June 2016 - All Souls Cathedral

Cathedral Connection
The Cathedral of All Souls
Biltmore Village, North Carolina // June 2016
Election of Next Bishop
June Calendar
June 25 at Trinity; Livestream available online
More info on Page 2
13 Cathedral Arts and Music Camp
Monday through Thursday
20 Marketplace VBS
Monday through Thursday
24 All Souls at the Ballgame
6:00 p.m., McCormick Field
25 New Bishop Election
10:00 a.m., McCormick Field
Also in this Issue
Bishop Election
from Dean Donatelli
From Reverend Canon Murphy
Healing and Holy Eucharist
June Financial Update
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6
Trailblazer Project
The All Souls Book Group
Postcards from Angle Street
Around the Cathedral
Birthdays, Anniversaries, Prayers
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All Souls is a eucharistically centered cathedral whose life is formed by scripture, the baptismal covenant, and our engagement with the world about us.
It is a community where all are welcome, trust is present, risks are taken, and where our gifts and graces enable us to be who God knows us to be.
Election of our Next Bishop
Saturday, June 25 at 10:00 a.m.
After the successful visit of the four
Bishop Candidates to Western North
Carolina over a three-day period in
May, the diocese now looks forward to
the election of the Seventh Bishop of
Western North Carolina, which will
be held at Trinity Episcopal Church in
downtown Asheville on Saturday, June
25 at 10:00 a.m.
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The Election Convention and Eucharist is only open to electors (clergy and
lay delegates from each church) and
their alternates, but anyone can watch
the election from their computer. Simply visit http://diocesewnc.org on the
morning of the convention to find a live
stream.
The new bishop must receive a majority
of both the clergy votes and lay votes
(which are balloted separately), and so
the election may take several ballots.
The new bishop will begin work on
September 1, and will be Consecrated
on October 1 and seated at the Cathedral on October 2. Keep your eyes open
for those dates and times!
Four Bishop Candidates: The Future of
our Diocese and the World
from Dean Donatelli
“As Bishop what would you do to attract Millennials (people born from the
1980’s to the 2000’s) into the Church?”
This was one of the numerous questions
posed to the four candidates who are
in consideration as our next Bishop in
Western North Carolina. To this, one
of the candidates replied, “I believe we
need to alter our attitude from what
does the Church need to change to attract Millennials to what attracts Millennials to The Episcopal Church and
then focus on that.” It reminded me of
a recent church group of which I was
a participant where folks present asked
the Millennials present what would attract them to the church. “Well,” they
said, “we like the Bible, we like mystery,
we like ritual, and we like Jesus. What
we want in our life are spaces of reflection and reverence.” Hmmm – sounds
like the Episcopal Church.
As ‘nones’ (those who state ‘none’ when
surveyed about their religious preference) continue to grow in our culture,
there is much anxiety about what we
as faith communities need to do in response. I agree with those who say we
are missing the point with this question. Instead of thinking how we need
to change what we do, I believe we
need to double down on the things that
have transcended eras, fads, generational preference, and ‘new and improved
programming’. I believe the Millennials are right on: what feeds people
is mystery, ritual, text, reverence, celebration and incarnation – Jesus. What
has transcended fads and eras, what has
and does feed the human species from
the beginning of time, is a grounding
community whose practices feed spiritual hunger and inquisitiveness, whose
practices of grounding feed the gifts of
joy and wonder, whose practices feed an
acknowledgement of life’s
complexity and
the courage to
live in its midst.
I ponder this as I contemplate not only
the four candidates for Bishop, but as
I contemplate this next chapter of our
life as a diocese and our life as a species in this world. What practices will
keep grounding us? What practices will
drive us into this world in a space of joy
and wonder? What practices generate
reverence? What practices generate the
taking of risks? What practices drive us
beyond ourselves into relationships that
transcend our deeply wired tribalism?
My hope for our next bishop and for all
of us is that we pay attention to what
feeds a life of grounding and risk taking; that we pay attention to what drives
us more deeply into the world with joy
and wonder.
