The Weekly Newsletter of the Cathedral of St. Philip, Serving the City and Diocese of Atlanta

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May 31, 2015

“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

From this week’s lectionaryJohn 3:17

THE CATHEDRAL AT KANUGA

Memorial Day Weekend was full of fun for the Cathedral! The parish took its annual retreat at Kanuga in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and made sure to take lots of photos with Flat Philip. (See back page for details about Flat Philip!) Then, many returned for the second annual Chill on the Hill concert on Monday night. Dean Sam Candler kicked off the evening at the piano and Yacht Rock Revue had everyone partying, despite the rain!

CHILL ON THE HILL

CLERGY AND SENIOR STAFF

2015 CHAPTER

WORSHIP SCHEDULE

The Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler Dean

Dale Adelmann, Ph.D. Canon for Music

The Rev. George M. Maxwell, Jr. Vicar

The Rev. C. Wallace Marsh IV Canon for Worship and Parish Life

Mary Hunter Rouse Canon for Education

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

The Rev. Catherine Zappa Canon for Spirituality and Mission

The Rev. Ricardo Xavier-Zatwon Bailey Priest Associate

The Rev. John William Harkins III, Ph.D. Priest Associate

The Rev. Todd D. Smelser Canon Associate for Pastoral Care

The Rev. Theophus “Thee” Smith, Ph.D. Priest Associate

Rob Adams (Junior Warden), Meredith Bateman, Mary Bondurant, Josh Borden, Cindra Brown, Matt Caine, Mary Caroline Cravens (Secretary), Joan Gilbert, Lindsey Hardegree, Wade Hooper, Eric Mininberg, Doug O’Bryan (Treasurer), Randy Rizor, Jennifer Rosenblath (Senior Warden), Ruth Russ, Robert Spiotta, Susan Troutman, George Watson

Sunday, May 31, 2015 / Trinity Sunday, Year BLiturgy of the Word Lesson: Isaiah 6:1-8Psalm 29Epistle: Romans 8:12-17Gospel: John 3:1-17

7:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Mikell Chapel Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Thee Smith8:45 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Celebrant: Canon Todd Smelser Preacher: Dean Sam Candler9 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Mikell Chapel Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Thee Smith11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist, Cathedral Celebrant: The Rev. Ricardo Bailey Preacher: Dean Sam Candler1:30 p.m. La Santa Eucaristía, Mikell Chapel Celebrant and Preacher: The Rev. Ricardo Bailey

MUSIC8:45 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist / Cathedral Choir (Decani)Larry King, A Canticle of Praise (Benedictus es, Domine) Palestrina, Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas

CHILDRENThe Nurturing Center opens at 8:30 a.m. each Sunday in the summer for children age four and younger.

For those who are ill or recovering:Priscilla and Sterling BealeLouisa ChapmanWinnie ClarkTom ConleyAllison and Donald ConradLawrence CowartBettie DriverTerry DornbushMary ElrodD. Louis Gruver, Jr.Harald HansenConnie HoarRuthie HunterKaren LeagueHollis LivezeyDick MillerCharlie RoperDick WilsonPatti WoodruffRoy UnkeferJulia AlstonNancy BarakShadie Barber

Rodger BeattyDominique BrownMeredith, Adam, and Leo BugenskeDenise CarlsonJosie CarlyleAndrew ClarkJackson CulbrethPaul Dopp, Sr.Lynette EachusJames K. ElrodJackie FairclothMargie FerqueronJane FirmaniMatthew Albritton FrameCarleton FullerKelly GissendanerStan HainesRobert HoderJudith KlaubaKelly KolakLisa KrysiakMargaret Winders KuhnAlan LarsenDan and Jan McPherson

Deborah MerrellDeloria MusgroveRobert Ethan MyersDougi O’BryanDavid RankineRoush VanceEsther, Ted, Katherine, and Ben Williams

For those who have died William W. Anderson, Jr.Bart FraryShirley GrooverRice Taylor KingW. Harold Smith

For all those serving their country away from home, for their safe return, and for their families who wait for them

For all expectant parents

PR AYERS

MEMBERSHIP

NEW MEMBERS

Ewalola Ijaduola, from New York

Sarah and Andrew Szymke, and their daughter Mary Evelyn, from Columbia, South Carolina

BAPTISMS

Margaret Elizabeth Bair

Virginia Reiley Bicksler

Amanda Grace Hynes Gregory

Anne Hunter Harrison Guitar

Sadie Rose Mullis

Peter Dean Smith

Heath Thomas Wilkinson

Miles Page Wilkinson

Charles Levi Williams

“Faith and ... ,” a series for all, will start this Sunday, May 31, at 10:10 a.m. in Child Hall. Most other adult Sunday School classes will resume in August.

Greek classes, taught by the Rev. Dr. Thee Smith, will meet every other Sunday in June and July (June 7 and 21, and July 13 and 27), and be on hiatus in August. These classes meet in Room 356.

Sunday School classes for children and youth will resume in August.

Dear Anna,Summer is almost here.I’m excited about your family trip to

Yellowstone National Park. There is so much to see, and so many things to do. Remember, though, sometimes it’s best just to be still and let the sights come to you.

