The Trumpet - Emmanuel Church

Your Vestry Wants To Hear From You!
Emmanuel Church Staff
Here is a list of your vestry to contact with any needs, ideas, or
criticisms!
The Rev’d Canon Dr. Mark Gatza, Priestin-Charge
Priest-in-Charge --Mark Gatza: [email protected]
Senior Warden -- Peter Costantino: [email protected]
Treasurer -- Steve Bareford: [email protected]
The Rev’d Gail Landers, Deacon
Brent Pertusio, Organist & Choirmaster
The Trumpet
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
303 North Main Street / PO Box 628
Bel Air, Maryland 21014
www.emmanuelbelair.org
Heather Costantino, Christian Education
Coordinator
29 May 2012
Jim Baker: [email protected]
Mark Dibelius, Handbell Choir
Charlie Pickett: [email protected]
Director
Upcoming Scripture Lessons
Andrea Lake: [email protected]
James Kennard, Sexton
Registrar -- Deidre Austen: [email protected]
Liz Glass: [email protected]
Susan DiMaggio: [email protected]
Eric Betts: [email protected]
JoAnne Bogusko: [email protected]
Dottie Ward: [email protected]
Diane Simmons: [email protected]
Charles Brooks: [email protected]
27 May — Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 104; Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15
Church Phone
410 838-7699
Church Cell Phone
443 752-0573
Sandy Cormack: [email protected]
CELL PHONES FOR SOLDIERS:
Collecting old cell phones (with or without batteries), Mp3 Players, and I Pods (No
chargers, cases or cradles) to be transferred into phone calling cards for our soldiers who
are deployed. There is a marked box in the church where the phones can be
placed. Make sure the phones have been de-activated; keep the battery attached, (if
there is no battery attached the phone is still
recyclable).
Thanks to all of you we have collected 34 cell phones and 1 IPOD to date!!!!
The Book of Common Prayer
With very few exceptions the Feast and Fast days of the Church Year
commemorate a Saint or an important event in the life and ministry of
Jesus or the Church. On “a weekday following the Feast of Pentecost,”
we pause to remember one of the most important moments in our theological tradition. In 1549 on the Feast of Pentecost, the Church of England introduced The Book of Common Prayer for use in all of its congregations. The key feature of this development was the use of English both
for the prayers and for the lessons read in public worship. Previously,
where the liturgy was offered in English, there was no continuity from
place to place. The underlying principle, shared by the Protestant Reformers on the European continent, was that people should pray in a
language that they use regularly so that their understanding of their faith
would grow. Because language changes over time, Prayerbooks have
been revised to reflect new usage and developing circumstances.
20 May — Acts 1:15-17, 21-26; Psalm 1; 1 John 5:9-13; John 17:6-19
A Collect for The Book of Common Prayer
Almighty and everliving God, whose servant Thomas Cranmer, with others, restored the language of the people in the prayers of your Church: Make us always thankful for this heritage;
and help us so to pray in the Spirit and with the understanding, that we may worthily magnify your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
The 1st Annual Spring Harvest Festival
Sponsored by The Third Saturday Band
Please join us for a day of FUN and GREAT MUSIC on
Saturday, June 9th 11AM to 2PM at the Goddard
School, 460 Granary Road, Forest Hill, MD 21050. The
Festival is being held to help support our Food Pantry.
Those who attend are asked to bring pop-top canned
foods, diapers, etc. (Cash donations will also be accepted). There will be a Moon Bounce, Face Painting,
a Bake Sale, a 50/50 Raffle and lots of fun activities for
children! Volunteers are needed for the bake sale,
helping set up, and clean up. All proceeds will go to
the Food Pantry.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
Third Saturday Band to Play on Pentecost
Please join the Third Saturday Band for music and fellowship on 26 May 2012
from 5:00 PM until 7:00 or thereabouts. Plus, plan to join us for the 10:00 AM
service on Pentecost Sunday, 27 May, as the band leads us in worship on one of
the highest holy days of our church year. Wear Red to Church that day!
The Rev’d Dr. Johannes Oertel
I take great delight in showing off the many artistic treasures that are part of the fabric of Emmanuel Church. Many of you have heard me refer to our stained glass windows in sermon illustrations, and recently a Women’s group from a Bel Air church came to Emmanuel for a tour
of our sanctuary and chapel. That tour included a close look at the altar and “reredos” (that’s the illustrated
panel behind an altar) in All Saints Chapel. It is an extraordinary piece of work, carved and painted by Johannes Oertel, an Episcopal Priest and artist that I, in fact, actually knew very little about, save that he also did
the paintings above the altar at St. Mary’s, Emmorton. So when I ran into the Rev’d Frank Dunn, a priest and
friend from Washington, DC, and heard of his interest in Oertel and his work, I was eager to learn more. It
turns out that Oertel’s sons wrote a biography of their father which is now available on the internet to anyone
who might want to know about his fascinating journey. I have started in on it, and hope to share some of his
life’s details in a future newsletter. (A link to the book is posted on the new Oertel Artworks page on our
website.)