Peace,
P.S. – I am heartened that over 800 people attended the Meet the Candidate
(for Bishop) sessions across the diocese.
I am grateful we, The Cathedral, were
able to host the candidates for lunch
during this time and were also able to
give them a tour of our campus. The
occasion allowed our staff to have more
personal interaction with the candidates and for them to get to know us as
well. Thank you to those able to attend
the Meet the Candidate sessions and
for your feedback from these. There is
much health to be recognized and celebrated in our diocese.
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Here's Your Paddle
from Reverend Canon Murphy
Recently on a
rafting trip with
some
friends,
I had the occasion to discover that 45
degree Fahrenheit water is actually
more affective than coffee to awaken one’s senses. Floating alongside the
raft through the rapids, my friend’s eyes
wide open with concerned delight at my
predicament, I had this sudden calm.
Toes pointed downstream I glided effortlessly down waters rumbling over
rocks. So I admit, it was a funny time
to think about the liturgical season of
Pentecost.
What I mean is that after the celebration of Pentecost it feels to me like we
have been tossed from the boat. If we
take the Pentecost event seriously it
means that we have been equipped to go
out into the world and spread the good
news about Jesus Christ. Of course, as
a lifelong Episcopalian this begins to
make me feel nervous about that dreaded “E” word: evangelize.
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Just writing this word I can almost hear
the doorbell ring at 7:00 am on a Saturday with two eager believers ready to tell
me about their faith and leave behind
a pamphlet. Yet, I do wonder why the
thought of Episcopal evangelism seems
almost an oxymoron. There are probably
lots of answers to this question ranging from a bad experience have religion
shoved down your throat to the Southern truism that politics and religion are
not suitable topics for the dinner table.
working in the midst of this community
and want others to be a part of a movement that can offer hope and love to a
broken and weeping world. I have been
supported in my times of crisis, encouraged during my darker days, and experienced glimpses of God’s peaceable
kingdom where all are welcome just as
God made them to be. So this season of
Pentecost join with me in a little experiment. Tell people about your faith and
what your church means to you.
Floating down the river, I made it
through the rapids to where the river flattened out and I was hauled back
into the boat. after a good ten minutes
of general, good natured mockery on
of my friends asked me if I was sacred
in the water. “Not really,” I answered
I really want to change about how we truthfully. “I knew if I just kept my feet
as “the Episcopal branch of the Jesus up I could float down the rapids until
Movement” talk about our faith, and y’all picked me up.”
not because I will be knocking on your “Well,” he replied. “Now that you’re back
door first thing this Saturday morning. in, here’s your paddle. Get to work.”
It’s because I have seen the Holy Spirit Exactly.
I wonder, why is it we so easy go spread
the news about a fabulous new restaurant (with farm to table ingredients
served over a grain you can’t pronounce)
but won’t share the experience of a place
that has meant so much to us over the
years?
Healing and Holy Eucharist
Thursday, June 9 at 7:00 p.m.
The next bi-monthly service of Healing
and Holy Eucharist will be held Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the
church.
This is an informal, contemplative service using Taize and other chant, expansive language and images, silence,
anointing and the laying on of hands
if desired, and the sharing of bread and
wine.
Charlotte Cleghorn is the presider and
music is offered by Karen Turner and
Jacque Combs.
The next services will be August 11,
October 13 and December 8, 2016.
June 2016 // 5
June Financial Update
Jan - April Actual
Jan - April Budget
Pledges
$210,387
$214,296
Offerings / Contributions
$28,263
$27,000
Other Income
$17,300
$51,071
Total Income
$256,310
$292,367
Worship and Pastoral Care
$109,480
$110,199
Parish Programs
$36,782
$39,800
Outreach
$28,089
$50,955
Properties and Office
$88,900
$91,413
Total Expenses
$263,251
$292,367
Amount behind Budget
$6,941 behind
Income
87.7%
Expenses
90.0%
Trailblazer Project
All Souls member Dimitri Asaad completes Service Project
All Souls Cathedral member Dimitri
Assad, son of Mr. and Dr. Marc Assad,
and a member of BSA Troop 8 sponsored by The Lutheran Church of the
nativity completed recently his Trailblazer project. The Trailblazer project,
unique to Troop 8, is a precursor to the
Eagle project required for the Eagle
Scout rank.