I’m sending you my copy of Letters From Yellowstone, by Diane Smith. It’s the first novel of a gifted writer who tells the story of a young female botanist who joins a team of male scientists collecting plants in the park at the end of the nineteenth century. The man choosing the team didn’t realize that he had chosen a woman, so everyone learns more on the trip than they expected!

It might be fun for you to imagine yourself in the shoes of the young botanist as she makes her way from Mammoth Hot Springs to the group’s backcountry camp.

The park is also a perfect place to spend some more time with your questions about prayer.

They say Montana is where to go to “get small.” It’s a place that can awe you into love. “Become a lover,” Hafez, the fourteenth-

century Sufi mystic, pleads. “As long as you see yourself as learned and intellectual, you’ll lodge with the idiots; moreover, if you can stop seeing yourself at all, you will be free.”

You might even try praying by putting yourself in the shoes of Jesus. I realize that this sounds like a little much. Jesus is, after all, divine, and we are just us. But, the Lord’s Prayer does begin with “Our Father.”

And, it was a new experience of prayer that convinced the disciples that Jesus was something more than just another prophet.

Rowan Williams puts it this way. “That in a nutshell is prayer – letting Jesus pray in you, and beginning that lengthy and often very tough process by which our selfish thoughts and ideals and hopes are gradually aligned with his eternal action; just as, in his own earthly life, his human fears and hopes and desires and emotions are put into the context of his love for the Father, woven into his eternal relation with the Father – even in that moment of supreme pain and mental agony that he endures the night before his death.”

We put ourselves in the presence of God,

in other words, by putting ourselves in the place of Jesus and trying to see the world as he sees the world.

This might be fun for you. I hope so. You don’t need another book, or any special skills. Just pay attention to what’s around you and, every now and then, when you are struck by the astounding beauty of it all, whisper the words of the Lord’s Prayer to yourself.

I look forward to hearing all about your experience when you get back in the fall.

Your affectionate uncle,Ames

LETTERS TO A YOUNG EPISCOPALIAN

This letter is part of a series of fictional letters by Canon George Maxwell intended for young Episcopalians who wonder what it means to be faithful in an increasingly secular age.

Cathedral Farmers MarketJoin us for the third annual

SUNDAY SUPPEREnjoy a family-style meal prepared by nine local

chefs using ingredients from market vendors!

SUNDAY, JUNE 14 | 5:30 P.M. | CHILD HALL

This event is sponsored by Country Financial and supports market programs including

Wholesome Wave GA food stamp doubling.

TICKETS: $75 EACH OR $550 FOR TABLE OF 8

BUY YOUR TICKETS AT 2015SUNDAYSUPPER.BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM

Save the date for the Atlanta Summer Organ Festival concert at the Cathedral of St. Philip,

Wednesday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m. Benjamin Straley, assistant organist at Washington

National Cathedral, will perform. Suggested donation for the concert is $15.

HEALING COMMUNITIES TRAININGOn Thursday and Friday, June 4 and 5, the Atlanta Theological Association is sponsoring training in the Healing Communities Model at the Cathedral. This model aims to “build relationships of healing, redemption and reconciliation in families and communities impacted by crime and mass incarceration.” For more information, go to stphilipscathedral.org/serve or contact Canon Cathy Zappa, czappa@stphilipscathedral.org.

EDUCATION OUTREACH

The Weekly Newsletter of the Cathedral of St. Philip, Serving the City and Diocese of Atlanta

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Cathedral Thrift House Treasure of the Week:

Handsome replica of RCA dog and gramophone. Complete with RCA Lawton turntable, CD player, and

AM/FM radio. Beautiful mahogany color and brand new!

1893 Piedmont Road | Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m

BOOK STORE

Summer is coming and we have your Episcopal flip flops here! Walk down the beach and leave the shield in the sand. We also have dog collars for your four-footed Episcopalian friends and the famed “Top Ten Reasons” t-shirt, in case you’ve forgotten how much fun our church is. Who could forget?

The warm days have begun and you may want to begin your summer reading. We have fiction (lots of mysteries), many wonderful books on spirituality to get your soul out in the sun, or maybe you just want to catch up on your Bible study.

Come let us help you find just right thing to read. The Cathedral Book Store is open Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 10 a.m.–1 p.m.

FLAT PHILIPFLAT PHILIPDo you remember Flat Stanley, the classic children’s character who could be sent to friends and relatives, so you could see where in the world he traveled?

Pick up your Flat Philip in the Narthex

or print him out at stphilipscathedral.org/

flatphilip

In the Cathedral’s take on this fun activity, we’ll all take a Flat Philip – as in St. Philip, the patron saint of our cathedral – and bring him with us wherever we go this summer. Whether it’s the beach, or the Braves game, or the backyard, bring Flat Philip along with you, color him in and snap a picture with him enjoying whatever it is you’re doing, then post it on Facebook or Instagram. And don’t forget to tag it:

#flatphilip @stphilipscathedral

The St. Anthony’s Guild invites you to the 7th Annual St. Anthony’s Picnic

A multi-generational meal celebrating the guild’s patron saint

Sunday, June 14 | Child HallFollowing the 11:15 am Service

RSVP to the Information Desk: 404-365-1000

Questions? Call Canon Carolynne Williams, 404-365-1035

The St. Anthony’s Guild is the Elder Ministry of the Cathedral of St. Philip.