For now let me catalog the works at Emmanuel that we know were done
by Oertel and offer some suggestions about interesting or unusual features to
look for. So far as we can tell, the pulpit and lectern in the sanctuary were the
first two pieces he carved for Emmanuel, done in 1897. A quick look at how
the uprights are configured will demonstrate that they are by the same hand.
The detail carving strongly evokes natural elements such as flowers or vines, a
motif that can be seen in all of his furnishings.
The Harford Family House is always accepting donations of clothes, furniture, toiletries
and bath and bed items. We will have a
marked box in the Parish Hall for you to place
your items. If you have furniture that you’d
like to donate and cannot deliver it to them,
please feel free to call Ryan at 410-273-6700
and make arrangements for them to come and
pick up your furniture! If you would like to take
it yourself, please call them first so they know
to expect you. Their address is
53 E. Bel Air Avenue, Suite 3,
Aberdeen , MD. 21001.
We are also looking for volunteers to take items collected at the
church to HFH. This would have to be done during the week as
we can not deliver on weekends. If you would like to help please
contact Karen Brahos at 410-941-5005.
Knit/crochet prayer
shawls, scarves, hats, booties,
and lap blankets which are
blessed and distributed to shutins, the hospitalized, the homeless, and others.
If you are interested in taking
part in this Outreach Program,
please contact Gail at
[email protected].
Carol Heidel and Heather
Costantino are willing to teach
anyone interested in participating how to knit or
crochet.
Sunday School and Christian Formation
In 1904, at the age of 84, Oertel was invited back to Bel Air and was asked
by the Vestry to consider carving a new altar and credence table for Emmanuel. Despite the fact that he had previously given up carving as too physically
challenging, he tackled the credence table first, which is dominated by the
strong intertwining of grapes and wheat. The space surrounded by the arch
(where we now place a carving of Jesus) originally included a panel with a
painted text that read “Of thine own, Lord, do we give unto thee.”
Our regular Sunday School year is quickly approaching its end. We have had a fabulous year
with terrific volunteer leaders and great children!
Seven months later he had completed the altar and reredos. The grapes
and wheat are repeated on the front panel of the altar and the style of the arch over the cross duplicates the
credence arch. The reredos includes seven paintings: The four Evangelists, two on either side, and inboard of
them a pair of genuflecting angels. The central panel also included a text, now typically covered with a piece
of brocade to match the color of the season. The text from that panel reads “I AM the Alpha and the Omega,
who was and is and is to come, the Almighty.” Unexpectedly, the text is not perfectly lettered, but seems to
have been dashed off in a fit of holy enthusiasm. Unusually, the detail carving includes the name of God in
Hebrew and does not bear the sort of symmetry that one would expect in an altar’s decoration. But the most
striking element is the “Lamb of God” carved in the base of the altar. Typically, that image is of the lamb resurrected, with it’s eyes open to show it is alive and its neck turned around — something a lamb can’t do in
life. That it is depicted in the act of being sacrificed is unprecedented, so far as I can tell. (Just try looking
through the images your favorite search engine generates when you type in “Lamb of God!”)
There is obviously some great spiritual passion that lies behind the strong imagery in all the work that I
have seen by Johannes Oertel. I am glad, now, to know that his labors are shared among many difference congregations and institutions, and that we have a chance to learn more about what inspired him.
Totidem Verbis
KNITTING /
CROCHETING FOR
THE NEEDY
Harford Family House
Mark Gatza+
Dates to remember:
Sunday, May 27, 2012 – Pentecost Sunday – Wear RED to church! Children will receive a
Pentecost surprise!
Sunday June 10, 2012 – Last day of our regular Sunday School year. The children will sing in
church that morning and we will have an all classes celebration during
Sunday School time – don’t let the children miss out on the fun!
Sunday June 17, 2012 – Sunday School break – no classes held on this Sunday.
Sunday June 24, 2012 – Beginning of Summer Sunday School Program. The Program is geared
toward our younger classes (ages 3 – 10). Middle School and High
School children are welcome (and encouraged to join us as helpers.
Summer Sunday School will be in session beginning June 24 and running
through August 19th.
Sunday School needs:
We are in need of leaders for the Nursery each Sunday, including the summer months. Ideally we would need
two volunteers each week. If we have enough volunteers we could work a rotating schedule so no one is in the nursery
more than once a month.