPatricia Dresser, chair of the

Endowment Fund BoardCarlos Guerra, sexton emeritusTerry Horan, financial secretaryBarry Huber, membership secretaryThe Message StaffEditor: Leigh HarrisonEditorial review: John Beddingfield

Isaac BoroczGraphic designer: Barry Huber

The mission of All Souls Church is to be aChrist-centered sanctuary where a diversecommunity worships and serves. We live thismission through faithful celebration of the Eu-charist, Christian education, and loving nur-ture of both members and neighbors.

The All SoulsMessageAll Souls Memorial Episcopal Church2300 Cathedral Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20008-1505

June/July/August 2012

Have a refreshing summer!Ingathering Sunday is September 9—the first Sunday after Labor Day.

Have a refreshing summer!