For his project on April 30th, Dimitri
supervised a group of scouts and adults
in designing, assembling and finishing
two well-constructed benches to be
placed and used by the troop by the fire
pit on Nativity grounds.
Thank you, Dimitri, on a job well done.
Congratulations!!!
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The All Souls Book Group
This June, we’re reading Quartets 3 and 4 from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
About the Author
Thomas Stearns Eliot, born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1888,
would become an essayist, publisher,
playwright, and “one of the twentieth
century’s major poets.”
In 1927, he became a naturalized British citizen, relinquished his American
citizenship, and about the same time
joined the Anglican Church. Vivien’s
condition continued to deteriorate and,
in 1938, she was committed to a mental hospital until her death in 1947. In
1939, with war approaching, The Criterion ceased publication. In these circumstances, Eliot wrote the four somber
poems that would be published together as Four Quartets in 1943, displacing
“The Wasteland” as Eliot’s prime work
of critical interest. Eliot then turned
almost entirely to plays and essays. In
1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize
“for his outstanding pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.”
classic elements (air, earth, water, fire).
Interesting as this arrangement may be,
what drives the poetry is the portrayal of the poet’s inner journey—a portrayal couched in compelling language,
steadily paced lines, and richness of imagery—all the while involving the reader in the recognition of his or her own
journey, emphasized by Eliot’s use of
the collective ”we”, “our”, “us”, “you”. In
a very real sense, Four Quartets may be
called an “Everyman” work, culminating
in both the poet and the reader arriving
“where we started/And know the place
for the first time.” Bon voyage . . .
In 1914, after his Harvard studies, he
immigrated to England, settling in
London, where he pursued his poetic
career, found work, and married. An
old friend introduced him to Vivien
Haigh-Wood in early spring of 1915.
Quite smitten with Vivien, his courtship was brief and they married after
only four months.
Ten years after Vivien’s death, Eliot
married Valerie Fletcher and attained
a significant degree of the contentedness that had eluded him all his life. He
died on January 4, 1965, and, according
to his own instructions, his ashes were
interred in the church of St. Michael’s
in East Coker. A plaque on the church
wall bears his chosen epitaph: “In my
In 1915, his poetry achieved initial suc- beginning is my end. In my end is my
cess with the publication of “The Love beginning.”
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”—regarded as a masterpiece of the Modernist About the Quartets
movement. In 1922, he founded his In 1959, Eliot told poet and critic Donown literary journal, The Criterion.
ald Hall he considered The Four QuarHowever, in the meantime, Vivien’s tets to be his best work; “and,” he added,
problematic psychological condition “I’d like to feel that they get better as
worsened; and Eliot himself suffered they go on. The second is better than the
a nervous breakdown, necessitating first, the third is better than the second,
a three-month “rest-cure.” The “rest- and the fourth is the best of all. At any
cure” apparently broke through a se- rate, that’s the way I flatter myself.”
vere writer’s block, and he completed
a long poem he had been working on
since 1919: The Wasteland, published
in 1922, which became a monumental success—taken over by the postwar
generation as a rallying cry for its sense
of disillusionment.
Following the lead of “Burnt Norton”,
each of the poems has five sections,
each includes meditations on the nature
of time in some important respect and
its relation to the human condition, and
each is associated with one of the four
Our next Meeting and Discussion is
Monday, June 27w, 7:00 p.m.
Copies of Four Quartets are available at
Malaprop’s Bookstore (828-254-6734).
Malaprop’s offers members of the All
Souls Book Group a 10% discount.
The All Souls Book Group is the nucleus
of the Kay Falk Literary Project, which
is centered at the Cathedral as part of its
teaching mission. For more information,
contact Allan Campo at
[email protected]
June 2016 // 7
Postcards from Angle Street
Reception, Confirmation, and Reaffirmation with Bishop Taylor, May 8, 2016
All photos by Lupe Reyna Perez
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June 2016 // 9
Around the Cathedral
Tickets are available (while they last)
by calling the Cathedral office and asking for Samuel; we'll be sitting just to
the right behind home plate. Suggested
donation is $11, which reimburses the
What could be better than spending a Cathedral for the price of your ticket.
night with your Cathedral family at a
baseball game?
All Souls Night
at the
Asheville Tourists
The Cathedral is happy to be hosting
our first All Souls Night at the Asheville Tourists on Friday June 24. The
Tourists are playing the West Virginia
Power, and the game starts at 6:00 p.m.
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most requested item), extremely low on
men’s underwear, sneakers, white socks,
belts, button-down shirts, and completely out of jeans, shorts, khaki pants,
sandals, caps, and hoodies. Our women need cool tops (very small to extra
large sizes), jeans, shorts, sneakers/sandals etc, underwear, socks, bags, totes,
cool casual dresses. We need jackets
Church of the Advocate and
and rain-wear for men and women, and
Donations are very low at the Clothes are out of blankets, sleeping bags, backCloset during this vacation season. So packs, and carryalls. Your generosity
we’re down to three men’s T-shirts (our could not be more appreciated.
June Birthdays and Anniversaries
Birthdays
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
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19
Kendall Beasley, Deborah Thompson,
Kario Owens, Bill Edwards
Blair Clark, Bill Doyle,
Ginger Huebner, Charles McKnight,
Ron Winchell
David Foster, Brady Fulton, Ray Hunt,
Suzzy Sams
Kara Albrecht, Jack Parsons
Noah Cook, Ralph Lewis,
Janice Olson, Eliza VanWye
Maryjane Hunter
Joseph Hamrick, Judy Handley,
David Lassiter, Belle Shipley
Carole Campbell
Robert Mitchener
Sarah Rhoades
Mary Helen Schwarzkopf
Kurt Campbell, Gaelyn Evangreene,
John Gripentrog, Jen McGee,
Bobbi Underwood
Shonda Asaad, Raymond Honeycutt,
Thomas Richardson
Steven Cislo, Riley Henry,
Janet Jamison, Alex Melton
Lucy Wagner
David Mycoff, Lynn Ordnung,
Marc Sanchez
Ellen Clarke, Diane Russell,
Jennifer Shelley
Babie Chromy, Jeff Kenrick,
Flo Speidell
Bill Bryant, Becky Donatelli,
Ann-Marie Kilpatrick,
Jennifer Thomas
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21
22
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24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Sophie Mills, Alice Myer
Ellie Mitchener,
Sarah Martin, William Turner
Polly Gaylord
Thomas Crook, Audrey Gray
Julia Courtney, Isaac Fulton,
Alice Jenkins, Jay Reese-Julien
Neil Bowen, Sally Hunley,
Jeff Kilpatrick, Tammy Melton
Scott Hart, Alicia Russell
Cyrus Ager, Max Miller,
Mary Anne Richardson
Michael Heilig, Landon Henry,
Katherine Armitage, Addie Pitts
Nicholas Fleming, Oliver Spake,
Karen Turner
Anniversaries
1
2
5
6
7
9
10
12
13
14
John & Laura Chase,
CJ & Margo Gorius
John Allensworth & Sally Conder
Phillip & Carol Fisk
Bill & Janis Bryant,
Paul & Linda Hundredmark
Geoffrey & Dawn Rollins,
Mark & Caryn Stover
George & Caroline Fleming
Tom & Sandy Cooke
Matt & Rebecca Aldrich,
Samuel & Janet Bingham,
John & Donna Farrington,
David & Jan Garver
Wade & Mary Margaret Saunders, III
Blair & S. Kay Clark,
Rob & Lindsay Moody
If your birthday or anniversary is incorrect or isn’t listed, please call the church office at 828.274.2681 or
email [email protected] For prayer requests, email [email protected]
15 Raymond & Dorothy Rapp
16 Del & Mabel Hare,
Alan & Carol Kirchner
18 Bob & Betsy Libbey
19 Brian & Carrie Turner
20 Miles & Millie Elmore,
John & Margie Johnson,
Michael & Allyson MacCauley
21 Don & Sherry Hunley
22 Walter & Carole Currie,
John & Marjorie Hickman
24 Jonathan & Jaime Allbach
25 Bruce & Alice Barkstrom,
Steven Cislo & Kelly Land,
Larry Weigel & Jayne Anderson
26 Robert & Eugenia Dowdeswell,
Donald & Martha Neblett,
James & Julia Peterson,
Mark Whipple & Renee Raffini
27 Thomas & Alice Myer, Sr.,
Bill Norlin & Tahani Sticpewich
29 Jim Julien & Jocelyn Reese
30 William & Barbara Turner,
Frazier Worth & Jenny Mathews
Prayer Requests
Bev Gaines, Bob Morrow, David
Truelove, Guy Sayles, the Spangler family,
Betty Nokes, Stevie Turner, Myrtle and
Sondra Stamey, the Teitelbaum family,
Pat Hill, Ken Prentice, Norma Lea and
Bob Ferguson, Laura Morrow, Mary
Lou Vitek, Sally Conder, Robin and
Barbara Boylan, Becky Almond, Jonathan
Davis, Diane Russell, David Power and
family, Blair Clark, Becky Hannon,
Marsha Freeman, Flo Speidell, Martha
Cardinas, Phyllis Key, Kenneth Phillips,
Starr Coble, Sarah Beth Tucker, Carol
Anders, Fay Meachum, Mark Silvers,
the Spake family, Julie Carlinnia, Marc
Asaad, Chris Dunham, Carolyn Gibbs
Wallace and family, Trevor Bowman and
family, Barbara Turner, Bruce Barkstrom,
Lynette McKinney, Mary White, Donna
Bell, Lorna Anderberg, Mary Kent
Weaver, Kathryn, Anne, Gretchen Ryan,
Jack Lion, David Chestnut and family,
Chuck Smithers, Allan Campo, John
Allensworth, Anne Weatherford, the
Atwater family, the Cheeseborough family,
John Anderson, and Art Akerman.
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The Cathedral of All Souls
9 Swan Street
Asheville, NC 28803
Address Service Requested
Worship at All Souls
Cathedral Clergy and Staff
Contemplative Noon Prayer
Thursdays at noon (Owen Library)
The Right Rev. G. Porter Taylor, Bishop
The Very Rev. Todd M. Donatelli, Dean
The Rev. Canon Thomas Murphy, Assistant to the Dean
The Rev. Canon Milly Morrow, Canon for Missional Formation
The Rev. Rosa Lee Harden, Canon for Money and Meaning
The Rev. Glenda McDowell, Deacon
Kyle Ritter, Canon Musician
Micki Hill, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd & Children’s Formation
Samuel Hunter, Communications and Administration Specialist
Sue Gervais, Accounting
David Fortney, Facilities Manager
Holy Eucharist
Wednesdays at Noon and 5:45 p.m.
Sundays at 7:45, 9:00, and 11:15 a.m.
For Readings, please see the The Lectionary Page
http://lectionarypage.net
Office Hours and Contact Information
Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(828) 274-2681, Fax: (828) 277-9461
9 Swan Street, Asheville, NC 28803
http://www.allsoulscathedral.org
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Adjunct Clergy
The Rev. Anne Bonnyman
The Rev. Jim Curl
The Rev. Ross Jones
The Rev. Ashley Neal
The Rev. Jean Scribner
The Rev. David Fargo
The Rev. Del Hare
The Rev. Canon Charlotte Cleghorn
The Rev. Everett Fredholm
The Rev. Nancy Mills
The Rev. Barbara Plimpton
The Rev. Judith Whelchel
The Rev. Charles Winters
The Rev. Nancy McCarthy